Ross Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3765989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ross Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ross |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8505-8081 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Percy Shelley in Context
Percy Shelley was a writer in the broadest sense – poet, pamphleteer, philosopher, translator, and correspondent – and one of the most eccentric, fascinating figures of his age. Yet he is emphatically of our age too, continuing to influence contemporary writers, to be referenced in popular culture, and to inspire social and political movements. Bringing together a wide range of contributors from different critical perspectives, this vivid and acc…
Walter Pater and the Beginnings of English Studies
Walter Pater's significance for the institutionalization of English studies at British universities in the nineteenth century is often overlooked. Addressing the importance of his volume Appreciations (1889) in placing English literature in both a national and an international context, this book demonstrates the indebtedness of the English essay to the French tradition and brings together the classic, the Romantic, the English and the European. W…
Gender and Heritage: Performance, Place and Politics
Illustrating war-time: Cartoons and the British and Dominion soldier experience during the Great War, 1914–1918
This article assesses how time was depicted within illustrated narratives published in trench newspapers and regimental journals by British and Dominion soldiers as a means of adapting to and enduring the experience of the First World War. Through an extensive archival study of these sources, soldiers’ ‘comic strips’ have been used to demonstrate that time is illustrated as a personal and social experience that enables individuals to comprehend t…
The Hidden Seeds of Survival: Adorno and the Life of Art
Are artworks alive? it is necessary to specify, first of all, what is meant by this question. One answer might point out, cheerfully, that works of art are still being produced, and that older works are still being exhibited, performed, archived, and anthologized, and hence still have an audience, a public, a readership. Art is alive insofar as it is still around and, moreover, insofar as it has a function in the world in which people conduct the…
Hegel and the matter of poetry
This essay addresses the question of what poetry is made from by examining a number of cruxes in Hegel’s Aesthetics (other aspects of Hegel’s work, including the Early Theological Writings, the Phenomenology, and the Encyclopedia are also discussed). The essay takes its lead from recent attempts to recover the significance of Hegel’s aesthetics for thinking about modern and contemporary art (J.M. Bernstein’s Against Voluptuous Bodies and Robert P…
The Language of the Past
The Language of the Past analyses the use of history in discourses within the political, media and the public sphere. It examines how particular terms, phrases and allusions first came into usage, developed and how they are employed today. To speak of something or someone as representing the ‘stone age’, or characterize an institution as ‘byzantine’, to describe a business relationship as ‘feudal’ or to disparage ideals or morality as ‘Victorian’…
Does Governance Cause Growth? Evidence from China
Cultural heritage and prisoners of war: Creativity Behind Barbed Wire
The study of the material culture of the conflicts of the twentieth century has been a focus of attention for archaeology for over the last two decades. From the study of the trench art of the Firs
Ireland's 1916 Rising. Explorations of history-making, commemoration & heritage in modern times
The twenty-first century will be the commemorative era. As the traumatic events of the preceding century pass into their hundredth anniversaries, societies will be confronted by their complex, pain
Shelley and the Apprehension of Life
Landscapes of the Western Front: Materiality During the Great War
This book examines the British soldiers on the Western Front and how they responded to the war landscape they encountered behind the lines and at the front. Using a multidisciplinary perspective, this study investigates the relationship between soldiers and the spaces and materials of the warzone, analyzing how soldiers constructed a ‘sense of place’ in the hostile, unpredictable environment. Drawing upon recent developments within First World Wa…
The Burial of the Dead: The British Army on the Western Front, 1914–18
This article examines the ‘war culture’ that developed within the British Army with regard to death and burial on the Western Front. Soldiers on the battlefields responded to the presence of death and the bodies of the dead through a specific framework that was used to understand this perverse and violent landscape. This drew upon pre-war practices and emphasized the physicality of the corpse in the desire to ensure a ‘decent’ burial for a ‘pal’
Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums: Ambiguous Engagements
