Financial Gothic : Monsterized Capitalism in American Gothic Fiction / Amy Bride.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bride, Amy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, England : University of Wales Press, [2023]

Summary:

Financial Gothic offers three main critical perspectives: that finance can and should be understood as a gothic phenomenon; that contemporary American finance is a product the slave trade; and that American gothic monsters symbolise both the financial market and enslavement.

Contents:

Intro

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781837720644

1837720649

9781837720651

1837720657