Literature – Page 35 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Like One of the Family

Domestic Workers, Race, and In/Visibility in The Help

Edited By: Fiona Mills

£47.99

Using the best-selling novel The Help and its 2011 film adaptation as a starting point, this collection considers why such sterilized versions of America’s complex racial history resonate so deeply in our contemporary timeframe.

Limerick Constitutional Nationalism, 1898-1918

Change and Continuity

By: Tadhg Moloney

£39.99

This analysis of Limerick politics from 1898-1918 asks if they were driven by local or national concerns. It concludes that politics were intensely local, with greater continuities than ruptures in the composition and behaviour of political elites.

Liminal Dickens

Rites of Passage in His Work

Edited By: Valerie Kennedy, Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

£47.99

This collection of essays cast new light on some surprisingly neglected areas of Dickens’s writings, namely the rites of passage represented by such transitional moments and ceremonies as birth/christenings, weddings/marriages, and death.

Liminal Spaces

The Double Art of Carol Shields

By: Alex Ramon

£34.99

This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of the work of Carol Shields. Arguing against enduring conceptions of Shields’s fiction as celebratory domestic miniaturism, the study presents her work as more expansive and equivocal than has sometimes been recognised, reading her texts as “liminal spaces” situated on a series of formal and thematic borders. Close attention is paid to Shields’s stylistic experimentation, to her subversions of auto/biography and historiography, and to the significance of her critical writing, while works which have previously received very little analysis, such as her early poetry…

Liminality of Justice in Trauma and Trauma Literature

Edited By: Pi-hua Ni, Mei-Chuen Wang

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This volume probes the blurred line between victim and victimizer in trauma and how novelists represent issues of justice. Critical studies range from Cambodia’s genocide to analyses of AIDS literature, contemporary American literature, and Indigenous writing in Canada.

Literary and Cultural Intersections during the Long Eighteenth Century

Edited By: Marianna D’Ezio

£29.99

This collection of essays explores the intersections of public and private life in eighteenth-century Britain, an era of major change. Scholars offer fresh perspectives on canonical works, cultural exchange, fashion, gossip, and gender issues.

Literary Essays on Explicable Splendours

By: Ethan Lewis

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For the curious reader, these essays explore Shakespeare and his re-envisioners; modern novels that interrogate identity; and underappreciated writers. They conclude with a series of pensees that reflect upon the interpretative craft itself.

Literary Hermeneutics

From Methodology to Ontology

By: Tomasz Kalaga

£41.99

This book analyses the evolution of literary hermeneutics, tracing its transformation from a methodology of reading to an ontological instrument for redefining the self, highlighting its vital role in contemporary debates over interpretation.

Literary Madness in British, Postcolonial, and Bedouin Women’s Writing

By: Shahd Alshammari

£45.99

Alshammari considers the ways in which madness has been portrayed in writing by women authors, readdressing the madwoman trope from a transnational approach set in contrast to the traditional Eurocentric approach to literary madness.

Literary Nuances

Millions of Strange Shadows

By: Ethan Lewis

£61.99

This series of critical pieces is variously structured, with conventional essays, extended meditations, and short analytic notes appealing to differing tastes and offering meticulous close readings of a huge range of authors, from Akhmatova to Yeats.

Literary Pairs in Comparative Readings across National and Cultural Divides

By: Yarmila Nikolova Daskalova

£58.99

Daskalova investigates works by prominent poets and writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular focus on (post)Romantics and modernists. She provides an original reading of the literary text as a means of representing and shaping the dialogism of different cultures.

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.

Literary Traditions, Culture and the Media in Nigeria

Edited By: Psalms Chinaka

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This collection explores how traditions shape society through movies, music, and literature. It reveals connections between culture and media that simplify our understanding of humanity, offering a guide to the evolving dimensions of African literature and popular culture.

Literature against Paralysis in Joyce and His Counterparts

The Other Dubliners

Edited By: Márcia Lemos

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Dublin has inspired many literary masters, including James Joyce. This collection of essays on Irish writers analyses how their literature disrupts paralysis and entropy, making sense of our human “chaosmos” by juxtaposing local and universal concerns.

Literature and Catholicism in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Edited By: David Torevell

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This volume investigates how literary texts reflect a Catholic philosophy of life. It demonstrates how literature, by capturing the imagination, evokes human experience related to a Catholic understanding of life.

Literature and Geography

The Writing of Space throughout History

Edited By: Emmanuelle Peraldo

£57.99

Space has now replaced time as the main category of literary analysis, and is considered to be a central metaphor and topos. As such, this book examines the cross-fertilization of geography and literature as disciplines, languages and methodologies.

Literature and Politics

Pushing the World in Certain Directions

Edited By: Peter Marks

£39.99

George Orwell argued writers want to change the world. This collection of new work by scholars explores political literature over the last century, from The Communist Manifesto to Oryx and Crake, showing its continuing ability to inform, enrage and engage.

Literature and Psychology

Writing, Trauma and the Self

Edited By: Önder Çakırtaş

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This study explores how psychological messages are portrayed and interpreted in writing. It analyzes the interaction between text and reader, with emphasis on emotion, identity, and trauma, offering an in-depth look at psychology and literature.

Literature and Sensation

Edited By: Anthony Uhlmann

£44.99

Literature has always treated the sensational, but it is also intricately connected with sensation in ways that are less understood. This book offers detailed readings of literature according to the sensations they represent, incite, or evoke in us.

Literature and the Great War

The Fronts of Writing

By: Giovanni Capecchi

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This book traces an overall picture of the literature born from the Great War. Focused on Italy, but rich in European references, it is a journey through history and the human soul, between hopes and fears, from the eve of war to the trenches and the return home.