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T. S. Eliot Studies Annual to be published as a journal: critical reassessment of Eliot’s life and work

We are delighted to announce that from 2022, The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual will join forces with the International T. S. Eliot Society to be published as a journal by Clemson University Press in association with Liverpool University Press.

Literature

Refounding the nation: America and the Modernist Epic

In this blog post Adam Nemmers, author of American Modern(ist) Epic: Novels to Found a Nation (Clemson University Press), introduces the genre of modernist epic novel and reflects on the centennial anniversaries of the modernist movement. American Modern(ist) Epic argues that a cadre of minority novelists revitalized the classic epic form in an effort to … Continue reading

Literature

Reading Tagore’s ‘The Post Office’ During the Pandemic: Reflections on the Nature of Education

Modern Writers, Transnational Literatures, published by Clemson University Press, examines W.B. Yeats’s and Rabindranath Tagore’s literary engagements with identity, nationalism, and the literary and cultural traditions of Ireland and India. In this blog post, author Ragini Mohite re-visits Tagore’s The Post Office and considers the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on education and societal structures. … Continue reading

Literature

Looking for Moses from Frances Harper to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Excavating Exodus published by Clemson University Press charts Black writers’ shifting conceptions of Moses from self-sacrificing leader to authoritarian figure. In this blog post, author J. Laurence Cohen considers how Frances Harper and Martin Luther King, Jr. looked to Moses in their resistance to oppression. April has long been a decisive month in U.S. history. … Continue reading