‘Shelley, the writer of some infidel poetry, has been drowned: now he knows whether there is a God or no’. So wrote a Tory reviewer after Shelley’s premature death. Cruel as the remark is, the reviewer accidentally lights upon the questions that had preoccupied the poet throughout his short life: is there a God and is there life after death? Madeleine Callaghan discusses this as a crucial facet of her new book, Eternity in British Romantic Poetry for the bicentenary of Percy Bysshe Shelley's death.
LUP launches new series: Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations
Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce a new series: Playwriting and the Contemporary: Critical Collaborations, led by series editors Siân Adiseshiah (Loughborough University), Jacqueline Bolton (University of Lincoln), Nicholas Holden, (University of Greenwich), and Chris Megson (Royal Holloway, University of London). The series editors said: “We are delighted to bring this new book series to … Continue reading
Q&A With Éamon Ó Cofaigh, author of A Vehicle for Change
Our latest publication in the Studies in Modern and Contemporary France series, A Vehicle for Change, looks at popular representations of the automobile in 20th-Century France. Its author, Éamon Ó Cofaigh, takes a seat for an exclusive Q&A for the LUP blog.
Pavilion Author Q&A: Marilyn Hacker
Coinciding with our spotlight in June is the eighth year of Pavilion Poetry, and we're taking the opportunity to look back at our brilliant collections with a series of author Q&As. For the latest interview in the series, we chatted to Marilyn Hacker, translator of Poems by Vénus Khoury-Ghata in A Handful of Blue Earth (2017) to discuss the collection and her work on translation more widely.
Clementi and the woman at the piano
Erin Helyard’s Clementi and the woman at the piano is the June volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This book explores how Clementi afforded female pianists a new and radical style of performance. In this blog post, Erin Helyard discusses this new publication, Clementi's career, and the impact Clementi had in creating a new kind … Continue reading
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