Speculative time : American literature in an age of crisis / Paul Crosthwaite.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crosthwaite, Paul, 1980- author.

Series:

Oxford studies in American literary history.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in American literary history

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Economics in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (403 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

'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.

Contents:

Intro

Cover

Half Title

Frontispiece

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

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

Endnotes

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 8, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

0-19-889180-6

0-19-199646-7

0-19-889181-4

OCLC:

1412506130