Poetry & Money: A Speculation by the award-winning poet Peter Robinson is a study of the relationships between poets, poetry, and money from Chaucer to contemporary times. Through its close readings of poems over many centuries directly or indirectly engaged with money, the book demonstrates the extent to which money and its metaphors permeate areas … Continue reading
The formal and the informal, the redacted and the omitted: working with the Henry Crabb Robinson archive
Philipp Hunnekuhl is the author of Henry Crabb Robinson: Romantic Comparatist, 1790–1811, published recently in the Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780–1850 series. The book is the first comprehensive study of Robinson’s achievements as a pioneering literary critic and cross-cultural disseminator. In this blog post, Hunnekuhl reflects on working with the manuscripts of … Continue reading
Gendered Ecologies – In Conversation with Dewey W. Hall and Jillmarie Murphy
From Clemson University Press, Gendered Ecologies considers the value of interrelationships that exist among human, nonhuman species, and inanimate objects as part of the environment, and features observations by women writers as recorded in nature diaries, poetry, bildungsroman, sensational fiction, philosophical fiction, and folklore. We spoke to editors Dewey W. Hall and Jillmarie Murphy to … Continue reading
The Coronavirus Pandemic, Science Fiction, and the Contingent Nature of Roads
In this blog post Jeremy Withers, author of Futuristic Cars and Space Bicycles, considers the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on our urban environments, in relation to science fiction’s frequent focus on futuristic and post-apocalyptic settings The coronavirus pandemic shattered our world. This first wave of this crisis led to hundreds of thousands of deaths, staggering … Continue reading
A century since One Man’s Initiation: 1917
2020 marks the 100 year anniversary of John Dos Passos' first published novel, One Man's Initiation: 1917. In this blog post, Lisa Nanney - author of John Dos Passos & Cinema and editor of The Paintings and Drawing of John Dos Passos, both published by Clemson University Press - assesses the novel's beginnings, rooted in the … Continue reading