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The financial imaginary : economic mystification and the limits of realist fiction
- Title
- The financial imaginary : economic mystification and the limits of realist fiction / Alison Shonkwiler.
- Author
- Shonkwiler, Alison
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
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Details
- Description
- xxxiii, 164 pages; 22 cm
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Money in literature
- Finance in literature
- Realism in literature
- Capitalism and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- Economics and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- American fiction
- Capitalism and literature
- Economics and literature
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-576
- ISBN
- 9781517901516
- 1517901510
- 9781517901523
- 1517901529
- LCCN
- 2016022211
- OCLC
- 957414102
- Author
- Shonkwiler, Alison, author.
- Title
- The financial imaginary : economic mystification and the limits of realist fiction / Alison Shonkwiler.
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-576