East West Street

<h4>Kate McLoughlin is professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, UK. Her publications include Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq (2011) and, as editor, The Cambridge Companion to War Writing. She is currently completing a book about the figure of the war veteran in English Literature from William Wordsworth to J. K. Rowling.</h4>

Kate McLoughlin

Limitless Achievement: On “East West Street”

“The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.” — Aristotle

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Kate McLoughlin is professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, UK. Her publications include Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq (2011) and, as editor, The Cambridge Companion to War Writing. She is currently completing a book about the figure of the war veteran in English Literature from William Wordsworth to J. K. Rowling.