TY - BOOK AU - Marsh, Alec, TI - Money and modernity: Pound, Williams, and the spirit of Jefferson SN - 0817309217 AV - PS3531.O82 .Z746 1998 U1 - 811/.5209358 21 PY - 1998/// CY - Tuscaloosa PB - University of Alabama Press KW - Williams, William Carlos, KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - United States KW - Economics in literature KW - 20th century KW - Money in literature KW - Capitalism and literature KW - Jefferson, Thomas, KW - Pound, Ezra, KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - American poetry N1 - 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 ER -