Mohammed discusses the history of the Iraqi novel from the 1920s onward, including the large output in the 1960s, the character of highly censored novels produced between 1980 and 2003, many of which were war novels,…
Postcolonial scholar Sneharika Roy claims that in narratives of traumatized American expatriates, physical wounds serve as metaphors for psychological turmoil. She provides an interesting commentary on how post-war…
An introduction to a journal, this paper analyzes Frank Herbert’s Dune as an allegory for US and UK intervention in the Middle East. According to Senior’s argument, the spice which powers much of the universe in Dune…
This text examines the poetry of Louisa Stuart Costello, a Romantic, Anglo-Irish poet, whose work, ‘The Maid of Cyprus Isle’, is often considered conventional until viewed through a pacifistic lens. Importantly,…
This text investigates how the poetry of Charles d’Orleans, an aristocratic war prisoner, can be used to express ideas about pacifism through love and a willingness to die rather than fight on. In this survey of Late…
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 poetry across a range of historical contexts…
This article asserts that Shakespeare should be investigated as a treatise on how Renaissance England visualized war and peace, suggesting that readers’ focus should fall on Shakespeare’s entire body of work as opposed…
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 humanity should never experience such horrors again. The article examines…
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 paradigm for peace. Though this is certainly an unconventional view of a…
This text analyzes the notion that Peace Studies should be viewed as a new critical perspective through which literature can be studied, much like feminism, racial, or queer studies. In particular, the article offers…