Edinburgh Opens Up Two Books

OpenUP is a collaborative project to secure funding for a number of first books by UK-based early-career researchers. Libraries have been asked to subscribe on a banded basis and their participation has funded the cost of Gold Open Access for a list of eligible books.   

Edinburgh University Press is pleased to be one of six participating presses and delighted to publish the first two books under the OpenUP initiative.

Epigraphs in the English Novel 1750-1850 by Corrina Readioff published in September 2023. Dr Corrina Readioff is an Honorary Associate at the University of Liverpool and specialises in eighteenth and early nineteenth century literature. This book offers detailed insight into the development and function of the epigraph and demonstrates the enduring versatility of the epigraph and of paratextual approaches to literary criticism.

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Art and Technology in Maurice Blanchot by Holly Langstaff publishes in October 2023. It demonstrates Blanchot's ongoing importance for contemporary philosophical debate about technology, the post-human, and ecological thinking and shows a shift in his thinking from the 1940s to the 1980s. Holly Langstaff is a Lecturer in French at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford. She researches and teaches modern and contemporary French literature and thought. She runs the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.

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Head of Editorial, Tom Dark, said, ‘I’m delighted that EUP has been able to participate in this innovative project, piloting new models to support open access monograph publishing in HSS disciplines alongside fellow mission oriented university presses. It’s wonderful to see this benefit two EUP early career authors and allow their books increased exposure through open access.’

We look forward to seeing more books publishing under the OpenUP banner in 2024 – look out for news from Liverpool University Press and UCL Press.

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