This paper is prompted by the author's experience as a researcher of English literary education in three different geographies over the past three years: Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia. Affect theory, as discussed in this paper, concerns atmospheres, surfaces, bodies, emotions, moods, vicinities and capacities. Drawing on affect theory,…

This series, People and Places in World-English Literature, is published to introduce readers to modern writers who write in English. Each of the booklets contains a preface to the series, acknowledgments, an introduction to the authors and forms of literature, a literary map of the country, representative authors, a reference bibliography of the…