Download or read book Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel written by Alan McCluskey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Alan McCluskey explores materialism, in its many conceptual forms, in the contemporary cosmopolitan novel. The author applies a 'cosmopolitan materialist' lens to the novels of Caryl Phillips, J. M. Coetzee, and Philip Roth: three contemporary authors who hail from different parts of the world and produce highly dissimilar novels.