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Bride, Amy

 
9781837720637: Financial Gothic: Monsterized Capitalism in American Gothic Fiction
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ISBN 10 : 1837720630 ISBN 13 : 9781837720637
Editeur : University of Wales Press, 2023

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

Amy Bride is lecturer in American studies at the University of Manchester.

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Éditeur
University of Wales Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1837720630
ISBN 13 
9781837720637
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
280
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