Literature – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Aspects of Form and Genre in the Poetry of Edwin Morgan

By: Rodney Edgecombe

£29.99

This study examines the work of Edwin Morgan, a poet admired for his experimental writings and diverse output. Chapters cover his vision poems, his use of the grotesque, adaptations of the elegy, and his enterprise of “voicing” the universe.

Travels in Central Asia

Edited By: Arminius Vambery

£24.50

In 1863, disguised as a dervish, Vambery journeyed through Central Asia. He visited Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarkand in their final years of independence, describing caravan life and local customs while in constant danger of exposure.

Armenia

A Year at Erzerum

Edited By: Robert Curzon

£19.99

Appointed to a border commission in 1843, Curzon paints a detailed portrait of mid-19th century Armenia. From his base in Erzerum, he describes the character, history, culture, and natural world of this fascinating and historic region.

A History of Armenian Women’s Writing

1880-1921

By: Victoria Rowe

£29.99

A History of Armenian Women’s Writing introduces the diversity of literature from 1880-1921. Focusing on six key authors, it reveals how their work formed a literary genealogy and guided debates on national identity, education, the family, and society.

Governing the Tongue in Northern Ireland

The Place of Art/The Art of Place

By: Shane Alcobia-Murphy

From £14.99

Governing the Tongue examines how creating art in a time of violence brings anxiety to the Northern Irish artist, questioning the ability to represent events. These essays explore the guarded, self-conscious work of key writers and visual artists.

Biographical Plays About Famous Artists

By: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe

£29.99

This book analyses British biographical plays about artists, arguing that dramatists place them in adverse situations. They emerge as flawed human beings, yet their genius and integrity endure. The book also addresses why so many of these plays exist.

Assimilation and Subversion in Earlier American Literature

Edited By: Robin DeRosa

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Spanning the 17th to 19th centuries, this collection explores dominance and oppression in early American literature. Through Native Americans, Puritan outcasts, and slaves, it reveals assimilation and subversion as codependent, mutually defining forces.

Towards or Back to Human Values? Spiritual and Moral Dimensions of Contemporary Fantasy

Edited By: Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Marek Oziewicz

£34.99

Fantasy literature is a provocation. Against the dominant skepticism of the age, it points to hope and trust. This collection of essays explores how fantasy brings spiritual and moral values back to the center, rekindling the hope of finding meaning.

Changing Concepts of Childhood and Children’s Literature

Edited By: Vanessa Joosen, Katrien Vloeberghs

From £16.99

This collection of essays bridges European and US approaches to children’s literature studies. Two main themes surface: ideology in children’s literature and images of childhood, alongside globalisation and the tension between pedagogy and aesthetics.

Travel and Travellers from Bede to Dampier

Edited By: Geraldine Barnes with Gabrielle Singleton

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These essays track travel narratives from the eighth to the eighteenth century. Their voyages, from the literal to the spiritual, show the enduring influence of the medieval geographical imagination upon post-medieval travel, discovery, and encounters between East and West.

Byron and Orientalism

Edited By: Peter Cochran

From £18.99

Byron is often thought of as the Romantic poet most familiar with the East. This book examines this thesis, looking at Byron’s knowledge of the East and its religions, his Turkish Tales, his influence on Pushkin, and his own disorientated existence.

The Postcolonial Body in Queer Space and Time

By: Rebecca Fine Romanow

From £16.99

This study examines how postcolonial literature depicts the body as a site of resistance. Focusing on diasporic authors from Africa and Southeast Asia in London, it reveals bodies performing queer space and time to redefine the postcolonial.

Anatomy of Science Fiction

Edited By: Donald E. Morse

£29.99

This collection of essays connects science fiction to our increasingly science-fictional world, tackling major ethical and political issues. "Will find a market both among academics and... undergraduates." - Dr. Farah Mendelsohn, Middlesex University

This collection of essays connects science fiction to our increasingly science-fictional world, tackling major ethical and political issues. “Will find a market both among academics and… undergraduates.” – Dr. Farah Mendelsohn, Middlesex University

Thea Astley’s Fictional Worlds

Edited By: Paul Genoni, Susan Sheridan

From £16.99

This landmark collection is the first of critical responses to novelist Thea Astley. It includes essays from leading critics, three essays by Astley herself, a major interview with her, and the first Thea Astley lecture by Kate Grenville.

Susan Glaspell

New Directions in Critical Inquiry

Edited By: Martha Carpentier

From £12.99

Pulitzer Prize-winner Susan Glaspell’s work engages with feminism, war, class, and law. Susan Glaspell: New Directions in Critical Inquiry brings scholarship up to date, featuring new essays from leading scholars on her art and thoughtful social commentary.

Representing Minorities

Studies in Literature and Criticism

Edited By: Soumia Boutkhil, Larbi Touaf

From £17.99

This book counters the rampant uniformisation of cultures by championing the right to difference. It explores how minor literatures and suppressed voices can emerge to demand recognition, underscoring the necessity of cultural diversity in a world of consensus.

Readers, Audiences and Coteries in Early Modern England

Edited By: Geoff Baker

£29.99

This interdisciplinary collection explores how early modern texts were appropriated by individuals and groups. Case studies show how a text's physical form impacts its readership, concluding that texts hold no fixed meaning but are interpreted by each reader.

This interdisciplinary collection explores how early modern texts were appropriated by individuals and groups. Case studies show how a text’s physical form impacts its readership, concluding that texts hold no fixed meaning but are interpreted by each reader.

“Catch if you can your country’s moment”

Recovery and Regeneration in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich

Edited By: William S. Waddell

£29.99

These essays explore Adrienne Rich’s work, arguing for a shift from her personal feminist awakening to her later, public re-imagination of America. A transformative cartographer of words, Rich remaps our culture for the marginalized and the resistant.

Tomorrow through the Past

Neal Stephenson and the Project of Global Modernization

Edited By: Jon Lewis

From £19.99

This first collection of scholarly essays on Neal Stephenson examines his novels from The Big U to The Baroque Cycle and his non-fiction. The collection includes a new interview with Stephenson, making it essential for readers and scholars alike.

Literary Secularism

Religion and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Fiction

By: Amardeep Singh

£34.99

Literary Secularism shows how writers like Joyce, Rushdie, and Eliot struggled with religious orthodoxy. Their novels are not anti-religious manifestos, but reflect the continued power of religion, a force that is, in Eliot’s words, “still throbbing” in modern life.