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Banking on Emotion: Financial Panic and the Logic of Male Submission in the Jacksonian Gothic

David Anthony
American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 719–747.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-4-719
Published: 01 December 2004
...David Anthony Duke University Press 2004 David Banking on Emotion: Anthony Financial Panic and the Logic of Male Submission in the Jacksonian Gothic I love the paper money and the paper money men They ought to pay...
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The Illiberal Imagination: Class and the Rise of the U.S. Novel Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism The Financial Imaginary: Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction

Carolin Benack
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 877–879.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917368
Published: 01 December 2019
... Liberalism . By Christopher Taylor . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2018 . 320 pp. Cloth, $99.95 ; paper, $26.95 . The Financial Imaginary: Economic Mystification and the Limits of Realist Fiction . By Alison Shonkwiler . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2017 . 200 pp...
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Realism’s Reputations, Financialized Whiteness

Monica Huerta
American Literature (2024) 96 (3): 381–410.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11398663
Published: 01 September 2024
.... And for French, the capacity to qualify for credit has “restored” a future that the happenstance of history otherwise would have removed from his prospects. If markets in private credit created new “financial identities,” it seems that Wharton was interested in, if not wary of, the financialization of older...
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The Erotic Fictions of Finance Capitalism in The Bonfire of the Vanities and American Psycho

Patrick S. Lawrence
American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 113–137.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11092097
Published: 01 March 2024
...Patrick S. Lawrence Abstract US economic policy in the late twentieth century privileged the financial sector by advancing generous tax breaks for wealthy Americans and traders and prioritizing union-busting and cuts to social programs, producing a violence of deprivation against the poor...
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State Killing, the Stage of Innocence, and The Exonerated

Katy Ryan
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 121–151.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-065
Published: 01 March 2011
... unbalanced justice system, a rendering of pain as uplifting for audiences, and an encouragement of personal and financial solutions rather than structural and political ones. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Katy State Killing, the Stage of Innocence, Ryan and The Exonerated...
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Speculation and Scientific Method: Thomas Harriot’s Virginia IPO

Jennifer Rae Greeson
American Literature 11792403.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11792403
Published: 07 March 2025
... and instrumentalized. Next, she reads Harriot’s Report to show that the IPO itself constitutes an episteme. To rationalize an enormously speculative venture, Harriot isolates and presents verifiable, reproducible data that will allow prospective investors to gauge the likelihood of financial return—he assumes...
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The Stock Ticker in the Garden: Frank Norris, American Literary Naturalism, and Capitalocene Aesthetics

Philomena Polefrone
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 485–511.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616163
Published: 01 September 2020
... capitalism in which complex financial transactions led to destructive wheat monocultures. This critique anticipated the Capitalocene, a contemporary offshoot of the Anthropocene theory arguing that capitalism (rather than humanity per se) is responsible for the present planetary crisis. The vehicle...
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Genres of Valuation: Marginalist Economics and American Literary Realism

Henry B. Wonham
American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 35–58.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8878506
Published: 01 March 2021
... with the daunting question of how to reimagine value in a world characterized by fictitious goods and increasingly abstract financial instruments, a world in which the labor theory of value seemed hopelessly outdated. Both responded to this challenge by proposing novel intellectual procedures for making values...
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“Carry[ing] a Yankee Girl to Glory”: Redefining Female Authorship in the Postbellum United States

Naomi Z. Sofer
American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 31–60.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-1-31
Published: 01 March 2003
... that originality and mass reproduction can coexist produc- 6815 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:1 / sheet 38 of 252 tively, and his analysis of the financial constraints facing fine artists encapsulate the kind of balancing act that women writers regularly...
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Poetry Matters: Neoliberalism, Affect, and the Posthuman in Twenty-First Century North American Feminist Poetics Forms of a World: Contemporary Poetry and the Making of Globalization

Jeff Westover
American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 156–159.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8878602
Published: 01 March 2021
...Jeff Westover In other chapters, Hunter focuses on lyric and citizenship, the rhetoric of exhortation, contemporary prospect poems, and poetic responses to the Anthropocene. He shows a command not only of rhetorical concepts and poetic traditions but of recent financial history. Taking his...
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Naturalism's Nation: Toward An American Tragedy

Joseph Karaganis
American Literature (2000) 72 (1): 153–180.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-72-1-153
Published: 01 March 2000
..., the values that structured that de- terministic framework shifted. If Dreiser’s two Cowperwood novels of the nineteen-teens, The Financier and The Titan,followaclassicnatu- ralist trajectory in linkingthe ‘‘success...
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The End of the American Funding Model: What Comes Next?

