Literature – Page 31 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The Healing Power of Ancient Literature

Edited By: Stephen Bertman, Lois Parker

£34.99

Can the past cure the ills of the present? This anthology explores how ancient literature possesses a profound power to heal our souls. Scholars explore timeless wisdom from the Epic of Gilgamesh to Marcus Aurelius as sources of peace of mind.

Charles Williams and his Contemporaries

Edited By: Richard Sturch

£34.99

After a period of neglect, interest in Charles Williams—Inkling, novelist, and theologian—is growing once more. This symposium contributes to the serious study of his work, exploring his novels, theology, and influence, which is being recognized more and more.

George Bellows Revisited

New Considerations of the Painter’s Oeuvre

Edited By: Nannette Maciejunes

£50.99

The artwork of one of the most important 20th-century American painters and printmakers, George Bellows, is studied in this essay collection. Innovative research is offered that probes his oeuvre from multiple viewpoints, challenging widely-held perceptions of Bellows.

Exchanges between Literature and Science from the 1800s to the 2000s

Converging Realms

Edited By: Márcia Lemos

£61.99

This collection responds to the intense interest that the relations between the discourses of literature and those of science have obtained. It focuses on the cultural significance of scientific discoveries and practices and scientific representations in literature and the arts.

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.

Samuel Beckett and the ‘State’ of Ireland

Edited By: Alan Graham, Scott Hamilton

£61.99

Examining the politics of cultural identity, sexuality in the post-independence era, and Ireland’s culture of incarceration, amongst other themes, this conference proceedings enriches understandings of the social, cultural, and political dimensions of Beckett’s work.

Aphrodite and Venus in Myth and Mimesis

By: Nora Clark

£57.99

This source book of comparative literature explores the impact of Aphrodite and Venus. Drawing on sources from art, prose, and verse, it traces the goddess's allure from the distant past to the present, blending myth with the contemporary.

This source book of comparative literature explores the impact of Aphrodite and Venus. Drawing on sources from art, prose, and verse, it traces the goddess’s allure from the distant past to the present, blending myth with the contemporary.

Remaking Literary History

Edited By: Helen Groth, Paul Sheehan

£39.99

“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.” (George Santayana) Remaking Literary History questions the past by exploring the links between literature and history through memory, trauma, and historical reinvention.

“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.” (George Santayana)

Remaking Literary History questions the past by exploring the links between literature and history through memory, trauma, and historical reinvention.

Beckett’s Literary Legacies

Edited By: Matthew Feldman, Mark Nixon

£34.99

This is the first volume to chart Samuel Beckett’s truly global influence. From Coetzee to DeLillo, commentators explore how his revolutionary art presents a profound challenge and liberation to authors, pushing at the very boundaries of literature.

A History of Poets’ Reception of Mark Twain, 1863-1936

By: Gary Scharnhorst

From £36.99

This collection of 350 poems about Mark Twain explores a neglected dimension of his popular reception. Ranging from anonymous rhymes to highbrow tributes, they trace the crests in Twain’s fame over the decades, proving useful to general readers, teachers, and scholars.

Arthur Miller’s Century

Essays Celebrating the 100th Birthday of America’s Great Playwright

Edited By: Stephen Marino

£61.99

Arthur Miller was one of the 20th century's major dramatists and a significant cultural figure. This collection of essays by Miller scholars provides detailed discussions of his career, his most famous works like Death of a Salesman, and his role as a political figure.

Arthur Miller was one of the 20th century’s major dramatists and a significant cultural figure. This collection of essays by Miller scholars provides detailed discussions of his career, his most famous works like Death of a Salesman, and his role as a political figure.

Word and Rite

The Bible and Ceremony in Selected Shakespearean Works

Edited By: Beatrice Batson

£34.99

This book shows how the Bible and Christian tradition intersect the language of Shakespeare. It focuses on how rites illuminate mysteries and how ceremony turns mayhem into mystery. In Shakespeare, word and rite are as inseparable as word and sacrament in worship.

Ferocious Things

Jean Rhys and the Politics of Women’s Melancholia

By: Cathleen Therese Maslen

£34.99

It’s fatal making a fuss ... . In Ferocious Things, Cathleen Maslen shows how Jean Rhys’s inscription of feminine anguish is a literary transgression. Rhys defies cultural interdictions, and her work poses vital questions for feminist and post-colonial debates.

It’s fatal making a fuss … .
In Ferocious Things, Cathleen Maslen shows how Jean Rhys’s inscription of feminine anguish is a literary transgression. Rhys defies cultural interdictions, and her work poses vital questions for feminist and post-colonial debates.

Frontiers in American Children’s Literature

Edited By: Dorothy Clark, Linda Salem

£52.99

Offering 18 essays which critically examine the expanding canon of American children’s books against the backdrop of a social history comprised of a deep layering of struggle, this title charts new ground in how children’s literature is telling stories of historical trauma.

Word and Image in the Long Eighteenth Century

An Interdisciplinary Dialogue

Edited By: Renata Schellenberg, Christina Ionescu

£39.99

This collection of essays explores the rich verbal-visual interaction in eighteenth-century Europe. Peaceful coexistence, mutual collaboration or striking collision—how do words and images interact? How do they reflect and communicate values, stereotypes and ideologies?

Society Building

A China Model of Social Development

Edited By: Xiangqun Chang

£44.99

This volume presents research by non-Chinese scholars on "society building," an indigenous concept guiding China's social development. It tackles topics from infrastructure's social impact to soft power, offering a unique understanding of China today.

This volume presents research by non-Chinese scholars on “society building,” an indigenous concept guiding China’s social development. It tackles topics from infrastructure’s social impact to soft power, offering a unique understanding of China today.

Geographies of Memory and Postwar Urban Regeneration in British Literature

London as Palimpsest

By: Alina Cojocaru

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This book explores London's literary representations using geocriticism and memory studies. Analyzing works by authors like Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan, it investigates how gentrification, immigration, and terrorism reshape the urban imaginary, revealing London as a palimpsest.

This book explores London’s literary representations using geocriticism and memory studies. Analyzing works by authors like Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan, it investigates how gentrification, immigration, and terrorism reshape the urban imaginary, revealing London as a palimpsest.

Human Rights and Nadine Gordimer’s Fiction

By: Mateti Prabhakar, Kanugula Ram Mohan

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This book explores Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer’s fictional world as a lifetime battle against apartheid. A crusader for human rights, Gordimer fictionalized her activism to fight the regime’s censorship and depict the denial of basic rights to Black people.

Shakespeare’s Greek Drama Secret

By: Myron Stagman

£49.99

This book presents striking textual correspondences between Greek and Shakespearean plays. It proves William Shakespeare became “Shakespeare” because of his mastery of the ancient Greek treasury of Drama, where images like Lady Macbeth's cruelty first appear.

Displacing Female Bodies on the Eighteenth-Century Stage

By: John Robbins

From £29.99

Why did successful women playwrights of the Romantic period silence their female characters? This book argues they incorporated the suppressions they faced into their works, turning gaps in representation into powerful, non-traditional strategies of resistance.