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…
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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…
One Woman’s Way to Peace: The Development of Vera Brittain’s Pacifism
Mellown, Muriel. 1985. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 8, no. 2: 1–6. This text focuses on the life and work of British author Vera Brittain who lived through the horrors of the First World War and asserted that…
The Sword, the Scythe, and the ‘Arts of Peace’ in Dryden’s ‘Georgics.’
Schoenberger, Melissa. 2014. Translation and Literature 23, no. 1: 23–41. This work analyzes the usage of the word ‘peace’ in Dryden’s translation of Virgil’s ‘Georgics’ and explores the notion of the farmer as a…
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…
EDUCATION FOR PEACE AND THE READING OF LITERATURE
Gordon, Haim. 1990. The Centennial Review 34, no. 4: 577–86. This text explores the personal experiences of its author, Haim Gordon, as an educator, recalling an instance where he was called to teach Jewish and Arab…
The (M)Other Battle of World War One: The Maternal Politics of Pacifism in Rose Macaulay’s Non-Combatants and Others
Boxwell, D. A. 1993. Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 12, no. 1: 85–101. The text begins by relating the concept of motherhood to war, and, through references to the Iliad, establishes that there motherhood and…
The Tragedy of Peace: Political Meaning in Women Beware Women
Bromham, A. A. 1986. Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 26, no. 2: 309–29. The text focuses on Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women and studies it as a peace play with an astute awareness of the context of its…
Making Peace, Making Memory: Peacebuilding and Politics of Remembrance at Memorials of Mass Atrocities
Selimovic, Johanna Mannergren. 2013. Peacebuilding 1, no. 3: 334-348. This text discusses the conflict between external and internal actors in memorialising peace by conducting a comparative analysis of memorials to…