Lecturer in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature, Durham University
My current project 'Environments of Care in the Age of Modernism' is an interdisciplinary study of nutritive spaces in the early twentieth century, including of hospital wards, phenomenological ‘life-worlds’, the weather system and the ‘biosphere’. The aim is to explore how the globalising environmental discourses that developed throughout the modernist period came to be reflected in the terms of literary intimacy.
How World War I changed the weather for good
May 22, 2017 13:36 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Culture has rarely tired of speaking about the weather. Pastoral poems detail the seasonal variations in weather ad nauseam, while the term pathetic fallacy is often taken to refer to a Romantic poets wilful translation of...
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