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The financial imaginary economic mystification and the limits of realist fiction

Title
The financial imaginary [electronic resource] : economic mystification and the limits of realist fiction / Alison Shonkwiler.
Author
Shonkwiler, Alison.
Publication
Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]

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Description
1 online resource (xxxiii, 164 pages)
Uniform Title
Financial imaginary (Online)
Alternative Title
Financial imaginary (Online)
Subject
  • 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
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [129]-159) and index.
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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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