British Studies

Nuala Zahedieh's The Capital and the Colonies explains the rise of London to preeminence in the Atlantic economy. Between 1660 and 1700, Londoners used their considerable political and economic advantages to shape a commercial system that fostered competition, rewarded personal initiative, and tapped into the vast wealth-generating potential of the English settlements in the western Atlantic that had taken root in the early decades of the 17th century. As Zahedieh, a senior lecturer in economic and social history at the University of Edinburgh, tells us in her introduction: 'This study looks at how late-seventeenth-century Londoners, who heavily dominated England's colonial trade, responded to the opportunities and challenges posed by the infant imperial project and set in place a durable mercantile system which underpinned both extensive and intensive growth and made the Industrial Revolution more likely' (p. 3). Zahedieh argues that this transformation was not-as is sometimes posited-a consequence of the English Acts of Trade and Navigation (1660 and thereafter). The late 17th-century English state, she contends, lacked the means to enforce legislation intended to exclude the Dutch from an intermediary role in England's Atlantic commerce. Instead, credit should go to the participants themselves and the efficiencies they achieved in finance, manufacturing, shipping, and distribution in a highly competitive commercial environment. Considering the importance of the subject, it is striking that there is so little in print about London as a 17thcentury Atlantic port. Among the books that come immediately to mind-each with a different emphasis are

strategies of transformation his books might offer. William Shakespeare's The Tempest (1611), on the other hand, makes visible the violence and ethical cost associated with even properly done skimming. Eggert details the contortions seventeenth-century anatomists underwent to avoid growing evidence of women's role in reproduction in the fourth chapter. Anatomists found a pattern for avoidance in the work of alchemists, as both groups dreamt of ways to purify and transform matter. She uses Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596) and Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost (1598) to consider how this avoidance came under critique. For Eggert, Spenser's male characters offer readings of reproduction and women's bodies that privilege nonsense, fantasy, or blindness. When they do, the women of the epic suffer. In Shakespeare's play, male-controlled reproduction "falls flat, its products sometimes distasteful but always untenable" (202). And yet, for Shakespeare's characters, as for seventeenth-century alchemists and anatomists, dreams finally prove more compelling than the world as it is. In her final chapter, Eggert considers disknowledge in a utopic vein. Alchemy and literature eventually solve the crisis of late-humanism by allowing us to imagine worlds far more satisfying than those of the present (208). To chart this movement, Eggert considers Shakespeare's Hamlet (1600-1), Ben Jonson's The Alchemist (1610), and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World (1666), three works that she presents in a line from failure to possibility. While Hamlet indulges in destructive forms of disknowledge, ignoring anything or anyone that does not fit his dream of humanistic synchronism, Jonson's characters demonstrate the delight they take in what they know to be false. In Cavendish, Eggert sees the operations of disknowledge as exactly those that make fiction possible and necessary. She argues that for Cavendish everything, from particles to people, can be imagined as creating its own story and its own theory of the way things work. This is disknowledge as world making-the conscious turn away from what is, to what is not, but might be. Cavendish also serves to bring home one of the most powerful and flexible ideas of Eggert's book-namely that what we choose not to know is just as important as what we choose to know. Eggert's book should prove invaluable to scholars interested in how the strategies brought to bear on intractable epistemological problems translate into both intellectual stasis and change. Her work presents a fascinating look at seventeenth-century intellectual struggles and insight into how we might move beyond our own contemporary intellectual impasses.

In der Diktaturforschung werden für gewöhnlich Napoleon III. und sein Regime als Vorboten faschistischer oder totalitärer Herrschaft betrachtet, sozusagen als eine protofaschistische Herrschaftsform angesehen. Dabei vernachlässigt dieser eurozentrische Blick die Diktatur des Argentiniers Juan Manuel de Rosas, der zwischen 1829 und 1852 mit eiserner Hand über Buenos Aires und de facto über ganz Argentinien regierte. 1

