1st Edition
Rethinking Fiction after the 2007/8 Financial Crisis Consumption, Economics, and the American Dream
Introduction
Chapter I: Behind the crisis: Approaches to consumer culture and economics
Chapter II: Neoliberalism and the American novel: History and method
Chapter III: Economics, inequality, and consumption: Four post-crisis novels
Conclusions: Three steps forward, two steps back
Biography
Mirosław Aleksander Miernik is an assistant professor at the Institute of English Studies at the University of Warsaw. His professional interests include twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature and culture, with an emphasis on consumer culture and subculture studies. He has written about the impact of canon formation on sex-based discrimination, the theoretical implications of the emo subculture, and the reactions to the 2003 invasion of Iraq in the music of such artists as Nine Inch Nails and Tom Waits.
