Literature – Page 37 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

The Snare in the Constitution

Defoe and Swift on Liberty

By: Zouheir Jamoussi

£49.99

This comparative study of Defoe and Swift explores their treatments of liberty. It examines the relationship between “snare” and “liberty” through the analogy of the political and human constitutions in their fictional and non-fictional works.

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.

Exile and the Narrative/Poetic Imagination

Edited By: Agnieszka Gutthy

£39.99

This collection of essays examines poetic and narrative responses to exile. It features works from rarely studied parts of the world, including Armenia, Egypt, and Tibet, exploring feelings of loss, memories of trauma, and the search for identity.

Seventy Moral (and Immoral) Polarities of the Everyday Volume II

By: Frederic Will

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Will explores polarities through a set of seventy mini-meditations on opposite states of moral and emotional life. He studies the operational energy at play, which is partly prayer or mantra and partly half-completed logical conundrum.

The Modernist Impulse and a Contemporary Opus

Replaced by Writing

By: Frederic Will

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This volume represents a study in the formation of a personal literary opus, and in theoretical reflections involved in understanding that opus. The opus is addressed by pieces of individual text and by a close pursuit of how the author is transformed into those pieces of text.

Fractures and Disruptions in Children’s Literature

Edited By: Maria Teresa Cortez, Sandie Mourão, Ana Margarida Ramos

£64.99

This conference proceedings provides a starting point for understanding the issues of fracture and disruption within children’s and young adult literature. It includes chapters on violence, war, sexuality and politics, and hybrid literary forms as well as the issue of audience.

Joyce in Progress

Proceedings of the 2008 James Joyce Graduate Conference in Rome

Edited By: John McCourt, Franca Ruggieri

£39.99

A testament to the enduring fascination of Joyce's writings, this volume offers ground-breaking, multi-disciplinary readings. These essays look at Joyce from a variety of angles and connect his work with contemporary writers, rivals, and successors.

A testament to the enduring fascination of Joyce’s writings, this volume offers ground-breaking, multi-disciplinary readings. These essays look at Joyce from a variety of angles and connect his work with contemporary writers, rivals, and successors.

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.

The Agony of France

By: Andrew Sangster

£62.99

Adopting a sympathetic attitude towards the French plight during German occupation in the 1940s, Sangster examines the nature of de Gaulle’s myth-building, demonstrating that historical mythology is part of every country’s history when seeking its own redemption from the past.

The Soul in the Axiosphere from an Intercultural Perspective, Volume One

Edited By: Joanna Jurewicz, Ewa Masłowska, Dorota Pazio-Wlazłowska

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These essays offer a multifaceted discourse on the soul. Using a multicultural approach, they explore fundamental themes of human existence, revealing universal values in cultures distant in time and space through religious, philosophical, and historical debates.

Developments in German Industrial Relations

Edited By: Gerd Grözinger, Wenzel Matiaske

£47.99

This book reviews twenty years of research in German industrial relations. It analyzes changes in the German model and its major institutions, namely trade unions and co-determination, and discusses contributions from disciplines like HRM, economics, and labour law.

The Reptant Eagle

Essays on Carlos Fuentes and the Art of the Novel

Edited By: Roberto Cantú

£52.99

Carlos Fuentes was a leading voice in Latin America’s Boom generation. The Reptant Eagle collects essays by renowned scholars that offer innovative readings of his major works and trace his contribution to the uninterrupted tradition of the art of the novel.

Persona and Paradox

Issues of Identity for C.S. Lewis, his Friends and Associates

Edited By: Suzanne Bray

£39.99

This collection of essays examines the life and work of C.S. Lewis and his associates through the theme of identity. Scholars explore gender, family, and national identity in the writings of Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy L. Sayers, and others.

Shifting the Compass

Pluricontinental Connections in Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature

Edited By: Jeroen Dewulf, Michiel van Kempen, Olf Praamstra

£44.99

The study of Dutch colonial literature has traditionally focused on the motherland, ignoring the global network. This collection of articles shifts the compass of analysis to present new perspectives on the pluricontinental contacts within this vast network.

Shakespeare and Tyranny

Regimes of Reading in Europe and Beyond

Edited By: Keith Gregor

£47.99

This book shows Shakespeare as an unwitting commentator on unsettling political events. Essays explore how his plays have been used to reflect, legitimize, or challenge authoritarian rule in Europe, North Africa, South America, and beyond.

After Satan

Essays in Honour of Neil Forsyth

Edited By: Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Kirsten Stirling

£39.99

In tribute to Neil Forsyth, these essays trace the lineage of the Satan figure through literary history. They chart the demonised other from biblical history and Milton to the contemporary novel, showing how evil functions as a necessary other.

Essays in Defence of the Female Sex

Custom, Education and Authority in Seventeenth-Century England

By: Manuela D’Amore, Michèle Lardy

£49.99

This volume explores the pivotal figures and contradictions of the *querelle des femmes* in Stuart England. Through an analysis of early feminist pamphlets, it sheds light on women’s difficult path towards emancipation and a new kind of thought.

Islam and the West

A Love Story?

Edited By: Sadia Zulfiqar

£47.99

Challenging common depictions of hostility, this collection locates threads of connection and ‘love’ between Islam and the West. Through media, literature, and cinema, it seeks to prompt meaningful dialogue and construct a healthier relationship.

Death Becomes Her

Cultural Narratives of Femininity and Death in Nineteenth-Century America

Edited By: Elizabeth Dill, Sheri Weinstein

£34.99

From where does our investment in feminine death emerge? These essays analyze women’s deathbed scenes, suicides, murders, and autopsies in American writing, offering fresh insight into the unsettling and highly relevant role of death in feminism.

Literary Secularism

Religion and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Fiction

By: Amardeep Singh

£34.99

Literary Secularism shows how writers like Joyce, Rushdie, and Eliot struggled with religious orthodoxy. Their novels are not anti-religious manifestos, but reflect the continued power of religion, a force that is, in Eliot’s words, “still throbbing” in modern life.