Writing and Righting

Lyndsey Stonebridge is Professor of Humanities and Human Rights at University of Birmingham. Her books include: The Judicial Imagination: Writing after Nuremberg (2011/2014), winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, The Destructive Element (1998), Reading Melanie Klein (with John Phillips, 1998), The Writing of Anxiety (2007), and British Fiction after Modernism (with Marina MacKay, 2007). She is currently collaborating on a large interdisciplinary project, Refugee Hosts.

• 1: Introduction: Literature in the Endtimes (?) of Human Rights2: Once More with Feeling3: Experimental Human Rights: Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas4: Words of Fire: Creative Citizenship5: The Bewilderment of Everyday Violence: Shamima Begum, Freud, Citizenship and Law6: Survival Time/Human Time: Hannah Arendt and Behrouz Boochani7: Conclusion: Hannah Arendt in Baddawi

Over the past 20 years, Lyndsey Stonebridge has emerged as one of our most interesting literary critics. She brings together modern writers and their experience of some of the darkest episodes of the 20th century: exile, war crimes trials, humanitarian disasters... The book often has the strengths of Stonebridge's earlier works. She moves between detailed literary criticism and large questions about human rights and contemporary society. Perhaps most important of all is the originality of her subject, expanding the remit of literary criticism... Stonebridge is at her best offering fascinating close readings that open onto big, important subjects.