Levine The Merchant of Modernism

The Economic Jew in Anglo-American Literature, 1864-1939
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-71924-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levine, Gary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One Our Mutual Creditor: Speculation, Representation, and the Jew in Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend 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 Twain Chapter 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 God Chapter 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