Marsh, Alec, 1953-

Money and modernity : Pound, Williams, and the spirit of Jefferson / by Alec Marsh. - Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1998. - xvi, 290 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-280) and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Jeffersonian economics: debt and the production of value -- Three aspects of the Jeffersonian political aesthetic -- The virtues of distribution: a genealogy of Poundian economics -- Fertility rites/financial rites: Pound, Williams, and the political economy of sex -- Poesis versus production: the economic defense of poetry in the age of corporate capitalism -- Dewey, Williams, and the pragmatic poem -- Overcoming modernity: representing the corporation and the promise of pluralism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 --Political and social views.
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 --Political and social views.
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 --Knowledge--Economics.
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 --Knowledge--Economics.
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 --Influence.


Capitalism and literature--History--United States--20th century.
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
Economics in literature.
Money in literature.

PS3531.O82 / .Z746 1998

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