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Strengthening Scottish Identity in the 1930s
Read more: Strengthening Scottish Identity in the 1930sDuncan Sim on the founding of the Claymore magazine and its impact on Scottish identity
Q&A with the author of Whiteness, Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary British and US Poetry
A Q&A with Jenna Clake, author of Whiteness, Feminism and the Absurd in Contemporary British and US Poetry.
Shakespeare’s Instability
by Jeffrey Knapp The first speaker in one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays is not a prince, like Hamlet, or a lover, like Juliet, or a warrior, like Macbeth. He’s a drunken beggar. And he’s incensed that the hostess of the tavern…
Provost Pawkie’s Travels in Time: The Provost, by John Galt
by Caroline McCracken-Flesher In Provost Pawkie’s Gudetown readers hear the town clock tick just once. The city fathers gather at the council chamber. “[The] town was lying in the defencelessness of sleep,” Pawkie remembers, “and nothing was heard but the…
The Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Q&A
by Sophie Chiari and Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise In the following quiz, each answer is related to a particular chapter of The Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. We hope, as a result, that this fun test will enable you…
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.…
Q&A with Ruth M. McAdams, author of Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature
by Ruth M. McAdams Tell us a bit about your book. Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature is about what happened when Victorians looked around for signs of the historical progress that was allegedly taking place on a broad scale.…
Children, Charity and Magazines
A Q&A with the author of Philanthropy in Children’s Periodicals, 1840–1930: The Charitable Child.
AVANT-GARDES INVENTED IN AUSTRALIA!
Did Australia invent the idea of the avant-garde?
EUP 75: Our Publishing in Language & Linguistics
Explore the journey of Language & Linguistics publishing at Edinburgh University Press from the 1990s to our latest releases.