Books written by Sibylle Baumbach

  • The Fascination with Unknown Time
    The Fascination with Unknown Time

    The proximity suggests that it is not the unbridgeable alterity of an unknown future that is fascinating in science fiction but the sense that its scenarios might with some plausibility come to pass, that we might be able to read the ...

  • Literature and Fascination
    Literature and Fascination

    depictions of violence, torture or death. Hence, in order to unfold their full aesthetic power, narratives of fascination require readers to invest in them both cognitively and emotionally. The greater the readers' investment in the ...

  • Shakespeare and the Art of Physiognomy
    Shakespeare and the Art of Physiognomy

    The highly disputed practice of face-painting is in itself regarded as a shameless action in that it intervenes in the ... Painted Faces on the Renaissance Stage: The Moral Significance of Face-Painting Conventions (Lewisburg: Bucknell ...

  • Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Skin, Silk, and Show
    Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Skin, Silk, and Show

    Physiognomy and the Meaning of Expression in NineteenthCentury Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hatter, Janine, and Nickianne Moody, eds. 2019. Fashion and Material Culture in Victorian Fiction and Periodicals.

  • New Approaches to the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel
    New Approaches to the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novel

    ... Narrative Innovation in 9/11 Fiction. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi. Miller, Kristine A., ed. 2014. Transatlantic Literature and Culture After 9/11: The Wrong Side of Paradise. Houndmills, Basingstoke, and New York ... NOVEL AFTER 9/11 ...

  • Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures
    Temporalities in/of Crises in Anglophone Literatures

    ... time studies , a range of approaches has emerged that support such radically contextualised understandings of time ... nature's broken clocks ' . In turn , memory studies have , in the last fifteen years or so , turned to so - called ...