Literature – Page 8 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Arctic Discourses

Edited By: Anka Ryall, Johan Schimanski, Henning Howlid Wærp

£44.99

This volume investigates how accounts of the Arctic have shaped history. It examines the discourse of “Arcticism,” modelled on Orientalism, and intersecting narratives of imperialism, science, and indigeneity across a wide range of genres.

Armenia

A Year at Erzerum

Edited By: Robert Curzon

£19.99

Appointed to a border commission in 1843, Curzon paints a detailed portrait of mid-19th century Armenia. From his base in Erzerum, he describes the character, history, culture, and natural world of this fascinating and historic region.

Arthur Conan Doyle’s Art of Fiction

A Revaluation

By: Nils Clausson

From £52.99

This groundbreaking book rescues Arthur Conan Doyle from the sub-literary category of popular fiction. Instead of focusing on Victorian attitudes, this study shifts the emphasis to the neglected art of his stories, demonstrating they can be read as canonical literary fiction.

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.

Arthur W. Upfield

Life and Times of Bony's Man

By: A. J. Milnor

£34.99

Immigrant, soldier, and Bushman, Arthur W. Upfield matured with Australia. He created the famous bi-racial Detective "Bony," rivaling Sherlock Holmes, and described the Outback to the world. This biography relies on unexplored letters to tell his story.

Immigrant, soldier, and Bushman, Arthur W. Upfield matured with Australia. He created the famous bi-racial Detective “Bony,” rivaling Sherlock Holmes, and described the Outback to the world. This biography relies on unexplored letters to tell his story.

As Mirrors Are Lonely

A Lacanian Reading on the Modern Irish Novel

By: Peter Guy

£47.99

This new study investigates how Irish writers since the sixties have responded to a changing world, re-examining their work through the theory of Jacques Lacan. It focuses on John McGahern, Brian Moore and John Broderick, exploring gender and family.

As Time Goes By

Portraits of Age

Edited By: Joy Charnley, Caroline Verdier

£49.99

This volume provides literary analyses of ageing through writers from Cervantes to Cixous. Exploring universal themes, these essays offer portraits of what age is, has been, and might be, demonstrating literature's power to reflect social trends.

Asian English Writers of Chinese Origin

Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong

By: Amy Tak-yee Lai

From £24.99

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.

Aspects of Byron’s Don Juan

Edited By: Peter Cochran

£59.99

This volume explores Byron’s Don Juan, from its politics, treatment of women, and comic rhymes to its importance in Spain and Russia. It delves into Byron's sources, Mary Shelley's vital role, and the poem's legacy among artists from Tirso de Molina to Johnny Depp.

This volume explores Byron’s Don Juan, from its politics, treatment of women, and comic rhymes to its importance in Spain and Russia. It delves into Byron’s sources, Mary Shelley’s vital role, and the poem’s legacy among artists from Tirso de Molina to Johnny Depp.

Aspects of Form and Genre in the Poetry of Edwin Morgan

By: Rodney Edgecombe

£29.99

This study examines the work of Edwin Morgan, a poet admired for his experimental writings and diverse output. Chapters cover his vision poems, his use of the grotesque, adaptations of the elegy, and his enterprise of “voicing” the universe.

Assimilation and Subversion in Earlier American Literature

Edited By: Robin DeRosa

From £14.99

Spanning the 17th to 19th centuries, this collection explores dominance and oppression in early American literature. Through Native Americans, Puritan outcasts, and slaves, it reveals assimilation and subversion as codependent, mutually defining forces.

At Whom Are We Laughing?

Humor in Romance Language Literatures

Edited By: Zenia Sacks DaSilva, Gregory M. Pell

£49.99

At whom are we really laughing? This collection of scholarly papers explores humor across the centuries in the literatures of Italy, France, and the Iberian Peninsula, revealing diverse aspects of wit little known to the general reader.

Author of Illusions

Thucydides’ Rewriting of the History of the Peloponnesian War

By: Robert D. Luginbill

£39.99

Pericles brought about the downfall of the Athenian empire. This truth was obscured by Thucydides, who reinvented the Peloponnesian War to absolve Pericles. This book examines how one man created a myth that has lasted millennia, unquestioned by scholars.

Authority of Expression in Early Modern England

Edited By: Nely Keinänen, Maria Saleniu

£39.99

Scholars explore the relationship between authority and the self in writers like Shakespeare and Donne. In an era of momentous change, these essays offer new perspectives on how power was negotiated through sexuality, gender, and language in the English Renaissance.

Authorship in Nabokov’s Prefaces

By: Jacqueline Hamrit

£41.99

This work analyzes Nabokov’s prefaces to offer a new perspective on authorship. The author, neither dead nor tyrannical, alternates between authoritative apparition and disappearance, deconstructing the myth of Nabokov’s arrogance to unearth his vulnerability.

Autobiographical Poetry in England and Spain, 1950-1980

Narrating Oneself in Verse

By: Menotti Lerro

£61.99

Lerro traces the founding critical theories of the influential autobiographical genre, from the Enlightenment period to the most recent developments. He offers an increased effectiveness of the poem to express the narrative purposes of autobiography.

Autour de l’extrême littéraire

Edited By: Alastair Hemmens, Russell Williams

£39.99

This book explores how French writing, from the Middle Ages to the present, has interrogated extremity. These essays reveal why the extreme—which shocks, excites, and horrifies us—has always fascinated the French literary imagination.

Bachelors, Bastards, and Nomadic Masculinity

Illegitimacy in Guy de Maupassant and André Gide

By: Robert Fagley

£47.99

This book is a thematic exploration of bachelors and bastards in the literary works of Guy de Maupassant and André Gide. It examines illegitimacy, "Counterfeit" characters, and the concept of "nomadic masculinity" during a period of great socio-legal change.

This book is a thematic exploration of bachelors and bastards in the literary works of Guy de Maupassant and André Gide. It examines illegitimacy, “Counterfeit” characters, and the concept of “nomadic masculinity” during a period of great socio-legal change.

Back and Forth

The Grotesque in the Play of Romantic Irony

By: Siddhartha Bose

£47.99

This book examines the dramatic implications of the grotesque in Romantic aesthetics. It explores how writers from Schlegel to Baudelaire used Shakespeare's transgressive drama to re-evaluate beauty and create the ideas of post-Revolutionary modernity.

This book examines the dramatic implications of the grotesque in Romantic aesthetics. It explores how writers from Schlegel to Baudelaire used Shakespeare’s transgressive drama to re-evaluate beauty and create the ideas of post-Revolutionary modernity.

Back to the Future

Israeli Literature of the 1980s and 1990s

By: Dvir Abramovich

From £24.99

This study opens a fascinating window into Israeli writing of the 1980s and 90s. It links the era's dramatic social and political transformations to the evolution of key literary genres like Holocaust literature, the Mizrachi novel, and detective fiction.

This study opens a fascinating window into Israeli writing of the 1980s and 90s. It links the era’s dramatic social and political transformations to the evolution of key literary genres like Holocaust literature, the Mizrachi novel, and detective fiction.