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The Fictions of American Capitalism introduces a new way of thinking about fiction in connection with capitalism, especially American capitalism. These essays demonstrate how fiction fulfills a major function of the American capitalist engine, presenting various formulations of American capitalism from the perspective of economists, social scientists, and literary critics. Focusing on three narratives—fictitious capital, working fictions, and the economic novel—the volume questions whether these three types of fiction can be linked under the sign of capitalism. This collection seeks to illustrate the American economy’s dependence on fictitiousness, America’s ideological fictions, and the nation’s creative literary fiction. In relation to what the credit and banking crisis of 2007–2008 exposed about the “unreal” base of the economy, the volume concludes with a call to recognize the economic humanities, arguing that American fiction and American literary studies can provide a useful mirror for economists. .

American fiction --- Capitalism in literature. --- Capitalism and literature --- History and criticism. --- Literature—History and criticism. --- America—Literatures. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- Fiction. --- Economic history. --- Finance—History. --- Literary History. --- North American Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Economic History. --- Financial History. --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Philosophy --- Linguistics --- United States --- America --- Literature, Modern --- Finance. --- History. --- Fiction Literature. --- Funding --- Funds --- Currency question --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Literatures. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- United States of America

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Epen --- Epic --- Epic literature --- Epic poem --- Epic poetry --- Epiek --- Epique --- Epische gedichten --- Epische literatuur --- Epische poëzie --- Epopee --- Epopée --- Epopées --- Epos --- Gedichten (epische) --- Heldendicht --- Heldendichten --- Heldensage --- Heroic poetry --- Littérature épique --- Légende héroique --- Poème épique --- Poésie épique --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature épique --- History and criticism --- Epic literature - History and criticism

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Over the last few decades, in the wake of the ‘Ethical Turn’, contemporary literature has been examined through the prism of the ethics of alterity. Yet, this may not be consis­tently the case with Victorian and Modernist literature, since relatively few of the authors of those periods have elicited such critical and ­theoretical scrutiny. The articles in this volume set off to re-read Victorian and Modernist literature in the light of the ethics of alterity and investigate whether the post-Auschwitz, contemporary period breaks away from or favours lines of continuity with the productions of the earlier era. It also strives to address works which do not belong to the canon, focusing alternately on great authors and less known artists, on what has been termed ‘minor’ texts or genres that are less visible than the novel. Approaching literature by examining the relations between ethics and aesthetics, even while adopting an ethical approach, helps the authors in this volume contribute to revising the contemporary, Modernist and Victorian canon in English Literature.

Literature --- modernism --- ethics --- politics --- alterity --- British arts --- contemporary art