The Merchant of Modernism: The Economic Jew in Anglo-American Literature, 1864-1939

ISBN-13: 9780415941099 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 220 str.

Gary Martin Levine;Levine Gary

Opis

The Merchant of Modernism examines how the figure of the economic Jew symbolizes the struggle of authors from Dickens to Pound to reconcile their critique of capitalism with their own literary practices; this shifting figure parallels the development of literary modernism. Examining the historically intense ambivalence towards the economic Jew becomes a way of reconciling post-Marxist literary and cultural theory with the neo-classical synthesis of mainstream economics. This approach also provides a model for the study of ethnic hatred directed at all middleman economic groups.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Our Mutual Creditor; Chapter 2 “Made Viciously Cosmopolitan”; Chapter 3 Transactions without Risk; Chapter 4 Populist Naturalism; Chapter 5 The Merchant of Modernism; Chapter 6 “In Two Worlds at Once”; Chapter 7 “A Single Window”; Chapter 8 Modernism Squats on My Windowsill; Chapter 9 Modernism Squats on My Windowsill, Part II; Chapter 10 “Both Sides of the Question”;

O autorze

Gary Martin Levine