Financial Gothic

Monsterized Capitalism in American Gothic Fiction

By: Amy Bride

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Hardcover | 15 January 2023 | Edition Number 1

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280 Pages

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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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"Financial Gothic provides a compelling analysis of how twentieth-century gothic literature is haunted by the twinned histories of finance and slavery. The shadow world of finance is often spectral, and Amy Bride demonstrates how American literature grapples with the problem of 'zombie capitalism.'"-- "Peter Knight, professor of American studies, University of Manchester"
"Financial Gothic persuasively highlights the immense and often monstrous role that anxieties related to finance and the financial markets have played in shaping the popular American Gothic, between the early twentieth century and the present day."-- "Bernice Murphy, associate professor and lecturer in popular literature, Trinity College Dublin"
"Financial Gothic 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."-- "Paul Crosthwaite, professor of modern and contemporary literature, University of Edinburgh"

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