... ), and operates as credit for labor that must still be delivered ( The Cockroach ). However, as these novels also indicate, money's social field does not free it of its material debts to labor, for the material must ultimately underwrite fictitious capital. trimmrs@uri.edu Copyright © 2022 by Novel, Inc...

... it to do so is its lack of substance coupled with its value as a socially constructed abstraction—whether a claim on another, an obligation to be reciprocated, or a debt—to move from one financial instrument to another. In an age of “fictitious capital,” when, as Trimm says, “detachment from production...

...- pretative work, she will find herself subscribing to a theory of value in which novelists rise through cultural capital and where goods circulate more freely be- cause oiled by an exchange theory of value based, not on fictitious speculation, but on speculative fiction; not on what Emma says...

... narratives of modernity, Euro‐American imperialism, and neoliberal capital in Africa. In the process, they invite us to join the dots between domestic patterns of anti‐Black violence in the Black diaspora and Euro‐American destruction of African lives through the debilitating systems of slavery, colonialism...

... of the historical distance between naive author and knowing critic, the accidental by-product of Defoe’s empirical narratives artlessly applied to the inherent contradictions of emergent capitalism (332). For other critics, the religious elements of Defoe’s fiction mark his charac- ters as surrogates...

... of “programmatic realism” with the rise of the novel in the modern, industrialized nation-states of France and England, thereby requiring the existence of an industrialized urban capital, a developing bourgeoisie, and definitive national consciousness. This article intervenes in such accounts by evaluating Nikolai...

... , Isobel . The Radical Aesthetic . Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 2000 . Armstrong , Nancy . “Captivity and Cultural Capital in the English Novel.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 31 ( 1998 ): 373 –98. Bender , John . “Making the World Safe for Narratology: A Reply to Dorrit Cohn.” New...

... of realism, method and object are antinomies, as Jameson sees it, and it is in modernism that they are historically reconciled. This helps explain why in looking for a literature that is the most realistic about the contradictory experience of global capitalism, the WReC finds irrealist forms. Does this mean...

... in search of more subjective as well as more indigenous or even hybrid narrative forms. The seventies, however, mandated another generic shift. As the impoverishing effects of global capital development and the government's neoliberal policies became preponderant, Egyptian writers reoriented their writings...

... paralleled Lutyens's own designs, which used a blend of architectural styles to create "fictitious histor[ies]" (Inskip 27) in his work. Forster and architects such as Lutyens saw the value (in all senses of that word) of showing the passage of time itself, of providing a visible sense of connection...

... with Trump's fictitious mode than were commentators—indeed, that they had overcome any discomfort or sense of bad faith they might once have felt about voting for a candidate in whom they did not believe. A radio interview with a former coal miner who voted for Trump despite doubting that he would or could...

..., 1948 . Masterman , C.F.G. The Condition of England . 1909. London: Metheun, 1960 . Marx , Karl . Capital . 1867. Ed. Frederich Engels. Trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling. New York: Modern Library, 1906 . Parrinder , Patrick , ed. H.G. Wells: The Critical Heritage...

... . Ortega y Gasset José . Meditations on Quixote . Trans. Rugg Evelyn and Marín Diego . Urbana : U of Illinois P , 1961 . Pavel Thomas . “ Fiction and Imitation .” Poetics Today 21 . 3 ( 2000 ): 521 – 41 . Piketty Thomas . Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century...

... anecdotes. Edgeworth loves to write "takenfrornfact," and the close reader of her life, letters, and work is as startled by her skill in making capital of the smallest events of her everyday life as by the breadth of her reading. (Myers, "Shot from Canons" 201) For Myers, all...

... 2012 status: it is a parable and hence, fiction. “What exactly is the parable offered by Tasso’s poem according to Caruth?” asks Leys (292), and answers: “The Oxford Eng- lish Dictionary defines ‘parable’ as follows: A‘ fictitious narrative or allegory (usually something that might occur...

... eventual collapse. Growth without consequence was impossible. 6 Concerned about the world's path to ruin, Limits to Growth argued for the possibilities of an “equilibrium state,” which would balance the ratio between population growth and capital. The book was a best seller, despite being criticized...

... in the colonial army and the resulting quashing of resistance through a widespread campaign of violence against Delhi’s Muslims by the British Army, culminating in the burning of religious sites in Delhi. The second is 1911, when the capital of British India was officially transferred from Cal- cutta...

... as a form of capital that they own, otherwise labor cannot signify in the terms of those laws (10). Disputes about land rights have also been cited as instances of the differend: Aboriginal peoples of Australia have an understanding of their relationship to the land on which they live, for example...

..., and the Waverley Novels . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1991 . Guest , Harriet . Small Change: Women, Learning, Patriotism, 1750–1810 . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2000 . Guillory , John . Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993 . Harris , Jocelyn...

... by the personal testimony of particular writers and witnesses turn the serious business of journalism into a contemptible game. French journalism is said to deserve demotion into the "literary" not because it is tainted by fictitiousness, but because it does not affirm a transcendental relation...