This extract is taken from the Prologue Perhaps you have seen Egyptian mummies in museums too. You may have felt curiosity, fear, concern or nothing at all. You may have returned to see them, being... READ MORE
A press release from the series editors on the COVID-19 special issue release of the Human Remains and Violence journal. READ MORE
Editors Sarah Cardwell, Jonathan Bignell and Lucy Fife Donaldson discuss their new edited collections, ‘Moments in Television’, which form part of The Television Series. Three new books –... READ MORE
Welcome to our celebration of the life and work of William Shakespeare. On this page you can register for FREE access to hand-picked ebook bundles*, find details of open access content on... READ MORE
By Keith Rathbone On March 18, 2022 the Russian four-time Olympic medallist Evgeny Rylov attended the “For a world without Nazism” rally in Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium. During the pro-war rally,... READ MORE
I am keenly anticipating the simultaneous launch (in April) of three edited collections I have been working on with fellow editors Sarah Cardwell and Lucy Fife Donaldson. The books are part of a new... READ MORE
If you were to pick up any biography of an author of literary fiction today, you would expect to find that author’s works referenced in some way – and normally that expectation would be fulfilled.... READ MORE
If I believed in fate, I would say that I was destined to write this book, since it reflects obsessions I’ve had for most of my adult life and probably earlier: poetic forms, what those forms tell... READ MORE
The period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries fascinates us for many reasons. Some people are interested the evolving ideas about the ways states should be ordered and run which led to... READ MORE
Homoeroticism and the political imagination in Irish writing In Revolutionary Bodies, I track a history of imaginary queer or gay men in modern Irish literature and argue that diverse political ideas... READ MORE