Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary Literature - A Study of Empathy in a Time of Global Crisis

Informationen zum Autor Tammy Amiel Houser is a Senior Lecturer at the Open University of Israel in the Department of Literature, Language, and the Arts, and the MA program in Cultural Studies. She has written on the influence of George Elliot on the development of the novel, and on the intricate nexus of literature, ethics, and politics. Her current focus is on contemporary fiction in English, with publications on authors such as Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, and Margaret Atwood. Zusammenfassung This book examines the relationship between empathy and neoliberalism following the 2008 financial crisis through the turbulent 2010s. Through close readings of contemporary novels and various non-fictional texts, it sheds light not only on the affective dynamics underpinning contemporary neoliberalism Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Neoliberalism and Its Discontents: The Centrality of Empathy in Post- 2008 Financial-Crisis Culture Chapter 1 Empathy in the Courtroom: The 2009 Criminal Case of Ralph Ciof? and Matthew Tannin Chapter 2 Literary Empathy, Embodied Relationality and the Critique of Neoliberalism: Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go in Dialogue with Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections Chapter 3 Unsettling the Promises of Empathy: Zadie Smith's NW Chapter 4 “I Have Made a Study of You”: Psychopathic Empathy and Surveillance Capitalism in Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl Chapter 5 Apathy, Empathy and the Possibility of Social Change: Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet Conclusion Index

Product details

• Authors: Tammy Amiel Houser
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032752129
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3275212-9
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 21st Century, Psychology: emotions, Cognition & cognitive psychology, International Economics, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000