In this post, authors Renée Fox and Mary L. Mullen discuss the findings of their edited collection, Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland. The second volume in the new Studies in the Global Nineteenth-Century series from Liverpool University Press, this book challenges assumptions about nineteenth-century Irish identity, exceptionalism, and literary conventions. Credit: “Two forces,” … Continue reading
Finding a future for men beyond patriarchy
Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction by Men is the first comprehensive study of the self-representation of men in twenty-first-century SF novels. It demonstrates how the old stereotypes are being replaced by a collective reflection on how men and masculinity are changing and progressing. My first publication about men appeared in 1998, before I even knew … Continue reading
Halloween Reading List
To celebrate spooky season, this Halloween Liverpool University Press have curated a reading list perfect for those interested in all things horror - including (but not limited to) science fiction, grotesque digital culture, gothic literature and ghost stories.
The Return of Ezra Pound on his 140th birthday
The Ezra Pound Center for Literature Book Series is a project dedicated to publishing a variety of scholarly and literary works relevant to Ezra Pound and Modernism, including new critical monographs on Pound and/or other Modernists, scholarly studies related to Pound and his legacy, edited collections of essays, volumes of original poetry, reissued books of … Continue reading
James Joyce and Lu Xun in Tandem
The Wanderings of Modernism addresses the notion of wandering in English-speaking literary modernism. Focusing on the interwar period, it encompasses the material aspects of wandering lifestyles, their social and cultural conceptualizations, from tourism to exile, and the politics of localization and displacement, from a diverse range of scholarly and theoretical perspectives. James Joyce and the … Continue reading
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