A broad-ranging study exploring the relation between the modernist avant-garde and capitalist culture.

Acknowledgements; Introduction: The modernist avant-garde and the culture of market society; Part I. The Posthuman Scene: 1. Approaching modernism; 2. Ideology; 3. Permanent revolution; 4. Epistemology of the market; Part II. The Regime of Unrest: Four Precursors: 5. Bloody face; 6. A variegated daguerreotype; 7. The unnameable; 8. Childhood as resistance; Part III. The Margin is the Mainstream: 9. Artisanal production, Ulysses and the circulation of goods; 10. History and the post-psychological self in The Waste Land; 11. La bohème: Lewis, Stein, Barnes; 12. Bloomsbury nation; Notes; Bibliography; Index.