May 3, 2019
“Only the man who says ‘no’ is free.” – Melville So unusual is the perplexing tale of Bartleby, the Scrivener that I suspect it long remains in the minds of… READ MORE
May 2, 2019
I am a relatively recent addition to the marketing department of Boydell & Brewer. An errant academic with only a few months on the job, I still have much to… READ MORE
April 25, 2019
New from Camden House is Selected Works by J. M. R. Lenz: Plays, Stories, Essays, and Poems—the first representative English collection of the Sturm und Drang writer J. M. R…. READ MORE
April 23, 2019
Please note: The use of ‘we’ below implies that this blog post is voiced by us the editors: Graham Bartram, Sarah McGaughey, Galin Tihanov Sixty-eight years after his death in US-American exile… READ MORE
April 12, 2019
Just out from Camden House is Austria Made in Hollywood, which focuses on films set in an identifiable Austria, examining them through the lenses of the historical contexts on both… READ MORE
April 4, 2019
To mark the recent publication of the first paperback edition of her book, Professor Carolyne Larrington looks back at the approaches that shaped her work and at the reception it… READ MORE
March 26, 2019
A.E. Housman was born on 26 March 1859 and died on 30 April 1936. He lived through the Crimean War, the Boer War, and the Great War of 1914-18. As… READ MORE
November 27, 2018
If you take a look at the chapter that comes between the classical age and the early modern era in any history of ornithology or birdwatching, you’re like to discover… READ MORE
November 16, 2018
It is no accident that the arrival of the novel, the literary form that uses life-as-a-journey as a master trope, is roughly co-terminous with the revolution of internal transport in… READ MORE
October 17, 2018
To mark the publication in paperback of her acclaimed book Socialising the Child in Late Medieval England (York Medieval Press), Dr Merridee Bailey (Associate Member of the Faculty of History,… READ MORE
Q&A with Seth Peabody: Exploring German Film History