Financial Gothic

Amy Bride is Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Manchester, where she completed her doctoral studies in 2019. Her teaching specialises in gothic American literature and culture, 1799–2011.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction: Gothic Finance and Financial GothicChapter One: ‘It’s Alive!’: The 1929 Wall Street Crash and Pulp/Popular/Political MonstersChapter Two: ‘The Evil is the House Itself’: Credit, Citizenship, and the Postwar Haunting HouseChapter Three: Deregulation Sucks: Mass Consumption of Liquidity and the Deregulated VampireChapter Four: ‘Myself is Fabricated, An Aberration’: Late-Capitalism and the Hyperreal VampireChapter Five: Mindless Consumers: The 2008 Crash and the Post-Millennial ZombieConclusion: Monsterized Capitalism and Capitalist MonstersWorks CitedGlossary of Financial Terms

This is a bold disinterment of the monstrosity that has long lain at the core of imaginative responses to money and markets in American culture. In Amy Brides incisive analysis, both American Gothic and American capitalism are revealed to be possessed by phantoms still stranger and more potent than we knew.