Christopher Nealon is John Dewey Professor in the English Department at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall and The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in The American Century, and the co-editor, with Colleen Lye, of After Marx: Literature, Theory and Value in the Twenty-First Century.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Camp Messianism, or the Hopes of Poetry in Late-Late Capitalism2 The Poetic Case3 Reading on The Left4 Affect, Performativity, and Actually Existing Poetry5 Infinity for Marxists6 The Prynne Reflex7 The Price of Value8 The Anti-humanist Tone9 Modernism, Critical Theory, and the Desire for Objecthood10 Literary and Economic Value (with Joshua Clover)11 Abstraction, Intuition, PoetryReferencesIndex