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Modernism and the Marketplace: Literary Culture and Consumer Capitalism in Rhys, Woolf, Stein, and Nella Larsen
Author(s): Alissa G. Karl (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 24 Jun. 2008
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 198 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415981417
- ISBN-13: 9780415981415
Book Description
Though the relationship of modernist writers and artists to mass-marketplaces and popular cultural forms is often understood as one of ambivalence if not antagonism, Modernism and the Marketplace redirects this established line of inquiry, considering the practical and conceptual interfaces between literary practice and dominant economic institutions and ideas.
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About the Author
Alissa G. Karl is an Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York, Brockport, where she teaches and researches transatlantic twentieth century literature. Her work has also appeared in American Literature and The International Journal of Cultural Studies.
