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American literature
American literature American literature A History of African American Autobiography Joycelyn Moody | University of Texas, San Antonio
This book explores innovations in African American autobiography since its inception, examining the literary and cultural history of Black selfrepresentation amid life writing studies. It will be a key resource for graduates and researchers in African American Literary studies, American literature more generally, and specialists in Life Writing. • Analyzes a wide variety of print life writing forms from the sixteenth century to the present day • Covers an unprecedented range of topics of African American autobiography, including, family, identity, growth, fulfilment, racism and white supremacy • Provides two interdisciplinary chapters devoted to Black life writing in the British North American colonies before 1800 432pp 7. 2021 9781108835541 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108890946
A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War Tim Dayton | Kansas State University
The collection explores the various, often conflicting representations of the war offered by US writers, artists, intellectuals, and political figures. This multidisciplinary study, a collaboration of premier scholars, serves readers and students interested in American literature, history, and politics as well as specialists in these subjects. • Presents the latest research on US literature and culture of the First World War by premier scholars • Covers multiple genres and media: poetry, fiction, film, drama, memoir, journalism, music, architecture, and visual art • Reconsiders the longstanding assumption of American disillusionment with the war 466pp 2. 2021 9781108475327 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108615433
A History of the Harlem Renaissance Rachel Farebrother
This book presents original essays that provide comprehensive analysis of the dynamism of Harlem Renaissance literature and culture. An authoritative collection on the major writers and issues of the period, it takes stock of nearly a hundred years of Harlem Renaissance studies. • Provides readers with one of the most comprehensive edited collections on the Harlem Renaissance, with new readings of well-known texts and authors alongside analysis of lesser known topics, authors, and artists • Examines the eclecticism and variety of Harlem Renaissance expression in literature, visual culture, popular culture, music, dance, and politics • Goes beyond well-known genres to explore genre fiction, children’s literature, the roman à clef, the bildungsroman, biography, and the short story
A History of the Literature of the U.S. South Volume 1 Harilaos Stecopoulos
This anthology is intended for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty in the humanities. Rejecting the tendency to understand southern literature as a largely white phenomenon, the book emphasizes the multi-ethnic and transnational aspects of southern literature over a four hundred-year period. • Provides scholars with a collective history of an important regional literature • Includes new perspectives in the field that have emerged • Demonstrates that southern literature is a multi-ethnic literature 466pp 5. 2021 9781108491679 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108666657
A History of the Literature of the U.S. South Volume 1 Harilaos Stecopoulos
This anthology is intended for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty in the humanities. Rejecting the tendency to understand southern literature as a largely white phenomenon, the book emphasizes the multi-ethnic and transnational aspects of southern literature over a four hundred-year period. • Provides scholars with a collective history of an important regional literature • Includes new perspectives in the field that have emerged • Demonstrates that southern literature is a multi-ethnic literature 466pp 5. 2021 9781108491679 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108666657
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Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism Rachel Greenwald Smith | Saint Louis University, Missouri
Rachel Greenwald Smith’s Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism examines the relationship between contemporary American literature and politics. Through readings of works by Paul Auster, Karen Tei Yamashita and others, Smith challenges the neoliberal notion that emotions are the property of the self. • One of the studies of the relationship between literary form and neoliberalism • Offers a new theory of how emotions function in literature • Makes a case for the continued relevance of literary experimentation 192pp 1 table 7. 2021 9781107479227 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 6. 2015 9781107095229 Hardback GBP 92.99 / USD 119.95 eISBN 9781316155035
452pp 2. 2021 9781108493574 Hardback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108656313
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African American Literature in Transition, 1800–1830
African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880
Volume 2 1800–1830 Jasmine Nichole Cobb | Duke University, North Carolina
Black Reconstructions Volume 5 1865–1880 Eric Gardner
This volume considers texts produced by African Americans between 1800 and 1830, under unique constraints. This volume fills a gap in what scholars and students understand about early African American literature, and reframes approaches to the archive and to primary resources of the period. • Employs a thematic approach to African American literature from 1800 to 1830 • Explores African American literature produced in the face of suppression • Addresses the unique restraints on African American writing and expressivity at the beginning of the nineteenth century 366pp 5. 2021 9781108429078 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108632003
African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850 Volume 3 Benjamin Fagan | Auburn University, Alabama
This volume examines the transitions between the years 1830 to 1850. It introduces readers, teachers, and students of African American literature and culture to innovative approaches to material of this period. • Offers innovative approaches to African American literature of the period • Introduces readers to understudied works and authors • Highlights leading and emerging scholars of the field 326pp 5. 2021 9781108422949 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115.00 eISBN 9781108386067
African American Literature in Transition, 1850–1865 Volume 4 1850–1865 Teresa Zackodnik | University of Alberta
This volume reframes mid-century African American literature and challenges our current understanding. A fluid tradition attentive to history, science, politics, economics, space and movement, the visual, and the sonic. Black writing was highly conscious of transnational and international politics, textual circulation, and revolutionary imaginaries • Links the mid-19th century to literary developments that preceded and followed that period. • Frames mid-19th century African American literature in terms of Black personhood and citizenship, genre and circulation, and space and movement. • Explores mid-19th century African American literature and the concerns currently preoccupying African American literary studies. 414pp 5. 2021 9781108427487 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115.00 eISBN 9781108647847
This volume provides the richest study available of African American literature during the years immediately following the Civil War. Studying authors from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and William Wells Brown to Mattie Jackson and William Steward, it both recovers and innovatively studies Black print culture of US Reconstruction. • Provides the richest, most nuanced study of African American literature during Reconstruction available • Showcases cutting-edge work by both established and emerging scholars of African American print culture • Treats both better-known figures like Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and William Wells Brown as well as less-studied authors from Mattie Jackson to William Steward in a framework that emphasizes their connections to broader African American literary history 330pp 5. 2021 9781108427470 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115.00 eISBN 9781108551724
