Ebook: Finance Fictions: Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis

Finance Fictions examines the tension between psychosis and realism in the contemporary finance novel and shows that compared to earlier instances of the genre (Wolfe; Ellis), the 21st-century finance novel (Alger; Harris; Houellebecq; Lerner) develops a new realist approach to a contemporary economy of financial instruments and automated trading.

A powerful reading of a mode of popular fiction made especially salient in an age of increasing financialization.