This book explores the ways in which capitalism shapes how modern Western European literary authors and social theorists have reflected upon the economic formation of the subject and subjectivity. The contributions engage with the imperatives of productivity, notions of success and failure, the construction of work cultures and environments.
Aileen Behrendt holds a PhD in English literature from the University of Potsdam. Her research interests include modernist and interwar literature, gender studies, and British comedy.
Nicholas Courtman holds a PhD in German studies from the University of Cambridge. His next project examines West German citizenship law since 1949.