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I'm searching for works of literary criticism about how literature explores the interplay between mental health and individualism, consumerism or neoliberal capitalism. Any suggestions?
I'm thinking something which synthesizes various modern works to help express the kind of self focused anxiety many people experience in the modern world, which I feel may come, to some extent, as a consequence of modern beliefs, values and systems. It helps me come to terms with my own struggles when I come across these issues expressed with profound truth and clarity, and I also would like to research this for my literary studies. I'm particularly interested in anxiety, depression, insomnia, loneliness, self loathing, OCD, and body dysmorphia, but the exploration of general, self focused mental distress, however it is labelled, is just as relevant.
I feel like authors such as Murakami and David Foster Wallace explore what I'm looking for, but there must be other authors, postmodern or otherwise, who tackle these themes of modern malaise. I picked up a lot of potential individualist origins of Esther Greenwood's depression in *The Bell Jar*, for example. I also want to know what work has been done by scholarly literary critics with regard to literature and modern mental health. Thanks!
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I'm thinking something which synthesizes various modern works to help express the kind of self focused anxiety many people experience in the modern world, which I feel may come, to some extent, as a consequence of modern beliefs, values and systems. It helps me come to terms with my own struggles when I come across these issues expressed with profound truth and clarity, and I also would like to research this for my literary studies. I'm particularly interested in anxiety, depression, insomnia, loneliness, self loathing, OCD, and body dysmorphia, but the exploration of general, self focused mental distress, however it is labelled, is just as relevant.
I feel like authors such as Murakami and David Foster Wallace explore what I'm looking for, but there must be other authors, postmodern or otherwise, who tackle these themes of modern malaise. I picked up a lot of potential individualist origins of Esther Greenwood's depression in *The Bell Jar*, for example. I also want to know what work has been done by scholarly literary critics with regard to literature and modern mental health. Thanks!
#entertainment
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