Literature – Page 27 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Dystopia(n) Matters

On the Page, on Screen, on Stage

Edited By: Fátima Vieira

£49.99

Reputed scholars explain why dystopia is important. Through studies of literature, film, and theatre, they argue that while dystopia has invaded contemporary discourse, utopia has not been eradicated. The tension between them is instrumental to our future.

Charles Dickens and Europe

Edited By: Maxime Leroy

£39.99

Charles Dickens is a British literary icon, but should he be read as a European author? This book explores his relationship to Europe through his travels, the continental locations in his novels, and the influence of his works on other European texts.

The Everyday

Experiences, Concepts, and Narratives

Edited By: Justin Derry, Martin Parrot

£44.99

This inter-disciplinary book explores the slippery notion of ‘Everyday Life’. With contributions from fields like art history, cultural studies, and anthropology, it provides a unique space for exploring how everyday life intersects with key debates.

Rossetti’s Armadillo

By: Charles Kraszewski

£54.99

Explore European poetry from Sappho to Isou. Each of these thirty-three verse translations is paired with the original poem and an illuminating essay revealing the translator's art and process.

Explore European poetry from Sappho to Isou. Each of these thirty-three verse translations is paired with the original poem and an illuminating essay revealing the translator’s art and process.

The Contemporary Francophone African Intellectual

Edited By: Natalie Edwards

£44.99

This volume examines the contemporary African intellectual's engagement with the State, the people, and hegemony. Featuring new and established voices, it explores the challenges of critiquing power and enacting change from within Africa or in exile.

This volume examines the contemporary African intellectual’s engagement with the State, the people, and hegemony. Featuring new and established voices, it explores the challenges of critiquing power and enacting change from within Africa or in exile.

Metropolitan Mosaics and Melting-Pots

Paris and Montreal in Francophone Literatures

Edited By: Adlai Murdoch, Pascale De Souza

£44.99

This series of essays explores how the concepts of the melting-pot and the mosaic have shaped the representation of Paris and Montreal in francophone literatures. Migrant writing poses questions of ethnicity and integration, challenging notions of the city and Frenchness.

Racial, Ethnic, Gender and Class Representations in Margaret Laurence’s Writings

By: Andreea Topor-Constantin

£44.99

This study analyzes Margaret Laurence's work as an entity, exploring representations of race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Covering her fiction and non-fiction, it gives voice to the marginal to challenge readers’ perceptions.

This study analyzes Margaret Laurence’s work as an entity, exploring representations of race, ethnicity, gender, and class. Covering her fiction and non-fiction, it gives voice to the marginal to challenge readers’ perceptions.

Aller(s)-Retour(s)

Nineteenth-Century France in Motion

Edited By: Loïc Guyon, Andrew Watts

£44.99

The nineteenth century was an age of movement. This volume explores the political, artistic, and social shifts that defined France as a society in perpetual motion, confronting its own extremes of progress and renewal, stagnancy and regression.

Magnificent Obsessions

Honouring the Lives of Hazel Rowley

Edited By: Jean Fornasiero, Rosemary Lloyd

£44.99

This volume is a tribute to the life and work of biographer Hazel Rowley. This collection of essays and creative writing responds to her many interests: biography, politics, questions of race and sexuality, and the lives of couples.

Constructing Identities

The Interaction of National, Gender and Racial Borders

Edited By: Antonio Medina-Rivera, Lee Wilberschied

£44.99

Border studies examines the conflicts and resolutions that occur when groups come into contact. This peer-reviewed selection of papers focuses on historical, national, gender, and racial borders, and their implications in the construction of an identity.

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.

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.

Black Writers and the Left

Edited By: Kristen Moriah

£44.99

Black Writers and the Left examines the fraught relationship between African American intellectuals and the leftist movement in the early twentieth century, featuring unpublished interviews and archival research on figures like Langston Hughes and Richard Wright.

Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men

Superheroes and the American Experience

Edited By: Julian C. Chambliss, Thomas Donaldson, William Svitavsky

From £34.99

This collection explores the superhero's evolution from 1930s comics to modern cinema. It examines how iconic heroes like Superman, Batman, and the Avengers reflect the historical contexts of their eras, from the Great Depression to the Cold War and beyond.

This collection explores the superhero’s evolution from 1930s comics to modern cinema. It examines how iconic heroes like Superman, Batman, and the Avengers reflect the historical contexts of their eras, from the Great Depression to the Cold War and beyond.

Media, Technology and the Imagination

Edited By: Marie Hendry, Jennifer Page

£39.99

Technology is reshaping imagination itself. The essays in this volume explore the thrilling intersection of the digital and the creative as it transforms modern film, fiction, and art.

Aesthetic Fatigue

Modernity and the Language of Waste

Edited By: John F. M. Clark, John Scanlan

£49.99

Why does progress feel like decline? This book uncovers the paradox at the heart of modernity, exploring the "language of waste" and the aesthetic fatigue that reshapes our world and our inner lives.

Why does progress feel like decline? This book uncovers the paradox at the heart of modernity, exploring the “language of waste” and the aesthetic fatigue that reshapes our world and our inner lives.

Modernisation of Chinese Culture

Continuity and Change

Edited By: Jana S. Rošker, Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik

£54.99

This book maps Chinese modernisation, highlighting its relationship to historical and theoretical contexts. Going beyond economics, its multifaceted perspectives focus on overlooked issues in culture, ideology, and society, exploring tensions between tradition and modernity.

1812 Echoes

The Cadiz Constitution in Hispanic History, Culture and Politics

Edited By: Stephen G.H. Roberts, Adam Sharman

£54.99

The 1812 Constitution of Cadiz was a defining moment for the Spanish-speaking world. Drafted during wartime, it radically redefined ‘the Spanish nation’, dividing Spaniards and questioning Spain's legitimacy in her American colonies. This volume explores its legacy.

The 1812 Constitution of Cadiz was a defining moment for the Spanish-speaking world. Drafted during wartime, it radically redefined ‘the Spanish nation’, dividing Spaniards and questioning Spain’s legitimacy in her American colonies. This volume explores its legacy.

Traumatic Affect

Edited By: Meera Atkinson, Michael Richardson

£49.99

Traumatic Affect examines the intersection of trauma and affect theory. This collection of essays offers timely critiques of film, art, and politics, venturing into bold new territories to illuminate pressing realities that demand our engagement.

Manikin Plays

Two Contemporary Plays

By: Sreenath Nair

£34.99

Two plays reflecting on contemporary Indian society. Stone Idols deconstructs the Buddha myth to explore identity. The Beauty Parlour shows a woman victimized by the male gaze. The collection addresses sexuality and gender with innovative style and insight.