Rethinking Fiction After the 2007/8 Financial Crisis - Consumption, Economics, and the American Dream

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

List of contents

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

About the author

Miros¿aw 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.

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Miros¿aw Aleksander Miernik, Mirosaw Aleksander Miernik, Miroslaw Aleksander Miernik, Mirosław Aleksander Miernik
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9780367692117
• ISBN: 978-0-367-69211-7
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Accounting / Financial, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Finance & accounting, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, History and Archaeology, Finance and accounting