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En Londres, 1891, E. Whymper (1849-1911), publicó su libro Travels Amongst the Great Andes of Equator, basado en su viaje al Ecuador once años antes. Su propósito fue estudiar los efectos de la disminución de la presión atmosférica en el cuerpo humano, conocido como “mal de altura”. El libro fue concebido como una disputa sobre las significaciones geográficas, fisiológicas y las verdades alpinas. El autor consideró su libro como una reacción al trabajo cartográfico de Pedro Vicente Maldonado (1750), los estudios fisiológicos de Paul Bert (1878), y finalmente a las
descripciones de Alexander von Humboldt y J. Boussingault sobre sus intentos deascensión al Chimborazo. La investigación de Whymper sugiere una experiencia que permite verificar enunciados científicos que juegan con un elemento que lo refuerza y tiene que ver con la actividad del montañismo. Esta articulación entre ciencia y escalar montañas crea la posibilidad de encontrar un elemento subjetivo que habilita a Whymper a enfatizar y legitimar una autoridad, dentro de la cual el Chimborazo representa un elemento ineludible en dicha formación.

The Cornish droll tellers were unusual and remarkable. This overview, drawing on observations presented in the author's book, The Folklore of Cornwall: The Oral Tradition of a Celtic Nation (Exeter 2018), describes how the professional storytellers of the far south west British peninsula created a unique body of oral narrative.

This volume offers new perspectives on questions which are highly relevant in the context of dementia and the arts and the humanities. The issues concern the personal identity of dementia patients, their familial relationships, advance directives and the patients’ autonomy, the cultural representation of the subjective experience of dementia, and the patients’ stigmatization due to the disease. By considering topics from philosophy and medical humanities, from cultural studies as well as from German, English and American literature and others, the volume aims to think beyond the boundaries of specific disciplines in order to bring philosophy and literary and cultural studies into a fruitful conversation about dementia and the challenges it entails for the individual and for society.

In the 20th century European countries recognised the need of young people to receive sex education within the limitations of what was perceived morally acceptable. Sweden was a pioneer in introducing sex education in its curriculum. On the other hand, Great Britain lags behind. A fragile balance has emerged between private and public spheres, the parents 'rights to educate their children themselves and the governmental task to preserve and control citizens 'health, between the forces of the past and the visions of future. Sex education is a powerful indicator of social and cultural change. Yet, in Great Britain the mere allusion to the term sparks numerous debates on the amount of information to provide children and young people with or to censor to protect their 'innocence'. For some, sex education acts as a brake on morality and, for others it is essential to prevent, for instance, public health issues such as the rather high rates of teenage pregnancies, and incr...

The book chapter reviews anthropomorphic and zoomorphic country images of the five major powers from the standpoint of semiotics. The research is based on an experiment conducted in Paris, France, in July 2017, during an international multidisciplinary event "The Ark".

En 1976, le phénomène punk surgit à Londres, semble remettre en cause certains des codes sociaux et des normes culturelles la société britannique, et est le sujet d’une « panique morale ». La même année, en Irlande du Nord, 297 personnes sont tuées à cause du conflit. Les Sex Pistols invoquent l’anarchie dans leurs textes, mais pour les nord-irlandais, « Anarchy in the UK » est bien plus qu’une chanson : il s’agit de leur quotidien. Pourtant, alors que le conflit fait rage, alors que protestants et catholiques restent cantonnés dans leurs quartiers respectifs, des centaines de jeunes issus de deux communautés que tout semble opposer se retrouvent semaine après semaine dans les mêmes lieux pour partager une passion commune : celle du punk rock. Quelles sont les spécificités que présentent le punk en Irlande du Nord ? Quel impact ce phénomène de culture populaire a-t-il sur les pratiques des jeunes Nord-Irlandais qui participent à cette scène et à cette subculture alors que le conflit bat son plein ? Quels mécanismes permettent aux punks d’imaginer et d’incarner une « Alternative Ulster » ? Afin d’apporter des réponses à ces questions, le présent travail s’attache à retracer l’émergence de la scène punk nord-irlandaise (1976-1983), à analyser les manières dont sont « pratiqués » les lieux sur lesquels elle repose, à interroger l’importance de la tenue et du corps punk et, finalement, à mettre en lumière les thématiques qui traversent la chanson punk.

