Modernism, Cultural Production, and the British Avant-garde

by Edward P. Comentale

• ISBN13: 9780521120975
• ISBN10: 0521120977
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-01
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Exposing the links between art, literature and early twentieth-century capitalism, Edward Comentale demonstrates how apparently progressive avant-garde movements, in their celebration of individualism, competition and labor, collaborated with a market defined by a monstrous increase in production and consumption. Comentale's interdisciplinary study examines art and sculpture as well as writing by Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot, among others, in the light of psychoanalytic, economic and political theory. This book will be of interest to scholars of literary and cultural modernism.

Table of Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: On the nature of being otherwise

Critique

Fascism and/or liberalism: the avant-garde and modern capital

'No end, but addition': T. S. Eliot and the tragic economy of high modernism

Construction

The modern temple: T. E. Hulme and the construction of classicism

'A fairly horrible business': labour, World War I, and the production of modern art

Thesmophoria: suffragettes, sympathetic magic, and feminist classicism

Notes

Index

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