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.

This book interprets modernism as a historical moment of financial crisis.

About the Author
Regina Martin is associate professor and Dominick Consolo Professor of English at Denison University, where she also teaches in the Global Commerce program. She specializes in economic criticism, British literature, and cultural theory. She has published in PMLA, College Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Criticism and other journals.


Book Information
ISBN 9781009474368
Author Regina Martin
Format Hardback
Page Count 232
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press