Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Responsibility: Investing Against Pornification
2. Risk: Securitising Male Homosexuality
3. Contract: Gazing Through Masochism
3. Property: Privatising Feminist Critique
5. Austerity: Sacrificing and Scapegoating Little Men
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Explores David Foster Wallaces engagement with - and complicity in - economic neoliberalism and toxic masculinity.

About the Author

Edward Jackson holds a PhD in English from the University of Birmingham. He currently teaches literature and cultural studies as a Visiting Lecturer.

Reviews

Edward Jackson’s emergence as a key new voice in Wallace criticism rests, in part, on both his rigorous scholarship and his clear-eyed perception of what’s wrong with the critical lenses that too many readers have accepted without question. David Foster Wallace’s Toxic Sexuality is an elegantly written and meticulous study that addresses challenging questions—about gender and economics—with typically lively and innovative readings.
*Dr Stephen Burn, Reader in Post-1945 American Literature, University of Glasgow, UK*