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The Fictions of American Capitalism : Working Fictions and the Economic Novel / / edited by Jacques-Henri Coste, Vincent Dussol



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Titolo: The Fictions of American Capitalism : Working Fictions and the Economic Novel / / edited by Jacques-Henri Coste, Vincent Dussol Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020
Edizione: 1st ed. 2020.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
Disciplina: 813.009
809.7
Soggetto topico: Literature - History and criticism
America - Literatures
Literature, Modern - 20th century
Literature, Modern - 21st century
Fiction
Economic history
Finance
History
Literary History
North American Literature
Contemporary Literature
Fiction Literature
Economic History
Financial History
Persona (resp. second.): CosteJacques-Henri
DussolVincent
Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1: The Fictions of American Capitalism: An Introduction, Jacques-Henri and Vincent Dussol -- Chapter 2: From Economics as Fiction to Fiction-Led Capitalism, Robert Boyer -- Chapter 3: Capitalism: Anticipating the Future Present, Jens Beckert -- Chapter 4: The Cultural Fix: Capital, Genre, and the Times of American Studies, Stephen Shapiro -- Chapter 5: “Tell me a Story”: How American Capitalism Reinvents Itself through Storytelling, Marie-Christine Pauwels -- Chapter 6: The Boundless Economy: An Enduring Performative American Fiction?, Pierre Arnaud -- Chapter 7: American Entrepreneurship as Action Translated into Heuristic Discourse, Jacques-Henri Coste -- Chapter 8: The Woman Proprietor in Elizabeth Stuart Phelp’s The Silent Partner: Social Reform Novel as Paradigm of John Stuart Mill’s Liberal Political Economy, Julia McLeod -- Chapter 9: William Dean Howells and the Economic Novel: Heteronomy and Autonomy, Giullame Tanguy -- Chapter 10: The Theory of Monopoly and the Crafting of the Modern Epic: Frank Norris’s The Octopus as Populist Drama?, Evelyne Payen-Varieras -- Chapter 11: Naturalism and Economic Calculability, Jason Douglas -- Chapter 12: Living on Paper: Disarticulating a Racialized Capitalism in Works by Richard Wright and Ann Petry, William Dow -- Chapter 13: Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged: “Laissez-Faire” Fiction, Vincent Dussol -- Chapter 14: “Building the clutter, widening the vacancy”: Capitalism and Baroque in William Gaddis’s JR, Jean-Louis Brunel -- Chapter 15: Money Narratives in Postmodern Novels by Paul Auster and Martin Amis, Sina Vatanpour -- Chapter 15: Revisiting Business History through Capitalist Fiction: The Glove-Making Business in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral, Jacques-Henri Coste -- Chapter 16: Thomas Pynchon’s Dumps: Subversive Developments, Benedicte Chorier-Fryd -- Chapter 18: Economic Humanities: Literature, Culture and Capitalism, Peter Knight. .
Sommario/riassunto: The Fictions of American Capitalism introduces a new way of thinking about fiction in connection with capitalism, especially American capitalism. These essays demonstrate how fiction fulfills a major function of the American capitalist engine, presenting various formulations of American capitalism from the perspective of economists, social scientists, and literary critics. Focusing on three narratives—fictitious capital, working fictions, and the economic novel—the volume questions whether these three types of fiction can be linked under the sign of capitalism. This collection seeks to illustrate the American economy’s dependence on fictitiousness, America’s ideological fictions, and the nation’s creative literary fiction. In relation to what the credit and banking crisis of 2007–2008 exposed about the “unreal” base of the economy, the volume concludes with a call to recognize the economic humanities, arguing that American fiction and American literary studies can provide a useful mirror for economists. .
Titolo autorizzato: The Fictions of American Capitalism  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-030-36564-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910484567703321
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Serie: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics