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Serenity, self-regard and the genetic sequence: Social psychiatry and preventive eugenics in Britain, 1930s-1950s (2006)
Journal Article
Swanson, G. (2006). Serenity, self-regard and the genetic sequence: Social psychiatry and preventive eugenics in Britain, 1930s-1950s. New Formations: A Journal of Culture, Theory, Politics, 60, 50-65

The completion of this peer reviewed journal article was supported by AHRC Research Leave funding and constitutes the first study to situate C. P. Blacker's realignment of the Eugenics Society in the 1940s and 1950s in terms of the convergence of psy... Read More about Serenity, self-regard and the genetic sequence: Social psychiatry and preventive eugenics in Britain, 1930s-1950s.

Innovation and corporate failure: Cyril Lord in U.K. textiles, 1945-1968 (2006)
Journal Article
Ollerenshaw, P. (2006). Innovation and corporate failure: Cyril Lord in U.K. textiles, 1945-1968. Enterprise and Society, 7(4), 777-811. https://doi.org/10.1093/es/khl042

This article is a response to Patrick Fridenson's call for more research into the life cycle of enterprises and especially into business failure. Its subject is the textile group established in 1945 by Cyril Lord, which went on to encompass merchanti... Read More about Innovation and corporate failure: Cyril Lord in U.K. textiles, 1945-1968.

The romantic poets and higher education (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Jarvis, R. (2006, November). The romantic poets and higher education. Presented at Inaugural Professorial Lecture, University of the West of England, Bristol

This inaugural professorial lecture begins by describing what it was like to be a student at Oxford or Cambridge – then the only universities in England – in the late eighteenth century, exploring contemporary debates on their failings and tracing th... Read More about The romantic poets and higher education.

The other of the other: Angela Carter's "New-Fangled Orientalism" (2006)
Book Chapter
Crofts, C. (2006). The other of the other: Angela Carter's "New-Fangled Orientalism". In R. Munford (Ed.), Revisiting Angela Carter (87-109). Palgrave Macmillan

Crofts was invited to contribute this chapter to Munford's volume which is recognised as 'the first to focus entirely on [intertextuality] in Carter's work. Re-Visiting Angela Carter should assume an important place in a new wave of Carter criticism.... Read More about The other of the other: Angela Carter's "New-Fangled Orientalism".

George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country. (2006)
Book
Davis, M. (2006). George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country. Aldershot: Ashgate

In his study of Eliot as a psychological novelist, Michael Davis examines Eliot's writings in the context of a large volume of nineteenth-century scientific writing about the mind. Eliot, Davis argues, manipulated scientific language in often subvers... Read More about George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Psychology: Exploring the Unmapped Country..

Social housing and the new welfare state in England (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Malpass, P. (2006, September). Social housing and the new welfare state in England. Paper presented at Social Housing in Europe: Markets, Policies and Doctrines, London, UK

Essential viewing: Review of Bernard Stiegler, La technique et le temps 3: Le temps du cinéma et la question du mal-être [Technics and time 3: The time of cinema and the question of ill-being] (2006)
Journal Article
Crogan, P. (2006). Essential viewing: Review of Bernard Stiegler, La technique et le temps 3: Le temps du cinéma et la question du mal-être [Technics and time 3: The time of cinema and the question of ill-being]. Film-Philosophy, 10(3), 39-54

Critical review of the third volume of Bernard Stiegler's Technics and Time series with a particular focus on Stiegler's theory of cinema and of cinematic consciousness therein.

White picket fences, domestic containment and female subjectivity: the quest for romantic love (2006)
Book Chapter
Wilson, S. (2006). White picket fences, domestic containment and female subjectivity: the quest for romantic love. In J. McCabe, & K. Akass (Eds.), Reading Desperate Housewives (144-155). I.B. Tauris

The chapter explores the representation of feminine desire for romantic love in the TV drama Desperate Housewives. It argues that the show recalls and articulates a pre-feminist sensibility.