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).

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.

• 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

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).

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.

• 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

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).

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.

• 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