Modernism and the Marketplace

Literary Culture and Consumer Capitalism in Rhys, Woolf, Stein, and Nella Larsen

AvAlissa G. Karl

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Though the relationship of modernist writers and artists to mass-marketplaces and popular cultural forms is often understood as one of ambivalence if not antagonism, Modernism and the Marketplace redirects this established line of inquiry, considering the practical and conceptual interfaces between literary practice and dominant economic institutions and ideas.

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Utgivningsdatum:2008-06-24
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:385 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
Antal sidor:198
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780415981415

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Alissa G. Karl is an Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York, Brockport, where she teaches and researches transatlantic twentieth century literature. Her work has also appeared in American Literature and The International Journal of Cultural Studies.

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PermissionsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Uneven Marketplace of Modernism and Consumer CapitalismChapter One: "Just the sensation of spending, that’s the point:" Jean Rhys’ Marketplaces of Discipline and Desire Chapter Two: Consumerism and the Imperial Nation in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out and Mrs. DallowayChapter Three: The Enterprising Modernisms of Gertrude Stein and Sylvia BeachChapter Four: Consumerism, Race and Rationalization in Nella Larsen’s QuicksandCoda: Consumer Capitalism as a Style of LifeNotesBibliographyIndex