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Series Preface
Introduction: Modernist Marx, Marxist Modernism
Mark Steven, University of Exeter, UK
Part 1 – Conceptualizing Marx
1. Greek Ideology and Modern Politics in Marx's First Works
Giacomo Bianchino, City University of New York, USA
2. Before the Manifesto: Märchen and the Impulse to Exorcism
Peter Riley, Durham University, UK
3. The Communist Manifesto and the Exhumation of Literature
Alex Niven, Newcastle University, UK
4. On France: Revolutions and Communes
Owen Holland, University of Oxford, UK
5. Jupiter Against the Lightning-Rod: Literary Form in the Grundrisse
Dominick Knowles, Brandeis University, USA
6. The Voices of Capital: Poetics of Critique Beyond Sentiment and Cynicism
Daniel Hartley, Durham University, UK
7. The Dialectics of Utopia: Critique of the Gotha Program
Regenia Gagnier, University of Exeter, UK
8. Posthumous Publications: Capitalism's Circuits and Reading for Totality
Treasa De Loughry, University College Dublin, Ireland, and Miles Link, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Part 2 – Marx in Modernism
9. Marx in the Modernist Novel
Julian Murphet, University of Adelaide, Australia
10. Marx and Modernist Poetry
Kristin Grogan, Rutgers University, USA
11. Marx and Cinema
Angelos Koutsourakis, University of Leeds, UK
12. Theatrical Proletarians
Michael Shane Boyle, Queen Mary University of London, UK
13. Marx, Music, Modernism
Sarah Collins, University of Western Australia
14. Constructing Socialism: Marxism, Modernism, and Architecture
Tyrus Miller, University of California, Irvine, USA
15. Marx and Popular Modernism
Esther Leslie, Birkbeck University of London, UK
Part 3 – Glossary of Key Terms
16. The Commodity
Josh Jewell, University of Exeter, UK
17. Labor
Veronica Brownstone, University of Pennsylvania, USA
18. Value
Rory Dufficy, Australia and New Zealand School of Government
19. Money
Marina Vishmidt, University of London, UK
20. The General Formula of Capital
Adam Morton, University of Sydney, Australia
21. Class
Elinor Taylor, University of Westminster, UK
22. Technology
Trevor Strunk, DeSales University, USA
23. Family
Kate Montague, University of Exeter, UK
24. Ideology
Harry Warwick, University of Southampton, UK
25. Alienation
Ana Tomcic, University of Exeter, UK
26. Materialism
Fiona Allen, University of Exeter, UK
27. Colonization
Paul Young, University of Exeter, UK
28. Nature
Margaret Ronda, University of California, Davis, USA
29. Revolution
Colleen Lye, University of California, Berkeley, USA
30 Communism
Conall Cash, Cornell University, USA
31. Utopia
Cat Moir, University of Sydney, Australia
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
Mark Steven is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century Literature at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the author of Red Modernism: American Poetry and the Spirit of Communism (2017) and Splatter Capital (2017).
Summary
A concentrated study of the relationships between modernism and transformative left utopianism, this volume provides an introduction to Marx and Marxism for modernists, and an introduction to modernism for Marxists. Its guiding hypothesis is that Marx’s writing absorbed the lessons of artistic and cultural modernity as much as his legacy concretely shaped modernism across multiple media.
Foreword
Explores and illuminates Karl Marx's profound influence on literary modernism.
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This discerningly assembled volume offers a coherent yet never monolithic picture of what Marx meant, and did not mean, to modernist practitioners across the arts. It also illuminates pressures and presences in Marx’s writings ranging from Epicurean philosophy to the fortunes of the Paris Commune and clarifies key Marxian terms in glosses as precise as they are economical. The component entries stand on their own, but those who read from beginning to end will be rewarded with a deepened sense of how literariness, theory, and history interfused in key writings and movements in the arts before and after 1900.
