1st Edition
The Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary Literature A Study of Empathy in a Time of Global Crisis
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Neoliberalism and Its Discontents: The Centrality of Empathy in Post-
2008 Financial-Crisis Culture
Chapter 1 Empathy in the Courtroom: The 2009 Criminal Case of Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin
Chapter 2 Literary Empathy, Embodied Relationality and the Critique of
Neoliberalism: Taiye Selasi's Ghana Must Go in Dialogue with Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections
Chapter 3 Unsettling the Promises of Empathy: Zadie Smith's NW
Chapter 4 “I Have Made a Study of You”: Psychopathic Empathy and
Surveillance Capitalism in Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl
Chapter 5 Apathy, Empathy and the Possibility of Social Change: Ali Smith’s
Seasonal Quartet
Conclusion
Index
Biography
Tammy Amiel Houser is a Senior Lecturer at the Open University of Israel in the Department of Literature, Language, and the Arts, and the MA program in Cultural Studies. She has written on the influence of George Elliot on the development of the novel, and on the intricate nexus of literature, ethics, and politics. Her current focus is on contemporary fiction in English, with publications on authors such as Ian McEwan, Zadie Smith, and Margaret Atwood.
