Willmott, Glenn, 1963-

Modernist goods primitivism, the market and the gift / Glenn Willmott. - Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, (c)2008. - 1 online resource (viii, 330 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction. Beyond Primitivism -- Imperialist and Aboriginal Modernities -- Commodities, Gifts, and Goods -- Stoker's Abject Kin -- part 1. After Strange Goods: The Economic Unconscious of Imperialist Modernity -- Yeats's Proper Dark -- Lawrence's Profane Work -- Lovecraft's Doubles -- Conrad's Desertions -- Structure and Style -- part 2. Multiplying the Public: Abject Modernism and Its Institutions -- part 3. Parodic Shaman: Imperialist Modernity and the Blackened Gift -- Eliot's Savage Possessions -- Woolf's Fugitive Rites -- Beckett's Unnamable Magic -- part 4. Impure House: Re-imagining Aboriginal Modernity -- Amatory Modernisms -- Joyce's People -- H.D.'s Heritages -- Conclusion: Modernism and Utopia.



9781442688643

Uk


English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Modernism (Literature)
Primitivism.
Literature and anthropology.
Capitalism and literature.
Economics and literature.
Politics and literature.


Electronic Books.

PR478 / .M634 2008