Literature – Page 76 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Victorian Turns, NeoVictorian Returns

Essays on Fiction and Culture

Edited By: Penny Gay, Judith Johnston

£34.99

Essays by international scholars explore Victorian writers like Dickens and Eliot in their cultural context. The collection then examines NeoVictorian returns in contemporary literature and film, revealing the era's ongoing dialogue with the modern world.

Violence and Dystopia

Mimesis and Sacrifice in Contemporary Western Dystopian Narratives

By: Daniel Cojocaru

£52.99

A critical examination of imitative desire, scapegoating, and sacrifice in contemporary dystopian narratives through the lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory. It analyzes works by J.G. Ballard, Chuck Palahniuk, Margaret Atwood, and Will Self.

Virginia Woolf’s Portraits of Russian Writers

Creating the Literary Other

By: Darya Protopopova

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Classic Russian fiction was crucial to Virginia Woolf’s vision of British modernism. We follow Woolf as she begins to learn Russian, invents a character for a story by Dostoevsky, ponders over Sophia Tolstoy’s suicide note, and proclaims Chekhov a truly ‘modern’ writer.

Visions and Revisions

The Word and the Text

Edited By: Roger Kojecký, Andrew Tate

£39.99

Literary texts draw on other texts and ideas to communicate. This book offers new ways to understand the creations of writers like William Blake, Salman Rushdie, and Hilary Mantel, exploring their labours with form and affinities to the Western spiritual tradition.

Visualizing Violence in Francophone Cultures

Edited By: Magali Compan

£47.99

This edited volume offers an overview of the complexity of the visual rhetoric of violence, discussing both fictional works, including films and novels, and non-fictional genres, such as news media, showing how such expressions of violence have assumed diverse narrative forms.

Voglio morire! Suicide in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society 1789-1919

Edited By: Paolo L. Bernardini, Anita Virga

£49.99

In 19th-century Italy, suicide transformed from a rare sin into a widespread phenomenon. This book provides the first interdisciplinary account, exploring it through literature, art, and politics, and examining major figures like Leopardi and Salgari.

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.

Voices from Early China

The Odes Demystified

By: Geoffrey Sampson

£67.99

The Chinese “Book of Odes” (1000-600 B.C.) is one of the world's earliest literary works. This new translation cuts through centuries of obscurity to reveal the poems' human charm, while also restoring the original speech-music, lost for millennia.

The Chinese “Book of Odes” (1000-600 B.C.) is one of the world’s earliest literary works. This new translation cuts through centuries of obscurity to reveal the poems’ human charm, while also restoring the original speech-music, lost for millennia.

W. B. Yeats and Mysticism

By: Faisal Al-Doori

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This book explores W. B. Yeats’s mystical experience and how it is exemplified in his poetry. It covers his engagement with the occult, Celtic mysticism, and Rosicrucianism, and discusses his automatic writing experience with his wife and his apocalyptic vision.

W.B. Yeats and Indian Thought

A Man Engaged in that Endless Research into Life, Death, God

By: Snezana Dabic

£47.99

Dabić investigates the impact of Indian philosophy and religion on Yeats’s poetic and dramatic work, exploring its development from his early impressionistic work to his more mature incorporation of such ideas into his writing.

W.H. Auden’s “The Healing Fountain” Read through A. Aviram’s Theory of Poetic Rhythm

By: Boutheina Boughnim Laarif

£61.99

Auden, master of metre, remains a mystery. This book uses a revolutionary theory of poetic rhythm—placing rhythm before meaning—to unlock his formal art. It revives interest in Auden's poetry and his urgent questions: What is poetry? What is its use?

Auden, master of metre, remains a mystery. This book uses a revolutionary theory of poetic rhythm—placing rhythm before meaning—to unlock his formal art. It revives interest in Auden’s poetry and his urgent questions: What is poetry? What is its use?

Wandering through Guilt

The Cain Archetype in the Twentieth-Century Novel

By: Paola Di Gennaro

£47.99

This study examines the relationship between guilt and wandering in 20th-century literature. Using the biblical figure of Cain as an archetype, it analyzes novels where the issue is a desperate movement toward self-consciousness or self-destruction.

War and Words

Representations of Military Conflict in Literature and the Media

Edited By: Wojciech Drąg, Jakub Krogulec, Mateusz Marecki

£41.99

This edited volume examines the methods, conventions and pitfalls of constructing verbal accounts of military conflict in literature and the media, bringing together such diverse material as canonical literature, war veterans’ testimonies, computer games, and propaganda.

War in Travel Literature

Edited By: Jeanne Dubino, Orkun Kocabıyık, Elisabetta Marino, Andrew J. Smyth

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This collection shows how war functions as a subject, theme, and backdrop in travel writing, enabling readers to rethink both categories. From cookbooks to military magazines, these chapters reveal how war's reach extends far beyond the battlefield.

Water Imagery in George Sand’s Work

Edited By: Françoise Ghillebaert, Madeleine Vala

£64.99

These essays explore the importance of water imagery in the work of George Sand. Discover the complex symbolism of water—encompassing life and death, fluid kinship, and artistic creativity—in her novels, short stories, plays, and even her paintings.

Waymarking Italy’s Influence on the American Environmental Imagination While on Pilgrimage to Assisi

By: Robert Lawrence France

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A 200-kilometre walk from La Verna to Assisi becomes a “deep-travel” journey into Italy's influence on environmental thought. This study shows how traversing texts and trails reveals the debt owed to the Italian landscape in how we conceive of the natural world.

A 200-kilometre walk from La Verna to Assisi becomes a “deep-travel” journey into Italy’s influence on environmental thought. This study shows how traversing texts and trails reveals the debt owed to the Italian landscape in how we conceive of the natural world.

Ways of Being in Literary and Cultural Spaces

Edited By: Leo Loveday, Emilia Parpală

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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.

We Won’t Make It Out Alive

Patrick McCabe and the Horrors of the Irish Mundane

By: Kate Walls

£34.99

A study of Patrick McCabe’s work. Beneath the grotesque and funny narratives of his characters lurk similar pasts of cruelty and abuse. This book discusses how these childhood traumas and Irish social upheaval drive McCabe's narrators crazy.

Weaving New Perspectives Together

Some Reflections on Literary Studies

Edited By: María Alonso Alonso, Jeannette Bello Mota, Alba de Béjar Muíños

£39.99

This novel, interdisciplinary overview of literary interpretation features contributions from early-career and senior scholars. The compilation is designed to inspire students and guide experts by posing new questions to stimulate future research in the field.

What Do We Tell the Children? Critical Essays on Children’s Literature

Edited By: Ciara Ní Bhroin, Patricia Kennon

£39.99

This collection of critical essays addresses debates on “suitable” texts for young audiences. It examines what adult writers “tell” child readers about sexuality, gender, death, trauma, race, and national identity in Irish and international fiction.