ters from neoliberal power on the basis of ‘personal failing[s]’ (p. 102) are particularly insightful. The relationship between neoliberalism and race is again central to the book’s final chapter, on Plath’s The Bell Jar, where Tucker-Abramson suggests that Esther’s ultimately critical perspective on commodity culture and the city depends on the latter’s associationwith a foreignness viewed as threatening not in the traditionally Cold War terms through which the novel is often read but as destabilising Esther’s privileged white middle-class status. For Tucker-Abramson, Plath reveals Esther’s developing neoliberal subjectivity as restrictive and as leading her to embrace a suburban life whose realities are far more damaging to her than those of the city. Esther’s harnessing of shock therapy thus becomes a tool to quell her discontent rather than an expression of triumphant mastery over self and city. Novel Shocks takes a fresh approach to some well-discussed works of midtwentieth-century American literature. The best parts of this book reveal how the policies and practices of urban renewal fed into contemporary modes of subject formation and literary expression, and the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion involved. A greater degree of specificity in distinguishing an emergent neoliberalism from earlier and co-existent forms of capitalist culture would be beneficial, however. Also, the approach taken is perhaps a little too multi-stranded, with arguments about urban renewal, shock, the frontier, considerations of race, sexuality, class and gender as well as ideas about modernism and literary genre all competing for attention. But all in all, this complexity pays off and Novel Shocks provides compelling insights into how post-war fiction navigated a rapidly transforming urban, economic and cultural terrain.

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Emily McGiffin，土地、骨头和金钱：走向南非生态诗学

基于“个人失败[s]”（第 102 页）的来自新自由主义权力的人特别有见地。新自由主义与种族之间的关系再次成为该书最后一章的核心，即普拉斯的《钟形瓶》，塔克-艾布拉姆森在该章中指出，埃丝特对商品文化和城市的最终批判性观点取决于后者与被视为威胁的外来事物的联系，而不是在传统的冷战术语，经常通过这些术语来阅读小说，但却破坏了埃丝特享有特权的白人中产阶级地位的稳定。对于塔克-艾布拉姆森来说，普拉斯揭示了埃丝特正在发展的新自由主义主观性是一种限制性的，并导致她接受郊区生活，而郊区生活的现实对她的伤害远大于城市生活。因此，以斯帖对休克疗法的利用成为平息她不满的工具，而不是对自我和城市的胜利掌握的表达。Novel Shocks 对 20 世纪中期美国文学中一些广受好评的作品采用了全新的方法。本书最好的部分揭示了城市更新的政策和实践如何融入当代主题形成和文学表达模式，以及所涉及的包容和排斥的动态。然而，在将新兴的新自由主义与早期和共存的资本主义文化形式区分开来时，更大程度的特异性将是有益的。此外，所采取的方法可能有点过于多链，关于城市更新、冲击、边境、种族、性取向、阶级和性别以及关于现代主义和文学体裁的想法都在争夺注意力。但总而言之，这种复杂性是有回报的，Novel Shocks 提供了令人信服的见解，让我们了解战后小说如何驾驭快速变化的城市、经济和文化领域。