Edinburgh University Press Blog

  • About
  • Cultural Studies
    • French Studies
    • Gender Studies
    • Irish Studies
    • Film and TV
    • Theatre and Dance
    • Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
  • History
    • British History
    • Cultural History
    • Natural History
    • Religious History
    • Scottish History
    • World History
  • Language and Literature
    • Modernism
    • Literary Theory
    • Pre 19th Century Literary Studies
    • Post 19th Century Literary Studies
    • Scottish Literature
    • Atlantic Literature
    • Linguistics
  • Law
    • Comparative Law
    • European Law
    • Islamic Law
    • Roman Law
    • Scots Law
  • Politics, Philosophy and Religion
    • Religion
    • Philosophy
    • Politics
    • Political Philosophy
    • Scottish Politics
    • Film Philosophy
  • |
  • Journals
  • Books

Category: Cultural History

Ancient History

Ludovic McLellan Mann: Glasgow’s original media influencer

posted by Teri Williams February 8, 20219 min read82 Views

By Kenny Brophy Decades before Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter, to be an influencer involved analogue methods, persistence, and very,…

Christianity

Divine Hiddenness in C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces

posted by Teri Williams January 12, 20217 min read90 Views

By Derek King C. S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces is a brilliant piece of fiction but also a mediation…

Atlantic Literature

The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Literature: Part Three

posted by Teri Williams January 7, 20219 min read49 Views

By Maryam Khorasani and Hossein Nazari Read part 2 of the blog series. Maria Edgeworth’s Lucky Orphans As the century…

Atlantic Literature

The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Literature: Part Two

posted by Teri Williams January 6, 20215 min read58 Views

By Maryam Khorasani and Hossein Nazari Read part 1 of this blog series. Much Ado about Witchcraft in The History…

Atlantic Literature

The Appeal of the Fantastic and the Improbable in Late Eighteenth Century Children’s Literature: Part One

posted by Teri Williams January 5, 20215 min read133 Views

By Maryam Khorasani and Hossein Nazari Taking into account their concern about the moralistic upbringing of the children of a…

Cultural History

The War against the BBC, Part Two: Vox Populi or Voice of the Press?

posted by Teri Williams December 3, 202014 min read85 Views

By Julian Petley Note from the editors of Journal of British Cinema and Television: Given the current state of culture war,…

Cultural History

The War against the BBC, Part One: Fear and Loathing of Saturday Live

posted by Teri Williams December 2, 202010 min read125 Views

By Julian Petley Note from the editors of Journal of British Cinema and Television: Given the current state of culture war,…

Ancient History

Opium in Afghanistan, a glimpse from the past

posted by Teri Williams November 16, 20207 min read102 Views

By Sara Peterson In recent years, the cultivation of opium poppies in Afghanistan has become a news item, with reports…

British History

A Brief Discussion of University Art, Design and Media Archives as Catalysts for Creativity and Research

posted by Teri Williams November 12, 202010 min read699 Views

By Louise Chapman In 2012, I uncovered an array of boxes containing 177 items of dress in the School of…

British History

Inventing London on Blackfriars Bridge, 1896: Part Two

posted by Teri Williams November 10, 20207 min read55 Views

By Sean Cubitt Catch up with Part One of this blog post. Note from the editors of Journal of British Cinema…

Posts navigation

Older posts

RECENT POSTS

  • Young people and activism

    Language and Literature Mar 1, 2021
  • Q&A with Mark Sandy, author of ‘Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism’

    Atlantic Literature Feb 25, 2021
  • Science, Technology & Culture: In memory of Christopher Johnson (1958-2017)

    Cultural Studies Feb 24, 2021

POPULAR POSTS

  • 1

    Correlationism – An Extract from The Meillassoux Dictionary

    Philosophy by Ruth at EUP Journals Dec 12, 2014
  • 2

    Politics – An Extract from The Badiou Dictionary

    Philosophy by Ruth at EUP Journals Aug 6, 2015
  • 3

    Graham Harman interviews Markus Gabriel

    Philosophy by Naomi Farmer Sep 23, 2016

RECENT COMMENTS

  • Dr. nat. Harald Helmut Wenk (@drhwenk) on ‘Nobody Needs French Theory’ – an extract from Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance
  • Dr. nat. Harald Wenk on The myth of the selfless philosopher
  • Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79): A foremother poet’s poet | Reveries Under the Sign of Austen, Two on 22 Things You Didn’t Know About Elizabeth Bishop

Tags

19th century Afghanistan American Cinema archaeology books childrens literature Christianity cinema coronavirus CounterText covid-19 Deleuze film Film-Philosophy film history Film Studies Gender Studies Gothic History international research in childrens literature Islam Islamic Studies journal of british film and television law Literary Studies literary theory literature Middle Eastern History modernism Modernist Cultures olr40 Oxford Literary Review Philosophy poetry politics religion romanticism Scotland Scottish Affairs Scottish History Scottish Politics Shakespeare Speculative Realism studies in world christianity television

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 230 other subscribers.

Edinburgh University Press

The Tun - Holyrood Road
12 (2f) Jackson’s Entry
Edinburgh, EH8 8PJ
UK

+44 (0) 131 650 4220

Categories

  • Cultural Studies

  • History

  • Language and Literature

  • Law

  • Politics, Philosophy and Religion

Contact Us

    © 2017 Edinburgh University Press | All Right Reserved. | Privacy Policy