Berthold Schoene
My research interests are in contemporary British Fiction, Scottish literature, Masculinity and Gender Studies, Representations of Nationhood, as well as Globalisation Studies and Cosmopolitan Theory.
I am the author of Writing Men (2000) and The Cosmopolitan Novel (2009) and the editor of Posting the Male (2003), The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature (2007) and The Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh (2010). I am currently editing (with Ellie Byrne and Julie Mullaney) a special issue of Comparative American Studies on ‘Texting Obama: Politics, Poetics, Popular Culture’ and another special issue (with Ellie Byrne) on ‘Cosmopolitanism as Critical and Creative Practice’ for the Open University's new Open Arts Journal. I have also started work (with Alissa Karl and Emily Johansen) on a special journal issue on 'Neoliberalism and the Novel'.
I am 2012 Lynn Wood Neag Distinguished Visiting Professor of British Literature at the University of Connecticut.
Address: Geoffrey Manton Building
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester
M15 6LL
I am the author of Writing Men (2000) and The Cosmopolitan Novel (2009) and the editor of Posting the Male (2003), The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature (2007) and The Edinburgh Companion to Irvine Welsh (2010). I am currently editing (with Ellie Byrne and Julie Mullaney) a special issue of Comparative American Studies on ‘Texting Obama: Politics, Poetics, Popular Culture’ and another special issue (with Ellie Byrne) on ‘Cosmopolitanism as Critical and Creative Practice’ for the Open University's new Open Arts Journal. I have also started work (with Alissa Karl and Emily Johansen) on a special journal issue on 'Neoliberalism and the Novel'.
I am 2012 Lynn Wood Neag Distinguished Visiting Professor of British Literature at the University of Connecticut.
Address: Geoffrey Manton Building
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester
M15 6LL
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Amy Waldman’s The Submission (2011) and Teju Cole’s Open City (2011), the first two parts of the article attempt a reappraisal of contemporary American literature’s world-literary potential by problematizing cosmopolitanism and neoliberal globalization in close relation to 9/11, the ideal of American multiculture and non-American assertions of alterity. Introducing Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism
(2011) and Mitchum Huehls’ After Critique (2016), the third part then shifts its focus onto the crisis of the neoliberal condition as lived in America today. Rather than insisting merely on thematic and demographic reprioritization, Berlant and Huehls are shown to strike at the very core of the literary and the human, exposing the ‘cruelty’ of both the novel and cosmopolitanism as residual expressions of a now anachronistic and ultimately harmful optimism regarding national cohesion and global understanding. The article concludes its search for a worldlier, more cosmopoetic American novel with an analysis of George Saunders’ short story collection Tenth of December (2013).
Amy Waldman’s The Submission (2011) and Teju Cole’s Open City (2011), the first two parts of the article attempt a reappraisal of contemporary American literature’s world-literary potential by problematizing cosmopolitanism and neoliberal globalization in close relation to 9/11, the ideal of American multiculture and non-American assertions of alterity. Introducing Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism
(2011) and Mitchum Huehls’ After Critique (2016), the third part then shifts its focus onto the crisis of the neoliberal condition as lived in America today. Rather than insisting merely on thematic and demographic reprioritization, Berlant and Huehls are shown to strike at the very core of the literary and the human, exposing the ‘cruelty’ of both the novel and cosmopolitanism as residual expressions of a now anachronistic and ultimately harmful optimism regarding national cohesion and global understanding. The article concludes its search for a worldlier, more cosmopoetic American novel with an analysis of George Saunders’ short story collection Tenth of December (2013).