Philippa Read
Biographic Data
| ID | 5772037 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philippa Read |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philippa |
| FAMILY NAME | Read |
| SIGNATURE | READ P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3151-4974 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘I am expected to say something. I know not what’ (Vivanti 1918, 146)
This article contributes to scholarly debates about sexual violence in the First World War, providing a psychoanalytic reading of silence as a topos in wartime narratives that portray the rape and resulting pregnancies of French and Belgian women. It locates the hegemonic silencing of women in a wartime debate that mainly took place in France and was concerned with the ‘child of the enemy’ and its mother. In the light of this particular historica…
Invasion 14. A novel
Brian Newsome brings us the first English translation of Invasion 14, a historical novel published in 1935 and written by French Flemish novelist Maxence Van der Meersch. Set in real French locatio
Antigone ‘Resurrected’
This article argues the potency and ambivalence of Sophocles's heroine Antigone, as ‘resurrected’ in public and private debates in France immediately after the First World War. It shows that her myth was most significantly evoked in a polemic concerning not only the burial of the war dead, but also the responsibilities and individualism of those left behind to mourn. Existing analyses of women's wartime roles in France have tended to emphasize ‘n…
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Antigone ‘Resurrected’
This article argues the potency and ambivalence of Sophocles's heroine Antigone, as ‘resurrected’ in public and private debates in France immediately after the First World War. It shows that her myth was most significantly evoked in a polemic concerning not only the burial of the war dead, but also the responsibilities and individualism of those left behind to mourn. Existing analyses of women's wartime roles in France have tended to emphasize ‘n…
Invasion 14. A novel
Brian Newsome brings us the first English translation of Invasion 14, a historical novel published in 1935 and written by French Flemish novelist Maxence Van der Meersch. Set in real French locatio
‘I am expected to say something. I know not what’ (Vivanti 1918, 146)
This article contributes to scholarly debates about sexual violence in the First World War, providing a psychoanalytic reading of silence as a topos in wartime narratives that portray the rape and resulting pregnancies of French and Belgian women. It locates the hegemonic silencing of women in a wartime debate that mainly took place in France and was concerned with the ‘child of the enemy’ and its mother. In the light of this particular historica…
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