Exit Capitalism Literary Culture, Theory and Post-Secular Modernity [Hardcover]

Exit Capitalismexplores 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.

Introduction  Part 1: Modernizing the English Literary Field  1. Church, State and Modernization: Literature as Gentlemanly Knowledge after 1688  2. Quackery, Selfhood and the Emergence of the Modern Cultural Marketplace  3. Interesting: the Politics of the Sympathetic Imagination  Part 2: Towards Endgame Capitalism: Literature, Theory, Culture  4. World Literature, Stalinism and the Nation: Christina Stead as Lost Object  5. Socialist Ends: the Emergence of Academic Theory in Postwar Britain  6. Completing Secularism: the Mundane in the Neo-Liberal Era  7. Refusing Capitalism? Theory and Cultural Studies after 1968

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.