Erin Helyard’s Clementi and the woman at the piano is the June volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This book explores how Clementi afforded female pianists a new and radical style of performance. In this blog post, Erin Helyard discusses this new publication, Clementi's career, and the impact Clementi had in creating a new kind … Continue reading
Turmoil: post-pandemic paradigm shifts and elastic adaptations
Síofra Pierse is co-editor with Emma M. Dunne of Turmoil: instability and insecurity in the eighteenth-century francophone text, the May volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This book is a collection of essays by international eighteenth-century colleagues, who explore instances of turmoil through study of eighteenth-century francophone texts. Turmoil(s) captured appear … Continue reading
Special Preview – Global Nineteenth-Century Studies Inaugural Issue
Ahead of the inaugural issue of the journal, Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (GNCS), we bring you a special preview of the table of contents - head over to the blog to see what's coming up.
Dallowday! Celebrating the Work of Virginia Woolf
'What a lark! What a plunge!' - Mrs Dalloway (1925) Every year, on ‘a Wednesday in mid-June’, Dallowday is celebrated in recognition of the life and work of Virginia Woolf, one of modernist literature’s most innovative and dynamic writers. To mark the occasion, we’ve compiled a list of books from Clemson University Press and our … Continue reading
Far from Provincial – In a Province: Studies in the Writing of South Africa by Graham Pechey
To mark the publication of the late Graham Pechey’s collected essays on South African culture and writing In a Province: Studies in the Writing of South Africa, his daughter Dr Laura Pechey and Professor Tony Voss share their reflections on this important new collection.