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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810857303321

Autore

Shonkwiler Alison

Titolo

The Financial Imaginary [[electronic resource] ] : Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction / / Alison Shonkwiler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4529-5392-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 pages)

Disciplina

813.009/3553

Soggetti

Economics and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Capitalism and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Realism in literature

Finance in literature

Money in literature

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.