Metamodernism and the Postdigital in the Contemporary Novel

Offering an innovative and original analysis of the interdependencies between digital technology and metamodernism through a detailed study of the contemporary novel, this book also expores the limits and opportunities that metamodernism offers in terms of understanding and conceptualizing contemporaneity.

Drawing on a range of authors that includes Zadie Smith, Sally Rooney, Ben Lerner, Ali Smith, Tom McCarthy, Jennifer Egan and Kazuo Ishiguro, this book provides an innovative and original analysis of the interdependencies between digital technology and metamodernism through a detailed study of the contemporary novel.

We are currently living through a period of profound rupture, in which the way the world is perceived is undergoing significant change. Just as the interplay between capitalism and technology hastened the evolution of modernism and postmodernism, then so too are those same forces now taking us into uncharted waters. In an increasingly fragile world, in which the very existence of humankind is threatened, it is vital that we begin to understand this new landscape.