Clamouring for legal protection : what the great books teach us about people fleeing from persecution /
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London [England] :
Hart Publishing,
2021
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I. Canons, Great Books and Classics
- II. `Popular' Culture
- III. From Cultural Reflection to Legal Protection
- IV. Why Fiction? What About the Real World?
- V. From Escapism to Engagement
- VI. From Empathy to Revelation
- 1. Spreading Disease, Or Inoculating Us From Intolerance?
- I. Pandemics in Literature and Culture
- A. Arc of Disease, Suffering and Death
- II. Foreignness of Diseases
- III. Rhetoric of Blame
- A. From Vulnerable to Unwanted and Diseased
- IV. Plague
- V. From Symptoms to Panic
- VI. Creating Empathy
- VII. Limbo and the Will to Move Around
- VIII. From Quarantines to Quarrels to Empathy?
- IX. Art in the Time of Cholera
- X. Crossing the Border into Obscenity
- XI. Predicting Post-Pandemic Politics
- 2. Following Pathways, Networks And Guides
- I. Cessation Clause
- II. Following Intermediaries in Religious Texts
- III. Human Smugglers
- IV. Language Issues and Displacement
- V. Pursuing the Land of Milk and Honey
- VI. Divine Intermediaries and Shifts to Immigration Policy
- VII. Guides from Behind the Veil
- VIII. Intermediaries to Eden
- IX. From Freedom Fighter to Refugee
- X. From Civil War to Hell
- XI. Reluctant Follower
- XII. Fleeing with Loved Ones
- XIII. Purposeless Quest
- XIV. Constantly on the Road
- XV. Search for Treasure
- XVI. Promised Land
- 3. Opening Doors And Scaling Walls
- I. From Protection to Integration
- II. From Victim to Slave
- III. Supplicating Before the Gatekeeping King
- IV. Consulting Constituents on Border Policy
- V. Opening the Right Doors
- VI. Doors, Doorways and the People Hidden Behind Them
- VII. Before the Law
- VIII. Ill-Advised Strategies for Opening Doors
- IX. Real-World Gatekeeping
- X. Rights at the Border
- XI. Behind Closed Doors
- XII. Doors Towards Metaphysical Voyages
- 4. Confronting Inhospitable Spaces And Hostile Hosts
- I. Storms, Floods and the Purging of Unwanted Civilisations
- II. Romantic Refugee
- III. Mary and Percy Shelley: Feminist and Atheist
- IV. Refugees in a Time of Climate Change
- A. Mary Shelley, Victor Frankenstein and His Monster: Climate Refugees
- B. Percy Shelley's Perspective on Climate and Geomorphology
- C. Lord Byron: Catastrophism, Climate Change and Ensuing Darkness
- V. From Creation of the Earth to Apocalypse
- VI. Being Misled into the Wrong Paradise
- VII. Finding Revelation Instead of Refuge
- VIII. From Persecution to Punishment
- IX. Chance Encounters
- X. Finding Hell
- XI. Transformation into Darkness
- 5. Encounters With Aliens, Monsters And Terrorists
- I. Monsters in the Great Tradition
- II. Insidious Monsters in the (Real) World
- III. First Encounters
- IV. Monstrous Unfamiliar
- V. Refugee Amongst Refugees
- VI. Confronting Your Neighbour: The Monster
- VII. Identifying the Monsters, then Living with Them.