Modernism and Market Fantasy
British Fictions of Capital, 1910-1939
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British, Theory
| Author: | C. Mickalites | ISBN: | 9780230391536 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK | Publication: | October 16, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | C. Mickalites |
| ISBN: | 9780230391536 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Publication: | October 16, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
Examining work from Ford and Conrad's pre-war impressionism through Rhys's fiction of the late 1930s, the author shows how modernist innovation engages with transformations in early twentieth-century capitalism and tracks the ways in which modernist fiction reconfigures capitalist mythologies along the fault lines of their internal contradictions.
Examining work from Ford and Conrad's pre-war impressionism through Rhys's fiction of the late 1930s, the author shows how modernist innovation engages with transformations in early twentieth-century capitalism and tracks the ways in which modernist fiction reconfigures capitalist mythologies along the fault lines of their internal contradictions.
