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Consumption and Depression in Gertrude Stein, Louis Zukovsky and Ezra Pound

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  • © 1999

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  1. Luke Carson

    1. Department of English, University of Victoria, Canada

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Luke Carson
    Pages 1-15

  3. ‘Enough is not enough’: Consumption and Depression

    • Luke Carson
    Pages 16-51

  4. Gertrude Stein’s Great Depression

    • Luke Carson
    Pages 52-99

  5. Value from Obligation

    • Luke Carson
    Pages 100-141

  6. ‘New Deal or Steal’

    • Luke Carson
    Pages 142-197

  7. Animated Things

    • Luke Carson
    Pages 198-251

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 252-283
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The career of Ezra Pound has come to represent the political tendencies which, it has been claimed, are inherent to modernist aesthetics. But the political impulses of the modernists cannot be adequately represented by Pound's extreme positions; Pound's own political activities and commitments, in fact, do not adequately articulate the contradictory attitudes and beliefs that made them possible. By contrasting Pound's politics to the political values and beliefs of Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky during the Depression, this book argues that these three very different writers share a complex set of attitudes and beliefs that are grounded in a collective social fantasy corresponding to the rise of mass consumption and the emergency of corporate social forms.

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The tightly focused and often elegant work is essential reading for anyone concerned with the intellectual culture of the Depression and the influence of economic philosophy on the formation and diversity of modernist poetics. Modernism/ Modernity

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  • Department of English, University of Victoria, Canada

    Luke Carson

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Luke Carson is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Victoria.

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