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Conclusion
Authors: Weeks Liam
Published: January 2019

The final chapter summarises the various arguments discussed in the previous eight chapters, but also considers the normative value of independents, taking into account the consequences they can pose for party democracy. This constitutes the latter section of this chapter, which assesses the merit of a number of accusations made against independents, based on the evidence used in this study. In particular, it focuses on six criticisms of independents: that they make it difficult to form a government, that they cause instability, that they make parliament unworkable, that they skew the allocation of national resources, that they negotiate secret deals, and that they reduce cohesion and accountability in parliament.
Critical studies of the politics of public health promotion
Authors: Triantafillou Peter , Vucina Naja
Published: January 2019

The chapter provides an overview of existing critical social science studies of health promotion and outlines the analytical framework used in the remainder of the book. First, we review and discuss the merits and the limitations of the most influential political science, political economy, and sociological analyses, seeking to critically address contemporary politics of health. Second, we account for the Foucauldian-inspired analytical framework used in the empirical analyses. This implies accounting for the ways in which we adopt key analytical principles and concepts from Foucault’s work in order to analyse power-knowledge relations and unquestioned norms in the contemporary politics of health.
Fighting obesity in England
Authors: Triantafillou Peter , Vucina Naja
Published: January 2019

This chapter analyses predominant forms of political rationalities, expert knowledge, and governing technologies employed in the attempt to govern obesity in England. First, we look into some of the historical antecedents to contemporary health promotion by briefly accounting for the preventive measures addressing obesity in the early twentieth century. We then turn to the re-casting of obesity as a question of lifestyle conduct during the 1980s. This is followed by an examination of the mobilisation of the community by the recent British governments and the attempt to apply behavioural knowledge and techniques (nudging) to governing obesity. Finally, we zoom in on the governing of child obesity and the role that the so-called fat camps play in obesity management.
Promoting recovery in Denmark
Authors: Triantafillou Peter , Vucina Naja
Published: January 2019

This chapter examines political rationalities, expertise, and techniques of government involved in the emergence and implementation of recovery in Denmark. Our overall argument in this chapter is that recovery as a government technology unfolds right between the reciprocally depended practices of what Foucault refers to as government of others and government of the self. While the facilitator of recovery is the health professional, whose professionality comes down to being a coach, the expert of recovery is in fact the patient who is over and again urged to reflect upon herself and the possibilities of improving her current health and functions. The focus of mental recovery is on the lived life, experiences with mental illness, hopes, and dreams. It is in the merging of the expertise of individual transformation and the expertise of experience that recovery operates as a government technology.
‘We goe to heaven against each others wills’: revising Religio Medici in the English Revolution
Authors: Augustine Matthew C.
Published: January 2019

Literary historians long considered Thomas Browne uninterested in the great events of his day. While more recent scholarship has revised this picture, it has tended to place the famous Dr Browne on the wrong side of a conflict between conservatives and radicals. This chapter begins by re-examining the relations between and among writing, politics, and class in revolutionary England, emphasising the fluidity of the ideological context in which Browne’s meditation was first written and published. The second part of the chapter traces the processual character of Browne’s text, that is, the multiplicity of material forms and circumstances in which his Religio Medici might have been encountered, and the various interlocutions that soon attached themselves to it and mediated its meanings. Finally, it seeks to reconstruct the religious subject and the spiritual politics constituted out of the text’s distinctive rhetorical form. Stepping out provisionally, with a sense of limitation, with a sense of style, this chapter argues, Religio Medici brilliantly addresses itself to the heresy of certainty under which Browne saw the Stuart church beginning to buckle.
‘But Iconoclastes drawn in little’: making and unmaking a Whig Marvell
Authors: Augustine Matthew C.
Published: January 2019

This chapter explores the cracks in Marvell and Milton’s presumed political alliance. Digging out the roots of this tradition, it argues that the notion of Marvell and Milton’s ‘exceptionless’ friendship first emerges as a tactic of the high churchmen writing against Marvell’s witty pamphlet in support of religious toleration, The Rehearsal Transpros’d (1672). But if the ‘Miltonizing’ of Marvell was originally sponsored by Anglican absolutism, the ideology that has maintained it from the nineteenth century to our own turns out to be modern liberalism itself. As a result, it has often been difficult to apprehend Marvell’s politics on their own terms. By untethering Marvell from Milton, as this chapter shows through detailed reconsiderations of Marvell’s poetry and prose, we stand to gain not only a fresh bearing on the historical Marvell, but also, and what is of perhaps wider import, a resolutely Marvellian bearing on the divisions and tumults of his age.
‘It had an odde promiscuous tone’: Lord Rochester and Restoration modernity
Authors: Augustine Matthew C.
Published: January 2019

