Modernism and Market Fantasy [electronic resource] : British Fictions of Capital, 1910-1939 /
Mickalites, C.author.
Examining work from Ford and Conrad's pre-war impressionism through Rhys's fiction of the late 1930s, the author shows how modernist innovation engages with transformations in early twentieth-century capitalism and tracks the ways in which modernist fiction reconfigures capitalist mythologies along the fault lines of their internal contradictions.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Investment, Circulation, and Loss; 1 Impressions of the Market: Ford, Conrad, and Modernist Investment Fantasy; 2 Dubliners' IOU: Joyce's Aesthetics of Exchange; Part II: Spectacle and Affect; 3 The Instant and the Outmoded: Wyndham Lewis, Ulysses, and the Spectacle of Time; 4 Alienated Vision and the Will to Intimacy, or Virginia Woolf and "the Human Spectacle"; 5 Good Morning, Midnight: Jean Rhys's Melancholic Late Modernism; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Examining work from Ford and Conrad's pre-war impressionism through Rhys's fiction of the late 1930s, the author shows how modernist innovation engages with transformations in early twentieth-century capitalism and tracks the ways in which modernist fiction reconfigures capitalist mythologies along the fault lines of their internal contradictions.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature-History and criticism.
Literature-Philosophy.
International economics.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary History.
Literary Theory.
International Economics.