Writing the Economic Subject in Modern Western Europe: Representation, Contestation, Critique
This book explores how capitalism shapes the formation of the economic subject in modern European writing. How are subject positions determined by the subject’s relationship to money and work? How fair is a society that predicates social inclusion upon employment? And what happens when full employment is impossible? The volume traces how literary authors and social theorists have answered these questions in different social and historical contexts from the nineteenth century to the present day. The contributions confront the imperatives of productivity, notions of success and failure, the construction of work cultures and environments, the (in)visibility of certain labour groups, and the implications of the body as a productive site.

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Writing the Economic Subject in Modern Western Europe: Representation, Contestation, Critique
This book explores how capitalism shapes the formation of the economic subject in modern European writing. How are subject positions determined by the subject’s relationship to money and work? How fair is a society that predicates social inclusion upon employment? And what happens when full employment is impossible? The volume traces how literary authors and social theorists have answered these questions in different social and historical contexts from the nineteenth century to the present day. The contributions confront the imperatives of productivity, notions of success and failure, the construction of work cultures and environments, the (in)visibility of certain labour groups, and the implications of the body as a productive site.

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Writing the Economic Subject in Modern Western Europe: Representation, Contestation, Critique

Writing the Economic Subject in Modern Western Europe: Representation, Contestation, Critique

Writing the Economic Subject in Modern Western Europe: Representation, Contestation, Critique

Writing the Economic Subject in Modern Western Europe: Representation, Contestation, Critique

Overview

This book explores how capitalism shapes the formation of the economic subject in modern European writing. How are subject positions determined by the subject’s relationship to money and work? How fair is a society that predicates social inclusion upon employment? And what happens when full employment is impossible? The volume traces how literary authors and social theorists have answered these questions in different social and historical contexts from the nineteenth century to the present day. The contributions confront the imperatives of productivity, notions of success and failure, the construction of work cultures and environments, the (in)visibility of certain labour groups, and the implications of the body as a productive site.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783631839997
Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date: 08/18/2021
Series: Literatur - Kultur - Oekonomie / Literature - Culture - Economy , #9
Pages: 222
Product dimensions: 5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Aileen Behrendt holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Potsdam. Her research interests include modernist and interwar literature, gender studies, and British comedy.

Nicholas Courtman holds a PhD in German studies from the University of Cambridge. His next project examines West German citizenship law since 1949.

Table of Contents

Economic subject – work – capitalism – neoliberalism – Marx – literary critique – Georges Bataille – Baudelaire – Walter Benjamin – Bartleby – Gender and Work – Alan Hollinghurst – Elfriede Jelinek – Jean Rhys

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