Literature – Page 50 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The Medieval Empire in Central Europe

Dynastic Continuity in the Post-Carolingian Frankish Realm, 900-1300

By: Herbert Schutz

£44.99

This book offers a political history of the Medieval Empire, from its 10th-century inception to becoming Europe's strongest power. It traces its support of the papacy, the struggle for supremacy, the shift to Italy, and its demise by the mid-13th century.

This book offers a political history of the Medieval Empire, from its 10th-century inception to becoming Europe’s strongest power. It traces its support of the papacy, the struggle for supremacy, the shift to Italy, and its demise by the mid-13th century.

Tabish Khair

Critical Perspectives

Edited By: Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández, Om Prakash Dwivedi

£44.99

This volume approaches Tabish Khair’s writings from numerous perspectives, analyzing his social and political concerns. It is highly enriched by Khair's unpublished play, a satirical commentary on tourism and the ability of common Indians to adapt and thrive.

This volume approaches Tabish Khair’s writings from numerous perspectives, analyzing his social and political concerns. It is highly enriched by Khair’s unpublished play, a satirical commentary on tourism and the ability of common Indians to adapt and thrive.

The Good Body

Normalizing Visions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, 1836-1867

By: William M. Etter

£44.99

This book examines how nineteenth-century American literature and culture defined “normal” and “abnormal” bodies to justify or critique concerns like slavery, national progress, and the Civil War, shaping the political and social orders of the era.

Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives

Edited By: Kenneth Reeds, Anna Rocca

£44.99

This collection explores risk-taking as agency in women's autobiographical narratives in French. Essays discuss courage, resilience, and freedom, examining how women challenge conventions and overcome obstacles to ameliorate their lives.

This collection explores risk-taking as agency in women’s autobiographical narratives in French. Essays discuss courage, resilience, and freedom, examining how women challenge conventions and overcome obstacles to ameliorate their lives.

Reflexive Poetics

A Critical Anthology

By: Ethan Lewis

£44.99

This anthology presents fifteen exemplary poets from Springfield, Illinois, and advances a critical method. We garner much from reading the justly famed alongside the lesser known in our midst, learning to appreciate great poetry relationally.

The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke

By: Harry Eiss

£44.99

Richard Dadd is a trickster, an Elizabethan Puck in a Victorian insane asylum. His existence foreshadows the inexplicable labyrinths of contemporary existence, entering the fragmented shards of today’s world long before the artists who would try to map it.

Literature, Rhetoric and Values

Selected Proceedings of a Conference held at the University of Waterloo, 3-5 June 2011

Edited By: Randy Allen Harris, Shelley Hulan, Murray McArthur

£44.99

These essays use cutting-edge scholarship to investigate the evolving values of the modern world, confronting issues like torture, genocide, and environmental apocalypse. Authors essay the ethical dimensions of works from whisky bottles to graphic novels.

Notional Identities

Ideology, Genre and National Identity in Popular Scottish Fiction Since the Seventies

By: Thomas Christie

£44.99

This book examines popular Scottish speculative and crime fiction from the 1970s onward, investigating how these works engaged with national identity, a tumultuous political climate, and their relationship to mainstream literary writing.

Arctic Discourses

Edited By: Anka Ryall, Johan Schimanski, Henning Howlid Wærp

£44.99

This volume investigates how accounts of the Arctic have shaped history. It examines the discourse of “Arcticism,” modelled on Orientalism, and intersecting narratives of imperialism, science, and indigeneity across a wide range of genres.

Within and Without Empire

Scotland Across the (Post)colonial Borderline

Edited By: Theo van Heijnsbergen, Carla Sassi

£44.99

This volume treats Scotland as a ‘theoretical borderland’ to question disciplinary borders. By bringing Scottish and postcolonial studies into dialogue, it fosters new paradigms for a deeper understanding of a world in dramatic flux and growing interdependence.

Women’s Utopian and Dystopian Fiction

Edited By: Sharon R. Wilson

£44.99

This exploration of women’s utopian and dystopian fiction reveals how imagined worlds critique gender roles and values. With a global perspective, essays focus on Doris Lessing and offer new perspectives on Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.

Esther Tusquets

Scholarly Correspondences

Edited By: Nina L. Molinaro, Inmaculada Pertusa-Seva

£44.99

This volume reviews the life and work of Spanish writer Esther Tusquets (1936–2012). The essays contained offer new readings of the author’s canonical fiction and delve into the largely unexplored terrain of her non-fiction.

The Figure of the Shaman in Contemporary British Poetry

By: Shamsad Mortuza

£44.99

This study locates five contemporary British poets in a counter-cultural tradition responding to state power. From Celtic druids to Thatcherism, these shamanic poets use ‘archaic techniques of ecstasy’ to wrest spirituality from religion and politics.

Embodying an Image

Gender and Genre in a Selection of Children’s Responses to Picturebooks and Illustrated Texts

By: Sarah Toomey

£44.99

This book applies feminist cultural analysis to picturebooks, offering fresh insights into the gendered politics of identity. It investigates the child’s perspective and the power of visual imagery to embody the fantasies and desires of young children.

Byron and Women [and men]

Edited By: Peter Cochran

£44.99

New essays examine Lord Byron’s bisexuality and its effect on his poetry and drama. This volume covers neglected aspects of his life, including his boyfriends and gender in *Don Juan*, and includes new editions of notorious poems with startling theories.

Topicality and Representation

Islam and Muslims in two Renaissance Plays

By: Hammood Khalid Obaid

£44.99

This book explores how topical concerns shaped Islamic figures in Elizabethan plays like Peele’s Battle of Alcazar and Percy’s Mahomet and his Heaven. It argues these characters were formed by contemporary issues, rendering the term ‘representation’ debatable.

Women and Work

The Labors of Self-Fashioning

Edited By: Christine Leiren Mower, Susanne Weil

£44.99

The essays in Women and Work explore how nineteenth- and twentieth-century US and British writers represent the work of being women—encompassing not only paid labor but also the work of performing femininity and domesticity.

Thinking through Children’s Literature in the Classroom

Edited By: Agustín Reyes-Torres, Luis S. Villacañas-de-Castro, Betlem Soler Pardo

£44.99

This book shows how literature is central to children’s education. Literary works open young minds and help them understand the world. This approach motivates students to improve literacy skills and develop literary competence for independent interpretations.

Dialogic Openness in Nikos Kazantzakis

By: Charitini Christodoulou

£44.99

Charitini Christodoulou argues that a "dialogic openness" permeates Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation. Antithetical forces clash in unresolved tension, revealing that subjectivity and identity are always in the process of becoming.

Charitini Christodoulou argues that a “dialogic openness” permeates Nikos Kazantzakis’ The Last Temptation. Antithetical forces clash in unresolved tension, revealing that subjectivity and identity are always in the process of becoming.

Shakespeare in Performance

Edited By: Eric C. Brown, Estelle Rivier-Arnaud

£44.99

These essays explore Shakespeare in performance across time and media. From 17th-century stagings to modern cinema, the circus, and global theatre, the collection asks what motivates Shakespearean performance and how we trace what is ephemeral.