Neoliberalism and the Novel - Paperback

by Emily Johansen (Editor), Alissa Karl (Editor)

Neoliberalism and the Novel considers how developments in the form and reception of the novel have been influenced by changes in the arrangements of capital in the last forty years. It considers the way in which the neoliberal novel deploys familiar generic patterns as a site from which to offer critique; examines the changing operation of labour and time under neoliberalism and its effect on novel form; and offers a broader call for new reading and interpretative practices to respond to changing socio-economic realities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.

Author Biography

Emily Johansen is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. Her book, Cosmopolitanism and Place: Spatial Forms in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction, was released in 2014. She has written recent articles for Critique, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and Textual Practice.

Alissa G. Karl is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York, Brockport, NY, USA. Her research investigates the economic histories and imaginaries that impact the production and form of modern and contemporary literature and culture, and has appeared in such venues as American Literature, Novel, Modern Fiction Studies, and Textual Practice.