Literature – Page 33 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Henry Fielding In Our Time

Papers Presented at the Tercentenary Conference

Edited By: J. A. Downie

£39.99

Essays by leading scholars offer a cross-section of current approaches to Henry Fielding’s life and writings. This collection explores his famous novels, journalism, and social pamphlets, appealing to students, academics, and readers interested in the novel.

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.

New Literature in Chinese

China and the World

By: Zhu Shoutong

£52.99

Shoutong discusses the connotations of the concept of “Modern Chinese Literature”, as well as its basic categories. He argues that such fields as “World Chinese Literature” should unite in the area of “New Literature in Chinese”, as they share a language, culture and tradition.

From Francis Bacon to William Golding

Utopias and Dystopias of Today and of Yore

Edited By: Minodora Barbul, Ramona Demarcsek, Ligia Tomoiagă

£39.99

Researchers from philology, philosophy, and anthropology come together to complete a 21st century vision on utopia. This interdisciplinary volume contains rigorous academic work alongside more relaxed essays.

The Evil, the Fated, the Biblical

The Latent Metaphysics of Cormac McCarthy

By: Hanna Boguta-Marchel

£39.99

This book offers an existentialist theological approach to Cormac McCarthy's novels, focusing on the drama of evil and violence omnipresent in his work. It provides a complete picture of McCarthy’s contest with one of humanity's most troublesome issues.

This book offers an existentialist theological approach to Cormac McCarthy’s novels, focusing on the drama of evil and violence omnipresent in his work. It provides a complete picture of McCarthy’s contest with one of humanity’s most troublesome issues.

The Spatial Dynamics of Juvenile Series Literature

Edited By: Michael G. Cornelius

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We are shaped by the places we inhabit, but what about characters who never change? This collection explores juvenile series books, where protagonists like Nancy Drew demonstrate that their impact on space is far greater than its impact on them—an exercise in spatial authority.

Inhabited by Stories

Critical Essays on Tales Retold

Edited By: Nancy A. Barta-Smith, Danette DiMarco

£44.99

This book offers an alternative to intertextuality as influence and appropriation. Grounded in the lived experience of reading, it focuses on the expansion of experience created by telling and retelling stories, which inhabit us and enrich our responses.

A Celebration of Frances Burney

Edited By: Lorna J. Clark

£39.99

Novelist, playwright and diarist, Frances Burney’s journey to recognition has been a long one. This volume covers her remarkable career, showing her rise from a minor precursor to Jane Austen to a powerful and influential writer in her own right.

The Craft of Post-Narratology

Edited By: Zeineb Derbali

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This collection explores “post-narratology,” rethinking classical narratology in relation to ethnicity, culture, history, and religion. Notions of plot, voice, and character are stretched and modified to fit the cultural contexts of contemporary works in various fields.

Writing America into the Twenty-First Century

Essays on the American Novel

Edited By: Elizabeth Boyle, Anne-Marie Evans

£34.99

This collection of essays presents a refreshing analysis of recent American fiction. Interrogating works by authors like Philip Roth, Don DeLillo, and Cormac McCarthy, it offers a new way to examine the American novel in the twenty-first century.

Byron’s Poetry

Edited By: Peter Cochran

£39.99

Byron’s dubious status as an icon disguises that he is one of the greatest English poets. This book ignores his iconography and concentrates on his poems. Written by leading authorities, it puts his real achievement as a creative writer back into focus.

In and Out

Eccentricity in Britain

Edited By: Sophie Aymes-Stokes, Laurent Mellet

£44.99

This book provides an overview of the critical history of eccentricity, a defining feature of the English character. It explores the eccentric’s paradoxical status as both outsider and insider, and the struggle to retain individuality against standardization.

Unsettling Stories

Settler Postcolonialism and the Short Story Composite

By: Victoria Kuttainen

£44.99

The first study of postcolonialism and the short story composite, this book considers how the form expresses writing on settler terrain. Uniquely comparing American, Canadian, and Australian literature, it explores difficult affiliations to place, home, and nation.

The Apparelling of Truth

Literature and Literary Culture in the Reign of James VI; A Festschrift for Roderick J. Lyall

Edited By: Kevin J. McGinley, Nicola Royan

£44.99

This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the literature and culture of the reign of James VI. Its emphasis is on the continuities in literary culture throughout his rule, extending beyond the court to regional and international contexts.

Science and American Literature in the 20th and 21st Centuries

From Henry Adams to John Adams

Edited By: Frédéric Dumas, Ronan Ludot-Vlasak, Claire Maniez

£39.99

This book explores the uneasy relationship between American literature and science. It examines how scientific discourse informs literary writing, from the history of science and neurosciences to the ethics of progress and the influence of digital technology.

Romance

The History of a Genre

Edited By: Dana Percec

£39.99

This book proposes a fascinating journey into the history and geography of the popular and controversial romance genre. From its origins to its latest developments, from print to film and Facebook, explore its many shapes from North America to India.

The Fire Within

Desire in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature

Edited By: Elena Borelli

£44.99

Hailed as the core of human identity, desire shapes our actions and dreams. This collection of essays explores how desire is portrayed in modern Italian literature, showing it to be the secret motor of the narrative in works of the last two centuries.

Edward Thomas

A Mirror of England

By: Jacek Wiśniewski

£44.99

Killed in WWI, Edward Thomas wrote his essential poems in just two years. This timely reappraisal surveys his entire achievement in verse and prose, challenging common views and revealing a complex poet for a new generation.

Poetry and Voice

A Book of Essays

Edited By: Stephanie Norgate

£44.99

This international collection of essays fuses critical and creative treatments of poetic voice. Contributors give rare insights into inner poetic processes and artistic debates, approaching the question of what it is to ‘find a voice’ in poetry from multiple angles.

Within and Without Empire

Scotland Across the (Post)colonial Borderline

Edited By: Theo van Heijnsbergen, Carla Sassi

£44.99

This volume treats Scotland as a ‘theoretical borderland’ to question disciplinary borders. By bringing Scottish and postcolonial studies into dialogue, it fosters new paradigms for a deeper understanding of a world in dramatic flux and growing interdependence.