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When the Wind Blows: Planning for Nuclear War in the 1980s
Read more: When the Wind Blows: Planning for Nuclear War in the 1980sJim Gledhill on the organisation of civil defence in Scotland amidst Cold War tensions.
Reading Joyce
2022 marks a hundred years since Sylvia Beach published James Joyce’s novel Ulysses in full. What better time to think about reading Joyce? A hundred years of readers and readings! Of course, that’s not the whole picture. Ulysses is also…
The Woman Writer’s Playbook to Fighting Censorship
This isn’t The Handmaid’s Tale. It’s Brave New World. But without soma.
Q&A with Beth Rigel Daugherty
Q&A with EUP author Beth Rigel Daugherty about her research project and two new books about the life and works of Viginia Woolf
All Stories Run on Two Tracks:What Formalism Offers Presentism
EUP author Katherine Voyles discusses the process around writing a double review for the Victoriographies Journal.
Why You Should Read Allan Ramsay’s ‘The Gentle Shepherd’
What Scottish play, published in 1725, reached over 100 printings by 1800, was called ‘the noblest pastoral’ by Robert Burns, inspired more than forty paintings, more than ‘from the entire works of Chaucer, Defoe, Swift, Richardson, or Fielding’ (R. Altick, Paintings from Books), and was performed by amateur companies throughout Scotland as late as the end of the 19th century?
How I came to make an edition of an imaginary musical text
Allan Ramsay and his 1720s Edinburgh adventure in ballad opera
Five things you (probably) didn’t know about crossroads
Bill Angus tells us five things you (probably) didn't know about crossroads.
Q&A with Patrick O’Connor
Q. Tell us a bit about your book A. Cormac McCarthy, Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned is really a book about the importance of philosophy for literature. In it, I look at how one writer uses philosophy to…
Poetry and the Dream of a Gift without Return
"The gift—what we call “the gift” and “giving”—appears to have at least two distinct functions, and one would be hard pressed to decide between them."