Approaching modernism -- Ideology -- Permanent revolution -- Epistemology of the market -- Bloody farce -- A variegated daguerreotype -- The unnameable -- Childhood as resistance -- Artisanal production, Ulysses, and the circulation of goods -- History and the postpsychological self in The waste land -- La bohème : Lewis, Stein, Barnes -- Bloomsbury nation
Summary
Cooper argues that in their personal relationships, gender roles and sexual contacts, the Modernist avant-garde epitomised the impact of capitalism on everyday life. He explores this provocative theme across a wide range of Modernist authors, including Joyce, Eliot, Stein and Barnes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-280) and index