Affective Crisis and the Possibility of Attachment: A Comparative Study of Contemporary Fiction in Neoliberal Ruins (Comparative Literature and Culture) - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Hans Demeyer is Associate Professor of Dutch and Comparative Literature at University College London. His research revolves around the intersection of literature, affect and society. With Sven Vitse he published Affectieve crisis, literair herstel [Affective Crisis, Literary Repair] (AUP, 2021), a monograph on the contemporary novel with a focus on Dutch-language fiction. Previous collaborations with Vitse include edited volumes on neo-avant-garde writers Willy Roggeman (2013) and J.F Vogelaar (2018). Since 2025, he is co-editor-in-chief of Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies. His current research projects focus on whiteness in Neerlandophone literature, and on literature and destituent power.

Sven Vitse is Assistant Professor at the department of Languages, Literature and Culture at Utrecht University. He has published extensively on Dutch-language avant-garde, postmodern and millennial fiction, and on the literary construction of masculinity in modern Dutch fiction. With Hans Demeyer he published Affectieve crisis, literair herstel (2021), a monograph on the contemporary novel with a focus on Dutch-language fiction. Previous collaborations with Demeyer include an edited volume on Dutch neo-avant-garde writer J.F. Vogelaar. In 2022-2023 Vitse was a fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) in Amsterdam.