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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-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The merchant of modernism : the economic Jew in Anglo-American literature, 1864-1939 / / Gary Martin Levine Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
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.: 9910453531603321
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Serie: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory