Literature – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Photography and Literature in the Twentieth Century

Edited By: David Cunningham, Sas Mays, Andrew Fisher

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This accessible collection offers a fresh approach to photography and literature. Essays by acknowledged experts consider both key literary figures, from Proust to Sebald, and photographic practitioners to give a commanding, ground-breaking overview of the subject.

Literary Readings of Billy Wilder

Edited By: Georges-Claude Guilbert

£39.99

Filmmaker Billy Wilder considered himself a writer. This book offers academic yet accessible literary readings of nine of his most significant films, informed by literary criticism, Gender Studies, and Film Studies. For film students, English students and Wilder fans alike.

Westerns

Paperback Novels and Movies from Hollywood

Edited By: Paul S. Varner

£34.99

Popular Westerns powerfully impacted U.S. and European culture. Collected here are new studies of classic films by John Ford and Clint Eastwood, as well as new studies of seldom-studied writers such as Charles Portis and Oakley Hall.

The Shattered Mirror

Irish Literature and Film,1990-2005

By: Paula Murphy

£29.99

This book is a response to changing representations of Irish identity during the 'Celtic Tiger' (1990-2005). Through literature and film, it interrogates widespread social change—from prosperity to multiculturalism—arguing that Irish identity changed radically.

This book is a response to changing representations of Irish identity during the ‘Celtic Tiger’ (1990-2005). Through literature and film, it interrogates widespread social change—from prosperity to multiculturalism—arguing that Irish identity changed radically.

Selfhood on the Early Modern English Stage

Edited By: Pauline Blanc

£34.99

These essays analyse the influences that shaped fictional selves on the early modern English stage. Specialists discuss plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Jonson, revealing the stage self as a site of rich historical and discursive forces beyond the theatre.

Ossi Wessi

Edited By: Donald Backman, Aida Sakalauskaite

£34.99

This collection explores the Berlin Wall in language, literature, and visual media. Essays discuss its portrayal as a dividing and uniting boundary, its continued existence in the minds of Germans, and how controversial the division of Germany remains.

The Idea of the City

Early-Modern, Modern and Post-Modern Locations and Communities

Edited By: Joan Fitzpatrick

£39.99

An important and timely work with depth and breadth. International scholars explore the city in literature, history, and film from the medieval period to the present. With a truly global focus, this is a fascinating snapshot of literary urban studies.

Longing, Weakness and Temptation

From Myth to Artistic Creations

By: Irena Avsenik Nabergoj, Jason Blake

£44.99

This book explores the universal themes of longing, weakness, and temptation by comparing literary works influenced by biblical and classic texts. It shows how the source text speaks through the new work and how the new work forces new meanings from the source.

Aesthetics and Radical Politics

Edited By: Gavin Grindon

£24.99

These essays engage with the connection between aesthetics and radical politics. Moving beyond Marxist approaches, they explore culture from other radical positions—anarchist, autonomist, and ecological—revealing an exhilarating break with earlier cultural critique.

John Guare’s Theatre

The Art of Connecting

By: Robert J. Andreach

£34.99

John Guare’s aesthetic principle: a play must be grounded in reality; only then can it soar. This study explores his dramas, which soar by interrupting action, mixing genres, and taking hairpin turns to explore the American heritage and Dream.

Visions of the Irish Dream

Edited By: Marguerite Quintelli-Neary

£39.99

These essays examine the elusive dream of the Irish and Irish Americans. From 19th-century emigrants to contemporary artists, this study explores the conflicted visions of a people striving to come to terms with what it means to be Irish.

“Celebrating Confusion”

The Theatre of Frank McGuinness

By: Kenneth Nally

£44.99

This study explores the challenging work of Frank McGuinness. Combining cultural, political, and theatrical analysis, it charts his development and makes the case for him as the most significant Irish playwright of his generation.

Images of the City

Edited By: Agnieszka Rasmus, Magdalena Cieslak

£44.99

Images of the City takes readers on a journey through urban landscapes across centuries and borders. These essays offer a truly interdisciplinary perspective on the city, providing essential reading for cityphiles everywhere.

From Word to Canvas

Appropriations of Myth in Women’s Aesthetic Production

Edited By: V.G. Julie Rajan

£34.99

This innovative collection of essays examines how women artists and writers use myth to explore feminine identity. Spanning literature, performance, and visual art, these global contributions reveal a powerful “feminine gaze” that gives myths new force.

The Public’s Open to Us All

Essays on Women and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England

Edited By: Laura Engel

£44.99

These essays explore how women in 18th-century England used performance to negotiate the public world. As the first actresses, playwrights, and entrepreneurs emerged, they redefined femininity, challenged traditional roles, and shaped cultural imagination.

The Apothecary’s Chest

Magic, Art and Medication

Edited By: Fabienne Collignon, Konstantina Georganta, Anne-Marie Millim

£34.99

This collection of essays explores the intertwined notions of magic, science, and superstition in figures like the apothecary, alchemist, and shaman. Topics range from the mystical traits of mundane materials to the origins of the occult and the modern poet.

Pinter Et Cetera

Edited By: Craig N. Owens

£39.99

PINTER ET CETERA collects essays arguing that Harold Pinter was not merely a unique writer, but an artist influencing and influenced by painters, filmmakers, and poets. This bold volume expands our understanding of Pinter's importance beyond the absurdist stage.

Talking Drama

Edited By: Judith Roof

£34.99

What is the relation between drama and its critics? Drama is itself a critical genre, showing up the problems of human existence. Plays critique society and themselves, while also spurring critique from the audiences and reviewers who are intrinsic to theatre.

“And that’s true too”

New Essays on King Lear

Edited By: Pierre Iselin, François Laroque

£39.99

Provocative new essays re-examine King Lear through the lens of early modern desire, sexuality, and gender, offering fresh philosophical and aesthetic insights into Shakespeare's elusive and powerful tragedy.

Crossings

David Mamet’s Work in Different Genres and Media

Edited By: Johan Callens

£39.99

International scholars assess David Mamet's career, from his stage classics to his forays into film, television, and the novel. This volume focuses on his diverse works and how they have been interpreted by other artists.

International scholars assess David Mamet’s career, from his stage classics to his forays into film, television, and the novel. This volume focuses on his diverse works and how they have been interpreted by other artists.