1. Introduction: Anxiety and Ambiguity in The Representation of Dissonant History. Geoff Cubitt, Laurajane Smith, Ross Wilson Part I: Organizing the Bicentenary: Politics and Policy 2. The Burden of Knowing Versus the Privilege of Unknowing. Emma Waterton 3. High Anxiety - 2007 and Institutional Neuroses. Roshi Naidoo 4. Restoring the Pan African Perspective: Reversing the Institutionalization of Maafa Denial. Toyin Agbetu 5. Slavery and the (Sym…
Talking the talk: Policy, popular and media responses to the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade using the `Abolition Discourse
The issue of slavery has received wide public and media attention in response to the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807. In this context, admissions of guilt and apology are potent and confronting as they threaten to disrupt the collective self-understanding of Britain and the Empire. As such, the silenced narrative of minority groups found little place within the British cultural semantics for remembering Abolition. This…
Voluptuousness and Asceticism in Adorno 1
This essay explores Theodor Adorno's view of pleasure in general and his account of the pleasures of modernist art in particular. At first sight, this hardly seems a promising topic for study, given Adorno's consistently stated antipathy to the false pleasures of the culture industry. While some consideration of Adorno's critique of pleasure is important to this essay, its central aim is to demonstrate that Adorno's aesthetics does not reject ple…
History, Memory and Heritage
J. Blustein Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008 G. Cubitt Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007 J. V. Wertsch Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002 The manner in which the var
Remembering to forget?-the bbc abolition season and media memory of britain's transatlantic slave trade
Dialectical Aesthetics and the Kantian Rettung: On Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
An earlier version of this essay was presented at the conference “Critical Aesthetics” at Cornell University on April 6, 2006. In addition to the organizers of that conference, I would like to thank Simon Jarvis and Drew Milne
Theodor Adorno
Strange hells: A new approach on the Western Front
Recent scholarship has reinvigorated the study of the battlefields of the Western Front. Inspired by these advances and, especially, the advent of an archaeological agenda on the former fields of conflict, this article examines how British soldiers reacted with the landscape and materials which surrounded them. Using archive material to build an ethnographic study, the article investigates violence and death in the battlefield and how the soldier…
Mathematics Programs for Indigenous Students: Some Guidelines
This paper provides an overview for teachers who wish to develop a more appropriate mathematics program for their Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander students. It covers cultural, linguistic and environmental issues, as well as purely mathematical and methodological procedures. Current literature and reports from teachers indicate that many indigenous students are not performing well in mathematics. It is hoped that the suggestions contained in …
Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums: Ambiguous Engagements
1. Introduction: Anxiety and Ambiguity in The Representation of Dissonant History. Geoff Cubitt, Laurajane Smith, Ross Wilson Part I: Organizing the Bicentenary: Politics and Policy 2. The Burden of Knowing Versus the Privilege of Unknowing. Emma Waterton 3. High Anxiety - 2007 and Institutional Neuroses. Roshi Naidoo 4. Restoring the Pan African Perspective: Reversing the Institutionalization of Maafa Denial. Toyin Agbetu 5. Slavery and the (Sym…
Does Governance Cause Growth? Evidence from China
Talking the talk: Policy, popular and media responses to the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade using the `Abolition Discourse
The issue of slavery has received wide public and media attention in response to the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807. In this context, admissions of guilt and apology are potent and confronting as they threaten to disrupt the collective self-understanding of Britain and the Empire. As such, the silenced narrative of minority groups found little place within the British cultural semantics for remembering Abolition. This…
The Burial of the Dead: The British Army on the Western Front, 1914–18
This article examines the ‘war culture’ that developed within the British Army with regard to death and burial on the Western Front. Soldiers on the battlefields responded to the presence of death and the bodies of the dead through a specific framework that was used to understand this perverse and violent landscape. This drew upon pre-war practices and emphasized the physicality of the corpse in the desire to ensure a ‘decent’ burial for a ‘pal’
History, Memory and Heritage