African American Literature in Transition, 1900–1910 Volume 7 Shirley Moody-Turner | Pennsylvania State University
This book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to African American literary history, showcasing the transitions in literary and cultural productions that took shape at the turn into the twentieth century. Its range and scope make it a key resource for scholars, students, and researchers. • Offers a wide-ranging inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the development of African American literature and culture at the beginning of the twentieth century • Structured by 4 key areas: Publishing, Genre, Racial/Gender/Class politics, and Geography • Showcases the fertile work done by black painters, photographers, poets, newspaper editors, boxers, and entertainers to shape ‘New Negro’ identity 378pp 5. 2021 9781108422086 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115.00 eISBN 9781108380669
African American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970 Black Art, Politics, and Aesthetics Volume 13 Shelly Eversley
This book embraces the very notion of African American literature and culture as both the subject and the agent of transition. It interrogates and explains 1960s writers and artists popular embrace of blackness as a source of power, not only as it confronts racism but also as it explores blackness as the source for art and politics. • Provides examples of interdisciplinary cultural analysis • Presents feminism and queer theory as integral to African American cultural studies • Provides a view of art and its necessary relationship to politics 350pp 3. 2022 9781108422932 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108386043
American literature
Asian American Literature in Transition, 1850–1930
Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996–2020
Volume 1 Josephine Lee | University of Minnesota
Volume 4 Betsy Huang | Clark University, Massachusetts
This groundbreaking collection makes the case that Asian North American literary and cultural works produced between 1850 and 1930 are actually vitally important in illuminating the histories and experiences of Asians in the Americas. It will be a key resource for anyone interested in learning about the long durée of Asians in the US and Canada. • Provides original and up-to-date research on early literature and culture by writers and artists of Asian descent in the US and Canada • Includes a diverse and pan-ethnic range of literary and artistic work, including new perspectives on the Eaton sisters, modernist poetry, early South Asian American writing, and silent film star Anna May Wong • Employs different theoretical and methodological approaches that reflect developments in literary and cultural theory as well as archival methods.
This volume examines the concerns of contemporary Asian American literatures in neoliberal times. The four sections make the literary, political, and identity-based concerns of the essays, and the works they examine, easily navigable for students and scholars alike. • Provides four overarching themes to approaching Asian American literary criticism • The introduction frames the 25 year time period the volume covers, addressing the critical shifts, optics, themes, and concerns that each of the essays take on • Analyses includes wide range of Asian American literary criticism, looking at literary, social, theoretical, and social concerns
346pp 6. 2021 9781108830836 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108914048
Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930–1965 Volume 2 Victor Bascara | University of California, Los Angeles
Asian American literature is now a widely recognized body of writings that grows every year. This was not always so. This volume explores the crucial era of transition from invisibility and isolation to recognition and the rise of this literary tradition as it now exists and thrives. • Appreciates the lives and work of a relatively neglected set of authors, offering ways of grasping the stakes and methods of visibility, whether mainstream or subcultural • Appreciates the literary interventions of key Asian American texts of a relatively neglected period • Retells familiar historical moments through Asian American literature 396pp 6. 2021 9781108835602 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108891080
Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965–1996 Volume 3 Asha Nadkarni | University of Massachusetts, Amherst
This volume traces the formation of the Asian American literary canon and the field of Asian American Studies from 1965–1996. It is intended for an academic audience, ranging from advanced undergraduate students to scholars from a variety of disciplines, interested in the formation of Asian American literary studies from 1965–1996. • Takes up the relationship between literature, history and migration in the formation of the Asian American literary canon from 1965-1996 • Turns to multiple literary forms – novels, short stories, poetry, performance, periodicals, and anthologies – to chart the diversity of Asian American cultural production • Employs a transnational approach to trace the relationship between Asian American racial formation at home, and war, displacement, and movements for national liberation abroad
414pp 6. 2021 9781108830843 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108914109
Chicago A Literary History Frederik Byrn Køhlert | University of East Anglia
This book will be of value to anyone interested in Chicago literature and history, as well as American or urban literature in general. The book places Chicago at the center of American urban literature and shows how the city’s writers were central to the development and incorporation or urban themes. • Provides full account of Chicago literary history from beginning to present day • Provides interdisciplinary engagement with Chicago literary history • Provides many new perspectives on the broad variety of literature written in and about Chicago. 350pp 9. 2021 9781108477512 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108763738
Climate and American Literature Michael Boyden | Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
This book explores how American literature engages with the climate. By dissecting the cultural roots of American climate discourses, the book at once allows for a better understanding of the polarized reception of the findings of climate science and offers a fresh perspective on classic American texts. • Offers a long-term perspective on cultural constructions of climate in American society • Reperiodizes American literary history through the lens of climate and climate perceptions • Shows how recent debates in humanities research and wider public debates are informed by historical climate thinking 400pp 3. 2021 9781108484879 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108669573
436pp 6. 2021 9781108843850 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108920605
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Elizabeth Bishop in Context Angus Cleghorn | Seneca College, Canada
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Situating Elizabeth Bishop’s writing within a range of biographical, historical, literary and philosophical contexts, including the reception of her work and its continuing influence on contemporary poetry, this book will be a vital resource for students and scholars of twentieth-century American, Canadian and Pan American literature. • Addresses key contexts for understanding Bishop’s artistic development and her continuing relevance for contemporary poets • Incorporates the latest discoveries in Bishop studies, including analysis of unpublished drafts, notebook entries and letters • Provides thirty-five ground-breaking essays by an international team of established and emerging Bishop scholars 400pp 8. 2021 9781108495974 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108856492
Frederick Douglass in Context Michaël Roy
This book offers lively and accessible essays that explore Frederick Douglass in a variety of geographical, political, social, cultural, intellectual, and literary contexts of his time. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of US history, literature, and culture. • Covers and contextualizes every facet of Douglass’s life and work • Consolidates current knowledge about Douglass but also looks forward to future developments in Douglass studies • Internationalizes Douglass and encourages interdisciplinary interplay between historical, literary, and theoretical approaches 450pp 7. 2021 9781108478731 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108778688
Gender in American Literature and Culture Jean Lutes | Villanova University, Pennsylvania
This book introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism, offers new readings of literary conventions and genres from early American writings to the present, and illustrates how rigid ideas about gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States. • Applies insights from gender criticism on US literature to pressing issues of the current day • Showcases central new developments in gender studies and American literary criticism • Introduces readers to innovative readings of gender in both wellknown and neglected literary texts from early America to the present 390pp 4. 2021 9781108477536 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108763790
Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History Juliana Chow
This book discusses how literary writers reenvisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of dispersal. It will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-Century American literature and Literature and the Environment. • Examines both literary and scientific texts, showing how each approach may complement the other • Brings together ecocriticism and critical race theory on diaspora • Shows how influential the emergent scientific field of biogeography was on literature and natural history. 290pp 11. 2021 9781108845717 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108990660
Norman Mailer in Context Maggie McKinley
This volume is for undergraduate and graduate students as well as academic scholars. The short, focused chapters offer students clear and concise overviews of contexts that shape Mailer’s work, without assuming in-depth knowledge of his oeuvre. Simultaneously, the chapters also offer seasoned scholars jumping off points for further research. • Provides a comprehensive overview of the cultural, political, biographical, critical, and historical contexts of Norman Mailer’s work • Provides readers with a variety of unique perspectives on Mailer’s work, highlighting the diversity of possible emphases and approaches to his work • Provides brief, clear, and concise studies of Mailer in many interdisciplinary contexts 416pp 8. 2021 9781108477666 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108774413
Philip Roth in Context Maggie McKinley
This volume is for undergraduate and graduate students, and academic scholars studying and teaching the work of Philip Roth. The short, focused chapters offer students clear and concise overviews of contexts that shape Roth’s work, without assuming in-depth knowledge. The chapters also offer scholars jumping off points for further research. • Provides a comprehensive overview of the cultural, political, biographical, critical, and historical contexts of Philip Roth’s work • Provides brief, clear, and concise studies of Roth in many interdisciplinary contexts • Features research and interpretation from over thirty leading scholars of Roth’s work 414pp 7. 2021 9781108489294 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108776547
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Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism A Literary History, 1945–2008 Bryan M. Santin
This book presents a new contextualization of the cultural politics of postwar American fiction, arguing that the robust linkage between progressive liberalism and highbrow literary fiction in the post-sixties United States must be understood in relation to the rise of modern conservatism and its evolving positions on race. • Puts post-1945 American fiction in conversation with the evolving conservative movement • Historicizes the linkage between highbrow American fiction and the progressive liberalism • Deploys an inter-disciplinary methodology that combines literary analysis and political theorization 290pp 3. 2021 9781108832656 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108961974
Race in American Literature and Culture John Ernest | University of Delaware
A comprehensive, multicultural study of the influential and complex presence of race in American literature by top scholars in African American, Latinx, Asian American, Native American, and white American studies. It explores how this history has been represented in literature, and how those representations have influenced American culture. • Explores the means by which literature has been a forum and foundation for social justice activism • Offers multiple perspectives on how American racial culture has been represented, promoted, or resisted in American literature • Brings together scholars from African American studies, Latinx studies, Asian American studies, Native American studies and other fields in American literary and cultural scholarship 400pp 3. 2022 9781108487399 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108766654
Ralph Ellison in Context Paul Devlin
This book provides fresh perspectives on some of the most important people and places in Ellison’s life, and explores where his work and biography cross paths with some of the pressing topics of his time. It will be a key resource to scholars, students and teachers interested in Ralph Ellison. • Provides fresh perspectives on some of the most important people and places in Ellison’s life • Chapters sum up longstanding conversations on Ralph Ellison • Offers a definitive overview of his early writings • Provides an overview of Ellison’s reception and reputation from his death in 1994 through 2020 375pp 10. 2021 9781108488969 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108773546
Reclaiming John Steinbeck Writing for the Future of Humanity Gavin Jones | Stanford University, California
John Steinbeck remains enormously popular yet critics tend to dismiss his work as middlebrow and nostalgic. This study produces a Steinbeck for the twenty-first century, a thinker crucial to our understanding of issues such as climate change, growing social and racial inequality, and the relationship between the US and Latin America. • Places John Steinbeck’s work in the context of timely issues such as climate change and other social and environmental challenges facing humanity • Closely describes Steinbeck’s writing across different genres and media, including literature, science, and film • Relates Steinbeck to his historical times, particularly regarding problems of social and racial inequality and injustice 262pp 6. 2021 9781108844123 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108933483
Richard Wright in Context Michael Nowlin | University of Victoria, British Columbia
Richard Wright was one of the most influential and complex African American writers of the twentieth century. This book gathers thirty-three new essays by an international group of scholars relating Wright’s multi-faceted writings to contexts essential to understanding them: biographical, regional, social, literary, and intellectual. • Covers the full range of Richard Wright’s literary and journalistic writings • Combines the perspectives of both veteran and emerging Wright specialists, with varying emphases: political, artistic, religious, philosophical, gender & sexuality, popular culture • Stylistically accessible and of interest to a relatively broad readership studying Wright for the first time but with new insight for specialists 350pp 7. 2021 9781108488952 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108773522
Sound Recording Technology and American Literature From the Phonograph to the Remix Jessica E. Teague
This book explores how twentieth-century writers shaped the ways we listen in our multimedia present. A mix of American literary history, sound studies, and media archaeology, this interdisciplinary study will appeal to scholars, students, and audiophiles. • Explores the relationship between sound recording technology and literature across multiple genres (fiction, poetry, autobiography, drama) • Illustrates how contemporary remix culture is rooted in modernist avant-garde practices of writing and recording • Offers richly archival readings of less-known works by canonical American authors. 280pp 5. 2021 9781108840132 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108879002
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The Cambridge Companion to Early American Literature Bryce Traister | University of British Columbia, Vancouver
This Companion covers American literary history from European colonization to the early republic. It provides a succinct introduction to the major themes and concepts in the field of early American literature. • Provides new readings of familiar and unfamiliar texts and authors • Introduces readers to new scholarship in this rapidly changing field • Demonstrates the diversification of the field 300pp 11. 2021 9781108793490 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 11. 2021 9781108840040 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108878623
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The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction Joshua Miller | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
This is one of the first volumes to systematically analyse the key trends, contexts, and developments of 21st century US fiction. 14 leading scholars in contemporary literary studies discuss the most exciting trends in the genres, themes, and concepts of literature published in the past two decades. • One of the first volumes dedicated to the study of 21st-century US fiction • Includes 14 chapters by leading scholars in contemporary literary studies, representing a wide range of topics, concepts, and literary genres • Illuminates critical engagements with new and emergent genres and concepts, including flash fiction, digital fiction, Afro-futurism, ecocriticism, trans fiction, anti-carceral fiction, and post-9/11 fiction. 300pp 9. 2021 9781108978705 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 9. 2021 9781108838276 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108974288
The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First-Century American Poetry
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The Cambridge History of American Poetry Alfred Bendixen | Princeton University, New Jersey
A comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the twentieth century. Bringing together the insights of fifty distinguished scholars, this literary history emphasizes the complex roles that poetry has played in American cultural and intellectual life. • Deals with popular traditions, including humor and children’s verse, as well as the established canon of major poets • Recognizes and explores the diversity of American experience and the multiple ways in which verse liberated American voices • Balances literary analysis and literary history, providing insights into individual poems and into the nature of our developing literary traditions 1326pp 4. 2021 9781108713214 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 12. 2014 9781107003361 Hardback GBP 155.00 / USD 194.95 eISBN 9780511762284
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The Cambridge History of American Women’s Literature Dale M. Bauer | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
In this collaborative, innovative history, the rich complexity and diversity of American literature written by women can be appreciated with a new coherence and subtlety. Developing historical, cultural, theoretical, even polemical methods, the volume will advance the future study of American women writers by shaping this ever-evolving field. • The first collaborative history of American women writers • An overview of the field that includes many new approaches and suggestions for future research • An invaluable work of reference for students and scholars of American literature
712pp 9 b/w illus. 7. 2021 9781108748339 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 5. 2012 9781107001374 Hardback GBP 135.00 / USD 222.00 eISBN 9780511735912
Timothy Yu
This book provides students and academic researchers with a high-level introduction to major issues in the study of contemporary American poetry. These original essays survey African American, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous poetry, as well as the intersection of poetry and the environment, disability, bioethics, and capitalism. • Offers a wide-ranging introduction to the study of American poetry in the twenty-first century • Each essay explores continuity with twentieth-century poetry but also emphasizes the rapidly changing context and paradigms for reading poetry in the twenty-first century • Brings the study of American poetry into the present by highlighting and reflecting the growing diversity of American poetic production 300pp 3. 2021 9781108741958 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 3. 2021 9781108482097 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108699518
The City in American Literature and Culture Kevin R. McNamara | University of Houston-Clear Lake
This book engages literature’s and film’s insights into the making and meaning of urban space and spectacle, and the in-the-streets activity of everyday life that remakes culture and identities. This fresh take on urban promise and crisis is a must read for anyone interested in literature and American Studies. • Chapters engage the broader discourse on each topic and its history • Offers a comprehensive, up to date, and accessible approach, clarifying discourse for non-specialist readers 350pp 6 b/w illus. 8. 2021 9781108841962 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108895262
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The New Wallace Stevens Studies Bart Eeckhout | Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium
This book introduce fresh critical voices and promising topics to the study of the twentiethcentury American poet Wallace Stevens. It explores important concepts that are emerging in Stevens criticism, applies recent methods and theories, and reassesses long-debated issues. • Offers a concise review of recent perspectives that have emerged in Stevens scholarship over the past two decades • Presents case studies in a consistently engaging manner that combines accessible theoretical thinking with multiple applications to individual poems • Shows the continuing vitality of Stevens’s work and its relevance for contemporary theoretical and methodological approaches and debates in literary studies 300pp 7. 2021 9781108833295 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108973946
The World of Bob Dylan Sean Latham | University of Tulsa
