简介
The Merchant of Modernismexamines how the figure of the economic Jew symbolizes the struggle of authors from Dickens to Pound to reconcile their critique of capitalism with their own literary practices and how the shifting of the representations of this figure parallels the development of literary Modernism. From the sudden rise of the Victorian stock market to the Great Depression, the prominence of economic Jews in the writings of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Edith Wharton, Frank Norris, Mark Twain, Henry James, Abraham Cahan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce documents major shifts and events in capitalism, their impact on literature, and advances in economic thought.The Merchant of Modernismprovides a sophisticated analysis of the role of economic history and economic thought in shaping both literary Modernism and modern anti-Semitism.
目录
Introduction 1
Chapter One
Our Mutual Creditor:
Speculation, Representation, and the Jew in Charles
Dickens' Our Mutual Friend and Anthony Trollope's
The Way We Live Now 15
Chapter Two
"Made Viciously Cosmopolitan": From Realism to
Romance in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda 37
Chapter Three
Transactions without Risk: Race, Art, and Commerce
in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and
The Custom of the Country 53
Chapter Four
Populist Naturalism: The "Natural" Markets and
"Unnatural" Jews of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser,
and Mark Twain 67
Chapter Five
The Merchant of Modernism: The Author as Jew in
Henry James's The Golden Bowl and The American Scene 81
Chapter Six
"In Two Worlds at Once": Talmud, Cultural Capital,
and Identity in Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky 95
Chapter Seven
"A Single Window": First Person Narrators and Consuming
Jews in F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Ernest
Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, and Willa Cather's
The Professor's House 109
Chapter Eight
Modernism Squats on My Windowsill: Rats, Jews, and
Markets in T.S. Eliot's Ara Vos Prec, D.H. Lawrence's
Women in Love, and Wyndham Lewis's The Apes of God 131
Chapter Nine
Modernism Squats on My Windowsill, Part II: Markets
of Meaning in Ezra Pound's Cantos, Gertrude Stein's
Tender Buttons, and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway 145
Chapter Ten
"Both Sides of the Question": Polyphony, Mixed
Economies, and the Jewish Question in James Joyce's Ulysses 163
Notes 187
Bibliography 193
Index 205
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