02396oam 22005414a 450 991079265690332120170922081408.01-4529-5392-9(CKB)3710000001010308(MiAaPQ)EBC4745541(OCoLC)967982714(MdBmJHUP)muse56612(EXLCZ)99371000000101030820160825d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Financial Imaginary[electronic resource] Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction /Alison ShonkwilerMinneapolis, Minnesota ;London, [England] :University of Minnesota Press,2017.©20171 online resource (200 pages)Includes index.1-5179-0152-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Economics and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryCapitalism and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryRealism in literatureFinance in literatureMoney in literatureAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books. Economics and literatureHistoryCapitalism and literatureHistoryRealism in literature.Finance in literature.Money in literature.American fictionHistory and criticism.813.009/3553Shonkwiler Alison1530663MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910792656903321The Financial Imaginary3775864UNINA