Literature – Page 59 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Imagining Italy

Victorian Writers and Travellers

Edited By: Michael Hollington, John Jordan, Catherine Watts

£39.99

This book approaches the Victorian fascination with Italy from a broad, theoretical perspective. Going beyond Dickens, it examines travel writing and visual representations to show how Victorian stereotypes continue to inform contemporary tourism.

The Threat and Allure of the Magical

Selected Papers from the 17th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference, University of California, Berkeley

Edited By: Ashwin Manthripragada, Emina Mušanović, Dagmar Theison

£39.99

This collection of essays explores intersections between the occult and the political, and the entanglement of magic, modernity, media, and aesthetics. Topics range from the witch in print media and the Third Reich’s occult to 19th-century novellas and film.

L’Intime épistolaire (1850-1900)

genre et pratique culturelle

By: Jelena Jovicic

£39.99

Through the private letters of authors like Flaubert, Zola, and Sand, this study casts fresh light on intimacy in Nineteenth-Century French culture. It interprets letter writing as a unique genre, distinct from diaries or memoirs, with its own rules.

Irresolute Heresiarch

Catholicism, Gnosticism and Paganism in the Poetry of Czesław Miłosz

By: Charles Kraszewski

£39.99

Was Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz a Catholic poet? Following a late-in-life admission of his Catholic intent, this book explores the wide range of religious themes in his poetry, from orthodox Christianity through Gnosticism and paganism.

Strategies of Remembrance

From Pindar to Hölderlin

Edited By: Lucie Doležalová

£39.99

This collection explores memory in the Middle Ages through literature, history, cognitive science, and philosophy, offering a variety of approaches to its connection with identity, the past, and immortality.

Jesuit Education and The Classics

Edited By: Shannon Byrne, Edmund P. Cueva

£39.99

Is Classics still relevant to a Jesuit education? This series of essays proves that Classics and Jesuit education are indivisibly intertwined, and any Jesuit school embracing liberal arts must have Classics at the core of its curriculum.

Back to the Future

Israeli Literature of the 1980s and 1990s

By: Dvir Abramovich

From £24.99

This study opens a fascinating window into Israeli writing of the 1980s and 90s. It links the era's dramatic social and political transformations to the evolution of key literary genres like Holocaust literature, the Mizrachi novel, and detective fiction.

This study opens a fascinating window into Israeli writing of the 1980s and 90s. It links the era’s dramatic social and political transformations to the evolution of key literary genres like Holocaust literature, the Mizrachi novel, and detective fiction.

Chris Ware’s Jimmy Corrigan

Honing the Hybridity of the Graphic Novel

By: DJ Dycus

£39.99

This book examines Chris Ware, a preeminent comics creator who fortifies and expands the genre. It analyzes comics in relation to literature and film before focusing on his magnum opus, Jimmy Corrigan, contextualizing it alongside other prominent figures.

Fathers in Victorian Fiction

Edited By: Natalie McKnight

£39.99

This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in Victorian authors' lives and fiction. They explored conflicting expectations of fatherhood, yielding memorable portrayals and asking a question still relevant today: What makes a good father?

This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in Victorian authors’ lives and fiction. They explored conflicting expectations of fatherhood, yielding memorable portrayals and asking a question still relevant today: What makes a good father?

After Satan

Essays in Honour of Neil Forsyth

Edited By: Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Kirsten Stirling

£39.99

In tribute to Neil Forsyth, these essays trace the lineage of the Satan figure through literary history. They chart the demonised other from biblical history and Milton to the contemporary novel, showing how evil functions as a necessary other.

This Landscape’s Fierce Embrace

The Poetry of Francis Harvey

Edited By: Donna L. Potts

£39.99

This book is a tribute to poet Francis Harvey. Admirers celebrate his work in a collection of essays, poems, and art exploring the Donegal landscape. Though critically acclaimed, this is the first book-length critical study of his achievement.

“Curious, if True”

The Fantastic in Literature

Edited By: Amy Bright

£39.99

This collection of articles on the fantastic makes connections across genres and historical periods. From magic realism and sci-fi to the Gothic, these essays further the reach of fantasy in the study of English literature and expand perspectives in the field.

The Making of the Modern Artist

Stephen Dedalus and Will Brangwen

By: Ernest L. Veyu

£39.99

This study brings together James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence in their common concern with the modern artist. Examining the fictional artists Stephen Dedalus and Will Brangwen, it shows how Joyce and Lawrence converge on the character and vision of the modern artist.

This Is Her Century

A Study of Margaret Walker’s Work

By: Doaa Abdelhafez Hamada

£39.99

This book is the first monograph on Margaret Walker, a writer who slipped to the margins of the African American literary canon. It is an attempt to establish the importance of Walker’s representation of twentieth-century America against its critical obscurity.

The Unassuming Sky

The Life and Poetry of Timothy Corsellis

By: Helen Goethals

£39.99

For the first time in a collected edition, the work of Timothy Corsellis. The poems tell the striking story of an unusual war poet whose life was cut tragically short: an RAF pilot who refused to bomb civilians, and his literary encounter with Stephen Spender.

Modernist Image

By: Ethan Lewis

£39.99

Why study Pound and Eliot as Imagists when one left the movement and the other never belonged? To explore their shared premium on precision for opposite ends. Pound plied accuracy to carve distinctions, while Eliot used it to intuit a divine amalgamation.

Empowering Transformations

Mrs Pepperpot Revisited

Edited By: Maria Lassén-Seger, Anne Skaret

£39.99

Alf Prøysen’s classic Mrs Pepperpot stories have received surprisingly little critical attention. This overdue collection of essays by experts explores Prøysen’s heroine through modern theory to deepen the understanding of her enduring popularity.

21st Century China

Views from Australia

Edited By: Mary Farquhar

£39.99

China is Australia’s ‘life-blood’. Leading academics dissect this complex relationship—from politics and law to Confucianism and ‘green’ cuisine—offering fresh insights for our shared future.

Sold by the Millions

Australia’s Bestsellers

Edited By: Louise Lightfoot, Amit Sarwal

£39.99

Australian genre fiction writers sell stories by the millions. This is the first collection to explore Australia’s best-selling material, with leading experts providing pieces on Romance, Horror, Crime, Science Fiction, and more.

A Class of Its Own

Re-Envisioning American Labor Fiction

Edited By: Laura Hapke, Lisa A. Kirby

£39.99

A Class of Its Own positions American social protest authors in a scholarly, student-centered context. Scholars explore what makes a text “working class” and how class studies empower teachers. Discusses authors like Zora Neale Hurston and Stephen Crane.