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
“A word on Academies”: the Beat Generation writers on higher education
The Beats and the Academy: A Renegotiation - an essay collection newly published from Clemson University Press - explores the tensions between Beat writers and the academic institutions in which they studied and taught. In this blog post the volume's editors Erik Mortenson and Tony Trigilio probe our understanding of the historical tensions between these … Continue reading
“Mapped Worlds and Rediscovered Texts”: An Introduction to Appalachian Pastoral by Michael S. Martin
New from Clemson University Press, Michael S. Martin's Appalachian Pastoral is the first book-length study of antebellum travel narratives into the Appalachian Mountains. In this blog post Martin introduces his work to recast Appalachian literature in terms of a ‘lost tradition’ of texts, understanding the history of the region, and its current environmental and cultural … Continue reading
Meet the Editors of The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual
Meet the Editors of The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual, Julia E. Daniel and Frances Dickey, and get a preview of what’s to come in future issues in the first of a series of videos that will see Julia and Frances chatting with contributors across each volume of the Annual.
Dallowday! Celebrating the Work of Virginia Woolf
'What a lark! What a plunge!' - Mrs Dalloway (1925) Every year, on ‘a Wednesday in mid-June’, Dallowday is celebrated in recognition of the life and work of Virginia Woolf, one of modernist literature’s most innovative and dynamic writers. To mark the occasion, we’ve compiled a list of books from Clemson University Press and our … Continue reading