Stuart Middleton
Biographic Data
| ID | 5746813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stuart Middleton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stuart |
| FAMILY NAME | Middleton |
| SIGNATURE | MIDDLETON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fitzwilliam College 1 , Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9418-8694 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Time is always guilty
This essay explores representations of modernity in interwar detective fiction in Britain. It argues that Agatha Christie's Poirot novels break with the classical function of detective fiction by highlighting an unmasterable disorder behind the apparent regularity of modernity; and that the conservative tendencies commonly perceived in those novels were, paradoxically, much more prominently exhibited in detective fiction by politically "progressi…
Time and Politics
This ambitious and provocative book aims to show how the emergence of ‘modern’ understandings of time influenced the reform of parliamentary procedure in Britain and the ‘British World’ during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, resulting in a transition from deliberative to ‘executive-centred’ legislatures that continues to shape contemporary political cultures. From the early nineteenth century, Ryan Vieira claims, the use and effecti…
Affluence’ and the Left in Britain, c .1958–1974
Accounts of British politics in the 1950s and 1960s have treated ‘affluence’ as a socio-economic condition to which political thinkers and actors responded, with greater or lesser success. This overlooks the contemporary significance of ‘affluence’, which is better understood as a conceptual field in which many of the Left’s crucial ideological and strategic battles were fought during the 1960s. Whereas historical usage has broadly followed Labou…
Affluence’ and the Left in Britain, c .1958–1974
Accounts of British politics in the 1950s and 1960s have treated ‘affluence’ as a socio-economic condition to which political thinkers and actors responded, with greater or lesser success. This overlooks the contemporary significance of ‘affluence’, which is better understood as a conceptual field in which many of the Left’s crucial ideological and strategic battles were fought during the 1960s. Whereas historical usage has broadly followed Labou…
Affluence’ and the Left in Britain, c .1958–1974
Accounts of British politics in the 1950s and 1960s have treated ‘affluence’ as a socio-economic condition to which political thinkers and actors responded, with greater or lesser success. This overlooks the contemporary significance of ‘affluence’, which is better understood as a conceptual field in which many of the Left’s crucial ideological and strategic battles were fought during the 1960s. Whereas historical usage has broadly followed Labou…
Time and Politics
This ambitious and provocative book aims to show how the emergence of ‘modern’ understandings of time influenced the reform of parliamentary procedure in Britain and the ‘British World’ during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, resulting in a transition from deliberative to ‘executive-centred’ legislatures that continues to shape contemporary political cultures. From the early nineteenth century, Ryan Vieira claims, the use and effecti…
Time is always guilty
This essay explores representations of modernity in interwar detective fiction in Britain. It argues that Agatha Christie's Poirot novels break with the classical function of detective fiction by highlighting an unmasterable disorder behind the apparent regularity of modernity; and that the conservative tendencies commonly perceived in those novels were, paradoxically, much more prominently exhibited in detective fiction by politically "progressi…
History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Irish and British Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Modernity (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political and Economic history of UK and US (2 works) · Political economy (2 works)