Paravictorianism
Mary Shelley and Viral Sovereignty
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10867602 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kolb Kolb (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 446 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-5222 • E-ISSN: 1527-2052 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/victorianstudies.62.3.06 |
| OpenAlex | W3093755467 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
This article revisits the 2006 diplomatic standoff between Indonesia and the World Health Organization over wild-type (or naturally occurring) viral flu samples in the context of the ongoing War on Terror, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a Romance whose imagination seems to have predicted, improbably, the conceptual conjoining of the two: Mary Shelley's late, reviled apocalypse fantasy, The Last Man (1826). Raza Kolb explores the political and conceptual stakes of global health commentators' readiness to exploit the deep-seated terror of a Muslim planet, sketched out in Romantic shades by Shelley during the Greek Revolution of the 1820s, and reappearing in the invocation of "Viral Sovereignty" as a global threat that public health officials compared to terrorism. In her essay, Raza Kolb argues for the ongoing necessity of postcolonial methods of reading in nineteenth-century studies, and calls on Victorian studies to reckon more robustly and generously with "other" nineteenth-centuryists
Art · Context (archaeology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Fantasy · Invocation · Literature · Pandemic · Political science · Politics · Romance · Sociology · Sovereignty · Terrorism · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Law · Medicine · Ottoman and Turkish Studies · Science Education and Perceptions
| Citations per year | 1.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |