Fictions of Capital: The American Novel from James to Mailer (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)

Fictions of Capital situates manners and writing about manners in the context of American capitalism between 1880 and 1960. The work of various economic theorists and historians is used to establish two of capitalism's deeper narratives: the plot to accumulate and expand resources and the plot to ensure reproduction of the expanded resources. James and Fitzgerald are read as the key novelists of bourgeois affluence.Richard Godden is the author of 'Fictions of Capital: The American Novel from James to Mailer (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)', published 1990 under ISBN 9780521381314 and ISBN 0521381312.