Literature – Page 40 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Generic Instability and Identity in the Contemporary Novel

Edited By: Madelena Gonzalez

£39.99

The barriers between genres have broken down, posing the question of what constitutes a novel today. This collection of essays examines generic instability and narrative impostures, demonstrating that this instability is the contemporary novel’s identity.

Fiction, Crime, and the Feminine

Edited By: Rédouane Abouddahab

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In today's crime fiction, women are the criminals, not just the victims. The genre forsakes the simple "whodunnit," instead exploring the lure of violence and leaving a chilling sense of unrest.

In today’s crime fiction, women are the criminals, not just the victims. The genre forsakes the simple “whodunnit,” instead exploring the lure of violence and leaving a chilling sense of unrest.

Storm and Dissonance

L. M. Montgomery and Conflict

Edited By: Jean Mitchell

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This collection of essays explores the darker side of L.M. Montgomery’s fiction and life writing. Her gentle landscapes and optimistic stories often contain undercurrents of anger, loss, and violence, providing new insights into her complex work.

Kathy Acker and Transnationalism

Edited By: Polina Mackay, Kathryn Nicol

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Kathy Acker’s fictions prefigured our contemporary world. This collection of essays analyzes transnationalism in her work, locating her in current debates on postnationalism and global identity—a timely re-appraisal of an important American writer.

Sisters of Fate

The Myths that Speak Themselves

By: Michael Thomas Hudgens

£39.99

Tracking the feminine principle in divination over three thousand years, this book explores the psychic vantage point of fate’s sisters. It examines the source of their visions within the Western concept of time, free will, and destiny.

Teaching the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century

Edited By: Jennifer Frangos, Cristobal Silva

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This collection explores the classroom as a generative site for research in Transatlantic Studies. Moving beyond *what* to teach, it focuses on *why* and *how*, emphasizing the transformative potential of the field for students, scholars, and our profession.

Joyce in Progress

Proceedings of the 2008 James Joyce Graduate Conference in Rome

Edited By: John McCourt, Franca Ruggieri

£39.99

A testament to the enduring fascination of Joyce's writings, this volume offers ground-breaking, multi-disciplinary readings. These essays look at Joyce from a variety of angles and connect his work with contemporary writers, rivals, and successors.

A testament to the enduring fascination of Joyce’s writings, this volume offers ground-breaking, multi-disciplinary readings. These essays look at Joyce from a variety of angles and connect his work with contemporary writers, rivals, and successors.

Metamorphoses of Travel Writing

Across Theories, Genres, Centuries and Literary Traditions

Edited By: Grzegorz Moroz

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This book adds to the fast-growing field of travel writing studies. Its papers use varied theoretical approaches to explore a diverse body of texts—fictional, non-fictional, and poetry—from the last 300 years and from multiple literary traditions.

The Playful Air of Light(ness) in Irish Literature and Culture

Edited By: Marta Goszczyńska, Katarzyna Poloczek

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Moving beyond traditional themes of struggle and oppression, this book centres on playfulness, light and air in Irish literature and culture. Essays offer fresh readings of seminal authors like Yeats and Heaney, alongside lesser-known figures.

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?

Remaking Literary History

Edited By: Helen Groth, Paul Sheehan

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“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.

Myth as Symbol

A Psychoanalytic Study in Contemporary German Literature

By: Sonia Saporiti

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Reconsidering the connection between literature and psychoanalysis, this study explores the modern literary reworking of myth. From Jungian archetypes to the Freudian unconscious, it analyzes figures like Undine and Medea to explore timeless questions.

Charles Taylor’s Vision of Modernity

Reconstructions and Interpretations

Edited By: Christopher Garbowski, Jan Hudzik, Jan Kłos

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A penetrating cross-section of influential philosopher Charles Taylor's thought. The contributions in this volume engage with and find inspiration in his work on the modern self, secularization, liberalism, communitarianism, language, and culture.

A penetrating cross-section of influential philosopher Charles Taylor’s thought. The contributions in this volume engage with and find inspiration in his work on the modern self, secularization, liberalism, communitarianism, language, and culture.

Levity of Design

Man and Modernity in the Poetry of J. H. Prynne

By: Wit Píetrzak

£39.99

Is it still possible to think of the human subject as a viable category? This book demonstrates how J. H. Prynne’s poetry overcomes the impasse of poststructuralism, developing a language in which the notion of man can be restituted.

Gloria Naylor’s Fiction

Contemporary Explorations of Class and Capitalism

Edited By: Sharon A. Lewis, Ama S. Wattley

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This text offers innovative ways of analyzing economics in Gloria Naylor’s fiction, using interpretive strategies which are applicable to the entire tradition of African American literature. The writers gathered here embody years of insightful and vigorous Naylor scholarship.

Exile and the Narrative/Poetic Imagination

Edited By: Agnieszka Gutthy

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This collection of essays examines poetic and narrative responses to exile. It features works from rarely studied parts of the world, including Armenia, Egypt, and Tibet, exploring feelings of loss, memories of trauma, and the search for identity.

Empowerment versus Oppression

Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels

Edited By: Sally Goade

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Are women readers oppressed by patriarchal romance narratives, or empowered by them? Building on early critics, these selections add new perspectives, examining diverse subtypes and featuring unique voices from international readers, novelists, and critics.

Byron and Bob

Lord Byron’s Relationship with Robert Southey

By: Peter Cochran

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Byron's most important literary relationship was with Robert Southey, whom he hated and to whom he "dedicated" his masterpiece, *Don Juan*. This book argues Byron's literary distaste became a projected self-distrust, a dislike for his own flaws.

Byron’s most important literary relationship was with Robert Southey, whom he hated and to whom he “dedicated” his masterpiece, *Don Juan*. This book argues Byron’s literary distaste became a projected self-distrust, a dislike for his own flaws.

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.

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.