LEADER 03875oam 22005774a 450 001 9910956574703321 005 20251117085714.0 010 $a1-4529-5392-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000001010308 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4745541 035 $a(OCoLC)967982714 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse56612 035 $a(BIP)60129410 035 $a(BIP)56932863 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001010308 100 $a20160825d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Financial Imaginary $eEconomic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction /$fAlison Shonkwiler 210 1$aMinneapolis, Minnesota ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Minnesota Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (200 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$a1-5179-0152-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $a As the world has been reshaped since the 1970s by neoliberalism and globalization, increasing financial abstraction has presented a new political urgency for contemporary writers. Globalized finance, the return to Gilded Age levels of inequality, and the emergence of new technologies pose a similar challenge to the one faced by American social realists a century ago: making the virtualization of capitalism legible within the conventions of the realist novel. In The Financial Imaginary , Alison Shonkwiler reads texts by Richard Powers, Don DeLillo, Jane Smiley, Teddy Wayne, and Mohsin Hamid to examine how fiction confronts the formal and representational mystifications of the economic.  As Shonkwiler shows, these contemporary writers navigate the social, moral, and class preoccupations of American "economic fiction" (as shaped by such writers as William Dean Howells, Henry James, Frank Norris, and Theodore Dreiser), even as they probe the novel's inadequacies to tell the story of an increasingly abstract world system. Drawing a connection from historical and theoretical accounts of financialization to the formal contours of contemporary fiction, The Financial Imaginary examines the persistent yet vexed relationship between financial representation and the demands of literary realism. It argues that the novel is essential to understanding our relation to the mystifications of abstraction past and present. 606 $aEconomics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCapitalism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRealism in literature 606 $aFinance in literature 606 $aMoney in literature 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEconomics and literature$xHistory 615 0$aCapitalism and literature$xHistory 615 0$aRealism in literature. 615 0$aFinance in literature. 615 0$aMoney in literature. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a813.009/3553 700 $aShonkwiler$b Alison$01870372 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910956574703321 996 $aThe Financial Imaginary$94478787 997 $aUNINA