Literature – Page 37 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Antipodean Childhoods

Growing Up in Australia and New Zealand

Edited By: Helga Ramsey-Kurz, Ulla Ratheiser

£39.99

These essays explore childhood, otherness, and the postcolonial in Australia and New Zealand. They examine how adults configure children’s spaces through art, literature, and history, focusing on the cultural specificity of Antipodean childhoods.

“Toubab La!” Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora

By: Ginette Curry

£39.99

This study examines mixed-race characters in literature from the African diaspora across the US, Caribbean, Europe, and Africa. It analyzes the different ways multiracial characters look at the world, how the world looks at them, and their constant search for identity.

The Post-Marked World

Theory and Practice in the 21st Century

Edited By: Sumit Chakrabarti, Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney

£39.99

"Post-isms" reject cultural certainties, demonstrating the instability of language and meaning. This volume investigates the term “post,” asking crucial questions: Do we need it anymore? Can it counter essentialism? Essays explore these issues from around the world.

“Post-isms” reject cultural certainties, demonstrating the instability of language and meaning. This volume investigates the term “post,” asking crucial questions: Do we need it anymore? Can it counter essentialism? Essays explore these issues from around the world.

The Indian English Novel of the New Millennium

Edited By: Prabhat K. Singh

£39.99

This collection of scholarly critiques explores recent Indian English novels by authors such as Amitav Ghosh and Aravind Adiga. The volume focuses on emerging genres, from crime fiction and science fiction to LGBT voices and postcolonial narratives.

American Modernism

Cultural Transactions

Edited By: Catherine Morley

£39.99

This book explores American literary modernism as a by-product of cultural transactions between the United States and Europe. Eminent scholars re-examine the works of Wharton, Pound, and Eliot, viewing American literature in a broad international context.

Intellect Encounters Faith – A Synthesis

A Festschrift in Honor of Jay Harold Ellens, Ph.D.

Edited By: J. Harold Ellens, John Tracy Greene

From £39.99

This collection of essays is a tribute to renaissance man Dr. Jay Harold Ellens: a scholar, psychologist, and military chaplain. The volume merges deep scholarship with personal reflections on Psychology, Religious Literature, and Military History.

The House of Fiction as the House of Life

Representations of the House from Richardson to Woolf

Edited By: Francesca Saggini, Anna Enrichetta Soccio

£39.99

Houses, the silent background to our lives, could many a tale unfold. This collection offers a transdisciplinary look at the paper houses of 18th and 19th century English literature, investigating haunted edifices, gendered spaces, and Gothic fiction.

Transfigurations of the European Identity

Edited By: Zsolt Almási, Mike Pincombe

£39.99

European identity is both a problem and an opportunity. This interdisciplinary volume examines its complex facets—from cultural politics to digital media—to clarify and even create a new sense of what it means to be European.

Counterpoints

Edward Said’s Legacy

Edited By: Stephanie Tara Schwartz, May Telmissany

£39.99

Revolving around Edward Said's theme of “counterpoint,” this book explores his contribution to the humanities. Overshadowed by his political positions, Said’s intellectual achievements should be acknowledged. This book pays tribute to his academic and humanistic legacy.

Revolving around Edward Said’s theme of “counterpoint,” this book explores his contribution to the humanities. Overshadowed by his political positions, Said’s intellectual achievements should be acknowledged. This book pays tribute to his academic and humanistic legacy.

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.

On Wolves and Sheep

Exploring the Expression of Political Thought in Golden Age Spain

Edited By: Aaron M. Kahn

£39.99

On Wolves and Sheep explores the methods used in the Spanish Golden Age to voice political opinions. Studying works by Cervantes, Lope de Vega, and others, these original essays reveal critical thoughts concerning Spain’s monarchs and imperial policies.

Other Voices

Three Centuries of Cultural Dialogue between Russia and Western Europe

Edited By: Graham H. Roberts

£39.99

This volume highlights the diverse cultural dialogue between Russia and Western Europe since the eighteenth century, exploring mutual perceptions, literary comparisons, artistic influences, and pivotal physical encounters.

The Déjà-vu and the Authentic

Reprise, Recycling, Recuperating in Anglophone Literature and Culture

Edited By: Jean-Jacques Chardin

£39.99

Viewing culture as a palimpsest, constantly rewritten, these essays explore the political and ethical stakes of creative reuse across literature, music, art, and cinema.

New Essays on Life Writing and the Body

Edited By: Christopher Stuart, Stephanie Todd

£39.99

The physical body is an inescapable object of inquiry in life writing. This collection of new essays by established and emerging scholars offers a timely, interdisciplinary study with subjects ranging from Wharton and Stein to disability memoirs.

Passages

Movements and Moments in Text and Theory

Edited By: Maria Beville, Marita Ryan, Maeve Tynan

£39.99

This collection of essays navigates literal and metaphorical “passages”—crossings, boundaries, and identity. Combining close textual readings with cultural theory, it stimulates debate on how old texts are revisited and how identity is renegotiated.

The Fragmenting Force of Memory

Self, Literary Style, and Civil War in Lebanon

By: Norman Saadi Nikro

£39.99

This study is about cultural production that works through personal experiences of the civil war in Lebanon. It explores how writers and filmmakers reposition their sense of self from agent to casualty of history, unraveling self and circumstance through memory.

Critical Perspectives on Literature and Culture in the New World Order

Edited By: Washima Che Dan, Jason Sanjeev Ganesan, Noritah Omar

£39.99

This volume offers critical perspectives on literature and culture, contesting the New World Order and the hegemony of stronger nations. With a significant focus on Islam, it challenges academic discourses founded upon Western-style scholarship.

Twain’s Omissions

Exploring the Gaps as Textual Context

Edited By: Gretchen Martin

£39.99

Mark Twain utilized a unique literary device by omitting crucial information to create narrative gaps. The essays in this collection explore these omissions in his greatest works, revealing overlooked information ironically generated by what he left out.

Uncertain Justice

Crimes and Retribution in Contemporary Italian Crime Fiction

By: Nicoletta Di Ciolla

£39.99

Il giallo, Italy's crime genre, confronts uncomfortable truths about the nation. Uncertain Justice explores how contemporary noir debates unresolved history, the problematic family, and a flawed justice system, exposing injustice through the power of the word.

Il giallo, Italy’s crime genre, confronts uncomfortable truths about the nation. Uncertain Justice explores how contemporary noir debates unresolved history, the problematic family, and a flawed justice system, exposing injustice through the power of the word.

The Detective as Historian

Edited By: Ray Browne, Lawrence Kreiser

£39.99

Historical crime fiction serves the double purpose of entertaining while it teaches. It brings the past to the present, making characters alive and events interesting. Writers fill in human motivations where records don't exist, recovering the past.