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Professor Peter Garratt's Outputs (3)

Voices and the Imaginative Ear. (2015)
Journal Article
Garratt, P. (2015). Voices and the Imaginative Ear. The Lancet, 386(10010), 2248-2249. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2815%2901114-9

“Jesters”, says Regan in King Lear, “do oft prove prophets”. Perhaps so. Try this one: “In everyday life, talking about imaginary people as though they were real is known as psychosis; in universities, it is known as literary criticism.” The jester h... Read More about Voices and the Imaginative Ear..

Sublime Transport: Ruskin, Travel and the Art of Speed. (2015)
Book Chapter
Garratt, P. (2015). Sublime Transport: Ruskin, Travel and the Art of Speed. In B. Murray, & M. Henes (Eds.), Travel Writing, Visual Culture and Form, 1760-1900 (194-212). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137543394_10

Towards the end of George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss, Tom Tulliver’s uncle Mr Deane observes that the defining quality of modern life is its speed. Life, he tells Tom, ‘goes on at a smarter pace’ than a generation before, accelerated by the effect... Read More about Sublime Transport: Ruskin, Travel and the Art of Speed..