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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Paul Crosthwaite is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Edinburgh, where he has worked since 2011. Prior to joining Edinburgh, he was a lecturer and member of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University. He completed his PhD at Newcastle University in 2007.
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* Acknowledgements * Introduction * 1: Speculation, Prediction, and the Great Crash of 1929 * 2: "A Touch of Disaster": (Pre)figuring Crisis in F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Nathan Asch * 3: "Like a Flood or an Earthquake": Literary and Visual Representation at a Moment of Crisis * 4: "To Will a Future": Economic Fatalism and Performativity in Archibald MacLeish's Panic * 5: "Stock-Market Luck Has Become One and the Same Thing as Fate": The Anti-Determinism of Christina Stead's House of All Nations * 6: "Politics Was Something Like the Numbers Game": Policy, Politics, and Speculation in Claude McKay, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison * 7: "Filigreed Webs of Dreams and Politics": Necrospeculation and Counter-Speculation in Richard Wright's Native Son * Coda: A Long Shadow
* Acknowledgements * Introduction * 1: Speculation, Prediction, and the Great Crash of 1929 * 2: "A Touch of Disaster": (Pre)figuring Crisis in F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Nathan Asch * 3: "Like a Flood or an Earthquake": Literary and Visual Representation at a Moment of Crisis * 4: "To Will a Future": Economic Fatalism and Performativity in Archibald MacLeish's Panic * 5: "Stock-Market Luck Has Become One and the Same Thing as Fate": The Anti-Determinism of Christina Stead's House of All Nations * 6: "Politics Was Something Like the Numbers Game": Policy, Politics, and Speculation in Claude McKay, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison * 7: "Filigreed Webs of Dreams and Politics": Necrospeculation and Counter-Speculation in Richard Wright's Native Son * Coda: A Long Shadow
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