Category: Literature
We’re excited about the books we’ll be publishing this spring—and we're pleased to start off the new year with a series of posts that highlight our forthcoming titles. Be sure to check out the online edition of JHUP’s entire Spring 2016 catalog, and remember that promo code “HDPD” gets you a 30% discount on all…
Our 2016 Ancient Studies catalog has arrived and we cordially invite you to browse the online edition here. Use code "HZPA" to receive a 30% discount when you order! Visit the JHUP exhibit at the Society for Classical Studies annual meeting in San Francisco from January 6–9, 2016.
Our 2016 Ancient Studies catalog has arrived and we cordially invite you to browse the online edition here. Use code "HZPA" to receive a 30% discount when you order! Visit the JHUP exhibit at the Society for Classical Studies annual meeting in San Francisco from January 6–9, 2016.
Our 2016 Literature catalog is hot off the press and we cordially invite you to browse the online edition here. Use code "HZOA" to receive a 30% discount when you order! Visit the JHUP exhibit at the Modern Language Association annual convention in Austin from January 7–10, 2016.
Our 2016 Literature catalog is hot off the press and we cordially invite you to browse the online edition here. Use code "HZOA" to receive a 30% discount when you order! Visit the JHUP exhibit at the Modern Language Association annual convention in Austin from January 7–10, 2016.
In his book Feeling Like a Kid: Childhood and Children's Literature, Jerry Griswold explores five sensations particularly important in childhood. In the excerpt below, he examines “snugness” and its particular association with Christmas. “Cozy Time” Turning from space to time, we can note that there are certain occasions especially apt for an evocation of…
This post re-publishes portions of a story by Maureen McGavin that appeared online at the Emory News Center. Read the full story here. The second volume of a JHUP's monumental digital work, The Complete Prose of T.S. Eliot: The Critical Edition, coedited by Emory University's Ron Schuchard and involving the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship…
Guest post by Stephen H. Grant Authors are blessed when their books are published on important anniversaries. Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger hit the stands in the spring of 2014, coinciding with the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth in 1564. After the Folger Shakespeare Library was dedicated in 1932, four decades…
Interview by Yasmine Kaminsky You mentioned in an interview with the Tennessee Literary Project that although your parents raised you in a cultured household, you initially did not believe you would become a writer. How, then, did your path to poetry form? I was the son and grandson of professors, so growing up I had…
By Janet Gilbert, JHUP Staff I learned to work in groups in Mr. Stephens’s fourth-grade class in public elementary school, where such projects were often assigned by a random call-out from the classroom seating chart. I’ll admit that often, my first reaction to learning my group assignment was to cringe, because doing things with others…