| Vol. 28, 1/2021: Histories and Trajectories: British Cultural Studies in Germany | | Vol. 27, 2/2020: Gothic Ecologies from the Eighteenth Century to the Present | | Vol. 27, 1/2020: Age Matters: Cultural Representations and the Politics of Ageing
| | Vol. 26, 2/2019: Literatures of Brexit | | Vol. 26, 1/2019: Brexit and the Divided United Kingdom | | Vol. 25, 2/2018: Early Modern Spectacles | | Vol. 25, 1/2018: Political Bodies | | Vol. 24, 2/2017: British Temporalities: The Times of Culture and the Cultures of Time | | Vol. 24, 1/2017: British Cold War Cultures | | Vol. 23, 2/2016: New Perspectives | | Vol. 23, 1/2016: The 'Popular' and the Past: Popular Cultures of the Nineteenth Century | | Vol. 22, 2/2015: European Britain | | Vol. 22, 1/2015: Ecologies | | Vol. 21, 2/2014: Cultural Studies and Its Discontents | | Vol. 21, 1/2014: Poverty | | Vol. 20, 2/2013: Political Topographies | | Vol. 20, 1/2013: State of the Art |
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Vol. 18, 2/2011: Birth and Death |
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Vol. 18, 1/2011: Sports |
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Vol. 17, 2/2010: Reading British
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Vol. 17, 1/2010: Documentary
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Vol. 16, 1/2009: Jewish Cultures |
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Vol. 28, 1/2021
Histories and Trajectories: British Cultural Studies in Germany
Articles:
- Gerold Sedlmayr, 'Editorial. The State of (British) Cultural Studies in Germany Today'
- Christian
Huck, 'How Cultural Studies Came to Germany, or, Rather, The Events and
Circumstances that Led to the Foundation of the German Association for
the Study of British Cultures'
- Kylie Crane, 'Positioning Cultural Studies. A Response'
- Gabriele Linke, 'British Cultural Studies in Germany. Is There an East German Trajectory?'
- Susanne Mühleisen, 'Linguistics and Cultural Studies. A Story of Division and Common Ground'
- Monika Seidl, 'Vienna Calling. Cultural Studies in Austria'
- Sebastian Berg, 'Beyond Birmingham. Four Comments on “How Cultural Studies Came to Germany”'
- Jonatan Jalle Steller, 'Forging New Paths. Future-Proofing British Cultural Studies in Germany'
Vol. 27, 2/2020
Gothic Ecologies from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
(guest editors: Katharina Boehm & Stephan Karschay) Articles:
- Katharina Boehm & Stephan Karschay, 'Introduction: Gothic Ecologies from the Eighteenth Century to the Present'
- David Annwn Jones, 'At the Tree-line's Edge: Francis Mundy’s Needwood Forest and the EcoGothic Poetics of Resistance'
- Steve Asselin, 'Still Marked on Many Maps: Gothic Treatments of Landscape in Disaster Fiction'
- Mark Schmitt, 'Folk Horror as Dark Ecological Allegory in The Wicker Man and Apostle'
- Cord-Christian Casper, '"“Trembling on the Edge of Change”": Apocalyptic Fear in the Dark Mountain Project'
- Jonathan A. Rose, 'The Last of Us: Fungi, EcoGothic Zombies and Posthuman Hybrids in The Girl with All the Gifts'
Reviews: - Timothy Morton (2018), Being Ecological
- Roman Bartosch (2019), Literature, Pedagogy, and Climate Change: Text Models for a Transcultural Ecology
- Jürgen Kramer & Bernd Lenz, eds. (2020), How to Do Cultural Studies: Ideas, Approaches, Scenarios
- Zoe Hope Bulaitis (2020), Value and the Humanities: The Neoliberal University and Our Victorian Inheritance
- Jessica Fischer & Gesa Stedman, eds. (2020), Imagined Economies Real Fictions: New Perspectives on Economic Thinking in Great Britain
- Ralph-Miklas Dobler, Silke Järvenpää, Rainer E. Zimmermann, eds. (2018), Signifikant: Jahrbuch für Strukturwandel und Diskurs
Vol. 27, 1/2020
Age Matters: Cultural Representations and the Politics of Ageing
(guest editors: Thomas Kühn and Robert Troschitz) Articles:
- Robert Troschitz, 'Why Age Matters (and Should Be of Concern to Cultural Studies)'
- Maria Gürtner, 'Towards a Room of Her Own. ‘Dialogue Spaces’ and the Ageing Woman in Late Victorian and Edwardian Times'
- Özlem Sarica, '“You’re getting too bloody old for this”. Female Detectives and Representations of Ageing in British Crime Drama'
- Josephine Dolan, 'Ageing Stardom. The ‘Economy of Celebrity’ and the Gendering of the ‘Third Age Imaginary’'
- Sara Strauß, 'Visualising Memory Loss. Contemporary Portraiture and the Politics of Representation'
- Chris Gilleard, 'Pain, Suffering and Abjection in the Fourth Age'
Reviews: - Margaret Morganroth Gullette (2017), Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People
- Heike Hartung, ed. (2018), Embodied Narration. Illness, Death and Dying in Modern Culture
- Simone Francescato, Roberta Maierhofer, Valeria Minghetti & Eva-Maria Trinkaus, eds. (2017), Senior Tourism. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Aging and Traveling
- Barbara Black (2019), Hotel London. How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and Its Stories
- Christina Flotmann-Scholz & Anna Lienen, eds. (2019), Victorian Ideologies in Contemporary British Cultures
- Sonja Frenzel & Birgit Neumann, eds. (2017), Ecocriticism. Environments in Anglophone Literatures
Vol. 26, 2/2019
Literatures of Brexit (guest editors: Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Joanna Rostek and Ina Habermann) Articles:
- Anne-Julia Zwierlein and Joanna Rostek, 'Literatures of Brexit: An Introduction'
- Kirsten Sandrock, 'Border Thinking, Brexit and Literature'
- Christine Berberich, 'Our Country, the Brexit Island: Brexit, Literature, and Populist Discourse'
- Joanna Kosmalska, 'The Response of Polish Writers to Brexit'
- Merle
Tönnies and Dennis Henneböhl, 'Negotiating Images of (Un-)Belonging and
(Divided) Communities: Ali Smith’s ‘Seasonal Quartet’ as a
Counter-Narrative to Brexit'
- Felicitas Meifert-Menhard, 'Ian McEwan’s Brexit Politics in (a) Nutshell'
- Christoph Reinfandt, 'Brexit and the Lost Cause of Progressive Patriotism: Some Thoughts on Billy Bragg'
Reviews: - Robert Eaglestone, ed. (2018), Brexit and Literature: Critical and Cultural Responses
- Christa Jansohn, ed. (2018), Brexit
Means Brexit? The Selected Proceedings of the Symposium, Akademie der
Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz 6-8 December 2017
- Monika Pietrzak-Franger (2017), Syphilis in Victorian Literature and Culture: Medicine, Knowledge and the Spectacle of Victorian Invisibility
- Eike Kronshage (2018), Vision and Character: Physiognomics and the English Realist Novel
- Sarah Herbe and Gabriele Linke, eds. (2017), British Autobiography in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Vol. 26, 1/2019
Brexit and the Divided United Kingdom (guest editors: Joanna Rostek and Anne-Julia Zwierlein) Articles:
- Joanna
Rostek and Anne-Julia Zwierlein, 'Introduction: Brexit and the Divided
United Kingdom as Areas of Research in British Cultural Studies'
- Marius Guderjan and Jessica Fischer, 'Understanding Brexit: Agency in a Divided Britain'
- Gerold Sedlmayr, 'Communication Breakdown: The Brexit Referendum,British Austerity Policies and Their Negotiation in Culture'
- Marlene Herrschaft-Iden and Philip Jacobi, 'Laughing Out Loud Allowed? Pro-Brexit Voices in British Comedy'
- Stephan Karschay, 'Great Britain or Little England? Brexit and the London Olympics Opening Ceremony'
- Barbara Korte and Christian Mair, 'New-Old Rifts: Brexit and Resurfacing Racism in the United Kingdom'
- Jana Gohrisch and Rainer Schulze, Representing the World in Language: Cultural Linguistic Perspectives on Brexit'
Reviews: - Patrick Diamond, Peter Nedergaard & Ben Rosamond, eds. (2018), The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Brexit
- Tim Oliver (2018), Understanding Brexit: A Concise Introduction
- Rüdiger Görner (2018), Brexismus oder: Verortungsversuche im Dazwischen
- Peter Stäuber (2018), Sackgasse Brexit: Reportagen aus einem gespaltenen Land
- Gesa Stedman & Sandra van Lente, eds. (2017), It’s Not Just the Economy, Stupid! Brexit and the Cultural Sector
- Ina Habermann, ed. (2018), The Road to Brexit: A Students’ Podcast Project
- Tim Marshall (2018), Divided: Why We’re Living in an Age of Walls
Vol. 25, 2/2018
Early Modern Spectacles (guest editors: Susanne Gruss and Lena Steveker)
Contents:
- Susanne Gruss & Lena Steveker, 'Introduction: Early Modern Spectacles'
- Sanja Bentz, 'Spectacular Scaffolds: Executions and Their Audiences during the Reign of Henry VIII'
- Lukas Lammers, 'Spectacular History: Resurrecting the Past'
- Rosemary Moore, 'Fugitive Sheets and the Spectacle of the Spatialized Body'
- Jessica Apolloni, 'Street Crime, Communal Justice, and the Spectacle of Law in London’s Popular Pamphlets'
- Jana Mathews, 'Spectacular Treason: Fireworks as Fantasies of Regicide after the Gunpowder Treason Plot'
- Sheila T. Cavanagh, '“Pluck Out His Eyes”: The Appealing Disgust of Mutilation and Evisceration on the Early Modern Stage'
Books reviewed: - David Hawkes (2015), Shakespeare and Economic Theory
- Cecile
Sandten (2015), Shakespeare’s Globe, Global Shakespeares: Transcultural
Adaptations of Shakespeare in Postcolonial Literatures
- Sarah Schäfer-Althaus (2016), The Gendered Body: Female Sanctity, Gender Hybridity and the Body in Women’s Hagiography
- Julia Kinzler (2018), Representing Royalty: British Monarchs in Contemporary Cinema, 1994-2010
Vol. 25, 1/2018
Political Bodies (guest editors: Gerold Sedlmayr and Cyprian Piskurek)
Contents:
- Gerold Sedlmayr and Cyprian Piskurek, 'Introduction'
- Grant Farred, 'The Terror of Trump: Through the Body of a Child - An Essay for Ezra'
- Imogen Tyler, 'Deportation Nation'
- Robert Troschitz, 'Perfect Worlds Need Perfect Bodies: Utopia and the Politics of the Body'
- Johannes Schlegel, 'Ascetic Bodies and the Care of the Self in Contemporary Culture'
- Gero
Guttzeit, '“So little suffices to make us visible one to the other”
Invisibility, Monstrosity, and Whiteness in H. G. Wells’s The Invisible Man'
- Natalie Roxburgh, 'Constructing the Body Politic: Form, Disinterestedness, and the Modern State'
Books Reviewed: - François Debrix (2017), Global Powers of Horror: Security, Politics, and the Body in Pieces
- Lauren B. Wilcox (2015), Bodies of Violence: Theorizing Embodied Subjects in International Relations
- Stefan Horlacher & Kevin Floyd, eds. (2017), Contemporary Masculinities in the UK and the US: Between Bodies and Systems
- Wolfgang Funk (2018), Gender Studies: Gender und gesellschaftlicher Wandel
- Stuart Hall (2016),Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History
- Stuart Hall (2017), Selected Political Writings: The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays
- Stuart Hall with Bill Schwarz (2018), Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands
Vol. 24, 2/2017
British Temporalities: The Times of Culture and the Cultures of Time (guest editor: Ralf Schneider)
Contents:
- Ralf Schneider, 'Time and the Study of British Cultures: An Introduction'
- Dorothea Flothow, 'Time in the Restoration Period: "Chronotypes" and "Temporal Communities"'
- Ellen Grünkemeier, 'The Dominant Conceptualisation of Time: The Clock Begins to Tick in Industrial Capitalist England'
- Georgia Christinidis, 'The Temporality of Neoliberal Coming-of-Age Narratives'
- Christoph Singer, 'The Temporalities of British Detention: Chronic Waiting at the Colnbrook Detention Centre'
- Mark Schmitt, 'Beyond the Future: Crisis and Precarious Temporality in Post-Capitalist Discourse'
Books Reviewed: - Joel Burges & Amy J. Elias, eds. (2016), Time: A Vocabulary of the Present
- Zeno Ackermann (2015), Gedächtnis-Fiktionen: Mediale Erinnerungsfiguren und literarischer Eigensinn in britischen Romanen zum Zweiten Weltkrieg
- Anette Pankratz & Claus-Ulrich Viol, eds. (2017), (Un)Making the Monarchy
- Jürgen Kramer & Claus-Ulrich Viol, eds. (2017), Psychoanalysis in Cultural Studies – Positions, Perspectives and Proposals
- Oliver von Knebel Doeberitz & Ralf Schneider, eds. (2017), London Post-2010 in British Literature and Culture
- Thomas Kühn & Robert Troschitz, eds. (2017), Populärkultur: Perspektiven und Analysen
Vol. 24, 1/2017
British Cold War Cultures (guest editor: Kathleen Stark)
Contents:
- Kathleen Starck, '"A Heavy Sense of Dread": British Cold War Culture'
- Rainer Emig, 'The Cambridge Spies: Class, Gender, Sexuality and Politics in Cold War Britain'
- Svenja Böhm, '“Smyert Shpionam – Death to Spies”: Cold War Representations of the Soviet Enemy in Ian Fleming’s From Russia With Love'
- Hilary Duffield, 'Worlds Out of Control: Invasion Narratives, Interspecies Conflict, and British Culture in the Early Cold War'
- Matthew Worley, 'No Doves Fly Here: British Punk and Cold War Dystopia'
- Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier & James McKenzie, 'Desire and Anxiety: Cold War Voyeurism in Contemporary TV Spy Series'
Books Reviewed: - Jim Smyth (2016), Cold War Culture: Intellectuals, the Media
and the Practice of History - Jonathan Hogg (2016), British Nuclear Culture: Official and
Unofficial Narratives in the Long 20th Century - Sebastian Berg (2016), Intellectual Radicalism after 1989: Crisis
and Re-Orientation in the British and the American Left - Petra Rau, ed. (2016), Long Shadows: The Second World War
in British Fiction and Film - Kathleen Starck (2016), Of Treason, God and Testicles:
Political Masculinities in British and American Films of the Early Cold War - Christoph Singer (2014), Sea Change: The Shore from Shakespeare to Banville
Vol. 23, 2/2016
New Perspectives (guest editor: Oliver Lindner)
Contents:
- Oliver Lindner, 'Introduction'
- Wieland Schwanebeck, 'The Womb as a Battlefield. Debating Medical Authority in the Renaissance Midwife Manual'
- Cornelia Wächter, 'Imagining the Prison Officer. The Quare Fellow'
- Christoph Singer, 'The Temporalities of Waiting in Paul Graham’s Photo Series Beyond Caring'
- Jonatan Jalle Steller, 'Reading Conflicted Heroism. The Doctor as Maker in Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who'
- Nicole
Falkenhayner, 'CCTV Beyond Surveillance. The Cultural Relevance of the
Surveillance Camera and Its Images in Contemporary Britain'
- Ariane de Waal, 'Performing the ‘Ultimate Private Act’ in Public. The Biopolitics of Breastfeeding in London'
Books Reviewed: - Merle Tönnies (2014), (En-)Gendering a Popular Theatrical Genre. The Roles of Women in Nineteenth-Century British Melodrama
- Neil Rennie (2013), Treasure Neverland. Real and Imaginary Pirates
- Ursula Kluwick & Virginia Richter, eds. (2015), The Beach in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures: Reading Littorial Space
- Christine Berberich, ed. (2015), The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction
- Toija Cinque, Christopher Moore & Sean Redman, eds. (2015), Enchanting David Bowie: Space/Time/Body/Memory
