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Crunch Lit (Hardcover)
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Crunch Lit (Hardcover)
Series: 21st Century Genre Fiction
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The financial crisis of 2008 quickly gave rise to a growing body of
fiction: "crunch lit". Populated by a host of unsympathetic
characters and centred around banking institutions, these
'recession writings' take the financial crisis as their central
narrative concern to produce a new wave of literary and popular
writings that satirise the origins and effects of modern life,
consumer culture and the credit boom. Examining a range of texts
from such writers as John Lanchester, Jonathan Franzen, Don
DeLillo, Sebastian Faulks and Bret Easton Ellis, this book offers
the first wide-ranging guide to this new genre. Exploring the key
themes of the genre and its antecedents in fictional
representations of finance by the likes of Dickens, Conrad, Zola
and Trollope, Crunch Lit also includes a timeline of key historical
events, guides to further and online resources and biographies of
key authors. Supported by online resources, the book is an
essential read for students of 21st century literature and culture.
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