This chapter explores how the framework of a ‘long eighteenth century’ distorts our sense of Restoration literature through a process of selective reading and imagining that emphasises ‘the shape of the future’. The writings of Lord Rochester provide the ground on which this argument is tested. In tracing Rochester’s texts through the circuits of script and print, this chapter illuminates the radical unfixity of Rochester as cultural sign. To privilege Rochester’s ‘Augustanism’, or to see him, as recent commentators would have it, as a ‘proto-Whig’, is perforce to strain against the varied cultural scripts he so promiscuously fashioned and in which he was no less promiscuously apprehended and imagined. More largely, this chapter argues, by refiguring Rochester, we may also appreciate the decidedly mixed character of whatever might be called ‘Restoration modernity’.
‘Transprosing and Transversing’: religion, revolution, and the end of history in Dryden’s late works
Authors: Augustine Matthew C.
Published: January 2019

Notwithstanding its reputation as a secular age, the Restoration was notable for its religious converts, not least its most famous pair of writers, Lord Rochester and the Stuart laureate John Dryden. This chapter explores the development of Dryden’s art in the wake of his conversion to Rome in 1685 and the subsequent failure of Stuart rule. Its theme is ‘transprosing and transversing’, as Dryden and his contemporaries referred to the transformation of one kind of text into another. Dryden’s late work of fable and translation represents an extensive body of transversive writing – one that resonates strongly with his experience as a convert, of fashioning a new spiritual and political identity on top of a prior script that cannot be wholly erased. And indeed, in the palimpsestic play of Dryden’s late aesthetic, this chapter also traces a shift in the poet’s conception of English history, from the providential typologies of Astraea Redux (1660) and Absalom and Achitophel (1681) to the self-consciously contingent allegories of The Hind and the Panther (1687), Don Sebastian (1689), and Fables (1700).
Coda
Authors: Augustine Matthew C.
Published: January 2019

With the fashioning of an English Bill of Rights and the consolidation of William and Mary’s authority, with the death of James II in exile, the ascendance of Queen Anne, the union of England and Scotland, the succession in 1714 of the Hanoverian Elector George I, and the definitive exclusion of the Stuarts, it would seem that we come to the end of ‘England’s troubles’, and so at last to the solid, rational eighteenth century. ‘Behold!’ Pope commands in the sonorous distiches of ‘Windsor Forest’,...
Vicarious gestures of participation
Authors: Bala Sruti
Published: January 2019

Chapter IV follows two conceptually inspired performance projects by the Amsterdam-based Lebanese artist Lina Issa, Where We Are Not (2009) and If I Could Take Your Place? (2010 – ongoing). These works explore the question of what it means to take someone else’s place, to participate in someone’s life by doing something on their behalf, in the mode of ‘as if’. By analysing how this vicarious participation unfolds, the chapter foregrounds the spectatorial parameters of participation. The theorization of participation calls for an interweaving of the aesthetic with the social or political. Issa’s playful performances of standing in for others point to larger questions of what it means to participate in collective processes of imagining selfhood. The chapter suggests that the solidarity in the gesture of vicarious participation lies not so much in recognizing the so-called ‘other’ or in celebrating differences, but rather in being willing to dispossess oneself of the fixity of one’s ideas of the self, a potentially transformative gesture.
Delicate gestures of participation
Authors: Bala Sruti
Published: January 2019

Chapter V examines an installation-based project titled Nomad City Passage (2005-2009) by the German scenographic and visual artists Rebekka Reich and Oliver Gather, in which visitors are invited to spend a night in a tent in an unconventional urban site, such as the top floor of a high-rise building or inside a shopping mall. The analysis focuses on how common-sense assumptions around audience participation in theatre and performance theory are called into question by the artwork’s foregrounding of sleep as a mode of participation. The delicacy of this is evidenced in the ambivalence of sleep in a scenically prepared setting, oscillating between being an intense, active, dynamic experience on the one side, and a non-performance, an absence of activity on the other. The chapter suggests that audience participation in the artwork and in the artwork’s participation in urban spaces differ in significant ways from sociological and political concepts of participation. Where social theory conceives of civic participation in terms of being a part of a social unit, the aesthetics of Nomad City Passage emphasizes participation in a counterintuitive way: it becomes possible to participate precisely because of not being a part of some shared community ideal.
Conclusion: between image, act, body and language
Authors: Bala Sruti
Published: January 2019