Vol. 23, 1/2016
The 'Popular' and the Past: Popular Cultures of the Nineteenth Century (guest editors: Doris Feldmann and Christian Krug)
Contents:
- Doris Feldmann & Christian Krug, 'The ‘Popular’ and the Past: Popular Cultures of the Nineteenth Century
- Sabine
Schülting, '“The O. K. thing on Sunday is walking in the Zoo”:
Zoological Gardens, the Music Hall, and Popular Recreation in Victorian
London
- Joachim Frenk, 'Punch’s (and Judy’s) Material Performances'
- Anne-Julia Zwierlein, 'The Lecturer as Revenant(e): Sensation and Conversion in Late-Victorian Popular Lecturing and Mass Print'
- Katharina Boehm, 'Popular Antiquities: Romantic Antiquarianism and the Historicisation of Merry England'
Books Reviewed: - John Storey, ed. (2016), The Making of English Popular Culture
- Nicholas Daly (2015),The Demographic Imagination and
the Nineteenth-Century City: Paris, London, New York - Sabine Schülting (2016), Dirt in Victorian Literature and Culture: Writing Materiality
- J. H. Stape, ed. (2015), The New Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad
Vol. 22, 2/2015
European Britain (guest editor: Rainer Emig)
Contents:
- Rainer Emig, 'Introduction'
- Eliza Richter, 'Early Modern Definitions of Englishness and Continental Other in William Haughton’s Englishmen for My Money (1598)'
- Florian
Kläger, 'Insularity, Invasion and Identity. ‘European’ National Genesis
in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century English Historiography'
- Wolfgang Funk, 'Chips from a German Workshop. Friedrich Max Müller’s Translation of Ideas between Germany and Britain'
- Ingrid
von Rosenberg, 'Uneven Flows. Relations between Central European and
British Architecture in the 1930s and since the 1980s'
- Georgia Christinidis, 'Our Island Story. Renegotiating National History'
Books Reviewed:
- Michael Pye (2014), The Edge of the World. How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are
- Roland Sturm (2015), Die britische Westminsterdemokratie. Parlament, Regierung und Verfassungswandel
- Roger Liddle (2014), The Europe Dilemma. Britain and the Drama of EU Integration
- Márta Minier & Maddalena Pennacchia, eds. (2014), Adaptation, Intermediality and the British Celebrity Biopic
Vol. 22, 1/2015
Ecologies: Nature, Culture, and Politics in Contemporary Britain
(guest editors: Sebastian Berg and Christian Schmitt-Kilb)
Contents:
- Sebastian Berg & Christian Schmitt-Kilb, 'Introduction'
- Peter Bennett, 'Tilting at Wind Farms'
- Martin Walter, '"At the Price of a Cappuccino"? Contemporary British Discourses of Eco-Consumerism'
- Sabine
Müller, 'Questioning the "insuperable line": Strategies of
Non-Differentiation in Animal Rights Philosophy and Advocacy in
Britain's Past and Present'
- Hanne Bolze, 'Climate Change and the Novel: Maggie Gee's The Ice People and Robert Edric's Salvage'
- Roman
Bartosch, 'Scaling the City: Urban Environments and Transcultural
Consciousness in Zadie Smith's NW and Ian McEwan's Saturday'
- Sonja Frenzel, '"Overall, this is a massive organism": Discovering London at the Intersections of Nature and (Urban) Culture'
- H. Gustav Klaus, 'Remembering Stuart Hall (1932-2014) or, How Cultural Studies Came to Germany: A Personal Memoir'
Books Reviewed:
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Greg Garrard, ed. (2014), The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism
- Louise Westling (2014), The Logos of the Living World: Merleau-Ponty, Animals, and Language
- Helena Feder (2014), Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture: Biology and the Bildungsroman
- Dirk Wieman & Gaby Mahlberg, eds. (2014), Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism
- Jürgen Kamm, Jürgen Kramer & Bernd Lenz, eds. (2013), Deconstructing Terrorism: 9/11, 7/7 and Contemporary Culture
- Renate Bosch & Kylie Crane, eds. (2014), Visualising Australia: Images, Icons, Imaginations
Vol. 21, 2/2014
Cultural Studies and Its Discontents: Polemics, Perspectives and Proposals
(guest editors: Bernd Lenz and Gesa Stedman)
Contents:
- Bernd Lenz & Gesa Stedman, 'Introduction: Cultural Studies and Its Discontents: Polemics, Perspectives and Proposals'
- Jürgen
Kramer, 'Finding Common Ground, Making Common Cause: Proposals for the
Advancement of Anglophone Cultural Studies in Germany'
- Ellen Grünkemeier, 'The Cultural Practice of Saint Monday: A Self-Made Holiday for the Working Classes in Industrial England'
- Holger
Rossow, 'Doing Cultural Studies and the Need for Interdisciplinarity:
Towards an Interaction-Oriented Model of Cultural Studies'
- Hugh Mackay, 'Uses of Cultural Studies: Stuart Hall's Project and Cultural Politics'
- Alexander Dunst, Elahe Haschemi Yekani & Anja Schwarz, 'The Here and Now of Cultural Studies'
Books Reviewed:
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Netzwerk Korper, ed. (2012), What Can a Body Do? Praktiken und Figurationen des Korpers in den Kulturwissenschaften
- Ines Detmers & Birte Heidemann, eds. (2013), From Popular Goethe to Global Pop. The Idea of the West between Memory and (Dis) Empowerment
- Doris Feldmann & Christian Krug, eds. (2013), Viktorianismus.Eine literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Einführung
- Greta Olson (2013), Criminals as Animals from Shakespeare to Lombroso
- Ina Schabert (2013), Shakespeares. Die unendliche Vielfalt der Bilder
- Ralf Hertel (2014), Staging England in the Elizabethan History Play. Performing National Identity
Vol. 21, 1/2014
Poverty
(guest editor: Gerry Mooney)
Contents:
- Gerry Mooney, 'Introduction'
- Hugh Mackay, 'Obituary Stuart Hall'
- Kathy Callahan, 'Women, Crime and Economic Hardship in London at the End of the Long Eighteenth Century'
- Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier, 'Deprived and Frail Men in Victorian Fiction'
- Ellen Grünkemeier, 'Accommodating the Poor: Poverty and Housing in Britain in the 1930s'
- Sebastian
Berg, 'Is Poverty the 'New Black'? The Class Dimension of 'Nation' in
Contemporary British and Irish Political Discourse'
- Janet
Fink & Helen Loman, 'Challenging Images? Dominant, Residual and
Emergent Meanings in On-Line Media Representations of Child Poverty'
Books Reviewed:
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Stephanie Trigg (2012), Shame and Honor. A Vulgar History of the Order of the Garter
- Ellen Grünkemeier (2013), Breaking the Silence. South African Representations of HIV/AIDS
- Eva Ulrike Pirker (2011), Narrative Projections of a Black British History
- Christian Huck & Stefan Bauernschmidt, eds. (2012), Travelling Goods, Travelling Moods. Varieties of Cultural Appropriation (1850-1950)
Vol. 20, 2/2013
Political Topographies
(guest editor: Ina Habermann)
Contents:
- Ina Habermann, 'Introduction'
- Michael Gardiner, 'The British Reliance on Identity'
- Merle Tönnies, 'Northern Landscapes and Anti-Thatcherite Positioning: British Colour Photography of the 1980s'
- Nadine Böhm-Schnitker, 'There Is No Such Thing As Political Memory!?: The Iron Lady (2011) as 'Psycho-geography''
- Frauke Hofmeister, 'A Fatal Attraction? Europe and the Failure of the English Regions'
- Barabara Schaff, 'Killing Fields and Poppy Fields: Towards a Topography of the Western Front in the British Cultural Memory'
- Nora Pleßke, 'HMY Britannia: The Spatial Semantics of the Royal Yacht'
Books Reviewed:
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Wolfram Schmidgen (2013), Exquisite Mixture: The Virtues of Impurity in Early Modern England
- Gaby Mahlberg & Dirk Wieman, eds. (2013), European Contexts for English Republicanism
- Gert Hofmann & Snježana Zorić, eds. (2012), Topodynamics of Arrival: Essays on Self and Pilgrimage
Vol. 20, 1/2013
State of the Art
(guest editor: Gesa Stedman)
Contents:
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Gesa Stedman, 'Editorial: Cultural Studies. State of the Art'
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Sebastian Berg, 'Locating the Political in Cultural Studies'
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Rainer Emig, 'Cultural Studies and Literary Studies: A Troubled
Relation'
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Jutta Schwarzkopf, 'The Relationship of History to Cultural
Studies'
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Udo Göttlich, 'Media and Communication Science in Germany and
its (Inter)relations with Media and Cultural Studies'
Books Reviewed:
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Monika Seidl, Roman Horak & Lawrence Grossberg, eds. (2010),
About Raymond Williams
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Jürgen Kramer (2011), Taking Stock: 35 Essays from 35 Years
of Studying English-Speaking Cultures
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Gabriele Linke, ed. (2011), Teaching Cultural Studies:
Methods – Matters – Models
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Jana Gohrisch & Ellen Grünkemeier, eds. (2012),
Listening to Africa: Anglophone African Literatures and Cultures
Vol. 19, 2/2012
Representing Terrorism
(guest editors: Jürgen Kramer and Bernd Lenz)
Contents:
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Jürgen Kramer & Bernd Lenz, ‘Introduction: Representing
Terrorism’
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Andrew Glazzard, ‘"That Horrid Science": Fictional
Representations of Terrorism in an Age of Scientific Anxiety’
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Michael C. Frank, ‘It Could Happen Here: The What-If Logic of
Counterterrorism and the Literary Imagination’
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Birgit Neumann, ‘Screening Terrorism, the IRA and the
“Troubles”: Gender Politics and the Politics of Terrorism in
Neil Jordan's The Crying Game’
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Heinrich Versteegen, ‘Turbans and Balaclavas: Images of
Terrorism in British Political Cartoons’
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Frauke Hofmeister, ‘Forgetting the Disturbance? Places
Commemorating Terrorist Attacks in Contemporary Britain’
Books Reviewed:
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Leonard Weinberg (2012), The End of Terrorism
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Norbert
Greiner & Felix Sprang (2011), Lesarten des Terrorismus
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Fiona Tolan et al., Literature, Migration and the War on
Terror
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Joy Sather-Wagstaff (2011), Heritage that Hurts
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Martin Randall (2011), 9/11 and the Literature of Terror
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Elleke Boehmer & Stephen Morton (2010), Terror and the
Postcolonial
Vol. 19, 1/2012
Big Brother is Watching You (Again): Britain under Surveillance
(guest editor: Anja Müller-Wood)
Contents:
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Anja Müller-Wood, ‘Introduction: How Powerful is Big
Brother?’
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Ben Harbisher, ‘The Bureaucratization of Dissent: Public
Order and Protest in Modern Britain’
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Books Reviewed:
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David Barnard-Wills (2012), Surveillance and Identity.
Discourse,Subjectivity and the State
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Julian Petley (2011), Film and Video Censorship in Modern
Britain
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Gerold Sedlmayr (2011), The Discourse of Madness in
Britain, 1790-1815. Medicine, Politics, Literature
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Nadine
Christina Böhm (2009), Sakrales Sehen. Strategien der
Sakralisierung im Kino der Jahrtausendwende
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Silke Stroh (2011), Uneasy Subjects: Postcolonialism and
Scottish Gaelic Poetry
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Susanne Gruss (2009), The Pleasure of the Feminist Text:
Reading Michèle Roberts and Angela Carter
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Christian Huck (2010), Fashioning Society, or, The Mode
of Modernity: Observing Fashion in Eighteenth-Century
Britain
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Joanna Rostek (2011), Seaing through the Past: Postmodern
Histories and the Maritime Metaphor in Contemporary
Anglophone Fiction
Vol. 18, 2/2011
Birth & Death
(guest editors: Anette Pankratz and Claus-Ulrich Viol) Contents:
-
Pankratz, Anette and Claus-Ulrich Viol, ‘Introduction:
Birth, Death and Culture’ (99)
-
Stratmann, Gerd, ‘Nobody's Child, Everybody's Child:
Discourses of Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England’
(109)
-
Funk, Wolfgang, ‘A Time to Die: Debates on Euthanasia in
British Culture’ (121)
-
Krause, Michael, ‘The Public Death of James Bulger: Images
as Evidence in a Popular Tale of Good and Evil’ (133)
-
Tegethoff, Dorothea, ‘Pregnancy and Childbirth on TV in
Germany and Britain’ (149)
-
Lenz, Christian, ‘Excuse Me, Has This Life Been Taken?
Zombies, Hoodies and Permissible Killing in Contemporary
British Horror Cinema’ (163)
-
Versteegen, Heinrich, ‘Dying with Laughter The Inherent Joke
Structure of Death and Bereavement’ (175)
Books Reviewed:8'p>
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I Rainer Emig and Cntony Rowlanä, eds. (20!0), Performing
Masculinity
-
Richard Sharpley and Philip R. Stone, eds. (2009), The
Darker Side of Travel: The Theory and Practise of Dark
Tourism
-
Claire Monk (2011), Heritage Film Audiences: Period Films
and Contemporary Audiences in the UK
Vol. 18, 1/2011
Sports
(guest editors: Beate Rudlof and Christian Schmitt-Kilb)
Contents:
-
Schmitt-Kilb, Christian, ‘Introduction’ (3)
-
Chill, Adam, ‘Ireland Forever! Irish Boxers and Britishness
in the early Nineteenth Century’ (15)
-
Petzold, Jochen, ’"Play up! play up! and play the game!" The
Militarization of Cricket in Victorian Boys' Magazines’ (27)
-
Huck, Christian, ‘Football Documentaries: Creativity v
Actuality/Liveness (41)
-
Piskurek, Cyprian, ‘Sing When You're Standing: Football
Chants and the State of Fan Culture’ (57)
-
Frank, Sybille, ‘From England to the World: Ethnic, National
and Gender-Based Stereotyping in Professional Football’ (69)
Books Reviewed:
-
Ben Carrington (2010), Race, Sport and Polities: The
Sporting Black Diaspora
-
Peter Bramham and Stephen Wagg, eds. (2009), Sport,
Leisure and Culture in the Postmodern City
-
Jeffrey Hili (2010), Sport in History: An Introduction
-
Tony Schirato (2007), Understanding Sports Culture
-
Dietmar
Böhnke, Stefanie Brusberg·Kiermeier and Peter Drexler, eds.
(2010), Victorian
-
Highways, Victorian Byways: New Approaches to
Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture
-
Ross P. Garner, Melissa Beattie and Una McCormack, eds.
