Literature – Page 8 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Legacies of Orientalism and Slavery in European Intellectual and Literary History

By: John Docker

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This exercise in ethical criticism regards cultural texts as friends for conversation. It explores female agency, colonialism, and slavery through figures from Joan of Arc to Princess Diana and texts from The Thousand and One Nights to a radical re-reading of Middlemarch.

Interwar Women’s Comic Fiction

‘Have Women a Sense of Humour?’

Edited By: Nicola Darwood, Nick Turner

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This collection of essays examines overlooked women novelists of the interwar period. The essays discuss how they used comic structures to critique the dominant patriarchal structures of their time, offering alternative, subversive views of the world.

Alexandre Dumas as a French Symbol since 1870

All for One and One for All in a Global France

Edited By: Eric Martone

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The mixed-race author of *The Three Musketeers*, Alexandre Dumas has long been a controversial symbol in France. This collection explores how his legacy became a battleground for a nation grappling with its colonial past, diversity, and its own identity.

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, 1818-2018

Edited By: Maria Parrino, Alessandro Scarsella, Michela Vanon Alliata

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This collection of essays by international scholars provides new pathways through Frankenstein. Chapters explore the iconic novel’s themes, cultural context, and its numerous afterlives in film, games, and more, stimulating a new appreciation for the classic.

Deaf Characters in Literature

By: Paul Dakin

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The most comprehensive review of deaf characters in literature available. Examining 300 years of examples in novels, comics, and film, this work identifies key trends through the lens of deaf education, the use of sign language, and the rise of deaf identity and communities.

Malaysian Literature in English

A Critical Companion

Edited By: Mohammad A. Quayum

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This collection of essays by acclaimed international critics investigates major writers of Malaysian literature in English. It explores key thematic trends—including gender, ethnicity, and nationalism—and the unique challenges of writing in a postcolonial nation.

New Interpretations of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Go Set a Watchman

Edited By: Amy Mohr, Mark Olival-Bartley

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The contributions on Lee’s work here include new interpretations from diverse critical angles, including US literary and cultural history, Southern studies, sociological theory, gender studies, stylistic analysis, translation, and pedagogy.

Shakespeare, Christianity and Italian Paganism

By: Eric Harber

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This book explores how Shakespeare used pagan mythology to reframe the Christian conflicts of his day. It offers a powerful new reading of The Winter’s Tale, one of his most spiritually rich and emotionally demanding plays.

Coleridge and Hinduism

The Unstruck Sound

By: Antonella Riem Natale

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The only comprehensive study of Coleridge's profound ties to Oriental Tales, revealing how Hindu works, especially the Bhagavadgītā, shaped his poetic imagination and his quest for the “One life.”

The only comprehensive study of Coleridge’s profound ties to Oriental Tales, revealing how Hindu works, especially the Bhagavadgītā, shaped his poetic imagination and his quest for the “One life.”

Margaret Atwood and Social Justice

A Writer's Evolving Ideology

By: Theodore F. Sheckels

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Margaret Atwood is a writer, not an ideologue. This book traces the evolution of her social justice concerns through her major fiction—from women's rights and environmentalism to critiques of corporate oppression, right-wing governments, and racial injustice.

Margaret Atwood is a writer, not an ideologue. This book traces the evolution of her social justice concerns through her major fiction—from women’s rights and environmentalism to critiques of corporate oppression, right-wing governments, and racial injustice.

Implied Irony in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

To Be Mistress of Pemberley!

By: Jessica Migliorelli

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This book presents a new approach to irony in free indirect discourse (FID) through an analytical reading of Pride and Prejudice. It argues that a multistage theory best explains how irony is generated, making this essential reading for scholars of narrative technique.

Tributes to Derek Walcott, 1930-2017

In Various Light

Edited By: Helen Goethals, Eric Doumerc

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This book brings together essays, memoirs, and creative work on Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. Renowned poets, critics, and artists lay bare their relationship with the larger-than-life figure, casting ‘various light’ on his by-no-means unproblematic legacy.

Deconstructing the Model in 20th and 21st-Century Italian Experimental Writings

Edited By: Beppe Cavatorta

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This volume explores 20th- and 21st-century Italian experimental works that challenge the literary canon. It proposes that literary experimentation can break with tradition, giving literature the same freedom as other arts and allowing it to intersect with those art forms.

The Paris Residences of James Joyce

By: Martina Nicolls

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A narrative and photographic journey of the 18 hotels and apartments where James Joyce lived in 1920s-30s Paris. Arriving to finish Ulysses, he stayed for 20 years. This guide provides new insights into his life, based on the changing locations of his residences.

Moving from the Known to the Unknown in Academic Writing

By: Verbra Frances Pfeiffer

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This is the first book to apply expressive writing to L2 academic writing. Its techniques are particularly helpful for L2 students who have difficulty expressing themselves in English. The book will appeal to lecturers, linguists, psychologists, and teachers.

The Fairy-Tale Vanguard

Literary Self-Consciousness in a Marvelous Genre

Edited By: Stijn Praet

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The fairy tale has long been a laboratory for authors to experiment with literary boundaries. This essay collection adopts a historical approach, offering case studies on English, French, German, and other texts from the 17th to 21st century by authors like Andersen and Coover.

The Interconnections between Victorian Writers, Artists and Places

Edited By: Kumiko Tanabe

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This volume explores the connections between literary figures, artists, and locations of the Victorian era. It covers writers and painters like Charles Dickens and D. G. Rossetti, addresses transatlantic links, and includes influential figures from other periods.

Gendered Ways of Transnational Un-Belonging from a Comparative Literature Perspective

Edited By: Indrani Mukherjee, Java Singh

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Containing commentaries on contemporary representations of gender and identity, the contributions here encompass readings of cinema, advertisements and literary texts and are pertinent for scholars in media studies, cultural studies, gender studies, sociology and literature.

The Poetry of Gregory of Nazianzus

Discovering a New Face of His Personality

By: Theodor Damian

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Gregory of Nazianzus was a famous 4th-century theologian, but he was also a celebrated poet. This book discovers the poet, not the theologian, revealing the all-too-human aspects of his personality and bringing to light new characteristics of his life and thought.

Fiction and ‘The Woman Question’ from 1850 to 1930

Edited By: W. R. Owens, Alexis Weedon, Nicola Darwood

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This book explores how fiction from 1850-1930 shaped perceptions of women’s roles. From suffrage to sexual desire, these essays examine how literature tackled ‘The Woman Question’ through female characters who sought to defy social constraints in ways still relevant today.