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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 identified the city as a microcosm of national societal problems, detailed the conditions of the […]

September 18, 2023
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 the Irish government and condemned by the Catholic church in Ireland. Since her debut novel, […]

June 13, 2023
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 (Behind the Curtains), and earned Spain’s National Prize for Literature for her 1978 novel El […]

April 7, 2023
Book Discussion: Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities

How can the fields of environmental humanities and eighteenth-century studies inform and vibrantly benefit one another? Join Bucknell University Press and Transits series editor Miriam Wallace as we host volume editor Jeremy Chow, assistant professor of English at Bucknell University, and contributors to the collection Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities, for a moderated discussion about teaching and […]

April 5, 2023
Global Black History at Bucknell University Press

As Black History Month comes to a close, continue to celebrate, learn, and amplify Black stories. The Bucknell Press continues to partner with the Griot Institute for the Study of Black Lives and Cultures by publishing the Griot Project Book Series, an interdisciplinary series of “monographs, collections of essays, and poetry exploring the aesthetics, art, […]

February 28, 2023
Inventing the Velocipede with Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden

Velocipedomania: A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France is a collection that foregrounds the significance of the nineteenth-century French invention that later developed into the modern bicycle. Edited by Corry Cropper, professor of French at Brigham Young University, and Seth Whidden, professor of French literature, Queen’s College, Oxford, the book includes three original source texts […]

February 16, 2023
A New Colophon for Bucknell University Press

Bucknell University Press is pleased to announce the rollout of a new colophon, debuting with its fall-winter 2022-23 publications. The fresh design features BUP’s name and an icon depicting the recognizable tower atop Bucknell’s beautiful Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library, with its distinctive finials and bison weathervane. The new branding signals BUP’s “intention to advance and […]

October 13, 2022