The Financial Imaginary : Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shonkwiler, Alison (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
American fiction.
Capitalism and literature.
Economics and literature.
Finance in literature.
Money in literature.
Realism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Économie politique et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Capitalisme et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Realisme dans la litterature.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Economics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Capitalism and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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