Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Amy Bride
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Imprint: University of Wales Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 21.60cm
ISBN: 9781837720637
ISBN 10: 1837720630
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 15 October 2023
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""This book is a credit to the Gothic's aptness for denouncing social injustice. Taking stock of the mode's investment in decrying capitalism's structural inequalities, Bride argues for a broader consideration of the evolution of financial discourse in the American context as essentially monstrous. When money talks, the Gothic claps back."" -- ""Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes, Manchester Metropolitan University"" ""This is a bold disinterment of the monstrosity that has long lain at the core of imaginative responses to money and markets in American culture. In Amy Bride's incisive analysis, both American Gothic and American capitalism are revealed to be possessed by phantoms still stranger and more potent than we knew.""-- ""Professor Paul Crosthwaite, University of Edinburgh"" ""Financial Gothic persuasively highlights the immense - and often monstrous - role that anxieties related to finance have played in shaping the popular American Gothic between the early twentieth century and the present day.""-- ""Dr Bernice M. Murphy, Trinity College, Dublin"""
Author Information
Amy Bride is a lecturer in American studies at the University of Manchester.
