Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction

Contemporary British and American fiction is defined by financial markets' power over the global publishing industry and the global economy.

List of contents

Introduction: neoliberalism, financialization, and the contemporary literary marketplace; Part I. The Emergence of Market Metafiction: 1. Market metafiction and the varieties of postmodernism; Part II. The Phantasmagorias of Contemporary Finance: 2. Trading in the as if: fiduciary exchangeability and supernatural financial fiction; 3. 'The occult logic of 'market forces'': Iain Sinclair's post-Big Bang London; Part III. The Market Knows: 4. The price is right: market epistemology, narrative totality, and the 'big novel'; 5. Fully reflecting: knowing the mind of the market in DeLillo and Kunzru; 6. Putting everything on the table: markets and material conditions in twenty-first-century fiction; 7. Between autonomy and heteronomy: exchanging capital in Zink, Cohen, and Heti; Coda: basic income, or, why Barbara Browning's The Gift is not a gift.

About the author

Paul Crosthwaite is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.

Summary

This book shows how interrelated shifts in the global financial system and the global publishing industry have transformed the production of contemporary fiction in Britain and the USA. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers working in twenty-first-century literary studies, especially scholars of contemporary British and American fiction.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Crosthwaite, Paul (University of Edinburgh) Crosthwaite
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781108499569
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49956-9
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Twenty-Fi; Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, 21st Century, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Publishing industry & book trade, Publishing and book trade, Literary studies: from c 2000