Enlightenment

Clementi and the woman at the piano

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

Enlightenment

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

Literature

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

Literature, postcolonial studies

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.