• A brightly lit hallway lined with red numbered mailboxes or storage lockers on both sides. The walls, drawers, and lighting fixtures are all red, creating a striking monochromatic design. The polished floor reflects the light, and a white desk is visible on the left side near the entrance.

Women’s History Month

We’re mid-way through March and here at Edinburgh University Press we are still celebrating Women’s History Month (see Stefanie Van de Peer’s blog about International Women’s Day as well as our various Tweets @EdinburghUP). To continue our celebration and promotion…

OLR 40th Anniversary – Hélène Cixous

  Welcome to March, where we are not only celebrating OLR’s 40th Anniversary, but also Women’s History Month. In honour of these two events, we are sharing the work of Hélène Cixous. An academic, philosopher, literary theorist, playwright and feminist,…

soldier reading

Ford Madox Ford, music and the First World War

My research treats music as a crucial aspect of modernist literature, and the First World War was a crucial event for modernist writers, profoundly changing the fabric of social life. Ford Madox Ford served on the front line and wrote…

The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000

Where is the twenty-first century British novel headed?  The Contemporary British Novel Since 2000 answers this question in the light of three recent literary developments.  The first is aesthetic:  early twentieth-first century novelists are going beyond conventional realism, and in…