David Glover
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Glover |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Glover |
| SIGNATURE | GLOVER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Development Research Centre |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6532-1815 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Contre Proust
At first sight, the subtitle of this new collection of essays may surprise readers familiar with Perry Anderson's career as a radical political and intellectual historian of distinction over the past six decades. For Different Speeds, Same Furies gathers up his relatively rare excursions into literary studies, between 2001—the publication date for his discussion of Montesquieu's epistolary Lettres persanes (1721) in Franco Moretti's ambitious int…
Bereavement in the Time of Covid-19: Learning from Experiences of those Bereaved as a Result of Deaths in an Acute Hospital Setting in 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in many people experiencing bereavement in challenging circumstances. In April 2020 at a large London Trust, a "Bereavement Welfare Hub" was established to offer support and advice by telephone to relatives and carers of all adults who died as inpatients. Data from BWH call records regarding 809 adults who died at the Trust in March, April and May 2020 were collated. A random selection of 149 call records were e…
Lines of Fracture, Lines of Flight
How should we write the literary history of modern statelessness? Lyndsey Stonebridge's remarkable book Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees locates the answer to this urgent question primarily in the lives and works of six major writers: Hannah Arendt, George Orwell, Simone Weil, Samuel Beckett, Dorothy Thompson, and W. H. Auden. What unites this somewhat oddly assorted group is less a convergence of style or topic, still less of genr…
The Long Conjuncture
Lisa Lowe, The Intimacies of Four Continents, Durham NC and London, Duke University Press, 2015, 319pp; £16.99 paperbackJames Epstein, Scandal of Colonial Rule: Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution, New York and Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012, 314pp; £21.99 paperbackOur history is destined in this chapter to go backwards and forwards in a very irresolute manner seemingly, and having conducted our …
The End of a Local Nation
‘One cannot see the modern world as it is unless one recognizes the overwhelming strength of patriotism, national loyalty’, wrote George Orwell in 1941. For, no matter how extensive, diverse, fragmentary and even maddening the experiences of the country that he persisted in calling ‘England’ might be, ‘it is yours, you belong to it, and this side of the grave you will never get away from the marks that it has given you’. As so often in writing of…
Blood Will Tell: Vampires as political metaphors before World War I
Blood Will Tell: vampires as political metaphors before World War I." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 12(3), pp. 546–547
The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction
Popular commercial fiction emerged in the nineteenth century, with serialised novels and sensational penny dreadfuls. Today it remains a multi-million dollar industry giving pleasure to many, but it is also a field of growing interest for scholars and students of literature. This Companion covers the major developments in the history of popular fiction, with specially commissioned chapters on pulp fiction, bestsellers, and comics and graphic narr…
Bram Stoker: A Literary Life , by Lisa Hopkins
Liberalism, Anglo-Jewry and the Diasporic Imagination: Herbert Samuel via Israel Zangwill, 1890–1914
Although Herbert Samuel has often been described as the first practising Jew to be appointed to a British Cabinet, the relationship between his Jewishness and his politics was extremely complex, particularly in the early years of his career. A partial comparison of his political beliefs with those of his contemporary, the novelist and activist Israel Zangwill, reveals some of the tensions between Samuel’s liberal philosophy and his responses to s…
Fluid Masculinities
Kim Townsend, Manhood at Harvard: William James and Others Naomi Segal, André Gide: Pederasty and Pedagogy Trev Lynn Broughton, Men of Letters, Writing Lives: Masculinity and Literary Auto/Biography
Genders
Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-171) and index
Genders
Indonesia's Fires and Haze: The Cost of Catastrophe
In the middle of 1997, forest fires burning in Indonesia began to spread thick clouds of smoke and haze to neighbouring countries. By the time the fires were finally out in 1998, some 8 million hectares of land had burned while millions of people suffered the effects of air pollution. The fires — deliberately set for the most part, and exacerbated by the drought conditions of El Niño — were one of the century’s worst environmental disasters. This…
