02673nam 2200601 450 991081382960332120230721034658.01-4411-5384-5(CKB)3710000000109428(EBL)1644310(SSID)ssj0001235677(PQKBManifestationID)11702321(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001235677(PQKBWorkID)11230753(PQKB)11337955(MiAaPQ)EBC1644310(Au-PeEL)EBL1644310(CaPaEBR)ebr10867349(CaONFJC)MIL615968(OCoLC)893336109(EXLCZ)99371000000010942820070601h20072007 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMoney, speculation and finance in contemporary British fiction /Nicky MarshLondon ;New York :Continuum,[2007]©20071 online resource (171 p.)Continuum literary studies seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8264-9544-3 Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-158) and index.'Kiss, kiss, bang, bang' : money and the thriller -- Sound money : Thatcher, gender and the state -- Bang, boom, bust : the fortune of the city -- Rogue traders : popular fiction and the professional -- Women, work and risk.Fiction has become increasingly concerned with the political and imaginative significance of finance, speculation and the money markets - from Ian Fleming''s Goldfinger to Jonathan Coe''s What a Carve Up and Martin Amis'' Money. This book argues that recent British fiction demystifies the ''weightless'' economy of contemporary money and critiques the popular sense of money as being everywhere but nowhere. The monograph provides a comprehensive survey of a large body of fictional texts that have striven to represent and understand the formative significance of finance capital on contemporary cuContinuum literary studies.English fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismMoney in literatureFinance in literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.Money in literature.Finance in literature.823/.914093553Marsh Nicky1688536MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813829603321Money, speculation and finance in contemporary British fiction4062853UNINA