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Modernism and Market Fantasy - British Fictions of Capital, 1910-1939 (Hardcover)
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Modernism and Market Fantasy - British Fictions of Capital, 1910-1939 (Hardcover)
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In Modernism and Market Fantasy, Carey Mickalites explores British
modernist fiction's critical designs on the changing economic
culture in which it took shape. Examining work that ranges from
pre-war impressionism through the late modernism of the 1930s, he
shows how modernist innovation engages directly with the
transitions that mark early twentieth-century capitalism.
Mickalites places modernist texts in relationship to particular
economic structures: an investment and finance economy that
imagines endlessly inflated returns through speculative trading;
the anxieties of selfhood produced by capitalist exchange and
private property; advertising and fashion culture's dream worlds of
perpetual self-renewal; and commercial spectacle's capacity to
generate new public affects. Demonstrating that prominent
modernists viewed the market as an abstract space organized around
irrational fantasies and anxieties, Mickalites argues that
modernism reconfigures capitalist mythologies along the fault lines
of their internal contradictions in an effort to blast an
increasingly reified economic culture into a new historical
consciousness of itself.
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