Literature – Page 52 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Crossing Borders in Victorian Travel

Spaces, Nations and Empires

Edited By: Barbara Franchi, Elvan Mutlu

£61.99

This title discusses how, in the Victorian era, space and empire were shaped around the notion of boundaries, by travel narratives and from a variety of methodological and critical perspectives. It assesses a broad range of canonical and lesser-studied Victorian travel texts.

Greek Dystopia in British Women Travellers’ Discourse

By: Dimitrios Kassis

£58.99

Kassis discusses British women travellers’ perceptions of Greece and the Orient from the late-eighteenth century until the late-Victorian era, exploring them in relation to the context that fuelled the conceptualisation of Greece as perilous to the British imperialist agenda.

Shamanic Elements in the Poetry of Ted Hughes

By: Ewa Panecka

£58.99

Panecka interprets the poetry of Ted Hughes as a product of shamanic performance, the work of a mystic and a healer. She shows that the Poet Laureate claimed that England had lost her soul, which he proposed to retrieve through veneration of Nature.

Writings on Caribbean History, Literature, Art and Culture

One Love

Edited By: Irline François

£58.99

This book discusses the ways in which Caribbean writers, artists and literary scholars explore in their narratives a historical process embedded in the violence seared in their pasts and their present, drawing attention to the way history shapes their memories.

The Orpheus Myth in Milton’s “L’Allegro”, “Il Penseroso”, and “Lycidas”

A Peircean Reading

By: Luiz Fernando Ferreira Sá

£58.99

This study uncovers the Orpheus myth as the key to Milton's early poems, triggering their opposing voices and framing the profound journey from innocence to enlightenment.

This study uncovers the Orpheus myth as the key to Milton’s early poems, triggering their opposing voices and framing the profound journey from innocence to enlightenment.

Transgressive Romanticism

Edited By: Larry H. Peer

£61.99

This edited text, gathering established scholars and newer academic voices, offers fresh perspectives on what Romanticism thought itself to be by suggesting spaces in Romanticism studies needing negotiation and elaboration.

A Portrait of the Lady in Modern American Literature

Poor Little Rich Girl

Edited By: Aimee Pozorski

£61.99

This collection of fifteen original essays and a reprint of a classic essay reconsiders the figure of the woman in distress in canonical American texts. In taking up the question “What does a woman want?” it finds answers in artistic endeavour, political agency, and independence.

Swinburne’s The Statue of John Brute

By: Fabio Ciambella

£58.99

Ciambella provides an absolutely original analysis of the relatively The Statue of John Brute by Swinburne, acknowledging its paramount importance as Oscar Wilde's source for his well-known The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Ciambella provides an absolutely original analysis of the relatively The Statue of John Brute by Swinburne, acknowledging its paramount importance as Oscar Wilde’s source for his well-known The Picture of Dorian Gray.

The Italian Short Story through the Centuries

The Met(A)morphoses of the Novella

Edited By: Roberto Nicosia

£61.99

This collection of essays gathers together Italian and American scholars to provide a cooperative analysis of the Italian short story, beginning in the fourteenth century with Giovanni Boccaccio and arriving at the twentieth century with Alberto Moravia and Anna Maria Ortese.

Translating Ethiopia

Travel Writing, Explorations, Colonization

Edited By: Renato Tomei

£58.99

As a result of the cultural turn in translation studies and geography, Tomei adopts a comparative and diachronic perspective on colonial and postcolonial descriptions of space and place in Ethiopia, examining variations in intertextual citation and re-writing.

Echoing Voices in Italian Literature

Tradition and Translation in the 20th Century

Edited By: Teresa Franco, Cecilia Piantanida

£64.99

This anthology explores the reception of classics and translation from modern languages as two different, yet synergic, ways of engaging with literary canons and established traditions in 20th-century Italy.

(Post)Colonial Passages

Incursions and Excursions across the Literatures and Cultures in English

Edited By: Silvia Albertazzi, Francesco Cattani, Rita Monticelli, Federica Zullo

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The essays gathered here discuss postcolonialism as a transdisciplinary field of passages that negotiate among diverse, yet interrelated, cultural fields.

Helen Craik, Adelaide de Narbonne, with Memoirs of Charlotte de Cordet

Edited By: Marianna D’Ezio

£70.99

A unique hybrid of historical Gothic, this novel is set amid the sanguinary events of post-revolutionary France. It follows Countess Adelaide de Narbonne’s rebellion against male authority, connecting her story with that of Charlotte Corday, Marat’s murderer.

Writers’ Biographies and Family Histories in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature

Edited By: Lucie Guiheneuf, Aude Haffen

£58.99

This volume includes ten essays on American, British and Canadian writers’ biographies and family histories, ranging from Woolf’s Orlando (1928) to Zanganeh’s The Enchanter (2011), analysing the connection between biography and fiction in the light of postmodernism.

Critiquing the Postcolonial Construct in Chinua Achebe’s Novels

By: Ranjana Das Sarkhel

£58.99

Das Sarkhel explores how Achebe’s novels articulate his knowledge of his own people and the manner in which he participates in the politics of representation, showing that he critiques the postcolonial methodology, and provides an alternative narrative of such an experience.

Uncovering Caledonia

An Introduction to Scottish Studies

By: Milena Kaličanin

£61.99

Uncover the burning cultural issues of modern Scotland from a non-native point of view. This book offers insight through the analysis of Scottish folk tales, legends, literature, and film, appealing to both scholars and the general reader.

Railway Discourse

Linguistic and Stylistic Representations of the Train in the Anglophone World

By: Esterino Adami

£58.99

Adami considers the train trope in a variety of cultural, literary and linguistic contexts, from contemporary crime fiction and dystopian graphic narratives to postcolonial railway travelogues, by employing a range of methods and frameworks.

You Girls Stay Here

Gender Roles in Popular British Children’s Adventure Fiction, 1930-70

By: Elizabeth Poynter

£58.99

Poynter explores a period long considered to be of poor quality as regards children’s books. She discusses a range of themes, such as female agency, power and courage, and additionally gives a linguistic analysis of selected texts, while also adopting a socio-cultural approach.

Narrative Strategies in the Reconstruction of History

Edited By: Ana Fernandes

£58.99

This title enquires into the processes by which certain contemporary women pay testimony to history. It examines the reasons why they recreate the past, whether political, social or artistic, and the strategies employed to establish a comparison with the present.

Rural Writing

Geographical Imaginary and Expression of a New Regionality

Edited By: Mauricette Fournier

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This anthology revisits rural areas and their representations in contemporary writing, in both popular and high culture, in order to draw a global landscape of current rural areas and new regionalities.