A Political Economy of Modernism: Literature, Post-Classical Economics, and the Lower Middle-Class

ISBN-13: 9781108472951 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 350 str.

Ronald Schleifer

Opis

This book analyzes the complex unity of modernist culture, paying special attention to artistic, intellectual, and social institutions that embody value.

Recenzje

'Schleifer's account of modernism is a fascinating and challenging attempt to realize a novel form of immanent cultural history.' Benjamin Pickford, Genre

Spis treści

1. Methodological prologue: the constellation of modernism; Part I. Economics in the Context of Cultural Modernism: 2. The argument; 3. Modernism and economics: the long history and immediate history of modernism; Part II. Intangible Assets: Modernist Economics: 4. The origins of corporate influences on the arts: technological innovations, intangible assets, and the shapes of aesthetic experience; 5. Modernist goods, modernists arts: consumption and commodities in the new twentieth century; Interlude: from economics to discourse: economic fact, semiotic fact; Part III. Intangible Liabilities: Class and Value in the Time of Modernism: 6. The lower middle-class: literature, economics, and the shape of modernism; 7. Political economy and the fictions of finance: the modernism of Dreiser and Wells; Conclusion: cosmopolitan modernism.