Literature – Page 9 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Jesuit Education and The Classics

Edited By: Shannon Byrne, Edmund P. Cueva

£39.99

Is Classics still relevant to a Jesuit education? This series of essays proves that Classics and Jesuit education are indivisibly intertwined, and any Jesuit school embracing liberal arts must have Classics at the core of its curriculum.

Post-National Enquiries

Essays on Ethnic and Racial Border Crossings

Edited By: Jopi Nyman

£39.99

These studies address cultural narratives of border crossings in Europe and the United States. The essays show how the migrant challenges the view that people belong to one nation-state, exploring race, whiteness, and ethnic identity in fiction and cinema.

The Gothic Byron

Edited By: Peter Cochran

£39.99

The Gothic Byron argues that the Gothic element in Byron’s work has been undervalued. It explores his reading of Gothic novels, the Gothic in his own tales and poetry, and his profound influence on writers like Charlotte and Emily Brontë.

Winterson Narrating Time and Space

Edited By: Mine Özyurt Kılıç, Margaret J-M Sönmez

£39.99

This is the first book to focus entirely on time, space and narrative in Jeanette Winterson's works. Scholars provide different perspectives, from postmodernism to quantum physics and queer theory, offering fresh approaches to her major fiction.

This is the first book to focus entirely on time, space and narrative in Jeanette Winterson’s works. Scholars provide different perspectives, from postmodernism to quantum physics and queer theory, offering fresh approaches to her major fiction.

Belief, History and the Individual in Modern Chinese Literary Culture

Edited By: Artur K. Wardega

£34.99

Modern Chinese literature raises complex questions about life amid changing values and uncertainty. This volume presents ten essays by Chinese and European scholars examining the individual and society, searching beyond national identities for global exchange.

Messengers of Eros

Representations of Sex in Australian Writing

By: Xavier Pons

£29.99

Messengers of Eros examines the literary strategies Australian writers use to represent sex. This compelling book offers readings of classics and modern writers in Australia's postcolonial context. Nominated as a ‘Best Book of the Year’.

Messengers of Eros examines the literary strategies Australian writers use to represent sex. This compelling book offers readings of classics and modern writers in Australia’s postcolonial context. Nominated as a ‘Best Book of the Year’.

The Short Story

Edited By: Ailsa Cox

£34.99

The short story is undergoing a renaissance. This collection celebrates its unique appeal, as scholars and writers explore its forms, genres, and international authors from James Joyce to Jorge Luis Borges. Integrating theory and practice, it appeals to writers and students.

Sacred and Immoral

On the Writings of Chuck Palahniuk

Edited By: Jeffrey A. Sartain

£39.99

This is the first scholarly anthology on Chuck Palahniuk’s work beyond Fight Club. It provides the most comprehensive resource to date, featuring new critical analyses, the most complete bibliographies, and a new interview with the author himself.

Kathy Acker and Transnationalism

Edited By: Polina Mackay, Kathryn Nicol

£39.99

Kathy Acker’s fictions prefigured our contemporary world. This collection of essays analyzes transnationalism in her work, locating her in current debates on postnationalism and global identity—a timely re-appraisal of an important American writer.

Thirty Years After

New Essays on Vietnam War Literature, Film and Art

Edited By: Mark Heberle

£49.99

The first major collection of Vietnam War criticism since the 1990s, these new essays on literature, film, and art explore the conflict's traumatic cultural legacy and enduring impact. An indispensable work for understanding this crucial period in history.

The first major collection of Vietnam War criticism since the 1990s, these new essays on literature, film, and art explore the conflict’s traumatic cultural legacy and enduring impact. An indispensable work for understanding this crucial period in history.

The Body of the Postmodernist Narrator

Between Violence and Artistry

By: Fatima Festić

£39.99

This book reads postmodern fiction through the bodies of its narrators. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and feminist theory, it explores trauma, murder, and desire, exposing the body as the site of repressed knowledge, resistance, and artistic resolution.

South Asia and its Others

Reading the “Exotic”

Edited By: Atreyee Phukan, V.G. Julie Rajan

£34.99

These essays reveal how writers of South Asian descent use "exoticization" as a strategic tool. They critically examine casteism, religious intolerance, and gender violence, uncovering the ambiguity that continues to mark marginalized identities today.

These essays reveal how writers of South Asian descent use “exoticization” as a strategic tool. They critically examine casteism, religious intolerance, and gender violence, uncovering the ambiguity that continues to mark marginalized identities today.

Transnational England

Home and Abroad, 1780-1860

Edited By: Monika Class, Terry F. Robinson

£39.99

Transnational England sheds light on how England’s encounters with other cultures shaped its identity. Through literature from 1780-1860, these essays reveal how global connections simultaneously fostered and challenged the sovereignty of the English nation.

The Spectacular In and Around Shakespeare

Edited By: Pascale Drouet

£34.99

This volume addresses the economy of the spectacular in Shakespeare’s plays, from early modern England to twenty-first-century adaptations. It asks what is behind the spectacular. Is there a manipulative purpose? How far-reaching are the political and ideological stakes?

Aimer et mourir

Love, Death and Women’s Lives in Texts of French Expression

Edited By: Eilene Hoft-March, Judith Holland Sarnecki

£44.99

These essays address how love and death are linked in women's lives. While male writers associate women's sexuality with death, women writers from Marguerite de Navarre to Amélie Nothomb rework the old formulae, offering love that defies death's frontiers.

These essays address how love and death are linked in women’s lives. While male writers associate women’s sexuality with death, women writers from Marguerite de Navarre to Amélie Nothomb rework the old formulae, offering love that defies death’s frontiers.

Nonsense and Other Senses

Regulated Absurdity in Literature

Edited By: Elisabetta Tarantino with the collaboration of Carlo Caruso

£49.99

This collection of essays offers a gallery of “nonsense practices” in literature across periods and countries. It reveals literary nonsense not as chaos, but as a deliberate, “regulated” attempt to snatch order from the jaws of chaos.

Contours of Privacy

Edited By: David Matheson

£39.99

An international group of contributors explores privacy’s contours in a series of accessible yet rigorous essays. Themes include the psychology of privacy, social accountability, and the concerns of emerging information technologies.

Poland’s Angry Romantic

Two Poems and a Play by Juliusz Słowacki

Edited By: Peter Cochran, Bill Johnston, Mirosława Modrzewska

From £19.99

Juliusz Słowacki is one of Poland’s most important writers, but little known in the West. This much-needed introduction contains his popular play Balladina, his meditative poem Agamemnon’s Tomb, and his hilarious mock-epic Beniowski.

Thomas Hardy and the Comic Muse

By: J. K. Lloyd Jones

£39.99

Thomas Hardy is regarded as a great tragic writer, while the value of his comic works is often ignored. This book examines his novels, short stories, and poetry in terms of farce, humour, satire, and wit, revealing how Hardy and Comedy are mutually illuminating.

Taking a Hard Look

Gender and Visual Culture

Edited By: Amanda du Preez

£39.99

This volume takes a hard look at the creative intersection of gender and visual culture. It explores how visual culture is gendered and questions debilitating role models, creating a dialogue with international theory from a South perspective.