The turn against space in economics preceded and enabled realist fiction’s crisis.

Evidence

So successful was this project of subduing space and rekindling capitalist growth that the economist Alfred Marshall could con­ fidently assert in the 1870s that the influence of time is ‘more fundamental than that of space’ in economic life (thus consolidating that privileging of time over space in social theory which we have already noted). Yet this transformation also undermined the cogency and meaning of realist fiction and painting. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1678

Categorization

• XREF: The privileging of time over space in social theory is a core Jamesonian theme — directly relevant to the reader’s rival-periodization analysis. — connects to: Economic globalization undermined realist narrative structure by introducing spatial simultaneity. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1678; Economic prosperity erases irrevocability, and with it the very possibility of plot — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 168

Broader Connections

• Economic globalization undermined realist narrative structure by introducing spatial simultaneity. #corroborates (0.85) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1678