our authors A Bible Scholar Reads Whitman Read now a new blog post by OBP author F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp on his latest Open Access book 'Divine Style: Walt Whitman and the King James Bible'
Our books Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance What kind of character is a microbe? How can an ecosystem take to the stage? Do springtails make good protagonists for detective novels? Life, Re-Scaled explores how contemporary literature and performance engage with our century’s shifting views of life.
Our books A People’s Voice We all know the Romantic hero: solitary, brooding, out of the ordinary, Byronic. There is a disconnect between that hero and the society which they renounce, and that is well and good. There is a space, after all, for misfits in this world.
German Literature A View From under The Horse’s Tail. New Perspectives on Literature? Read now Roger Paulin's reflections on his latest title 'From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture'.
English Literature Allusion/Echo and Plagiarism: Walking the Fine Line In the three-volume second edition (1987) of Tennyson’s complete poems, editor Christopher Ricks cites more than twelve hundred instances where phrases and short passages are similar or identical to those occurring in prior works by other hands. These similarities are sometimes as minimal as two or three words, but
