... of the outbreak narrative and its privileging of containment as the solution to emerging infections. Instead, opportunities arise to explore how data about the history of present-day structural inequities offer better ways to combat the deleterious effects of outbreaks. Through an analysis of Harriet Wilson’s...

...” between past and present. Her essay models an alternative to these modes of literary history. It is an example of “literary history as a part of epidemiological sleuthing.” To begin, Bezio explains that in the now-standard “outbreak narrative,” the plot’s linear unfolding (i.e., progress from outbreak...

... as ubiquitous in India and subsequently cast as a conduit to anti-imperial violence in narratives of imperial counterinsurgency. In colonial India, British imperial strategies of knowing the plant’s intoxicating power indexed together several devotional and laboring bodies, among whom the figure of the Indian...

... within the sphere of these pandemics. Pandemic’s 2013 rule book begins: “Do you have what it takes to save humanity? . . . You must work together, using individual strengths, to succeed. The clock is ticking as outbreaks and epidemics fuel the spreading plagues. Can you find all four cures in time...

..., it is itself a kaleidoscopic expression of their consequences. Each of those crises is a contributing factor in turning an outbreak into a global pandemic. The conversation in which these essays are collectively engaging is one I have been hearing informally as SARS-CoV-2 has circulated among us: What can we...

...Timothy D. O'Brien Copyright © 2002 Regents of the University of Colorado 2002 English Language Notes Volume XXXIX N um ber 3 March 2002 HAND IMAGERY, MASCULINITY, AND NARRATIVE AUTHORITY IN THE BOOK OF SIR LAUNCELOT AND QUEEN GUINEVERE Perhaps the most memorable image from the Authurian...

... Muslim mystics do appear in the historical record as involved with worldly politics, their activities and concerns often have not registered with modern, post-Enlightenment historians as an animating force behind the political, military, and institutional decision-making that marks the narratives...

... link between his book and his experience of W orld War I: The imm ediate m otive fo r w riting was supplied by the outbreak of the First W orld War and the effect which its acclamation by the social-democratic par­ ties had upon the European left. M y own deeply personal attitude was one of vehement...

...: Américo Paredes’s George Washington Gómez and Chicano Literature at the End of the Twentieth Century .” American Literary History 5 , no. 2 ( 1993 ): 272 – 93 . Sorensen Leif . “ The Anti- corrido of George Washington Gómez: A Narrative of Emergent Subject Formation .” American...

... in the interwar period: The outbreak of the First World War triggered a wholesale reintroduction of passport requirements as a means of protecting the integrity of national borders. These efforts to control mobility were originally touted as temporary measures to remain in place only for the duration of the war...

... of accounting for life in diaspora: a choreography across unaligned times. It bears remembering that before the pandemic was a pandemic, it was a drama of Wuhan, a Chinese crisis. And before SARS-CoV-2, the formal name of COVID-19, there was its political and epidemiological precursor: the SARS outbreak of 2002...

... of early modern fiction, com bin­ ing romance, Christian religious beliefs, and natural philosophy in a narrative that is split prim arily in two: a tale o f mishap at sea lands a group of sailors on the shores of a fully func­ tioning Christian utopia, and this leads to an account of Salomon's House...

... eschews narrative momentum or drive, telling instead a languid, dialogue-heavy narrative w ithout any particularly notable plot: three wom en named Dorothy, Alice, and W endy meet in a hotel in Austria just before the outbreak o f W orld War One and become both friends and lovers, recounting to each other...

..." attitudes that frequently pit place-based interests against one another w hile enabling highly m obile transnational capital to elude responsibility for its place-based depredations. Because they are not bound by the same expectations about scale and data, literary and cinem atic narratives can supplement...

... interlude in a much longer narrative, for Miss Ogilvy the theatre o f war, albeit a "blissful illusion," means everything, and she shows her­ self "com petent, fearless, devoted and untiring."28 At the outbreak of the conflict, however, she is not a young wom an w ith a brilliant future, but a sad fifty-som...

..., both in terms o f its simple, death-driven narratives, and in term s o f the deflat­ ing view of hum anity that such narratives call up.This is a genre that puts us on a spectrum shared w ith other life-form s gods on the one end, w orm s on the oth er not leaving much doubt where we stand eventually...

... accompanied the outbreak of the First Anglo-Dutch War,5 at which time it served the Parliamen­ tarians as pro-war propaganda. Marvell may have appropriated both the newly forged genre and Felltham s thematic concerns in order to rewrite the very popular Brief Character from a re­ publican perspective. And yet...

.... We are all lab rats now, patients m ediatized upon tables . . . The belated establishing shot takes the cinem a spectator out of the fram e o f direct m edia overload and into an, initially, m ore reflective narrative setting: she, if bewildered, like the protestor w ho shortly arrives to w itness...

... Ghost, and apocalyp­ tic raptures? The Aetherians were not sim ply oddballs screaming out nonsense to an amused audience; they were also writ-large versions of all o f us, screaming back our "n o r­ m al" belief systems, our narratives of suburban life. I surveyed the Aetherius Society books...