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Gender, Truth and Reality: The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield

  Until relatively recently, women have been noticeable only by their absence from the tradition of Anglo-American high modernism. T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence and W.B. Yeats – these are the names which have dominated the English … Continue reading

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Daniel Defoe and Psychogeography

Psychogeographic Review is pleased to publish its first guest post, with Joe Clarke championing Daniel Defoe’s role as an early psychogeographer.  All views expressed as those of Joe Clarke.     Defoe’s contribution to the history of psychogeography is twofold. … Continue reading

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Psychogeographic Review’s Recommendations – December 2012

This past month Psychogeographic Review has been reading:     ‘A Wreath of Roses’ – Elizabeth Taylor     ‘The Overhaul’ – Kathleen Jamie    ‘Stag’s Leap’ – Sharon Olds    ‘The Napoleon of Notting Hill’ – G.K. Chesterton    ‘Mister Pip’ … Continue reading

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Woolf at the Door 2: Mrs Dalloway’s Inner Flâneur

  In Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway Peter Walsh is the most obvious flâneur character; he is able to wander the streets of London with an abandon even the patrician Clarissa Dalloway cannot manage. In an encounter which in its imagery … Continue reading

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Woolf at the Door 1: The City and Modernism

(Cities were) more than accidental meeting places and crossing points. They were generative environments of the new arts, focal points of intellectual community, indeed of intellectual conflict and tension. (Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarlane (ed), Modernism: A Guide to European … Continue reading

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Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project by Iain Sinclair – Book of the Month – June 2012

Over the years I guess I must have read all of Iain Sinclair’s published works, or at least the ones made available through commercial publishers.  So it was with surprise that I read the gripes expressed by some reviewers of … Continue reading

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Book of the Month – April 2012 – Gillian Tindall: The Fields Beneath

I found my copy of Gillian Tindall’s The Fields Beneath in a second-hand bookshop in Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway one August afternoon last year.  Strange to be buying a London book on a visit to Scotland, but I felt pathetically … Continue reading

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