Preface

This book was written between 2012 and 2015. An earlier version of Chapter 1 was published in Timing of Affect: Epistemologies of Affection, edited by Marie-Louise Angerer, Bernd Bosel, and Michaela Ott (Zurich: Diaphanes, 2014), 49-64. Chapter 2 was initially published in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 25:2-3, 314-331. The Afterword was initially published in the Yearbook of Comparative Literature 58, 205-210.

As always, this writing is for my daughters, Adah and Roxanne.