âClearly Money Has Something to Do with Lifeâ1 â But What Exactly? Reflections on Recent Credit Crunch Fiction(s)

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004344013_013

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The role of money has been a topic of debate as long as human beings have made use of it. The Bible tells us that the âlove of money is the root of all evilâ (1 Timothy 6: 10), Francis Bacon warns that âmoney is like muck, not good except it be spreadâ, while William M. Thackeray regards it as âa charming reconciler and peacemakerâ. These few examples demonstrate not only our economic dependence on money, but also our ineluctable cultural need to make sense of the ways in which we use it. The focus of the paper is on the recent credit crunch (2008), the City of Londonâs international interrelations with it and its lasting repercussions, which have spawned a number of responses in Anglophone literature and culture. The central question, which most of these texts eventually address, is whether human beings exist for the economy or whether the economy â and what kind of economy? â exists for human beings. To this discussion the five novels portrayed in this paper have conspicuously contributed: Alex Prestonâs This Bleeding City (2010), Justin Cartwrightâs Other Peopleâs Money (2011), Sebastian Faulksâs A Week in December (2011), Robert Harrisâs The Fear Index (2011) and John Lanchesterâs Capital (2012).

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London post-2010 in British Literature and Culture

Series:Â Spatial Practices, Volume: 24

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004344013

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 20 Jun 2017

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- Literature and Cultural Studies
  - Criticism & Theory
  - English & Anglophone
- Social Sciences
  - Cultural Studies
  - Global Studies

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