Introduction 1. The Final Countdown 2. 9-8-7: The Credit Crunch 3. Capital Cities 4. Masters of the Universe 5. Recessionistas 6. Financial Performance Conclusion: The Future of Finance?
The first critical guide to the new genre of "crunch lit" surveys how contemporary writers have dealt with the 2008 financial crisis.
Katy Shaw is Principal Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Her previous publications include David Peace: Texts and Contexts and Mining the Meaning: Cultural Representations of the 1984-5 UK Miners' Strike.
Shaw's study underlines the importance of cultural production as
intervention as well as education when negotiating complex
structures such as the global financial system ... [It] spotlights
a wide variety of issues and interpretations.
*Anglistik*
In a brilliant and perceptive analysis, Shaw shows how, when crisis
hit, novelists and dramatists understood quicker and better than
economists the true depths of it, and its challenge to the way we
tell our own stories.
*Paul Mason, Economics Editor, Channel 4 News*
Crunch Lit is a significant, wide-ranging and energetic book that
makes clear the literary responses to the global economic
catastrophe which has devastated so many. Lucidly written, it
establishes a genre and its context and, a model of literary
criticism, it explores the meaning of the ‘credit crunch’. It
should be read by everyone teaching or researching contemporary
literature, and probably by everyone working in finance, too.
*Robert Eaglestone, Professor of Contemporary Literature and
Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK*
Comprehensive, thorough and insightful. With impressive economy of
style, Crunch Lit defines this emerging genre, and considers the
impact of financialisation on our thought and culture. A valuable
book for anyone interested in the social novel in the twenty-first
century.
*Richard Benson, author of The Valley*
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