2024 marks the 125th anniversary of LUP’s formation and we are pleased to bring you a new selection of free to read journal issues to celebrate.
With one complete issue of each journal available to read for free, this collection captures the breadth and scope of the research that our journals publish, and the growth of LUP from its formation in 1899. We hope that you enjoy reading them.
Visit our Free Issues page to download free content in Modern Languages, Political History, Art & Sculpture, Science Fiction Studies, Planning, and more.
Highlights include…
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies
Devoted to the languages, literatures and civilizations of Spain, Portugal and Latin America.
Volume 98.1 includes articles on the semantic implications of accentual rhythm in Spanish Golden Age poetry; the performance of marvels in Don Quixote Part II; lyrics and autofiction in the work of Lorenzo García Vega; and nostalgia, digital imperialism and the tourist Gaze in the Instagram photography of Havana.
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Contemporary French Civilization
Devoted to all aspects of civilization and cultural studies in France and the Francophone world.
Volume 46.1 includes the 7th Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award Winning Essay: Masculinity, recognition, and genealogy through musico-literary intermediality in Insa Sané’s Du plomb dans le crâne et Daddy est mort…by Katelyn Knox; alongside articles on the dynamics of the sexual tourist gaze in Laurent Cantet’s Vers le sud/Heading South (2005); Virginie Despentes’s King Kong Théorie and the sex-positive movement of the 1980s; and how pop musicians negotiate same-sex desire and self-disclosure in contemporary France.
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Labour History: a Journal of Labour and Social History
Published on behalf of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History.
Volume 120 includes articles examining the anti-racism work of the New Zealand Northern Drivers’ Union 1937-80; the shifting occupation structure of the early twentieth century that lead to engineering no longer being a vehicle for social mobility; the Victorian Coalition Against Poverty and Unemployment (CAPU), in the decade of the 1980s; alongside a large number of book reviews reflecting the thriving publishing industry of labour history.
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Sculpture Journal
Sculpture in all its aspects from prehistory to the present across the globe.
Volume 30.1 examines the incomplete and/or altered monument. With articles on parliamentary commissions of monuments for Westminster Abbey in 1798; the relationship between art and industry in nineteenth-century Britain from the manufacturer’s perspective; art history and Spanish identity before and after the Civil War; and the magazine Silâns, produced by students and tutors on the Advanced Sculpture Course at St Martin’s College of Art between 1964 and 1965.
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