Liverpool University Press is the UK’s third oldest university press, with a distinguished history of publishing exceptional research since 1899, and publishes approximately 70 books and 21 journals a year, specialising in the modern languages, history, literature and visual culture.
Appalachian Pastoral: Mountain Excursions, Aesthetic Visions, and The Antebellum Travel Narrative
Michael S. Martin
Few scholars have studied the mid-19th-century Appalachian travel narrative in terms of its resonance with American culture at large, particularly how 18th-and-19th-century European landscape aesthetics and environmental theory inform such first-person writings.
#MeToo and Modernism
Robin E. Field and Jerrica Jordan
#MeToo and Modernism opens new critical conversations about modernism and power, privilege, and patriarchy to uncover a united literary movement against sexual violence.
A Sultanate that Endures: Oman in the World from Qaboos bin Sa'id to Haitham bin Tariq
Joseph A. Kéchichian
Qaboos bin Sa‘id, Sultan of Oman from 1970 until his death in 2020, marked Omani history. He belonged to that very small circle of leaders who solemnized their time in power, transforming the Sultanate by empowering generations of citizens to lead constructive and fulfilling lives.
No Joke: Todd Phillips's Joker and American Culture
M. Keith Booker
This book is a detailed examination of Todd Phillips’s Joker, one of the biggest global box-office hits of 2019. This success was no doubt partly because of the association of its title character with the Batman superhero franchise.
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