Pound in purgatory
Subtitle: from economic radicalism to anti-semitism
By: Leon Surette.
Publisher: Unniversity of Illinois Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Knowledge -- Economics.; Economics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Antisemitism -- History -- 20th century.; Antisemitism in literature.; Radicalism in literature.; Economics in literature.
Description: "Pound in Purgatory overturns all previous explanations of Pound's anti-Semitism by uncovering its roots in economic and conspiracy theory. Leon Surette demonstrates that, contrary to popular opinion, Pound was not a life-long anti-Semite and consistently ignored or resisted anti-Semitic comments from his correspondents until after 1931."--BOOK JACKET.

"Through an incisive analysis of Pound's correspondence and writings, much of it previously unexamined, Surette shows how Pound's heroic efforts to inform himself on economic theory led him into confusion and conflict."--BOOK JACKET.

"As the world spiraled toward war, Pound's program of economic reform foundered and he gradually succumbed to a paranoid belief in a Jewish conspiracy. Surette shows how this belief fostered the virulent anti-Semitism that pervades his work - both poetry and prose - from this time forward."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-302) and index.
Table of contents: title: Banking and social credit; title: Economics and mythopoeia; title: Modernism and Fascism; title: Social credit and Fascism; title: The Keynesian revolution and social credit; title: The abc of economics and the new deal; title: Modernism, postmodernism, and Fascism; title: Silvio Gesell and Irving Fisher; title: An increasing eclecticism; title: Arthur Kitson; title: The Jewish conspiracy; title: From Rome to Washington; title: Appendix: volitionist economics; title: Works cited; title: Index.