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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777908903321

Autore

During Simon <1950-, >

Titolo

Exit capitalism : literary culture, theory, and post-secular modernity / / Simon During

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-27868-7

1-135-27869-5

1-282-28333-2

9786612283338

0-203-87264-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Disciplina

809/.933553

Soggetti

Capitalism and literature

Literature, Modern - History and criticism

Capitalism - Social aspects - History

Culture - Study and teaching

Great Britain Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Part I Modernizing the English literary field; Chapter 1 Church, state, and modernization: Literature as gentlemanly knowledge after 1688; Chapter 2 Quackery, selfhood, and the emergence of the modern cultural marketplace; Chapter 3 Interesting: The politics of the sympathetic imagination; Part II Towards endgame capitalism Literature, theory, culture; Chapter 4 World literature, Stalinism, and the nation: Christina Stead as lost object; Chapter 5 Socialist ends: The emergence of academic theory in post-war Britain

Chapter 6 Completing secularism: The mundane in the neo-liberal eraChapter 7 Refusing capitalism?: Theory and cultural studies after 1968; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Exit Capitalism explores a new path for cultural studies and re-examines key moments of British cultural and literary history. Simon



During argues that the long and liberating journey towards democratic state capitalism has led to an unhappy dead-end from which there is no imaginable exit.