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In 1976, punk took the United Kingdom by surprise, and for one brief moment, challenged some of the cultural and social assumptions of British society, shocking public opinion and causing an outbreak of moral panic in its wake. The Sex Pistols could sing about it, but for people living in Northern Ireland, “Anarchy in the UK” was more than just a song, it was what they experienced in their everyday lives. Yet, while the conflict raged on, and at a time when cross-community contact had become uncommon, a minority of the North’s youth turned to punk. These young Catholics and Protestants ignored their political and religious differences and met up in streets and record shops during the day, and at night crowded into the few bars and pubs that allowed punk bands to play. What specific features did Northern Ireland punk display? What impact did this popular culture phenomenon have on the practices of the young participants who took part in this scene and subculture in the midst of the “Troubles”? What mechanisms enabled punks to imagine and embody an “Alternative Ulster”? In order to find answers to these questions, we will provide an account of the emergence of the punk scene in Northern Ireland (1976-1983), analyse the ways in which its spaces were “practiced”, examine the importance of punk dress and, finally, explore the themes which appear in punk rock songs.

The sports film has become one of commercial cinema's most recognizable genres. From classic boxing films such as Raging Bull (1980) to soccer-themed box-office successes like Bend it Like Beckham (2002), the sports film stands at the interface of two of our most important cultural forms. This book examines the social, historical and ideological significance of representations of sport in film internationally, an essential guide for all students and enthusiasts of sport, film, media and culture.

Sport and Film traces the history of the sports film, from the beginnings of cinema in the 1890s, its consolidation as a distinct fiction genre in the mid 1920s in Hollywood films such as Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman (1925), to its contemporary manifestation in Oscar-winning films such as Million Dollar Baby (2004) and The Fighter (2010). Drawing on an extensive range of films as source material, the book explores key issues in the study of sport, film and wider society, including race, social class, gender and the legacy of 9/11. It also offers an invaluable guide to 'reading' the sports film as well as an analysis of the place of the genre within national cinemas, including case studies of the British, Australian and Indian sports film.

During the 1970s Britain was in danger of being the first country ever to complete the move from being a global power to being a third-world nation. This paper seeks to describe declinist narratives that delineated a pessimistic prognosis of British society through the eyes of elite journalists, to political commentators, economists, and
historians, who felt that this decade coalesced all the ingredients that would
be propitious in fueling British decline. .

The 19 th century Romanian writer Dimitrie Bolintineanu (1824-1872), who spent some time in Paris and Constantinople as a political exile, made several journeys in what was then called, with a quite inaccurate, even abusive term, "Orient". Besides Constantinople and some towns or villages in Asia Minor, his journeys led him to Jerusalem, Damascus, Beirut, Cairo, etc. As a typical representative of the Romantic generation, Bolintineanu was deeply interested in the vestiges of classical antiquity, which he primarily approached by academic sources. Beyond his purely intellectual interests, he made interesting observations, part of them stereotypical, part of them quite original, even surprising, on the lifestyle of some populations and religiously or ethnically defined groups he met during his travels. Bolintineanu's extensive interest in "oriental cultures", mainly in the Ottoman-Turkish one, is further emphasized by his anthologies of poetry entitled The Flowers of Bosporus and Brises d'Orient (original, in French).

On July 1, 1909 in a professed act of patriotism to his Indian motherland, Madar Lal Dhingra, a nationalist revolutionary studying in England, assassinated Sir William Curzon Wyllie, political aide-de-camp to the Secretary of State of India. Twelve days later, Stefan Zweig responded to this event in the Viennese newspaper, Neue Freie Presse, in an essay titled, "Die indische Gefahr für England" ("The Indian Threat to England"). As with much of Stefan Zweig's published works with political undertones, his public response is less an overt political statement—less a disapproval or sanction of Dhingra's act—than a quest to understand it: its motivations and ramifications. For a young Zweig developing his commitment to a postnational, Paneuropean ideal, the end of Empire was troublesome for it delineated foremost the fracturing of Europe along nationalist lines.

