Precarity, Alcohol and Contemporary British and Irish Literature
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- ISBN 9781399552004
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Precarity is the condition of human vulnerability that is experienced with new intensity due to cuts to the welfare state and the insecurity of contemporary work. In contemporary literature from Britain and Ireland, precarity is frequently explored in a surprising way: through depictions of alcohol. Precarity, Alcohol and Contemporary British and Irish Literature reveals how contemporary writing connects socio-economic insecurity and drinking. In particular, the book argues that representations of drinking places are used to examine the possibility of forming new precarious social collectives, while depictions of the mess and bodily waste of heavy drinking reflect on the gendering of work in neoliberalism. It shows that the uncontrollable nature of risk in precarity, and its lost dreams of the future, come to be explored through narrative fiction about alcohol, and explains how sobriety memoirs explore vulnerable interconnectedness.
Emily J. Hogg is Associate Professor of Contemporary Anglophone Literature at the Department of Culture and Language, University of Southern Denmark. She is the co-editor of Feminized Work and the Labor of Literature (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) and Precarity in Contemporary Literature and Culture (2021).
