Epidemic Notions – Études anglaises 2022/1 (Vol. 75)

Epidemic Notions – Études anglaises 2022/1 (Vol. 75)

Publication | Table des matières | Critiques

Résumé

In a 2002 issue of American Literary History entitled Contagion and Culture, the guest editors explained how they wrote “from within a society transformed by AIDS in both material and representational terms. Social, economic and behavioural changes are registered in and shaped by new forms of representations” (Wald, Tomes and Lynch 619). This issue of Études anglaises offers to examine some shifts in interpretative frameworks in the humanities within the turmoil of the COVID-19 outbreak: the pandemic itself is not necessarily the object of this volume, it is the starting point, the fresh and crisp perception and emerging or re-emerging ideas that we are working with.

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Critiques

• “This important volume from an authoritative international team of authors sheds significant new light on the comparative development of post-war Conservatism in the western world.”
  – Stuart Ball, Professor Emeritus, University of Leicester, UK
• “The rich essays collected in this illuminating volume show that the rise of right-wing politics in the United Kingdom, the United States, and France since the 1970s was a remarkably transnational phenomenon. As they attacked social democracy and cultural pluralism, right-wing movements borrowed ideas, visions, vocabularies, and tactics from each other, adapting them to their own national idioms and using advances in one country to win advances elsewhere. Anyone interested in confronting the problems that have proliferated in the wake the right’s reconfiguration of politics – surging inequality, belligerent ethno-nationalism, worker disempowerment and insecurity, and lost faith in the capacity for democratic self-government – has much to learn about the origins of these problems from this important book.”
  – Joseph A. McCartin, Georgetown University, USA, author of Collision Course