This paper describes a very different, and entirely neglected, side of apprenticeship in London: the city’s system of contract dissolution. I suggest that easy dissolution played a vital role in sustaining apprenticeship in London, and was apparently echoed in a weaker form elsewhere in England. Contact dissolution was, it must be emphasised, normal. Metropolitan apprenticeships frequently ended prematurely.  As I show, the city of London possessed a formal institutional process in the Lord Mayor’s Court which gave apprentices a simple, cheap and effective means to cancel contracts, and then to recover a proportion of their financial investment in training. The activities of the Court rebalanced the asymmetries of power involved in apprenticeship. It reduced the risks involved in entering training contracts in which prospective masters and apprentices had limited information about each other or about future conditions that might affect their capacity to work or train. The activities of the Court profoundly alter our interpretation of the effects of formal institutions on apprenticeship in this period. That the city’s institutions possessed a major role as a portal for exit seriously complicates earlier views of institutions as agents of enforcement in apprenticeship, and draws our attention from work of the guilds to that of its central authorities in this sphere. The court’s activities imply the operation of a different economic model of training to that normally imputed to apprenticeship, one that can accommodate premature ending of contracts.  And they alter our understanding of the political and social character of the city and its institutions, locating apprenticeship far closer to accounts of order based on negotiation and accommodation than has been traditional in analyses of the formal rules of service.

In the 20th century European countries recognised the need of young people to receive sex education within the limitations of what was perceived morally acceptable. Sweden was a pioneer in introducing sex education in its curriculum. On the other hand, Great Britain lags behind. A fragile balance has emerged between private and public spheres, the parents ‘rights to educate their children themselves and the governmental task to preserve and control citizens ‘health, between the forces of the past and the visions of future. Sex education is a powerful indicator of social and cultural change. Yet, in Great Britain the mere allusion to the term sparks numerous debates on the amount of information to provide children and young people with or to censor to protect their ‘innocence’. For some, sex education acts as a brake on morality and, for others it is essential to prevent, for instance, public health issues such as the rather high rates of teenage pregnancies, and increasing rates in STIs and STDs among young people. The issue of censorship is not trivial in this sensitive and contentious context. This article explores the history of sex education in Great-Britain from the late 19th to the early 21st century and the politics of censorship towards sex education.

Keywords: Great Britain, sex education, censorship, controversy, 20th and 21st centuries

This paper, published in The Trinity Papers, a compendium of undergraduate scholarship at Trinity College, concerns the perspectives on Christianity and its influence in the fall of Rome espoused by noted Enlightenment-era English historian and classicist Edward Gibbon. A review of Gibbon's critiques, primarily relying on an early twelve-volume edition of his magisterial History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, seeks to expose points of contradiction and consider his motivations and historical interests around the Christian enterprise and practices and the religion's role in the fall itself. Some attention is also afforded to his memoirs and private writings.

Program: B.A., History, With Honors, Trinity College

For the purposes of this paper, the aims of British Studies are designed to answer the question “What we are teaching it for;” the objectives focus on “why we are teaching it.” The first section looks at the aims of British Studies predominantly from the teacher’s and the institution’s point of view, focusing on questions such as - why should the subject be included in university or school curricula; what should be taught; should it be theoretically based, or multi/ inter-disciplinary; should it be different from American Studies. The second section - objectives - concentrates more on what the student hopes to get out of the subject, in terms of both intellectual/ social development and career prospects. What I wish to argue is that, for British Studies to acquire academic status, it must be thought of as a flexible subject, which not only takes into account the expectations of the institution, the teacher and the student, but should be approached pluralistically; such expectations not only differ from country to country, but from institution to institution. This I think it what makes the subject different from related subjects such as Cultural or background studies (Landeskunde, Civilità).

The Edwardian mural program of 1908 constructs an all-encompassing identity for England. The Tudor panels, chosen for their connection to a significant moment of change in British history, celebrate the nation’s past. The subtext of each panel, as well as their literal sub-titles, also coincide with the Liberal belief that the early twentieth-century would be a parallel to the radical shifts Britain had experienced in the earlier dynasty.The six murals in the East Corridor of the House of Commons negotiates a dual construction of identity—one which commemorates the past while envisioning and propagandizing a new future.

