Literature – Page 28 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The Unassuming Sky

The Life and Poetry of Timothy Corsellis

By: Helen Goethals

£39.99

For the first time in a collected edition, the work of Timothy Corsellis. The poems tell the striking story of an unusual war poet whose life was cut tragically short: an RAF pilot who refused to bomb civilians, and his literary encounter with Stephen Spender.

Shakespeare’s Verbal Art

By: William Bellamy

£62.99

William Bellamy examines the newly re-discovered anagrams that lie hidden in all Shakespearean texts, and explains the essential role played by these concealed figures in Classical and Renaissance poetry, using a range of examples, including Othello, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night.

Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Culture

Edited By: Dorsía Smith, Tatiana Tagirova

£39.99

This collection of essays by Caribbean scholars offers novel perspectives on the region's literature and culture. It cuts across disciplines to explore the diaspora, identity, gender, artistic expression, and the writer's role as a political activist.

This collection of essays by Caribbean scholars offers novel perspectives on the region’s literature and culture. It cuts across disciplines to explore the diaspora, identity, gender, artistic expression, and the writer’s role as a political activist.

One World Periphery Reads the Other

Knowing the “Oriental” in the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula

Edited By: Ignacio López-Calvo

£49.99

These essays study the decentering interplay between “peripheral” areas and marginalized social groups. They explore rich “South-South” cross-cultural exchanges that disrupt the center-periphery dichotomy, creating multiple centers without Western mediation.

Peripheral Transmodernities

South-to-South Intercultural Dialogues between the Luso-Hispanic World and “the Orient”

Edited By: Ignacio López-Calvo

£44.99

This collection of essays explores the critical dialogue between the Hispanic/Latino world and Asian and Arab cultures. Bypassing old colonial centers, these South-to-South dialogues provide vivid examples of de-colonizing impetus and cultural resistance.

The German Historical Novel since the Eighteenth Century

More than a Bestseller

Edited By: Daniela Richter

£52.99

This collection looks at aesthetic and thematic continuities, as well as changes in the historical genre in Germany from the late 18th century to the present. It also gives insights into the novels’ political and socio-cultural implications and studies several historical novels.

Dicite, Pierides

Classical Studies in Honour of Stratis Kyriakidis

Edited By: Andreas N. Michalopoulos, Andrew Zissos

£67.99

From Homeric epic to Virgil's Aeneid and the epigrams of Geminus, these sixteen essays offer fresh, thoughtful readings of classical literature.

From Homeric epic to Virgil’s Aeneid and the epigrams of Geminus, these sixteen essays offer fresh, thoughtful readings of classical literature.

Intellect Encounters Faith – A Synthesis

A Festschrift in Honor of Jay Harold Ellens, Ph.D.

Edited By: J. Harold Ellens, John Tracy Greene

From £39.99

This collection of essays is a tribute to renaissance man Dr. Jay Harold Ellens: a scholar, psychologist, and military chaplain. The volume merges deep scholarship with personal reflections on Psychology, Religious Literature, and Military History.

In and Out of Africa

Exploring Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin-American Connections

Edited By: Joanna Boampong

£44.99

This anthology explores the deep historical and cultural bonds connecting Africa to the Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin American worlds. Scholars and artists examine themes of colonization, slavery, identity, and migration through new artistic prisms.

Metamorphoses of Travel Writing

Across Theories, Genres, Centuries and Literary Traditions

Edited By: Grzegorz Moroz

£39.99

This book adds to the fast-growing field of travel writing studies. Its papers use varied theoretical approaches to explore a diverse body of texts—fictional, non-fictional, and poetry—from the last 300 years and from multiple literary traditions.

D.H. Lawrence and the Marriage Matrix

Intertextual Adventures in Conflict, Renewal, and Transcendence

By: Peter Balbert

£52.99

This innovative study of D. H. Lawrence’s fiction examines the dominant presence of a “marriage matrix”, showing how this intense pattern of preoccupation consistently engages with such important subjects in Lawrence’s life as depression, illness, friendship, and renewal.

The Quality of Life

Essays on Cultural Politics, 1978-2018

By: Richard Pine

From £37.99

Spanning 40 years, these essays explore the political dimensions of cultural life. They include seminal papers that pioneered the concept of Cultural Democracy and close readings of novels and plays that explore how all forms of self-expression have a political message.

Color Language and Color Categorization

Edited By: Jonathan Brindle, Geda Paulsen, Mari Uusküla

£57.99

This book examines how color is categorized and named in a number of languages, drawing on as-yet unexplored aspects of color language and categorization. Several approaches are taken to describe new research on how the concept is represented in various languages.

The Silence of Fallout

Nuclear Criticism in a Post-Cold War World

Edited By: Michael Blouin, Morgan Shipley, Jack Taylor

£44.99

How do we address the nuclear question in a post-Cold War world? Scholars of Nuclear Criticism converse with emergent voices, renewing this conversation and taking it in exciting new directions for future generations caught in a struggle with nuclear legacies.

Empowerment versus Oppression

Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels

Edited By: Sally Goade

£39.99

Are women readers oppressed by patriarchal romance narratives, or empowered by them? Building on early critics, these selections add new perspectives, examining diverse subtypes and featuring unique voices from international readers, novelists, and critics.

George Gissing and the Place of Realism

Edited By: Rebecca Hutcheon

From £29.99

This collection offers fresh perspectives on Gissing’s place in fin-de-siècle literature. Interdisciplinary readings place him in dialogue with figures from Dickens to Foucault, challenging his status as a simple realist and revealing his complex modernity.

Gayatri Spivak

Deconstruction and the Ethics of Postcolonial Literary Interpretation

By: Ola Abdalkafor

£47.99

This compelling critical work explains the notoriously difficult theories of Gayatri Spivak. It is an in-depth study of her ethics of postcolonial interpretation, analyzing her readings of canonical texts to reveal new tools for interpreting the “wholly Other.”

Myriad Shades of Life in Mirza Ghalib

By: Tasleem A. War

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These critical essays on Mirza Ghalib explore key themes in his poetry and letters, from his obsession with death to comparisons with Shakespeare. The book highlights the myriad shades of meaning in Ghalib’s vision of life—one that details life in all its horror and glory.

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.

Generic Instability and Identity in the Contemporary Novel

Edited By: Madelena Gonzalez

£39.99

The barriers between genres have broken down, posing the question of what constitutes a novel today. This collection of essays examines generic instability and narrative impostures, demonstrating that this instability is the contemporary novel’s identity.