The Novel and Neoliberalism (Paperback)

How has the form of the novel responded to the conditions now grouped under the term "neoliberalism"? These conditions have generated an explosion of narrative forms that make the past two decades one of the two or three most significant periods in the history of the novel. The contributors ask whether these formal innovations can be understood as an unprecedented break from the past or the latest chapter in a process that has been playing out over the past three centuries. In response to this question, they use a range of contemporary novels to consider whether conditions of multinational capitalism limit the novel's ability to imagine a future beyond the limits of that world. Do novels that reject the option of an alternative world nevertheless reimagine the limits of multinational capitalism as the precondition for such a future? With these concerns in mind, contributors demonstrate how major contemporary novelists challenge national traditions of the novel both in the Anglophone West and across the Global South. This collective inquiry begins with a new essay by and interview with British novelist Tom McCarthy. Contributors Nancy Armstrong, Jane Elliott, Matthew Hart, Nathan Hensley, Nicholas Huber, Jeanne-Marie Jackson, John Marx, Tom McCarthy, Vaughn Rasberry, Deisdra Reber, Lily Saint, Emilio Sauri, Rachel Greenwald Smith, Paul Stasi

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2018
First published:	2018
Editors:	Nancy Armstrong • John Marx
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	160
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-0353-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	1-4780-0353-7
Barcode:	9781478003533

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