(2010), Impossible Worlds, Impossible Things: Cultural
Perspeetives on Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane
Adventures
Vol. 17, 2/2010
Reading British Spaces
(guest editors: Merle Tönnies and Ina Grimm)
Contents:
-
Tönnies, Merle and Ina Grimm, ‘Introduction: Mapping the
Field’ (99)
-
Gunzel, Stephan, ‘On Reading Space’ (107)
-
Kilian, Eveline, ‘Culture, the Politics of Inclusion and
their Spatial Dimensions: London's South Bank’ (117)
-
Carter Wood, John, ‘Reading Spaces and Reading Violence in
Nineteenth-Century Britain’ (133)
-
Burleigh, Peter and Andrea Ochsner, ‘British Culture and
Topographies of Resistance Cross-dressing in Narrative
Fiction and Photography’ (145)
-
Singer, Christoph, ‘Surveillance and the Web 2.0:
Re-Presentation of the British Self in the Panoptic Gaze
(159)
-
Emig, Rainer, ‘Lost PIaces – Productive Spaces?’ (173)
Books Reviewed:
-
Wolfgang
Hallet and Birgit Neumann (2009), Raum und Bewegung in
der Literatur: Die Literaturwissenschaften und der
Spatial Turn
-
Christoph Ehland (2007), Thinking Northern: Textures of
Identity in the North of England
-
Ralph Pordzik (2009), Futurescapes: Space in Utopian and
Science Fiction Discourses
-
Ina Habermann (2010), Myth, Memory and the Middlebrow:
Priestley, du Maurier and the Symbolic Form of Englishness
-
Jürgen Kramer,
Anette Pankratz and Claus-Ulrich Viol (2009), Mini &
Mini: Ikonen der Popkultur zwischen Dekonstruktion und
Rekonstruktion
-
Roslyn Jolly (2009), Robert Louis Stevenson in the
Pacific: Travel, Empire, and the Author's Profession
Vol. 17, 1/2010
Documentary Cultures
(guest editors: Jürgen Kamm and Richard Kilborn)
Contents:
-
Kamm, Jürgen and Richard Kilborn, ‘Editorial’ (3)
-
Black, Jeremy, '’Documentary Culture and the Historian: A
Brief Statement (13)
-
von Rosenberg, Ingrid, 'Speaking for Themselves: Documents
of Working-Class Women’s Lives from the Twentieth Century'
(17)
-
Voigts-Virchow, Eckart, 'Gestures towards Authenticity:
Michael Winterbottom’s Documentary Fiction' (33)
-
Rolinson, Dave, 'A Documentary of Last Resort: The Case of
Shoot to Kill' (47)
-
Lohmeier, Christine, ‘Whose Queen Is She Anyway`:
Documenting the British Royal Family for a German Audience’
(59)
-
Zoellner, Anne, ‘The Changing Face of UK Documentary
Production: Commerce, Reflexivity and Professionalism (69)
Books Reviewed:
-
Michael Chanan (2007),
The Politics of Documentary
-
Brian Winston (2008 [1995], Claiming the Real II.
Documentary: Grierson and Beyond / Patrick Russell
(2007), 100 British Documentaries. BFI Screen Guides
/Sarah Casey Benyahia (2007), Teaching Film and TV
Documentary. Teaching Film and Media Studies
-
Broderick Fox (2009),
Documentary Media: History, Theory, Practice
-
Annette
Kern-Stähler (2008),
“A Missionary Zeal”: Besatzung, Entnazifizierung und
Umerziehung als Aktionsfeld und im Geschichtsbewusstsein
britischer Literaten
-
Donald Roy (2009),
Romantic and Revolutionary Theatre, 1789-1860
-
Bernhard Klein (2007),
On the Uses of History in Recent Irish Writing
Postsecular Britain
(guest
editors: Anton Kirchhofer and Richard Stinshoff)
Contents:
- Kirchhofer, Anton and Richar
Stinshoff, 'Introduction' (107)
- Bruce, Steve, '"We Don't Do God": The
Long Divorce of Religion and National Identity in
Britain 1832-2008' (117)
- Modood, Tariq, 'Multicultural Equality,
Liberal Citizenship and Secularism' (131)
- Wiemann, Dirk, 'Bashing the Bishop,
The Rowan Williams Row and the Unfinished Secularisation
of Britain' (151)
- Huggan, Graham, 'Ist the "Post-" in
"Postsecular" the "Post-" in "Postcolonial"?' (165)
Books Reviewed:
- Kenan Malik (2009). From Fatwa to
Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Legacy
- Renate Brosch, ed. (2008).
Victorian Visual Culture
- Marcus Schmitz (2008)Kulturkritik
ohne Zentrum: Edward W. Said
- Wolfram R. Keller (2008). Selves &
Nations. The Troy Story from Sicily to England
- Lena Steveker (2009). Identity and Cultural Memory in the Fiction of A.S. Byatt: Knitting
the Net of Culture
Jewish Cultures
(guest editor: Claudia Sternberg)
Contents:
-
Sternberg, Claudia, 'Introduction' (3)
-
Kushner, Tony, 'Anglo-Jewish Museology and
Heritage, 1887 to the Present' (11)
-
Stähler, Axel, 'Metonymies of Jewish
Postcoloniality: The British Mandate for
Palestine and Israel in Contemporary British
Jewish Fiction' (27)
-
Tucker, Judith, 'Belated Landscapes: A
Second-Generation Aesthetic Practice in a
British Context' (41)
-
Sternberg, Claudia, 'British Jewish Cinema and
the Diasporic Imagination: Crosscultural
Encounters in the Films of Paul Morrison' (57)
-
Wise, Yaakov, 'The Rise of Strict Orthodoxy in
Contemporary Anglo-Jewry and the Haredim of
Manchester' (73)
Books Reviewed:
-
Meri-Jane Rochelson (2008). A Jew in the
Public Arena. The Career of Israel Zangwill
-
Peter Ullrich (2008). Die Linke, Israel und
Palästina: Nahostdiskurse in Großbritannien und
Deutschland
-
Michel S. Laguerre (2008). Global
Neighbourhoods: Jewish Quarters in Paris, London
and Berlin
-
Christian Hoyer (2008). Salisbury und
Deutschland: außenpolitisches Denken und
britische Deutschlandpolitik zwischen 1856 und
1880
-
Jeffrey A. Auerbach and Peter H. Hoffenberg
(2008). Britain, the Empire, and the World
at the Great Exhibition of 1851
-
Lena Cowen Orlin (2007). Locating Privacy in
Tudor London
-
Anja Schwarz and Sabine Lucia Müller (2008).
Iterationen: Geschlecht im kulturellen
Gedächtnis
-
Robert J. C. Young (2007). The Idea of
English Ethnicity
Censorship and Cultural Regulation in
Contemporary Britain
(guest editors: Barbara Korte & Jochen Petzold)
Contents:
-
Korte, Barbara and Jochen Petzold, 'Censorship
in Britain: Then and Now' (97)
-
O'Sullivan, Emer, 'Jenny and Abigail on the
Rocks: Censorship and Children's Literature in
Britain' (109)
-
Schnierer, Peter Paul, 'The Uses of Censorship:
Coward, Orton, Ravenhill and the Decline of the
Unsayable' (121)
-
Voigts-Virchow, Eckart, 'Therapeutic Rape? From
Censoring Plays to Censoring Display in Film and
Television. The Case of Dennis Potter's
Brimstone and Treacle'
-
Pirker, Eva Ulrike, 'A Discourse Oppressed? The
Representation of Deaths in British Police
Custody' (147)
-
Steel, John, 'Press Censorship in Britain:
Blurring the Boundaries of Formal Censorship'
(159)
-
Frenk, Joachim, 'Freedom Filtered: On Internet
Censorship in the UK' (171)
Books Reviewed:
-
Donald Thomas (2007). Freedom's Frontier:
Censorship in Modern Britain
-
Jason McElligott (2007). Royalism, Print and
Censorship in Revolutionary England
-
Gunter Süß (2006). Sound Subjects: Zur Rolle des
Tons in Film und Computerspiel
-
Oliver Marchart (2008). Cultural Studies
-
Susanne Cuevas (2008). Babylon and Golden City:
Representations of London in Black and Asian
British Novels since the 1990s
-
Anna Chalcraft and Judith Viscardi (2007).
Strawberry Hill. Horace Walpole's Gothic Castle
-
Wolfgang Hallet and Ansgar Nünning (2007). Neue
Ansätze und Konzepte der Literatur- und
Kulturdidaktik
-
Lothar Bredella and Wolfgang Hallet (2007).
Literaturunterricht, Kompetenzen und Bildung
Transcultural Britain
(guest editors: Bernd-Peter Lange and Dirk Wiemann)
Contents:
-
Lange, Bernd Peter and Dirk Wiemann,
'Transcultural Britain: An Introduction' (3)
-
Sedlmayr, Gerold, '"Yeahbutnobutyeahbut": The
Dismantling of Britishness in Little Britain'
(11)
-
Huck, Christian, 'Postmaterial Britishness:
Playing Football Like a Gentleman' (25)
-
Wald, Christina, 'Screening Austen's Pride
and Prejudice in Transcultural Britain: Joe
Wright's Little England and Gurinder Chadha's
Global Village' (43)
-
von Rosenberg, Ingrid, 'Transformations of
Western Icons in Black British Art' (59)
Books Reviewed:
-
Lindberg-Wada, Gunilla (2006), Studying
Transcultural Literary History
-
Pennycook, Alastair (2006), Global Englishes
and Transcultural Flows.
-
Jowitt, Claire (2007), Pirates? The Politics
of Plunder, 1550-1650.
-
Tschirschky, Malte W. (2006), Die Erfindung
der keltischen Nation Cornwall
-
Assmann, Aleida (2006), Einführung in die
Kulturwissenschaft. Grundbegriffe, Themen,
Fragestellungen.
-
Tönnies, Merle and Claus-Ulrich Viol (2007),
Introduction to the Study of British Culture.
-
Linke, Gabriele and Holger Rossow (2007),
Rhetoric and Representation. The British at War
-
Kramer, Jürgen (2006), Britain and Ireland.
A Concise History
-
Wald, Christina (2007), Hysteria, Trauma and
Melancholia: Performative Maladies in
Contemporary Anglophone Drama
-
Flothow, Dorothea (2006), Told in Gallant
Stories. Erinnerungsbilder des Krieges in
britischen Kinder- und Jugendromanen 1870-1939.
Fashioning Society
(guest editors: Christian Huck and Susanne Scholz)
Contents:
-
Huck, Christian 'Fashioning Society' (89)
-
Church Gibson, Pamela, 'The Deification of the
Dolly Bird: Selling Swinging London, Fuelling
Feminism' (99)
-
Ross, Frances, 'Unpicking the Cultural Threads
of Change in England. The African and the West
Indian Migrant Design Influence on Tailoring'
(113)
-
Friedl, Bettina, 'Appearances. The Cultural
Significance of Clothes in Henry James' Early
Short Fiction' (125)
-
Ling, Weesie, 'Chinese Dress in The World of
Suzie Wong. How the Cheongsam Became Sexy,
Exotic, Servile' (139)
-
Coneskin, Becky, 'Lee Miller's WWII Reporting
for British Vogue' (151)
Books Reviewed:
-
Walters, Linda & Abby Lillethun (2007), The
Fashion Reader
-
Hughes, Clair (2006), Dressed in Fiction.
-
Viol, Claus-Ulrich (2006), Jukebooks.
Contemporary Fiction, Popular Music, and
Cultural Value.
-
Scholz, Susanne & Felix Holtschoppen (2007),
MenschenFormen. Visualisierungen des Humanen in
der Neuzeit.
-
Avery, Todd (2007), Radio Modernism:
Literature, Ethics, and the BBC, 1922-1938.
-
Collier, Patrick (2006), Modernism on Fleet
Street.
-
Beck, Rudolf & Konrad Schröder (2006),
Handbuch der britischen Kulturgeschichte. Daten,
Fakten, Hintergründe von der römischen Eroberung
bis zur Gegenwart.
Britain at War
(guest editors: H. Gustav Klaus and Christian
Schmitt-Kilb)
Contents:
-
Klaus, Gustav H. & Christian Schmitt-Kilb,
'Editorial' (3-7)
-
Bell, Bill, 'Reading between the Lines.
Literature on the Western Front 1914-1918'
(9-19)
-
Seidl, Monika, '"Merely a Place in Which to Eat
and Sleep"? Bringing the War Home in Michael
Powell's and Emeric Pressburger's Second World
War Films' (21-28)
-
Korte, Barbara, 'Blacks and Asians at War for
Britain. Reconceptualisations in the Filmic and
Literary Field?' (29-39)
-
Schwarzkopf, Jutta, 'Remebering Victory Without
Discomfort. The Obliteration of British Women's
Involvement in the Military in Official
Commemorations of the Second World War' (41-52)
-
Emig, Rainer, 'Institutionalising Violence,
Destruction and Suffering. Pitfalls, Paradoxes
and Possibilities of War Museums in Britain'
(53-64)
-
Wiemann, Dirk, 'Britain at War with Itself. The
Civil War Re-Enacted, Re-Appropriated and
Re-Visited' (65-76)
Books Reviewed:
-
Dening, Greg (2004), Beach Crossings.
Voyaging Across Times, Cultures and Self.
(Peter Hulme)
-
Ambrosini, Richard & Richard Dury (2006),
Robert Louis Stevenson. Writer of Boundaries.
(Jürgen Kramer)
-
Burden, Robert & Stephan Kohl (2006),
Landscape and Englishness. (Marion Gibson)
-
Thiele, Wolfgang, Joachim Schwend & Christian
Todenhagen (2005), Political Discourse.
Different Media - Different Intentions - New
Reflections. (Anett Löscher)
Theorising Cultural Difference and
Transdifference
(guest editors: Doris Feldmann and Ina Habermann)
Contents:
-
Kramer, Jürgen, 'Valedictory' (98)
-
Feldmann, Doris & Ina Habermann, 'Editorial'
(99-104)
-
Breinig, Helmbrecht & Klaus Lösch,
'Transdifference' (105-122)
-
Schulze-Engler, Frank, 'What's the Difference?
Notes towards a Dialogue between Transdifference
and Transculturality' (123-132)
-
Taunton, Nina, 'The Triumph of Age. All's
Well That Ends Well. Shakespeare and the
Dramatisation of Transdifference' (133-146)
-
Schneider, Ralf, 'Literary Childhoods and the
Blending of Conceptual Spaces. Transdifference
and the Other in Ourselves' (147-160)
-
Taneja, Leena, 'Union and Separation.
Transdifference in Gaudiya Vaisnava
Theology' (161-172)
-
Johnson, Phylis, 'Hearing Transdifference.
Sound, Strife and Sonic Processes of Cultural
Negotiation' (173-185)
Books Reviewed:
-
Heyl, Christoph (2004), A Passion for
Privacy. Untersuchungen zur Genese der
bürgerlichen Privatsphäre in London, 1660-1800
(Christoph Henke)
- Gohrisch, Jana, (2005), Bürgerliche
Gefühlsdispositionen in der englischen Prosa des
19. Jahrhunderts (Rita Gerlach)
Cultural Exchange
(guest editor: Gesa Stedman)
Contents:
- Stedman, Gesa, 'Editorial' (3-6)
- Panayi, Panikos, 'Immigration and Food in
20th-Century Britain. Exchange and Ethnicity'
(7-20)
- Berg, Maxine, 'French Fancy and Cool
Britannia. The Fashion Markets of Early Modern
Europe' (21-46)
- Evangelista, Stefano, 'A Colony of Hellas.
