The Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize Shortlist 2024

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for our 2024 LE Book Prizes. The shortlisted books are listed below by category in alphabetical order.

Literatures originally written in English

  • Margaret H. Freeman, Emily Dickinson’s Poetic Art: A Cognitive Reading (Bloomsbury, 2023)
  • Francesco Morriello, Messengers of Empire: Print and Revolution in the Atlantic World (Liverpool University Press, 2023)

    • Literatures written in languages other than English

  • Jo Ann Cavallo, The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947): The Paladins of France in America (Anthem Press, 2023)
  • Julia Prest, Public Theatre and the Enslaved People of Colonial Saint-Domingue (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

    • Scholarly editions of works originally in the English language

  • Douglas Kerr, Memories and Adventures: Arthur Conan Doyle (EUP, 2021)
  • Hilary Emmett and Thomas Ruys Smith, A Juvenile Miscellany: An Anthology of Lydia Maria Child’s Writing for Children (UEA Publishing Project, 2023)

    • In the coming months our judging panel will be examining closely the six selected books and the winners will be announced in December.

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