The merchant of modernism : the economic Jew in Anglo-American literature, 1864-1939 / / Gary Martin Levine
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| Autore: |
Levine Gary Martin <1966->
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| Titolo: |
The merchant of modernism : the economic Jew in Anglo-American literature, 1864-1939 / / Gary Martin Levine
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (383 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 823/.80903924 |
| Soggetto topico: | American fiction - History and criticism |
| Economics in literature | |
| English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism | |
| English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism | |
| Jews in literature | |
| Merchants in literature | |
| Modernism (Literature) - English-speaking countries | |
| Note generali: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Iowa, 1999. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 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; Chapter Two: "Made Viciously Cosmopolitan": From Realism to Romance in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda; Chapter Three: Transactions without Risk: Race, Art, and Commerce in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country |
| Chapter Four: Populist Naturalism: The "Natural" Markets and "Unnatural" Jews of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, and Mark TwainChapter Five: The Merchant of Modernism: The Author as Jew in Henry James's The Golden Bowl and The American Scene; Chapter Six: "In Two Worlds at Once": Talmud, Cultural Capital, and Identity in Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky; 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 | |
| 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 GodChapter 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; Chapter Ten: "Both Sides of the Question": Polyphony, Mixed Economies, and the Jewish Question in James Joyce's Ulysses; Notes; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The merchant of modernism |
| ISBN: | 0-415-86704-5 |
| 1-136-71924-5 | |
| 1-315-02404-7 | |
| 1-136-71917-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827802103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory