1st Edition
The Merchant of Modernism The Economic Jew in Anglo-American Literature, 1864-1939
By Gary Levine
Copyright 2003
224 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Our Mutual Creditor; Chapter 2 “Made Viciously Cosmopolitan”; Chapter 3 Transactions without Risk; Chapter 4 Populist Naturalism; Chapter 5 The Merchant of Modernism; Chapter 6 “In Two Worlds at Once”; Chapter 7 “A Single Window”; Chapter 8 Modernism Squats on My Windowsill; Chapter 9 Modernism Squats on My Windowsill, Part II; Chapter 10 “Both Sides of the Question”;
Biography
Gary Martin Levine
