Journals, Literature

T.S. Eliot Studies Annual | ‘Ecology and Voice: Non-Human Speech and Songs of the Earth in The Waste Land’

To celebrate the publication of Volume 7 of the Annual, and the International T.S. Eliot Summer School, we are making the following article free to read throughout September 2025:

Journals, Literature

T. S. Eliot’s Black Arts Legacy: Robert Hayden, the Middle Passage, and The Waste Land

To celebrate the release of the latest issue of The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual (Volume 6), we are showcasing an article by Anita Patterson titled 'T. S. Eliot’s Black Arts Legacy: Robert Hayden, the Middle Passage, and The Waste Land' which is featured in Volume 6 of The Annual.

Journals, Literature

Through the Looking Glass: T. S. Eliot and Indian Philosophy

Manju Jain’s “Through the Looking Glass: T. S. Eliot and Indian Philosophy” is the definitive study of Eliot’s contact with Sanskrit and Buddhist texts for our generation. Drawing on the new editions of Eliot’s prose and letters, Jain examines Eliot’s lifelong engagement with and ambivalence towards Indian philosophy, comparing his attitudes to those of his teachers and contemporaries. We are pleased to share that her article is Free to Read throughout the rest of this month to August.

Journals, Literature

Reading and Changing Social Attitudes to Disability: The 50th Issue of JLCDS

To celebrate the 50th issue of the Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Professor David Bolt discusses some of the recent work undertaken by the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies alongside the journal published by Liverpool University Press, playing testament to their wider reach engagement across the Higher Education sector and beyond.

Modern Languages

‘World-literature in French’: Ten Years On

To celebrate Free Read Friday this month, Charles Forsdick, James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool, interviewed Alain Mabanckou and Abdourahman Waberi to discuss the impact of the 2007 manifesto for a 'world-literature in French'. Ten years ago, on 15 March 2007, Le Monde des Livres published a manifesto advocating a  'world-literature in French'. Pointing to … Continue reading