The stinking fish of suicide contagion
(2008)
Journal Article
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A history of Minety (2008)
Book
Derrida and Lacan: Another writing (2008)
Book
An attempt to understand the nature of the transcendental and the limits of philosophy and non-philosophy through the works of Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan.
Death as spectacle: the Paris morgue in Dickens and Browning (2008)
Book Chapter
As an object of macabre fascination, the Paris morgue is without parallel in the Victorian imagination. This article explores the representation of visits to the morgue in Dickens’s Uncommercial Traveller and in Browning’s dramatic monologue “Apparen... Read More about Death as spectacle: the Paris morgue in Dickens and Browning.
National and local party election agendas (2008)
Journal Article
In the saliency theory of elections parties are seen as monolithic. Each party emphasises the issues they own to gain electoral advantage. There are no rival agendas generated by different factions within the party or its territorial subdivisions. We... Read More about National and local party election agendas.
Book review - 'Craft, Space and Interior Design 1855-2005' by Sandra Alfody & Janice Helland (2008)
Other
A book review in the Journal of Design History. This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of Design History 2009 22(1):79-80.
Always something wanting: The troubled history of the British moonlight (2008)
Book Chapter
A short catalogue essay on the critical reception of British moonlight painting c.1720-1860.
Ivanov: The perils of typicality (2008)
Journal Article
The essay seeks to offer a fresh perspective upon Chekhov’s Ivanov as a political play that deploys a highly subtle rhetorical tool – a rhetoric of objectivity. While Chekhov deplored the use of fixed types and typologies, his attempt to undermine a... Read More about Ivanov: The perils of typicality.
Acting Out (2008)
Book
The book translates two essays by Bernard Stiegler concerning his pathway to studying philosophy, his interest in an engaged philosophical practice relevant to the contemporary world, and his analysis of significant social and cultural problems relat... Read More about Acting Out.
The feminist intellectual: weariness, critique and the affective turn (2008)
Book Chapter
This chapter considers the current position of the feminist intellectual,academic and pedagogue in relation to a ‘critical theory’ that has been characterized as ossifying into a hegemonic doxy. It explores opportunities
offered by the affective tur... Read More about The feminist intellectual: weariness, critique and the affective turn.
The evacuation of children from Leningrad during World War II (2008)
Book Chapter
Housing and the new welfare state: Wobbly pillar or cornerstone? (2008)
Journal Article
'Everything is made of atoms': the reprogramming of space and time in post-war London (2008)
Journal Article
From the middle of the Second World War until the early 1950s, architects, planners and designers in Britain made an unprecedented investment in reforming the built environment as a means to ensure a stable and secure post-war society. This essay con... Read More about 'Everything is made of atoms': the reprogramming of space and time in post-war London.
The name of the island of Annet, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall (2008)
Journal Article
Language-specific cues: A cue to language? (2008)
Journal Article
A key issue in psycholinguistic research on the nature of the coexistence of two (or more) languages in the cognitive system of a fluent bilingual speaker include the nature of lexical access (selective vs non-selective). In the context of the non-se... Read More about Language-specific cues: A cue to language?.
War, industrial mobilisation and society in Northern Ireland, 1939-1945 (2007)
Journal Article
Archive-based regional studies can contribute much that is new to the economic, political and social history of the Second World War. This paper considers the process of industrial mobilisation in Northern Ireland, a politically divided region which... Read More about War, industrial mobilisation and society in Northern Ireland, 1939-1945.