Liverpool University Press imprint: 64 books

by Alice Miller
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018

Is nowhere a place we can get closer to? In her compelling second collection, Alice Miller tackles the circularity of thought, the company of the dead, and the lure of alternative futures. These poems rip into pockets of histories, trying to change facts and voices, searching for the word's version...
by Sarah Corbett
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018

Walking, getting lost, and finding that home is half way between refuge and a place to look out from at the unsettling and unsettled world, are the dominant themes in Sarah Corbett's fifth collection. Written from an intimate knowledge of the countryside of the Calder Valley, many of these poems respond...

Science in Modern Poetry

New Directions

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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012

Over the last thirty years, more and more critics and scholars have come to recognize the importance of science to literature. 'Science in Modern Poetry: New Directions' is the first collection of essays to focus specifically on what poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have made of the...

The Barcelona Reader

Cultural Readings of a City

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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018

Over the last twenty years there has been a growing international interest in the city of Barcelona. This has been reflected in the academic world through a series of studies, courses, seminars, and publications. The Barcelona Reader hinges together a selection of the best academic articles, written...

Black Salt

Seafarers of African Descent on British Ships

by Ray Costello
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012

During the Age of Sail, black seamen could be found in many shipboard roles in the Royal Navy, such as gunners, deck-hands and 'top men', working at heights in the rigging. In the later Age of Steam, black seamen were more likely to be found on merchantmen below deck; as cooks, stewards and stokers....

Journey Westward

Joyce, Dubliners and the Literary Revival

by Frank Shovlin
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012

This book suggests that James Joyce, like Yeats and his fellow Revivalists, was attracted to the west of Ireland as a place of authenticity and freedom. It shows how his acute historical sensibility is reflected in Dubliners, posing new questions about one of the most enduring collections of short...
by Tom Solomon
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017

Most people know Roald Dahl as a famous writer of children's books and adult short stories, but few are aware of his fascination with medicine. Right from his earliest days to the end of his life, Dahl was intrigued by what doctors do, and why they do it. During his lifetime, he and his family suffered...

Merely for Money?

Business Culture in the British Atlantic, 1750-1815

by Sheryllynne Haggerty
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012

In 1780 Richard Sheridan noted that merchants worked 'merely for money'. However, rather than being a criticism, this was recognition of the important commercial role that merchants played in the British empire at this time. Of course, merchants desired and often made profits, but they were strictly...
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