Literature – Page 72 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Text and Transmission in Medieval Europe

Edited By: Chris Bishop

£34.99

From Ireland to Byzantium, medievalists face constraints interpreting texts. Problems of authorship, transcription, and translation create a complex discourse. These chapters prise truths about texts, transmission, and the critical literacies needed to interpret both.

Middle-earth and Beyond

Essays on the World of J. R. R. Tolkien

Edited By: Janka Kaščáková

£34.99

This volume of essays on J.R.R. Tolkien takes new directions and challenges received wisdom. It covers new ground on sources, characters like Tom Bombadil, linguistics, and the environment, taking scholars and readers further into the world of Middle-earth.

Florida Studies

Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association

Edited By: Keith Huneycutt, Claudia Slate

£34.99

This volume includes essays on Florida literature and history. Of special interest are studies of 19th and 21st-century literature, the contributions of African-American figures like Zora Neale Hurston, and suggestions for teaching Florida Studies.

The Postmodern Mythology of Michel Tournier

By: Melissa Panek

£34.99

In a postmodern world where grand narratives have collapsed, Michel Tournier's mission is to create a new mythology. He reworks established myths and legends, allowing the reader to take the place of the author and create their own individual mythology.

In a postmodern world where grand narratives have collapsed, Michel Tournier’s mission is to create a new mythology. He reworks established myths and legends, allowing the reader to take the place of the author and create their own individual mythology.

Writing the Other

Humanism versus Barbarism in Tudor England

Edited By: Mike Pincombe

£34.99

Writing the Other: Humanism versus Barbarism in Tudor England explores the dynamic opposition between the "human" and the "barbarous." These essays reveal how the cultural Other was invented to forge identities, from England to North Africa and the New World.

Writing the Other: Humanism versus Barbarism in Tudor England explores the dynamic opposition between the “human” and the “barbarous.” These essays reveal how the cultural Other was invented to forge identities, from England to North Africa and the New World.

Celebrations and Connections in Hispanic Literature

Edited By: Andrea Morris, Margaret Parker

£34.99

This collection of essays on Hispanic literature connects texts, contexts, and genres. Authors offer innovative approaches to the Hispanic world, challenging traditional assumptions about identity, race, and gender while exploring the experience of those on the margin.

The Healing Power of Ancient Literature

Edited By: Stephen Bertman, Lois Parker

£34.99

Can the past cure the ills of the present? This anthology explores how ancient literature possesses a profound power to heal our souls. Scholars explore timeless wisdom from the Epic of Gilgamesh to Marcus Aurelius as sources of peace of mind.

Belief, History and the Individual in Modern Chinese Literary Culture

Edited By: Artur K. Wardega

£34.99

Modern Chinese literature raises complex questions about life amid changing values and uncertainty. This volume presents ten essays by Chinese and European scholars examining the individual and society, searching beyond national identities for global exchange.

What Rough Beasts? Irish and Scottish Studies in the New Millennium

Edited By: Shane Alcobia-Murphy

£34.99

What Rough Beasts presents an innovative and diverse collection of new research in Irish and Scottish Studies. Showcasing original material by both emergent and established scholars, this book covers issues including poetry and violence, film, history, and more.

Wilkie Collins

Interdisciplinary Essays

Edited By: Andrew Mangham

From £14.99

This collection of critical essays explores the life and works of Wilkie Collins. It reveals his connections to key figures in art, theatre, medicine, and law, offering new perspectives on his most canonical works and readings of neglected material.

Maurice Magnus

A Biography

By: Louise E. Wright

£34.99

D. H. Lawrence called him a scoundrel, but Maurice Magnus was a fascinating and tragic figure. This first full-length biography uses unpublished letters to reveal the expatriate American writer's life, from his youth in New York to his final days in Malta.

D. H. Lawrence called him a scoundrel, but Maurice Magnus was a fascinating and tragic figure. This first full-length biography uses unpublished letters to reveal the expatriate American writer’s life, from his youth in New York to his final days in Malta.

Elizabeth Taylor

A Centenary Celebration

Edited By: N. H. Reeve

£34.99

A centenary tribute to Elizabeth Taylor, one of the 20th century's master storytellers. This volume pairs new critical essays with her uncollected stories, essays, and letters, including correspondence with Virginia Woolf.

A centenary tribute to Elizabeth Taylor, one of the 20th century’s master storytellers. This volume pairs new critical essays with her uncollected stories, essays, and letters, including correspondence with Virginia Woolf.

Subaltern Vision

A Study in Postcolonial Indian English Text

Edited By: Aparajita De, Amrita Ghosh, Ujjwal Jana

£34.99

This volume offers a stimulating collection of essays on literary representations of subaltern issues by Indian novelists such as Amitav Ghosh, Mahasweta Devi, Kiran Desai, and Rohinton Mistry. Essential reading on the gap between India’s haves and have-nots.

Reading America

New Perspectives on the American Novel

Edited By: Elizabeth Boyle

£34.99

This collection of essays offers a refreshing perspective on classic American novels. It explores familiar texts through unfamiliar lenses, shedding light on surprising aspects of works by authors from Toni Morrison to F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Death Becomes Her

Cultural Narratives of Femininity and Death in Nineteenth-Century America

Edited By: Elizabeth Dill, Sheri Weinstein

£34.99

From where does our investment in feminine death emerge? These essays analyze women’s deathbed scenes, suicides, murders, and autopsies in American writing, offering fresh insight into the unsettling and highly relevant role of death in feminism.

Re-Embroidering the Robe

Faith, Myth and Literary Creation since 1850

Edited By: Suzanne Bray, Adrienne E. Gavin, Peter Merchant

£34.99

Since the mid-nineteenth century, writers have retold old myths with fresh messages or created new ones for traditional truths. The eighteen essays in this book examine this transforming artistry in literature from 1850 to the present day.

Bonds and Borders

Identity, Imagination and Transformation in Literature

Edited By: Rebecca DeWald, Dorette Sobolewski

£34.99

This collection of essays explores bonds and borders in literature, from colonial times to post-9/11 narratives. Trespassing boundaries to create new ideas, these essays dissect, subvert, and challenge our understandings of identity in an international society.

Byron in London

Edited By: Peter Cochran

£34.99

Essays by leading authorities chart Byron's life and writings in London, revealing him as one of English poetry’s leading urban writers. Chapters explore the stage, boxing, and women writers, with many referencing his descriptions of the capital in Don Juan.

Essays by leading authorities chart Byron’s life and writings in London, revealing him as one of English poetry’s leading urban writers. Chapters explore the stage, boxing, and women writers, with many referencing his descriptions of the capital in Don Juan.

Representing Minorities

Studies in Literature and Criticism

Edited By: Soumia Boutkhil, Larbi Touaf

From £17.99

This book counters the rampant uniformisation of cultures by championing the right to difference. It explores how minor literatures and suppressed voices can emerge to demand recognition, underscoring the necessity of cultural diversity in a world of consensus.

New Conservative Explications

Reasoning with some Classic English Poems

By: Kenneth B. Newell

£34.99

As interest in explicating classic poems has declined, many still puzzle readers. This book provides new explications for twelve poems by Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Yeats, and others, arguing that this practice can reveal their sense and conserve them.