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Literary works play a crucial role in modelling and conceptualising temporalities. This becomes particularly apparent in times of crises, which put conventionalised temporal patterns and routines under pressure. During crises, past, present, and future appear to collapse into each other and give way to temporal disjunction and rupture. Offering pluralised and context-sensitive approaches to temporalities in and of crises, this volume explores how literature’s engagement with crises suggests both the need for and possibility of rethinking ‘time’. The volume is committed to examining the affordances of specific genres and their potential in pointing beyond temporalities of crises to facilitate a sense of futurity. Individual essays are grounded in recent theories of temporality and literary form, which are related to novel advancements in ecocriticism, queer studies, affect theory, and postcolonial studies. The chapters cover a broad range of examples from different literary genres to reveal the knowledge of literature about temporalities in and of crises.

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Sibylle Baumbach is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Stuttgart (Germany). She is the author of Literature and Fascination (2015) and co-editor of several volumes and special issues, including Narratives Between Attention and Mind-Wandering (2022), Victorian Surfaces (2021), New Approaches to the 21st-century Anglophone Novel (2021), and Brexit and Academia (2021). Birgit Neumann is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Translation Studies at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Germany). Recent publications include Verbal-Visual Configurations in Postcolonial Literatures (2020, with Gabriele Rippl), as well as the edited and co-edited volumes Anglophone World Literatures (2017), Global Literary Histories (2018), New Approaches to the 21st-century Anglophone Novel (2021), and Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures (2021).

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