I have argued throughout this study that participatory art practices need to be understood in conjunction with the anxieties and contradictions that accompany them. Whether or not this is a formally constitutive characteristic worthy of naming as a genre is, in my view, less important than finding ways to account for and be responsive to the questions it poses. This is the place that this study departed from, yet oddly, it also the place it finds itself arriving at. For if this study has inquired into some of the conditions for and articulations of participation in the arts, it has also turned out to be an investigation of the ways in which participation is already circumscribed by the questions we ask of it, such as the social impact of participatory art, or its specific aesthetic features. The frictions in this endeavour will have become apparent to the perceptive reader: on the one hand I attempt to identify commonalities and systematic coherences in a field named as participatory art, and on the other hand I seek to analyse it in terms of its deviations from, and incommensurability with, a systematic narrative, in the emphasis of unruly, subtle, non-formalizable modes of participation. I treat participatory art as an inherited category, looking at its diverse, specific operations, or disciplinary routes and historical legacies. At the same time, I try to alter the terms of received wisdom by extrapolating principles and observations from the confines of one disciplinary arena into another. I search for ways in which affiliation to a given type of participatory practice might be described, only to find that formal coherences are perforated by aspects that exceed those same terms of affiliation. The analysis of participatory art and the conceptualization of participation in and through art thereby become intertwined in complex ways....
Introduction
Authors: Lasc Anca I.
Published: January 2019

In 1881, the city of Paris sought to establish a furnishing school – the future École Boulle (opened in 1886) – in the very heart of Faubourg Saint-Antoine, the city’s center for trade and manufacturing. For this, it attempted to gain the support of professionals already working in the trades, including furniture and upholstery. Legriel and Lemoine, the presidents at the time of the Chambre syndicale de la tapisserie and the Chambre syndicale de l’ameublement, respectively, opposed the project vehemently. Chief among their concerns was the impossibility of providing cabinet-makers and upholsterers with a similar education....
Private home, artistic stage: the circulation and display of interior dreamscapes
Authors: Lasc Anca I.
Published: January 2019

Pierre-Luc Cicéri, chief decorator at the Paris Opéra, also established a career as interior decorator and educator of students that treated interior spaces as three-dimensional images and artworks in their own right. Cicéri’s followers helped push the art of fantasy architecture to a new level, creating a new form of art and popular entertainment around the “ideal home.” Exhibited at the Salon and at a variety of universal and decorative arts exhibitions as well as published in expensive, luxury folios and reprinted in cheaper, popular editions, the “interior dreamscapes” by Cicéri’s followers disseminated the interior for interior’s sake. The domestic interior could be admired, collected, hidden inside cabinets, or reappropriated as an object of contemplation for private walls. The same images functioned as two-dimensional blueprints for the construction of three-dimensional settings and as advertising schemes for the artists that produced and popularized them, furthering interest in and creating a common language about the appearance of the modern, private home. The chapter ultimately argues that wishful thinking and vicarious identification with the - often missing - owners of the model interiors made available through these means and furtively perused in private homes helped create a professional niche that would soon be occupied by the interior designer.
The image of furniture: department stores and the trade in interior decoration designs
Authors: Lasc Anca I.
Published: January 2019

Chapter 4 examines department store retail in the second half of the nineteenth century to understand how the interior decorating schemes proposed on paper by the various professions discussed above could materialize in the homes of middle-class consumers. In doing so, the chapter argues that department stores were eager to align themselves with the thriving market in artistic interior decoration designs, contributing to the further popularization of this new art form. Through their full-scale model rooms inside the store as much as through their widely distributed and highly illustrated furniture catalogs, the Grands Magasins du Louvre, Au Bon Marché, Le Printemps, Au Petit St.-Thomas, and the Grands Magasins Dufayel brought the image of the most modern furniture and matching interiors to life, right in front of customers’ eyes. By selling the same furniture combinations and decorative schemes in a variety of materials, these stores catered to several social groups at once. Further, by offering personalized interior decorating services to those customers who wished to obtain an exclusive décor, French department stores in the second half of the nineteenth century became themselves early forerunners of the twentieth-century profession of interior designer.
Beautiful disorder, exception to the rule: the development of a new design aesthetic
Authors: Lasc Anca I.
Published: January 2019

In the last chapter, the book returns to the work of architects. It argues that architects’ engagement with popular journals helped shape new interior decorating styles by examining the projects undertaken by architect Alexandre Sandier and sponsored by the popular journal the Revue Illustrée. The chapter ultimately claims that imagination and theming played a most important role in the development of the profession of interior designer as well as in the formulation of new decorative styles such as Art Nouveau. These two developments are inextricably linked and cannot be understood in separation from each other.
Epilogue: The presentness of historicism: the Musée centennal du mobilier et de la décoration and the legacy of proto-interior designers
Authors: Lasc Anca I.
Published: January 2019

The Epilogue charts the career of Georges Rémon, artistic grandchild of Pierre-Luc Cicéri. Rémon was an inventor of interior designs that took the historicist, themed aesthetic to a new level. Equally well-versed in revivalist and Art Nouveau interiors, Rémon also invented interior decorating schemes that paid lip service to the more recent political regimes of the nineteenth century (Second Republic style, Louis-Philippe style, Napoléon III style) as well as decorative settings in what would later become the Art Deco style. His workshop designed not only period rooms for the 1900 universal exhibition but also interiors of several ocean liners that brought the French aesthetic to America. His career is thus a perfect example of how the artistic output of upholsterers, cabinet-makers, architects, stage designers, illustrators, collectors and department store managers, directed towards the private interior, invented a “system,” which saw that unity and harmony, as expressed through one main theme and coordinated by the same person, would guide the design of each interior. Without the invention of this “system,” the twentieth-century profession of the interior designer might never have been born.
A sense of place: historicism, whither wilt?
Authors: D’Addario Christopher
Published: January 2019

