The Financial Imaginary: Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction

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Drawing a connection from historical and theoretical accounts of financialization to the formal contours of contemporary fiction, The Financial Imaginary examines the persistent yet vexed relationship between financial representation and the demands of literary realism. Alison Shonkwiler argues that the novel is essential to understanding our relation to the mystifications of abstraction past and present.

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"A brilliant intervention into several vital conversations about contemporary American literature and culture, The Financial Imaginary offers a swift, compelling, and sharply analytic account of the processes characterizing finance capitalism. Alison Shonkwiler makes her case forcefully and advances many daringly original interpretations."Caren Irr, Brandeis University

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Alison Shonkwiler is associate professor of English at Rhode Island College and coeditor of Reading Capitalist Realism.