Published and unpublished work, in French and English
These essays are available online in the Archives ouvertes of the Presses universitaires de Lyon


I The Reception of Poetry 

PhD : Les Anthologies de poésie en Angleterre au XXe siècle

1. T.S. Eliot: l'histoire de la publication d'une œuvre
2.  "Strange Meeting": pérégrinations d'un poème de Wilfred Owen
3.  Whither Poetry? Anthologies in search of the common reader
4. What is women's poetry?
5.  Poetry and (Auto) Biography


II Poetry in a Political Context 

Poetry in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts

6. Lyric historians: Some Advantages of Studying History through Poetry
7. Introduction to “A Choice of Caribbean Poems”
8. Postcards from the Caribbean: genesis of a genre?
9. Poetry and History in Derek Walcott’s “Ruins of a Great House”
10. The Idea of Reconciliation in Australian Poetry 

Poetry and War

11.  Poetry and History in the context of 'Partition', a poem by W.H. Auden
12. Nostalgia in the poetry of the Second World War: “El Alamein” a poem by John Jarmain” + (Annexed documents)
13. The North Ship in the context of the poetry of the Second World War
14. The Muse that Failed: Poetry and Patriotism during the Second World War
15. Poetry and Power: Rudyard Kipling and the War in South Africa 1899-1902
16. Poetry and Parody as a preface to Towards the Last Spike (1952) by E.J. Pratt
17. Poetry in a Cold Climate: a political reading of E.J. Pratt’s Towards the Last Spike (1952)


III History of Ideas

18. Talking to India: George Orwell, the BBC and the Indian Empire during the Second World War
19. Rita Hinden : travaillisme et décolonisation
20. La pensée conservatrice et l’impérialisme : la carrière et les idées de Leo Amery (1873-1955)
 
 

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