Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis

by Paul Crosthwaite

Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198891792
• ISBN13: 9780198891796
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"