In the summer of 1978, U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaimed the first University Press Week. Since 2012, members of the Association of University Presses have celebrated this week with events, celebrations, reading lists, and a blog tour. The theme of this year’s UP…
National Poetry Month Reading List!
Celebrate National Poetry Month with us at Bucknell University Press! We’ve compiled a list of some of our favorite poetry collections and books about poetry.
Celebrate Women’s History Month
As Women’s History Month comes to a close, consider these recent titles as you continue to read and celebrate stories about and written by women!
Teaching the Eighteenth Century Now: an Interview with the Editors
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…