In Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now: Pedagogy as Ethical Engagement, teacher-scholars of “the long eighteenth century,” a Eurocentric time frame from about 1680 to 1832, consider what teaching means in this historical moment: one of attacks on education, a global…
Women and Music in the Age of Austen: an Interview with the Editors
Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes its formative and lasting effect on Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from musicology, literary studies,…
Literature as Technology: An Interview with Aaron Hanlon
In British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830, Aaron Hanlon and Kristin Girten offer a strategic focus on technology to counterbalance the abundance of studies on literature and science (scientific ideas and methods, natural philosophy) in seventeenth and eighteenth-century Britain. The emphasis…
Alimentary Orientalism | An Excerpt
The most recent title in Bucknell University Press’s landmark Transits series, Alimentary Orientalism: Britian’s Literary Imagination and the Edible East, traces exotic ingestion as a motif across a range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century texts, considering how, why, and whither writers…
#SpeakUP: Imagining Alternatives to Workism
Guest post by Ryan Hediger Get up, go to work. It seems as inevitable and natural as sunrise. This simple directive orients much of our lives, both directly and indirectly, informing our notions of education, morality, and community. From youth…
Making Modern Spain: An Interview with Azariah Alfante
In her first publication, Making Modern Spain: Religion, Secularization, and Cultural Production, Azariah Alfante explores the work of select nineteenth-century writers, intellectuals, journalists, politicians, and clergy who responded to cultural and spiritual shifts caused by the movement toward secularization in…
National Translation Month 2023 Reading List
September is National Translation Month, when we celebrate authors and the translators whose work expands access to books for new audiences, while preserving their character and content. To close out the month, we compiled a list so you can continue…