Fictions of American Capitalism

Jacques-Henri Coste is Associate Professor of American Studies and Political Economy at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, France. He is editor of Les sociétés entrepreneuriales et les mondes Anglophones (2013) and coeditor of The Crisis and Renewal of American Capitalism (2016).Vincent Dussol is Associate Professor of American Literature at Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3, France. He has translated several American poets and is the editor of The Epic Expands (2012) and co-editor of Poésie-traduction-cinéma/Poetry-translation-film (2019).

• Chapter 1: The Fictions of American Capitalism: An Introduction, Jacques-Henri and Vincent Dussol.- Chapter 2: From Economics as Fiction to Fiction-Led Capitalism, Robert Boyer.- Chapter 3: Capitalism: Anticipating the Future Present, Jens Beckert.- Chapter 4: The Cultural Fix: Capital, Genre, and the Times of American Studies, Stephen Shapiro.- Chapter 5: “Tell me a Story”: How American Capitalism Reinvents Itself through Storytelling, Marie-Christine Pauwels.- Chapter 6: The Boundless Economy: An Enduring Performative American Fiction?, Pierre Arnaud.- Chapter 7: American Entrepreneurship as Action Translated into Heuristic Discourse, Jacques-Henri Coste.- Chapter 8: The Woman Proprietor in Elizabeth Stuart Phelp’s The Silent Partner: Social Reform Novel as Paradigm of John Stuart Mill’s Liberal Political Economy, Julia McLeod.- Chapter 9: William Dean Howells and the Economic Novel: Heteronomy and Autonomy, Giullame Tanguy.- Chapter 10: The Theory of Monopoly and the Crafting of the Modern Epic: Frank Norris’s The Octopus as Populist Drama?, Evelyne Payen-Varieras.- Chapter 11: Naturalism and Economic Calculability, Jason Douglas.- Chapter 12: Living on Paper: Disarticulating a Racialized Capitalism in Works by Richard Wright and Ann Petry, William Dow.- Chapter 13: Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged: “Laissez-Faire” Fiction, Vincent Dussol.- Chapter 14: “Building the clutter, widening the vacancy”: Capitalism and Baroque in William Gaddis’s JR, Jean-Louis Brunel.- Chapter 15: Money Narratives in Postmodern Novels by Paul Auster and Martin Amis, Sina Vatanpour.- Chapter 15: Revisiting Business History through Capitalist Fiction: The Glove-Making Business in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral, Jacques-Henri Coste.- Chapter 16: Thomas Pynchon’s Dumps: Subversive Developments, Benedicte Chorier-Fryd.- Chapter 18: Economic Humanities: Literature, Culture and Capitalism, Peter Knight.