We are delighted to announce that within the 125th year of Liverpool University Press, we are also publishing the 50th issue of Studia Hibernica. To celebrate this remarkable achievement, we are pleased to be able to share a selection of articles which are free to read for a month, selected from various contributors to the journal over several decades of its history.
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
Q&A With Nikolaj Lübecker: Author of Twenty-First-Century Symbolism
In an exclusive Q&A for Liverpool University Press, Lübecker chats to us about his latest book, reading nineteenth-century French poetry with a philosophical corpus, as well as his concerns for the visual.
The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel: Quests for Meaningfulness
In this recent interview with Professor Andrew Burke at the University of Winnipeg, Professor Anyaduba discusses his new book, The Postcolonial African Genocide Novel.
Language, science and human control of nature: the case of Buffon’s ‘Histoire naturelle’
Hanna Roman discusses the importance of understanding the link between language and nature in 18th century France in her book, The Language of Nature in Buffon's Histoire naturelle, the latest volume to be published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. In the French eighteenth century, it is difficult to understand how science worked without first studying its relationship to … Continue reading
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