Speculative time
American literature in an age of crisis
- Genres
- Littérature · suggéré d'après indice Dewey
- Éditeur
- Oxford University press ses parutions →
- Collection
- Oxford studies in American literary history toute la collection →
- Parution
- 2024
- Pages
- 319
- Format
- relié, 24 cm
- Langue
- anglais 🇬🇧
- ISBN
- 9780198891796 · 0198891792
- Ailleurs
- Goodreads ↗
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 ; 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
Littérature américaine -- 1900-1945 · Économie politique et littérature -- États-Unis -- 1900-1945