19th-Century England and the Legacy of Ancient
Greece' (47-62)
- Stedman, Gesa, ''Powders, Trimmings, and
Curl'd Wigs'. Gender and Cultural Exchange'
(63-78)
Books Reviewed:
- Kumar, Krishan (2003), The Making of English
National Identity (Christian Schmitt-Kilb)
- Dimmock, Matthew (2005), New Turkes.
Dramatizing Islam and the Ottomans in Early
Modern England (Tobias Döring)
- Laqué, Stephan & Enno Ruge, eds. (2004),
Realigning Renaissance Culture. Intrusion and
Adjustment in Early Modern Drama; Höfele,
Andreas & Werner von Koppenfels, eds. (2005),
Renaissance Go-Betweens. Cultural Exchange in
Early Modern Europe (Anja Hill-Zenk)
- Fischer, Tilman (2004), Reiseziel England.
Ein Beitrag zur Poetik der Reisebeschreibung und
zur Topik der Moderne (1830-1870) (Barbara
Schaff)
- Zwierlein, Anne-Julia, ed. (2005), Unmapped
Countries. Biological Visions in
Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
(Virginia Richter)
- McLeod, John (2004), Postcolonial London.
Rewriting the Metropolis (Eveline Kilian)
- Reichl, Susanne & Mark Stein, edc. (2005),
Cheeky Fictions. Laughter and the Postcolonial
(Silke Stroh)
- Rippl, Gabriele (2005), Beschreibungs-Kunst.
Zur intermedialen Poetik anglo-amerikanischer
Ikontexte (Roger Lüdeke)
The Cults and Cultures of Music
(guest editors: Valentine Cunningham and Jürgen
Schlaeger)
Music is a part of culture that is "nigh on
universal", as one editor of this volume of JSBC
states in his editorial. It is something that exists
in nearly all cultures and can represent different
meanings to different people - a system of
representation that can be seen in various
historical, societal and political contexts and that
is subject to constant change. The contributors to
this volume chose to write about music in the
contexts of the court of Henry VIII, of radical
sub-sultures in the 1790s, and of the strong mutual
influences of music and literature.
Contents:
- Cunningham, Valentine, 'Editorial' (99-104)
- Rupp, Susanne, 'Performing Court. The Music
of Henry VIII' (105-114)
- Davis, Michael T., '"An Evening of Pleasure
Rather Than Business". Songs, Subversion and
Radical Sub-Culture in the 1790s' (115-126)
- Cunningham, Valentine, 'Jazz and the Oxford
Boys' (127-154)
- Viol, Claus-Ulrich, 'Between Agency,
Authenticity, and Adorno. How Contemporary
British Fiction Constructs and Interrelates with
Popular Music' (155-173)
Books Reviewed:
- McRobbie, Angela (2005), The Uses of
Cultural Studies. A Textbook (Ina Habermann)
- Nünning, Vera, ed. (2005),
Kulturgeschichte der englischen Literatur. Von
der Renaissance bis zur Gegenwart (Ralf
Schneider)
- Klaus, H. Gustav & Stephen
Knight, eds. (2005), "To Hell with Culture".
Anarchism and Twentieth-Century British
Literature (Gerd Bayer)
- Brosch, Renate & Rüdiger
Kunow, eds. (2005), Transgressions. Cultural
Interventions in the Global Manifold (Eva Knopp)
- Aron, Jane & Chris Williams,
eds. (2005), Postcolonial Wales (Silke Stroh)
- Steinberg, Philip E. (2001),
The Social Construction of the Ocean (Bernhard
Klein)
- Calbi, Maurizio (2005),
Approximate Bodies. Gender and Power in Early
Modern Drama and Anatomy (Jonathan White)
Vol.
12, 1/2005
Contemporary Welsh Culture
(guest editor: Russell West-Pavlov)
This issue of JSBC concentrates on Welsh Cultures and
identities both past and present. The authors deal with
aspects as diverse as concepts of nation and race in a
Welsh context, the importance of language to culture,
various art forms like poetry, broadcasting and film, as
well as questions of multiculturalism and diverse Welsh
cultures. Welsh culture is described as being on the
move, developing creative ways of the production of
culture and presenting Wales and Welshness in their
historical, societal and political contexts.
Contents:
- West-Pavlov, Russell, 'Editorial. Testaments or
Testimonies? Welsh Culture and Society at the
Beginning of the Twenty-First Century' (3-8)
- Morris, Nigel, '"Talk to Me in Your Language".
Broadcasting and the Context of Wales on Film'
(9-24)
- Williams, Charlotte , 'Emergent Multiculturalism?
Challenging the Fation%l Story of wáles ' h25-38)
I <+li>
- McELrn{, Ruth, '2For a0Mothårtongue I{ a
‰‰ Trma{ure but not `!God". Gwyneth Lewis and phe
Dyjamics Of Language in Contemporary W%lrh PneTry'
� (39)54©0
I IWilliams, Deniel, '&Énsu$arly English?" Raymond
Williams, NatiOn and Race' (55-66)
I- Widliams,$Jeni,"'"The ModErn Eye Neeäs a Resting
Place". makiîg a Space for*Art outside the
Metropolis' (67-78)
"jbsp?!
Book{ RevIewed:
) - MülLer, Eariol (2004), "\hese Savage Beasts
become Domestick". T(e Discourse onbthe Passigns iN
Eaòly"Iodern England (Christian ScHmitt-Kilb)
ly>Hall, Catherhne (2006), civilising Óubjects.
‰ÍetRopolean` Colony )~ the Englich Imagina}ion,
1830m1867 (Jürgen Kramer)
- Robinson, Alan (2004), Imagining London ,
1770-1900 (Eveline Kilian)
- Stradling, Robert (2004), Wales and the Spanish
Civil War. The Dragon's Dearest Cause? (H. Gustav
Klaus)
- Kilian, Eveline (2004), GeschlechtSverkehrt.
Theoretische und literarische Perspektiven des
gender-bending (Christina Wald)
Vol. 11,
2/2004
Consumption and Consumer Cultures
(guest
editors: Joachim Schwend and Dietmar Böhnke)
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markdts, sonsumption and consumer cultures pla9 an
Increasingly impordant òole in the discuwSion o&!celturm and
society. Co.swmption0behavioUrs shape and ifvluence
escential social processes and xajits nike identipy
constrection and liFdwtylg in a way thit(sim÷s how they re M
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read as very distinct systems of sAgnhnication anä
communiaati/n. They express Ecnnommc, culdurad and qciel
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‹processes in the contlht f gljalióatyïn and dhe strugele
I o~er values and meaning. 8/P>
‰ <` align<"left">Qgain, th)s(isóud of JSBC is i collgãtion of
papars rea` at thä BriTish Cultural Studids Conæerence, this M
ôime taking ðlacm én Le!2zig!in 2003. The authors dircuss
aspects`of cnnsumpÔi/n(as diveróe as politics, beaõty< and
food, `mojg othezs. Th}s this volõme contains gontributions
on identity cojstructionc in Ârétkshm AMepican and Japánese
gonsueev cu,tures, the iconographies of selling nations,
brands and lifestyles and their representations in global
and regional markets.
Contents:
- Schwend, Joachim, 'Editorial' (111-116)
- Tönnies, Merle, ' New Britain as Consumer
Country and Commodity' (117-128)
- Versteegen, Heinrich, 'The ‘Plain’ and the
‘Fancy’. Identities, Stereotypes and Branding in
Contemporary British Food Culture' (129-140)
- Rosenberg , Ingrid von, 'Beauty – Big Deal'
(141-154)
- Coelsch-Foisner, Sabine, 'Reading Rosamunde
Pilcher from a Consumer Perspective' (155-168)
- Dannenberg, Hilary P., 'Marketing the British
Situation Comedy. The Success of the BBC Brand on
the British and Global Comedy Markets' (169-182)
- Sherrington, Emlyn, 'How Do You Sell a Nation?'
(183-194)
- Breunig, Hans Werner, 'John Locke and the
Abhorrence of Consumerism' (195-204)
- Koenen, Anne, '"What Do You Keep Cows for?"
Mail-Order Catalogues and Consumerism in Rural Areas
of the US , 1900-1930' (205-216)
- Richter, Steffi, 'Consumer Culture in Japan
between the Wars. Between Firm and "Terminal
Department Store"' (217-232)
Books Reviewed:
- Schmitt-Kilb, Christian (2004), "Never was the
Albion without Poetry". Poetik, Rhetorik und Nation
im England der Frühen Neuzeit (Daniel Dornhofer)
- McDonagh, Josephine (2003), Child Murder and
British Culture, 1720-1900; Kipp, Julie (2003),
Romanticism, Maternity, and the Body Politic
(Susanne Scholz)
- Mersmann, Arndt (2001), "A True Test and a
Living Picture". Repräsentationen der Londoner
Weltausstellung von 1851 (Virginia Richter)
- Linke, Gabriele (2003), Populärliteratur als
kulturelles Gedächtnis. Eine vergleichende Studie zu
zeitgenössischen britischen und amerikanischen
popular romances der Verlagsgruppe Harlequin
Mills & Boon (Martina Iske)
- Knight, Stephen (2004), Crime Fiction,
1800-2000. Detection, Death, Diversity (Christine
Matzke)
- Brydon, Diana, ed. (2000), Postcolonialism.
Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies
(Mark Stein)
Vol. 11, 1/2004
The
Return of Class
(guest
editor: Ingrid von Rosenberg)
From the 1840s onwards, the existence of
classes in Britain has been first realised, then generally
accepted, and later heatedly debated. However, academic
discussions of class aspects in British society suddenly
stopped in the 1980s, after two decades of intense debate in
sociology and cultural studies, giving way to a stronger
focus on the study of gender and ethnicity. The 1990s, then,
witnessed a revival of academic, political and public
interest in British classes, which prompted the conference
theme "The Return of Class" for the 13th British Cultural
Studies Conference, held in Dresden in 2002.
This issue of JSBC is a collection of papers
read at that conference. The contributers discuss class from
sociologist as well as cultural studies perspectives,
concentrating on new forms of old inequalities, on young
women in Blair's Britain, aspects of class and identity in
19th-century cartoons, as well as on political poetry, pop
music and women's novels and their different representations
of the British class phenomenon.
Contents:
- Rosenberg , Ingrid von, 'Editorial' (3-8)
- Byrne, David, 'Back to the Edwardians - Forward
to the Future' (9-22)
- McRobbie, Angela, 'Doing Away with Class? Female
Success in Blair's Britain ' (23-32)
- Hußmann, Gabriele, 'Of Nappies and Conveyor
Belts. Work, Class and Identity in Working-Class
Women's Fiction' (33-44)
- Schmitt-Kilb, Christian, '"Class[ics] Society".
Class and Language in Tony Harrison's The School of
Eloquence and "v."' (45-58)
- Viol, Claus-Ulrich, 'Sex, Drugs, and on the
Dole. Class (Politics) in Contemporary British Pop
Music' (59-72)
- Gohrbandt, Detlev, 'Class and Value in British
Caricature from Leech to Brock' (73-88)
- Stratmann, Gerd, 'The Return of Class. A
Conference Report' (89-90)
Books Reviewed:
- Habermann, Ina (2003), Staging Slander and
Gender in Early Modern England (Andrew Hadfield)
- Aston, Elaine (2003), Feminist Views on the
English Stage. Women Playwrights, 1990-2000
(Christina Wald)
- Mergenthal, Silvia (2003), A Fast-Forward
Version of England . Constructions of Englishness in
Contemporary Fiction (Ina Habermann)
- Döring, Tobias, Markus Heide & Susanne
Mühleisen, eds. (2003), Eating Culture. The Poetics
and Politics of Food (Rachel Rich)
- Edmond , Rod & Vanessa Smith, eds. (2003),
Islands in History and Representation (Jürgen
Kramer)
- Tönnies, Merle, ed. (2003), Britain under Blair
(Joachim Schwend)
- Nünning, Ansgar & Vera Nünning, eds. (2003),
Konzepte der Kulturwissenschaften. Theoretische
Grundlagen – Ansätze – Perspektiven (Wolfgang
Riedel)
- Hallett, Wolfgang (2002),
Fremdsprachenunterricht als Spiel der Texte und
Kulturen. Intertextualität als Paradigma einer
kulturwissenschaftlichen Praxis (Günter Nold)
Vol.
10, 2/2003
London, the Metropolis
(guest
editor: Jürgen Schlaeger)
Metropolises like London have often been
regarded as the embodiment of utopian visions of city life,
commercial power and cultural development. They appear to
represent the blessings and burdens of progress and
industrialisation and their effects on the life of the
individual. Metropolises are places of social movement,
change and crisis, as well as of the latest fashions in
culture, economy and technology. People believe they will
find a society's typical habits and lifestyles in its
capital, but also specific features of both capital and
nation as well as differences, shared cultural values
together with examples of cultural diversity.
Whether metropolises really are the places
where these things can be found is discussed in this issue
of JSBC. The contributions compare London with
other metropolises of (post-) modern times, such as Paris ,
Edinburgh , or Dublin , while investigating London 's
presumed role as a model metropolis. The authors discuss
ways in which London has inspired scholars and artists, what
kinds of structures it represents, and how British history
and heritage are constantly being re-constructed and
re-invented in the capital. By looking at critical
literature, the New Globe Theatre, and the Museum of London
, the contributors use their insights to construct an image
of London as a metropolis between fact and fiction.
Contents:
- Schlaeger, Jürgen, 'Editorial' (145-147)
- Borsay, Peter, 'Metropolis and Enlightenment.
The British Isles 1660-1800' (149-170)
- Eisenberg, Christiane, 'The Culture of
Modernity. London and Paris around 1900' (171-186)
- Teske, Doris, 'A Master-Narrative of the City?
The Role of the Museum of London and Its Real and
Virtual Exhibitions within the Urban Landscape'
(187-199)
- West, Russell, 'Cultural Catachresis and
Cultural Memory at London 's New Globe Theatre'
(201-216)
- Schlaeger, Jürgen, 'Peter Ackroyd's London '
(217-226)
Books Reviewed:
- Hadfield, Andrew (2001), Amazons, Savages, and
Machiavels. Travel and Colonial Writing in English,
1550-1630. An Anthology (Thomas Healy)
- Kamps, Ivo & Jyotsna Singh (2001), Travel
Knowledge. European ' Discoveries' in the Early
Modern Period (Thomas Healy)
- Turner, Katherine (2001), British Travel Writers
in Europe 1750-1800 (Barbara Schaff)
- Berghoff, Hartmut, Barbara Korte, Ralf Schneider
& Christopher Harvie (2002), The Making of Modern
Tourism. The Cultural History of the British
Experience, 1600-2000 (Joanna Dybiec)
- Sager, Peter (2003), Oxford & Cambridge. Eine
Kulturgeschichte (Merle Tönnies)
- Stedman, Gesa (2002), Stemming the Torrent.
Expression and Control in the Victorian Discourses
on Emotions, 1830-1872 (David Ellison)
- Teske, Doris (2002), Cultural Studies: GB
(Silvia Mergenthal)
- Phipps, Alison (2002), Contemporary German
Cultural Studies (Sarah Colvin)
Vol.
