Allegories of Pathology
Roy, Sneharika. 2018. A Poetics of Neurosis. Postcolonial scholar Sneharika Roy claims that in narratives of traumatized American expatriates, physical wounds serve as metaphors for psychological turmoil. She provides…
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Frank Herbert’s prescience: Dune and the modern world
Senior, William A. 2006. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 17, no. 4: 317-321. An introduction to a journal, this paper analyzes Frank Herbert’s Dune as an allegory for US and UK intervention in the Middle East.…
Waterloo, Napoleon, and the Vision of Peace in Louisa Stuart Costello’s ‘The Maid of the Cyprus Isle.’
Ruppert, Timothy. 2012. Studies in Romanticism 51, no. 4: 555–78. This text examines the poetry of Louisa Stuart Costello, a Romantic, Anglo-Irish poet, whose work, ‘The Maid of Cyprus Isle’, is often considered…
‘Je Hé Guerre, Point Ne La Doy Prisier’: Peace and the Emotions of War in the Prison Poetry of Charles d’Orléans
Downes, S. 2015. Emotions and War: Medieval to Romantic Literature, edited by S. Downes, et al., London, Palgrave Macmillan UK. This text investigates how the poetry of Charles d’Orleans, an aristocratic war…
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…
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…