The Fictions Of American Capitalism
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| Author | : Jacques-Henri Coste |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 2020-02-26 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3030365646 |
The Fictions of American Capitalism: Working Fictions and the Economic Novel 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.
| Author | : Jacques-Henri Coste |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 408 |
| Release | : 2020-02-26 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3030365646 |
The Fictions of American Capitalism: Working Fictions and the Economic Novel 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.
| Author | : Richard Godden |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2008-06-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521064031 |
Fictions of Capital situates manners and writing about manners in the context of American capitalism between 1880 and 1960, a period that runs from the onset of the sales culture to its war-prompted crisis point in the 1960s. The work of various economic theorists and historians is used to establish two of capitalism's deeper narratives: the plot to accumulate and expand resources (1880 to the First World War), and the plot to ensure reproduction of the expanded resources (preoccupying late capitalism, but already an issue for market leaders in the 1920s). James and Fitzgerald are read as the key novelists of bourgeois affluence, their juxtaposition covers the scope of Incorporation, from the initial accumulation to the problems of how accumulations are to be reproduced. The relation between Fitzgerald and Mailer is explored as a way into new tensions in the growth imperative, resolved though the linking of Destruction, or the permanent arms economy, to Desire, or the ubiquitous shop-window, as a capitalist incentive.
| Author | : Julia Nikiel |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2023-01-23 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9004533281 |
Exposing capital for the con artist and storyteller it is, the book shows how the post-millennial novels of William Gibson, Douglas Coupland, and Dave Eggers work to dismantle the fictions (or illusions) capitalist globalization spurs and continues to rely on.
| Author | : Sharon A. Lewis |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 142 |
| Release | : 2017-11-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1527504204 |
This edited volume offers innovative ways of analyzing economics in Gloria Naylor’s fiction, using interpretive strategies which are applicable to the entire tradition of African American literature. The writers gathered here embody years of insightful and vigorous Naylor scholarship. Underpinning each of the essays is a celebratory validation that Naylor is one of the most provocative novelists of our time.
| Author | : Michael Burgan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780531269800 |
Discusses the U.S. economy, from its development during colonial times to the dramatic events of recent years, and how it has shaped our nation today.
| Author | : Lynn A. Parks |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
Capitalism in Early American Literature: Texts and Contexts is a literary history that shows how the idea of America as the land of capitalist enterprise - where rewards are always commensurate with productivity - came to flourish in our national literature. Covering the colonial period, the early national period, and the Jacksonian period, this study examines a variety of writers, including many of our best early writers of fiction, who chronicle and celebrate - and sometimes condemn - the vision of America as the land of economic opportunity.
| Author | : Hildegard Hoeller |
| Publisher | : UPNE |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1611683114 |
In this rich interdisciplinary study, Hildegard Hoeller argues that nineteenth-century American culture was driven by and deeply occupied with the tension between gift and market exchange. Rooting her analysis in the period's fiction, she shows how American novelists from Hannah Foster to Frank Norris grappled with the role of the gift based on trust, social bonds, and faith in an increasingly capitalist culture based on self-interest, market transactions, and economic reason. Placing the notion of sacrifice at the center of her discussion, Hoeller taps into the poignant discourse of modes of exchange, revealing central tensions of American fiction and culture.
| Author | : Kristin Allukian |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 338 |
| Release | : 2023-08-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0820364614 |
With Slavery, Capitalism, and Women’s Literature, Kristin Allukian makes an important contribution to slavery and capitalism scholarship by including the voices of some of the best-known nineteenth-century American women writers. Women’s literature offers crucial and previously unconsidered economic insights into the relationship between slavery and capitalism, different from those we typically find in economics and economic histories. Allukian demonstrates that because women’s imaginative and creative texts take the material-historical connection of slavery and capitalism as their starting point, they can be read for the more speculative extensions of that connection, extensions not possible to discover on a material-historical level. Indeed, Allukian contends, these authors and texts disclose unique economic insights, critiques, and theories in ways that are only possible through literary writing. The writers featured in this study—Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucy Larcom, Harriet Jacobs, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper—published written accounts of the continuities between slavery and capitalism including between language and activism, accounting and sentimentalism, labor and technology, race and property, and inheritance and reparations. Their essays, novels, poems, and autobiographies provided forums to document data, stimulate debate, generate resistance, and imagine alternatives to the United States’ developing capitalist economy, engined and engineered by slavery. Without their unique economic insights, the national narrative we tell about the relationship between slavery and capitalism is incomplete.
| Author | : Mark Twain |
| Publisher | : IndyPublish.com |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2001-12-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781588275400 |
In "The American Claimant" as a lead character it features a mad scientist with many crazy ideas of invention. This book deals with English aristocracy and American capitalism and industrialism, it is a great literary tribute to the birth of American industry and is filled with much of Twain's outlandish humor. Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year.
