Overview
- Examines literary representations of capitalism and the genre of the economic novel
- Contributes to the study of economic humanities by analyzing the non-literary fictions bolstering American capitalism
- Brings together scholars of sociology, economics, literature, and American studies
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics (PSLCE)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Non-Literary Fictions of American Capitalism
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Front Matter
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Literary Representations of Capitalism
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jacques-Henri Coste is Associate Professor of American Studies and Political Economy at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, France. He is editor of Les sociétés entrepreneuriales et les mondes Anglophones (2013) and coeditor of The Crisis and Renewal of American Capitalism (2016).
Vincent Dussol is Associate Professor of American Literature at Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3, France. He has translated several American poets and is the editor of The Epic Expands (2012) and co-editor of Poésie-traduction-cinéma/Poetry-translation-film (2019).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Fictions of American Capitalism
Book Subtitle: Working Fictions and the Economic Novel
Editors: Jacques-Henri Coste, Vincent Dussol
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36564-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36563-9Published: 27 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36566-0Published: 27 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-36564-6Published: 26 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2946-5397
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5400
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 408
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary History, North American Literature, Contemporary Literature, Fiction, Economic History, Financial History