In this ground-breaking book, Beth Holmgren examines how—in turn-of-the-century Russia and its subject, the Kingdom of Poland—capitalism affected the elitist culture of literature, publishing, book markets, and readership. Rewriting Capitalism considers how both “serious” writers and producers of consumer culture coped with the drastic power shift from “serious” literature to market-driven literature.

Beth Holmgren is professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Woman's Works in Stalin's Time: On Lidiia Chukoskaia and Nadezhda Mandelstam.