Editorial: Oxford University Press
Colección: Oxford Studies in American Literary History
Número de páginas: 336 págs. 23.4 x 15.6 cm
Fecha de edición: 29-02-2024
EAN: 9780198891796
ISBN: 978-0-19-889179-6
Precio (sin IVA): 106,98 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 111,26 €
This book examines how a climate of financial and economic speculation and disaster shaped the literary culture of the United States in the early to mid-twentieth century. It argues that speculation's risk-laden and crisis-prone temporalities had major impacts on writing in the period, as well as on important aspects of visual representation. The conceptions of time-and especially futurity-arising from the theory and practice of speculation provided crucial models for writers' and other artists' aesthetic, intellectual, and political concerns and strategies.