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Myka Tucker-Abramson reinterprets twentieth century American urbanism and political economy through provocative, original readings of postwar writers including James Baldwin, Patricia Highsmith, William Burroughs, Ayn Rand, and Sylvia Plath. She traces the path to neoliberalism through literary encounters with urban renewal and dispossession, the suburban 'frontier, ' and globalism. Few books so effectively bridge literary and urban studies.--Thomas J. Sugrue, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History, New York University

Tucker-Abramson's book earns high praise: it dwells persuasively in its details, while theorizing its political and aesthetic findings in ways that make shock an unavoidable topic of midcentury US empire. * Modern Philology * Myka Tucker-Abramson reinterprets twentieth century American urbanism and political economy through provocative, original readings of postwar writers including James Baldwin, Patricia Highsmith, William Burroughs, Ayn Rand, and Sylvia Plath. She traces the path to neoliberalism through literary encounters with urban renewal and dispossession, the suburban 'frontier,' and globalism. Few books so effectively bridge literary and urban studies. -- Thomas J. Sugrue, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History, New York University

Myka Tucker-Abramson reinterprets twentieth century American urbanism and political economy through provocative, original readings of postwar writers including James Baldwin, Patricia Highsmith, William Burroughs, Ayn Rand, and Sylvia Plath. She traces the path to neoliberalism through literary encounters with urban renewal and dispossession, the suburban 'frontier,' and globalism. Few books so effectively bridge literary and urban studies. -- Thomas J. Sugrue, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History, New York University Tucker-Abramson's book earns high praise: it dwells persuasively in its details, while theorizing its political and aesthetic findings in ways that make shock an unavoidable topic of midcentury US empire. * Modern Philology * ...Novel Shocks remains a necessary intervention into the field of urban literary studies, one that extends, deepens, and revises the work of critics like Carlo Rotella, Thomas Heise, and Catherine Jurca. The book illustrates how, at the moment of their separation, the urban cores and suburban peripheries of US cities were complexly intertwined, and how writers helped bring neoliberalism into being by exploring the material and affective links between these spaces. * American Literary History Online Review *

Myka Tucker-Abramson reinterprets twentieth century American urbanism and political economy through provocative, original readings of postwar writers including James Baldwin, Patricia Highsmith, William Burroughs, Ayn Rand, and Sylvia Plath. She traces the path to neoliberalism through literary encounters with urban renewal and dispossession, the suburban 'frontier,' and globalism. Few books so effectively bridge literary and urban studies. -- Thomas J. Sugrue, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History, New York University

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Myka Tucker-Abramson is Assistant Professor in American Literature at the University of Warwick.

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