In George Moore: Spheres of Influence, editors Kathryn Laing and Mary Pierse explore the literary worlds inhabited by the pioneering Irish author George Moore (1852–1933). With an eye to Moore’s innovative embrace of visual art, feminism and literary history, this newly published volume investigates the writer's influences and inventive strategies in novel, short story and … 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.
LUP launches new series: Liverpool Studies in Literature and Environment
Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce a new series: Liverpool Studies in Literature and Environment, led by series editors Adeline Johns-Putra (Monash University Malaysia), Nicole Seymour (California State University, Fullerton) and Sam Solnick (University of Liverpool). The series editors said: “We are delighted to be working together on this series – which, as the only UK university … Continue reading
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
The Continuities of Neoliberalism
Grounded in a fine-grained analysis of contemporary Indian fiction, Beyond Alterity: Contemporary Indian Fiction and the Neoliberal Script by Shakti Jaising argues that the logic of neoliberal capitalism and the steady proliferation of its ideological script have produced significant continuities in class dynamics, subjective experience, as well as literary and cultural expression across the North-South … Continue reading
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