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Fiction --- Sociology of literature --- popular culture --- romantic fiction [popular fiction] --- reading culture

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popular culture --- victorian fiction --- nineteenth century literature --- popular fiction --- English fiction --- English fiction. --- History and criticism --- 1800-1899 --- English literature

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"Tracing the intersections between archival documents and immensely popular adventure fiction set in Africa, Penetrating Critiques highlights the anxieties surrounding the vulnerability of the white male body by assessing the destabilization of narrative itself. The author considers texts ranging from private letters, governmental correspondence, periodicals, and archives to the popular works of H. Rider Haggard, Richard Marsh, and Joseph Conrad. These texts trouble the notions of bounded male bodies, impermeable histories, and solid virtues while underscoring the grotesqueness of male forms, narratives, and moralities. Although dominant representations of martial bodies frequently emphasized boundaries, containment, and solidity, the fiction and imperial archives explored in this book expose problems of stability through tropes, images, and material evidence of perforation, penetration, and dissolution. In emphasizing the relationship between institutional imperial writing and popular discourse, Penetrating Critiques reveals that more complex, fraught, and critical approaches to imperialism and masculinity were circulating throughout Victorian culture than previously recognized. "--

Masculinity in literature. --- 1800-1899 --- Africa. --- Afrique --- Africa --- Dans la litterature. --- In literature. --- H. Rider Haggard. --- Heart of Darkness. --- Joseph Conrad. --- Richard Marsh. --- Victorian literature. --- adventure writing. --- archival. --- empire. --- fin-de-siècle literature. --- gender. --- masculinity. --- military. --- popular fiction.

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Finance Fictions takes the measure of what it means to live in a world ruled by high finance by examining the tension between psychosis and realism that plays out in the contemporary finance novel. When the things traded at the center of the economy cease to be things at all, but highly abstracted speculations, how do we come to see the real? What sorts of narrative can accurately approach the actual workings of a neoliberal economy marked by accelerating cycles of market crashes, economic and political crisis, and austerity? Revisiting such twentieth-century classics of the genre as Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, De Boever argues that the twenty-first century is witnessing the birth of a new kind of realistic novel that can make sense of complex financial instruments like collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps, and digital algorithms operating at speeds faster than what human beings or computers can record. If in 1989 Wolfe could still urge novelists to work harder to “tame the billion-footed beast of reality,” today’s economic reality confronts us with a difference that is qualitative rather than quantitative: a new financial ontology requiring new modes of thinking and writing. Mobilizing the philosophical thought of Quentin Meillassoux in the close reading of finance novels by Robert Harris, Michel Houellebecq, Ben Lerner and less well-known works of conceptual writing such as Mathew Timmons’ Credit, Finance Fictions argues that realism is in for a speculative update if it wants to take on the contemporary economy—an “if” whose implications turn out to be deeply political. Part literary study and part philosophical inquiry, Finance Fictions seeks to contribute to a new mindset for creative and critical work on finance in the twenty-first century.

Money in literature --- Finance in literature --- Financial crises in literature --- American fiction --- History and criticism --- American fiction. --- Finance in literature. --- Financial crises in literature. --- Money in literature. --- 1900-1999. --- History and criticism. --- Biopolitics. --- Finance Novels. --- Finance. --- Marxism. --- Neoliberalism. --- Popular fiction. --- Psychosis. --- Realism. --- Speculative Realism. --- Wall Street.

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This is the first book to study the cultural impact of the Armistice of 11 November 1918. It contains 14 new essays from scholars working in literature, music, art history and military history. The Armistice brought hopes for a better future, as well as sadness, disappointment and rage. Many people in all the combatant nations asked hard questions about the purpose of the war. These questions are explored in complex and nuanced ways in the literature, music and art of the period. This book revisits the silence of the Armistice and asks how its effect was to echo into the following decades. The essays are genuinely interdisciplinary and are written in a clear, accessible style.

World War, 1914-1918 --- European War, 1914-1918 --- First World War, 1914-1918 --- Great War, 1914-1918 --- World War 1, 1914-1918 --- World War I, 1914-1918 --- World War One, 1914-1918 --- WW I (World War, 1914-1918) --- WWI (World War, 1914-1918) --- History, Modern --- Armistices --- Social aspects. --- Armistice. --- Austria. --- Britain. --- British popular fiction. --- First World War. --- Germany. --- archival research. --- art criticism. --- art history. --- cultural history. --- historical analysis. --- literary criticism. --- memory studies. --- military history. --- musical analysis. --- peace treaties. --- post-war uncertainties.