Modernism and Finance Capital

British Literature, 1870–1940

Regina Martin

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781009474375
• Subtopic: English Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Modernism and Finance Capital interprets modernism as a historical moment of financial crisis. It expands the definition of finance capital beyond mode of capital accumulation and value form to include a complex of historical processes during the modernist period, which includes the growth of the professional classes, the rise of the modern corporation, the economic turn toward London, and the emergence of affect as economic and literary value form. The book thereby locates the origins of twenty-first century affective economy in the turn-of-the-twentieth century modernist and financial revolutions. Scholars working at the crossroads of economic and cultural studies will find a model for how to interpret literature and other cultural artifacts as participating in economic processes of finance capital even when they do not engage explicitly with such issues.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Imprints page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Modernism and Finance Capital
• Part I From Victorian Character to Modernist Professional
• Part II Finance Capital and the Economic and Cultural Turn toward London
• Part III Modernism, Affect, and the Rise of the Modern Corporation
• Conclusion: The Values of Literary Affect
• Works Cited
• Index