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  • Interview with Maggie Humm

    Maggie Humm reflects on feminist criticism, life-writing, and Virginia Woolf’s influence.

    April 17, 2026
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Shakespeare’s Instability

  • Literary Studies / Pre 19th Century Literary Studies

by Jeffrey Knapp The first speaker in one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays is not a prince, like Hamlet, or a…

  • ByEdinburgh University Press
  • OnFebruary 11, 2025

Juteopolis?: Dundee’s history as a leading textile town

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  • Cultural History / Scottish History / Scottish Studies

The authors of The Triumph of Textiles discuss poverty and prosperity during Dundee's time as a textile town

  • ByEdinburgh University Press
  • OnFebruary 4, 2025

Do your movements in sleep resemble artificial frogs?

Drawing of the game of artificial frogs: most frogs sit on the surface of the water, whilst the 'salted frog' sinks to the bottom
  • Ancient Philosophy / Philosophy

What does Aristotle say about the relationship between dreams and reality? And what does it have to do with frogs?

  • ByEdinburgh University Press
  • OnJanuary 31, 2025

The use and abuse of antiquity for life

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  • Ancient Philosophy / Classics and Ancient History / Philosophy

Ryan J. Johnson examines the journey that brought him and his co-editors to Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Practice.

  • ByEdinburgh University Press
  • OnJanuary 29, 2025

Provost Pawkie’s Travels in Time: The Provost, by John Galt

  • Language and Literature / Literary Studies

by Caroline McCracken-Flesher In Provost Pawkie’s Gudetown readers hear the town clock tick just once. The city fathers gather at…

  • ByEdinburgh University Press
  • OnJanuary 27, 2025

The Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Q&A

  • Literary Studies / Pre 19th Century Literary Studies

by Sophie Chiari and Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise In the following quiz, each answer is related to a particular chapter of The…

  • ByEdinburgh University Press
  • OnJanuary 23, 2025

The US and UK as embedded democracies

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  • American Studies / Politics / Politics, Philosophy and Religion / US Politics

Benjamin M. Studebaker evaluates the realistic chances of anti-democratic revolution in the United States and the United Kingdom

  • ByEdinburgh University Press
  • OnJanuary 22, 2025

Understanding Wang Zengqi’s Subtle Art of Fiction: Is It Beyond Translation’s Reach?

  • Language and Literature / Linguistics

by Tao Peng Why Do Chinese Readers Like Wang Zengqi? During Wang Zengqi’s (1920–1997) lifetime, his works were not yet…

  • ByEdinburgh University Press
  • OnJanuary 20, 2025

Q&A with Ruth M. McAdams, author of Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature

  • Language and Literature / Literary Studies / Literary Theory

by Ruth M. McAdams Tell us a bit about your book. Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature is about what…

  • ByEdinburgh University Press
  • OnJanuary 18, 2025
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