In the last decade, the historicism that had become so familiar to us by the turn of the century has increasingly come under challenge, revised, reconsidered and often rejected from a number of different directions. This chapter explores recent innovations in and challenges to understanding the relationship between text and context, including the new formalism, historical phenomenology, and cognitive poetics. Of particular interest here are the innovations and difficulties that can come with attempting an historicism grounded in local affects and perceptions, with examples drawn from Thomas Browne and W. G. Sebald, among others. In the process, D’Addario considers the appeal of alternative literary histories, the difficulties of periodisation, and the legacies of New Historicism. The chapter ends with a gesture to embracing studies that admit their speculative nature, that embrace and accept their historicism as novel re-imaginings of the past.
‘Armed winter, and inverted day’: the politics of cold in Dryden and Purcell’s King Arthur
Authors: Cotterill Anne
Published: January 2019

Led by the perspectives of eco-criticism and climate science, this chapter approaches King Arthur through its famous masque, the Frost Scene, which the evil Saxon wizard Osmond conjures in the war between pagan Saxons and Arthur’s Christian Britons. The masque crystallises a set of moral, cultural, and political associations hitherto unexplored in Dryden’s work around cold, ice, winter, and the far North in opposition to the warmth of temperate zones and of mercy. At the end of a century of severe winters and increasing interest in the nature of cold, and performed while William III led England to war in Europe, King Arthur demonises cold and war, characterising obliquely the national climate of war as an unnatural inversion of what Dryden had earlier celebrated as his former patron Charles II’s warmly civilising rule as ‘Royal Husbandman’. Not Arthur’s swordplay but the spirit Philidel’s discriminating vision and capacity for tender pity at human suffering represent the useful heroism in an ‘armed winter’.
The European Marvell
Authors: Smith Nigel
Published: January 2019

This chapter investigates Marvell’s poetry in the context of three aspects of seventeenth-century European poetry and in light of Marvell’s own connections with the continental Europe of his lifetime, and his interest in European literature in Latin and the vernacular languages. The chapter argues that our understanding of Marvell is far better served by regarding his enterprises as poet, prose writer, and political agent as a part of the particular literary power relationships and the political role of literature that pertained in continental Europe, in many ways differing from English situations. Topics discussed include the patronage and veneration of European poets, the cross-lingual arenas of poetic contest in times of international conflict, and the broader significance of the appeal to Marvell of European poetry, exemplified in the case of the Spanish poet Luis de Góngora y Argote.
Waller, Tasso, and Marvell’s Last Instructions to a Painter
Authors: Raylor Timothy
Published: January 2019

This chapter examines a passage in Marvell’s Last Instructions to a Painter concerned with the death of Archibald Douglas. While the passage might, considered in isolation, appear to be arbitrarily dilated to allow Marvell to indulge some of his imaginative and literary preoccupations, study of its textual underpinnings suggests that it was prompted and shaped by literary and political occasions coalescing around the poetry and politics of Edmund Waller. The chapter argues that the passage revises and corrects Waller’s recasting of Tasso’s version of a Virgilian topos, erasing the romance motivations that, in earlier versions, animate the scene in favour of epic austerity. It thus illuminates the connection between literary and political antagonisms in the Restoration, making clear not only the degree to which arguments about policy were conducted through literary texts, but also the extent to which poetic genre could itself be constitutive of court ideology and national policy.
How John Dryden read his Milton: The State of Innocence reconsidered
Authors: Augustine Matthew C.
Published: January 2019

This chapter reconsiders John Dryden’s dramatic adaptation of Paradise Lost, The State of Innocence. Not exactly neglected, neither has Dryden’s opera been much appreciated by modern critics. Focusing on the relation between text and paratext, this chapter brings into focus not only Dryden’s ambivalence about Milton but also about the nature and direction of his own art by the middle of the 1670s. Suspended daringly between the heroic and the mock-heroic, Dryden’s opera detunes the antithesis between Milton’s ‘strenuous liberty’ and Restoration libertinage even as it accommodates Milton’s anti-Augustan poetics to Dryden’s mature Augustan vision.
On behalf of the Age of Andrew Marvell?
Authors: Zwicker Steven N.
Published: January 2019

Can a literary age belong to a writer who made a secret of his poems and whose pamphlets were veiled in anonymity? If so, then the middle decades of the seventeenth might be called the age of Andrew Marvell, perhaps not in the way that the opening of this century was the Age of Shakespeare or that its late decades were John Dryden’s own, but a case might be made for the hidden life of the poet as the very emblem of those decades, of the Age of Andrew Marvell. The afterword to Texts and Readers explores this enigmatic, this emblematic possibility.
Journeying through Marxism
Authors: Harvey Mark
Published: January 2019

