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  • 20 May 2019
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    David Rundle

    A lesson from the Renaissance: we read the book before the text

    Do me a favour: stop reading. Turn away from the screen, lean over, stretch across or get up and take a book (any book) in your hands. Don’t open it. In fact, close your eyes for a moment and feel it: what do you read? Because you are reading: the shape, the size, its feel, […]

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  • 12 Mar 2019
    James L. W. West III

    The Great Gatsby

    Cambridge University Press will publish a fully annotated variorum edition of The Great Gatsby in April 2019.  This will be the eighteenth and final volume of the Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition, an editorial project that began some thirty years ago.  The Gatsby variorum will present the textual history of novel after its first publication, on 10 […]

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  • 4 Mar 2019
    Rebecca E. Lyons, Samantha J. Rayner

    Academic Book Week 2019

    In this blog post series editors for 'Elements in Publishing and Book Culture' Samantha Rayner and Rebecca Lyons hold a roundtable discussion with their fellow authors and editors on Academic Book Week.

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  • 13 Feb 2019
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    Tyler Bradway, E. L. McCallum

    Queer Theory Now and the Pleasure of Movement

    Queer theory emerged in the midst of crisis in the late 1980s and early 1990s: as the HIV/AIDS epidemic raged, scholars and activists sought to disrupt the stigmatization and erasure of LGBTQ lives in the Reagan/Thatcher era. In centering sexuality within cultural analysis, queer theory built on foundations established by the feminist and gay liberation […]

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  • 8 Jan 2019
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    Anthony Bale

    Is Brexit a ‘crusade’?

    The political and economic agenda of the United Kingdom has been dominated for the last two years by the result of the 2016 Brexit referendum. A few days after the referendum, in which 52% of voters voted to leave the European Union, the Islamic State organisation praised Brexit for destabilising ‘crusader Europe’. ISIS represented a […]

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  • 17 Sep 2018
    Critical Contexts Terrorism and Literature Blog Post
    Peter C. Herman

    Terrorism and Literature

    Like so much else in life, this collection began by accident. I had been working for some years on a book about terrorism and unspeakability (now forthcoming from Routledge) when I had a conversation with Ray Ryan about it. A few weeks later, Ray emailed me to ask if I would take on editing a […]

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  • 11 Sep 2018
    Animals, Animality and Literature blog post
    Molly Hand

    Animals and Literature Now

    Why study animals and literature now? Animal narratives appear around the globe from time immemorial: in our earliest creation myths and the texts that underpin the world’s major religions, in literature from “talking beast” fables to novels with animal protagonists, in works of philosophy and science, in visual media from film to internet memes. Animal […]

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  • 8 May 2018
    John Richetti

    Three-hundred years of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

    2019 marks the tercentenary of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1719), a novel that achieved instant popularity in Britain (Defoe wrote a sequel, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, which appeared the same year and was published with the first part throughout the century). Quickly translated into French, German, and Dutch, since then Defoe’s book has […]

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