Elena Vanden Abeele investigates the functions, symbols and hidden meanings behind the parsol in the 19th century.
By Nicholas Baima Greed is clearly unjust, but is it foolish? In Book 1 of Plato’s Republic, Thrasymachus defends the…
Take a peek at the book extract from the recently published Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion by Thomas Nail.…
Read Laura Mayne’s overview of the new book Sixties British Cinema Reconsidered, which re-evaluates a critically neglected period in British…
Gerard Lee McKeever’s new book Dialectics of Improvement: Scottish Romanticism, 1786-1831 is published this month in the ‘Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism’ series. To mark the occasion, Dr McKeever spoke to series co-editor Professor Penny Fielding.
Irish University Review, the leading journal dedicated to Irish literary criticism, turns 50 this year, and to celebrate, we have…
Read on to explore the details behind writing the first and second edition of the fascinating study looking at the…
By Antoine Dechêne A few months ago, my wife and I were having one of our numerous chats about the…
Read on to find out what inspired Murdo Macdonald to research Patrick Geddes in his new book Patrick Geddes’s Intellectual…
Professor James Hunter – founding director of the University of the Highlands and Islands’ (UHI) Centre for History and author…