Literature – Page 73 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Broadening Critical Boundaries in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture

Edited By: Amie A. Doughty

£61.99

The contributions here explore a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult (YA) literature and culture, and include an examination of the Watchbird cartoons by Munro Leaf, the role of public youth librarians, and the use of popular video games in the secondary classroom.

Arthur Miller’s Century

Essays Celebrating the 100th Birthday of America’s Great Playwright

Edited By: Stephen Marino

£61.99

Arthur Miller was one of the 20th century's major dramatists and a significant cultural figure. This collection of essays by Miller scholars provides detailed discussions of his career, his most famous works like Death of a Salesman, and his role as a political figure.

Arthur Miller was one of the 20th century’s major dramatists and a significant cultural figure. This collection of essays by Miller scholars provides detailed discussions of his career, his most famous works like Death of a Salesman, and his role as a political figure.

Late-Victorian Heroic Lives in the Writings of Frank Mundell

By: Moniez Baptiste

£61.99

Baptiste explores the work of Frank Mundell, a late-Victorian author for the Sunday School Union. Mundell focused on heroism and represented various kinds of heroic deeds and figures, regardless of gender, in his books, and wrote for both educative and entertaining purposes.

The Ways of Fiction

New Essays on the Literary Cultures of the Eighteenth Century

Edited By: Nicholas J. Crowe

£61.99

The essays gathered here capture fresh perspectives on the literary environments of the eighteenth century, and are specifically concerned with how culture shapes literature and is in turn influenced by it.

Acculturation, Otherness, and Return in Adichie’s Americanah

Outside the Homeland

By: Soheila Arabian, Vida Rahiminezhad

£61.99

This title examines the concepts of diaspora in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013), investigating the novel through diasporic concepts such as self and Otherness, acculturation, cultural diversity, hybridity, ambivalence and mimicry, unbelonging and return.

Myth, Music and Ritual

Approaches to Comparative Literature

Edited By: Gabriela Chiciudean, Rodica Gabriela Chira, Emilia Ivancu

£61.99

Divided into two, the essays here consider both myth and some of its contemporary reflections and the connection between myth, music and ritual. Subjects discussed include folklore, literature, traditional music, science-fiction, philosophy, and religion, among others.

R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi Milieu

A Sensitive World of Grotesque Realism

By: Sravani Biswas

£61.99

This book presents R.K. Narayan as a writer who addressed his times without giving in to ruling ideologies. It explores his ethical critique of colonial capitalism and positions him as a deceptively simple, yet foremost post-modern writer who depicted the subversion of influence.

Sidney, Spenser and the Royal Reader

By: Shormishtha Panja

£61.99

Elizabeth I’s controversial marriage proposal angered courtiers Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser, who used their writing to express their dissent. This book interweaves history and literature to analyze the workings of gender, desire, politics, and poetics in her reign.

The Legacy of Empire

Napoleon I and III and the Anglo-Italian Circle during the Risorgimento

By: Sharon Worley

£61.99

The shadow of Napoleon’s empires haunted the nineteenth-century. In reaction, a unique Anglo-Italian style developed among ex-patriot writers and artists. Contrasting Napoleon's legacy with an ideal state, their work championed national independence, feminism, and republicanism.

The shadow of Napoleon’s empires haunted the nineteenth-century. In reaction, a unique Anglo-Italian style developed among ex-patriot writers and artists. Contrasting Napoleon’s legacy with an ideal state, their work championed national independence, feminism, and republicanism.

Signs of Identity

Literary Constructs and Discursive Practices

Edited By: Emilia Parpală

£61.99

This volume rethinks identity from a communicational and comparative perspective, linking it to performativity. Contributions cover diverse periods and genres, from Medieval clothing to postcolonial narratives, for all those involved in the reevaluation of this central term.

The Indigenous Voice of Poetomachia

The Various Perspectives of Textuality and Performance

Edited By: Sayan Dey, Robert Masterson

£61.99

In an era of struggling individuality, how can theatre stage individual voices? This collection of essays from scholars across the world explores different perspectives of textuality and performance, pushing beyond prevailing clichés with indigenous perspectives.

Exchanges between Literature and Science from the 1800s to the 2000s

Converging Realms

Edited By: Márcia Lemos

£61.99

This collection responds to the intense interest that the relations between the discourses of literature and those of science have obtained. It focuses on the cultural significance of scientific discoveries and practices and scientific representations in literature and the arts.

Politics and Poetics of Belonging

Edited By: Mounir Guirat

£61.99

The contributions here bear witness to the fact that belonging is a multi-faceted concept that necessitates different and shifting idioms of expression. Informed by current debates, they propose new critical directions in understanding national and transnational belonging.

The Social, Cultural and Spiritual Dimensions of Modern Indian Poetry in English

Edited By: Vijay Kumar Roy

£61.99

This volume brings together research on the poetry of less-explored modern Indian poets. The book explores the social, cultural and spiritual dimensions of these emerging poets, and will prove useful to students, teachers and all those interested in Indian English poetry.

Florida Studies Review

Edited By: Marcy L. Galbreath, Allyson D. Marino

£61.99

This volume contains a variety of essays about Florida literature and history by scholars from across the state representing every kind of institution of higher learning, from community colleges to small liberal arts institutions to large universities.

Modern African American Poets

From Hughes to Parker

By: Yasser K. R. Aman

£61.99

Spanning the Harlem Renaissance to the present, this book offers new perspectives on poets like Hughes and Cullen, viewed through self-acceptance and self-dejection. It explores multi-ethnic roots, Dual Inheritance Theory, and the redefinition of black womanhood.

S. R. Harnot’s Cats Talk

Edited By: S. R. Harnot

£61.99

S. R. Harnot’s short story collection, Cats Talk, explores life in Himachal Pradesh. Rooted in Pahari life, his stories hold universal appeal, delving into the joys, difficulties, social inequities, and transforming human relationships of contemporary India.

Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Fiction

Fire Is Being Eaten

By: Sławomir Kuźnicki

£61.99

Unpacking themes of science, gender, and faith in Atwood's dystopias, this study reveals their startling relevance. It frames her novels within the urgent social, cultural, and political questions of our contemporary world, connecting her fiction to our reality.

Unpacking themes of science, gender, and faith in Atwood’s dystopias, this study reveals their startling relevance. It frames her novels within the urgent social, cultural, and political questions of our contemporary world, connecting her fiction to our reality.

Uncovering Caledonia

An Introduction to Scottish Studies

By: Milena Kaličanin

£61.99

Uncover the burning cultural issues of modern Scotland from a non-native point of view. This book offers insight through the analysis of Scottish folk tales, legends, literature, and film, appealing to both scholars and the general reader.

A Portrait of the Lady in Modern American Literature

Poor Little Rich Girl

Edited By: Aimee Pozorski

£61.99

This collection of fifteen original essays and a reprint of a classic essay reconsiders the figure of the woman in distress in canonical American texts. In taking up the question “What does a woman want?” it finds answers in artistic endeavour, political agency, and independence.