Author: Guest Author @ Boydell and Brewer
Masculinities in Old Norse Literature
September 9, 2020
Jessica Clare Hancock and Gareth Lloyd Evans introduces their new book on our blog today. Masculinities in Old Norse Literature is the first full investigation of masculinities in Old Norse-Icelandic… READ MORE
Willa Cather
September 7, 2020
One of my favorite letters by Willa Cather was written to one of her former students, Norman Foerster. On January 14, 1931, Cather wrote to decline a speaking invitation from… READ MORE
The Books of…Michael Snape
September 4, 2020
Michael Snape is Durham University’s inaugural Michael Ramsey Professor of Anglican Studies and author and editor of three volumes with Boydell. God and Uncle Sam This huge, acclaimed work examines… READ MORE
The Wings of Atalanta
September 2, 2020
My book proceeds from two premises. The first is that America is an imaginary place with real people living in it (to adapt a line from Marianne Moore’s “Poetry”). Such… READ MORE
The Companion Guide to Madrid and Central Spain
September 2, 2020
These extracts say more about this volume than any intro could! Each is filled with wonderful detail, opinion, anecdote, and a deep knowledge of Spain, its history, art and culture…. READ MORE
Books to Look Out for in September 2020
September 1, 2020
Welcome to September! This month we are publishing books on how regional identities are reflected in text from medieval England, twenty-one completely new essays on aspects of Beethoven’s personal life,… READ MORE
Studies in History
August 28, 2020
Christine Linehan was the long-serving executive editor of the Royal Historical Society’s Studies in History series, a role which – as her following account suggests – covered a wide range… READ MORE
Coquettes, Wives, and Widows
August 27, 2020
Marcie Ray’s new book Coquettes, Wives, and Widows: Gender Politics in French Baroque Opera and Theater is a timely and significant study of how composers and dramatists of early modern… READ MORE
The Companion Guide to Edinburgh and the Borders
August 24, 2020
How useful this guide would have been two decades ago when your Boydell marketer had around eight hours to kill in a freezing Edinburgh. In fairness, I did make it… READ MORE