Credit Culture: The Politics of Money in the American Novel of the 1970s

ISBN-13: 9781108836470 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 280 str.

Nicky Marsh

Opis

The book re-reads the postmodern novel, presenting the ending of the gold standard as a moment of continuity rather than radical change.

Spis treści

Introduction; Money in the disciplines; postmodern times: E.L Doctorow's Ragtime; 1. No place like home: the cultures of American credit; 2. Don Delillo and American credit; 3. William Gaddis and corporate credit; 4. When women counted: feminism, fiction and the money economy; 5. Toni Morrison and the promise to pay; 6. Dorothy's endless return: sacrifice and gender in the novels of Thomas Pynchon.