Bret Easton Ellis: Underwriting the Contemporary

This book reads the whole of Bret Easton Ellis's oeuvre to date from Less Than Zero to Imperial Bedrooms and asks to what extent Ellis's novels can be read as critiquing the cultural moments of which they are a part. Ellis's work can be thought of as an enactment of a process of underwriting contemporary culture, which offers new paths of understanding and ways of critiquing the contemporary author's place in the relations of production.

Author: G. Colby
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 08/09/2011
Pages: 228
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780230116986

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 09/09/2011 pg. 17

About the Author
Georgina Colby is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the University of Westminster, UK.