In Praise of Theoretical Noise
A LTHOUGH IT IS NOW COMMONPLACE to find cultural studies invoked as one of the tributaries of Victorian studies — and the rubric for this journal is no exception — the precise relationship between these two interdiciplinary fields is still unsettled and seems likely to remain so. This is not, as is sometimes claimed, because cultural studies has felt able to dispense with the past, preferring to dwell in and upon the postmodernized present: to th…
Economic Growth and the Environment
This paper provides a review of the literature on economic growth and the environment and suggests ways in which it can inform the traditional concerns of development economics. It contrasts the views of “optimists” and “pessimists” on the feasibility of continued economic growth. Optimists believe that increased scarcity of environmental goods will induce adequate conservation responses, including technological innovation, while pessimists belie…
Vampires, Mummies and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction
By way of a long overdue return to the novels, short stories, essays, journalism, and correspondence of Bram Stoker, Vampires, Mummies, and Liberals reconstructs the cultural and political world that gave birth to Dracula. To bring Stoker's life into productive relationship with his writing, Glover offers a reading that locates the author within the changing commercial contours of the late-Victorian public sphere and in which the methods of criti…
Our enemy is not merely spiritual”: Degeneration and Modernity in Bram Stoker's Dracula
Looking for Edgar Wallace: The Author as Consumer
The state of my health condemns me to reading novels. I picked up a book by Edgar Wallace for the first time. So far as I know he is one of the most popular authors in America and England. It is hard to imagine anything more mediocre, contemptible, and crude. Not a shade ofperception, talent or imagination. The adventures are piled on without any art at all, like police records laid one on top of another. Not for a single moment did Ifeel any exc…
The Developing Countries in World Trade: Policies and Bargaining Strategies
Bram Stoker and the Crisis of the Liberal Subject
T HOUGH THE FORTUNES of liberalism and novel have long been thought to be tightly intertwined, it is now possible to write about their historical conjunction at least two sharply contrasting ways. According to critic D. A. Miller, for example, privileged insights into human relationships to be gleaned from text (their readerly transparency) also promote reader falsely autonomizing sense of distance from novel's restrictive determinations of time,…
A Layman's Guide to Structural Adjustment
This paper provides a non-technical review of the basic issues related to structural adjustment (SA). It focuses on the economic aspects of SA, attempting to make these intelligible to non-economists. It begins with a sketch of SA: its definition and origin, and the principal features of the programs recommended by the World Bank and the IMF. The main body of the paper then examines some of the principal controversies in three areas: first, the b…
Changing Comparative Advantage, Short Term Instability and Long Term Change in the Latin American Banana Industry
The Latin American banana industry has undergone major transformations over the last hundred years, resulting from the strategies of Transnational Corporations (TNCs), changes in relative factor prices, political conditions, and technological change. This paper illustrates how these factors have interacted to change the roles of the principal producing countries in the world banana trade. It focuses in particular on the “associate producer” syste…
Increasing the benefits to smallholders from contract farming: Problems for farmers' organizations and policy makers
The Modern Plantation and its Alternatives: A Review Article
Agrarian Reform and Agro-Industry in Honduras
In contract farming (CF), agro-industries purchase produce from independent growers through a contract which specifies several terms of sale, including price, quantity and quality. The system can be mutually advantageous, reducing uncertainty for both parties and providing growers with technical assistance, inputs and access to new markets. Some LDC governments have promoted CF through legislation with mixed results. This article examines two cas…
Contract farming and smallholder outgrower schemes in less-developed countries
Increasing the benefits to smallholders from contract farming: Problems for farmers' organizations and policy makers
A Layman's Guide to Structural Adjustment
This paper provides a non-technical review of the basic issues related to structural adjustment (SA). It focuses on the economic aspects of SA, attempting to make these intelligible to non-economists. It begins with a sketch of SA: its definition and origin, and the principal features of the programs recommended by the World Bank and the IMF. The main body of the paper then examines some of the principal controversies in three areas: first, the b…
