Modernism, Inflation and the Gold Standard in T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound

• Published in: Modernist cultures Vol. 16; no. 3; p. 316
• Main Author: Hawkes, David
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 01.08.2021
• Subjects: Anglophones; Economic crisis; Eliot, T S (Thomas Stearns) (1888-1965); Ethnolinguistic groups; Fertility; Gold; Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961); Inflation; Journalism; Logos; Modernism; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972); Representation; Semiotics; Usury

The great inflation of the 1920s had a dramatic effect on Anglophone literary modernism. Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway all recognized that financial signs had come unmoored from any objective reference, and their work explores the literary implications of representation's newly au...