Rethinking fiction after the 2007/8 financial crisis : consumption, economics and the American dream /
"The book provides insight into the impact the 2007/8 financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession had on American fiction"--
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New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2021.
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| Series: | Routledge research in American literature and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Behind the crisis : approaches to consumer culture and economics. Defining consumer culture
- Road to the crisis : freedom, individualism, equality, and a neoliberal economy
- Behind the post-crisis fury : consumer culture and its discontents
- Neoliberalism and the American novel : history and method. The US economy and consumer culture in literature of the pre-crisis neoliberal period
- Notes on method : theorizing the intersection of literature, the economy, and consumer culture
- Economics, inequality and consumption : four post-crisis novels. Poverty and divisions : Elizabeth Strout's My name is Lucy Barton
- The burden of the American Dream : Philipp Meyer's American rust
- Wealth, power, and isolation : Sophie McManus' The Unfortunates
- Living in the ruins : William Gibson's The Peripheral
- Conclusions: Three steps forward, two steps back.