The financial imaginary : economic mystification and the limits of realist fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Shonkwiler, Alison (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
Subjects:	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. 1900-1999 Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

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.