Table of Contents

Economic subject – work – capitalism – neoliberalism – Marx – literary critique – Georges Bataille – Baudelaire – Walter Benjamin – Bartleby – Gender and Work – Alan Hollinghurst – Elfriede Jelinek – Jean Rhys

About the Author

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.