Timescapes of Waiting

Christoph Singer is assistant professor in the Department of British Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn. He published on representations of shorelines as liminal spaces, conceptions of Middlebrow and Early Modern Literature and Culture. Currently he is working on a project entitled A History of Solitude: (Post-)Modernist Narratives of Waiting and Delay.Robert Wirth is a Research Associate at the Department of English and American Studies of the University of Paderborn, Germany, lecturing in English language and British cultural studies. His primary research interests lie in the field of Scottish literature, politics and culture, with a main focus on the utilisation of history and nostalgia in contemporary political campaigning. Together with Cornelia Wächter he is co-editor of Complicity and the Politics of Representation (2019).Olaf BerwaldOlaf Berwald is Professor of German Studies and Department Chair of Foreign Languages at Kennesaw State University, US. His has published on Melanchthon, Peter Weiss, Max Frisch, modernist aesthetics and religion, and on creative collaborations between Latin American and German writers.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionChristoph Singer, Robert Wirth and Olaf Berwald1 Waiting in the AntechamberHelmut Puff2 Waiting for Railways (1830–1914)Robin Kellermann3 Waiting for the Man: Deferring and Spatialising Legal and Narrative DelayRichard Hardack4 Dickens, Reade and Galsworthy on Waiting in Solitary ConfinementCornelia Wächter5 The Camp as Extra-Temporal Space in E.C. Osondu’s “Waiting” and Dinaw Mengestu’s “An Honest Exit”Christoph Singer6 “The Waiting Must End”: Waiting for Im/Possible Events in Dave Eggers’s A Hologram for the KingKerstin Howaldt7 Absurd Waiting in Samuel Beckett and Zakes Mda: Wartestellen and Revolutionary WaitingAmanda Lagji8 Waiting as Resistance: Confined Spaces in Broch and WeissOlaf Berwald9 Scotland: a Nation-State in WaitingRobert Wirth10 How Long Will Handala Wait? A Ten-Year-Old Barefoot Refugee Child on Palestinian WallsMargaret Olin11 When Boredom Meets Fear: Waiting in Philip Larkin’s “The Building”Elise Brault-Dreux12 Waiting in Sickrooms and Victorian Houses: Virginia Woolf’s “On Being Ill”Katrin RöderIndex