Faculty Lunch and Lecture: 'Modernism and Finance Capital'

The Lisska Center is pleased to invite you to its first Faculty Lunch and Lecture, featuring Regina Martin, who will talk about her new book, “Modernism and Finance Capital: British Literature,” 1870-1940 (Cambridge University Press, 2024). 

“Modernism and Finance Capital” interprets modernism as a historical moment of financial crisis. It expands the definition of finance capital beyond mode of capital accumulation and value form to include a complex of historical processes during the modernist period, which includes the growth of the professional classes, the rise of the modern corporation, the economic turn toward London, and the emergence of affect as economic and literary value form. The book thereby locates the origins of twenty-first century affective economy in the turn-of-the-twentieth century modernist and financial revolutions. Scholars working at the crossroads of economic and cultural studies will find a model for how to interpret literature and other cultural artifacts as participating in economic processes of finance capital even when they do not engage explicitly with such issues. 

Martin is associate professor and Dominick Consolo Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program at Denison University, where she also teaches in the Global Commerce and Digital Humanities programs. She specializes in economic criticism, British literature, and cultural theory. She has published in PMLA, College Literature, Modern Fiction Studies, Criticism and other journals.

Lunch will be available for registrants at 11:30 a.m. and the lecture will begin at 11:45 a.m. Register HERE by Tuesday, Sept 9. 

Open to DU community—faculty, staff, and students.