The World of Bob Dylan aims at a wide audience looking to gain a deeper familiarity with the art and legacy of one of the world’s most influential artists. Carefully integrated essays offer a lively and accessible look at topics that include song writing, civil rights, literature, law, and more. • Provides and accessibly written and diverse collection of essays on all aspects of Dylan’s art, career, context, and legacy • Features 27 essays on a wide array of carefully designed and fully integrated topics • Essays bring new insight to Dylan while setting out the key issues that will define work on Dylan for the next decade and beyond 370pp 5. 2021 9781108499514 Hardback GBP 20.00 / USD 25.95 eISBN 9781108583398
War and American Literature Jennifer Haytock | State University College, Brockport, New York
War and American Literature examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up new lines of inquiry. Readers will find accessible yet sophisticated essays that lay out key questions and scholarship in the field. • Makes connections among literature about all major US wars • Introduces new lines of inquiry, explaining five of the latest theoretical approaches and how these approaches can illuminate the subject of war in American literature • Provides grounding in literature and scholarship of major US wars 394pp 2. 2021 9781108496803 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108654883
Canadian literature A History of Canadian Fiction David Staines | University of Ottawa
The first one-volume history of Canadian fiction covering its growth and development from earliest times to the present day. Recounting the struggles and the glories of this burgeoning area of investigation, it explains Canada’s literary growth alongside its remarkable history. • Offers a complete history of Canadian fiction from colonial times through to the present day • Identifies the major trends and problems that accompanied the steady growth of fiction in Canada • Uses the texts, words, and relevant criticisms of Canadian writers to map out the history, growth, and place of Canadian fiction 318pp 8. 2021 9781108418089 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108284554
The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood Second edition Coral Ann Howells | Institute of English Studies, University of London
Offering a comprehensive overview of Atwood’s ever-changing work, this second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood is designed for students, scholars and curious readers alike, placing emphasis on Atwood’s recent dystopias including The Testaments, and the television adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale. • Fully revised, up-to-date edition, with emphasis on Atwood’s works since 2000 • Focuses on Atwood’s refiguring of her perennial concerns with environmentalism, survival, and what it means to be human • Introduces fresh material and perspectives on Atwood’s work, including completely new analysis of the television adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale 272pp 4. 2021 9781108707633 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 4. 2021 9781108486354 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108626651
English literature English literature - 1700 - 1830 Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism Stephanie O’Rourke | University of St Andrews, Scotland
This new, interdisciplinary history of romanticism, art and science, reveals how romantic artworks participated in a profound crisis concerning the relationship between knowledge and the human body at the end of European Enlightenment. A multi-national approach focuses on the artists Henry Fuseli, Anne-Louis Girodet and Philippe de Loutherbourg. • Utilises rare archival material to reveal previously unknown connections between artistic practices and scientific ideas • Includes innovative historical interpretations of major romantic artworks • Demonstrates how the history of the body was key to the cultural transformations of the nineteenth century 205pp 10. 2021 9781316519028 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009004510
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Byron Among the English Poets
Conscience in Early Modern English Literature
Literary Tradition and Poetic Legacy Clare Bucknell | All Souls College, Oxford
Abraham Stoll | University of San Diego
The most comprehensive coverage to date of Byron’s place within the English poetic tradition, this landmark study boasts a cast of the most eminent individuals working in the field and will become invaluable to students and scholars of Byron, Romantic Literature and English literary history more generally. • Offers in-depth discussion of Byron’s literary relationship to poets from Shakespeare to A.E. Stallings • Adopts a historical-formalist approach, viewing Byron’s poetics, prosody and verse forms as structures embedded in a historical context • Provides analysis of multiple forms of literary relationship (allusion, echo, chance convergence, shared cultural field). 380pp 7. 2021 9781108842655 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108903790
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Byron in Context Clara Tuite | University of Melbourne
This book guides the reader through the intersecting fields of biography, literary culture and reception, and the intellectual and cultural movements informing the history and politics of the Romantic period and in turn the life and works of Lord Byron (1788–1824). • Delivers a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the multiple contexts in which to understand the life and work of George Gordon, the sixth Lord Byron (1788–1824) • Presents introductory essays on relevant topics, written by leading scholars from around the globe • Supported by a chronology of Lord Byron’s life and a guide to further reading
375pp 11. 2021 9781316632673 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 12. 2019 9781107181465 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316850435
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Catechisms and Women’s Writing in SeventeenthCentury England Paula McQuade | DePaul University, Chicago
This monograph is a study of early modern women’s literary use of catechizing. It addresses the question of women’s literary production in early modern England, demonstrating that the reading and writing of catechisms were crucial sites of women’s literary engagements in early modern England. • Provides an in-depth discussion of six largely unremarked women writers, making this appealing to those interested in the history of women’s writing • Uses the approach of micro or local history, demonstrating a new way of thinking about female agency, one that looks at women’s regional and familial connections • Looks at two Protestant women who engaged sympathetically with Catholic devotional works, challenging the scholarly emphasis upon cross-confessional conflict
220pp 4. 2021 9781316648087 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 7. 2017 9781107198258 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108182232
This book describes how poetry, theology, and politics intersect in the early modern conscience. Stoll explores how Shakespeare, Spenser, Herbert, and Milton attempt to capture the experience of being in its grip. In the literature of the early modern conscience, Protestant subjectivity evolves toward the political subject of modern liberalism. • Combines close literary interpretation with larger theological and political issues, providing a rare opportunity to see theology and politics engage in literary study rather than just as context for wider debates • Argues for conscience as an enthusiastic and antinomian force, offering vital progress on current critical understanding of conscience as a rational faculty in the service of casuistry • Tackles early modern subjectivity and the origins of modern liberalism in the Civil War, with the addition and exploration of conscience providing a more precise and particular approach to these vast topics 230pp 4. 2021 9781108407823 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 10. 2017 9781108418737.00 GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108291309
Disavowing Disability Richard Baxter and the Conditions of Salvation Andrew McKendry
