In this blog post, author John F. Ryan shares details of his research process behind his new book Gerald O'Donovan: A Life.
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.
A Literary Offensive
Gemma Tidman’s The Emergence of Literature in Eighteenth-Century France: The Battle of the School Books has recently published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This book changes our understanding of when, how, and why modern ideas of literature emerged in France. In this blog post, Gemma Tidman shares some insight into her new book in the form … Continue reading
‘Play up! play up! and play the game!’ – the vital legacy of poet Henry Newbolt
Playing the Game: Selected Poems of Henry Newbolt edited by John Howlett is the first scholarly edition in more than four decades of one of the most significant poets of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. To celebrate the publication of this new book, Howlett explains why Newbolt was such a figure of importance … 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