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…
Louis Sébastien Mercier as Modern Thinker: An Interview with Michael Mulryan
In his new book, Louis Sébastien Mercier: Revolution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century Paris, Michael J. Mulryan examines French playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740–1814), who passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris. Mercier’s urban chronicles…
Maureen O’Connor on loss, maternity, feminism, and fairy lore in the work of Edna O’Brien
Edna O’Brien’s work ignited controversy in Ireland and abroad ever since the publication of her first novel, The Country Girls, in 1960. Writing openly about the inner lives of girls, including their sexual experiences, O’Brien’s early works were banned by…
Celebrating Carmen Martín Gaite with Joan L. Brown
Spanish author Carmen Martín Gaite, Spain’s most honored contemporary woman writer, was recognized for her short novel El balneario [The Spa] with the Café Gijón Prize in 1954, won the Nadal Prize in 1957 for her second novel Entre visillos…