Literature – Page 24 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Vendetta

Essays on Honor and Revenge

Edited By: Giovanna Summerfield

£34.99

This volume provides a riveting account of revenge as a muse in modern literature. It analyzes Hispanic, Italian, and French texts, exploring chivalric avenges, codes of honor, and the patient craftiness of women in a unique collection of topics.

The Heroic Female

Redefining the Role of the Heroine in the Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri

By: Stephanie Laggini Fiore

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This re-reading of Vittorio Alfieri's tragedies challenges traditional analyses that marginalize the female character. It argues that Alfieri undermines traditional gender roles, portraying his heroines as determined, active, and intelligent women.

This re-reading of Vittorio Alfieri’s tragedies challenges traditional analyses that marginalize the female character. It argues that Alfieri undermines traditional gender roles, portraying his heroines as determined, active, and intelligent women.

Lovely Violence

Chrétien de Troyes’ Critical Romances

By: Jørgen Bruhn

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In Lovely Violence, Jørgen Bruhn rereads Chrétien de Troyes’ chivalric novels through contemporary concerns of gender and violence. The medieval characters are both shockingly strange and reassuringly recognisable. The Middle Ages may not be so unmodern after all.

Literary Secularism

Religion and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Fiction

By: Amardeep Singh

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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.

Worlds Apart? A Postcolonial Reading of post-1945 East-Central European Culture

By: Cristina Sandru

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This study applies postcolonial theory to Eastern Europe, arguing that ideological domination engenders similar forms of cultural resistance. It offers a comparative framework, revealing a shared imaginative space in authors like Milan Kundera and Salman Rushdie.

Fortune and Fatality

Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France

Edited By: Desmond Hosford, Charles Wrightington

£34.99

Tragedy, from Corneille to Racine, has grounded the French literary canon. This book challenges conventional interpretations, exploring the philosophical, theatrical, and performative aspects of the tragic in sixteenth and seventeenth-century France.

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.

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.

Questions of Identity in Detective Fiction

Edited By: Anita Higgie, Linda Martz

£34.99

Essays by international scholars explore how detective fiction mirrors personal, sexual, ethnic, and spiritual identity. This collection examines the genre's evolution and its interface with diverse national literatures and histories.

Essays by international scholars explore how detective fiction mirrors personal, sexual, ethnic, and spiritual identity. This collection examines the genre’s evolution and its interface with diverse national literatures and histories.

The New Criticism

Formalist Literary Theory in America

Edited By: Alfred J. Drake

£34.99

This volume traces the history and theories of the New Criticism school. It assesses the New Critics' lasting influence, examining how their work has been contextualized, criticized, and valorized by subsequent theorists and educators.

This volume traces the history and theories of the New Criticism school. It assesses the New Critics’ lasting influence, examining how their work has been contextualized, criticized, and valorized by subsequent theorists and educators.

The Victorian Approach to Modernism in the Fiction of Dorothy L. Sayers

By: Aoife Leahy

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This book examines Dorothy L. Sayers’ attention to Victorian influences beyond Wilkie Collins, from John Ruskin to Oscar Wilde. It explores her questioning of the boundaries between “popular” and “serious” literature and her views on education.

Representations of Illness in Literature and Film

By: Bennett Kravitz

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This book examines how syndromes, disorders, and diseases appear in modern literature and film. Rather than being portrayed as a handicap, limitation becomes the hero, allowing previous outcasts into the mainstream to affirm their moral worth, skill and intelligence.

The Mirror Crack’d

Fear and Horror in JRR Tolkien's Major Works

Edited By: Lynn Forest-Hill

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How did Tolkien craft such enduring horror? Scholars reveal how he transformed medieval sources, turning landscapes, dragons, the Undead, and even darkness itself into potent symbols that tap into our most deeply rooted fears.

The Female Voice in The Assembly of Ladies

Text and Context in Fifteenth-Century England

By: Simone Celine Marshall

£34.99

This book examines gender relations in The Assembly of Ladies, a rare fifteenth-century poem told from a woman’s point of view. It shows how social and literary conventions impact women in the production and consumption of literature.

Laughter and War

Humorous-Satirical Magazines in Britain, France, Germany and Russia 1914–1918

By: Lesley Milne

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This book explores the impact of World War One in four countries, and breaks new ground by exploring this through the medium of what their respective populations laughed at, investigating four humorous-satirical magazines of the period.

Caribbean Without Borders

Literature, Language and Culture

Edited By: Raquel Puig, Dorsía Smith

£34.99

This pioneering collection of essays offers a comprehensive study of the literature, language, and culture of the Caribbean. Exploring prominent scholars and key issues, this volume examines the Caribbean in its complex, rarely addressed reality.

Words into Pictures

E. E. Cummings’ Art Across Borders

Edited By: Jirí Flajšar, Zénó Vernyik

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This collection of new essays explores E. E. Cummings as both poet and artist. Bringing together the verbal and the visual, the volume examines under-researched fields of his unique, genre-crossing work.

Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men

Superheroes and the American Experience

Edited By: Julian C. Chambliss, Thomas Donaldson, William Svitavsky

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This collection explores the superhero's evolution from 1930s comics to modern cinema. It examines how iconic heroes like Superman, Batman, and the Avengers reflect the historical contexts of their eras, from the Great Depression to the Cold War and beyond.

This collection explores the superhero’s evolution from 1930s comics to modern cinema. It examines how iconic heroes like Superman, Batman, and the Avengers reflect the historical contexts of their eras, from the Great Depression to the Cold War and beyond.

Occult Joyce

The Hidden in Ulysses

By: Enrico Terrinoni

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Ulysses is an occult text that deliberately hides its meanings, compelling the reader to unveil its secrets. This penetrating study excavates Joyce’s cryptic system, showing his deep knowledge of the subject and challenging past interpretations.

Captivity, Past and Present

A Compendium of Observations and Interpretations

Edited By: Benjamin Mark Allen

£34.99

Analyses of human bondage from the early modern era to now. Essays cover 16th-century Spanish sagas, Puritan narratives, the slave narrative of Olaudah Equiano, and incarcerated mothers. Includes an original 19th-century Comanche captivity narrative.