1. Introduction

Elin D. Huckerby is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Bergen, Norway, where she works on affects and agency in ‘Brexlit’—contemporary British literature responding to Brexit. She is also writing a book on Rorty’s uses of literature, reconstruing his pragmatism as poeticism, and has published viii Solidarity in Contingency articles and chapters on this topic. Before becoming an academic, Huckerby worked for a number of years as a computer engineer.