This chapter gives an account of how the perspectives of a political philosopher and an economic sociologist are brought to bear on how the contemporary extremes of inequality are generated in society. It explains why Marx remains a major focus of interest. It then sets the book within the contemporary debates and approaches to inequality, both national and global. It argues that in important ways the latter are a regression from Marx, whereas this book represents an attempt to go beyond Marx, by exploring deeper and broader analysis of the processes generating inequalities to both market and public goods.
Coercive Capitalisms: Politico-economies of Slavery, Indentured Labour and Debt Peonage
Authors: Harvey Mark
Published: January 2019

As a complement to the previous chapter, based on current scholarship and debates, this chapter demonstrates how deeply entwined slavery was with the development of industrial capitalism. Moreover, thriving slave economies were succeeded by new forms of bonded and unfree labour, rather than free wage labour, through to the middle of the 20th century. It argues that there is no purely economic incompatibility between capitalism and slavery, including in the present day. Only political struggles and new moralities replaced old forms of economic and power inequalities with the persistent inequalities of the present day. The chapter analyses the epistemological suppression of slavery and coerced labour within classical and modern economic conceptions of the abstract market economy.
Exhibition
Authors: Paxton Naomi
Published: January 2019

This chapter examines the participation of the Actresses' Franchise League in large immersive indoor suffrage exhibitions, fairs and bazaars, introducing their work within the context of the performative propaganda strategies of the wider suffrage movement and its interventions in public visually oriented space. Beginning with a particular focus on the WSPU Women’s Exhibition of 1909, this chapter considers representations of women and womanhood in suffrage plays and entertainments and how theatre and performance was used to explore issues of violence, imprisonment and activism.
Militancy
Authors: Paxton Naomi
Published: January 2019

This chapter looks at actresses who were involved in militant actions, both non-violent and violent, narratives and experiences of radicalization, arrest and imprisonment, and the suffrage plays in which representations of militant women and militancy appear. It also investigates in detail the debates within the Actresses' Franchise League regarding militant tactics and the politicization of private and public support for direct action in all forms. This chapter considers the wider context in which negative stereotypes of militant and feminist women stereotypes were reinforced and how the Actresses' Franchise League and others in the suffrage movement attempted to appropriate them as part of their own campaign.
Hope
Authors: Paxton Naomi
Published: January 2019

This chapter begins with the development of the Actresses' Franchise League’s Woman’s Theatre project and its first season in 1913, and considers the idea in the wider context of similar European and American initiatives in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The chapter then investigates the work of the organisation and its satellite schemes during the First World War, with particular focus on the Women’s Emergency Corps and the British Women’s Hospital Fund. It finishes with an exploration of the continued campaigning of the League for the Equal Franchise between 1918 and 1928, and the work of members within new organisations like the Six Point Group.
Legacy
Authors: Paxton Naomi
Published: January 2019

This chapter explores the work of the Actresses' Franchise League in the 1920s and 1930s and during and after the Second World War, including the formation of the Women’s Adjustment Board and the role of the League in the Equal Pay Campaign of the 1950s. Showing the organisation to be continuously part of feminist strategies of social change before, through and after the war, this chapter explores and reflects upon the growth and diversification of the League’s areas of interest and influence, and the new generations of professional performers who became involved in the organisation. This chapter takes the story of the League up until 1958, considers the legacy of half a century of activism, political campaigning and collaboration, and details how the League has been written out of histories of theatre, and of political theatre in particular.
Citizen soldiers: National servicemen in the Korean War
Authors: Huxford Grace
Published: January 2019

This chapter examines how citizenship and selfhood were subtly recalibrated through conscription in Cold War Britain and uncovers details of the lives of young national servicemen in Korea. It begins with a discussion of military citizenship in the era of the Korean War, before turning to specific moments in national service life. Starting with recruitment (a recurring feature in most memoirs of national service), it explores the significance of masculinity, age, class and humour for the young men who were sent to Korea during their two years’ service. Together with the previous chapter, it sets out again the importance of experience to the social history of the Korean War in Britain. It considers how opinions on national service further informed the British views of the Korean War and how, like Korea, national service fitted uneasily within the narratives of post-war British society and culture. Like Korea, was national service obligatory, unglamorous and potentially of limited overall purpose?
Conclusion
Authors: Huxford Grace
Published: January 2019

This chapter highlights the key themes and conclusions of the book, calling for a more integrated approach to studying the Cold War and post-war British history.
Introduction: a new apology for the builder
Authors: Lucey Conor
Published: January 2019

