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Money, Speculation and Finance in Contemporary British Fiction.
Fiction has become increasingly concerned with the political and imaginative significance of finance, speculation and the money markets - from Ian Fleming''s Goldfinger to Jonathan Coe''s What a Carve Up and Martin Amis'' Money. This book argues that recent British fict...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2007.
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| Colección: | Continuum literary studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction. Fiction and the Fictitious: Reading the Money Economy; 1 ''Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang'': Money and the Thriller; Introduction. Money in the Twentieth Century; I: From the Gold Standard to the EuroDollar: H.G. Wells''s Tono Bungay and Ian Fleming''s Goldfinger; II: Crime and Casino Capitalism: Paul Erdman''s The Billion Dollar Sure Thing and Jocelyn Davey''s A Treasury Alarm; 2 Sound Money: Thatcher, Gender and the State; Introduction. The Emergence of Sado-monetarism.
- I: Taking the Maggie: Martin Amis''s Money and Malcolm Bradbury''s Rates of ExchangeII: The Taboo: Margaret Drabble''s The Radiant Way and Fay Weldon''s Darcy''s Utopia; 3 Bang, Boom, Bust: The Fortune of the City; Introduction. Making a Killing; I: The Monkey and the Trader: Raymond Williams''s Loyalties and David Lodge''s Nice Work; II: Revision and Retrospect: Jonathan Coe''s What a Carve Up! and Alan Hollinghurst''s The Line of Beauty; 4 Rogue Traders: Popular Fiction and the Professional Introduction. The Men Who Broke the Bank; Introduction. The Men Who Broke the Bank.
- I: Bonds and Novels: the Professional and the ThrillerII: Free to Trade: The Creation of the Market; III: Genre and Critique: Don DeLillo''s Cosmopolis; 5 Women, Work and Risk; Introduction. The Gender Quake; I: Bridget Goes Banking: Femininity and Finance in Popular Fiction; II: Trading on Feminine Ethics: Lesley Campbell''s Forged Metal Conclusion: The Unknown Unknowns; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W; Y.