Neoliberalism and the Novel

Taylor & Francis

Neoliberalism and the NovelAuthor(s): Emily Johansen, Alissa Karl\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367028336, 978-0367028336\nSynopsis\nThe novel form has long been connected to modern capitalism and is, arguably, the literary genre most prominently enmeshed in contemporary global markets. Yet, as many critics have suggested about capital, something has changed in the last forty years. With the rise of neoliberalism as the dominant global economic rationality and mode of governance, the experience of capital has produced new ways of seeing and relating to the world, leading, as David Harvey observes, to \""the financialization of everything\"". The novel, indexed to capital in myriad ways, then, must similarly have been transformed.\n\nNeoliberalism and the Novel investigates both those changes wrought to the novel form by changing arrangements of capital, and the novels broader engagement with neoliberalism itsel.