In Praise of Theoretical Noise
A LTHOUGH IT IS NOW COMMONPLACE to find cultural studies invoked as one of the tributaries of Victorian studies — and the rubric for this journal is no exception — the precise relationship between these two interdiciplinary fields is still unsettled and seems likely to remain so. This is not, as is sometimes claimed, because cultural studies has felt able to dispense with the past, preferring to dwell in and upon the postmodernized present: to th…
The Developing Countries in World Trade: Policies and Bargaining Strategies
Agrarian Reform and Agro-Industry in Honduras
In contract farming (CF), agro-industries purchase produce from independent growers through a contract which specifies several terms of sale, including price, quantity and quality. The system can be mutually advantageous, reducing uncertainty for both parties and providing growers with technical assistance, inputs and access to new markets. Some LDC governments have promoted CF through legislation with mixed results. This article examines two cas…
Nationalism and Class Conflict in the Cuban and Algerian Revolutions
Academics are often frustrated in attempting to fit events in the real world into abstract analytical frameworks. More often than not, it seems, these objective realities defy simple classification, and even bring the relevance of such classifications into question. In the study of revolution, social scientists are confronted with the problem of reconciling the logic of class-determined inequalities in a society as a cause of revolution, with the…
Contract farming and smallholder outgrower schemes in less-developed countries
The Modern Plantation and its Alternatives: A Review Article
Agrarian Reform and Agro-Industry in Honduras
In contract farming (CF), agro-industries purchase produce from independent growers through a contract which specifies several terms of sale, including price, quantity and quality. The system can be mutually advantageous, reducing uncertainty for both parties and providing growers with technical assistance, inputs and access to new markets. Some LDC governments have promoted CF through legislation with mixed results. This article examines two cas…
Increasing the benefits to smallholders from contract farming: Problems for farmers' organizations and policy makers
A Layman's Guide to Structural Adjustment
This paper provides a non-technical review of the basic issues related to structural adjustment (SA). It focuses on the economic aspects of SA, attempting to make these intelligible to non-economists. It begins with a sketch of SA: its definition and origin, and the principal features of the programs recommended by the World Bank and the IMF. The main body of the paper then examines some of the principal controversies in three areas: first, the b…
Changing Comparative Advantage, Short Term Instability and Long Term Change in the Latin American Banana Industry
The Latin American banana industry has undergone major transformations over the last hundred years, resulting from the strategies of Transnational Corporations (TNCs), changes in relative factor prices, political conditions, and technological change. This paper illustrates how these factors have interacted to change the roles of the principal producing countries in the world banana trade. It focuses in particular on the “associate producer” syste…
Bram Stoker and the Crisis of the Liberal Subject
T HOUGH THE FORTUNES of liberalism and novel have long been thought to be tightly intertwined, it is now possible to write about their historical conjunction at least two sharply contrasting ways. According to critic D. A. Miller, for example, privileged insights into human relationships to be gleaned from text (their readerly transparency) also promote reader falsely autonomizing sense of distance from novel's restrictive determinations of time,…
The Developing Countries in World Trade: Policies and Bargaining Strategies
Our enemy is not merely spiritual”: Degeneration and Modernity in Bram Stoker's Dracula
Looking for Edgar Wallace: The Author as Consumer
The state of my health condemns me to reading novels. I picked up a book by Edgar Wallace for the first time. So far as I know he is one of the most popular authors in America and England. It is hard to imagine anything more mediocre, contemptible, and crude. Not a shade ofperception, talent or imagination. The adventures are piled on without any art at all, like police records laid one on top of another. Not for a single moment did Ifeel any exc…
Vampires, Mummies and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction
