Description: Alisa Zhulina shows how canonical fin-de-siècle playwrights interrogated the meaning of capitalism, staging economic questions as moral and political concerns and challenging contemporary socioeconomic theories within the boundaries of bourgeois theater.
Review Quotes:
"The work of a true comparatist, Theater of Capital demonstrates, in a series of revelatory and nuanced readings, how canonical and not-so-canonical writers' knowledge of money saturates the language--even the gestures--of their plays and prose." --Martin Harries, University of California, Irvine