New from Clemson University Press, Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson explores the complicated archive of sources, interpretations, and people present in queer writings on opera and symphonic music from ca. 1880–1935. In this blog post, author Kristin M. Franseen introduces her book's serious use of … Continue reading
Halloween 2023: The LUP Reading List
This Halloween, the team at LUP have pulled together a selection of some of our spookiest books and journal articles – from ghosts in Greek tragedy to a postcolonial reading of the zombie. Find out more about our top picks across Art, Literature, History, and Culture below.
Liverpool: A Memoir of Words – In Conversation with Tony Crowley
The author of The Liverpool English Dictionary and Scouse: A Social and Cultural History has a new book publishing with LUP on 1st November. Tony Crowley’s Liverpool: A Memoir of Words is a work of creative non-fiction that combines the study of language in Liverpool with social history, the history of the English language and personal … Continue reading
Black History Month: The LUP Reading List
To mark Black History Month, we’ve put together a list of books and journal articles which provide new and critical insights into the area. Each article has been made Free to Read throughout October.
Dibia’s World – In Conversation with William Jennings
William Jennings' Dibia’s World: Life on an Early Sugar Plantation has recently published in the Liverpool Studies in International Slavery series. Drawing on an unpublished planter’s manuscript, this work discusses the origins, names, relationships, families, skills and health of a hundred slaves on an early sugar plantation. We spoke to author William Jennings about this new publication. … Continue reading
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