Literature – Page 63 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Byron’s Poetry

Edited By: Peter Cochran

£39.99

Byron’s dubious status as an icon disguises that he is one of the greatest English poets. This book ignores his iconography and concentrates on his poems. Written by leading authorities, it puts his real achievement as a creative writer back into focus.

Mapping Experience in Polish and Russian Women’s Writing

Edited By: Urszula Chowaniec

£39.99

This volume discusses the critical views of Polish and Russian women writers from the 19th to 21st centuries. The articles explore constructions of femininity, trauma, body, and sexuality, tracing the parallels and differences in their work.

Microhistory and the Picaresque Novel

A First Exploration into Commensurable Perspectives

Edited By: Binne de Haan, Konstantin Mierau

£39.99

This is the first book to combine scholarship on the picaresque novel with microhistory. This innovative volume brings together expert scholars to reveal how microhistory can shed new light on classic novels and their marginal protagonists.

Canterbury

A Medieval City

Edited By: Catherine Royer-Hemet

£39.99

Since becoming the religious heart of the country in AD 597, Canterbury's fame has endured. This book explores its history, from illustrious figures like Thomas Becket and Chaucer to the lesser-known people and events that shaped its identity.

Since becoming the religious heart of the country in AD 597, Canterbury’s fame has endured. This book explores its history, from illustrious figures like Thomas Becket and Chaucer to the lesser-known people and events that shaped its identity.

Educating the ‘Unconstant Rabble’

Arguments for Educational Advancement and Reform during the English Civil War and Interregnum

By: Ann McGruer

£39.99

The English Revolution was a revolution in reading. While the state sought to restrict access to potentially dangerous ideas, key thinkers argued for the opposite: extending education to equip the emerging ‘reading public’ to take an active part in political life.

Humanism and Christian Letters in Early Modern Iberia (1480-1630)

Edited By: Alejandro Coroleu

£39.99

These essays examine the influence of Christian Latin literature upon the Latin and vernacular letters of the Iberian Peninsula (1480–1630). Contrary to most studies, this volume accommodates authors writing in Portuguese, Catalan, and Latin.

Florida Studies

Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association

Edited By: Paul D. Reich

£39.99

This volume contains essays on Florida literature and history. The first section focuses on the college classroom, while "Old Florida" explores writers like Zora Neale Hurston and Jack Kerouac. The final section identifies the state’s place within larger traditions.

This volume contains essays on Florida literature and history. The first section focuses on the college classroom, while “Old Florida” explores writers like Zora Neale Hurston and Jack Kerouac. The final section identifies the state’s place within larger traditions.

Making Up

Research in Creative Writing

By: Graeme Harper

£39.99

Research in creative writing is not only about the works it produces, but the explorations a creative writer undertakes. Through creative writing, a writer can explore ideas, concepts, and states of mind. This collection shows what this growing field does and more.

Voices and Silence in the Contemporary Novel in English

Edited By: Vanessa Guignery

£39.99

This volume examines silence and excessive speech in contemporary novels. It explores how authors use silence not as absence, but as presence and resistance, while compulsive verbosity may hide more than it reveals, testing the limits of language.

P. Papinius Statius Volume II

Thebaid and Achilleid

By: A. L. Ritchie, J. B. Hall

£39.99

This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive commentary for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the Achilleid, which was left unfinished at his death.

Factual Fictions

Narrative Truth and the Contemporary American Documentary Novel

By: Leonora Flis

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This book explores the American documentary novel's rise in the 1960s alongside New Journalism. Analyzing works by Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Don DeLillo, it productively complicates the precarious divide between fact and fiction.

This book explores the American documentary novel’s rise in the 1960s alongside New Journalism. Analyzing works by Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Don DeLillo, it productively complicates the precarious divide between fact and fiction.

French Orientalism

Culture, Politics, and the Imagined Other

Edited By: Desmond Hosford, Chong J. Wojtkowski

£39.99

This volume challenges the canonic approach to French Orientalism. Broadening the scope of enquiry from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, it uses new theoretical perspectives to question, subvert, and resituate canonic theories and their global consequences.

Asian English Writers of Chinese Origin

Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong

By: Amy Tak-yee Lai

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This book brings together nine Asian English writers of Chinese descent to explore postcolonial impacts on race, class, and language. It takes a special look at gender politics and how Chinese women defy the Orientalist gaze and native patriarchy.

P. Papinius Statius Volume I

Thebaid and Achilleid

By: A. L. Ritchie, Mike J. Edwards

£39.99

This three-volume work offers a revised text, prose translation, and extensive secondary apparatus for the two epics of Statius: his magnum opus, the Thebaid, and the unfinished Achilleid.

Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Culture

Edited By: Dorsía Smith, Tatiana Tagirova

£39.99

This collection of essays by Caribbean scholars offers novel perspectives on the region's literature and culture. It cuts across disciplines to explore the diaspora, identity, gender, artistic expression, and the writer's role as a political activist.

This collection of essays by Caribbean scholars offers novel perspectives on the region’s literature and culture. It cuts across disciplines to explore the diaspora, identity, gender, artistic expression, and the writer’s role as a political activist.

Beckett Re-Membered

After the Centenary

Edited By: James Carney, Michael O’Sullivan, Karl White

£39.99

This collection of recent scholarship on Samuel Beckett offers a diverse and comprehensive survey of his literary and philosophical work. It will appeal to any reader interested in provocative responses to one of the 20th century’s most important writers.

Irish Childhoods

Children’s Fiction and Irish History

By: Pádraic Whyte

£39.99

This book explores how contemporary Irish children’s fiction engages with the past. It reveals how constructions of childhood in novels and films are used to explore complex questions of Irish history, culture, and identity.

George Eliot’s Spiritual Quest in Silas Marner

By: J. H. Mazaheri

£39.99

This new approach to G. Eliot’s thought focuses on her profound religious and spiritual quest in Silas Marner. The author shows how Eliot distinguishes religion from superstition and offers a new definition of faith, stressing the qualities of her art.

De-stereotyping Indian Body and Desire

Edited By: Kaustav Chakraborty

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This book deconstructs the ‘otherizing’ of the marginalized by offering an alternative reading of the body and desire. It investigates bodies with ‘unnatural’ desires to expose and subvert the subtle political ideologies behind stereotypes.

The Body of the Postmodernist Narrator

Between Violence and Artistry

By: Fatima Festić

£39.99

This book reads postmodern fiction through the bodies of its narrators. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and feminist theory, it explores trauma, murder, and desire, exposing the body as the site of repressed knowledge, resistance, and artistic resolution.