Examines the role that disability, both as a concept and an experience, played in seventeenth-century debates about salvation and religious practice. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. 75pp 8. 2021 9781108823128 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108913515
Headlong Hall Thomas Love Peacock
This new edition of Headlong Hall provides an authoritative text of Peacock’s ground-breaking first novel. Alongside a substantial historical and critical introduction, this volume contains full textual and explanatory notes that trace the genesis of Peacock’s satirical fiction and identify its many ancient and modern sources. • Provides a substantial introduction and notes, placing Peacock’s satire in context • Appendices contain full texts of Peacock’s manuscript farces The Dilettanti and The Three Doctors • Peacock’s ancient and modern source materials are described and analysed, as is his relationship to classical satire and to the nineteenthcentury novel 300pp 11. 2021 9781107030732 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781139344241
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Immortality and the Body in the Age of Milton John Rumrich | University of Texas, Austin
The seventeenth-century Scientific Revolution unsettled traditional conceptions in theology and psychology. Perhaps the soul was neither immaterial nor immortal. Milton and certain of his contemporaries explored new ways of thinking about the soul and its relation to body, and imagined transcendence as including the body. • Focuses on the body as a site or occasion of transcendence, recognizing the crucial place of embodiment in early modern theology - especially in relation to salvation • Cites philosophers and religious thinkers concerned with epistemology and the relationship of the subject to the world, developing the relevance of early modern philosophy and theology to contemporary phenomenology • Juxtaposes Milton with such contemporaries as Francis Bacon, John Donne, John Bunyan, Margaret Cavendish, and Hester Pulter, placing him in a highly pertinent, carefully defined, contemporary theological context 257pp 4. 2021 9781108432047 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 29.99 3. 2018 9781108422338 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108381499
Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book Helen Williams | Northumbria University, Newcastle
Producing new readings of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy by considering its visual effects in the context of broader eighteenth-century print developments, this analysis of the design history of the novel will be of great interest to students and scholars of eighteenth-century studies and literature, book design, and print history alike. • First monograph-length study of Sterne’s visual devices • Provides full contextual, historical explorations of key visual features that appear in Tristram Shandy • Recovers largely neglected print genres as well as nonfiction inter-texts that likely influenced Sterne’s typographical innovations
Mary Prince, Slavery, and Print Culture in the Anglophone Atlantic World Juliet Shields
This study examines a network of writers that coalesced around the publication of The History of Mary Prince (1831), which recounts Prince’s experiences as an enslaved person in the West Indies and the events that brought her to seek assistance from the Anti-Slavery Society in London.
75pp 5. 2021 9781108791656 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108866392
Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising Leith Ann Davis | Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
This is the first book to analyze the interplay of cultural memory, national identity and the changing media ecology of early eighteenth-century Britain. It examines the initial inscription of five pivotal episodes of English, Scottish and Irish history, revealing the mixture of memories and counter-memories in their subsequent mediations. • Provides a new history of cultural memory in the context of the expansion of print culture in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland, relating this to the development of the nation-state and the shifting media ecology of the period • Focuses on the initial inscription of five key episodes in the creation of British national memory, offering fresh insight into the 1688 ‘Glorious’ Revolution, the 1689-91 War of the Two Kings, the Company of Scotland expedition to Darien and the two Jacobite Risings of 1715 and 1745 • Adopts an innovative approach to Book History that considers the role of orality and manuscript in the shaping of eighteenth-century print culture, suggesting a new understanding of how diverse media interacted to create, store and re-circulate complex cultural memories 299pp 3. 2022 9781316510810 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009039765
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Miniature and the English Imagination
Literature and Medicine
Literature, Cognition, and Small-Scale Culture, 1650–1765 Melinda Alliker Rabb | Brown University, Rhode Island
The Eighteenth Century Volume 1 Clark Lawlor | Northumbria University, Newcastle
The first in a two-part volume offering an authoritative account of the relationship between literature and medicine during the eighteenth century. Leading scholars in the field provide a valuable overview of how these two diverse disciplines influenced and shaped each other throughout a period of radical change. • Authoritative critical overview of the study of literature and medicine • Provides a range of methodological and interdisciplinary approaches to reveal intersections between literature and medicine across the eighteenth century • Discusses a range of literary and medical sources, including poetry, drama, novels, case notes, medical treatises, and visual materials, to offer a thorough overview
Examining the phenomenon of miniaturization in material culture, literature and theories of cognition, this study examines the appeal and function of the small in the period from 1660 to 1765. Examining two kinds of miniatures - real and imaginary - it provides a rethinking of major and minor writers. • Demonstrates a new relationship between literature and the material world where there was a simultaneous production of miniature objects in fiction and reality • Provides new insights on the relationship between literary and cognitive theory studies • Examines the miniature in the literary work of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and Daniel Defoe amongst others
253pp 12 b/w illus. 3. 2021 9781108444286 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 2. 2019 9781108425834 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108649452
280pp 6. 2021 9781108420860 2 Hardbacks GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108355476
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Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750–c.1840
Rhetoric, Medicine, and the Woman Writer, 1600–1700
Mark Towsey | University of Liverpool
Lyn Bennett | Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia
This book explores the success of historical literature from the perspective of the reading audience in the period c.1750–c.1840. Drawing on a variety of sources including marginalia, letters, diaries and commonplace books, it reveals why histories were so popular, and how they were used by readers across the English-speaking world. • Delivers the first book length study of the success of historical literature from the perspective of the reading audience in the period c.1750–c.1840 • Draws on a wide variety of sources, including letters, diaries, marginalia and commonplace books, to shed new light on audience response to history books • Explores how historical narratives, events and ideas were used by readers to interpret a rapidly changing world
