• ‘Scribbled hastily in pencil’: The mediation of World War I Unit War Diaries 

  Ramsay, D (SAGE Publications, 2 August 2021)

  In World War I, the British Army implemented daily record keeping throughout its organization. Despite being crucial to the army’s operational effectiveness and essential for historiography, the history of Unit War Diaries ...

• Liminality and the Smearing of War and Play in Battlefield 1 

  Ramsay, D (Game Studies, 1 February 2020)

  This article interrogates how war and play are smeared together in Battlefield 1, the first AAA game set in World War I. It advances liminality as a conceptual framework that goes beyond the notion of hybridity (Giddings ...

• Sylvia Plath’s reimagination of the Grimms’ fairy tales in postwar American culture 

  Tamás, D (Routledge, 30 June 2021)

  This article discusses Sylvia Plath’s overlooked juvenilia poems and contextualizes them in postwar American culture. The fairy tales were significant cultural products during the 1950s, that also continue to define the ...

• From barbarism to decadence without the intervening civilization: or, living in the aftermath of anticipated futures 

  Gagnier, R (Routledge, 7 July 2021)

  The styles, moods, performances, and practices of decadence have been simultaneous with modernization, not least in the process of nation-building. This article considers the dialectics of decadence and modernization with ...

• “Those blessed structures”: Robert Lowell’s Architectural Aesthetic 

  Gill, J (Penn State University Press, 2021)

  This article reads Robert Lowell’s poetry in terms of its engagement with architecture. It argues that at crucial moments in American history, and in Lowell’s life, the architectural environment of the various places he ...

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