Paul Crosthwaite is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of Edinburgh. His books include Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis (2024), The Market Logics of Contemporary Fiction (2019), and, as co-author, Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds (2022).

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• List of Figures; Contributors; Introduction Paul Crosthwaite; Part I. Origins: 1. Wealth and exchange in colonial American literature, 1516–1775 Amanda Louise Johnson; 2. The monetary cultures of the early nation Elizabeth Hewitt; Part II. Histories: 3. Antebellum sensationalism; or, Melodramas of the market David Anthony; 4. Race, money, and the figure of the slave Jeffory A. Clymer; 5. Reckoning with money in the American renaissance Andrew Lawson; 6. Money and marriage in American literary realism Henry B. Wonham; 7. Naturalism's financial sublime Jason Puskar; 8. Morality, modernism, and the money question Nicky Marsh; 9. Loss and dispossession in American writing of the great depression Melanie Benson Taylor; 10. Keeping up and falling down in the suburbs Martin Dines; 11. Blackness and value from the Harlem renaissance to the black arts movement Michael Germana; 12. The counterculture and the culture of money Joanna Freer; 13. The logics and Rhetorics of theft in 1970s feminist writing Melanie Waters; 14. Crisis money: fiction, finance, and belief in an age of shocks Arne De Boever; 15. Multiculturalism and the many meanings of money Eva Boesenberg; 16. Capitalism and racial form in three contemporary US poets Christopher Chen; 17. Imagining and occupying wall street Christian P. Haines; 18. Making ends meet in the gig economy: solidarity, cubicle nostalgia, and the contemporary novel at the end Michelle Chihara; Part III. Alternatives: 19. Native American literature and the persistence of the gift Sean Teuton; 20. Other worlds and other monies Jo Lindsay Walton; 21. Performing currency:mMoney art in America Emily Rosamond; 22. Free money? Literature, liberty, and alternative currencies Paul Crosthwaite; Index.