The Merchant of Modernism: The Economic Jew in Anglo-American Literature, 1864-1939Psychology Press, 2003 - 212 páginas 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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Chapter | 15 |
Chapter | 37 |
Chapter Three | 53 |
Chapter Four | 67 |
Chapter Five | 81 |
Chapter | 95 |
Chapter Seven | 109 |
Chapter Eight | 131 |
Chapter Nine | 145 |
Chapter | 163 |
Notes | 187 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Adam ambivalence anti-Semitism argues artistic becomes Bloeckman Bloom British Cahan Cantos capitalist character Charlotte Christian Cohn Cohn's commercial contrast cosmopolitan critics critique cultural capital D.H. Lawrence Daniel Deronda David Levinsky Dickens economic Jew Eliot's English essay Ezra Pound father fiction figure first-person Fledgeby gambling Gatsby Golden Bowl Grandcourt Gwendolen Harap Hemingway House of Mirth idea identity Irish Jake James James's Jewish Joyce Joyce's Lammles Levinsky's Lewis's Lily Lily's linked literary Literature little Jew Loerke Louie Maggie Melmotte Melmotte's Michaels Mirah modern Mutual Friend narrative narrator nature nomic novel Osteen Prince race racial Ratner realism representation represents Riah Rise of David Rosedale Rosedale's semiotics Shylock social Sombart speculation Stein story Sun Also Rises T.S. Eliot Talmud Tevkin tion Trollope's Twain Ulysses University Press usury Vandover Victorian Walter Benn Michaels wealth Wharton's Wolfsheim women writing York Zagreus Zerkow Zionism