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Disaster (2023)

Victorian Literature and Culture
Volume: 51
Issue: 3
Pages: 387-390
Publication date: 2023
Language: English

DOI: 10.1017/S1060150323000347

URI: https://www-cambridge-org.ezproxy.lib.ou.edu/core/journals/victorian-literature-and-culture/article/disaster/1E86C1C26726017B3C27F3B3974C014E

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I examine the temporality of disaster through a condition that I term “retroactive hopefulness”: looking back at a time when we could still hope that we would be exempt from imminent catastrophe. I discuss this condition in relation to our current Covid moment and to H. G. Wells's dystopic novel The War of the Worlds (1898).

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