| Columbia UP | David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books by Jeffrey Severs

New from Columbia University Press NEW BOOKS ONLINE CATALOGS MORE IN U.S. LITERATURE MORE IN LITERARY STUDIES David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books Fictions of Value Jeffrey Severs "Since its inception, David Foster Wallace studies has focused on a relatively small set of themes-irony, sincerity, addiction, and the mass media-often centered on Wallace's own descriptions of his literary project in interviews and essays. Severs's insightful new study builds on and challenges this critical orthodoxy, revealing how Wallace was a careful economic, political, and historical thinker. Wallace's writing, as Severs shows in a series of original and bracing chapters that cover the author's whole career, engaged provocatively with the New Deal, the social-welfare state, the monetary system, and the history of neoliberalism."-Lee Konstantinou, author of Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction Jeffrey Severs argues in David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books that Wallace was deeply engaged with the social, political, and economic issues of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A rebellious economic thinker, Wallace satirized the deforming effects of money, questioned the logic of the monetary system, and saw the world through the lens of value's many hidden and untapped meanings. In original readings of all of Wallace's fiction, from The Broom of the System and Infinite Jest to his story collections and The Pale King, Severs reveals Wallace to be a thoroughly political writer whose works provide an often surreal history of financial crises and economic policies.   Read more ... Literary Criticism $35.00 $24.50 | Hardcover | 328 pages | £26.00   USE COUPON CODE "EMAIL" AND SAVE 30% STAY CONNECTED

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