his session will focus on the aesthetics of financialization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with an eye toward historicizing the cultural logics of financialization beyond the recent focus on post-1970 cultural production. What does finance capital look like in the long fin de siècle, a period marked by recurrent banking panics and rampant stock market speculation? How are its effects narrated and what cultural associations does it accrue? How are these effects and associations different from or similar to the cultural logics of financialization in contemporary texts?
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Created 25 February 2025