Literature – Page 50 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Grotesque Anatomies

Menippean Satire since the Renaissance

By: David Musgrave

£44.99

This study defines Menippean satire as a literary version of the grotesque. Through revisionist readings of canonical works from Pope’s Dunciad to Eliot’s The Waste Land, it changes our understanding of them and traces the form to the present day.

Islamic Postcolonialism

Islam and Muslim Identities in Four Contemporary British Novels

By: Hasan Majed

£41.99

This book forges a new path with Islamic postcolonialism, using a Muslim perspective to challenge colonial legacies in Western writing. It explores the construction of Muslim identity in fiction by Kureishi, Ali, Aboulela, and Rushdie.

Literature, Writing, and the Natural World

Edited By: James Guignard, T. P. Murphy

£39.99

This collection explores our relationship with the natural world and how literature clarifies it in ways science and politics cannot. As we face environmental change, literature becomes equipment for living, helping us make sense of our world and decide how to act.

Soft-Shed Kisses

Re-visioning the Femme Fatale in English Poetry of the 19th Century

By: Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys

£49.99

The femme fatale of 19th-century poetry symbolises an intractable mystery and a refusal to be defined. This book interrogates the fatal woman motif in poems by Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Rossetti and Swinburne, enriched by visual art and cultural background.

Perspectives on Power

An Inter-Disciplinary Approach

Edited By: Jernej Letnar Černič, Lindsay Milligan, Heather M. Morgan

£49.99

In this interdisciplinary collection, postgraduate researchers boldly explore power relations. Twenty-one articles spanning the arts and social sciences—from human rights to literature—reveal the many similarities that exist between these distinct disciplines.

Mircea Eliade’s Journalistic Writings

Opting for Culture

By: Mihaela-Diana Lupșan

From £32.99

This book discusses Mircea Eliade’s lesser-known journalism. His articles serve as a starting point for comments on the movement of ideas in the interwar era, the dramatic destiny of his generation under totalitarian regimes, and his reception in Romania and abroad.

Thomas Hardy and the Comic Muse

By: J. K. Lloyd Jones

£39.99

Thomas Hardy is regarded as a great tragic writer, while the value of his comic works is often ignored. This book examines his novels, short stories, and poetry in terms of farce, humour, satire, and wit, revealing how Hardy and Comedy are mutually illuminating.

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.

Renaissance Tales of Desire

Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, Theseus and Ariadne, Ceyx and Alcione

Edited By: Sophie Alatorre with a Preface by Sarah A. Brown

£39.99

Three Ovidian tales from the 1560s, never re-edited since the sixteenth century, explore metamorphosis and desire. They may have influenced Marlowe and Shakespeare, refashioning Ovid’s stories and providing new perspectives on the original myths.

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.

Irony, Misogyny and Interpretation

Ambiguous Authority in Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche

By: Tom Grimwood

£34.99

How do we judge the misogyny of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Schopenhauer when it might be ironic? This book argues that ironic ambiguity is a formative aspect of their texts, not an excuse, and explores the ethical problem this poses for interpretation.

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.

IDEA

Studies in English

Edited By: Evrim Doğan Adanur

£54.99

This collection of essays by prominent academicians explores current trends in English Studies. Dealing with issues from Shakespeare to translation and postcolonial studies, it presents a diversity of theoretical, cultural, and linguistic perspectives.

The Ethical Work of Literature in a Post-Humanist World

Don DeLillo, Arendt and Badiou

By: Benice Spark

£58.99

This title examines the contention that, in an era where the relevance of the literary novel is compromised, the novel remains an important means of exploring and interrogating societies and culture. It does this through readings of a selection of Don DeLillo’s later novels.

Teaching the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century

Edited By: Jennifer Frangos, Cristobal Silva

£39.99

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.

Ways of Being in Literary and Cultural Spaces

Edited By: Leo Loveday, Emilia Parpală

£52.99

This volume explores a multiplicity of “ways of being”, including the adoption of an ethnic position, the enactment of gender, the conception of childhood and artistic visions of urban life. It features discourses of identity and “ways of performing” identity in literature.

Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Lawrence Agonistes

The Early Phase

By: Barry J. Scherr

£64.99

Using Bloom’s “anxiety of influence,” this book examines D. H. Lawrence’s agon with Shakespeare. It reveals how Lawrence critiques Hamlet’s self-sacrifice as a symptom of Western decline, championing instead a vital consciousness rooted in the power of the “Self Supreme.”

Critical Edition of The Silence of Dean Maitland by Maxwell Gray

Edited By: Kevin A. Morrison

From £32.99

Rediscover a forgotten classic. Maxwell Gray’s bestselling 1886 novel, The Silence of Dean Maitland, combines evocative English landscape, in the mould of Thomas Hardy, with a gripping plot of crime and moral choice. This edition includes scholarly articles on its adaptations.

Essays on Byron in Honour of Dr Peter Cochran

Breaking the Mould

Edited By: Peter Graham, Mirka Horová, Malcolm Kelsall

£61.99

Byron wrote that he was “born for opposition“. This collection takes Byron at his word and considers ways in which he challenged received opinion in his lifetime. It also challenges commonplace attitudes in criticism of the writer today.

Sanctified Subversives

Nuns in Early Modern English and Spanish Literature

By: Horacio Sierra

£47.99

Sierra illustrates how both English and Spanish Renaissance-era authors latched onto the figure of the nun as a way to evaluate the social construction of womanhood.