30 September 2008
Pacifism and English Literature with R. S. White
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While war has been a permanent fixture of history, peace seems to exist more in our imagination than in reality.
R.S. White, Professor of English at the University of Western Australia has looked at literature to see how peace has been imagined by writers from the Middle Ages to the present.
He says that peace became part of the language of poetry in the 14th century, long before the anti-war poetry of the First World War.
Guests
R. S. White
Professor of English, University of Western Australia and author of Natural Law in English Renaissance Literature and Natural Rights and the Birth of Romanticism in the 1790s.
Publications
Title: Pacifism and English Literature: Minstrels of Peace
Author: R. S. White
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISDN 13: 9780230553170
Presenter
Sarah L'Estrange
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