Concerned with rhetoric’s role in shaping knowledge, culture, and society, this book shows how writers of both sexes engaged the discourse of learned medicine. Will appeal to students and researchers of early modern authors as well as those interested in the histories of gender, medicine, and rhetoric. • Confirms the role of a range of female authors in early modern medicine’s discursive self-fashioning • Considers a range of genres in examining how medical and popular works shaped even as they were inflected by the self-fashioning discourse of early modern medicine • Offers a model of how rhetorical analysis can deepen our understanding of ideologies and cultures
316pp 3. 2021 9781108716185 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 5. 2019 9781108483001 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108591072
Rethinking the Secular Origins of the Novel The Bible in English Fiction 1678–1767 Kevin Seidel | Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia
Unsettling the usual ways we think about the relationship between religion and secularism, and focusing on scenes where the Bible shows up as a physical object in eighteenth-century English fiction, this book powerfully argues that the English novel rose with the Bible, not after it. • Takes up recent, interdisciplinary discourse on secularism and applies it to literary studies, providing new ways to think about secularity in literature • Productively connects histories of the novel and histories of the Bible • Explores the Bible as a material object, not just a text, to understand its plural and varied authority within the novel and among various social practices connected to the Bible 280pp 3. 2021 9781108491037 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108867290
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Revising the EighteenthCentury Novel Authorship from Manuscript to Print Hilary Havens | University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Analyzes novel manuscripts and authors’ revisions to construct a new narrative about eighteenthcentury authorship, influenced by the networks in which writers lived and worked. Will appeal to researchers, scholars and students interested in eighteenth-century literature, the English novel, and the history of the book, of publishing, and of reading. • Proposes a new model of eighteenth-century authorship and its dependence on the networks in which writers lived and worked • Uses the act of revision to formulate new interpretations and understandings of Samuel Richardson, Frances Burney, Jane Austen, and Maria Edgeworth, as well as Laurence Sterne, Matthew Lewis, and William Godwin • Discusses many previously unexplored manuscripts and uses digital paleography to recover deleted portions of manuscripts
242pp 2 b/w illus. 7. 2021 9781108725613 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 8. 2019 9781108493857 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108663649
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Romanticism and Theatrical Experience Kean, Hazlitt and Keats in the Age of Theatrical News Jonathan Mulrooney | College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts
The book uniquely brings together the fields of theater history, print culture, and literature, exploring new contexts around the work of actor Edmund Kean, essayist William Hazlitt, and poet John Keats, and reframing the relationship between theater, essays and poetry in Regency London. • Explores a wealth of previously understudied theatrical criticism to enhance our understanding of Romantic period theatrical culture • Brings into focus the influence of theatrical culture on literary culture in the Romantic period • Provides new insight into the cultural figures such as Edmund Kean (actor), William Hazlitt (critic) and John Keats (poet)
294pp 6 b/w illus. 6. 2021 9781316635179 Paperback GBP 23.00 / USD 30.00 1. 2019 9781107183872 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316874905
Romanticism: 100 Poems Michael Ferber | University of New Hampshire
Choosing one hundred poems from what many consider to be the greatest era of poetry is no small feat. Michael Ferber’s refreshing collection includes seminal Romantic poems alongside lesserknown gems. Embodying the urgent international contexts of the Romantic movement, this transatlantic anthology features poetry translated from six languages. • A uniquely international anthology of romantic poetry spanning many languages and nations across Europe • Includes helpful notes with engaging headnotes for poets and a concise, accessible introduction to orient general readers in the history, context, and meanings of ‘Romantic’ poetry • Uniquely concise, attractive, and affordable anthology of Romantic poems that will serve general readers as an engaging entry point or as an enriching supplementary text for secondary and university literature students 182pp 3. 2021 9781108491051 Hardback GBP 12.99 / USD 16.95 eISBN 9781108867337
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The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion Jeffrey Barbeau | Wheaton College, Illinois
The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion provides the first survey of the connections between literature, religion, and intellectual life during the British Romantic period (1780s–1832). The collection of seventeen scholarly essays introduces the diverse religious influences on the literature of the times. • Introduces major religious developments in the British Romantic period • Provides several essays on the role of religion in shaping diverse literary forms and genres • Explores disciplinary connections related to British Romanticism and religion 325pp 9. 2021 9781108711050 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 29.99 9. 2021 9781108482844 Hardback GBP 72.00 / USD 99.00 eISBN 9781108609661
The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought Frans De Bruyn | University of Ottawa
Providing a comprehensive overview of intellectual life in the eighteenth-century Anglophone world at a time when the boundaries of knowledge were growing rapidly in response to their evolving surroundings, this volume is essential reading for scholars and students of eighteenth-century British literature, culture and thought. • Introduces major trends and themes in eighteenth-century thought in Great Britain • Utilises comprehensive, non-specialist language for a wide audience • Provides a chronology of key events, glossary, and guide to further reading 290pp 5. 2021 9781107442917 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 5. 2021 9781107082489 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 eISBN 9781139998383
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Volume 2 Later Collections, Print and Manuscript Anne Finch
Presenting uncollected poems and letters, some of which are unpublished, this second volume in the first complete, critical edition of the works of Anne Finch, Countess of Wilchelsea, provides established texts of her later collections in print and manuscript form, Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions (1713) and The Wellesley Manuscript. • Presents previously unpublished poems and letters • Provides established texts of Finch’s later collections in print and manuscript form • Includes a comprehensive introduction, extensive explanatory notes and thorough textual commentary 798pp 7 b/w illus. 5. 2021 9781107068650 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781107706026
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea 2 Volume Hardback Set Anne Finch
Scholars and students of women’s writing, poetry, and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature have long called for a complete, critical edition of the works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. This edition provides, for the first time, authoritative texts, textual apparatus and commentary for all known works by this important writer. • The first ever complete, critical edition of the works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720) • Provides established texts of all Finch’s poems, plays, and letters, organized by their appearance in Finch’s authorized collections • Includes a comprehensive introduction, extensive explanatory notes and thorough textual commentary 1400pp 5. 2021 9780521196222 2 Hardback books GBP 200.00 / USD 260.00 eISBN 9781108668750
