Atmospheric Literary Geography

Authors

  • Hsuan L. Hsu Concordia University

Abstract

Introduction to the cluster of essays on "Literary Atmospherics."

Author Biography

Hsuan L. Hsu, Concordia University

Hsuan L. Hsu is a professor of English at Concordia University. He is the author of Geography and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge) and Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain's Asia and Comparative Racialization (NYU), and is currently completing a book entitled The Smell of Risk: Olfactory Aesthetics and Atmospheric Disparities (forthcoming, NYU).

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2019-08-28

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