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Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland and North America is...
We’re delighted to hear that David Atkinson and Steve Roud’s edited volume: Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland and North America is the runner up in this year’s Katharine Briggs...
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Waterloo’s bicentenary and the Napoleonic Wars in Portugal and Spain – a...
Posted by Beth Whalley, Marketing Executive This is a guest post from Susan Valladares, author of Staging the Peninsular War: English Theatres 1807-1815. ** The year 2015 marks the bicentenary of the...
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Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations – an ‘enormously entertaining and vivid...
Posted by Beth Whalley, Marketing Executive A review of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations: A Cultural Life, 1860-2012 has been published in the Times Literary Supplement. Charlotte Mitchell is...
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Alice’s Adventures in Brewing Land – a guest post from Zoe Jaques and Eugene...
Posted by Beth Whalley, Marketing Executive Zoe Jaques and Eugene Giddens are co-authors of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: A Publishing History. **...
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Erika Gaffney Honored at the Attending to Early Modern Women Conference
We are exceedingly pleased and proud to share the news that Ashgate’s Publishing Manager for Literary & Visual Studies, Erika Gaffney, was honored at this year’s Attending to Early Modern Women...
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Celebrating 150 years of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Posted by Beth Whalley, Marketing Executive It’s been 153 years since Charles Lutwidge Dodgson rowed up the River Isis with Lorina, Alice and Edith Liddell, entertaining his young companions with a...
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Renaissance Mad Voyages and the ‘Cultures of Play, 1300–1700′ series
Posted by Emily Ferro, Marketing Coordinator While the idea of play may not immediately draw to mind images of research and academia, the study of games and play in culture is a growing topic for...
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Mary Shannon’s book on Dickens’ social network launches at King’s College London
The close proximity of the London offices of Charles Dickens to a network of nineteenth-century publishers, including Dickens’ arch-competitor the radical publisher G.M.W Reynolds, has been revealed...
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David Whitley on The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation
Posted by Emily Ferro, Marketing Coordinator The Idea of Nature in Disney Animation by David Whitley has been chosen by our editors as having played a significant part in the building and reputation of...
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CFP: Allusion, Indirection, Enigma: Flirting with Early Modern Uncertainty
Posted by Bret Rothstein Call for papers: Allusion, Indirection, Enigma: Flirting with Early Modern Uncertainty Renaissance Society of America (Boston, March 31–April 2, 2016) #RSA16 Session organized...
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Piotr Spyra speaks about his book The Epistemological Perspective of the...
Posted by Beth Whalley, Marketing Executive The body of work by the so-called ‘Pearl-Poet’ remains one of the most widely-read and well-known written in Middle English. Existing in a single surviving...
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Browse our catalogues online…
Online versions of our printed catalogues are available to browse. Please follow the links below to your subject(s) of interest. Most of our catalogues are available in two formats, ‘eCatalogue’ which...
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Achsah Guibbory’s return to John Donne
Posted by Beth Whalley, Marketing Executive It is, Achsah Guibbory says, an exciting time in Donne Studies. In the last decade, a great number of publications focusing on the English poet have...
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New series: North American Literature and the Environment, 1600-1900 – call...
We are seeking proposals for a new book series, North American Literature and the Environment, 1600-1900, edited by Matthew Wynn Sivils Building on the growing interest in the environmental humanities,...
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Bluestockings and the emergence of organized feminism – a guest post by...
This is a guest post from Deborah Heller, editor of Bluestockings Now!, and Professor of English at Western New Mexico University International Women’s Day—celebrated annually on March 8—has as its...
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Christopher Marlowe at 450
This is a guest post by Sara Munson Deats As the baptism date, if not birthday, of internationally renowned English playwright, poet, and translator Christopher Marlowe, February 26 seems an auspicious...
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel in ten years coincides with new Ashgate volume...
Posted by Beth Whalley, Marketing Executive Cynthia F. Wong and Hülya Yıldız’s edited collection on the work of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro has now been published – coinciding...
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Ashgate and the Modern Language Association, Vancouver edition
Posted by Erika Gaffney, Publishing Manager Representing Ashgate at our first MLA experience in Canada, Lea Durfee and I had a thoroughly enjoyable time! The location was lovely, and the temperatures...
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Ann C. Colley on Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain
Posted by Ann Donahue, Publisher Ann C. Colley (pictured) talks to Ann Donahue about her new book, Wild Animal Skins in Victorian Britain: Zoos, Collections, Portraits, and Maps How did you come up...
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Claire Tomalin on Beryl Gray: ‘Dickensians will love her book’ (The Guardian,...
Posted by Beth Whalley, Marketing Executive ‘[Beryl] Gray is an intelligent and sensitive reader of Dickens’s work and her arguments are worth following. Dickensians will love her book’, writes...
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