Excavating Exodus published by Clemson University Press charts Black writers’ shifting conceptions of Moses from self-sacrificing leader to authoritarian figure. In this blog post, author J. Laurence Cohen considers how Frances Harper and Martin Luther King, Jr. looked to Moses in their resistance to oppression. April has long been a decisive month in U.S. history. … Continue reading
Featured in Town Planning Review 92.2: COVID-19 and Public Transport Conundrum in India
The editors of Town Planning Review (TPR) have selected the following paper as a Featured Viewpoint in TPR 92.2. 'COVID-19 and Public Transport Conundrum in India' by Darshini Mahadevia and Chandrima Mukhopadhyay When asked to describe the paper and highlight its importance, the authors stated the following: As a response to COVID-19, India locked down … Continue reading
Pavilion Poetry Spring 2021
Our three new collections from Pavilion Poetry are now available: bird of winter by Alice Hiller, Bloom by Sarah Westcott, and What Fire by Alice Miller! Order now and join us online on Wednesday 5th May to celebrate these titles with a free virtual event. Working with her childhood medical notes, Alice Hiller's bird of … Continue reading
Mapping a Polycentric Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century Mexico
José Francisco Robles is the author of Polemics, Literature, and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Mexico: A New World for the Republic of Letters, the April volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. As a study of intellectual history, his book analyzes the configuration of the Republic of Letters in eighteenth-century Mexico through the … Continue reading
The Middle Dutch Brut, by Sjoerd Levelt
Published in the Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies series of Liverpool University Press is my edition and English translation of the chronicle which I have called the Middle Dutch Brut. The Prose Brut was the principal historiographical tradition of late medieval England, and exists in various versions in Anglo-Norman French, Middle English and Latin. The … Continue reading