The Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary Literature
A Study of Empathy in a Time of Global Crisis
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 26 December 2025
- ISBN 9781032752136
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages230 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
This book examines the relationship between empathy and neoliberalism following the 2008 financial crisis through the turbulent 2010s. Through close readings of contemporary novels and various non-fictional texts, it sheds light not only on the affective dynamics underpinning contemporary neoliberalism
MoreLong description:
This book examines the relationship between empathy and neoliberalism as it unfolded in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and through the turbulent 2010s. Via close readings of contemporary novels, as well as various non-fictional texts, it traces the changing approaches to empathy in the post-financial-crisis imagination, highlighting a crucial re-conceptualization of empathy as a boundaryless force, untethered to local or social circumstance. This reconceptualization implicitly aligns empathy with the neoliberal ethos of globalism and distances it from the traditional notion of “sympathy.” Via complex dialogue with the novelistic tradition of sympathy, contemporary novelists highlight the problematics of boundaryless empathy, while exploring ways to resist neoliberal views and values. Analyzing engagements with empathy in post-2008 literature and culture, the book sheds light on the underlying affective dynamics that enabled the persistence of neoliberalism after the 2008 financial crisis, alongside efforts to challenge its dominance.
MoreTable of Contents:
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
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