Borrowing its title from the notorious seventeenth-century speculative builder Nicholas Barbon’s seminal work on free market economics, published in 1685, the introduction offers a new apology for a much-maligned member of the architectural community: the building artisan. Taking the form of a discursive chapter in its own right, it weaves together a critical literature review with an extended analysis of the artisan’s place within architectural, design and cultural histories. Topics include the adverse effect of eighteenth and nineteenth-century criticisms of the building community on modern scholarship, distinctions between intellectual and manual labour in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and the systemic problems arising from a new literature devoted to British Atlantic world studies.
Decorating houses: style, taste and the business of decoration
Authors: Lucey Conor
Published: January 2019

Reflecting on the separation of house building and house decorating in the historiography of the eighteenth-century town house, this chapter explores the role of the building artisan in determining the form and appearance of the urban domestic interior. Of particular importance here is the business of decoration: the impact of decorators, such as decorative plasterers and timber joiners, as speculative builders and property developers; and the standardization of interior decoration in the form of pre-fabricated ornament. Key topics include the dissemination of architectural tastes through the agency of immigrant artisan populations; the role of books and magazines in shaping vocabularies of decorative taste; and the creative adaptation from printed sources. Focusing on the artisan’s negotiation and interpretation of the neo-classical (or ‘Adam’) style, this chapter also considers how degrees of separation from the source of that ornamental language fostered distinct dialects in towns and cities across Britain, Ireland and North America. Collectively, the topics of chapter make a case for the artisan as a key agent of fashionable taste in elite real estate markets.
Conclusion: the builder rehabilitated?
Authors: Lucey Conor
Published: January 2019

In a satirical postscript to the preface of The architectural remembrancer (1751), concerning ‘the peculiar Fondness of Novelty, which reigns at present’, author Robert Morris announced a new publication on behalf of ‘a Friend’:

There is now in the Press, and speedily will be published, ...
The politics of neighbourliness: social democracy on the home front in Britain during the Second World War
Authors: Griffiths Clare
Published: January 2019

Clare Griffiths probes the historical and political implications of the social and psychological concept of ‘neighbourliness’, especially as it played out in that pivotal moment of apparent social democratic ascendancy, the 1940s, and the ‘People’s War’. In line with the revisionist historiography on this period, Griffiths warns us against romanticising the decade, and exaggerating the degree of good will and community spirit that really existed. ‘Neighbourliness’ was often constructed, whether to boost the case for the war effort or, later, for socialism or town planning. It could also at times be invasive and snooping. Yet, she insists, we should not ignore the importance of the aspiration to neighbourliness, albeit imperfect and half-formed, as it was a persistent theme at government and intellectual levels, but also in ordinary, everyday conversations. Above all, it shows the important relationship between values and emotions on the one hand and political objectives on the other, as well as subjects like housing policy and community life somewhere in between.
Progressivism to democratic socialism: the special case of Dr Christopher Addison
Authors: Morgan Kenneth O.
Published: January 2019

Kenneth Morgan explores the significance of Christopher Addison, a still relatively neglected figure, whose long career illuminates many of the central dilemmas of the broad progressive tradition in the first half of the twentieth-century. Addison symbolises that there was a fusion of the socialist and liberal progressive traditions, even if it did not lead to a merger of the parties. Addison was very much a practical social democrat, ‘mechanical’ in some ways, Morgan suggests, from work with local authorities, through the co-operative movement, to collaboration with the professions over national insurance. Yet, he was driven by a clear moral purpose. This was an illustration that mechanical and moral routes to progress could be complementary. A further lesson for social democrats today is that Addison was far removed from a grandstander, drawn to conflict for its own sake. He pursued ideals, but was also grounded in the possibilities of the moment.
David Marquand and liberal social democracy
Authors: Hutton Will
Published: January 2019

Will Hutton levels indictments against the existing British state and its elected dictatorship as a ‘Gothic, feudal horror’, as well as the political left for lapsing into a state of ‘bankruptcy’ under current Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Hutton maintains that harmony between vigorous capitalism and reinvigorated self-government is entirely within reach. On the other hand, he acknowledges that the postwar social contract has been ‘unpicked’ in the course of the past generation and worries that the existing political and economic system in Britain inhibits (at best) and perhaps even forecloses the possibility of reform. Hence, Hutton concludes by claiming that successful democracy and successful capitalism both require a massive shift in political power in the United Kingdom away from top-down centralisation and domination and toward bottom-up participation and wealth generation.
Introduction: adventures in reality: why (punk) fanzines matter
Authors: Worley Matthew , Gildart Keith , Gough-Yates Anna , Lincoln Sian , Osgerby Bill , Robinson Lucy , Street John , Webb Pete
Published: January 2019

The introduction outlines the ways by which fanzines were integral to the development of punk-related cultures and embodied the ethos of do-it-yourself (DIY). It assesses some of the previous writing on fanzines and outlines the content of the book.
Whose culture? Fanzines, politics and agency
Authors: Worley Matthew
Published: January 2019

