The financial crisis of 2008 quickly gave rise to a growing body of fiction: "crunch lit." Populated by a host of unsympathetic characters and centred around banking institutions, these 'recession writings' take the financial crisis as their central narrative concern to produce a new wave of literary and popular writings that satirise the origins and effects of modern life, consumer culture and the credit boom. Examining a range of texts including Sebastian Faulks' A Week in December (2009), Robert Harris' The Fear Index (2011), John Lanchester's Capital (2011) and Adam Haslett's Union...
The financial crisis of 2008 quickly gave rise to a growing body of fiction: "crunch lit." Populated by a host of unsympathetic characters and cent...
