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Libraries: Keepers of History and History Makers
Read more: Libraries: Keepers of History and History MakersDaniel Miele visits two Dutch universities, exploring the shared challenges between publishers and libraries.
An Interview with David Rando, author of On Fiction and Being a Good Animal
by David Rando Tell us a bit about On Fiction and Being a Good Animal. On Fiction and Being a Good Animal begins with a question: what if fiction could help us to become not better people but better animals?…
5 Things I Learned About William Lindsay Gresham
by G. Connor Salter I knew that he put the word “geek” into popular culture with his 1946 novel Nightmare Alley. Beyond that, the only thing I knew when I started researching William Lindsay Gresham was that his ex-wife, Joy…
Shakespeare Teachers Strike Back: Three strategies for engaging in politically responsive pedagogy in the age of (another) DEI backlash
by Marissa Greenberg and Elizabeth Williamson Perhaps the greatest challenge facing US institutions of higher education is the tension between an increasingly diverse student body and an inherently (and inherited) homogenous curriculum. “Meeting today’s students where they are” is a…
Young Adults & War
How can literature for young adults and children help to foster lasting positive social change?
Three Unruly Natures that figure in the Ecology of Empire Writing
If Empire is, as Neel Ahuja suggests, a “project in the Government of species”, then it stands to reason that empire writing must either...
How to be a Jacobean courtier – the ambitious man’s guide
The author of Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters explains what the story of Thomas Overbury reveals about success at the court of James VI and I.
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.
Q&A with the author of Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf: Modernism, Media and Emotion
Reading Portrait Photographs in Proust, Kafka and Woolf studies a specific motif in modernist literature: the act of looking at portrait photographs.
Making Fields: Women in Publishing
by Nicola Wilson, Claire Battershill, Sophie Heywood, Marrisa Joseph, Daniela La Penna, Helen Southworth, Alice Staveley and Elizabeth Willson Gordon The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900-2020 highlights the long history of women’s work as editors and publishers, designers,…