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Neoliberalism has come to be the concept scholars of literature turn to most readily when attempting to describe the current economic and cultural moment in the United States. Over the past several years, a number of studies have analysed contemporary American fiction as both an expression of and a reaction to an almost inescapably neoliberal society. Novel Shocks: Urban Renewal and the Origins of Neoliberalism marks itself out as different in taking a genealogical approach to the topic, looking back at novels published in the 1950s or early 1960s in order to trace the initial stirrings of a neoliberal worldview. Combined with this genealogical approach is a materialist emphasis on the built environment and a particular focus on New York City, which features as a prominent setting in each of the works discussed: Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt, William Burroughs's Naked Lunch, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. The discourse and practice of urban renewal, as it played out in postwar New York, is conceived of as promoting a specifically entrepreneurial kind of subjectivity that is implicitly white and masculine. By reshap

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Author

Freer, Joanna

Publisher

SAGE Publications; SAGE Publications Inc.; Manchester University Press (ISSN 0306-1973)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)