Literature – Page 48 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Royalists, Radicals, and les Misérables

France in 1832

Edited By: Eric Martone

£44.99

In 1832, a royalist uprising, a cholera epidemic, and the June Revolution immortalized in Les Misérables rocked France. This collection is the first to examine these pivotal events together, revealing an overlooked year in the transition to a republic.

The Selected Letters of Katharine Tynan

Poet and Novelist

Edited By: Damian Atkinson

£73.99

Poet, novelist, and fighter for justice, Katharine Tynan (1859–1931) wrote through the turbulent times of Irish politics, the Great War, and civil war. An early friend of W. B. Yeats, her autobiographies and letters provide valuable insight into her extraordinary life.

Protean Selves

First-Person Voices in Twenty-First-Century French and Francophone Narratives

Edited By: Adrienne Angelo

£44.99

What does it mean to write “I” in a world where technology and globalization have complicated notions of authenticity and selfhood? This collection of essays explores the intricate relations between language, self, and identity through the analysis of the first-person voice.

Innocence and Loss

Representations of War and National Identity in the United States

Edited By: Cristina Alsina Rísquez, Cynthia Stretch

£49.99

A fierce outcry for war has long dominated American culture, a deadly current coursing throughout its history. This collection of essays explores how the “compulsive redeployment of innocence” in America’s wars “endlessly defers a national reckoning.”

Manfred

An Edition of Byron’s Manuscripts and a Collection of Essays

By: Peter Cochran

£47.99

Byron’s famous play Manfred established him as a bold genius. This new text is created from primary manuscripts, so it can be read as it left Byron’s pen. It includes a decoded note on his demonology and essays on the play’s sources and staging.

Antillanité, créolité, littérature-monde

Edited By: Isabelle Constant, Kahiudi C. Mabana

£39.99

Explore how the movements of antillanité, créolité, and littérature-monde break from the literary center to forge authentic identities and a new genre.

Nabokov’s Palace

The American Novels

By: Márta Pellérdi

£34.99

Nabokov’s Palace discovers the sub-texts and inter-textual patterns in his American novels making them an integral part of the Anglo-American literary tradition, revealing his "otherworld" of art and communion with dead poets.

The Contemporary Francophone African Intellectual

Edited By: Natalie Edwards

£44.99

This volume examines the contemporary African intellectual's engagement with the State, the people, and hegemony. Featuring new and established voices, it explores the challenges of critiquing power and enacting change from within Africa or in exile.

This volume examines the contemporary African intellectual’s engagement with the State, the people, and hegemony. Featuring new and established voices, it explores the challenges of critiquing power and enacting change from within Africa or in exile.

Forces of Nature

Natural(-izing) Gender and Gender(-ing) Nature in the Discourses of Western Culture

Edited By: Bernadette H. Hyner

£39.99

Forces of Nature investigates the relationship between the natural world and gender and sexuality. This collection explores how nature has shaped our understandings of femininity, masculinity, and homosexuality, revealing an intimate, inseparable human connection to nature.

But He Talked of the Temple of Man’s Body

Blake’s Revelation Unlocked

By: Eliza Borkowska

£39.99

This poetic study is a response to Locke’s philosophy through an analysis of Blake’s linguistic practices. It reads like a narrative of an effort to build, destroy, and rebuild, revealing Blake’s criticism of Locke as a critique of modernity itself.

Public Participation in Planning in India

Edited By: Ashok Kumar

£57.99

Urban planning isn't about consensus—it's about resolving conflict. This book challenges the myth of a single public interest, reframing planning as a field of resolvable disputes. Through case studies, it uncovers pathways for deeper, more meaningful public participation.

Urban planning isn’t about consensus—it’s about resolving conflict. This book challenges the myth of a single public interest, reframing planning as a field of resolvable disputes. Through case studies, it uncovers pathways for deeper, more meaningful public participation.

Before Windrush

Recovering an Asian and Black Literary Heritage within Britain

Edited By: Pallavi Rastogi, Jocelyn Fenton Stitt

£34.99

This anthology testifies to a British nation that has been multiracial for centuries. Through essays on Asian and Black writers living in Britain before the post-WWII wave of immigration, Before Windrush reveals a hidden literary history.

New Essays on the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory

Edited By: Alfred J. Drake

£39.99

New essays on the Frankfurt School explore its dialogue with predecessors like Marx, its key debates, and its continuing significance in the postmodern age. Readers will find a lively debate on technology, “negative dialectics,” the Shoah, and political thought.

Quand la folie parle

The Dialectic Effect of Madness in French Literature since the Nineteenth Century

Edited By: Gillian Ni Cheallaigh, Laura Jackson, Siobhan McIlvanney

£44.99

This study of madness in literature demonstrates that the non-sense of madness achieves a force of expression more powerful than logic. It presents madness as a contestatory, creative stance, while refusing to play down its isolating difficulties.

Equestrian Rebels

Critical Perspectives on Mariano Azuela and the Novel of the Mexican Revolution

Edited By: Roberto Cantú

£52.99

This collection of essays commemorates the first centenary of Mariano Azuela’s Los de abajo, and traces its impact on twentieth-century autobiographies, memoirs and, more specifically, on the Novel of the Mexican Revolution.

Redefining Literary Semiotics

Edited By: Jørgen Dines Johansen, Christina Ljungberg, Harri Veivo

£39.99

This volume marks a shift in literary semiotics toward methodological pluralism. As the sharp lines of division between dominant approaches dissolve, contributors highlight the communicative functions and representational possibilities of literary texts.

“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 Representation of the Relationship between Center and Periphery in the Contemporary Novel

Edited By: Ruth Amar, Françoise Saquer-Sabin

£61.99

This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on social hybridity in contemporary novels. It explores the challenge of center and periphery, examining the dynamics of power, marginality, and space to shed new light on the contemporary novel as a whole.

The Tain of Hamlet

By: Laurie Johnson

£49.99

We have lost sight of Hamlet itself. This book looks beyond the play that has bedazzled critics for centuries to seek its historical distinctness, unraveling myths about the players, printers, patrons, and Shakespeare himself.

Modern John Buchan

A Critical Introduction

By: Nathan Waddell

£34.99

This book claims John Buchan as a key interpreter of modernity whose diverse work complicates the divide between “low” and “high” literature. It situates him as an intellectual figure and discusses his most famous work, The Thirty-Nine Steps.