Leigh Claire La Berge

Scandals and Abstraction

Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780190845988
• ISBN-10: 0190845988
• Artikelnr.: 58737800

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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