Duelling entered my life as it has traditionally entered the lives of many that it touches:
during my adolescence. While attending secondary school in the US, I was gripped by …

2 Introduction because wars threw gender relations into disarray and thereby exposed the
constructedness and contingency of gender roles more generally, the study of wars and their …

In this well-informed and subtle book, Jennifer Low examines the sociocultural reality of the
duel in early modern England and the ways it was portrayed in contemporary drama …

The Congress was the brainchild of Dr RD Laing, the radical psychiatrist, and three
colleagues. It was summoned as a response to the horrors of the Vietnam War, the civil …

Through a combination of queer and feminist criticism, masculinity has been proven to have
an ever-changing definition, one based on historical time and sociocultural influences …

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Violence is part and parcel of human
history and of human nature. It is one of our most distinctive traits, the one thing that all …

Nicola Rehling ith the release of David Fincher's Fight Club in the aftermath of the
Columbine high school killings, fears about representational violence resounded in the …

It is not a bold statement to say that contemporary society has shunned everything that is
connected to violence. Granted, violence in itself certainly is not a positive or wanted …

Heard on the radio or played live, the song “My Generation”(1965) by the British rock band
The Who could startle or enthrall. It is possible to make sense of the song's curiously …

Much of Stephen Crane's work, especially his perplexing novel The Red Badge of Courage,
constitutes an intense inquiry, simultaneously sardonic and passionately involved, into what …