Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction 7
4. Lexical-Semantic Analysis of ‘Comfort’ 21
5. On the Temptations of Comfort 43
6. “A sort of strange beginning out of time” 65
7. Comfort in Contemporary Art 85
8. Writing Dis/Comfort 101
9. Are You Dwelling Comfortably? 117
10. Subverting Late Capitalist Comfort 133
11. The Politics of Comfort in J.M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year 149
12. Gothic Hauntings 167
13. Embracing Mindful Discomfort 187
14. “These Seats Are So Comfy” 205
15. Discomforting Silences in Alt-Right America, 2019 227
16. Contributors 249