Las dos revoluciones británicas fueron las de mayor impacto de todas las revueltas y revoluciones en la Europa del siglo XVII. La primera (1638-1649) acabó con un regicidio sin precedentes de gran conmoción en toda Europa: la ejecución pública de Carlos I Estuardo; la Gloriosa (1688-1689), asentó por la fuerza la fórmula constitucional king-in-parliament y la Monarquía limitada de referencia en Europa. Esta contribución intenta hacer comprensible este complejo proceso desde una perspectiva multiterritorial: tiene en cuenta, por una parte, la situación interna de Escocia, Irlanda e Inglaterra para indagar en las dificultades de la Corona en la construcción del Estado moderno en las islas británicas; por otra, atiende a las causas externas de las dos revoluciones, tradicionalmente relegadas a un segundo plano, con especial atención a España y Francia. Las conclusiones recogen esta necesidad de examinar las “revoluciones inglesas” desde una perspectiva menos inglesa, más británica (en el sentido más amplio del término) y más europea.

Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say ‘What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?’ If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.”
– Atatürk
“There is no deliverance for any people on this earth or for all the people of this earth except through truth and non-violence in every walk of life without any exceptions.”
– Gandhi

Memorialization of specific individuals necessitates processes of remembering and forgetting, memory work, and obfuscation. The African American Paul Robeson is considered an “honorary Welshman” and a “Welsh achiever.” How could Robeson, erased from the history books in his own country, be appropriated by popular vote as a Welsh national hero? This paper questions how Robeson’s philosophies, evident in his arts and actions, were memorialized into those of a Welsh hero through the theoretical lens of absent presence and geographies of biography. I explore this relationship between Wales and Robeson further to understand his influence and commemorative presence in Wales via the material memorial landscape of Robeson and how he is represented within broader Welsh memorialization and nationalism. Through the discourse of the memorial landscapes of Wales, elements of his philosophy may be over or under‐represented. For example, he connected with the strong socialist history in Wales, but the complexity of Robeson’s philosophical framework remains absent. Why were only some of his philosophical beliefs transmitted into Welsh society and the memorial landscape? This paper reveals both the presence and absence of Paul Robeson’s complex biography in the material memorial landscape in Wales. As a case study on the inclusion of (auto)biographical knowledge in the context of complex geographies and landscapes, this work frames biographical inclusion and exclusion as vital geographic concerns, particularly in the precarious Black geographies of Paul Robeson in Wales. In so doing, it further reifies the indelible connections between geography, biography, and the sociopolitical contexts from which memorial landscapes emerge.

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Many critics argue that the modernist avant-garde were always in opposition to the commercial values of market-driven society. For John Xiros Cooper, the avant-garde bears a more complex relation to capitalist culture than previously acknowledged. He argues that in their personal relationships, gender roles, and sexual contacts, the modernist avant-garde epitomized the impact of capitalism on everyday life. Cooper shows how the new social, cultural, and economic practices aimed to defend cultural values in a commercial age, but, in this task, modernism became the subject of a profound historical irony. Its own characterizing techniques, styles, and experiments, deployed to resist the new nihilism of the capitalist market, eventually became the preferred cultural style of the very market culture which the first modernists opposed. In this broad-ranging study John Xiros Cooper explores this provocative theme across a wide range of Modernist authors, including

