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Speculative Time examines how a climate of financial and economic speculation and disaster shaped the literary culture of the United States in the early to mid-twentieth century. It argues that speculation's risk-laden and crisis-prone temporalities had major impacts on writing in the period, and on important aspects of visual representation.

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This Companion provides students and researchers with a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interdisciplinary field of literature and economics. Combining historical coverage with key topics, the volume will appeal to literary scholars and to historians and social scientists interested in the literary and cultural dimensions of economics.

This Companion provides students and researchers with a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interdisciplinary field of literature and economics. Combining historical coverage with key topics, the volume will appeal to literary scholars and to historians and social scientists interested in the literary and cultural dimensions of economics.

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.

What does money really stand for? How can the abstractions of high finance be made visible? Show me the money documents how the financial world has been imagined in art, illustration, photography and other visual media over the last three centuries in Britain and the United States. It tells the story of how artists have grappled with the increasing

The radical, 'postmodernist' waves of experimentation that swept Anglo-American fiction from the late 1960s constitute a delayed response to the upheavals of the Second World War, yet the legacy of the war barely figures in prevalent accounts of the postmodernist movement. As Paul Crosthwaite shows in this provocative book, to recognize the significance of the war in contemporary culture is to acknowledge that postmodernism, as a sensibility, ...