History – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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

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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.

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.

Patois and Linguistic Pastiche in Modern Literature

Edited By: Giovanna Summerfield

£29.99

In an era of standardization, dialect and patois are marks of identity. No in-depth treatment has been offered as to the causes and consequences of language mixing from both linguistic and literary views. This book aims to fill this lack of analysis.

Through Other Eyes

The Translation of Anglophone Literature in Europe

Edited By: Sophie Alatorre, Richard Trim

£29.99

This volume investigates how English literary works have been translated and disseminated in Europe since the Renaissance. It explores translators’ intentions, faithfulness to the source text, and why translations are often portrayed in a different light to the original.

The Position of Magic in Selected Medieval Spanish Texts

By: Francis Tobienne

£29.99

This book addresses the blurred lines between magic, religion, and science in Spanish literature and history. It explores the divide between white and black magic, Alfonso X’s court, and a window of quasi-tolerance amidst Muslims, Jews, and Christians.

Before Windrush

Recovering an Asian and Black Literary Heritage within Britain

Edited By: Pallavi Rastogi, Jocelyn Fenton Stitt

£34.99

This anthology testifies to a British nation that has been multiracial for centuries. Through essays on Asian and Black writers living in Britain before the post-WWII wave of immigration, Before Windrush reveals a hidden literary history.

What Rough Beasts? Irish and Scottish Studies in the New Millennium

Edited By: Shane Alcobia-Murphy

£34.99

What Rough Beasts presents an innovative and diverse collection of new research in Irish and Scottish Studies. Showcasing original material by both emergent and established scholars, this book covers issues including poetry and violence, film, history, and more.

The Canterbury Tales Revisited – 21st Century Interpretations

Edited By: Kathleen A. Bishop with a Foreword by David Matthews

£39.99

In The Canterbury Tales Revisited, diverse international scholars offer 21st-century interpretations. Articles cover new areas like Chaucer and Judaism, Queer studies, and feminism, with an insightful opening piece by eminent Medievalist David Matthews.

Engaging Tradition, Making It New

Essays on Teaching Recent African American Literature

Edited By: Stephanie Brown, Éva Tettenborn

£29.99

Engaging Tradition, Making It New offers fresh scholarly and pedagogical approaches to new African American literature. Focusing on transgression, this collection explores writers who challenge expectations, pointing toward new methods of teaching and research.

Culture Wars and Literature in the French Third Republic

Edited By: Gilbert D. Chaitin

£34.99

In the French Third Republic (1870-1914), literature was mobilized for political and social warfare. These essays analyze how literature became the site for fierce culture wars over national identity, secular education, women’s liberation, and more.

Postcolonialism

South/African Perspectives

Edited By: Michael Chapman

£29.99

Can literature recenter postcolonial studies? Through a South African lens, these essays move beyond theory to the subjective power of literary texts, challenging us to see our interconnected worlds anew.

Literatures of War

Edited By: Eve Patten, Richard Pine

£39.99

War is a terrible disaster, yet it is a universal characteristic of human existence. Why? This multi-disciplinary collection of essays explores the transformation of the war experience into chronicles of hope and despair, from Herodotus up to the present day.

Postcolonial Slavery

An Overview of Colonialism’s Legacy

Edited By: Charlotte Baker, Jennifer Jahn

£34.99

Foregrounding the material realities of slavery, these essays explore its legacies and the defiant resistance of runaway slaves, challenging the marginalization of colonial history.

The Subversive Storyteller

The Short Story Cycle and the Politics of Identity in America

By: Michelle Pacht

£34.99

The Subversive Storyteller examines how American authors adapted the short story cycle to convey subversive ideas. Authors from Hawthorne to Kingston exploited the genre's fragmented nature to reflect the changing realities of life and identity in America.

The Subversive Storyteller examines how American authors adapted the short story cycle to convey subversive ideas. Authors from Hawthorne to Kingston exploited the genre’s fragmented nature to reflect the changing realities of life and identity in America.

An American Voltaire

Essays in Memory of J. Patrick Lee

Edited By: E. Joe Johnson, Byron R. Wells

£39.99

This collection of essays honors Voltaire scholar J. Patrick Lee. It includes seventeen essays by prominent international scholars on French eighteenth-century studies, covering topics from Voltaire and censorship to satire, opera, art, and the Enlightenment.

Memory, Narrative and Forgiveness

Perspectives on the Unfinished Journeys of the Past

Edited By: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Chris N van der Merwe

£49.99

Drawing on South Africa's TRC and global case studies, scholars explore the themes of memory, narrative, and forgiveness. This book analyzes the path to reconciliation and healing for societies ravaged by mass violence and unspeakable injustice.

Drawing on South Africa’s TRC and global case studies, scholars explore the themes of memory, narrative, and forgiveness. This book analyzes the path to reconciliation and healing for societies ravaged by mass violence and unspeakable injustice.

Jesuit Education and The Classics

Edited By: Shannon Byrne, Edmund P. Cueva

£39.99

Is Classics still relevant to a Jesuit education? This series of essays proves that Classics and Jesuit education are indivisibly intertwined, and any Jesuit school embracing liberal arts must have Classics at the core of its curriculum.

Winterson Narrating Time and Space

Edited By: Mine Özyurt Kılıç, Margaret J-M Sönmez

£39.99

This is the first book to focus entirely on time, space and narrative in Jeanette Winterson's works. Scholars provide different perspectives, from postmodernism to quantum physics and queer theory, offering fresh approaches to her major fiction.

This is the first book to focus entirely on time, space and narrative in Jeanette Winterson’s works. Scholars provide different perspectives, from postmodernism to quantum physics and queer theory, offering fresh approaches to her major fiction.

Thirty Years After

New Essays on Vietnam War Literature, Film and Art

Edited By: Mark Heberle

£49.99

The first major collection of Vietnam War criticism since the 1990s, these new essays on literature, film, and art explore the conflict's traumatic cultural legacy and enduring impact. An indispensable work for understanding this crucial period in history.

The first major collection of Vietnam War criticism since the 1990s, these new essays on literature, film, and art explore the conflict’s traumatic cultural legacy and enduring impact. An indispensable work for understanding this crucial period in history.