- Description
- 1 online resource (xxxiii, 164 pages)
- Uniform Title
- Financial imaginary (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Financial imaginary (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [129]-159) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2016022211
- OCLC
- ssj0001745407
- Author
Shonkwiler, Alison.
- Title
The financial imaginary [electronic resource] : economic mystification and the limits of realist fiction / Alison Shonkwiler.
- Imprint
Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [129]-159) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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