Michael Levi Rodkinson (1845–1904) was a journalist, author, and publisher whose literary projects spanned numerous countries and continents. Hero to some and scoundrel to others, Rodkinson was a polemical figure whose beliefs underwent many transformations over the course of his life, most significantly from Hasidism to combative Haskalah to eventually anticipating the neo-Romantic trends of the early twentieth century. Throughout his career, Rodkinson’s writing challenged the familiar genres of the literature of Hasidism and the Haskalah, shaping the religious realities of his readers and articulating a spiritual and community life among Jews, who took his ideas to heart in surprising ways.Today, Rodkinson is frequently referred to as a minor Hasidic author and publisher, a characterization based on the criticism of his opponents rather than on his writings. In Literary Hasidism, Meir draws upon those writings and their reception to present a completely different picture of this colorful and influential writer. Examining Rodkinson’s lifelong role as a catalyzing agent of different cultural phenomena, his diverse publishing activities, and his writings in their respective stages, Meir grants readers a provocative new vantage point from which to consider this divisive, enigmatic figure.
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“A must read for anyone interested in the history of Hasidic literature. Jonatan Meir masterfully tells the story of late nineteenth-century eastern
European Jewish scholarship through the bruising battles, big ideas, and petty intrigues of Michael Levi Rodkinson.”
—Eliyahu Stern, Yale University
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Jonatan Meir portrays the career of one of the most ambivalent characters of the Haskalah, or Jewish Enlightenment, Michael Levi Rodkinson, and his move from the propagation of popular Hasidism to his more grandiose attempts to reframe and restructure the entire Jewish canon. This look into the world of the late nineteenthcentury Jewish Enlightenment will be an eye-opener."—Pinchas Giller, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, American Jewish University
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"Meir has taken the relatively neglected figure of Rodkinson and created a detailed and fascinating portrait. He ably demonstrates that the boundaries between Hasidism and Haskalah were frequently crossed, and this markedly improves our understanding of the dynamics of Jewish intellectual history in the crucial period of the late nineteenth century."—Ira Robinson, Concordia University

The interaction between masculinity and homosexuality is of interest
when considering Connell’s structure of gender power relations. Here gay men are
considered subordinate to heterosexual ones, thus linking them to femininity. To
fight the attributions of femininity, gay men have adopted a wide range of strategies
all centred around hyper-masculinity and adherence to upper social classes, which
carry the promise of power. The role of media is pivotal in shaping this imagery. It
is our aim to analyse two British TV series portraying gay characters in order to
uncover the identities, which may shape the perception of viewers. Furthermore, the
two series are compared in regard to three aspects: hedonism, effeminacy and
promiscuity. The methodology draws from Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory and the
feminist film of Laura Mulvey. Due to the constricted nature of TV series, it also
includes theory of Marcel Danesi. The outcomes suggest that there is a shift in the
portrayal of gay masculinities towards greater conservativism. The comparison also
uncovered that promiscuity is still portrayed as widely accepted in the gay
community, whereas positions of effeminacy and hedonism have changed. It must be
pointed out that such portrayal may be motivated by the presence of the series within
heteronormative mainstream media.

В статье рассматривается вопрос о роли и месте Лиги Наций во внешнеполитических курсах Франции и Великобритании в 1920-е гг. Выделены функции международной организации как инструмента коллективной безопасности, сокращения вооружений, разрешения локальных конфликтов, снижения напряженности в преддверии вероятной эскалации конфликта. Автор пришел к выводу о том, что в Париже и Лондоне испытывали скепсис по поводу эффективности Лиги Наций как инструмента коллективной безопасности и разоружения, хотя и отмечали потенциальную позитивную роль организации в двух других ее «ипостасях».

Comment rendre compte de l'effet « trace » de la lettre viatique – de cette trace qui, dans la correspondance, peut être lue comme « le voyage même »? L'ambition de cet ouvrage, qui s’inscrit dans la continuité de la collection « Chemins croisés » en ouvrant des perspectives nouvelles sur l’écriture de l’ailleurs, est d’examiner les rapports entre l’écriture épistolaire et le voyage à travers les nombreuses traces que laisse la lettre viatique dans la littérature anglophone et francophone de la fin du XVIIIème siècle à nos jours. Spécialistes de littérature française, francophone et anglophone croisent ainsi leurs champs disciplinaires pour se mettre à l’écoute des lettres, réelles ou fictives, qui inscrivent leur trace dans notre connaissance, scientifique ou littéraire, du monde. L’originalité de cet ouvrage réside également dans les lettres d’écrivains qui ont été spécialement écrites pour ce volume. En tissant écrits critiques et textes d’auteurs, ce livre propose de suivre les relations qui se nouent entre l’œil et le regard, ces deux modalités du voir qui entrent en jeu dans notre approche de l’espace géographique et littéraire. Ainsi l’œil du scientifique analyse la matérialité de la lettre, suit le tracé des échanges, fait entrer en résonnance la sphère intime et l’arène publique, prend le pouls du vivant pour mieux appréhender la matière. Simultanément, le regard des écrivains nous invite à percevoir le relief du monde, à écouter l’appel du poète qui esquisse, derrière les apparences sensibles, une présence qui approfondit l’espace et qui recrée ce qu’Yves Bonnefoy appelait « la terre humaine. » A la croisée des disciplines, des époques, des territoires et des langues, cet ouvrage s’adresse non seulement aux spécialistes de l’épistolaire et de l’écriture du voyage, mais également à tous ceux curieux de saisir dans le tracé des lettres « l’usage du monde ».