This chapter comprises case studies of three fanzines: Jolt, Anathema and Hard as Nails. Each is examined as a means of understanding how fanzines offered space to develop political discourses and/or to define cultural identities in the face of competing media constructions. In their various ways, the fanzines engage with questions of feminism, anarchism and class.
Goth zines: writing from the dark underground, 1976–92
Authors: Nally Claire
Published: January 2019

This chapter explores the emergence of goth zine culture through three different zines: Panache, Whippings and Apologies and Propaganda. The main objective is to address the ways in which goth subculture evolved from its underground origins in the late 1970s to the early 1990s, focusing in part on how goth zines moved from DIY and amateur production to an aesthetic which was much more glossy and mainstream.
The evolution of an anarcho-punk narrative, 1978–84
Authors: Bestley Russ , Binns Rebecca
Published: January 2019

Anarcho-punk emerged as a distinct strand of punk culture into the 1980s. Typically associated with the band Crass, the tenets of anarcho-punk were also developed through artworks, writing and debate conducted within multiple punk fanzines. The chapter looks at the contested development of anarcho-punks politics and aesthetic.
‘Don’t do as you’re told, do as you think’: the transgressive zine culture of industrial music in the 1970s and 1980s
Authors: Bland Benjamin
Published: January 2019

Industrial culture emerged and developed in parallel with punk, though often sharing audiences and component themes. This chapter looks at way fanzines informed the transgressive mentality that helped define industrial culture.
‘Mental liberation issue’: Toxic Grafity’s punk epiphany as subjectivity (re)storying ‘the truth of revolution’ across the lifespan
Authors: Diboll Mike
Published: January 2019

Mike Diboll looks back on his life, connecting his experience as young punk producing a fanzine to his later experience in the midst of the Bahrain revolution. By so doing, he suggests a new way of writing about the punk experience, going beyond history writing, discourse analysis and cultural studies based approaches to reveal how punk pasts can be used in personal-political presents to enable personal-political agency for social and political justice, and to effect therapeutic or curative transformations in a context of a neoliberal mental health pandemic.
From Year Zero to 1984: I was a pre-teen fanzine writer
Authors: Bullen Nicholas
Published: January 2019

Punk’s youthful energy is here captured by Nic Bullen, remembering how fanzines provided a key aspect of his punk epiphany. As a pre-teen school kid, fanzines opened up new horizons for Bullen, enabling contact with the networks that helped sustain punk’s evolving culture and fired the inquisitive minds of those attracted to punk’s angry aesthetic.
Kick: positive punk
Authors: Cabut Richard
Published: January 2019

Before goth, there was positive punk, a term coined by Richard Cabut. Writing as Richard North for NME, he outlined the foundations of what later soon became known as goth. However, the influences, ideas and aesthetics of this were first developed in fanzines such as Cabut’s Kick. Here he recalls what informed his notion of a ‘positive punk’
‘This is aimed as much at us as at you’: my life in fanzines
Authors: Wadd Clare
Published: January 2019

Fanzines were integral to a 1980s ‘indie’ culture that evolved out punk’s commitment to DIY. As the produce of Kvatch and co-founder of Sarah Records, Clare Wadd was at the heart of all this and here recalls how fanzines helped facilitate the networks and opportunities to cultivate a distinct and influential youth culture.
‘Angry grrrl zines’: Riot grrrl and body politics from the early 1990s
Authors: Cofield Laura
Published: January 2019

The aim of this chapter is to explore how the psychic and the social intersect within riot grrrls’ reframing of the gendered body. It highlights how the fanzine context further complicated such a relationship, giving rise to tensions that played out in the zine writing integral to riot grrrl’s culture and politics.
Beckett and trauma: the father’s death and the sea
Authors: Campbell Julie
Published: January 2019

Shedding lights on biological episodes in Beckett’s writing, Julie Campbell in this chapter focuses specifically on the fear of diving that he experienced at six years old, which recurs from the early poem ‘For Future Reference’ to the later fiction Company, and analyses how and why it was traumatic for him. The incident, together with the shame and the sense of guilt he felt in mourning his father’s death, traumatised him. Beckett’s trauma, caused by his remorseful feeling that he had betrayed his father’s expectations, is perhaps most strongly reflected by the character Henry in Beckett’s radio play Embers. Henry is obsessed with the death of his father, who drowned at sea but whose body was not found. Henry denies his father’s death as if trying to expunge it from his memory. His distress, anger, bitterness, and confusion are expressed in his commands of his own actions and of the story of Bolton and Holloway. The radio listeners witness Henry’s inner feelings and share in his suffering.
‘Void cannot go’: trauma and actor process in the theatre of Samuel Beckett
Authors: Johnson Nicholas E.
Published: January 2019

