Details
Statement of responsibility: Leigh Claire La Berge
Copyright: 2015
ISBN: 019937287X, 9780199372874
Note:
Hbk.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:
x, 230 pages ill. 24cm
Subject:
Capitalism and literature; Money in literature; American fiction 20th century History and criticism; Financial crises in literature; Finance in literature
Contents
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- Table of Contents
- Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fictions of the Long 1980s
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Personal Banking and Depersonalization in Don
- DeLillo's White Noise
- Chapter 2. Capitalist Realism: The 1987 Stock Market Crash
- and the New Proprietary of Tom Wolfe and Oliver Stone
- Chapter 3. "The Men Who Make The Killings": American
- Psycho and the Genre of the Financial Autobiography
- Chapter 4. Realism and Unreal Estate: The Savings and Loan
- Scandals and the Epistemologies of American Finance
- Coda.