The merchant of modernism : the economic Jew in Anglo-American literature, 1864-1939 / / Gary Martin Levine

• Autore: Levine Gary Martin <1966->
• 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
• 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.: 9910790802603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory