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CCUE Book Prize 2011

The winner of the CCUE Book Prize 2011 was William May for his book Stevie Smith and Authorship, published by Oxford University Press. The prize is awarded annually for the best scholarly book in the field of English studies by an early-career academic. The judges’ citation can be downloaded here.

The other shortlisted books were Sarah Haggarty, Blake’s Gifts: Poetry and the Politics of Exchange (Cambridge University Press) and Mary Ann Lund, Melancholy, Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England: Reading The Anatomy of Melancholy (Cambridge University Press). Congratulations to all three authors for their outstanding work.

Next year’s competition will be launched at the AGM on 20-21 April 2012. Further details will be posted on this site.