Modernism, Economics, Anthropology

Abstract

Commodity, investment, capital, prices, costs, surplus value, marginal profit, market and submarket, speculation, credit, producer, shareholder, buyer and seller, exchange.… Such economic terms and models, once selectively represented in the dry jargon of a modernist Marxist criticism, have more recently multiplied and diversified in a range of literary-critical discourses (postmodern, new historicist, materialist, and sociological) that attempt to build genuine interdisciplinary bridges with economic theory and history. How do concepts of modernism and modernity, as ideas of distinct cultural production and historical period, mesh with this variegated, newer economic criticism?