Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Representing financial abstraction in fiction
  • Virtue unrewarded: financial character in the economic novel
  • Reagonomic realisms: real estate, character, and crisis in Jane Smiley's Good faith
  • Epic compensations: corporate totality in Frank Norris's The octopus and Richard Powers's Gain
  • Financial sublime: virtual capitalism in Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis
  • Liquid realisms: global asymmetry and mediation in Teddy Wayne's Kapitoil and Mohsin Hamid's How to get filthy rich in raising Asia
  • Epilogue: Literary realism and finance capital.