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#MLA2021: Free Content Offers from UC Press Journals

Jan 13 2021
We're extending our free content offers for #MLA2021 through the end of January. Click on the journal covers below for limited-time, free content and be sure to explore any earlier MLA2021 posts you may have missed offering blog-exclusive content in conjunction with the virtual conference of the Mod
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Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture Named Best New Journal by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals

Jan 12 2021
Congratulations to Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (LALVC) which has received the Best New Journal Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ). The CELJ announced the award this past weekend at the virtual conference of the Modern Language Association (MLA).In awarding
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Weird Scholarship

Jan 08 2021
Of the many cross-disciplinary and topical strands that have emerged from nearly forty years of Representations in print, one stands out: a kind of research that perhaps originated in the journal's pages and remains difficult to find elsewhere--what might fondly be called “weird scholarship.” We inv
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Quarantine, Bureaucracy, and More: The Relevance of Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit Today

Jan 08 2021
If you want a grasp of why and how the nineteenth-century novel matters now, indulge yourself in four brilliant essays on Charles Dickens’s Little Dorrit, brought to you by Nineteenth-Century Literature. Nineteenth-Century Literature's special issue on Little Dorrit features Sukanya Banerjee, Ka
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