10, 1/2003
Fictions of Memory (guest editor: Ansgar Nünning)
Whatever people remember plays an important
role in their constructions of identity, be it individual or
national identity. The way they interpret their memories
always says something not so much about their past as about
their present situation, as they tend to re-construct,
manipulate and adapt recollections of the past to their
present attitudes and perspectives. Thus, fictions of memory
are constructed which can be found in literary texts as well
as in the media and institutions, representing individual or
shared memories and cultures.
This issue of JSBC deals with a variety of fictions of
cultural memory, demonstrating the impact of memory on canon
formation, English literary histories and national
mentalities, as well as on the museumisation of memories and
their complex constructions. By analysing literary
narratives, theoretical constructs and the rhetoric of
collective memory, the authors discuss the often conflicting
ideas of memory on the one hand and general concepts of
'truth' and 'reality' on the other, trying to find out how
the process of memory construction works and what impact it
has.
Contents:
Nünning, Ansgar, 'Editorial. New Directions
in the Study of Individual and Cultural Memory and Memorial
Cultures' (3-9)
Grabes, Herbert, 'Canon Making and Cultural Memory. The
Creation of 'English Literature' through the Writing of
Literary Histories' (11-25)
Nünning, Vera, 'A 'Usable Past'. Fictions of Memory and
British National Identity' (27-48)
Erll, Astrid, 'The Great War Remembered. The Rhetoric of
Collective Memory in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End and
Arnold Zweig's Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa' (49-75)
Henke, Christoph, 'Remembering Selves, Constructing Selves.
Memory and Identity in Contemporary British Fiction'
(77-100)
Humphrey, Richard, 'Museumizing the Museum. The Museum
Culture of Postmodern Britain in Historico-Cultural
Perspective' (101-124)
Books Reviewed:
D'haen, Theo, general ed. (2002),
Proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International
Comparative Literature Association "Literature as Cultural
Memory", Leiden 16-22 August 1997 (Astrid Erll)
Nalbantian, Suzanne (2003), Memory in Literature. From
Rousseau to Neuroscience (Dorothee Birke)
Wolf, Philipp (2002), Modernization and the Crisis of
Memory. John Donne to Don de Lillo (Hanne Birk)
Wood, Marcus (2000), Blind Memory. Visual Representations of
Slavery in England and America, 1780-1865 (Bernhard Klein)
Middleton, Peter & Tim Woods (2000), Literatures of Memory.
History, Time and Space in Postwar Literature (Bernhard
Klein)
Hoesterey, Ingeborg (2001), Pastiche. Cultural Memory in
Art, Film, Literature (Birgit Neumann)
Vol. 9, 2/2002
The
Family and Its Others
(guest editors: Jana Gohrisch and Gesa Stedman)
The debate about modern and traditional
families and the multi-faceted concepts of the family is a
central concern in Britain today. Novels and films which
depict the search for the family - or rather, for a suitable
mate as the prerequisite of a proper family - are very
popular, something which becomes obvious in the success of
screen versions of, for example, Jane Austen's novels and
their modern rewritings. Families are idealised and
constructed on the basis of current values and role models.
Thus, the ideal family is often contrasted with its
potential opposite, the dangerous social world that seems to
fail to provide any sense of community, security and
happiness. In fact, the structure and construction of the
family have been constantly changing. Traditional gender and
family role definitions are being questioned as new forms of
family are experimented with and more and more Others of the
traditional nuclear family are being developed.
Historical and contemporary concepts, political aspects and
cultural constructions of the family are discussed in this
issue of JSBC, which is based on the British Cultural
Studies Conference held at Humboldt University, Berlin, in
November 2001. It brings together essays by scholars from
different disciplines such as history, sociology, literary
and cultural studies, and demonstrates changes as well as
continuity in the perception of the family and its Others.
Contents:
Gohrisch, Jana & Gesa Stedman, 'Editorial'
(131-133)
Fink, Janet, 'Private Lives, Public Issues. Moral Panics and
'the Family' in 20th-Century Britain' (135-148)
Emig, Rainer, 'The Family - a Sitcom?' (149-157)
Maassen, Irmgard, 'Whoring, Scolding, Gadding About. Threats
to Family Order in Early Modern Conduct Literature'
(159-171)
Gohrisch, Jana, 'The Cultural Construction of Happiness and
Contentment in Mid-19th-Century Non-Fiction' (173-184)
Tönnies, Merle, 'Good/Bad Girls and Their Fathers. Female
Sexuality, Patriarchal Power and the Direction of the
Audience's Sympathy in 19th-Century British Melodrama'
(185-195)
Brosch, Renate, 'The Conversation Piece. A Model for the
Representation of the Family' (197-208)
Lewis, Jane, 'Family Change and Family Politics in the UK'
(209-222)
Books Reviewed:
Taunton, Nina (2001), 1590s Drama and
Militarism. Portrayals of War in Marlowe, Chapman and
Shakespeare's "Henry V" (Rainer Emig)
Korte, Barbara & Ralf Schneider, eds. (2002), War and the
Cultural Construction of Identities in Britain (Rainer Emig)
McBride, Ian, ed. (2001), History and Memory in Modern
Ireland (Bernhard Klein)
Connolly, Claire, ed. (2002), Theorizing Ireland (Bernhard
Klein)
Döring, Tobias (2002), Caribbean-English Passages.
Intertextuality in a Postcolonial Tradition (Russell West)
Bal, Mieke, ed. (1999), The Practice of Cultural Analysis.
Exposing Interdisciplinary Interpretation (Ina Habermann)
Morley, David & Kevin Robins, eds. (2001), British Cultural
Studies. Geography, Nationality, and Identity (Jürgen
Kramer)
Fleming, Dan, ed. (2001), Formations. A 21st Century Media
Studies Textbook (Ellen Risholm)
Vol. 9, 1/2002
Non
thematic issue (guest editor: Bernd Lenz)
What unifies the articles in this first
non-thematic issue of JSBC is their concern with 'the
historical', a focus which contributes to the debate on the
relationship between history and cultural studies. The range
of themes discussed here is diverse: it covers, for
instance, architectural and literary issues such as
Victorian controversies about the reading of buildings as
texts and patriotic xenophobia in eighteenth-century British
literature. Furthermore, there are contributions on
Britain's insular mentality and relationship to Europe, on
the rhetoric of national character as well as on culture and
value concepts. One article samples work in progress in the
form of a chapter from a historical survey of the British
Isles for students and invites the readers to comment on the
author's approach and his version of British history.
Contents:
Kramer, Jürgen, 'Editorial' (3-4)
Kamm, Jürgen, 'Architectural Readings. Victorian
Controversies on Building, Meaning, and the Nation' (5-25)
Kramer, Jürgen, 'The 'Long' Nineteenth Century (1789-1914).
A Sample Chapter of A Very Short History of the British
Isles' (27-50)
Lenz, Bernd, ' "This Scept'red Isle". Britain's Insular
Mentality, Interculture and the Channel Tunnel' (51-67)
Nünning, Ansgar, 'Historicizing British Cultural Studies.
Patriotic Xenophobia and the Rhetoric of National Character
in Eighteenth-century British Literature' (69-93)
Schlaeger, Jürgen, 'Cultures and Value' (95-107)
Books Reviewed:
Trigg, Stephanie (2002), Congenial Souls.
Reading Chaucer from Medieval to Postmodern (Medieval
Cultures 30) (David Matthews)
Jones, Ann Rosalind & Peter Stallybrass (2000), Renaissance
Clothing and the Materials of Memory (Andrew Gordon)
Wall, Cynthia (1998), The Literary and Cultural Spaces of
Restoration London (Andrew Gordon)
Zwierlein, Anne-Julia (2001), Majestick Milton. British
Imperial Expansion and Transformations of 'Paradise Lost',
1667-1837 (Nicholas von Maltzahn)
Aravamudan, Srinivas (1999), Tropicopolitans. Colonialism
and Agency, 1688-1804 (Mark Stein)
Thomas, Helen (2000), Romanticism and Slave Narratives.
Transatlantic Testimonies (Mark Stein)
Logan, Thad (2001), The Victorian Parlour (Sabine Schülting)
Davies, Alistair & Alan Sinfield, eds. (2000), British
Culture of the Postwar. An Introduction to Literature and
Society, 1945-1999 (Bernhard Klein)
Crane, Ralph & Radhika Mohanram, eds. (2000), Shifting
Continents / Colliding Cultures. Diaspora Writing of the
Indian Continent (Cross / Cultures 42) (Gerd Stratmann)
Vol. 8, 2/2001
Anything Shows: Victorian Material Culture
(guest editor: Kurt Tetzeli von Rosador)
Victorians had to cope with a world of new
things, such as the electric telegraph, the omnibus or
photography, innovations which not only exercised much
fascination but also elicited a great deal of scepticism and
criticism. In response to these challenges, people and
things were categorised and conceptually re-organised.
Property and class became influential factors in this
systematisation of a world which appeared to be in constant
and disturbing flux. The interpretation of material culture
promises to offer deeper insights into Victorian times.
Thus, critics working in the field of Victorian culture try
to analyse the representations of subjects and objects,
signs and things and the textualisation of material
circumstances.
Victorian material culture is the focus of this issue of
JSBC, which offers a variety of readings of Victorian
'things' such as soap, dolls, or crockery, involving several
disciplines such as history, linguistics and literature in
the interpretation of different 'texts' and signs. The
contributions include articles on gendered, classified,
colonised, singular and mass-produced objects and their
representations.
Contents:
Rosador, Kurt Tetzeli von, 'Editorial'
(115-120)
Schabert, Ina, 'Bourgeois Counter-Art. Dolls in Victorian
Culture' (121-135)
Schülting, Sabine, ' "Pray, Did You Ever Hear of Pears'
Soap?" Soap, Dirt, and the Commodity in Victorian England'
(137-156)
Scholz, Susanne & Martina Stange, 'Framed Subjects -
Displaced Objects. Mantelpiece Decoration in
Nineteenth-Century English Literature' (157-174)
Mersmann, Arndt, ' "Diamonds Are Forever" - Appropriations
of the Koh-i-Noor. An Object Biography' (175- 191)
Frenk, Joachim, 'Smashing Crockery. Undisciplined Tableware
in Alice-Books' (193-218)
Keown, Michelle, 'The Cultural Politics of English as a
World Language. A Conference Report' (219-220)
Books Reviewed:
Schiffer, Michael Brian (1999), The Material
Life of Human Beings. Artifacts, Behavior, and Communication
(Stefan Herbrechter)
Richards, Sarah (1999), Eighteenth-Century Ceramics.
Products for a Civilised Society ( Doris Feldmann)
Bryden, Inga & Janet Floyd, eds. (1999), Domestic Space.
Reading the Nineteenth-Century Interior (Ingrid von
Rosenberg)
Mao, Douglas (1998), Solid Objects. Modernism and the Test
of Production (Tobias Döring)
Barringer, Tim & Tom Flynn, eds. (1998), Colonialism and the
Object. Empire, Material Culture and the Museum (Tobias
Döring)
Emberley, Julia V. (1998), Venus and Furs. The Cultural
Politics of Fur (Gesa Stedman)
Vol.
8, 1/2001
British Asian Cultures (guest editor: Bernd-Peter Lange)
Calling Britain a multicultural society has
become so commonplace as to attract suspicion about the
hidden agenda behind that phrase. Indeed it has long turned
into a facile stereotype that can be functionalised as a
cover for ubiquitous social inequalities as well as a
persistent racism. Salman Rushdie has simply called it a
sham, a 'token gesture towards Britain's Blacks'. There is
only a thin line between obsessive attempts to unearth
Britishness or Englishness in public discourse and an
equally holistic concern with a German Leitkultur. All the
same, there have been some beneficial effects for Britain's
political culture in the conscious inclusion of minorities
in the decision-making process. Nobody in the public
mainstream would object to Lord Irvine's incantation of a
multicultural, multi-ethnic United Kingdom as a cornerstone
of New Labour's policies, and it is now a truth (almost)
universally acknowledged that British culture consists of a
plurality of communities whose differences will have to be
respected in the everyday procedures of civil society. The
present issue is concerned with the largest grouping within
what has effectively become, in Rushdie's phrase, a 'New
Empire in Britain': British Asian cultures. The six essays
collected here examine a wide range of interaction between
British Asians and British majority culture, charting a
cross-cultural history that leads from almost complete
isolation to various kinds of fusion.
Contents:
Lange, Bernd-Peter, 'Editorial' (5-6)
Lange, Bernd-Peter, 'Babus, Brown Sahibs, Migrants: Avatars
of British Asian Culture' (7-18)
Pandurang, Mala, 'Self-discovery and Re-assertion:
Post-immigrant Issues in the Novels of British Asian Women
Writers' (19-30)
Mahnke, Iris, 'Indian Artists in London - the New Crown
Jewels?' (31-39)
Godiwala, Dimple, 'Invention/Hybridity/Identity: British
Asian Culture and Its Post-colonial Theatres' (41-55)
Tönnies, Merle, 'Emulating the Empire, Demonstrating
Difference or Expressing Equality? Selling and Consuming
Indian Food in Britain' (57-71)
Viol, Claus-Ulrich, 'Br-Asian Overground: Marginal
Mainstream, Mixing, and the Role of Memory in British Asian
Popular Music' (73-90)
Books Reviewed:
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty (1999), A
Critique of Postcolonial Reason. Toward a History of the
Vanishing Present (Nilufer E. Bharucha)
Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri (2000), Empire (Dirk
Wiemann)
Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin (2000), Who Do We Think We Are?
Imagining the New Britain (Gerry Smyth)
Ghuman, Paul A. Singh (1999), Asian Adolescents in the West
(Sabine Hornberg)
Lau, Annie, ed. (1999), South Asian Children and Adolescents
in Britain (Sabine Hornberg)
Fludernik, Monika, ed. (1998), Hybridity and
Postcolonialism. Twentieth-Century Indian Literature (Klaus
Börner)
Vol. 7, 2/2000
Work - Leisure - Identity (guest editor: Peter Drexler)
Traditional certainties and concepts of work,
workplace, full and lifelong employment, as well as notions of
leisure, have been significantly eroded, even wholly redefined in
recent years, and these shifts have in turn had a decisive impact on
modern forms of cultural identity. Such transformations have been
occasioned by dramatic economic, technological and political
changes, in particular by the transition from industrial to
information-based societies. Global capitalism has not only had
disastrous effects on many national economies but also worked
fundamental changes in the labour-markets of the world, affecting
the lives of millions of people. Britain with its long history of
industrialisation - and its more recent experience of
de-industrialisation - presents a particularly challenging field of
study. We believe that the topic of work - and 'non-work', in the
form of unemployment or leisure - should not be left exclusively to
sociologists and economists. Cultural studies also should apply its
methods of analysis to these social and economic changes, by
considering, for instance, the new living conditions of the people
affected by these changes, and by discussing the new concepts of
work resulting from them, or the models of creating work that is
socially useful and might give self-respect to those concerned. It
can further, we believe, help illuminate the specific role that
work, unemployment and leisure play in the formation of cultural
identity. In particular, it can examine the symbolic forms of
representation - in literature, arts, the media - which contribute
to this process.