J. Blustein Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008 G. Cubitt Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007 J. V. Wertsch Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002 The manner in which the var
Dialectical Aesthetics and the Kantian Rettung: On Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
An earlier version of this essay was presented at the conference “Critical Aesthetics” at Cornell University on April 6, 2006. In addition to the organizers of that conference, I would like to thank Simon Jarvis and Drew Milne
Remembering to forget?-the bbc abolition season and media memory of britain's transatlantic slave trade
The Language of the Past
The Language of the Past analyses the use of history in discourses within the political, media and the public sphere. It examines how particular terms, phrases and allusions first came into usage, developed and how they are employed today. To speak of something or someone as representing the ‘stone age’, or characterize an institution as ‘byzantine’, to describe a business relationship as ‘feudal’ or to disparage ideals or morality as ‘Victorian’…
Landscapes of the Western Front: Materiality During the Great War
This book examines the British soldiers on the Western Front and how they responded to the war landscape they encountered behind the lines and at the front. Using a multidisciplinary perspective, this study investigates the relationship between soldiers and the spaces and materials of the warzone, analyzing how soldiers constructed a ‘sense of place’ in the hostile, unpredictable environment. Drawing upon recent developments within First World Wa…
Voluptuousness and Asceticism in Adorno 1
This essay explores Theodor Adorno's view of pleasure in general and his account of the pleasures of modernist art in particular. At first sight, this hardly seems a promising topic for study, given Adorno's consistently stated antipathy to the false pleasures of the culture industry. While some consideration of Adorno's critique of pleasure is important to this essay, its central aim is to demonstrate that Adorno's aesthetics does not reject ple…
Mathematics Programs for Indigenous Students: Some Guidelines
This paper provides an overview for teachers who wish to develop a more appropriate mathematics program for their Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander students. It covers cultural, linguistic and environmental issues, as well as purely mathematical and methodological procedures. Current literature and reports from teachers indicate that many indigenous students are not performing well in mathematics. It is hoped that the suggestions contained in …
Theodor Adorno
Strange hells: A new approach on the Western Front
Recent scholarship has reinvigorated the study of the battlefields of the Western Front. Inspired by these advances and, especially, the advent of an archaeological agenda on the former fields of conflict, this article examines how British soldiers reacted with the landscape and materials which surrounded them. Using archive material to build an ethnographic study, the article investigates violence and death in the battlefield and how the soldier…
Remembering to forget?-the bbc abolition season and media memory of britain's transatlantic slave trade
Dialectical Aesthetics and the Kantian Rettung: On Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
An earlier version of this essay was presented at the conference “Critical Aesthetics” at Cornell University on April 6, 2006. In addition to the organizers of that conference, I would like to thank Simon Jarvis and Drew Milne
Talking the talk: Policy, popular and media responses to the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade using the `Abolition Discourse
The issue of slavery has received wide public and media attention in response to the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807. In this context, admissions of guilt and apology are potent and confronting as they threaten to disrupt the collective self-understanding of Britain and the Empire. As such, the silenced narrative of minority groups found little place within the British cultural semantics for remembering Abolition. This…
Voluptuousness and Asceticism in Adorno 1
This essay explores Theodor Adorno's view of pleasure in general and his account of the pleasures of modernist art in particular. At first sight, this hardly seems a promising topic for study, given Adorno's consistently stated antipathy to the false pleasures of the culture industry. While some consideration of Adorno's critique of pleasure is important to this essay, its central aim is to demonstrate that Adorno's aesthetics does not reject ple…
History, Memory and Heritage
J. Blustein Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008 G. Cubitt Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007 J. V. Wertsch Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002 The manner in which the var
Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums: Ambiguous Engagements
