Mourning Modernity Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism

"Mourning Modernity provides critics with a powerful and clarifying set of descriptors for American modernism." - American Literature "Mourning Modernity opens the door to reconsidering Lukác's categories outside of his problematic formal absolution, with an eye to the variety of affective modes that historical self-awareness can take. This is no small achievement, and offers a key vantage on the constitution of America's resentment-filled present." (Evan Mauro, Reviews in Cultural Theory ) "Seth Moglen's Mourning Modernity: Literary Modernism and the Injuires of American Capitalism is a powerful volume offering breathtakingly sweeping claims about the span of American literature in the first half of the twentieth century." - David M. Ball (College Literature) "Mourning Modernity is a groundbreaking contribution to the discourse on literary modernism." - Fred Moten (University of Southern California) "Mourning Modernity transforms in a stroke what we thought we knew about U.S. modernism...We should be thankful that Moglen has both charted this exciting new terrain and left some work for the rest of us to do." - Modernism/Modernity "In Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen combines a brilliant analysis of literary modernism with extraordinary insights into U.S. political culture. We will never be able to write about modernism again without taking into account Moglen's compelling arguments about the distinction between literary works that aestheticize alienation and those that call for remaking the social order." - George Lipsitz (University of California at Santa Barbara)