Christopher Newfield
American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 611–635.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-026
Published: 01 September 2010
... still more underfunding: austerity, cuts, downsizing, and permanent restructuring that lowers costs by lowering educational capacity. The real problem is falling rates of educational improvement, and the real solution is proper financial support for full access to mass quality, to high quality...
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“Prismatic and Profitable”: Commerce and the Corporate Person in James's “The Jolly Corner”

Nicola Nixon
American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 807–831.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-4-807
Published: 01 December 2004
... in a financial discourse that is pro- vocativelyambiguousandhasarhetoricallyunstablerelationshipto any actual practice of money exchange. James had, of course, already represented the businessman in The American (1877). But in 1898, six years before his return to the United States, he remarked...
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The Game Theory of Sex

Arthur Z. Wang
American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 103–131.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9697015
Published: 01 March 2022
... and financial obligation to his child with W in New York. The nature of these relationships is further complicated by the comparison of different forms of relation; “V sees his child rarely but provides for it. U lives with W’s child but does not provide for it” (Davis 2009c : 124). These complications...
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Cavaliers and Economists: Global Capitalism and the Development of Southern Literature, 1820–1860 Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism

Christopher Bundrick
American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 531–533.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9361335
Published: 01 September 2021
...), demonstrates a financial recklessness that “mirrors the pattern of the average plantation owner described by [George] Tucker in The Valley of the Shenandoah , in which southern aristocrats squander money with the promise of future returns on crops” (164). But Tucker’s earlier book, she contends, tries...
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Hobbes, Sovereignty, and Early American Literature Fictions of Mass Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America

John Funchion
American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 643–646.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-6994907
Published: 01 September 2018
... “rational ‘individual actions’ can produce ‘cumulative madness’” (10). The financial panic stands out as an illustrative example for her, as economic collapses often stem from sound individual assessments of risk. When single decisions become replicated by networks, however, financial disaster can strike...
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Preface: Under Water

M. Allewaert, Michael Ziser
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 233–241.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587332
Published: 01 June 2012
... recently dropped by double digits despite clear evidence that global warming is proceeding at even faster rates than the alarming scientific predic- tions of a year or two ago. Much as they manipulated the financial markets with no regard for the wider consequences...
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Claiming Exodus: A Cultural History of Afro-Atlantic Identity, 1774–1903 Transatlantic Spectacles of Race: The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse

Joseph Keith
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 609–611.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3149429
Published: 01 September 2015
... (such as the “West Indian mulâtresse” and the New Orleans “placée”) whose relative financial and sexual independence posed a threat to the racial and colonial order. There is not the same level of historical contextualization, unfortunately, of the tragic muse, but Manganelli does make a similarly...
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Experience and Experimental Writing: Literary Pragmatism from Emerson to the Jameses Fictions of Fact and Value: The Erasure of Logical Positivism in American Literature, 1945–1975

Robert E. Abrams
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 611–613.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3149441
Published: 01 September 2015
... of the tragic mulatta figure, who has no sexual agency nor autonomy, as a response—and effort to contain—the unruly public mixed- race mistress figures (such as the “West Indian mulâtresse” and the New Orleans “placée”) whose relative financial and sexual independence posed a threat to the racial...
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Resonant Presence: Legal Narratives and Literary Space in the Poetry of Early Chinese Immigrants

Peter Kvidera
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 511–539.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-3-511
Published: 01 September 2005
... impaired the mobility of Chinese laborers when the peril of denied reentry threatened their employment in the United States, a necessity in spite of its often mea- ger financial rewards. Furthermore, the requirements impaired the legal voice of the Chinese when they could no longer speak alone to affirm...
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