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

Ronald Schleifer

doi:10.1017/9781108582988

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.

‘Schleifer’s account of modernism is a fascinating and challenging attempt to realize a novel form of immanent cultural history.’

Benjamin Pickford Source: Genre

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A Political Economy of Modernism
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Literature, Post-Classical Economics, and the Lower Middle-Class
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Dedication
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Chapter 1 - Methodological Prologue
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The Constellation of Modernism
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Part I - Economics in the Context of Cultural Modernism
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Chapter 2 - The Argument
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Chapter 3 - Modernism and Economics
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The Long History and the Immediate History of Modernism
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Part II - Intangible Assets: Modernist Economics
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Chapter 4 - The Origins of Corporate Influences on the Arts
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Technological Innovations, Intangible Assets, and the Shapes of Aesthetic Experience
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Chapter 5 - Modernist Goods, Modernist Arts
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Consumption and Commodities in the New Twentieth Century
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Interlude: From Economics to Discourse: Economic Fact, Semiotic Fact
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Part III - Intangible Liabilities: Class and Value in the Time of Modernism
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Chapter 6 - The Lower Middle Class
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Literature, Economics, and the Shape of Modernism
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Chapter 7 - Political Economy and the Fictions of Finance
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The Modernism of Dreiser and Wells
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Conclusion: Cosmopolitan Modernism
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Works Cited
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Index
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Contents

A Political Economy of Modernism
pp i-ii

A Political Economy of Modernism - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-x

Acknowledgments
pp xi-xiv

Chapter 1 - Methodological Prologue
pp 1-34

Part I - Economics in the Context of Cultural Modernism
pp 35-112

Chapter 2 - The Argument
pp 37-63

Chapter 3 - Modernism and Economics
pp 64-112

Part II - Intangible Assets: Modernist Economics
pp 113-214

Chapter 4 - The Origins of Corporate Influences on the Arts
pp 115-160

Chapter 5 - Modernist Goods, Modernist Arts
pp 161-201

Interlude: From Economics to Discourse: Economic Fact, Semiotic Fact
pp 202-214

Part III - Intangible Liabilities: Class and Value in the Time of Modernism
pp 215-292

Chapter 6 - The Lower Middle Class
pp 217-254

Chapter 7 - Political Economy and the Fictions of Finance
pp 255-281

Conclusion: Cosmopolitan Modernism
pp 282-292

Works Cited
pp 293-308

Index
pp 309-340

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