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Modernism and Market Fantasy - British Fictions of Capital, 1910-1939

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Zusatztext 'This smart! sophisticated! enlightening study uses the lenses of new economic criticism to examine a diverse array of texts and to reveal how modernist literature discovers systems of irrational impulses at the heart of economic behavior and theory. The book makes a welcome and original contribution to modernist criticism.' - Mark Osteen! Professor of English! Loyola University Maryland! USA Informationen zum Autor CAREY JAMES MICKALITES is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Memphis, USA. He has published several articles on modernism, including work on Joyce, Ford, Conrad, Dos Passos, and Barrie. Klappentext Examining work from Ford and Conrad's pre-war impressionism through Rhys's fiction of the late 1930s! the author shows how modernist innovation engages with transformations in early twentieth-century capitalism and tracks the ways in which modernist fiction reconfigures capitalist mythologies along the fault lines of their internal contradictions. Zusammenfassung Examining work from Ford and Conrad's pre-war impressionism through Rhys's fiction of the late 1930s! the author shows how modernist innovation engages with transformations in early twentieth-century capitalism and tracks the ways in which modernist fiction reconfigures capitalist mythologies along the fault lines of their internal contradictions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction: Modernism and Market Fantasy: British Fictions of Capital, 1910 - 1939 Impressions of the Market: Ford, Conrad, and Modernist Investment Fantasy Dubliners' IOU: Joyce's Aesthetics of Exchange The Instant and the Outmoded: Wyndham Lewis, Ulysses, and the Spectacle of Time Alienated Vision and the Will to Intimacy, or, Virginia Woolf and 'the Human Spectacle' Good Morning, Midnight: Jean Rhys's Melancholic Late Modernism Conclusion

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Acknowledgements Introduction: Modernism and Market Fantasy: British Fictions of Capital, 1910 - 1939 Impressions of the Market: Ford, Conrad, and Modernist Investment Fantasy Dubliners' IOU: Joyce's Aesthetics of Exchange The Instant and the Outmoded: Wyndham Lewis, Ulysses, and the Spectacle of Time Alienated Vision and the Will to Intimacy, or, Virginia Woolf and 'the Human Spectacle' Good Morning, Midnight: Jean Rhys's Melancholic Late Modernism Conclusion

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'This smart, sophisticated, enlightening study uses the lenses of new economic criticism to examine a diverse array of texts and to reveal how modernist literature discovers systems of irrational impulses at the heart of economic behavior and theory. The book makes a welcome and original contribution to modernist criticism.' - Mark Osteen, Professor of English, Loyola University Maryland, USA

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