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:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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:

• Gesa Stedman, 'Editorial: Cultural Studies. State of the Art'
• Sebastian Berg, 'Locating the Political in Cultural Studies'
• Rainer Emig, 'Cultural Studies and Literary Studies: A Troubled Relation'
• Jutta Schwarzkopf, 'The Relationship of History to Cultural Studies'
• Udo Göttlich, 'Media and Communication Science in Germany and its (Inter)relations with Media and Cultural Studies'

Books Reviewed:

• Monika Seidl, Roman Horak & Lawrence Grossberg, eds. (2010), About Raymond Williams
• Jürgen Kramer (2011), Taking Stock: 35 Essays from 35 Years of Studying English-Speaking Cultures   
• Gabriele Linke, ed. (2011), Teaching Cultural Studies: Methods – Matters – Models
• 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:

• Jürgen Kramer & Bernd Lenz, ‘Introduction: Representing Terrorism’
• Andrew Glazzard, ‘"That Horrid Science": Fictional Representations of Terrorism in an Age of Scientific Anxiety’
• Michael C. Frank, ‘It Could Happen Here: The What-If Logic of Counterterrorism and the Literary Imagination’
• Birgit Neumann, ‘Screening Terrorism, the IRA and the “Troubles”: Gender Politics and the Politics of Terrorism in Neil Jordan's The Crying Game’
• Heinrich Versteegen, ‘Turbans and Balaclavas: Images of Terrorism in British Political Cartoons’
• Frauke Hofmeister, ‘Forgetting the Disturbance? Places Commemorating Terrorist Attacks in Contemporary Britain’

Books Reviewed:

• Leonard Weinberg (2012), The End of Terrorism
• Norbert Greiner & Felix Sprang (2011), Lesarten des Terrorismus
• Fiona Tolan et al., Literature, Migration and the War on Terror
• Joy Sather-Wagstaff (2011), Heritage that Hurts           
• Martin Randall (2011), 9/11 and the Literature of Terror
• 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:

• Anja Müller-Wood, ‘Introduction: How Powerful is Big Brother?’
• Ben Harbisher, ‘The Bureaucratization of Dissent: Public Order and Protest in Modern Britain’
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Books Reviewed:

• David Barnard-Wills (2012), Surveillance and Identity. Discourse,Subjectivity and the State
• Julian Petley (2011), Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain
• Gerold Sedlmayr (2011), The Discourse of Madness in Britain, 1790-1815. Medicine, Politics, Literature
• Nadine Christina Böhm (2009), Sakrales Sehen. Strategien der Sakralisierung im Kino der Jahrtausendwende
• Silke Stroh (2011), Uneasy Subjects: Postcolonialism and Scottish Gaelic Poetry
• Susanne Gruss (2009), The Pleasure of the Feminist Text: Reading Michèle Roberts and Angela Carter
• Christian Huck (2010), Fashioning Society, or, The Mode of Modernity:     Observing Fashion in Eighteenth-Century Britain
• 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)

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• 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  

 

Vol. 16, 2/2009

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

 

 

Vol. 16, 1/2009

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

 

Vol. 15, 2/2008

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

 

Vol. 15, 1/2008

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.

 

Vol. 14, 2/2007

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.

 

Vol. 14, 1/2007

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)

 

Vol. 13, 2/2006

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)

 

Vol. 13, 1/2006

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)

 

Vol. 12, 2/2005

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)


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• MülLer, Eariol (2004), "\hese Savage Beasts become Domestick". T(e Discourse onbthe Passigns iN Eaòly"Iodern England (Christian ScHmitt-Kilb)
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  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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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)

 

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)

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)

 

 

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