Contents:
Drexler, Peter, 'Editorial' (93-4)
Williamson, Bill, 'Learning the Language of the Job: Jobs and
Identity in Twentieth Century Britain' (95-110)
Rosenberg, Ingrid von, 'Changing Attitudes to Unemployment: The
19980s and 1990s in Contrast to the 1930s' (111-27)
Byrne, David, 'Dispossession and Disempowerment: Cultural Voids
after the End of Industry' (129-39)
Tönnies, Merle, 'Consuming Pleasure: Postmodern Forms of Leisure in
Contemporary Britain' (141-51)
Stein, Mark, 'Undoing the Empire: Work and Leisure in the Gallery of
Trade and Empire' (153-67)
Moss, Sarah, 'Sea Changes: A Conference Report' (169-70)
Books
Reviewed:
Childs, Peter, and Mike Storry, eds. (1999),
Encyclopedia of Contemporary British Culture (Gerd Stratmann)
Christopher, David (1999), British Culture. An Introduction
(Claus-Ulrich Viol)
Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Verkehr / Internationales
Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaft, Wien (1999), The Contemporary
Study of Culture (Reinhold Schiffer)
Schiffer, Reinhold (1999), Oriental Panorama. British Travellers in
19th Century Turkey (Christoph Bode)
Bode, Christoph, and Ulrich Broich, eds. (1998), Die Zwanziger Jahre
in Großbritannien. Literatur und Gesellschaft einer spannungsreichen
Dekade (Vera Nünning)
Roche, Maurice, ed. (1998), Sport, Popular Culture and Identity
(Christiane Eisenberg)
Hollows, Joanne (2000), Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture
(Anna Maria Stuby)
Vol. 7, 1/2000
Scotland 2000: Remaking the Nation
(guest editors: Hans Kastendiek and Richard Stinshoff)
Over the last decades a host of civic and ethnic
nationalisms have re-emerged as serious political challenges to
existing, sometimes even long-established state structures in
western and eastern Europe. This may have baffled those who think
that the process of globalisation has already inaugurated the era of
post-nationalism. The explanation some sociologists of nationalism
have offered runs counter to this notion: modern nationalism helps
protect those socio-political identities that have come under threat
from the relentless impact of structural changes in global
capitalism. In this issue of JSBC, we want offer the example of
Scotland as a particularly interesting case study in this context.
Scotland, often characterised as a 'stateless nation' after
voluntarily giving up sovereignty and independence in 1707, has
never abandoned its sense of national Scottish identity, and it has
even managed to preserve and consolidate its civil society, i.e. a
specific set of political, economic, religious, social and cultural
institutions below the level of the British central state. And
although Scotland's cultural self-image, since the 1707 Acts of
Union, has always been susceptible to the pressures of Anglicisation
from beyond its southern border, 'Scottishness' has ultimately been
able to stand its ground. Just how successful Scotland has been in
preserving its sense of national identity through the ages became
evident in the 1997 devolution referendum, when the Scottish
electorate solidly and unequivocally supported the establishment of
a Scottish parliament.
We are convinced that an exploration of the implications of
devolution and the hopes and anxieties that it has raised and
continues to raise both among the political elites and the people of
Britain may fruitfully focus on the example of Scotland. The essays
and analyses assembled in this issue perceive devolution as a
process which has now reached a new and possibly decisive stage.
Refraining, however, from any immature and inappropriate prognosis,
the arguments put forth in this issue focus both on past and present
manifestations of Scottish national identity and on the relevant
agents and constellations in a process that will ultimately entail a
comprehensive remaking of the Scottish state, its civil society and
its relationship with the United Kingdom and Europe.
Contents:
Kastendiek, Hans, and Richard Stinshoff, 'Editorial'
(3-7)
Harvie, Christopher, 'Scotland Goes to the Polls: Election
Campaigning and Cabinet-Making' (9-18)
Finlay, Richard J., 'The Scottish National Party: A Party Trapped by
the Past?' (19-28)
Schwend, Joachim, 'Scottishness: The Representation of a Frame of
Mind' (29-38)
McCrone, David, 'Being British: Changing National and State
Identities in Scotland and Wales' (39-49)
Lindsay, Isobel, 'Anglo-Scottish Stereotypes: Popular Perceptions of
National Identity' (51-60)
Stolz, Klaus, 'The European Myth in Scotland and the Scottish Model
in Europe' (61-73)
Books
Reviewed:
Attwooll, Elspeth (1997), The Tapestry of the Law.
Scotland, Legal Culture and Legal Theory (Helmut Weber)
Civardi, Christian (1997), Le Mouvement ouvrier écossais 1900-1931.
Travail, culture, politique (H. Gustav Klaus)
Stolz, Klaus (1998), Schottland in der Europäischen Union.
Integration und Autonomie einer staatslosen Nation (Thomas Noetzel)
Klaus, H. Gustav (1998), Factory Girl. Ellen Johnston and
Working-Class Poetry in Victorian Scotland (Gerd Stratmann)
Lewis, Jayne Elizabeth (1998), Mary Queen of Scots. Romance and
Nation (Merle Tönnies)
Siebers, Winfried, and Uwe Zagratzki, eds (1998), Deutsche
Schottlandbilder. Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte (Susanne Hagemann)
Easthope, Anthony (1999), Englishness and National Culture (Ingrid
von Rosenberg)
Vol. 6, 2/99
Everyday Life
(guest editors: Susan Bassnett and Gisela Ecker)
The pleasure and the pain of Cultural Studies today
in its more recent manifestation derives from attempts to analyze
the fuzziness of its boundaries: not quite sociology, nor social
history, nor literary studies, nor political science, nor
anthropology, nor even ethnography. Drawing on all these
disciplines, Cultural Studies at the onset of the 21st
century presents itself as an extremely heterogeneous field. Whereas
in the early years of the development of the discipline, the
predominantly Marxist approach of theorists such as Richrad Hoggart,
E.P. Thompson and Raymond Williams meant that there was a clear
political dimension, today the plurality of approaches has meant a
relaxing of more rigidly defined boundaries and methodologies. The
topic of this issue, Everyday Life, offers an example of that
shift towards greater plurality. Everyday life - perhaps the most
evanescent of terms, avoiding definition in a continuously sliding
process of re-evaluation - is notoriously difficult to theorize.
Seeking a means of analyzing it provides a perfect example of the
pain of trying to determine exactly what our object of study might
be, combined with the pleasure of playing with the plasticity of
something that resists all attempts to concretize. What all the
essays in this issue indicate is the richness that is available in
the study of aspects of everyday life, and the extent to which such
studies can shed light on social and cultural practices, both past
and present, experienced and fictitious, thereby showing how great a
pleasure it can ultimately be to play with a plastic, hybrid mass
that resists categorization and definition. The essays present ways
of dealing with the unspectacular, the ‘ordinary’ and so-called
banal; they offer their own choices in the divErse field0of
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- Basrnett, Susan / Gysela Ecker, ␀EditoriAl’!,119-21)
- EbeL, KecstIn,`‘?Ever9dáy Life Undergrouj`: Asðects of
Culture on Londn’s Vuba’$(1:3-36)
- Klaus, H. GuStaV, ‘Foregrounlkng 6he Iitchen: Evevyday
Domestic Lhfe in Bi)nting aNn Dramá’ (135-51)
- Gmhrisch, Jana ²06;"Indiffgrent Eiffezences": Everyday
Life in Jane AustenR)7;s ’ (153-66)
- Coward, Rosalind, ‘Diana Memorabilia: Gender and Taste
in Contemporary Britain’ (167-74)
- Krewani, Angela, ‘Soapy Desire: The Housewife in
Television and Media Studies’ (175-84)
- Bassnett, Susan, ‘What Exactly Is the Everyday?’
(185-94)
Books
Reviewed:
- Nünning, Ansgar, ed. (1998), Metzler Lexikon
Literatur- und Kulturtheorie. Ansätze - Personen -
Grundbegriffe (Wolfgang Riedel)
- Kramer, Jürgen (1997), British Cultural Studies
(Stephan Kohl)
- Samuel, Raphael (1998), Theatres of Memory, vol.
2: Island Stories. Unravelling Britain (Jürgen
Schlaeger)
- Miller, Toby, and Alec McHoul (1998), Popular Culture
and Everyday Life (Dagmar Buchwald)
- Nettleton, Sarah, and Jonathan Watson, eds (1998),
The Body in Everyday Life (Martina Stange)
- Douglas, Mary (1996), Thought Styles. Critical Essays
on Good Taste (Susanne Scholz)
- Griffiths, Sian, and Jennifer Wallace, eds (1998),
Consuming Passions. Food in the Age of Anxiety (Hein
Versteegen)
- Falk, Pasi, and Colin Campbell, eds (1997), The
Shopping Experience (Merle Tönnies)
- Baird, Nicola (1998), The Estate We’re In. Who’s
Driving Car Culture? (Elmar Schenkel)
Vol. 6, 1/99
European Perspectives (guest editor: M.A.
Frankel)
It was always the intention that JSBC should have a
wider European perspective in mind in order to reflect that both
attitudes to the status of British Studies and approaches to the
teaching of and research into it were undergoing significant
changes, not only in Germany, but across Europe and beyond. What has
emerged is a fascinating and challengin' diversity of approacèes,
spriking!as mucx for the dugrees of overlaps as of `ifference.!Abve
Š all, however, whát uniues 4hem ys tHat thgy observe, reflect /n and
interpr%t British culTures from a vántáge point outsyte$the Uk."Wm
have$much to learn fro} each othaR, but clso0much uo co.túibute to,
bs gell á3 learn n0om, developýenvs in this field$in phe U. Il
seems appropriate, therenkre, phat the journal should mark its first`
five s5ccessful ye`rs of publication "q fuvthering this leaRnaog"
proses3 with a look a4 developments in British Sttdies in othep
coõntries ac2oss$Europe. For this issue, specialicts fRom Eifhd
different countries wdr%$invited to cont2ifute papeRs, xje final
lis4 including oje Wcandinaviqn coultry (DenmarC),"three ὐLa5i.’
countries (France, Ytaly!and Sraini, three frmm the formep Communist
bloc (dhe Czåch Republic, Pïland and Russia), and one (Turkey9 froo
the gastern Mediterranean and âeyond into Asia. The result is a
richly diverse set of papers which, while revealing a high degree of
common ground, reflect the healthy pluralism which is characteristic
of different approaches to British Studies between and within
countries.
Contents:
- Frankel, M.A., ‘Editorial’ (3-7)
- Nováková, Sona / Judith Elliott, ‘The Prague-matic
Approach: Teaching British Studies at Charles University’
(9-17)
- Rasmussen, Jan Rahbek, ‘In Defence of Society: An
Historian Reflects on British Studies’ (19-27)
- Révauger, Jean-Paul, ‘Broadening the Scope of British
Studies: The French Experience’ (29-37)
- Pagetti, Carlo, ‘British Cultural Studies in Italy’
(39-47)
- Slawek, Tadeusz, ‘A Culture of Permanence and a Culture
of Season: British Cultural Studies - University Curriculum
- Politics’ (49-59)
- Korf, Elena / Irina Romanova, ‘British Studies in
Russia: Making Waves?’ (61-69)
- Cornut-Gentille D’Arcy, Chantal, ‘Cultural Studies or
the Study of British Culture(s): The Personal, the Political
and the Academic’ (71-84)
- Mentese, Oya Batum, ‘The Experience of British Cultural
Studies in Turkey’ (85-94)
- Habermann, Ina, ‘Imagining Otherness in the 16th and
17th Centuries: A Conference Report’ (95-6)
Books
Reviewed:
- Hand, Felicity / Chantal Cornut-Gentille D’Arcy, eds.
(1995), Culture and Power (H. Gustav Klaus)
- González, Rosa, ed. (1996), Culture and Power.
Institutions (H. Gustav Klaus)
- Jarrett, David / Tadeusz Rachwal / Tadeusz Slawek, eds.
(1996), Writing Places and Mapping Words. Readings in
British Cultural Studies (Bernhard Klein)
- Gavriliu, Eugenia (1996), English Culture in the
Romanian Countries, 1790-1850 (Florin Manolescu)
- Ciglar-Zanic, Jana, et al., eds. (1998), British
Cultural Studies. Cross-Cultural Challenges (Bernhard
Klein)
- Forbes, Jill / Michael Kelly, eds. (1995), French
Cultural Studies. An Introduction (Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink)
- Forgacs, David / Robert Lumley, eds. (1996), Italian
Cultural Studies. An Introduction (Ernst Ulrich Große)
- Graham, Helen / Jo Labanyi, eds. (1995), Spanish
Cultural Studies. An Introduction. The Struggle for
Modernity (Hugh O’Donnell)
Jenkins, Brian / Spyros A. Sofos, eds. (1996), Nation and
Identity in Contemporary Europe (Claus-Ulrich Viol)
Vol. 5, 2/98
British Cinema (guest editor: Peter Drexler)
The renaissance of the cinema in the early nineteen
eighties has engendered a highly diversified film scene in Britain,
with the emergence of new areas of film-making such as woman’s,
black, gay and lesbian, and art film, with the rise of Scottish and
Welsh cinemas, and with the manifold crossovers between Irish and
British cinema. From a distance, Britain in the late nineties
appears to be the most energetic and exciting site of film-making in
Europe, with British films, directors, actresses and actors reaping
prizes at international film festivals, and with the British film
industry receiving financial support from the new Labour government
through Lottery money and tax-write-offs. However, the growing
globalization of the film industry, not only with regard to funding
and production but also to direction, casting and distribution makes
it quite difficult to determine what a British film is. The
diversity and hybridity of the film scene in present-day Britain is
the leitmotif of all the contributions to this issue. They
cover a wide range of subjects, ranging from questions of film
policy and economy to models of teaching British film in the
classroom, from general surveys to case studies and portraits of
individual film makers. Jürgen Enkemann in his survey of British
film of the nineties combines critical appreciation of individual
films and film-makers, genres and new areas of film-making with an
examination of the economic forces, political decisions and cultural
responses that shape the contemporary film-scene in Britain. Eckart
Voigts-Virchow’s examines the hybridity and vitality of British film
comedy in the eighties and nineties, highlighting its mixing of
traditional genres and extensions of the comic field into other
areas of film-making. Colin McArthur’s comparison between the
Scottish and Irish film milieux contains both an engaged critique of
present-day Scottish film policies and an outline of how a European
national cinema, that of the Irish Republic, can maintain its
identity. Hans-Peter Rodenberg in his portrait of the Irish-born
director Neil Jordan offers a case study of how such a negotiation
can be achieved. Eleanor Byrne traces the process of Black British
film coming into its own by focussing on the representation of
whiteness in a number of key films in the eighties and nineties.
Kirsten Wächter pays tribute to the œuvre of Derek Jarman, who died
in 1994, and Rainer Schüren, in the concluding article, offers a
model of using film in teaching cultural studies.
