History, music

“However little he or we may now understand it”: Historicizing Queer Musical Gossip

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

News

New senior appointments at Liverpool University Press

Liverpool University Press is pleased to announce two new senior appointments, with Professor Georgina Endfield FBA appointed to our Board of Directors, and Professor Claire Taylor, Gilmour Chair of Spanish, appointed Chair of the Editorial Advisory Board. A distinguished Professor of Environmental History has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Liverpool University Press.  … Continue reading

Irish Studies, Literature

Discovering George Moore

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

Art, Film studies, History, Journals, Literature, postcolonial studies

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.