Sociology – Page 8 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

On the Borders of Convention

Edited By: Aleksandra Nikčević Batrićević

£39.99

International scholars offer a varied picture of our changing world, discussing the shifting borders of convention in literature, culture, film, music, and art. These complex essays offer fresh views that will stimulate intellectual debate.

Censorship across Borders

The Reception of English Literature in Twentieth-Century Europe

Edited By: Alberto Lázaro, Catherine O’Leary

£39.99

These essays explore European censorship of English literature, revealing why authors like Joyce and Orwell were targeted by opposing ideologies, from conservative Catholic morality to communism. This study uncovers the complex relationship between the state and culture.

Blood on the Page

Interviews with African Authors writing about HIV/AIDS

By: Lizzy Attree

£39.99

In fourteen unprecedented interviews, the first authors to publish fiction on HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Zimbabwe discuss their ground-breaking work. They give voice to silence and humanize an epidemic otherwise unimaginable statistically.

Interiors

Interiority/Exteriority in Literary and Cultural Discourse

Edited By: Katarzyna Nowak, Sonia Front

£39.99

These essays explore the borderland between interiors and exteriors. Where do we draw dividing lines? Can we afford not to distinguish between the inside and outside, between “us” and “them”? This volume presents a plethora of answers.

The Playful Air of Light(ness) in Irish Literature and Culture

Edited By: Marta Goszczyńska, Katarzyna Poloczek

£39.99

Moving beyond traditional themes of struggle and oppression, this book centres on playfulness, light and air in Irish literature and culture. Essays offer fresh readings of seminal authors like Yeats and Heaney, alongside lesser-known figures.

Gloria Naylor’s Fiction

Contemporary Explorations of Class and Capitalism

Edited By: Sharon A. Lewis, Ama S. Wattley

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This text offers innovative ways of analyzing economics in Gloria Naylor’s fiction, using interpretive strategies which are applicable to the entire tradition of African American literature. The writers gathered here embody years of insightful and vigorous Naylor scholarship.

Who Defines Me

Negotiating Identity in Language and Literature

Edited By: Eid Mohamed, Yasser Fouad Selim

£39.99

Identity is unstable, constructed by variables like ethnicity, race, gender, and culture. Who Defines Me is an interdisciplinary study exploring this negotiation through language and literature, with a focus on Arabs, Muslims, and racial identity in America.

Cultural Transformations in the English-Speaking World

Edited By: Cécile Cottenet, Jean-Christophe Murat, Nathalie Vanfasse

£39.99

This book tackles cultural transformations across the English-speaking world in literature, painting, architecture, photography and film. It provides readers with tools to decipher these dynamic phenomena and understand the new life they infuse into cultures.

Taking a Hard Look

Gender and Visual Culture

Edited By: Amanda du Preez

£39.99

This volume takes a hard look at the creative intersection of gender and visual culture. It explores how visual culture is gendered and questions debilitating role models, creating a dialogue with international theory from a South perspective.

A Rich Field Full of Pleasant Surprises

Essays on Contemporary Literature in Honour of Professor Socorro Suárez Lafuente

Edited By: Alejandra Moreno-Álvarez, José Francisco Fernández

£39.99

A vibrant snapshot of English Studies today. These essays on literature, film, gender, and media celebrate global culture in a tribute to the inspiring teaching of Professor Socorro Suárez Lafuente.

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?

The Medusa Gaze in Contemporary Women’s Fiction

Petrifying, Maternal and Redemptive

By: Gillian M. E. Alban

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Alban offers striking insights into the desires and frustrations of women through the narratives of impressive contemporary novelists. Crafting her analysis on the gaze as presented by Lacan and Sartre, she demonstrates how the subject creates her own ego against hostile others.

Victorian Murderesses

The Politics of Female Violence

By: Naz Bulamur

£41.99

Bulamur investigates the politics of female violence in four novels of the Victorian period, demonstrating how legal and even medical discourses endorsed Victorian domestic ideology and tackling the question of female agency.

Afroeuropean Cartographies

Edited By: Dominic Thomas

£41.99

Writers with roots in Africa navigate new terrains and racialized identities in Europe. Through vibrant literature, they redefine identity and imagine the contours of a diverse, inclusive Europe, reckoning with its colonial history and its legacy.

Science, Gender and History

The Fantastic in Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood

By: Suparna Banerjee

£41.99

This study offers fresh readings of Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood, comparing Frankenstein and The Last Man with The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake to reveal an ongoing critique of oppressive science, gender ideologies, and environmental ruin.

This study offers fresh readings of Mary Shelley and Margaret Atwood, comparing Frankenstein and The Last Man with The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake to reveal an ongoing critique of oppressive science, gender ideologies, and environmental ruin.

Graham Greene’s Narrative in Spain

Criticism, Translations and Censorship (1939-1975)

By: Mónica Olivares Leyva

£41.99

This monograph details the literary contact between Graham Greene and Franco’s Spain, providing an overview of the roles played by national literary criticism and the book industry in the reception of his works, and the influence exerted by the regime in the publishing process.

Gendering Commitment

Re-thinking Social and Ethical Engagement in Modern Italian Culture

Edited By: Alex Standen

£41.99

This collection challenges the assumption that engagement in Italian culture is a male domain. It analyses the work of those typically excluded from the debate: female writers, artists, and others who insist on questioning and denouncing social realities.

Narrating American Gender and Ethnic Identities

Edited By: Aleksandra M. Różalska, Grażyna Zygadło

£44.99

This volume investigates cultural representations of American minorities and women. Through analysis of film and literature, it explores the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and class, and the complex relationship between the dominant and the marginalized.

Social Jane

The Small, Secret Sociology of Jane Austen

By: Chris Wilkes

£44.99

Christopher Wilkes reveals the sociologist in Jane Austen. Exploring landscape, economics, and fashion, he argues that Austen was a brilliant analyst of the complex social hierarchies of her time.

Narratives of Community

Womens Short Story Sequences

Edited By: Roxanne Harde

£44.99

This collection of essays examines short story sequences by women from around the world. Using diverse theoretical models, contributors consider how female identity is negotiated in community, making a major contribution to feminist and genre theory.