Modernism and Finance Capital interprets modernism as a historical moment of financial crisis. It expands the definition of finance capital beyond mode of capital accumulation and value form to include a complex of historical processes during the modernist period, which includes the growth of the professional classes, the rise of the modern corporation, the economic turn toward London, and the emergence of affect as economic and literary value form. The book thereby locates the origins of twenty-first century affective economy in the turn-of-the-twentieth century modernist and financial revolutions. Scholars working at the crossroads of economic and cultural studies will find a model for how to interpret literature and other cultural artifacts as participating in economic processes of finance capital even when they do not engage explicitly with such issues.
Interpreting modernism as a historical moment of financial crisis, this book expands the definition of finance capital beyond mode of capital accumulation and value form. Scholars working at the crossroads of economic and cultural studies will find a model for how to interpret literature as participating in economic processes of finance capital.
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This book interprets modernism as a historical moment of financial crisis.
Acknowledgements; Introduction: modernism and finance capital; Part I.
From Victorian Character to Modernist Professional:
1. Finance capital and
the value form of character in Anthony Trollope's palliser series;
2.
Detecting modernist form and the new professional: the moonstone and a study
in scarlet;
3. Speculating subjects: finance capital and the professional
classes in keynes and Woolf; Part II. Finance Capital and the Cultural Turn
Toward London:
4. Reading character in the country and the city in tess of
the D'Urbervilles;
5. Slicing, dicing, and repackaging: finance capital and
the novel in Tono-Bungay;
6. The unhomeliness of finance capital in voyage in
the dark; Part III. Modernism, Affect, and the Rise of the Modern
Corporation:
7. Finance capital and the modern corporation in conrad's
imperial novels;
8. The affective bloom-space of imagism;
9. Literary value
and affective intensity in the waste land; Conclusion: the values of literary
affect; Works cited.
Regina Martin is associate professor and Dominick Consolo Professor of English at Denison University, where she also teaches in the Global Commerce program. She specializes in economic criticism, British literature, and cultural theory. She has published in PMLA, College Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Criticism and other journals.
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