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This stylishly written book offers a series of masterful examples of the value of close reading, opening up provocative connections between formality and filthiness, detachment and disgust. -- Eugenie Brinkema * Massachusetts Institute of Technology * A smart, lively, consistently unsettling book. Clark's superb analysis of works that are at once grotesque and clinical boldly charts the sentimental politics of affect and identification for our age of data-driven cool. -- Justus Nieland * Michigan State University *

This stylishly written book offers a series of masterful examples of the value of close reading, opening up provocative connections between formality and filthiness, detachment and disgust. -Eugenie Brinkema, Massachusetts Institute of Technology A smart, lively, consistently unsettling book. Clark's superb analysis of works that are at once grotesque and clinical boldly charts the sentimental politics of affect and identification for our age of data-driven cool. -Justus Nieland, Michigan State University

"""This stylishly written book offers a series of masterful examples of the value of close reading, opening up provocative connections between formality and filthiness, detachment and disgust.""—Eugenie Brinkema, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ""A smart, lively, consistently unsettling book. Clark's superb analysis of works that are at once grotesque and clinical boldly charts the sentimental politics of affect and identification for our age of data-driven cool.""—Justus Nieland, Michigan State University"

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Rebecca B. Clark received her PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley. Her work has been published in the journals Narrative, postmedieval, and Post45. She has taught at UC Berkeley and Dartmouth College.

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