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Rethinking fiction after the 2007/8 financial crisis : consumption, economics and the American dream
- Title
- Rethinking fiction after the 2007/8 financial crisis : consumption, economics and the American dream / Mirosław Aleksander Miernik.
- Author
- Miernik, Miroslaw Aleksander, 1980-
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- ix, 195 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "The book provides insight into the impact the 2007/8 financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession had on American fiction"--
- Series Statement
- Routledge research in American literature and culture
- Uniform Title
- Routledge research in American literature and culture.
- Subject
- 2000-2099
- Consumption (Economics) in literature
- American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
- American fiction > White authors > History and criticism
- Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 > Influence
- Neoliberalism and literature > United States
- Literature and society > United States > History > 21st century
- American fiction
- American fiction > White authors
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Literature and society
- Neoliberalism and literature
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Literary criticism.
- Fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-5024
- ISBN
- 9780367692117
- 0367692112
- LCCN
- 2020046551
- OCLC
- 1201656000
- Author
- Miernik, Miroslaw Aleksander, 1980- author.
- Title
- Rethinking fiction after the 2007/8 financial crisis : consumption, economics and the American dream / Mirosław Aleksander Miernik.
- Publisher
- New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge research in American literature and cultureRoutledge research in American literature and culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781000368956
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-5024