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A New Century of Trauma?
Lewis Ward According to Shoshana Felman, “The twentieth century can be defined as a century of trauma” (171 n.1). But is the trauma paradigm relevant for the study of twenty-first century literature?...
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The Short Story: A Print Culture Reading
Michael J. Collins Over the last few decades, the short story has been the subject of a fierce medical dispute. Observers have gathered to ask, like Ishmael of the Leviathan in Moby-Dick; “Will He...
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Panel Transitions in Trauma Comics
Harriet Earle Comics are the new kids on the block in the world of literary academia. It is only in recent years that they have been accepted at a valid narrative form, worthy of scholarly attention....
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Shakespeare in the English National Curriculum
Sarah Olive Cultural criticism and cultural histories of the development of English as a subject place special emphasis on the role of intellectuals, education and national identity (sometimes,...
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Diverse Suburbias
Rowena Clarke Since the nineteen fifties, when suburban living began to establish itself as the new norm, representations of suburbia in American culture have been dominated by a particular set of...
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Railways and Fiction
Christopher Daley Railways are news. On the one hand, they are the source of consternation as above inflation fare rises couple with the perceived drudgery of commuting to characterise the railways...
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Remix Culture and the Literary Mashup
Jacob Murphy 2009 saw the release of the first mainstream literary mashup - Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Graeme-Smith. This particular book has produced a prequel (Pride and Prejudice and...
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Re-Writing Belfast
Caroline Magennis In April 2012, the Northern Irish writer Glenn Patterson published his eighth novel, The Mill for Grinding Old People Young, with Faber. The book is the Arts Council of Northern...
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Somaesthetics and Literary Criticism
Robert W. Jones II As literary scholars we are often bending and stretching our frame of reference looking for a new lens with which to examine texts to provide fresh insight and unique views. We...
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Explorations in the Ergodic
Marianne Corrigan and Ash Ogden As our lives become more networked, people are engaging more and more with structures. But they are not merely inhabiting these structures – they are playing with...
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DeLillo, Aesthetics, The Cold Iraq War
Martin Paul Eve As one of the most important American writers of the late-twentieth century – alongside Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon in particular – Don DeLillo is a notable target of academic...
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Identity and Consciousness in Dial H
Christina Scholz [Caption] “Gaze long into an abyss… the abyss also gazes into you.” Squid: “Poor Nietzsche. Everyone always quotes that bit. But they always leave off what comes just before. ’He’ –...
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Recovering Nostalgia in Nature Writing
Deborah Lilley In Edgelands (2011), Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts explain their intention to ‘put aside our nostalgia for places we’ve never really known’ and instead seek out ‘complicated,...
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Are Video Game Narratives Postmodern?
Alistair Brown An editorial in the twentieth anniversary issue of the journal Postmodern Culture in 2010 added another voice to mark the gradual retreat of the postmodern. Somewhat defensively, the...
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Gordon Burn and Mrs T
Rhona Gordon One of the strangest, and most recurrent, observations about Margaret Thatcher’s funeral was the number of celebrity mourners, including, but not limited to, Katherine Jenkins, Joan...
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Utopia Loops, Ghost Legacies
Tony Venezia Margaret Thatcher once claimed that her greatest legacy was New Labour: the refashioning of the old enemy in her own image. The implications of this are still being felt in the...
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The Allure of the 1980s
Christopher Vardy When we remember, represent or consume the recent past, we often do so through the alluring prism of nostalgia. In Ali Smith’s short story ‘astute, fiery, luxurious’, the narrator...
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Margaret Thatcher in the 21st Century
Joseph Brooker Democracy, Franco Moretti once declared, is not interested in the production of good novels (1987: 192). It is not self-evident that parliamentary politics should inspire art. Ideally...
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Thatcher’s Legacies: Editor’s Introduction
Bianca Leggett Even before her death, Margaret Thatcher was a figure who seemed to prompt visions of haunting and exorcism. She was a curse whose effects were still felt, a spirit who could possess...
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Hypodermics at the fin-de-siècle
Adam Stock The hypodermic syringe has had a profound impact upon the administration of medicine and upon non-medicinal/recreational drug use since it was first marketed in the 1850s. Here, I...
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