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“... of Peters’s book is its bibliography, which is to be recommended particularly to anyone reading Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain, so that they can find out what Amnesty International and similar human rights organisations do and why their work is so important. For in spite of the ecstatic quotes on the blurb and the author’s own introduction to the ...”

“... to account for it. Why, once again, are we willing to acknowledge that beauty is worthy of love? Elaine Scarry answers this question by uniting beauty and morality. In the tradition of 19th-century aesthetics, On Beauty and Being Just describes, evokes and manifests the loving attention that beautiful objects provoke. It also argues that this attention ...”

“... known for inspiring a famous poem. She also, as Felski fails to note, is primed by her reading of Elaine Scarry’s 1998 lecture ‘On Beauty and Being Wrong’: a source for Smith’s novel On Beauty. In the lecture, Scarry asked Smith’s question: how ‘did she hate something so completely and then love it so ...”

“... and Sheila Heti, and in Smith’s own essays. As the title On Beauty had been already used by Elaine Scarry, so Swing Time has been borrowed from the title of the 1936 Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers vehicle, a black and white musical of waltzes and tap dances and a Fred and piano rendition of ‘The Way You Look Tonight’. The novel begins at its ...”

“... weak powers of imaginative projection. ‘It is not hard to imagine a ghost successfully,’ Elaine Scarry writes, ‘what is hard is successfully to imagine an object, any object, that does not look like a ghost.’ As Woolf pointed out, Charlotte’s ghosts seem more real than many real people.Although Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell only ...”