{"product_id":"mourning-modernity-9780804754194","title":"Mourning Modernity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen offers a bold new map of American literary modernism as a psychologically and politically divided response to the injuries inflicted by modern capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMourning Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e provides critics with a powerful and clarifying set of descriptors for American modernism.\" -- \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMourning Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e opens the door to reconsidering Lukác's categories outside of his problematic formal absolution, with an eye to the variety of affective modes that historical self-awareness can take. This is no small achievement, and offers a key vantage on the constitution of America's resentment-filled present.\" * Evan Mauro,\u003ci\u003e Reviews in Cultural Theory \u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMourning Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e transforms in a stroke what we thought we knew about U.S. modernism...We should be thankful that Moglen has both charted this exciting new terrain and left some work for the rest of us to do.\" -- \u003ci\u003eModernism\/Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eMourning Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, Seth Moglen combines a brilliant analysis of literary modernism with extraordinary insights into U.S. political culture. We will never be able to write about modernism again without taking into account Moglen's compelling arguments about the distinction between literary works that aestheticize alienation and those that call for remaking the social order.\" -- George Lipsitz * University of California at Santa Barbara *\u003cbr\u003e\"Seth Moglen's \u003ci\u003eMourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuires of American Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful volume offering breathtakingly sweeping claims about the span of American literature in the first half of the twentieth century.\" -- David M. Ball * \u003ci\u003eCollege Literature\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMourning Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e is a groundbreaking contribution to the discourse on literary modernism.\" -- Fred Moten * University of Southern California *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Table of Contents]  CONTENTS  Acknowledgments \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t   Introduction \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  PART ONE. THE TWO MODERNISMS   1. Modernism and Loss: The Divided Response to American   \t\tCapitalism\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  2.\tMelancholic Modernism\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  3. The Modernism of Mourning\t\t\t\t\t\t  PART TWO.\tTHE TWO MODERNISMS AT WAR: DOS PASSOS'S   \t\tU.S.A.\tTRILOGY \t\t\t\t\t\t\t  4. John Dos Passos and the Crises of American Radicalism\t \t\t  5. The Modernism of Mourning in U.S.A.: \"Writing So Fiery   \t\tand Accurate\"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  6. Melancholic Modernism in U.S.A.: Naturalism and the   \t\t\"Torment of Hope\" \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  Conclusion. \t\"The Language of the Beaten Nation \tIs Not Forgotten\":   \t\tDos Passos's Camera Eye and the Unfinished Work of Mourning\t  Notes   Works Cited\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  Index","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405565829463,"sku":"9780804754194","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804754194.jpg?v=1730492854","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mourning-modernity-9780804754194","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}