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Surveillance and Neoliberalism in Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections

遠藤, 日葵, Issued : 2026.03.31, 論集/青山学院大学大学院文学研究科英米文学専攻 <TF02044713>
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コレクションコード 紀要論文
コレクションコード 論集/青山学院大学大学院文学研究科英米文学専攻
コレクションコード 50
ソースレコードID AN1013558X
タイトル Surveillance and Neoliberalism in Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections
タイトル(その他) ジョナサン・フランゼン『コレクションズ』における監視とネオリベラリズム
ジョナサン・フランゼン『コレクションズ』ニオケル カンシ ト ネオリベラリズム
作成者 遠藤, 日葵
エンドウ, ヒビキ
Endo, Hibiki
出版者 青山学院大学大学院文学研究科英米文学専攻院生会
出版者 アオヤマ ガクイン ダイガク ダイガクイン ブンガク ケンキュウカ エイベイ ブンガク センコウ インセイカイ
NCID AN1013558X
ISSN(プリント) 0289792X
DOI URL https://doi.org/10.34321/TF02044713
収録物名 論集/青山学院大学大学院文学研究科英米文学専攻
収録物名 ロンシュウ
収録物名 Aoyama Gakuin University English studies
巻次等 50
開始ページ 31
終了ページ 50
日付 Issued : 2026.03.31
主題 Other-en:Jonathan Franzen
主題 Other-en:The Corrections
主題 Other-en:surveillance
主題 Other-en:neoliberalism
主題 Other-en:family
主題 Other-en:market
内容記述 This paper examines how the theme of surveillance appears in Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections (2001) and how it connects with the emergent mode of neoliberalism. In the Lambert family, there are multiple layers of surveillance operating on the body and psyche of family members. To begin with, domestic surveillance manipulates at the dinner table where Enid and Alfred discipline their child during dinner by monitoring him until he finishes his meal. This scene reflects what Michel Foucault states as a discipline producing “docile bodies." However, power relationships in family are never stabilized, making the bonds of family fragile. In Gary Lambert's family, it is not parents but his child, Caleb, who monitors the house with surveillance cameras. In case of Gary, he observes his father, Alfred Lambert, in terms of his market value. It is not until Alfred loses his function as “homo economicus" due to disease that he is released from surveillance. The case of Denise shows another form of surveillance—self-surveillance. As if coping with the practice of Panopticon, she internalizes how others see her and disciplines herself in the relationships with Don Armour, Brian Callahan, and Robin Passafaro. Her recognition of male desire leads to the recognition of herself as a human capital, thus she virtually acts as a self-regulating homo economicus. Overall, The Corrections displays how one of the principles of neoliberalism, deregulation, and the concomitant absence of governmental control force the characters to live in the market-oriented society with a sense of surveillance. The episodes of Corecktall and Aslan, newly developed mood-altering substances, illustrate how pharmacology shifts responsibility from the government and corporations to consumers, who must monitor risks of medication by themselves. Chip's experience in Lithuania also shows the absence of government, where people are oppressed just by bare violence. Altogether, the novel explores how under neoliberalism, surveillance structure domestic life, the self and the market.
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