- 280 pages
- English
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About this book
Financial Gothic explores the persistent concern of American Gothic literature with finance - and finance as having always been a gothic phenomenon - from 1880 to the present day. The study reads Frankensteinian monsters, haunted houses, vampires and zombies in American literature and film as cultural responses to such twentieth and twenty-first century financial phenomena as the 1929 Wall Street Crash, post-war housing debt, financial deregulation, and the 2008 Credit Crunch. Consideration is also given to the pre-existing consensus on racial readings of American gothic, and how these interpretations of the slave trade can be expanded upon in conversation with their financial contexts. Drawing on contemporary insights into financialised understandings of economics within the humanities, new analysis of finance as an inherently gothic phenomenon, and archival work completed on the Library of Congress's Black History Collection, Financial Gothic highlights an as-yet-unrecognised dimension of haunting and monstrosity within American gothic fiction.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Introduction: Gothic Finance and Financial Gothic
- 1 ‘It’s Alive!’: The 1929 Wall Street Crash and Pulp/Popular/Political Monsters
- 2 ‘The Evil is the House Itself’: Credit, Citizenship, and the Post-war Haunting House
- 3 Deregulation Sucks: Mass Consumption of Liquidity 109 and the Deregulated Vampire
- 4 ‘Myself is Fabricated, An Aberration’: Late-Capitalism 147 and the Hyperreal Vampire
- 5 Mindless Consumers: The 2008 Crash and the 185 Post-Millennial Zombie
- Conclusion: Monsterized Capitalism and Capitalist Monsters
- Glossary of Financial Terms
- Notes
- Works Cited