Sociology – Page 7 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

New Literature in Chinese

China and the World

By: Zhu Shoutong

£52.99

Shoutong discusses the connotations of the concept of “Modern Chinese Literature”, as well as its basic categories. He argues that such fields as “World Chinese Literature” should unite in the area of “New Literature in Chinese”, as they share a language, culture and tradition.

Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes

Figurational Approaches to American Culture

Edited By: Christa Buschendorf, Astrid Franke, Johannes Voetz

£44.99

This collection applies Norbert Elias’s theory of the “civilizing process” to American history and culture. Scholars explore topics from democracy in the early republic to the modern-day black ghetto, offering new answers to the question of America's peculiar characteristics.

Exploring Gender in the Literature of the Indian Diaspora

Edited By: Sandhya Rao Mehta

£47.99

This collection of critical essays explores the intersection of gender and diaspora in Indian literature. Drawing on feminist and queer studies, it examines the predicament of belonging and identity, showcasing the range and depth of the Indian diaspora.

Texts and Textiles

Affect, Synaesthesia and Metaphor in Fiction

By: Diana Mary Eva Thomas

£52.99

This study illustrates how fiction that makes use of textiles as an essential element utilizes synaesthetic writing and metaphor to create an affective link to, and response in, the reader. These links and responses are assessed using affect theory and work on synaesthesia.

Early Modern Communi(cati)ons

Studies in Early Modern English Literature and Culture

Edited By: Kinga Földváry, Erzsébet Stróbl

£44.99

This volume demonstrates the connections that bind Elizabethan and Jacobean cultural studies with Shakespearean investigations. Essays explore early modern culture and Shakespeare’s works, from their socio-historical context to present-day interpretations.

Second-Generation Romantic Poets’ Paradoxical Approach to Women

Libertarianism versus Patriarchy

By: Soner Kaya

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This book examines the works of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, revealing their inconsistent attitudes towards women. Caught between their liberal views and the patriarchal norms of their age, their writing both reinforces and challenges traditional gender roles.

Cultural Migrations and Gendered Subjects

Colonial and Postcolonial Representations of the Female Body

Edited By: Silvia Castro-Borrego, Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz

£34.99

This collection explores women's identities as migrant subjects. The essays examine the female body as a site of violence, fighting stereotypes and analyzing contemporary issues of race and gender through the lens of the colonial past.

This collection explores women’s identities as migrant subjects. The essays examine the female body as a site of violence, fighting stereotypes and analyzing contemporary issues of race and gender through the lens of the colonial past.

Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture

A Mosaic of Criticism

Edited By: Amie A. Doughty

£47.99

This collection of essays investigates various nuances of a wealth of topics in children’s and young adult literature and culture, from the representation of race and bullying in picture-books to environmentalism and religion in fantasy literature, among others.

Mapping Metabiographical Heartlands in Marina Warner’s Fiction

By: Souhir Zekri

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This accessible guide explores literary theory through Marina Warner’s fiction, covering pressing issues like colonialism, displacement, and women's oppression. Blending close textual analysis with jargon-free overviews, it is ideal for students, researchers, and teachers.

This accessible guide explores literary theory through Marina Warner’s fiction, covering pressing issues like colonialism, displacement, and women’s oppression. Blending close textual analysis with jargon-free overviews, it is ideal for students, researchers, and teachers.

Solidarity, Memory and Identity

Edited By: Maria Virginia Filomena Cremasco, Wojciech Owczarski

£52.99

In a world of deepening conflict, what is solidarity today? This interdisciplinary volume analyzes the concept from philosophical, social, political, and artistic perspectives, exploring its relation to memory and inspiring readers to help victims of exclusion.

Rushdie’s Cross-Pollinations

By: Dana Bădulescu

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This book is a literary journey through Salman Rushdie’s cross-pollinated gardens, where reading is a quest. It explores his sorcery with language, the dark season of the fatwa, the lush sensuality of his novels, and his Quichotte, a Don Quijote for the internet age.

Fathers in Victorian Fiction

Edited By: Natalie McKnight

£39.99

This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in Victorian authors' lives and fiction. They explored conflicting expectations of fatherhood, yielding memorable portrayals and asking a question still relevant today: What makes a good father?

This book examines the changing roles of fathers in the nineteenth century as seen in Victorian authors’ lives and fiction. They explored conflicting expectations of fatherhood, yielding memorable portrayals and asking a question still relevant today: What makes a good father?

Towards or Back to Human Values? Spiritual and Moral Dimensions of Contemporary Fantasy

Edited By: Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Marek Oziewicz

£34.99

Fantasy literature is a provocation. Against the dominant skepticism of the age, it points to hope and trust. This collection of essays explores how fantasy brings spiritual and moral values back to the center, rekindling the hope of finding meaning.

Masquerade and Femininity

Essays on Russian and Polish Women Writers

Edited By: Urszula Chowaniec, Ursula Phillips, Marja Rytkönen

£34.99

These essays on Russian and Polish women writers explore femininity through the lens of masquerade. They scrutinize the gap between lived female experience and the culturally constructed masks women wear, combining East European literary and gender studies.

Rethinking the Relationship between China and the West through a Focus on Literature and Aesthetics

By: Qingben Li

£61.99

This book challenges Sino-western dualism with a multi-dimensional model for cross-cultural research. By separating spatial and temporal dimensions, it reconceptualises the relationship between China and the West, seeking new pathways for understanding.

Francophone Cultures and Geographies of Identity

Edited By: Zsuzsanna Fagyal, H Adlai Murdoch

£54.99

This collection of essays challenges French-centered conceptions of francophonie. It proposes a pluricentric view, reading cultural forms from the Caribbean, Africa, and Quebec as products of their own contexts, revealing a Frenchness that is truly plural.

City Visions

The Work of Iain Sinclair

Edited By: Jenny Bavidge, Robert Bond

£34.99

$START$ This collection of fourteen pathbreaking essays treats the panoramic work of Iain Sinclair, one of Britain's most significant contemporary writers. These multifaceted essays explore his poetry, prose, and filmmaking, and his complex vision of London.END$

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This collection of fourteen pathbreaking essays treats the panoramic work of Iain Sinclair, one of Britain’s most significant contemporary writers. These multifaceted essays explore his poetry, prose, and filmmaking, and his complex vision of London.END$

Creative Interventions

The Role of Intellectuals in Contemporary Italy

Edited By: Eugenio Bolongaro

£49.99

Who are “intellectuals”? Are they an endangered species? This collection of essays examines the changing role, function, and self-perception of Italian intellectuals since World War II, with comparative essays on their place in other Western cultures.

New Fathers? Contemporary American Stories of Masculinity, Domesticity and Kinship

By: Helena Wahlström

£34.99

This study explores the intersection of masculinity and domesticity in contemporary film and literature. It argues that texts since the 1990s address “new fatherhood,” problematizing the legitimacy of “new fathers” and “alternative families.”

Transacting Sites of the Liminal Bodily Spaces

By: Catalina Florina Florescu

£34.99

This book explores liminal bodies and their delicate transactions: the body dying, opened in surgery, or living on through organ replacement. It also analyzes the contemporary body commissioned by mass-media, as seen through film, literature, and art.