The Letters of The Duchesse d'Elbeuf: Hostile Witness to the French Revolution by Colin Jones, Simon Macdonald, and Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley has recently published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This book features previously unpublished letters written by the duchesse d'Elbeuf which offer a vivid and exciting hostile account of the French Revolution and the … Continue reading
New series editor announcement: Studies in Modern and Contemporary France
Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce that Professor Jan Windebank from the University of Sheffield will be joining the team of series editors for Studies in Modern and Contemporary France.
The beginning of a friendship: the Ottoman Empire and Prussia
Irena Fliter’s Ottomans in Eighteenth-Century Prussia: Delegates to Diplomats has recently published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This book examines the cultural and social dynamics of Ottoman diplomacy in eighteenth-century Prussia. In this blog post, Irena Fliter introduces her new book with insights into the transformation which turned the former peripheral Prussian court into a … 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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