By way of a long overdue return to the novels, short stories, essays, journalism, and correspondence of Bram Stoker, Vampires, Mummies, and Liberals reconstructs the cultural and political world that gave birth to Dracula. To bring Stoker's life into productive relationship with his writing, Glover offers a reading that locates the author within the changing commercial contours of the late-Victorian public sphere and in which the methods of criti…
Indonesia's Fires and Haze: The Cost of Catastrophe
In the middle of 1997, forest fires burning in Indonesia began to spread thick clouds of smoke and haze to neighbouring countries. By the time the fires were finally out in 1998, some 8 million hectares of land had burned while millions of people suffered the effects of air pollution. The fires — deliberately set for the most part, and exacerbated by the drought conditions of El Niño — were one of the century’s worst environmental disasters. This…
In Praise of Theoretical Noise
A LTHOUGH IT IS NOW COMMONPLACE to find cultural studies invoked as one of the tributaries of Victorian studies — and the rubric for this journal is no exception — the precise relationship between these two interdiciplinary fields is still unsettled and seems likely to remain so. This is not, as is sometimes claimed, because cultural studies has felt able to dispense with the past, preferring to dwell in and upon the postmodernized present: to th…
Economic Growth and the Environment
This paper provides a review of the literature on economic growth and the environment and suggests ways in which it can inform the traditional concerns of development economics. It contrasts the views of “optimists” and “pessimists” on the feasibility of continued economic growth. Optimists believe that increased scarcity of environmental goods will induce adequate conservation responses, including technological innovation, while pessimists belie…
Genders
Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-171) and index
Genders
Fluid Masculinities
Kim Townsend, Manhood at Harvard: William James and Others Naomi Segal, André Gide: Pederasty and Pedagogy Trev Lynn Broughton, Men of Letters, Writing Lives: Masculinity and Literary Auto/Biography
Liberalism, Anglo-Jewry and the Diasporic Imagination: Herbert Samuel via Israel Zangwill, 1890–1914
Although Herbert Samuel has often been described as the first practising Jew to be appointed to a British Cabinet, the relationship between his Jewishness and his politics was extremely complex, particularly in the early years of his career. A partial comparison of his political beliefs with those of his contemporary, the novelist and activist Israel Zangwill, reveals some of the tensions between Samuel’s liberal philosophy and his responses to s…
Bram Stoker: A Literary Life , by Lisa Hopkins
The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction
Popular commercial fiction emerged in the nineteenth century, with serialised novels and sensational penny dreadfuls. Today it remains a multi-million dollar industry giving pleasure to many, but it is also a field of growing interest for scholars and students of literature. This Companion covers the major developments in the history of popular fiction, with specially commissioned chapters on pulp fiction, bestsellers, and comics and graphic narr…
Blood Will Tell: Vampires as political metaphors before World War I
Blood Will Tell: vampires as political metaphors before World War I." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 12(3), pp. 546–547
The End of a Local Nation
‘One cannot see the modern world as it is unless one recognizes the overwhelming strength of patriotism, national loyalty’, wrote George Orwell in 1941. For, no matter how extensive, diverse, fragmentary and even maddening the experiences of the country that he persisted in calling ‘England’ might be, ‘it is yours, you belong to it, and this side of the grave you will never get away from the marks that it has given you’. As so often in writing of…
The Long Conjuncture
Lisa Lowe, The Intimacies of Four Continents, Durham NC and London, Duke University Press, 2015, 319pp; £16.99 paperbackJames Epstein, Scandal of Colonial Rule: Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution, New York and Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012, 314pp; £21.99 paperbackOur history is destined in this chapter to go backwards and forwards in a very irresolute manner seemingly, and having conducted our …
Lines of Fracture, Lines of Flight
How should we write the literary history of modern statelessness? Lyndsey Stonebridge's remarkable book Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees locates the answer to this urgent question primarily in the lives and works of six major writers: Hannah Arendt, George Orwell, Simone Weil, Samuel Beckett, Dorothy Thompson, and W. H. Auden. What unites this somewhat oddly assorted group is less a convergence of style or topic, still less of genr…
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