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The lost story of the Shetland Female Emigration Fund
Read more: The lost story of the Shetland Female Emigration FundVéronique Molinari explores how four people united forces to help young Shetlanders emigrate to Australia
Search Results for Romanticism
Q&A with Mark Sandy, author of ‘Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism’
Tell us a bit about Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism Well, my book takes a fresh look at the literature of British Romanticism and its influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literary culture and thought. It reads works of prose and…
An interview with Michelle Devereaux, author of ‘The Stillness of Solitude: Romanticism and Contemporary American Independent Film’
The Stillness of Solitude: Romanticism and Contemporary American Independent Film is available now in the Traditions in American Cinema series. Find out more on the Edinburgh University Press website Tell us a bit about your book. My book explores the…
Romanticism Celebrates 25 Years
Written by Romanticism editor, Nicholas Roe. The 25th publishing anniversary of Romanticism offers an opportunity to reflect on the origin of the journal three decades ago. In the mid-1990s there was no UK-based journal dedicated to publishing a broad range…
A Life Becoming Deleuzian
Eugene W. Holland explores how he became (and continues to become) Deleuzian, from graduate school through to his most recent publications.
Understanding Wang Zengqi’s Subtle Art of Fiction: Is It Beyond Translation’s Reach？
by Tao Peng Why Do Chinese Readers Like Wang Zengqi? During Wang Zengqi’s (1920–1997) lifetime, his works were not yet bestsellers in bookstores across China as they are today, nor were there as many academic articles discussing their literary value.…
Studying (and Struggling) Abroad: Reflecting on British/American “Transmigrations”
Vaughn Scribner on Dr. Alexander Hamilton, transatlantic voyages past and present, and finding connection in far-flung places.
EUP 75: Our Literature Publishing at Edinburgh University Press
Discover our Literature list, the heart of publishing at Edinburgh University Press, celebrating 75 years of excellence. Explore foundational works like the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels and innovative publications in Scottish literature, Modernism, Gothic Studies, Shakespeare and more, highlighting both renowned and underrepresented authors.
Yogic Yeats and Jung: Early European Receptions of Asian Meditation Manuals
by Chris Murray Should Europeans meditate? Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) said not, but William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) disagreed. To argue his opinion, each adopted Goethe’s character Faust as a paradigm for the non-Asian psyche. For much of his life, Yeats…
Q+A with the Author of The Revival of Evangelicalism
by Andrew M. Jones Tell us a bit about your book The Revival of Evangelicalism: Mission and Piety in the Victorian Church of Scotland is the story of how a movement – evangelicalism – continued to influence the Church of…
Six Romantic Objects: Occasional Poems and Everyday Things
By Christopher Stokes Skylarks, clouds, roses, rivers. What one of my undergraduate students once memorably termed the ‘flowers and s**t’ sense of Romanticism. It’s true that Romantic poetry has a narrow circuit of classic reference points, but one way to…