Neoliberalism, Affect and Twenty-First-Century Culture

Holly Parker is an associate lecturer in the Lincoln School of Humanities and Heritage at the University of Lincoln, UK.
Tommaso Villa is an independent scholar who specialises in sports fiction, contemporary American literature, and neoliberalism, based in the UK.

Foreword by Kristian Shaw
Acknowledgements
Introduction: "It's the Economy, Stupid!"
Holly Parker (University of Lincoln, USA) and Tommaso Villa (Independent Scholar, USA)
Part I: Genre
1. From Satire to Utopia: Political Writing after Neoliberalism
Peter Conroy (Tsinghua University, China)
2. The Neoliberal Child: Performance, Productivity and Play in Contemporary Children's Literature
Tess Ezzy (University of New England, Australia)
3. Affective Impingements in Nina Cristante's The Richest Man in Babylon (2024) and Ilona Sagar's Correspondence O (2018)
Maria Walsh (University of the Arts, London, UK)
Part II: Emotional Management
4. The Hyper-Professional Sports Hero in the Work of David Foster Wallace
Tommaso Villa (Independent Scholar, USA)
5. Navigating Emotional Self-Management in Sally Rooney's Normal People (2018)
Holly Parker (University of Lincoln, USA)
6. Severance (2022-): Neoliberal Affect, the Split Subject and Marcuse's One-Dimensional Society
Jo Coghlan (University of New England, Australia)
Part III: Counter Cultures
7. Freedom and Its Discontents: Outlaw Entrepreneurship and Affective Strain in Sons of Anarchy (2008-14) and Breaking Bad (2008-13)
Elena Apostolaki (University of Cologne, Germany)
8. Neoliberal Ideologies in the Neon Lights: Identity Capitalisation and Community Commodification in the Yakuza Series (2005-16)
Julien Paret (Alliance University in Bangalore, India)
Part IV: Online
9. Self(ie)-care: Cruel Optimism in Recent Literary Depictions of the Internet Influencer
Helen Penet (Université de Lille, France)
10. On Living Online: Affective Self-Help and Lifestyle Communities on YouTube
Suhana Simran (Jamia Millia Islamia, India)
About the Contributors
Index