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Co-memory and melancholia
Israelis memorialising the Palestininan Nakba
Ronit Lentin
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Plain Ugly
The unattractive body in Early Modern culture
Naomi Baker
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Women artists between the wars
A fair field and no favour
Katy Deepwell
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News
Author of 'The Other Boleyn Girl', Phillipa Gregory cites Carolyn Steedman's 'Dust' as one of her cultural highlights in The Observer
This is about the philosophy of history: the dust is the dust in the archive which the historian breathes life into, but also, by nature of the historian's trade, inhales and so embodies history. It's a very, very clever book and I've just loved it."
Philippa Gregory, The Observer, August 2010
Trace the history of the politics of alcohol
James Nicholls, author of The Politics of Alcohol will be appearing on a new BBC series to be broadcast on Radio Four next week called Britain on the Bottle: Alcohol and the State.
Find out more on the MUP blog
Celestino Deleyto wins Enrique García Diez book award
Celestino Deleyto has been awarded the Enrique García Diez award for his book The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy. The award was presented at the AEDEAN Conference in December last year. Click here to read more about The Secret Life of Romantic Comedy.
Praise for The Woman's Prize
The Malone Society's latest volume, a full-colour photofacsimile, reproduced in actual size, of John Fletcher's The Woman's Prize, is one of several commemorating the centenary of the society in 1907. It was prepared by Meg Powers Livingston and was recently enthusiastically reviewed in the TLS by Laurie Maguire. For more information on the series and to see what the TLS said, follow this link.
Daniel Cordle States of suspense - reviewThe Nottingham Trent academic's publication on the nuclear age, postmodernism and United States fiction and prose gets the attention of the British Society for Literature and Science. For the full review click here.
The Seventeenth Century rated 'excellent' by the ERA intiative
The journal has been rated as 'excellent' in the recent ERA 2010 Ranked Journal List. More than 20,700 leading journals, in every subject-area, were included. The Seventeenth Century achieved status as an ‘A’ journal, which is the highest ranking given to any journal in the world in our field, in any language. Well done to Richard Maber and the team for all their hard work in this achievement.