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A Political Economy of Modernism: Literature, Post-Classical Economics, and the Lower Middle-Class

By Ronald Schleifer

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
1108582982, 9781108582988
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2510945 bytes)
Pages
xiv+340\355
Topic
Economy
Time added
2019-01-10 14:43:31

Description

In A Political Economy of Modernism, Ronald Schleifer examines the political economy of what he calls 'the culture of modernism' by focusing on literature and the arts; intellectual disciplines of post-classical economics; and institutional structures of corporate capitalism and the lower middle-class. In its wide ranging study focused on modernist writers (Dreiser, Hardy, Joyce, Stevens, Woolf, Wells, Wharton, Yeats), modernist artists (Cézanne, Picasso, Stravinsky, Schoenberg), economists (Jevons, Marshall, Veblen), and philosophers (Benjamin, Jakobson, Russell), this book presents an institutional history of cultural modernism in relation to the intellectual history of Enlightenment ethos and the social history of the second Industrial Revolution. It articulates a new method of analysis of the early twentieth century - configuration and modeling - that reveals close connections among its arts, understandings, and social organizations.

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