Rethinking fiction after the 2007/8 financial crisis: consumption, economics and the American dream

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 m...

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1. Verfasser: Miernik, Mirosław Aleksander 1980- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2021
Schriftenreihe:Routledge research in American literature and culture
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Zusammenfassung: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
"The book provides insight into the impact the 2007/8 financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession had on American fiction"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:ix, 195 Seiten
ISBN:9780367692117
9780367750787

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