Regina Martin

Modernism and Finance Capital

British Literature, 1870-1940

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Interpreting modernism as a historical moment of financial crisis, this book expands the definition of finance capital beyond mode of capital accumulation and value form. Scholars working at the crossroads of economic and cultural studies will find a model for how to interpret literature as participating in economic processes of finance capital"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9781009474368
• ISBN-10: 1009474367
• Artikelnr.: 70242975

Autorenporträt

Regina Martin is associate professor and Dominick Consolo Professor of English at Denison University, where she also teaches in the Global Commerce program. She specializes in economic criticism, British literature, and cultural theory. She has published in PMLA, College Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Criticism and other journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Introduction: modernism and finance capital; Part I. From
Victorian Character to Modernist Professional: 1. Finance capital and the
value form of character in Anthony Trollope's palliser series; 2. Detecting
modernist form and the new professional: the moonstone and a study in
scarlet; 3. Speculating subjects: finance capital and the professional
classes in keynes and Woolf; Part II. Finance Capital and the Cultural Turn
Toward London: 4. Reading character in the country and the city in tess of
the D'Urbervilles; 5. Slicing, dicing, and repackaging: finance capital and
the novel in Tono-Bungay; 6. The unhomeliness of finance capital in voyage
in the dark; Part III. Modernism, Affect, and the Rise of the Modern
Corporation: 7. Finance capital and the modern corporation in conrad's
imperial novels; 8. The affective bloom-space of imagism; 9. Literary value
and affective intensity in the waste land; Conclusion: the values of
literary affect; Works cited.