Exit capitalism : literary culture, theory, and post-secular modernity

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Author:

During, Simon, 1950-

ISBN:

9780415246552

9780415246545

Personal Author:

During, Simon, 1950-

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Physical Description:

x, 197 p. ; 25 cm.

Contents:

Pt. 1. Modernizing the English Literary Field -- 1. Church, State and Modernization: Literature as Gentlemanly Knowledge after 1688 -- 2. Quackery, Selfhood and the Emergence of the Modern Cultural Marketplace -- 3. Interesting: the Politics of the Sympathetic Imagination -- Pt. 2. Towards Endgame Capitalism: Literature, Theory, Culture -- 4. World Literature, Stalinism and the Nation: Christina Stead as Lost Object -- 5. Socialist Ends: the Emergence of Academic Theory in Postwar Britain -- 6. Completing Secularism: the Mundane in the Neo-Liberal Era -- 7. Refusing Capitalism? Theory and Cultural Studies after 1968.

Subject Term:

Capitalism and literature.

Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.

Capitalism -- Social aspects -- History.

Culture -- Study and teaching.

Geographic Term:

Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.

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Summary

Exit Capitalism explores a new path for cultural studies and re-examines key moments of British cultural and literary history. Simon During argues that the long and liberating journey towards democratic state capitalism has led to an unhappy dead-end from which there is no imaginable exit.