Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham. Her recent books are Placeless People: Writing, Rights and Refugees (2018) and The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg (2011), winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. Other titles include: The Destructive Element (1998), Reading Melanie Klein (1998) and The Writing of Anxiety (2007). She is currently working on a collaborative project, Refugee Hosts, and finishing a short book, Rights and Writing: Literature in the Age of Human Rights. She is co-editor of Oxford University Press’s Mid-Century Series, and has held visiting positions at Cornell University and the University of Sydney. She is a regular media commentator, and tweets about literature, history, and human rights @lyndseystonebri

Stonebridge opens up new ways to understand postwar literature.

• Introduction; Gathering Ashes: The Judicial Imagination in the Age of Trauma; Part One: Writing After Nuremberg; Chapter One: 'An event that did not become an experience': Rebecca West's Nuremberg; Chapter Two: The Man in the Glass Booth: Hannah Arendt's Irony; Chapter Three: Fiction in Jerusalem: Muriel Spark's Idiom of Judgement; Part Two: Territorial Rights; Chapter Four: 'We Refugees': Hannah Arendt and the Perplexities of Human Rights; Chapter Five: 'Creatures of an Impossible Time': Late Modernism, Human Rights and Elizabeth Bowen; Chapter Six: The Dark Background of Difference: Love and the Refugee in Iris Murdoch; Bibliography.

Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham. Her recent books are Placeless People: Writing, Rights and Refugees (2018) and The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg (2011), winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. Other titles include: The Destructive Element (1998), Reading Melanie Klein (1998) and The Writing of Anxiety (2007). She is currently working on a collaborative project, Refugee Hosts, and finishing a short book, Rights and Writing: Literature in the Age of Human Rights. She is co-editor of Oxford University Press’s Mid-Century Series, and has held visiting positions at Cornell University and the University of Sydney. She is a regular media commentator, and tweets about literature, history, and human rights @lyndseystonebri

Stonebridge opens up new ways to understand postwar literature.

• Introduction; Gathering Ashes: The Judicial Imagination in the Age of Trauma; Part One: Writing After Nuremberg; Chapter One: 'An event that did not become an experience': Rebecca West's Nuremberg; Chapter Two: The Man in the Glass Booth: Hannah Arendt's Irony; Chapter Three: Fiction in Jerusalem: Muriel Spark's Idiom of Judgement; Part Two: Territorial Rights; Chapter Four: 'We Refugees': Hannah Arendt and the Perplexities of Human Rights; Chapter Five: 'Creatures of an Impossible Time': Late Modernism, Human Rights and Elizabeth Bowen; Chapter Six: The Dark Background of Difference: Love and the Refugee in Iris Murdoch; Bibliography.

Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at the University of Birmingham. Her recent books are Placeless People: Writing, Rights and Refugees (2018) and The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg (2011), winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize. Other titles include: The Destructive Element (1998), Reading Melanie Klein (1998) and The Writing of Anxiety (2007). She is currently working on a collaborative project, Refugee Hosts, and finishing a short book, Rights and Writing: Literature in the Age of Human Rights. She is co-editor of Oxford University Press’s Mid-Century Series, and has held visiting positions at Cornell University and the University of Sydney. She is a regular media commentator, and tweets about literature, history, and human rights @lyndseystonebri

Stonebridge opens up new ways to understand postwar literature.

• Introduction; Gathering Ashes: The Judicial Imagination in the Age of Trauma; Part One: Writing After Nuremberg; Chapter One: 'An event that did not become an experience': Rebecca West's Nuremberg; Chapter Two: The Man in the Glass Booth: Hannah Arendt's Irony; Chapter Three: Fiction in Jerusalem: Muriel Spark's Idiom of Judgement; Part Two: Territorial Rights; Chapter Four: 'We Refugees': Hannah Arendt and the Perplexities of Human Rights; Chapter Five: 'Creatures of an Impossible Time': Late Modernism, Human Rights and Elizabeth Bowen; Chapter Six: The Dark Background of Difference: Love and the Refugee in Iris Murdoch; Bibliography.