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‘A Sensitive, Avid and Silent Political Subject’: Roland Barthes, Politics-Polemics-Pandemics

‘A Sensitive, Avid and Silent Political Subject’: Roland Barthes, Politics-Polemics-Pandemics

27 January 2022 Guest Post

by Andy Stafford, Senior Lecturer in French Studies, University of Leeds; author of the forthcoming book Roland Barthes Writing the Political: History, Dialectics, Self. As we emerge now (hopefully!) from two years of the pandemic and regular lock-down, isolation and confinement, the world suddenly can be apprehended, in some sense,...

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May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate: Travel Writing and Transformation in the Late Nineteenth Century

May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate: Travel Writing and Transformation in the Late Nineteenth Century

27 January 2022 Author Interviews

Q&A for Anthem Author Blog Post — Julia Dabbs, May Alcott Nieriker, Author and Advocate How did you become interested in this subject?  I teach a course on “Women & Art” and in a textbook came across a brief discussion of May’s outspoken comments on women’s art studio experiences, which...

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University Press Roundup: Ancient Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, Why Food Matters Apart from Biological Survival, Surviving Climate Chaos

University Press Roundup: Ancient Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, Why Food Matters Apart from Biological Survival, Surviving Climate Chaos

20 January 2022 University Press Blog Roundup

Check out our collection of eight of the most interesting university press blog posts for this month. We aim to keep you informed, engaged and part of the ongoing scholarly conversations. Gilgamesh Dream Tablet—Iraq puts looted artifacts on display  A small clay tablet dating back 3,500 years and bearing a...

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William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795

William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795

18 December 2021 Guest Post

Drawn to Blake In Ross Glass’s 2020 psychological horror film, Saint Maud, the title character, a hospice nurse who has recently converted to an extremely ascetic form of Catholicism after a hedonistic earlier phase, is given a book of William Blake’s prints (Morton Paley’s 1978 Phaidon edition) by the woman...

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Talk of the Town: Eight Things that Happened in the Publishing Industry in November 2021

Talk of the Town: Eight Things that Happened in the Publishing Industry in November 2021

29 November 2021 Publishing Industry News

Anthem Press has tailored eight remarkable and latest articles that contribute to a round-up of the top news stories in the publishing industry. 1. New Library Design: Spaces that Connect, Cultivate, and Transform Communities As libraries acquire more digital materials, they’re devoting less space to housing physical items. Instead, they’re...

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The Lived Experiences of African International Students in the United Kingdom

The Lived Experiences of African International Students in the United Kingdom

16 November 2021 Guest Post

The Lived Experiences of African International Students in the United Kingdom: Reactions to the Law through the Lens of Precarity and Consciousness By James Marson, Mohammed Dirisu and Katy Ferris The United Kingdom is largely a welcoming place for international students. The country sees the benefit of international visitors engaging...

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Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine

Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine

16 November 2021 Guest Post

Travel writing, as its name suggests, would seem to require travel in order to be effectively produced. After all, how can one write about your experience of visiting foreign lands if you’re unable to travel to them in the first place? Yet, that is precisely the situation that an entire...

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University Press Roundup: European Union, Common Types of Plagiarism, Socialism, Neo-nationalism, Fragmented Society and Book Excerpts

University Press Roundup: European Union, Common Types of Plagiarism, Socialism, Neo-nationalism, Fragmented Society and Book Excerpts

25 October 2021 University Press Blog Roundup

Check out this collection of 8 of the most interesting university press blog posts for this month. We aim to keep you informed, engaged, and part of the ongoing scholarly conversations. What is the European Union? And Why Does It Matter? In January 2021, the UK Government refused to grant...

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Exotic Alternative Investments: Q&A with Kevin R. Mirabile

Exotic Alternative Investments: Q&A with Kevin R. Mirabile

24 October 2021 Author Interviews

Exotic Alternate Investments by Kevin Mirabile provides an in-depth analysis of the returns, risks, opportunities and portfolio effects for investors, advisors and academics and anyone who wants to expand their investment horizons. In this brief Q&A, Mirabile shares his thoughts on the various investment opportunities. 1. What are exotic alternative investment...

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Julia Wedgewood, The Unexpected Victorian: Q&A with Sue Brown

Julia Wedgewood, The Unexpected Victorian: Q&A with Sue Brown

24 October 2021 Author Interviews

Author Sue Brown talks to us about her upcoming book Julia Wedgewood, The Unexpected Victorian. Julia Wedgwood (1833-1913) was a leading Victorian female non-fiction writer who ventured fearlessly into the reserved territory of the Victorian “man of letters”, writing about the Classical world, Darwinism, German Biblical criticism, moral philosophy, theology...

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