Literature – Page 78 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Introductions and Translations to the Plays of Sophocles and Euripides

Vol. I

Edited By: Harry Love

£24.99

From twelve years of producing ancient plays for contemporary audiences, these translations of Sophocles and Euripides are accessible and speakable. They maintain the poetry of tragedy without being archaic, accompanied by essays on drama, irony, and emotion.

The Traveling and Writing Self

Edited By: Marguerite Helmers, Tilar Mazzeo

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These essays examine the travel writer’s self, revealing the carefully crafted persona of the traveler as a fiction. Exploring genres from diaries to film, they show that the most interesting subject of any travel account is the author.

The Global Literary Field

Edited By: Anna Guttman, Michel Hockx, George Paizis

£39.99

This collection of articles explores globalization's impact on literary production. Featuring non-Eurocentric perspectives, it comments on today's literary market, highlighting unexpected global exchanges and challenging the ongoing debate on “world literature”.

This collection of articles explores globalization’s impact on literary production. Featuring non-Eurocentric perspectives, it comments on today’s literary market, highlighting unexpected global exchanges and challenging the ongoing debate on “world literature”.

A Self-divided Poet

Form and Texture in the Verse of Thomas Hood

By: Rodney Stenning Edgecombe

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Long regarded as a minor comic poet, this first book on Thomas Hood’s verse reveals his true range. It analyzes his serious poems, uncovering a debt to Elizabethan and Metaphysical poets, while also giving his comic genius its due in his light-hearted oeuvre.

Tennessee Williams and His Contemporaries

Edited By: Robert Bray

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This collection of scholarly discussions explores the legacy of Tennessee Williams. Probing his drama, fiction, and unpublished work, it covers all aspects of his career, including his relationships with contemporaries, offering fresh perspectives for all readers.

A Wounded Deer

The Effects of Incest on the Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson

By: Wendy K. Perriman

£39.99

What made Emily Dickinson a recluse and dynamic poet? This book argues her enigmatic poetry originated from a personal exposure to incest, and examines how she used her craft to transition from victim to survivor.

From Colonialism to the Contemporary

Intertextual Transformation in World Children's and Youth Literature

Edited By: Lance Weldy

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This selection of essays highlights key shifts in ideology found in world children’s literature. It traces the transformative and intertextual nature of these texts, revealing that this genre is subject to the same ideologies as other literature.

George Moore

Artistic Visions and Literary Worlds

Edited By: Mary Pierse

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George Moore was a significant, controversial figure on the literary stages of Paris, London and Dublin. This collection offers fresh insights into his innovations, pioneering short stories, avant-garde feminism, and contentious novel about the historical Jesus.

Literary Secularism

Religion and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Fiction

By: Amardeep Singh

£34.99

Literary Secularism shows how writers like Joyce, Rushdie, and Eliot struggled with religious orthodoxy. Their novels are not anti-religious manifestos, but reflect the continued power of religion, a force that is, in Eliot’s words, “still throbbing” in modern life.

Tomorrow through the Past

Neal Stephenson and the Project of Global Modernization

Edited By: Jon Lewis

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This first collection of scholarly essays on Neal Stephenson examines his novels from The Big U to The Baroque Cycle and his non-fiction. The collection includes a new interview with Stephenson, making it essential for readers and scholars alike.

“Catch if you can your country’s moment”

Recovery and Regeneration in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich

Edited By: William S. Waddell

£29.99

These essays explore Adrienne Rich’s work, arguing for a shift from her personal feminist awakening to her later, public re-imagination of America. A transformative cartographer of words, Rich remaps our culture for the marginalized and the resistant.

Readers, Audiences and Coteries in Early Modern England

Edited By: Geoff Baker

£29.99

This interdisciplinary collection explores how early modern texts were appropriated by individuals and groups. Case studies show how a text's physical form impacts its readership, concluding that texts hold no fixed meaning but are interpreted by each reader.

This interdisciplinary collection explores how early modern texts were appropriated by individuals and groups. Case studies show how a text’s physical form impacts its readership, concluding that texts hold no fixed meaning but are interpreted by each reader.

Representing Minorities

Studies in Literature and Criticism

Edited By: Soumia Boutkhil, Larbi Touaf

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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.

Susan Glaspell

New Directions in Critical Inquiry

Edited By: Martha Carpentier

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Susan Glaspell’s work engages with feminism, war, class, and law. Susan Glaspell: New Directions in Critical Inquiry brings scholarship up to date, featuring new essays from leading scholars on her art and thoughtful social commentary.

Thea Astley’s Fictional Worlds

Edited By: Paul Genoni, Susan Sheridan

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This landmark collection is the first of critical responses to novelist Thea Astley. It includes essays from leading critics, three essays by Astley herself, a major interview with her, and the first Thea Astley lecture by Kate Grenville.

Anatomy of Science Fiction

Edited By: Donald E. Morse

£29.99

This collection of essays connects science fiction to our increasingly science-fictional world, tackling major ethical and political issues. "Will find a market both among academics and... undergraduates." - Dr. Farah Mendelsohn, Middlesex University

This collection of essays connects science fiction to our increasingly science-fictional world, tackling major ethical and political issues. “Will find a market both among academics and… undergraduates.” – Dr. Farah Mendelsohn, Middlesex University

The Postcolonial Body in Queer Space and Time

By: Rebecca Fine Romanow

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This study examines how postcolonial literature depicts the body as a site of resistance. Focusing on diasporic authors from Africa and Southeast Asia in London, it reveals bodies performing queer space and time to redefine the postcolonial.

Byron and Orientalism

Edited By: Peter Cochran

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Byron is often thought of as the Romantic poet most familiar with the East. This book examines this thesis, looking at Byron’s knowledge of the East and its religions, his Turkish Tales, his influence on Pushkin, and his own disorientated existence.

Travel and Travellers from Bede to Dampier

Edited By: Geraldine Barnes with Gabrielle Singleton

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These essays track travel narratives from the eighth to the eighteenth century. Their voyages, from the literal to the spiritual, show the enduring influence of the medieval geographical imagination upon post-medieval travel, discovery, and encounters between East and West.

Changing Concepts of Childhood and Children’s Literature

Edited By: Vanessa Joosen, Katrien Vloeberghs

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This collection of essays bridges European and US approaches to children’s literature studies. Two main themes surface: ideology in children’s literature and images of childhood, alongside globalisation and the tension between pedagogy and aesthetics.