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

Libro 104 di 155: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Levine, Gary

 
9780415867047: The Merchant of Modernism: The Economic Jew in Anglo-American Literature, 1864-1939

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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 and how the shifting of the representations of this figure parallels the development of literary Modernism. From the sudden rise of the Victorian stock market to the Great Depression, the prominence of economic Jews in the writings of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Edith Wharton, Frank Norris, Mark Twain, Henry James, Abraham Cahan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce documents major shifts and events in capitalism, their impact on literature, and advances in economic thought. The Merchant of Modernism provides a sophisticated analysis of the role of economic history and economic thought in shaping both literary Modernism and modern anti-Semitism.

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Gary Martin Levine

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9780415941099: The Merchant of Modernism: The Economic Jew in Anglo-American Literature, 1864-1939

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ISBN 10:  0415941091 ISBN 13:  9780415941099
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2002
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