Contents:
- Drexler, Peter, ‘Editorial’ (107-10)
- Enkemann, Jürgen, ‘Globalization, Sense of Place and
Questions of Identity: British Film in the 1990s’ (111-27)
- Voigts-Virchow, Eckart, ‘Anglian Antics: British Film
Comedies of the Eighties and Nineties’ (129-41)
- McArthur, Colin, ‘Artists and Philistines: The Irish and
Scottish Film Milieux’ (143-53)
- Rodenberg, Hans Peter, ‘Bridging the Abyss: Neil Jordan,
the Irishman in British Hollywood’ (155-70)
- Byrne, Eleanor, ‘See(k)ing in the Dark: Looking at White
People in Black British Cinema’ (171-80)
- Wächter, Kirsten, ‘Derek Jarman - the Last Renaissance
Artist’ (181-94)
- Schüren, Rainer, ‘Teaching Different Cultures through
Film: Educating Rita and My Beautiful Laundrette’
(195-214)
- ‘Filmography: Titles and Directors’ (215-22)
- Riedel, Wolfgang, ‘Nature - Landscape - Environment: A
Conference Report’ (223-5)
Books
Reviewed:
- Bordwell, David / Noël Carroll, eds. (1996), Post
Theory. Reconstructing Film Studies (Jörg Schweinitz)
- Higson, Andrew, ed. (1996), Dissolving Views. Key
Writings on British Cinema (Paul Davies)
- Richards, Jeffrey (1997), Films and British National
Identity (Jörg Helbig)
- Street, Sarah (1997), British National Cinema
(Jörg Helbig)
- Cook, Pam (1996), Fashioning the Nation. Costume and
Identity in British Cinema (Annette Kuhn)
- Young, Lola (1996), Fear of the Dark. ‘Race’, Gender
and Sexuality in British Cinema (Ursula von Keitz)
- Land and Freedom [film, UK 1995, D: Ken Loach]
(H. Gustav Klaus)
- Frey, Walter, ed. (1996), Land and Freedom. Ken
Loachs ‘Geschichte aus der spanischen Revolution’ (H.
Gustav Klaus)
- Chapman, James (1998), The British at War. Cinema,
State and Propaganda, 1939-1945 (Gerd Stratmann)
- Typically British [film, UK 1995, D: Mike Dibb]
(Angela Krewani)
- Irish Cinema. Ourselves Alone? [film, UK 1995, D:
Donald Taylor Black] (Angela Krewani)
Vol. 5,
1/98
National
Identities (guest editor: Gerd Stratmann)
In 1967, Marshall McLuhan famously declared that
‘[e]lectric circuitry has overthrown the regime of "time" and
"space" and pours upon us instantly and continuously the
concerns of all other men. ... Ours is a brand new world of
allatonceness. "Time" has ceased, "space" has vanished. We now
live in a global village ... a simultaneous happening.’ If
anything, these words have increased in relevance in the
electronic age of the internet and the microchip. Where, in this
global maze of endlessly reproduced and ubiquitously available
images, can we still identify the local cultural forms necessary
to generate the collective dream known as national identity? As
the papers in this issue demonstrate, a monolithic conception of
‘national identity’ - a singular expression of mind and feeling
common to all citizens of the nation-state - has vanished
forever, leaving in its wake a diffuse residue of cultural
identities where people and groups of people define their
‘nationality’ in independence from, and often in imaginative
contrast to, the political centres of national life. Certainly,
the media - McLuhan’s principal concern - may help such
developments along, even if they twist and corrupt any message
they claim only to convey. This, at least, seems almost
inevitable if the national identities of a European island group
are processed by those media which are by their very structure
and economic set-up identified as global players. Some of the
fascinating (and alarming) contradictions and overlappings, of
the checks and balances between the global and the national, are
displayed in the following essays: explicitly in Gertrud Koch’s
theoretical argument, but also in Colin McArthur’s, Peter
Bennett’s and John Caughie’s ‘applied’ studies. Cultural
identities, these studies prove - if any proof was needed -, can
hardly be constructed in national terms any longer: what looks
like expressions of, say, Scottish national feeling (Braveheart),
genuine English nostalgia (national heritage films) or patriotic
popular culture (Britpop) is ‘in reality’ the artificial product
of a Hollywood-based cinema, the cynical concession to a
cultural export market or the shrewd calculation of a global
record company. The issue is completed by Iris Bünger’s study of
the adventures of the media construct ‘Princess Di’ and by
Jürgen Schlaeger’s examination of the role of literature in the
formation of national identity.
Contents:
- Stratmann, Gerd, ‘Editorial’ (3)
- Koch, Gertrud, ‘National Identity in the Age of Global
Media’ (5-12)
- Bennett, Peter, ‘Britpop and National Identity’ (13-25)
- McArthur, Colin, ‘Scotland and the Braveheart
Effect’ (27-39)
- Bünger, Iris, ‘"Off With Her Talking Head": The
Construction of the Subject "Princess Diana" by British
Newspapers’ (41-54)
- Caughie, John, ‘A Culture of Adaptation: Adaptation and
the Past in British Film and Television’ (55-66)
- Schlaeger, Jürgen, ‘Literature and National Identity’
(67-80)
- Stratmann, Gerd / Kirsten Wächter, ‘Representations of
British National Identities in the Media: A Conference
Report’ (81-82)
Books
Reviewed:
- Payne, Michael, ed. (1996), A Dictionary of Cultural
and Critical Theory (Klaus Peter Müller)
- Bassnett, Susan, ed. (1997), Studying British
Cultures (Susanne Scholz)
- Childs, Peter / Mike Storry, eds. (1997), British
Cultural Identities (Gerd Stratmann)
- Gelder, Ken / Sarah Thornton, eds. (1997), The
Subcultures Reader (Bernd-Peter Lange)
- Barnard, Malcolm (1996), Fashion as Communication
(Julika Griem)
- Fitter, Chris (1995), Poetry, Space, Landscape.
Towards a New Theory (Wolfgang Riedel)
- Bode, Christoph, ed. (1997), West Meets East.
Klassiker der britischen Orient-Reiseliteratur (Reinhold
Schiffer)
- Milligan, Barry (1995), Pleasures and Pains. Opium
and the Orient in 19th Century British Culture
(Christoph Bode)
Vol. 4,
1-2/97
The
Discovery of Britain (guest editor: Manfred Pfister)
Three points about our title. First, it is
incomplete: it does not mention who is doing the discovering. It
might conjure up images of weary travellers arriving in exotic lands
- but only to disappoint and subvert such expectations. For the
discovery here is a self-discovery: the discovery of Britain by
Britons (and for Britons). The title is thus a paradox, conflating
into one what are usually separate entities, the subject and the
object of discovery. Second, the title is a metaphor: it projects
the exploration of one’s own country onto the larger canvas of
discoveries in foreign and distant lands. There is a specific
historical point here: the beginnings of the ‘discovery of Britain’,
of the first systematic attempts to describe it in its entirety from
centre to margins, coincided - in the sixteenth century - with
voyages of ‘discovery’ into the world beyond Britain, into the vast,
oceanic spaces east and west of the old world. That the local is
thus mapped onto the global is no mere coincidence: both projects
are part of the nascent English nation state’s efforts to assert and
expand its dominion, to open itself up to ‘traffic’ - in the full
Elizabethan sense of this word -, to define its ethnic, cultural,
and political identity, and to defend its self-proclaimed
superiority against threatening images of the alien other. Third,
the title is a metonym: ‘discovering’ Britain also means
exploring Britain, mapping Britain, constructing
Britain, making Britain - and, indeed, inventing
Britain. All these semantic inflections run through the essays
presented in this volume, and together they insist upon nationhood
or national identity being a cultural construct that is historically
variable, contestible, and open to constant negotiations and
re-negotiations.
The richness of the topic is reflected in the high
number of contributions (12) to this first double issue of JSBC.
The essays are arranged in roughly chronological order, beginning
with a study of Elizabethan and Jacobean maps, topographies and
chorographies - analysed as spatial and temporal representations
that document the different (and often contradictory) images of
nationhood emerging in early modern Britain (Klein). With the Act of
Union (1707) that made Scotland into a part of the United Kingdom
and with a dramatic increase in trade, industry and traffic, the
eighteenth century then witnessed an unprecedented growth in
domestic travelling and travel writing (Feldmann, Ghose, Kuczynski),
discovering not only a new wealth of natural resources and economic
activities but also, particularly in the second half of the century,
the aesthetic pleasures of the ‘picturesque’ in the British
landscape (Feldmann, Kuczynski, Bode). In the 19th
century, British domestic travel writing and related forms of
self-description became an important medium of the
condition-of-England debate (Kohl, Tetzeli). Finally, in our
century, there have been new departures in various directions:
Englishness or Britishness has become a marketable commodity and
travel writing has contributed to this commodification and its
patriotic resonances (Seeber, Wright); tourism as a mass phenomenon
has provoked alternative forms of ‘anti-tourism’ in which travelling
as a cultural experience is reserved for a self-deserved elite of
aesthetically sensitive individuals (Bode) or which goes out of its
way to avoid the celebrated sights of picturesque Britain (Schmid,
Wright); and, perhaps most importantly, Britain has become
multicultural and offers new aspects to be discovered (Schmid) and
new perspectives from which to explore it (Döring).
Contents:
- Pfister, Manfred, ‘Editorial’ (5-9)
- Klein, Bernhard, ‘Constructing the Space of the Nation:
Geography, Maps, and the Discovery of Britain in the Early
Modern Period’ (11-29)
- Feldmann, Doris, ‘Economic and/as Aesthetic
Constructions of Britishness in Eighteenth-Century Domestic
Travel Writing’ (31-45)
- Ghose, Indira, ‘The Fictive Stranger: Oliver Goldsmith’s
The Citizen of the World and Robert Southey’s
Letters From England’ (47-61)
- Stratmann, Gerd, ‘Life, Death, and the City: The
Discovery of London in the Early Eighteenth Century’
(63-72)
- Kuczynski, Ingrid, ‘A Discourse of Patriots: The
Penetration of the Scottish Highlands’ (73-93)
- Bode, Christoph, ‘Putting the Lake District on the
(Mental) Map: William Wordsworth’s Guide to the Lakes’
(95-111)
- Kohl, Stephan, ‘Imagining the Country as "The Country"
in the 1830s: William Cobbett, William Howitt, William
Turner’ (113-127)
- Tetzeli von Rosador, Kurt, ‘Into Darkest England:
Discovering the Victorian Urban Poor’ (129-144)
- Seeber, Hans Ulrich, ‘Edward Thomas and the Discovery of
England’ (145-162)
- Schmid, Susanne, ‘Exploring Multiculturalism: Bradford
Jews and Bradford Pakistanis’ (163-179)
- Döring, Tobias, ‘Discovering the Mother Country: The
Empire Travels Back’ (181-201)
- Pfister, Manfred, ‘"Writing the Obituaries": An
Interview With Patrick Wright’ (203-228)
Books
Reviewed:
- Hansen, Klaus P. (1995), Kultur und
Kulturwissenschaft. Eine Einführung (Kurt Tetzeli von
Rosador)
- Schwanitz, Dietrich (1995), Englische
Kulturgeschichte (Kurt Tetzeli von Rosador)
- Wallis, Helen (1994), Historian’s Guide to Early
British Maps. A Guide to the Location of Pre-1900 Maps of
the British Isles Preserved in the United Kingdom and
Ireland (Gerd Stratmann)
- Davids, Jens Ulrich / Richard Stinshoff, eds. (1996),
The Past in the Present. Proceedings of the 5th
Annual British and Cultural Studies Conference, Oldenburg
1994 (Ingrid von Rosenberg)
- Korte, Barbara (1996), Der englische Reisebericht.
Von der Pilgerfahrt bis zur Postmoderne (Reinhold
Schiffer)
- Maurer, Michael, ed. (1992), O Britannien, von deiner
Freiheit einen Hut voll. Deutsche Reiseberichte des 18.
Jahrhunderts (Judith Krafczyk)
- Rogers, Pat (1995), Johnson and Boswell. The Transit
of Caledonia (Stephan Kohl)
- Crinson, Mark (1996), Empire Building. Orientalism
and Victorian Architecture (Reinhold Schiffer)
- Jacobs, Jane M. (1996), Edge of Empire.
Postcolonialism and the City (Eleanor Byrne)
- Taylor, John (1994), A Dream of England. Landscape,
Photography and the Tourist’s Imagination (Barbara
Korte)
- Gervais, David (1993), Literary Englands. Versions of
‘Englishness’ in Modern Writing (Ute Berns)
- Pendreigh, Brian (1995), On Location. The Film Fan’s
Guide to Britain and Ireland (Kirsten Wächter)
- Barnes, Julian (1995), Letters from London 1990-1995
(John Poziemski)
Vol. 3,
2/96
Masculinities (guest editors: Susan Bassnett and Gisela
Ecker)
‘We don’t need another hero’ is the message
spelled out by artists as diverse as Tina Turner and Barbara
Kruger. Addressed to an unspecified public, the imperative
speech act seems to convey a clear sense of who the speakers and
their addressees are; yet who are ‘we’? Women? Or men? Or
present day society at large? Such questions reveal the tensions
between an apparent straightforwardness and the ambiguity of
social semantics, exposing the discursive problem zones of
contemporary culture and politics. One such problem zone, to
which the present issue of JSBC is devoted, is
masculinity. The groundswell of critical interest in the
cultural texts that help to reinforce images of public manliness
has been steadily increasing for some time now. What has begun
to emerge is a notion of masculinity as a plural concept (hence
the plural in the title of this volume), and as a far less
stable category than has hitherto been assumed. Responding to
this development, the articles in this issue draw their material
from a wide range of sources, from Raleigh to Bacon, from
Livingstone and Stanley to Chatwin, from Conrad to
advertisements for Levi’s jeans. Contributors explore codes of
manliness which contain a blend of self-control, understatement,
disinterestedness, a yearning for adventure, for testing the
limits of physical endurance and the seeming paradox of
simultaneously craving for solitude and needing to belong to a
world-wide gentleman’s club (Ghose/Pfister). Masculinity is
revealed as a defensive construction (Kramer) that has cast off
a gendered sexualised Other in a history of displacements that
can be traced back at least as far as the early modern period
(Scholz). In the nineteenth ce~4ury, at the high point of
britisj impebial expa.sioN, a normavive`-de0of mqsculinity was
I‰equatef wkth national wtatts, as is rveqled in the0w`y boys
sere taught to model themselves n soldier haroes, the stars0of
the imperial0age (Dawson). These ji{torical case st5dies are
rouodmd off by a crItical glance aT some ob`dhe feature oD the
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Contents:
- Bassnett, Susan / Gisela Ecker, ‘Editorial’ (99-102)
- Scholz, Susanne, ‘Questing for the Self: The
Constitution of Masculinity in Early Modern Discourses of
Discovery’ (103-116)
- Dawson, Graham, ‘Stars of Empire: Victorian Soldier
Heroes and Boyhood Masculinities’ (117-131)
- Kramer, Jürgen, ‘Lying as Surviving in Heart of
Darkness: Colonial Masculinity in Conrad’s Novella’
(133-147)
- Ghose, Indira / Manfred Pfister, ‘Still Going Strong:
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Traveller in Victorian
and Modern Travel Writing’ (149-164)
- Bristow, Joseph, ‘"Irresolutions, Anxieties, and
Contradictions": Ambivalent Trends in the Study of
Masculinity’ (165-180)
- Busch, Alexandra, ‘Writings on Masculinity: A Select
Bibliography’ (181-192)
Books
Reviewed:
- Connell, Robert (1995), Masculinities (Ilse
Lenz)
- Seidler, Victor J. (1994), Unreasonable Men.
