Exit Capitalism explores a new path for cultural studies and re-examines key moments of British cultural and literary history. Simon During argues that the long and liberating journey towards democratic state capitalism has led to an unhappy dead-end from which there is no imaginable exit.
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Part I Modernizing the English literary field |
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Church, state, and modernization: literature as gentlemanly knowledge after 1688 |
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3 | (21) |
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Quackery, selfhood, and the emergence of the modern cultural marketplace |
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24 | (15) |
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Interesting: the politics of the sympathetic imagination |
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39 | (16) |
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Part II Towards endgame capitalism: literature, theory, culture |
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55 | (107) |
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World literature, Stalinism, and the nation: Christina Stead as lost object |
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57 | (38) |
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Socialist ends: the emergence of academic theory in post-war Britain |
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95 | (20) |
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Completing secularism: the mundane in the neo-liberal era |
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115 | (16) |
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Refusing capitalism? Theory and cultural studies after 1968 |
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131 | (31) |
| Notes |
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162 | (11) |
| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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Simon During teaches at the English Department of Johns Hopkins University. He is also a Professoral Fellow at the School of Culture and Communications at the University of Melbourne. His most recent books are Modern Enchantments: the cultural power of secular magic (2002) and Cultural Studies: a critical introduction (2005). He is also the editor of the three editions of the Cultural Studies Reader.
