Temporalities In/Of Crises in Anglophone Literatures

Offering pluralised and context-sensitives 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’.

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).