Literature – Page 2 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Twenty-First-Century Gothic

Edited By: Brigid Cherry, Peter Howell, Caroline Ruddell

£34.99

These essays reinterpret the Gothic inheritance from a 21st-century perspective, a mode uniquely applicable to the frightening instability of our world. This collection explores Gothic’s contemporaneity through horror novels, cinema, poetry, music, and fan cultures.

Feminism and the Body

Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Edited By: Catherine Kevin

£39.99

Feminist scholars grapple with the interplay between corporeal differences and power. This collection takes the reader on a journey into myriad domains, from medical surgery and law to feminist film, reinvigorating feminism's emphatic engagement with the body.

Serial Authorship and New Directions in Spanish Female Detective Fiction

Edited By: Inmaculada Pertusa-Seva, Melissa A. Stewart

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This collection of essays offers new perspectives on female authors of Spanish crime fiction. The studies analyze how their versatile narratives explore gender, sexuality, and social issues while reformulating the crime genre—and sometimes departing from it entirely.

Mother-Texts

Narratives and Counter-Narratives

Edited By: Julie Kelso, Marie Porter

£44.99

Patriarchy has worked to silence women’s dialogue, creating unrepresentative maternal narratives. This book’s valuable research gives recognition to mothers as they speak up, developing a literature in their own language and claiming maternal knowledge and power.

Masculinities in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century French and Francophone Literature

Edited By: Edith Biegler Vandervoort

£44.99

As men and women question gender roles, this book examines masculine expression across Europe, Africa, and the Americas. In this collection, authors write about men’s challenges, friendships, and outcasts to foster understanding and tolerance of all sexualities.

The Boom Femenino in Mexico

Reading Contemporary Women’s Writing

Edited By: Nuala Finnegan, Jane E. Lavery

£44.99

This collection of essays explores the "boom femenino," the surge of women's writing in Mexico over the last three decades. International scholars investigate the term's cultural significance and how these authors challenged a traditionally male literary arena.

This collection of essays explores the “boom femenino,” the surge of women’s writing in Mexico over the last three decades. International scholars investigate the term’s cultural significance and how these authors challenged a traditionally male literary arena.

Patrick White Centenary

The Legacy of a Prodigal Son

Edited By: Bill Ashcroft, Cynthia vanden Driesen

£57.99

Marking the centenary of Nobel laureate Patrick White, this volume offers invaluable insight into his work. An international galaxy of eminent critics and new talents provide fresh perspectives, highlighting his legacy and stature as a public intellectual.

Spanish and Latin American Women’s Crime Fiction in the New Millennium

From Noir to Gris

Edited By: Nancy Vosburg

£58.99

This volume highlights the shift in focus in crime fiction written by women in Spain and Latin America since the late 1980s to transgressions often overlooked by their male counterparts, such as rape and sexual battery, and domestic violence.

South Asian Women’s Narratives

Literatures of Their Own

Edited By: Somjeeta Pandey, Bidhu Chand Murmu

From £33.99

This collection explores works by South Asian women authors, discussing themes of gender, identity, diaspora, trauma, and the new ‘self.’ Their writings critically engage with social discrimination, empowerment, and the political issues of their times.

Francophone Women Coming of Age

Memoirs of Childhood and Adolescence from France, Africa, Quebec and the Caribbean

Edited By: Debra Popkin

£29.99

These essays explore growing up female in male-dominated Francophone cultures. Spanning Africa, Europe, and North America, the works analyze conflicts of culture and family, sharing a common search for identity and liberation through writing.

Indigenous Perspectives of North America

A Collection of Studies

Edited By: Judit Nagy, Enikő Sepsi, Miklós Vassányi

£59.99

Exploring contemporary Native reality, this volume unites researchers from diverse disciplines under the theme ‘Indigenous perspectives.’ Articles on human rights, law, and culture offer a platform for critical investigation and classroom discussion.

Queering Women’s and Gender Studies

Edited By: Begoña Crespo, Isabel Moskowich

£52.99

This text brings together approaches to, and perspectives on, English, Spanish, and Galician language, literature, and culture from the fields of women’s, gender, and queer studies. It adopts an inclusive attitude to the so-called “others” present in these fields.

Feminist Themes in Sevim Burak and Ursula K. Le Guin’s Worlds

From "Boxes" to "Cages"

By: Sultan Komut Bakınç

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Sevim Burak used unconventional writing for realistic worlds; Ursula K. Le Guin used traditional writing for unusual ones. This study shows how both authors explored similar feminist themes and aimed to destroy phallogocentric language in different ways.

Men in Color

Racialized Masculinities in U.S. Literature and Cinema

Edited By: Josep M. Armengol

£34.99

This collection analyzes ethnic masculinities—including African American, Asian American, Chicano, and white—in U.S. literature and cinema. It explores the intersection of gender and race, highlighting both the differences and recurring stereotypes among them.

Fatherhood in Contemporary Discourse

Focus on Fathers

Edited By: Anna Pilińska

£61.99

This text offers various perspectives on contemporary fatherhood: from analyses of literature and popular culture to issues tackled by psychology and social sciences. It provides detailed insight into current research on both real-life and fictional realizations of fatherhood.

New Women’s Writing

Contextualising Fiction, Poetry and Philosophy

Edited By: Subashish Bhattacharjee, Girindra Narayan Ray

£61.99

The uptake of women’s writing as a distinct literary genre since the 1960s has been multifarious, and has fuelled a generation of literary and cultural studies. This anthology addresses this legacy and reflects on how a critical history of women’s writing may be created.

Nostalgia or Perversion? Gothic Rewriting from the Eighteenth Century until the Present Day

Edited By: Isabella van Elferen

£34.99

The Gothic rewrites the past through nostalgia and perversion. This collection examines how novels, films, and music use this transgressive drive to break down boundaries between past and present, norm and deviation, and other and self.

Passage to Manhattan

Critical Essays on Meena Alexander

Edited By: Lopamudra Basu, Cynthia Leenerts

£39.99

This is the first collection of essays on Meena Alexander, one of the most influential contemporary South Asian American writers. Scholars analyze her poetry, memoirs, and fiction, examining her contribution to postcolonial and US multicultural studies.

The Demeter-Persephone Myth as Writing Ritual in the Lives of Literary Women

By: Jana Rivers Norton

£52.99

Norton explores the life stories of several female authors, who mirrored Demeter/Persephone’s mythic journey from abduction and rage to reconciliation. She contextualizes trauma as lived experience, to show how writing as ritual may help transform mental and emotional debility.

Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions

Edited By: Jan van der Putten, Edwin P. Wieringa

£64.99

This book explores important developments in contemporary Indonesian cultural productions. The first part reflects on the traumatic 1965 coup and its place in collective memory. The second part explores how globalisation impacts local religion, urban development, and traditions.