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

Writing the Economic Subject in Modern Western

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      Publisher: Peter Lang AG
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 18/08/2021
      ISBN13: 9783631839997, 978-3631839997
      ISBN10: 3631839995

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      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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