Nicholas Johnson in this chapter discusses and analyses trauma of actors in performing Beckett’s plays. In the rehearsal process, many actors report traumatic symptoms such as panic, fear, anxiety, and nightmare, but it can be difficult to disentangle the overdetermined origins of these feelings: are they ingrained in the source material, individual to the actor’s process, specific to the performance context, or simply authentic physiological responses to the physical demands? Working through these questions first in terms of contemporary acting theory, Johnson introduces qualitative data from both experienced and early-career practitioners of Beckett. Alongside historical and theoretical explorations of acting, the chapter emphasises the concept of the ‘void’ as one possible key to navigating the potentially traumatic terrain within Beckett, as well as naming it as one of the tools at the actors’ disposal. By connecting to urgent contemporary debates in the medical humanities and positing Beckett as core to a unified theory of acting that takes account of the ‘cognitive turn’, Johnson’s focus on the materiality of these experiences extends a discussion beyond the fictive space of the texts and the biographical, currently the two most common approaches to Beckett and trauma.
Bodily object voices in Embers
Authors: Sigg Anna
Published: January 2019

Anna Sigg, in this chapter, argues that in Embers Beckett represents trauma most of all through bodily internal sea sounds. This radio play effectively ‘blinds’ its listener and places him in a mental cave. Embers focuses on Henry, who is tortured by a roaring ‘tinnitus’, an internal sea-like sound, which reminds him of the death of his father and his own mortality. This chapter illuminates the connection between Henry’s loss and the listener’s perception of the ‘tinnitus’ by drawing on Mladen Dolar’s idea of the acousmatic object voice and Jacques Lacan’s concept of objet petit a. Henry’s ‘tinnitus’, Sigg argues, is a bodily object voice manifesting an uncanny intimation of the unconscious. It expresses Henry’s mourning and his confrontation with mortality, while also generating countermelodies to the traumatic losses inside the listener’s head.
Trauma and ordinary objects in Virginia Woolf and Samuel Beckett
Authors: Tajiri Yoshiki
Published: January 2019

In this chapter, Yoshiki Tajiri focuses on the connection between trauma and everyday life: a traumatised subject needs to come to terms with everyday life and can find ordinary objects in it unexpectedly significant. By discussing such aspects of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days, this chapter will illuminate the ways in which trauma and ordinary life are correlated rather than opposed. It also demonstrates that trauma theory and everyday life studies can stimulate each other: trauma is far from an everyday phenomenon, but it can shed light on the nature of everyday life after calamities of modernity as in the cases of Woolf and Beckett; conversely, there may be ways of enriching trauma studies by incorporating reflections on everyday life.
Systems and methods for political communication in post-war Italy
Authors: Mariuzzo Andrea
Published: January 2019

This chapter defines the channels used to elaborate and disseminate propaganda, and reconstructs a history of the circuits and the most significant materials used to create and disseminate language. It places the press and propaganda sections of parties and mass associations in the more complex context of the media and communication agencies that participated in the making of Italian political identities, such as major political newspapers, publications and exhibitions promoted by the government and by foreign embassies, and the popular press.
Religious and moral values
Authors: Mariuzzo Andrea
Published: January 2019

This chapter highlights the extent to which a radical and absolute struggle such as the Cold War opposition of Communists and anti-Communists involves the aspects of religious faith and moral values. The theological anti-Communism promoted by the Churches of Pius XI and Pius XII strongly influenced the perception of Communism in Italy. Communists were frequently seen as ‘godless’ sinners and immoral corruptors of the youth. Such common perception forced the Italian Communist Party to a reaction based on the claim of its full compliance to the inner spirit of the Christian message of charity and solidarity.
The fatherland, the Italian nation and its role in the world
Authors: Mariuzzo Andrea
Published: January 2019

This chapter discusses the importance of the ‘national-patriotic’ symbology and expressive codes for all the competitors in the Italian political arena during the Cold War. In the struggle between pro-Soviet and anti-Communist fronts, both sides used Italian national myths and iconic unifying symbols, such as the image of Garibaldi, in order to present themselves as the ‘true’ Fatherland against their competitors, identified as the ‘fifth column’ and the ‘servants’ of ‘foreign imperialists’. However, after the disaster of fascist expansionism and the horrors of a war nobody wanted to repeat, in any case the claim of a renovated decisive role in the world could not be presented according to the words of militaristic nationalism. It was rather conjured with the promotion of peace against the menace of a new invasion and a subsequent global conflict.
Introduction
Authors: Leeson Miles , Miller Emma V.
Published: January 2019

Literature has always had a fractious and convoluted relationship with the depiction of incest. From the sexual relations between Lot and his daughters in Genesis to the stories of Byblis, Myrrha and Philomela – perhaps best known today through Ovid’s Metamorphoses – tales of incest have been disseminated for thousands of years. In the myths and legends we associate with Western culture, incest has continually played a significant role. A number of versions of the fall of King Arthur, including those described in ...