Scandals and Abstraction - Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s

Scandals and Abstraction offers an in-depth study of epochal works like White Noise by Don DeLillo, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, and Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities, alongside the key moments of financial history that inform them.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Chapter 1. Personal Banking and Depersonalization in Don


• DeLillo's White Noise


• Chapter 2. Capitalist Realism: The 1987 Stock Market Crash


• and the New Proprietary of Tom Wolfe and Oliver Stone


• Chapter 3. "The Men Who Make The Killings": American


• Psycho and the Genre of the Financial Autobiography


• Chapter 4. Realism and Unreal Estate: The Savings and Loan


• Scandals and the Epistemologies of American Finance


• Coda

About the author

Leigh Claire La Berge is Assistant Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York and the coeditor, with Alison Shonkwiler, of Reading Capitalist Realism.

Summary

Scandals and Abstraction offers an in-depth study of epochal works like White Noise by Don DeLillo, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, and Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities, alongside the key moments of financial history that inform them.

Additional text

For the economists Kiyotaki and Moore, money is 'strange stuff.' Financial monies, in the apparent opacity of their workings, seem yet stranger. La Berge brings clarity to the financial turn by way of the founding assumption that the material practices of an economy

Product details

• Authors: Leigh Claire La Berge, Leigh Claire (Assistant Professor of Eng La Berge, La Berge Leigh Claire
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.06.2020
• EAN: 9780190845988
• ISBN: 978-0-19-084598-8
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form