Literature – Page 46 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Royal Power and Authority in Shakespeare’s Late Tragedies

By: Alisa Manninen

£52.99

In King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare explores political survival at court. This book offers a new perspective on monarchy by distinguishing authority from power, arguing that persuasion is essential to reinforcing royal rule and establishing the monarch.

Family, Violence and Gender in African Anglophone Novels and Contemporary Terrorist Threats

By: Chi Sum Garfield Lau

£58.99

Garfield Lau investigates how the breakdown of the family and the conventional gendering of roles gives rise to terrorist violence as portrayed in various African Anglophone narratives by internationally renowned authors including Chinua Achebe, Doris Lessing, and J.M. Coetzee.

The Grotesque in the Fiction of Charles Dickens and Other 19th-century European Novelists

Edited By: Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar, Max Vega-Ritter

£47.99

This book explores the literary grotesque in 19th-century Europe, with special emphasis on Charles Dickens. It compares his work with that of key writers like Hugo, Gogol, and Hardy, examining the grotesque as a tool for questioning society.

China From Where We Stand

Readings in Comparative Sinology

Edited By: Kate Rose

£47.99

This anthology brings together powerful, diverse voices to define the boundaries and possibilities of the new field of Comparative Sinology, and redefines the boundaries of traditional academic study when trying to understand China and its place in the world today.

The Epistemology of Utopia

Rhetoric, Theory and Imagination

Edited By: Jorge Bastos da Silva

£44.99

Utopianism nurtures possibilities by critiquing and transforming the world. This volume provides critical revisions of the field through essays on topics ranging from Plato’s Republic and More’s Utopia to modern-day cosmopolitics and science.

Travelling Europe

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Place and Space

Edited By: Gail Mobley, Zainab Batul Naqvi, Daria Sinziana Neagu

£47.99

As Europe's borders shift, this collection offers interdisciplinary perspectives on travel and space. Researchers explore Europeanisation, travel writing, migration, memory sites, and tourist destinations, promoting a discussion on travel past, present, and future.

As Europe’s borders shift, this collection offers interdisciplinary perspectives on travel and space. Researchers explore Europeanisation, travel writing, migration, memory sites, and tourist destinations, promoting a discussion on travel past, present, and future.

Voglio morire! Suicide in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society 1789-1919

Edited By: Paolo L. Bernardini, Anita Virga

£49.99

In 19th-century Italy, suicide transformed from a rare sin into a widespread phenomenon. This book provides the first interdisciplinary account, exploring it through literature, art, and politics, and examining major figures like Leopardi and Salgari.

Reception Studies and Adaptation

A Focus on Italy

Edited By: Giulia Magazzù, Valentina Rossi, Angela Sileo

From £30.99

This volume explores the Italian adaptation of English literary, multimedia, and audiovisual texts. It investigates how translation choices, by imprinting "Italianness" on the original, can alter a work's meaning and success, directing or even undermining audience reception.

This volume explores the Italian adaptation of English literary, multimedia, and audiovisual texts. It investigates how translation choices, by imprinting “Italianness” on the original, can alter a work’s meaning and success, directing or even undermining audience reception.

From Fictionalism to Realism

Edited By: Carola Barbero, Maurizio Ferraris, Alberto Voltolini

£39.99

This book focuses on the controversy over social and fictional entities. Fictionalists claim we only make-believe they exist. Creationists argue they are real products of human activity. By evaluating both stances, this book sheds new light on the debate.

Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries

On Sappho’s Website

Edited By: Rosa Burillo, María Porras Sánchez, Esther Sánchez-Pardo

£61.99

This book examines women poets and theorists who engage with myth. From H.D. to Margaret Atwood and Anne Carson, they rewrite old myths and create new ones for the present, interrogating their power to articulate our reality and act as catalysts for new ideas.

Displacing the Anxieties of Our World

Spaces of the Imagination

Edited By: Ildikó Limpár

£52.99

Discussing fictive spaces of literature, film, and video-gaming, this compilation bridges the imagined space between 17th-century utopia and 21st-century dystopia. It argues that the space of imagination offers a virtual battleground—and the possibility of triumph.

Myths in Crisis

The Crisis of Myth

Edited By: Jose Manuel Losada, José Manuel Losada

£57.99

This volume examines how 20th and 21st-century crises affect myth, analysing the crisis of its structure and the terminology threatening its study. Prestigious researchers explore ancient and modern literary myths and those in the material world.

Current Issues in Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Development

Research and Practice

Edited By: Thomai Alexiou, Christina Gitsaki

£52.99

Representing presentations given at the 17th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, the chapters here discuss issues related to second language acquisition, teaching and teacher education in a variety of contexts from around the world.

Milestones on the Road to Dystopia

Interpreting George Orwell’s Self-Division in an Era of ‘Force and Fraud’

By: Firas Adnan Jabbar Al-Jubouri

£44.99

This book explores George Orwell’s journey to dystopia, examining the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four as a divided self. It presents a new understanding of his work by connecting his critiques of ‘force and fraud’ to the totalitarian tactics of Machiavelli.

Patriarchy in Eclipse

The Femme Fatale and the New Woman in American Literature and Culture 1870-1920

By: Patrick J. Quinn

£47.99

This book examines two types of women in post-Civil War literature and art: the femme fatale and the New Woman. It explores how they challenged patriarchal culture and why they precipitated so much intellectual and artistic angst in their educated male readers.

Literature of New York

Edited By: Sabrina Fuchs-Abrams

£34.99

This collection of critical essays examines New York through its literature, exploring the city's contradictions: possibility and self-realization versus corruption and despair. The literature of New York is as complex and creative as the City itself.

This collection of critical essays examines New York through its literature, exploring the city’s contradictions: possibility and self-realization versus corruption and despair. The literature of New York is as complex and creative as the City itself.

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.

Fictional Portrayals of Spain’s Transition to Democracy

Transitional Fantasies

By: Anne L. Walsh

£58.99

Walsh looks at a selection of narratives published in Spain during the transition to democracy and compares them with more recent publications. She notes how fiction brings an extra dimension to the recreation of the past, by adding imagination to historical fact.

Science Fiction beyond Borders

Edited By: Shawn Edrei, Danielle Gurevitch

£50.99

Featuring papers from the Science Fiction Symposia, this volume demonstrate the diversity and adaptability of science fiction as a tool for asking and answering impossible questions. It explores how it challenges boundaries, whether conceptual, literary or metaphorical.

Narrative, Social Myth and Reality in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Women’s Writing

Kennedy, Lochhead, Bourke, Ní Dhuibhne, and Carr

By: Tudor Balinisteanu

£44.99

This book analyzes the link between myth, identity, and reality, examining how contemporary Scottish and Irish women writers reconfigure normative stories to create new possibilities for feminine identity and social order.