The Financial Imaginary : Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Representing Financial Abstraction in Fiction -- 1 Virtue Unrewarded: Financial Character in the Economic Novel -- 2 Reaganomic Realisms: Real Estate, Character, and Crisis in Jane Smiley's Good Faith -- 3 Epic Compensations: Corporate Totality in Frank Norris's The Octopus and Richard Powers's Gain -- 4 Financial Sublime: Virtual Capitalism in Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis -- 5 Liquid Realisms: Global Asymmetry and Mediation in Teddy Wayne's Kapitoil and Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia -- Epilogue: Literary Realism and Finance Capital -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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