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Pacifism and English Literature

White, R.S., 2008. London: Palgrave Macmillan. The book recognizes that Peace Studies is an interdisciplinary field and seeks to highlight the role of English and Literature within that field. This text focuses on…

Shakespeare’s Use of War and Peace

Jorgensen, Paul A. 1953. Huntington Library Quarterly 16, no. 4: 319–52. This article asserts that Shakespeare should be investigated as a treatise on how Renaissance England visualized war and peace, suggesting that…

The Racial Silence within Peace Studies

Azarmandi, Mahdis. 2018. Peace Review, 30, no. 1: 69-77.  This text investigates how institutional structures of power that enable the outbreak of war and violence are inextricably tied to a plethora of social issues…

Peace Studies: A Proposal

Lerner, Laurence. 1995. New Literary History 26, no. 3: 641–65. This text analyzes the notion that Peace Studies should be viewed as a new critical perspective through which literature can be studied, much like…

‘Murphy’ and Peace

Wallace, Jeff. 2015. Twentieth Century Literature 61, no. 3: 352–72. This text investigates Samuel Beckett’s novel Murphy as a potentially pacifist text. Published in 1938, Murphy is an avant-garde novel whose…