Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce that the second monograph to feature on Modern Languages Open is Postgrowth Imaginaries: New Ecologies and Counterhegemonic Culture in Post-2008 Spain by Luis I. Prádanos. Postgrowth Imaginaries brings together environmental cultural studies and postgrowth economics to examine radical cultural shifts sparked by the global financial crisis. The globalization of an economic … Continue reading
How Battles Over Booze Shaped Modern Liverpool – In Conversation with David Beckingham
How did Liverpool transform its 19th century reputation for drunkenness? David Beckingham, author of The Licensed City explains the social impact of licensing laws in a city centred on drinking culture. What made you decide to study Liverpool and what did you focus on in your research? For much of the nineteenth century, Liverpool enjoyed a terrible … Continue reading
LUP extends support for author sharing by adopting Kudos S-PDF
Kudos, the award-winning platform for managing research dissemination, has announced 7 more publisher partners have signed up to switch on the Shareable PDF (S-PDF) feature and enable their authors to use Kudos for managing and evaluating PDF-based sharing. S-PDF makes it easy for researchers to create and share plain language summaries of their work, encapsulated … Continue reading
Language, science and human control of nature: the case of Buffon’s ‘Histoire naturelle’
Hanna Roman discusses the importance of understanding the link between language and nature in 18th century France in her book, The Language of Nature in Buffon's Histoire naturelle, the latest volume to be published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. In the French eighteenth century, it is difficult to understand how science worked without first studying its relationship to … Continue reading
Readings in the Cantos – Five Minutes with Richard Parker
To celebrate the release of Readings in the Cantos, we caught up with Richard Parker to discuss changing perspectives on the Cantos and what we can learn from Pound's discarded works. Could you tell us a bit about The Cantos and why they have been so widely studied? The Cantos are one of modernism’s longest poems, begun in earnest around 1915 … Continue reading
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