The Resource The financial imaginary : economic mystification and the limits of realist fiction, Alison Shonkwiler
The financial imaginary : economic mystification and the limits of realist fiction, Alison Shonkwiler
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- Summary
- "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" -- From the publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xxxiii, 164 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781517901523
- Label
- The financial imaginary : economic mystification and the limits of realist fiction
- Title
- The financial imaginary
- Title remainder
- economic mystification and the limits of realist fiction
- Statement of responsibility
- Alison Shonkwiler
- Subject
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- Capitalism and literature
- Capitalism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Economics and literature
- Economics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Finance in literature
- Finance in literature
- American fiction
- Money in literature
- Money in literature
- Realism in literature
- Realism in literature
- United States
- History
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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" -- From the publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Shonkwiler, Alison
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS374.M54
- LC item number
- S56 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- American fiction
- Money in literature
- Finance in literature
- Realism in literature
- Capitalism and literature
- Economics and literature
- American fiction
- Capitalism and literature
- Economics and literature
- Finance in literature
- Money in literature
- Realism in literature
- United States
- Label
- The financial imaginary : economic mystification and the limits of realist fiction, Alison Shonkwiler
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 957414102
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xxxiii, 164 pages
- Isbn
- 9781517901523
- Lccn
- 2016022211
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)957414102
- Label
- The financial imaginary : economic mystification and the limits of realist fiction, Alison Shonkwiler
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 957414102
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xxxiii, 164 pages
- Isbn
- 9781517901523
- Lccn
- 2016022211
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)957414102
Subject
- Capitalism and literature
- Capitalism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Economics and literature
- Economics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Finance in literature
- Finance in literature
- American fiction
- Money in literature
- Money in literature
- Realism in literature
- Realism in literature
- United States
- History
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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