Birkbeck's postgraduate-run journal of literary criticism, Dandelion, published its special issue (Volume 4, No. 2) in December 2013. Edited by Sophie Jones and Fiona Johnstone, the issue featured orginal articles on The Underlying Horror of the English Countryside, Medieval Trees, The Nostalgic Gardens of Derek Jarman's England, and The Circular Value of Wind. Inspired by a workshop run at Birkbeck on Rachel Carson's landmark ecological study Silent Spring, the issue brought together new research from fine art, medieval literature, value theory, film, poetics and crystallography. As the editors write, the issue explores the central themes of "enclosure and state control of space, the limitations of the nature-culture binary, and the relationship between memory, politics and landscape."
Dandelion is a funded journal that publishes open access scholarly articles, as well as a postgraduate network.
For more information, click here to view the articles in this special issue.
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