British Covid Fictions: Reading Pandemic Politics
暫譯: 英國疫情小說：閱讀疫情政治

Dix, Hywel

British Covid Fictions: Reading Pandemic Politics
  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2025-10-16
  • 售價: $5,290
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $5,026
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 198
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3032026121
  • ISBN-13: 9783032026125
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This is the first book-length study of Covid fictions in Britain. It argues that although it was common to see the Covid-19 pandemic as a state of exception, that is, as a unique emergency for which there was no precedent, it is misleading to treat the experience of the pandemic in Britain in isolation because the state's political and rhetorical responses to it were less out of keeping with already existing social and political structures than might have been expected. This means that there was a strong continuity between the dominant political ideology before the outbreak of Coronavirus and that which pervaded it, an ideology that can best be described as neoliberal political and economic thought. Through its analysis of Covid fictions, the book explores ways in which writers used their work to critique the dominant ideology while also at times remaining entrapped within it precisely because it was the dominant ideology.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這是英國關於 Covid 虛構作品的第一本書籍研究。它主張，儘管將 Covid-19 大流行視為一種例外狀態，即一種沒有先例的獨特緊急情況是很常見的，但將英國的疫情經驗孤立地看待是誤導性的，因為國家對此的政治和修辭反應與已存在的社會和政治結構相比，並沒有如預期般地脫節。這意味著，在冠狀病毒爆發之前，主導的政治意識形態與疫情期間的意識形態之間存在著強烈的連續性，這種意識形態可以最好地描述為新自由主義的政治和經濟思想。通過對 Covid 虛構作品的分析，這本書探討了作家如何利用他們的作品來批判主導意識形態，同時在某些時候又因為這是主導意識形態而被困於其中。

作者簡介

Hywel Dix is Professor of English at Bournemouth University, UK. He has published extensively on the relationship between literature, culture and political change in contemporary Britain, most notably in Postmodern Fiction and the Break-Up of Britain (2010), After Raymond Williams: Cultural Materialism and the Break-Up of Britain (Second Edition, 2013) and Multicultural Narratives: Traces and Perspectives, co-edited with Mustafa Kirca (2018). His wider research interests include modern and contemporary literature, critical cultural theory, authorial careers and autofiction. His monograph about literary careers entitled The Late-Career Novelist was published in 2017 and an edited collection of essays on Autofiction in English was published by Palgrave in 2018. His study of Brexit and fiction was published by University of Wales Press as Compatriots or Competitors? Welsh, Scottish, English and Northern Irish Writing and Brexit in Comparative Contexts in 2022. He has recently completed a study entitled Autofiction and Cultural Memory with Routledge.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Hywel Dix 是英國伯恩茅斯大學的英語教授。他在當代英國文學、文化與政治變遷之間的關係方面發表了大量著作，最著名的作品包括《後現代小說與英國的解體》（2010年）、《雷蒙德·威廉斯之後：文化物質主義與英國的解體》（第二版，2013年）以及與穆斯塔法·基爾卡共同編輯的《多元文化敘事：痕跡與視角》（2018年）。他的研究興趣還包括現代與當代文學、批判文化理論、作者生涯及自傳小說。他的專著《晚期職業小說家》於2017年出版，並於2018年由Palgrave出版了一本關於《英語自傳小說》的編輯論文集。他對英國脫歐與小說的研究於2022年由威爾士大學出版社出版，書名為《同胞還是競爭者？威爾士、蘇格蘭、英格蘭和北愛爾蘭的寫作與脫歐的比較背景》。他最近完成了一項名為《自傳小說與文化記憶》的研究，與Routledge合作出版。

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