Rethinking Fiction after the 2007/8 Financial Crisis

This book provides insight into the impact the 2007/8 financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession had on American fiction.

Autorentext

Mirosaw Aleksander Miernik is an assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw. His professional interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and culture, with an emphasis on consumer culture and subculture studies. He has written about the impact of canon formation on sex-based discrimination, the theoretical implications of the emo subculture, and the reactions to the 2003 invasion of Iraq in the music of such artists as Nine Inch Nails and Tom Waits.

Inhalt

Introduction

Chapter I: Behind the crisis: Approaches to consumer culture and economics

Chapter II: Neoliberalism and the American novel: History and method

Chapter III: Economics, inequality, and consumption: Four post-crisis novels

Conclusions: Three steps forward, two steps back