In a recent article for History Today, David Cannadine, currently director of the Institute for Historical Research at the University of London, calls for what he perceives as a "serious approach" to reviewing, particularly where anthologies are concerned.  Instead of simply cataloguing the authors and their articles, reviewers should engage with the main issues of the work.
This dictum was continually in my mind as I read the second British Studies Now anthology, which focuses on "six macro issues which preoccupy the world of British Studies".  These issues, according to editor Nick Wadham-Smith, are the response to geopolitical change, the growth of interdisciplinary research, new trends in Foreign Language Teaching, the changing role of culture/Culture in society, the relation of new media to the cultural and educational spheres, and an awareness of new pedagogic approaches in secondary and tertiary study.

This is an overview of efforts to collect and understand the folklore of Cornwall in the south west of Britain. Cornwall is one of the six Celtic nations (the others being Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man, and Brittany), recognized by pan-Celtic organizations at the beginning of the twentieth century. Cornish folklore collections were published in the second half of the nineteenth century, and what followed were numerous attempts to understand the material, addressing the subject from various perspectives. The Institute of Cornish Studies (University of Exeter) commissioned this article in early 2019, in response to the Publication of my book, The Folklore of Cornwall: The Oral Tradition of a Celtic Nation (Exeter 2018). This article is to be published by Cornish Studies, issued by the Institute in 2022.

The text discusses further excursions into glam, such as Roxy Music's adaptation of variant musical and fashion styles and Suzi Quattro as a ''female cock-rocker'' (217) who inverts and complicates the notions of the glam performer, while transforming canonical rock pieces. Auslander offers exhaustive details from the era, analyzing glam not solely in terms of music and performance, but also in the various experiences and ephemera associated with the subgenre. In addition, extensive footnotes offer explanations of the relationship of glam to Goth, countercultural obsession with motorcycles, and even the pigmentation of Bowie's eyes. Although written in an engaging and enthusiastic style, the text neglects to adequately explore the impact of Andy Warhol on the aesthetic/philosophical underpinnings of glam, while also ignoring the selective appropriation of glam by hyper-hetero pop-metal acts in the 1980s. As performance studies has posited itself as inter/post/antidisciplinary, this book is a valuable addition to scholarly works that bridge seemingly differentiated fields. Serving both scholars and music aficionados, Performing Glam Rock unites cultural, queer, and gender theory in an impressive approach that challenges both music and performance studies-an achievement that mirrors its subject's own accomplishments at blurring and bending boundaries.

A survey of changing obsessions in Ireland with remembrance of various episodes in the past, identifies moments of heightened commemoration and charts the development of modern memorial practices over the twentieth century. Growing awareness to the multifaceted and multilayered expressions of memory in Irish culture ultimately reveals the necessity to rewrite the history of the twentieth century.

This essay more or less continues a historical survey of Irish memory from the mid-eighteenth century:
Guy Beiner, ‘The Formation of Modern Irish Memory, c.1740–1914’ in The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland, edited by Eugenio F. Biagini and Mary E. Daly (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 586-93.

This article explores the formation of British imperial identity through a focus on the career of Sir James Mackintosh (1765–1832), a well-known Whig intellectual and imperial careerist who originally hailed from the Highlands of Scotland. Using Mackintosh's unpublished letters and autobiography, the article shows how he imagined and narrated his relationship to the Scottish Highlands from the vantage points of Bombay and London. In contrast to recent historiography that has focused on the translation of Scottish society, culture, and identity in British imperial spaces, this article argues that disidentification from the Highlands of Scotland and the erasure of different peoples, cultures, and textures of life was integral to Mackintosh's configuration of a British imperial identity.