By Lena Wånggren What is an ‘unwomanly’ woman? Or an ‘unsexed’ woman? At the end of the nineteenth century, both…
Tag: literature
By Sarah Wootton Light is recapturing the attention of contemporary writers, critics, and artists. Ann Wroe’s Six Facets of Light…
By Mario Aquilina What is happening to ‘literature’ in the digital age? Is it surviving, changing, under threat? How are…
By Bill Angus If you have ever wondered what was really going on in the secret overhearing and tacit observations,…
By Sean McEvoy William Shakespeare died four hundred years ago. We know he departed this life on 23 April 1616…
By Kevin Curran, University of Lausanne What is it about Shakespeare’s writing that makes it endure? Why do his plays and poems…
Thomas Jefferson maintained a flock of geese to supply him with quills for his pens. The fastest speed for a…
2015 was a great year for Edinburgh University Press Journals. We published over 750 articles across 39 journals, several of…
By Ivan Callus Recent work across literary theory has placed questions of scale in the foreground of critical debate. What…
What has a nineteenth-century French poet got to do with 1960s American electronica? The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) published his…