Precarity, Alcohol and Contemporary British and Irish Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

Precarity is the condition of human vulnerability that is experienced with new intensity due to cuts to the welfare state and the insecurity of contemporary work. In contemporary literature from Britain and Ireland, precarity is frequently explored in a surprising way: through depictions of alcohol. Precarity, Alcohol and Contemporary British and Irish Literature reveals how contemporary writing connects socio-economic insecurity and drinking. In particular, the book argues that representations of drinking places are used to examine the possibility of forming new precarious social collectives, while depictions of the mess and bodily waste of heavy drinking reflect on the gendering of work in neoliberalism. It shows that the uncontrollable nature of risk in precarity, and its lost dreams of the future, come to be explored through narrative fiction about alcohol, and explains how sobriety memoirs explore vulnerable interconnectedness.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-10-31
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399552004

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Emily J. Hogg is Associate Professor of Contemporary Anglophone Literature at the Department of Culture and Language, University of Southern Denmark. She is the co-editor of Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) and Precarity in Contemporary Literature and Culture (2021).

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Hogg provides a timely examination of pressing cultural and social issues. Her scholarship offers a rich resource for anyone interested in precarity, and the focus on alcohol gives attention to overlooked intimate public and domestic spaces. A must-read for anyone interested in care, solidarity and neoliberal insecurity.

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Spirits of Precarity: Drinking and Living Precariously in Contemporary British and Irish Literature1. Socialising: Drinking Places, Literary Setting and Precarious Sociality2. Wasted: Dirt, Drink and the Precarity of ‘Women’s Work’3. High Risk: Narrative Perspective and Neoliberal Danger4. Time, Please: Temporalities of Fiction, Drinking and Precarity5. Giving Up: Precarity and Sobriety MemoirsAfterwordBibliographyIndex