Andrew Rowcroft is an associate lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln in England.

“Drawing on and extending Jameson’s critical practice, the author pays careful attention to the ways that contemporary writers formally register the crises and promises of left-wing politics”—Stephen Schryer, author of Maximum Feasible Participation: American Literature and the War on Poverty

• Table of ContentsAbstractAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction1. A Search for Method2. Reading the New Ruins: Mourning, Melancholy, and Loss in Dissident Gardens and Eat the Document3. The Return of the Spectre: Gothic Marxism in The City & The City4. From Reel to Real: Forming Radicalism in The Flamethrowers5. Dying to Buy: Evicted, Apartment, and Generation Rent6. Fictions of Financial Crisis: Pynchon, Marx, Neoliberalism7. Growing Up, Growing Old, in Red at the Bone and Another Brooklyn8. Capital, Liquidity, and Revolution in New York: 2140EpilogueAppendixChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

Andrew Rowcroft is an associate lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln in England.

“Drawing on and extending Jameson’s critical practice, the author pays careful attention to the ways that contemporary writers formally register the crises and promises of left-wing politics”—Stephen Schryer, author of Maximum Feasible Participation: American Literature and the War on Poverty

• Table of ContentsAbstractAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction1. A Search for Method2. Reading the New Ruins: Mourning, Melancholy, and Loss in Dissident Gardens and Eat the Document3. The Return of the Spectre: Gothic Marxism in The City & The City4. From Reel to Real: Forming Radicalism in The Flamethrowers5. Dying to Buy: Evicted, Apartment, and Generation Rent6. Fictions of Financial Crisis: Pynchon, Marx, Neoliberalism7. Growing Up, Growing Old, in Red at the Bone and Another Brooklyn8. Capital, Liquidity, and Revolution in New York: 2140EpilogueAppendixChapter NotesBibliographyIndex