Masculinity and Social Theory (Jana Gohrisch)
- Cornwall, Andrea / Nancy Lindisfarne, eds. (1994),
Dislocating Masculinity. Comparative Ethnographies
(Martin Middeke)
- Horrocks, Roger (1994), Masculinity in Crisis. Myths,
Fantasies, & Realities (Franc Donohoe)
- Mac An Ghaill, Máirtín (1994), The Making of Men.
Masculinities, Sexualities, and Schooling (Bettina
Mathes)
- Dawson, Graham (1994), Soldier Heroes. British
Adventure, Empire and the Imagining of Masculinities
(Ansgar Nünning)
- Gittings, Christopher E., ed. (1996), Imperialism and
Gender. Constructions of Masculinity (Willy Maley)
- Sharpe, Sue (1994), Fathers and Daughters
(Theresia Sauter-Bailliet)
- Budde, Gunilla-Friederike (1994), Auf dem Weg ins
Bürgerleben. Kindheit und Erziehung in deutschen und
englischen Bürgerfamilien, 1840-1914 (Peter Jelavich)
- Bettinger, Elfie / Julika Funk, eds. (1995),
Maskeraden. Geschlechterdifferenz in der literarischen
Inszenierung (Angelika Schlimmer)
Vol. 3,
1/96
Regional
Cultures: The Difference Within (guest editor: Elmar
Schenkel)
Regionalism has become a wildly contested topic.
A diffuse concept in constant need of specification and
application, regionalism is not merely an issue of scale but a
question of values and qualities. In theory, it is meant to
enable the negotiation between the Scylla of an increasingly
homogenized culture and the Charybdis of atomizing
individualism. But, as Chesterton knew, fresh divisions will
accompany any form of successful unification: ‘For another
process is going on, parallel to the process of connexion of
routes, and it is the disconnexion of ideas ... For we are for
the first time near enough to feel the full force of the
differences: and that sort of silent shock of collision is
occurring with the closer communications all over the world.’
(‘On the New Insularity’, 1931) Regional diversity defines the
English sense of place. This sense is, as Martin Green suggests
in his contribution, checked and cross-cut by other
post-industrial and post-modern developments: ‘[A]mid a
proliferation of points of identity the region is only one among
many "place" identities, coming into visibility in a highly
centralised nation-state "too late".’ Against this historical
delay, Green emphasizes the distinctive configuration of the
English regions, their past and present histories, and the need
of their assertion and celebration. Green’s discussion of the
conceptual implications of regionalism is complemented by
specific case-studies. Paul Goetsch looks at the rhetoric of
space and region and their cliché-like transpositions in
Victorian fiction. Two essays reflect contemporary economic and
urban aspects of the region. Georg Weinmann examines King Coal’s
decline in the last two decades, its effect on the
self-awareness of the regions, and on the north-south axis.
Eddie Cass discusses the revival of the inner city of Manchester
and links his observations to the recent debate concerning the
so-called heritage culture. Finally, Elmar Schenkel suggests
that the essay, because of its amphibious nature as a genre,
seems to be predestined to serve as a medium for such an equally
amphibious concept as regionalism.
Contents:
- Schenkel, Elmar, ‘Editorial’ (3-4)
- Green, Michael, ‘De-centred Britain: Regional
Imaginaries’ (5-14)
- Goetsch, Paul, ‘North and South in Victorian Fiction’
(15-29)
- Weinmann, Georg, ‘The Death of a King: Domestic Coal in
the English Regions’ (31-43)
- Cass, Eddie, ‘Manchester, a New City? The Role of Urban
Heritage and the Arts in a City Revival’ (45-58)
- Schenkel, Elmar, ‘Essaying the Region: W.H. Hudson and
the Regional Essay’ (59-72)
- Kamm, Jürgen, ‘The City and the Country: A Conference
Report’ (73-78)
Books
Reviewed:
- Jewell, Helen M. (1994), The North-South Divide. The
Origins of Northern Consciousness in England (Ronald G.
Asch)
- Haughton, Graham / David Whitney, eds. (1994),
Reinventing a Region. Restructuring in West Yorkshire
(Anne E. Green)
- Gold, John R. / Stephen V. Ward, eds. (1994), Place
Promotion. The Use of Publicity and Marketing to Sell Towns
and Regions (Peter M. Townroe)
- Currie, C.R.J. / C.P. Lewis, eds. (1994), English
County Histories. A Guide (Gerd Stratmann)
- Northern Review. A Journal of Regional and Cultural
Affairs (Gerd Stratmann)
- Hoggart, Richard (1994), Townscape With Figures.
Farnham - Portrait of an English Town (H. Gustav Klaus)
- Kastendiek, Hans / Karl Rohe / Angelika Volle, eds.
(1994), Länderbericht Großbritannien. Geschichte,
Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft (Jürgen Kamm)
- Dyson, Anne (1994), Britain in View (John
Poziemski)
- Oakland, John (1995), British Civilization. An
Introduction (Claus-Ulrich Viol)
Vol. 2,
2/95
Regional
Cultures: The Difference Between (guest editor: Christopher
Harvie)
These days, to say (in Western Europe) that one
is Scots, Welsh, or Irish, is usually to guarantee a warmth of
response denied to the English. Is this part of a sinister
continental conspiracy to reduce England to the dregs of
football-patriotism, soap-operas and the tabloid press? Or is it
that contemporary England seems simultaneously too variegated
and too centralised an idea to grasp? Either way, the
phenomenon requires us to consider Britain’s regions - both past
and present - on their own merit. To do this is to quickly
realise that on the ‘Celtic Fringe’ cultural studies is both
history and immediate politics, and to realise that the
comfortable elitist ideology which was marketed in post-war
German textbooks of Englandkunde has vanished forever.
Instead, while the last thirty years have seen an elite-composed
culture of lose confidence, increasing ‘differences between’ the
various nations and regions of the United Kingdom have risen
from much of the subtlety of analysis, the capability of
balancing discourse, class, ethnie, religion, topography,
migrating to the margin. In the politics of the Welsh language,
in the ‘revisionist’ trend in Irish historical scholarship, and
in the renaissance of Scottish literary and historical study,
academic vigour has evicted crude nationalist ideology. In this
issue, five essays examine various aspects of the crucial
‘differences between’ nations and regions in the British Isles:
Bernhard Klein looks at Elizabethan and Jacobean maps of Ireland
to assess the contribution of cartography to the process of
internal colonization; Eberhard Bort studies the drama of
Northern Ireland to show how the popular culture of the theatre
can create out of ethnic alienation a sense of moral debate
which is the first stage to a recovery of civil society; Joachim
Schwend analyses the uses and abuses to which partisan views of
history have been put in the Anglo-Scottish relationship;
Douglas MacLeod looks at Nazi attempts to exacerbate divisions
within Britain by a radio offensive; and Marion Löffler shows
the study of the Welsh language has contributed to a separatist
mentalité that can be as distinct as that of the Irish
Republic. Finally, Jochen Achilles, Horst W. Drescher, and
Christopher Harvie offer a survey of the current opportunities
to study British regional culture(s) from Germany.
Contents:
- Harvie, Christopher, ‘A Letter to the Scottish Minister
of State’ (107-114)
- Klein, Bernhard, ‘English Cartographers and the Mapping
of Ireland in the Early Modern Period’ (115-139)
- Bort, Eberhard, ‘Staging the Troubles: Civil Conflict
and Drama in Northern Ireland’ (141-160)
- Schwend, Joachim, ‘The Past as a Burden: History in the
Anglo-Irish Relationship’ (161-172)
- MacLeod, Douglas, ‘Germany Calling Scotland: The Buro
Concordia and Scottish Nationalism in World War II’
(173-185)
- Löffler, Marion, ‘The Welsh Language in Wales: Public
Gain and Private Grief?’ (187-200)
- Achilles, Jochen / Horst W. Drescher / Christopher
Harvie, ‘The Study of the British Regions from Germany’
(201-217)
Books
Reviewed:
- Harrison, Richard T. / Mark Hart, eds. (1993),
Spatial Policy in a Divided Nation (Heinz Zielinski)
- Harvie, Christopher (1994), The Rise of Regional
Europe (Roland Sturm)
- Calder, Angus (1994), Revolving Culture. Notes from
the Scottish Republic (H. Gustav Klaus)
- Dickson, Tony, / James H. Treble, eds. (1992), People
and Society in Scotland, III, 1914-1990 (Horst W.
Drescher)
- McCrone, David (1992), Understanding Scotland. The
Sociology of a Stateless Nation (Edward J. Cowan)
- Scott, H. Paul, ed. (1993), Scotland. A Concise
Cultural History (Gerd Stratmann)
- Wood, Ian S., ed. (1994), Scotland and Ulster
(Priscilla Metscher)
- Welsh Writing in English. A Yearbook of Critical
Essays (Ursula Kimpel)
- Trosset, Carol (1993), Welshness Performed. Welsh
Concepts of Person and Society (Rob Humphreys)
- Dohmen, Doris (1994), Das deutsche Irlandbild.
Imagologische Untersuchungen zur Darstellung Irlands und der
Iren in der deutschsprachigen Literatur (Eoin Burke)
Vol. 2,
1/95
Positions, Polemics, Proposals
Cultural Studies undeniably exists as a current
critical practice, yet the debate over what it is and what it
intends to achieve continues. For this reason, the third issue
of JSBC combines three thematic essays that show cultural
studies ‘at work’ with two papers that exchange polemical
arguments on its current and (possible) future state. The first
two essays implicitly challenge a widespread but misguided
conviction that has only recently been affirmed by Simon During
in his Cultural Studies Reader (London: Routledge 1993),
where he boldly states that ‘[c]ultural studies is, of course,
the study of culture, or, more particularly, the study of
contemporary culture.’ (1, his emphasis) Pace During,
both Susanne Scholz and Vera Nünning testify to the significance
of the historical dimension in cultural studies. Scholz
demonstrates how in early modern England the discursive practice
of ‘history’ changes in relation to the slow emergence of
nationhood as a new concept of collective political identity;
Nünning describes how the semantic and cultural transformation
from ‘honour’ to ‘honest’ in the 18th century
explains the growing awareness and self-image of the new
middling ranks. Complementing these historically oriented
approaches, Klaus Peter Müller examines the relationship between
literary and cultural studies by combining a theoretical
analysis of the cultural construction of value and meaning with
a reading of the interplay of fact and fiction(s) in
contemporary English drama. In response to JSBC’s offer
to serve as a forum for critical debate, Wolfgang Riedel takes
issue with two contributions printed in our first issue,
defining the specific aims of cultural studies in contrast to
Hans Kastendiek’s comparative Landeskunde approach and
Ulrich Broich’s defence of literary studies (see below).
Finally, Dirk Hoerder, taking his cue from American studies,
outlines approaches and perspectives that differ substantially
from those that have recently been presented in a British
cultural studies context.
Contents:
- Kramer, Jürgen / Bernd Lenz, ‘Editorial’ (3-4)
- Scholz, Susanne, ‘Tales of Origins and Destination: The
Uses of History in the Narrative of the Nation’ (5-17)
- Nünning, Vera, ‘From "Honour" to "Honest": The
Inventions of the (Superiority of the) Middling Ranks in
Eighteenth-Century England’ (19-41)
- Müller, Klaus-Peter, ‘Facts and Fictions in Cultural
Studies: The Cohesive Paradoxical Agency of Value and
Meaning’ (43-59)
- Riedel, Wolfgang, ‘Cultural Studies: Positions and
Oppositions’ (61-73)
- Hoerder, Dirk, ‘Cultural Studies: Problems and
Approaches’ (75-80)
- Stinshoff, Richard, ‘British OR Cultural Studies -
British AND Cultural Studies?: A Conference Report’ (81-87)
Books
Reviewed:
- Clark, Robert / Piero Boitani, eds. (1993), English
Studies in Transition. Essays from the ESSE Inaugural
Conference (Gerd Stratmann)
- Byram, Michael, ed. (1994), Culture and Language
Learning in Higher Education (Hein Versteegen)
- Bannet, Eve Tavor (1993), Postcultural Theory.
Critical Theory After the Marxist Paradigm (Wolfgang
Riedel)
- Inglis, Fred (1993), Cultural Studies (Klaus
Peter Müller)
- Gray, Anne / Jim McGuigan, eds. (1993), Studying
Culture. An Introductory Reader (Gerd Stratmann)
Vol. 1,
2/94
Thatcherism
In the days of New Labour Margaret Thatcher may
seem a distant, even unreal political figure, but the image of
an increasingly selfish, greedy and unjust society will stick
with the decade that bears her name. It emerges, for instance,
in Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger (1992), beyond doubt
one of the best historical novels written in the 1980s. Though
set in the mid 18th century aboard a slave ship, it
does not aim to hide its engagement with the Thatcher years:
‘Money is sacred, as everyone knows’, a protagonist affirms. ‘So
then must be the hunger for it and the means we use to obtain
it.’ Unsworth claimed in an interview that it was ‘impossible to
live in the Eighties without being affected by the
sanctification of greed. My image of the slave ship was based on
the desire to find the perfect symbol for that entrepreneurial
spirit.’ The novelist and Booker-prize winner was not alone in
his judgement. Four years earlier, the Observer warned
that ‘Mrs Thatcher’s philosophy provides no inspiration, for it
ignores the fact that a free market society inevitably produces
victims who cannot be blamed and should not be punished for
their failure ... [H]er speeches lack one crucial word that she
cannot bring herself to utter. The word is compassion.’ In
post-Diana Britain, these concerns may no longer seem as urgent
as they did over a decade ago but Thatcherism and what it stood
for are still very much with us. This issue looks at the
phenomenon from various disciplinary perspectives. A linguist
(Diller) analyses Thatcher’s rhetoric explaining the political
potency of different figures of speech; a political scientist
(Noetzel) makes sense of the cultural debate over the trade
unions by relating it to more general social transformations.
Two further contributors assess the impact of the Thatcherite
era on their particular fields of study, respectively English
literature (Kohl) and history (Lahme). Our final author
(Quadflieg) links historical, political and literary-critcal
arguments to makes sense of a particular cultural problematic.
Contents:
- Kramer, Jürgen, ‘Editorial’ (89-92)
- Diller, Hans-Jürgen, ‘Thatcher in Bruges: A Study in
Euro-rhetoric’ (93-109)
- Lahme, Rainer, ‘Consensus and Conflict: Margaret
Thatcher and the Trade Unions’ (111-122)
- Kohl, Stephan, ‘Thatcher’s London in Contemporary
English Novels’ (123-132)
- Noetzel, Thomas, ‘Political Decadence? Aspects of
Thatcherite Englishness’ (133-147)
- Quadflieg, Helga, ‘Across Borders, Beyond Borders:
Perspectives of a Multicultural Society’ (149-172)
Books
Reviewed:
- Riddell, Peter (1991), The Thatcher Era. And Its
Legacy (Reinhold Schiffer)
- Gamble, Andrew (1994), The Free Economy and the
Strong State. The Politics of Thatcherism (Gerd
Stratmann)
- Geelhoed, E. Bruce, with the assistance of James F.
Hobbs (1992), Margaret Thatcher. In Victory and Downfall,
1987 and 1990 (Günther Lottes)
- Friedmann, Lester, ed. (1993), British Cinema and
Thatcherism. Fires Were Started (David Rankin)
- Willman, Paul / Tim Morris / Beverly Aston (1993),
Union Business. Trade Union Organisation and Financial
Reform in the Thatcher Years (Gerd Stratmann)
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