Modernism and Finance Capital: British Literature, 1870–1940

Author:   Regina Martin (Denison University, Ohio)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781009474368


Pages:   238
Publication Date:   31 May 2024
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Modernism and Finance Capital interprets modernism as a historical moment of financial crisis. It expands the definition of finance capital beyond mode of capital accumulation and value form to include a complex of historical processes during the modernist period, which includes the growth of the professional classes, the rise of the modern corporation, the economic turn toward London, and the emergence of affect as economic and literary value form. The book thereby locates the origins of twenty-first century affective economy in the turn-of-the-twentieth century modernist and financial revolutions. Scholars working at the crossroads of economic and cultural studies will find a model for how to interpret literature and other cultural artifacts as participating in economic processes of finance capital even when they do not engage explicitly with such issues.

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Author:   Regina Martin (Denison University, Ohio)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781009474368


ISBN 10:   1009474367
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   31 May 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available, will be POD   Availability explained
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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.

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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.

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