The financial imaginary economic mystification and the limits of realist fiction

The financial imaginary : economic mystification and the limits of realist fiction / Alison Shonkwiler.

Author/creator	Shonkwiler, Alison
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]
Description	xxxiii, 164 pages ; 23 cm
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Subject(s)	American fiction--20th century --History and criticism. Money in literature. Finance in literature. Realism in literature. Capitalism and literature--United States --History --20th century. Economics and literature--United States --History --20th century.

Contents	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages [129]-159) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2016022211
ISBN	9781517901516 (hc : acid-free paper)
ISBN	9781517901523 (pb : acid-free paper)

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