Literature – Page 3 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Into the Mainstream

Essays on Spanish American and Latino Literature and Culture

Edited By: Jorge Febles

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This eclectic collection of essays on Spanish American and Latino culture espouses an inclusive approach. Established and developing voices blend high and low realms to reflect on a kaleidoscopic textuality and bring provocative subjects into the academic mainstream.

Narrating our Healing

Perspectives on Working through Trauma

By: Chris N van der Merwe

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This book explores narrative as a way of working through trauma. It offers illuminating perspectives on “narrating our healing”: the re-creating of life narratives shattered by trauma and the search for meaning when all meaning seems to have been lost.

Patois and Linguistic Pastiche in Modern Literature

Edited By: Giovanna Summerfield

£29.99

In an era of standardization, dialect and patois are marks of identity. No in-depth treatment has been offered as to the causes and consequences of language mixing from both linguistic and literary views. This book aims to fill this lack of analysis.

Land and Landscape in Francographic Literature

Remapping Uncertain Territories

Edited By: Magali Compan, Katarzyna Pieprzak

£29.99

As globalization displaces bodies, landscape becomes a potent source for identity. This collection examines how contemporary French literature re-maps post-colonial worlds, exploring dispossession, resistance, and re-appropriation in a constructed literary space.

Muses and Measures

Empirical Research Methods for the Humanities

By: Frank Hakemulder, Willie van Peer, Sonia Zyngier

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This book is required reading for humanistic disciplines. Too often, scholars present theories without knowing how to test them empirically. In an engaging way, the authors teach statistics, leading students through projects to analyze their own gathered data.

Fictional Realities / Real Fictions. Contemporary Theatre in Search of a New Mimetic Paradigm

Edited By: Mateusz Borowski, Malgorzata Sugiera

£34.99

This collection tackles the problem of fictionality and reality in contemporary theatre. It analyzes how phenomena like new media and post-dramatic forms challenge the basic dichotomy between the fictional and the real on which Western theatre is based.

Post/modern Dracula

From Victorian Themes to Postmodern Praxis

Edited By: John S. Bak

£29.99

This collection explores the postmodern in Bram Stoker’s Victorian novel and the Victorian in Francis Ford Coppola’s film, demonstrating how the century separating them binds more than it divides. These essays reveal why Dracula remains forever post/modern.

Children’s Literature and Culture

Edited By: Harry Eiss

£34.99

This collection of scholarship offers an eclectic overview of youth culture. Essays explore unusual minds that question human existence, the evolution of board and video games, magic in fantasy fiction, and consumerism in popular teen book series.

The X-Files and Literature

Unweaving the Story, Unraveling the Lie to Find the Truth

Edited By: Sharon R. Yang

£39.99

This collection explores The X-Files’ rich adaptation of literature to find the truth. It unveils connections to Gothic writers and delves into unexpected sources like the Arthurian quest, making you a smarter, better reader of this landmark series.

Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora

Jung Chang, Xinran, Hong Ying, Anchee Min, Adeline Yen Mah

By: Amy Tak-yee Lai

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Chinese Women Writers in Diaspora is a pioneering study of four writers whose popular and controversial works have received little scholarly attention: Xinran, Hong Ying, Anchee Min, and Adeline Yen Mah.

John Bull’s Italian Snakes and Ladders

English Attitudes to Italy in the mid-nineteenth Century

By: Annemarie McAllister

£34.99

This book examines how mid-19th century England used representations of Italians—from despised organ grinders to glamorous opera stars—to construct its own sense of 'Englishness', class, and masculinity.

This book examines how mid-19th century England used representations of Italians—from despised organ grinders to glamorous opera stars—to construct its own sense of ‘Englishness’, class, and masculinity.

Tove Jansson Rediscovered

Edited By: Malin Lidström Brock, Kate McLoughlin

£39.99

Best known as the creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson was also a novelist, painter, and cartoonist. This collection of essays by leading scholars discusses her children's fiction alongside her adult writing and visual art, revealing an extraordinary artist.

Best known as the creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson was also a novelist, painter, and cartoonist. This collection of essays by leading scholars discusses her children’s fiction alongside her adult writing and visual art, revealing an extraordinary artist.

Ruskin in Perspective

Contemporary Essays

Edited By: Carmen Casaliggi, Paul March-Russell

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This vibrant collection of illustrated essays draws John Ruskin’s ideas together around perspective. Offering a new interdisciplinary approach, it examines his legacy and shows how Ruskin can still teach us to read and see.

“Toubab La!” Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora

By: Ginette Curry

£39.99

This study examines mixed-race characters in literature from the African diaspora across the US, Caribbean, Europe, and Africa. It analyzes the different ways multiracial characters look at the world, how the world looks at them, and their constant search for identity.

Celebrations and Connections in Hispanic Literature

Edited By: Andrea Morris, Margaret Parker

£34.99

This collection of essays on Hispanic literature connects texts, contexts, and genres. Authors offer innovative approaches to the Hispanic world, challenging traditional assumptions about identity, race, and gender while exploring the experience of those on the margin.

Through Other Eyes

The Translation of Anglophone Literature in Europe

Edited By: Sophie Alatorre, Richard Trim

£29.99

This volume investigates how English literary works have been translated and disseminated in Europe since the Renaissance. It explores translators’ intentions, faithfulness to the source text, and why translations are often portrayed in a different light to the original.

Romanticism and Parenting

Image, Instruction and Ideology

Edited By: Carolyn Weber

£29.99

How do parents encode and decode our world? Romantic writers explored what it meant to “parent” in the domestic and political sphere. This collection reveals how the Romantic period has come to profoundly influence our own current constructions of the politics of parenting.

Catalogues of Proper Names in Latin Epic Poetry

Lucretius - Virgil - Ovid

By: Stratis Kyriakidis

£34.99

This book explores the poetic catalogue from Homer to Ovid. It examines how internal structural patterns and external framing devices evolved, contrasting Virgil’s supportive function with Lucretius’s subversion and Ovid’s sophisticated innovations.

With Poetry and Philosophy

Four Dialogic Studies—Wordsworth, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy

By: David Miller

£29.99

This book explores the dialogue between poetry and philosophy, from Kant and Wordsworth to Adorno and Hardy. Outlining a new ‘dialogic’ approach, it produces considerations on language and thought that are unexpected, yet strangely fitting.

Maurice Magnus

A Biography

By: Louise E. Wright

£34.99

D. H. Lawrence called him a scoundrel, but Maurice Magnus was a fascinating and tragic figure. This first full-length biography uses unpublished letters to reveal the expatriate American writer's life, from his youth in New York to his final days in Malta.

D. H. Lawrence called him a scoundrel, but Maurice Magnus was a fascinating and tragic figure. This first full-length biography uses unpublished letters to reveal the expatriate American writer’s life, from his youth in New York to his final days in Malta.