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
Liverpool University Press Announces Participation in Path to Open Initiative
Liverpool University Press is delighted to announce its participation in a new Open Access (OA) monograph scheme, Path to Open, in partnership with JSTOR.
What Music Does Humanity Make?
New on the blog: 200 years on from Wordsworth's appearance at a musical party, Yimon Lo shares her thoughts on the poet as a 'musical' figure and provides insight on her new book Musical Wordsworth.
“All Human Life is There”: An Introduction to The Regal Throne by Nicholas Dobson
Nicholas Dobson's The Regal Throne — Power, Politics and Ribaldry, a guide to Shakespeare’s Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V, moves from high political intrigue to lowlife bar-room badinage; from self-indulgent regal decline to elevated and inspirational kingly valour. Dobson explains each scene of all four plays in detail with … Continue reading
