Literary notes about Management (AI summary)
The term “management” in literature has been used to reflect a wide range of control, organization, and responsibility across different contexts and historical periods. In classic narratives, for example, it denotes the orchestration of public events and entertainment, as seen with Twain’s mention of staging a magnificent performance ([1]), or the delegation of military and fleet operations as described by Polybius ([2]). Management also appears in discussions of personal and familial administration, whether in contexts of estate handling as in Tolstoy’s depiction of land affairs ([3]), the care of household responsibilities ([4]), or even the regulation of servants and everyday affairs ([5]). Moreover, economic treatises and political works refer to management in terms of financial control and proper resource allocation ([6], [7], [8]), while other texts use the term to highlight the underlying organization behind art and literature itself ([9]). This variety of uses underscores its enduring presence as a concept embodying both practical governance and metaphorical oversight in literary discourse.
- The management beg leave to offer to the public an entertainment surpassing in magnificence any thing that has heretofore been attempted on any stage.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain - Next year, the eighteenth of the war, the Carthaginians appointed Hamilcar Barcas general, and put the management of the fleet in his hands.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius - And his management of his estate, which occupied and absorbed him more and more, was most successful.
— from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy - All the business and financial management devolved upon Miss Anthony, and she was untrained in this department.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) by Ida Husted Harper - Management of servants, 155-159 .
— from Etiquette by Emily Post - Under the present system of management, therefore, Great Britain derives nothing but loss from the dominion which she assumes over her colonies.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - and £4,000 year for the expense of management.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - might perhaps be considered as a clear gain, without any other deduction besides the expense of management.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - And yet we find in Shakespeare's management of the tale neither pathos, nor any other dramatic quality.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
