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"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"--
List of contents
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.
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
Foreword
This book interprets modernism as a historical moment of financial crisis.
