A Political Economy of Modernism

Literature, Post-Classical Economics, and the Lower Middle-Class

Ronald Schleifer

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781108472951
• eBook ISBN: 9781108580915
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Political Economy
• Index: Economics

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Imprints Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Methodological Prologue: The Constellation of Modernism
• Part I Economics in the Context of Cultural Modernism
• Part II Intangible Assets: Modernist Economics
• Part III Intangible Liabilities: Class and Value in the Time of Modernism
• Works Cited
• Index