Research Catalog

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Description

1. xvi, 290 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Economics in literature
2. Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 > Political and social views
3. Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 > Knowledge > Economics
4. American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
5. Capitalism and literature > United States > History > 20th century
6. Money in literature
7. Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 > Political and social views
8. Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 > Influence
9. Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 > Knowledge > Economics
10. Modernism (Literature) > United States

Contents

1. Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Jeffersonian economics: debt and the production of value -- Three aspects of the Jeffersonian political aesthetic -- The virtues of distribution: a genealogy of Poundian economics -- Fertility rites/financial rites: Pound, Williams, and the political economy of sex -- Poesis versus production: the economic defense of poetry in the age of corporate capitalism -- Dewey, Williams, and the pragmatic poem -- Overcoming modernity: representing the corporation and the promise of pluralism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Call number

1. JFE 98-11318

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-280) and index.

Author

1. Marsh, Alec, 1953-

Title

1. Money and modernity : Pound, Williams, and the spirit of Jefferson / by Alec Marsh.

Imprint

1. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1998.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-280) and index.

LCCN

1. 97045459

ISBN

1. 0817309217 (alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 98-11318