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Dorothee Birke is associate professor of English literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. Her main research interests include political drama, digital book culture, and the history of the novel. She has held research fellowships at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies.
Stella Butter is a professor of English and American literature at the University of Koblenz-Landau (Campus Landau). In her research, she is especially interested in representations of home in contemporary Anglophone literature, contingency and literature, and the cultural functions of the British novel in the process of modernisation.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Introduction 7
Lexical-Semantic Analysis of 'Comfort' 21
On the Temptations of Comfort 43
"A sort of strange beginning out of time" 65
Comfort in Contemporary Art 85
Writing Dis/Comfort 101
Are You Dwelling Comfortably? 117
Subverting Late Capitalist Comfort 133
The Politics of Comfort in J.M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year 149
Gothic Hauntings 167
Embracing Mindful Discomfort 187
"These Seats Are So Comfy" 205
Discomforting Silences in Alt-Right America, 2019 227
Contributors 249