1. Introduction: Anxiety and Ambiguity in The Representation of Dissonant History. Geoff Cubitt, Laurajane Smith, Ross Wilson Part I: Organizing the Bicentenary: Politics and Policy 2. The Burden of Knowing Versus the Privilege of Unknowing. Emma Waterton 3. High Anxiety - 2007 and Institutional Neuroses. Roshi Naidoo 4. Restoring the Pan African Perspective: Reversing the Institutionalization of Maafa Denial. Toyin Agbetu 5. Slavery and the (Sym…
The Burial of the Dead: The British Army on the Western Front, 1914–18
This article examines the ‘war culture’ that developed within the British Army with regard to death and burial on the Western Front. Soldiers on the battlefields responded to the presence of death and the bodies of the dead through a specific framework that was used to understand this perverse and violent landscape. This drew upon pre-war practices and emphasized the physicality of the corpse in the desire to ensure a ‘decent’ burial for a ‘pal’
Shelley and the Apprehension of Life
Landscapes of the Western Front: Materiality During the Great War
This book examines the British soldiers on the Western Front and how they responded to the war landscape they encountered behind the lines and at the front. Using a multidisciplinary perspective, this study investigates the relationship between soldiers and the spaces and materials of the warzone, analyzing how soldiers constructed a ‘sense of place’ in the hostile, unpredictable environment. Drawing upon recent developments within First World Wa…
Does Governance Cause Growth? Evidence from China
Cultural heritage and prisoners of war: Creativity Behind Barbed Wire
The study of the material culture of the conflicts of the twentieth century has been a focus of attention for archaeology for over the last two decades. From the study of the trench art of the Firs
Ireland's 1916 Rising. Explorations of history-making, commemoration & heritage in modern times
The twenty-first century will be the commemorative era. As the traumatic events of the preceding century pass into their hundredth anniversaries, societies will be confronted by their complex, pain
The Language of the Past
The Language of the Past analyses the use of history in discourses within the political, media and the public sphere. It examines how particular terms, phrases and allusions first came into usage, developed and how they are employed today. To speak of something or someone as representing the ‘stone age’, or characterize an institution as ‘byzantine’, to describe a business relationship as ‘feudal’ or to disparage ideals or morality as ‘Victorian’…
Hegel and the matter of poetry
This essay addresses the question of what poetry is made from by examining a number of cruxes in Hegel’s Aesthetics (other aspects of Hegel’s work, including the Early Theological Writings, the Phenomenology, and the Encyclopedia are also discussed). The essay takes its lead from recent attempts to recover the significance of Hegel’s aesthetics for thinking about modern and contemporary art (J.M. Bernstein’s Against Voluptuous Bodies and Robert P…
Gender and Heritage: Performance, Place and Politics
Illustrating war-time: Cartoons and the British and Dominion soldier experience during the Great War, 1914–1918
This article assesses how time was depicted within illustrated narratives published in trench newspapers and regimental journals by British and Dominion soldiers as a means of adapting to and enduring the experience of the First World War. Through an extensive archival study of these sources, soldiers’ ‘comic strips’ have been used to demonstrate that time is illustrated as a personal and social experience that enables individuals to comprehend t…
The Hidden Seeds of Survival: Adorno and the Life of Art
Are artworks alive? it is necessary to specify, first of all, what is meant by this question. One answer might point out, cheerfully, that works of art are still being produced, and that older works are still being exhibited, performed, archived, and anthologized, and hence still have an audience, a public, a readership. Art is alive insofar as it is still around and, moreover, insofar as it has a function in the world in which people conduct the…
Walter Pater and the Beginnings of English Studies
Walter Pater's significance for the institutionalization of English studies at British universities in the nineteenth century is often overlooked. Addressing the importance of his volume Appreciations (1889) in placing English literature in both a national and an international context, this book demonstrates the indebtedness of the English essay to the French tradition and brings together the classic, the Romantic, the English and the European. W…
Percy Shelley in Context
Percy Shelley was a writer in the broadest sense – poet, pamphleteer, philosopher, translator, and correspondent – and one of the most eccentric, fascinating figures of his age. Yet he is emphatically of our age too, continuing to influence contemporary writers, to be referenced in popular culture, and to inspire social and political movements. Bringing together a wide range of contributors from different critical perspectives, this vivid and acc…
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