We are delighted to bring you the 2025 Free Issues. Each year we make one issue from each of our journals free to read, capturing the breadth and scope of the research that our journals publish, and the growth of LUP from its formation in 1899.
Visit our Free Issues page to download free content in Modern Languages, Political History, Art & Sculpture, Culture Studies, Science Fiction Studies, Planning, and more.
Highlights include…
Journal of Jewish Studies
Published in partnership with the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
Volume 73.1 includes articles on exegesis and grammatical gender in late antiquity, Reform Rabbi Herbert Weiner’s writings on religion in Israel in the 1950s and 1960s, alongside work on Jacques Derrida and his unique exploration of the ‘covenant of circumcision’. You will also find a healthy reviews section.
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French Studies: A Quarterly Review
Published on behalf of the Society for French Studies.
Volume 76.4 includes studies on Ronsard’s ironic treatment of ghosts, queer motherhood in Marivaux’s La Vie de Marianne, the rat de l’opéra and the social imaginary of labour, Aimé Césaire’s ecological and ethical philosophy, heroism and monstrosity in Slimani’s Chanson douce, the pragmatic use of the French marker je vais te dire une bonne chose, and a piece on Algerian cultural production sixty years after independence. The issue closes with an extensive reviews section.
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Extrapolation
The first journal to publish academic work on science fiction and fantasy.
This special issue, titled Viral Science Fiction explores the ways in which speculative fiction reflects and helps process the COVID-19 pandemic. With contributions on the five types of pandemic fiction, zombies as metaphors for inequality, new kinships in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam, coronavirus-themed erotica, and Argentinian post-apocalyptic literature. The issue also includes a book reviews section.
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Global Nineteenth-Century Studies
Exploring the world’s connectedness between 1750 & 1914
What is a global nineteenth-century; what tools best suit its study; how might vibrant, emerging critical discourses aid in reconceptualizing the nineteenth century anew? This inaugural issue reflects on these questions. Including contributions on the integration of new diplomatic history to challenge Eurocentrism, the role of global perspectives in Victorian studies, and anti-racist intersectional approaches in historical scholarship. The issue closes with a reviews section.
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