Abstract
The panel begins with Rob Hawkes. He introduces the BAMS audience to the wide-ranging contributions of the Money on the Left Editorial Collective. He also makes the case for reading Georg Friedrich Knapp’s early twentieth-century chartalist approach to money as a modernist project deeply entwined with myriad other aesthetic modernisms.
Rob Hawkes (Teesside University) will contrast naturalist economic theories espoused at the fin-desiècle—which present gold as having been selected as money by a natural and inevitable ‘process of evolution’, and which chime with literary representations of character as biologically determined—with the monetary modernism of Georg Friedrich Knapp’s The State Theory of Money (1905), first translated into English in 1924 and endorsed by Keynes in A Treatise on Money (1930), and with the hopeful modernism of Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) and Ford Madox Ford’s The Rash Act (1933), which frame identities as malleable, discursively constituted and negotiated, and open to a process of creative reimagining
Rob Hawkes (Teesside University) will contrast naturalist economic theories espoused at the fin-desiècle—which present gold as having been selected as money by a natural and inevitable ‘process of evolution’, and which chime with literary representations of character as biologically determined—with the monetary modernism of Georg Friedrich Knapp’s The State Theory of Money (1905), first translated into English in 1924 and endorsed by Keynes in A Treatise on Money (1930), and with the hopeful modernism of Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929) and Ford Madox Ford’s The Rash Act (1933), which frame identities as malleable, discursively constituted and negotiated, and open to a process of creative reimagining
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 22 Jun 2022 |
| Event | Hopeful Modernisms: The conference of the British Association for Modernist Studies - University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom Duration: 23 Jun 2022 → 25 Jun 2022 https://bams.ac.uk/hopeful-modernisms-conference-june-2022/ |
Conference
| Conference | Hopeful Modernisms |
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| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | Bristol |
| Period | 23/06/22 → 25/06/22 |
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