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

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Psychology 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
Index
205
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