Money Speculation And Finance In Contemporary British Fiction
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Author | : Nicky Marsh |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0826495443 |
A key monograph surveying the portrayal of finance and money in British fiction over the last thirty years.
Author | : Nicky Marsh |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2007-11-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1441153845 |
Fiction has become increasingly concerned with the political and imaginative significance of finance, speculation and the money markets - from Ian Fleming's Goldfinger to Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up and Martin Amis' Money. This book argues that recent British fiction demystifies the 'weightless' economy of contemporary money and critiques the popular sense of money as being everywhere but nowhere. The monograph provides a comprehensive survey of a large body of fictional texts that have striven to represent and understand the formative significance of finance capital on contemporary culture. In these novels, the implications of finance capitalism for political identity, for class politics, for the sovereignty of the nation state and a new global order are all explored, dramatised and critiqued. Authors covered include Margaret Drabble, Ian McEwan, Jonathan Coe, Alan Hollinghurst, Martin Amis and Malcolm Bradbury.
Author | : Ranald Michie |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2023-03-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9811270740 |
This book addresses the divide that exists between the reality of finance and the image it projects. A functioning financial system is an essential feature of a modern economy, providing it with money, credit, capital, and investments. Conversely, those who provide this essential service are neither respected nor trusted. The causes and consequences of this divide is explored using the British experience from 1800 to the present, drawing upon a mixture of factual evidence and contemporary fiction. Nothing of this scale has been attempted before and this is the product of 50 years of research.
Author | : Tetiana Bila-Vakhromeieva |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2015-11-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781519155030 |
Contemporary British Fiction
Author | : Garet Garrett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2020-01-29 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
A series of vignettes of Wall Street and the financial district. Mr. Garrett, in an easy conversational style, shows the human nature of high finance-and low - without its technicalities. The odd habits and the superstitions of men in the Street are discussed, and there is more genuine color in the book than in many novels of Wall Street.
Author | : Kathleen Ormond |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2019-12-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781673188530 |
A behind the scenes look into the world of modern banking with all the twists and turns of an action novel. The Twenty-First Floor takes you on a fast-paced ride with the movers and shakers of finance and into their world of global money markets, Washington Bureaucracy and Wall Street politics.
Author | : A. Beaumont |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2015-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137393726 |
By examining the representation of urban space in contemporary British fiction, this book argues that key to the political left's strategy was a model of action which folded politics into culture and elevated disenfranchisement to the status of a political principle.
Author | : David James |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 110704023X |
The Cambridge Companion to British Fiction since 1945 provides insight into the critical traditions shaping the literary landscape of modern Britain.
Author | : Harry Bingham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : FICTION |
ISBN | : 9781783014347 |
Author | : Paul Crosthwaite |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2022-12-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0226820998 |
Invested examines the perennial and nefarious appeal of financial advice manuals. Who hasn’t wished for a surefire formula for riches and a ticket to the good life? For three centuries, investment advisers of all kinds, legit and otherwise, have guaranteed that they alone can illuminate the golden pathway to prosperity—despite strong evidence to the contrary. In fact, too often, they are singing a siren song of devastation. And yet we keep listening. Invested tells the story of how the genre of investment advice developed and grew in the United Kingdom and the United States, from its origins in the eighteenth century through today, as it saturates our world. The authors analyze centuries of books, TV shows, blogs, and more, all promising techniques for amateur investors to master the ways of the market: from Thomas Mortimer’s pathbreaking 1761 work, Every Man His Own Broker, through the Gilded Age explosion of sensationalist investment manuals, the early twentieth-century emergence of a vernacular financial science, and the more recent convergence of self-help and personal finance. Invested asks why, in the absence of evidence that such advice reliably works, guides to the stock market have remained perennially popular. The authors argue that the appeal of popular investment advice lies in its promise to level the playing field, giving outsiders the privileged information of insiders. As Invested persuasively shows, the fantasies sold by these writings are damaging and deceptive, peddling unrealistic visions of easy profits and the certainty of success, while trying to hide the fact that there is no formula for avoiding life’s economic uncertainties and calamities.