The Letters in the Story Narrative-Epistolary Fiction from Aphra Behn to the Victorians Eve Tavor Bannet | University of Oklahoma
Combining literary and historical analysis, this book offers the first study of largely femaleauthored novels that used embedded letters and third-person narrative to explore reading and misreading, knowledge and ignorance, communication and credulity, challenging empiricism on its own ground in plots centred on mysteries of identity. • Discovers a long, previously forgotten, tradition of narrative-epistolary novels that was largely identified in Britain with female novelists • Demonstrates how narrative-epistolary novelists utilized embedded letters to challenge empiricist and later positivist methods and assumptions • Uses a historical narratology to link nineteenth-century Victorians and their eighteenth-century predecessors 280pp 10. 2021 9781316518854 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009003698
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The Origins of the English Marriage Plot Literature, Politics and Religion in the Eighteenth Century Lisa O’Connell | University of Queensland
Examines how and why marriage plots became the English novel’s most popular form in the eighteenth century. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English literature and culture as well as feminist literary history. • Offers a novel account of the marriage plot’s political, cultural and religious contexts, explaining both the complexity of the genre’s origins and its centrality to the development of the realist novel • Considers the importance of sham marriages, mock marriages, clandestine weddings and Gretna Green elopements to the English literary tradition • Deepens our understanding of Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding and Jane Austen who were the English marriage plot’s most important early practitioners
320pp 5 b/w illus. 3. 2021 9781108707459 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 7. 2019 9781108485685 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108757706
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The Poetry of the Age of Wordsworth An Anthology of the Five Major Poets J. Dover Wilson
Originally published in 1927, this anthology covers the five major poets at the forefront of the artistic movement known as Romanticism. Poems have been selected from the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats to be illustrative of each writer’s styles as well as to be revealing of the cultural atmosphere in which the poetry was produced. 302pp 9. 2021 9781107586086 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 29.99 7. 2019 9781108485685 GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316451489
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Literature and Conviviality in the Age of Revolution Ian Newman | University of Notre Dame, Indiana
This study of Romantic era London taverns explores metropolitan political and cultural life, focusing on architecture and convivial practice, including drinking songs, toasting practices, Anacreontic poetry and political ballads. It will appeal to literary scholars, historians, musicologists, and anyone interested in the history of the British pub. • Delivers a comprehensive study of one of the primary institutions of the late eighteenth-century public sphere, the tavern • Combines exploration of architecture and culture to show how cultural production interacted with the built environment • Focuses on the relevance of taverns to works of canonical literature
300pp 22 b/w illus. 3 maps 3. 2021 9781108455923 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 3. 2019 9781108470377 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108672016
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The Sentimental Novel in the Eighteenth Century Albert J. Rivero | Marquette University, Wisconsin
This volume explores various aspects and contexts for thinking about the sentimental novel. Chapters from leading scholars investigate the genre through the lenses of politics, slavery, women writers and the Gothic, to the sentimental novel in America and France. • Delivers a thorough and accessible survey of the literary genre of the sentimental novel in Britain in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries • Combines the investigation of various contexts and aspects of the genre with close readings of novels by writers such as Samuel Richardson (1689–61), Laurence Sterne (1713–68) and Jane Austen (1775–1817) • Provides a wider context for the sentimental novel by studying the genre in France, Germany and America
258pp 8. 2021 9781108408554 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 3. 2019 9781108418928 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108292375
Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland Emergent Ecologies of a Nation Susan Oliver | University of Essex
For academics, students and general readers interested in how literature intersects with environmental history, a focus on Walter Scott and nineteenth-century writing puts this study in the context of the emerging Anthropocene. Scotland’s human and nonhuman land relations along with ecocritical theory provide national and global perspectives. • Provides the first book-length study of Walter Scott’s substantial writing about Scotland’s ecological and environmental history • Comprehensive, thematical study of Scotland’s human and nonhuman environmental relationships • Utilises ecocritical theory to analyze Scott’s writing, situating that work in a wider body of Romantic and contemporary environmental critical studies. 220pp 8. 2021 9781108831574 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108917674
William Wordsworth, SecondGeneration Romantic Contesting Poetry after Waterloo Jeffrey Cox | University of Colorado Boulder
In providing a comprehensive reading of ‘late’ Wordsworth (1814–1840) that reveals how his major poems contest poetic and political issues with his younger contemporaries (Keats, Shelley, Byron), this work intertwines literature and history showing that ideological conflicts between authors create dialogic encounters within their poetic texts. • Provides the only comprehensive reading of the arc of Wordsworth’s career from 1814–1840 • Challenges simplistic models of literary influence, detailing the ways in which Wordsworth responded to his younger contemporaries • Reconnects Wordsworth’s poetry with the literary, cultural, and social movements of his day 260pp 5. 2021 9781108837613 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108946698
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Aging, Duration, and the English Novel Growing Old from Dickens to Woolf Jacob Jewusiak | Newcastle University
This book argues that the realist novel compresses the duration of aging into descriptive intervals, constructing senescence as a shameful event to be hidden. It will appeal to students and researchers of nineteenth-century literature and culture, the Victorian novel and to those with an interest in representations of age in literature. • Argues that the conventions of the realist novel repress the process of aging, and provides a new account of realism that incorporates theories of time and affect to foreground previously understudied elements of narrative • Chapters focus on aspects of nineteenth-century literature and culture, including aging masculinity, ‘redundant’ women, queer sexuality, and dystopia • Links the plots of the Victorian novel to the politics of age, gender, and class by reflecting on the politics of inclusion and exclusion of marginalized characters 222pp 10. 2021 9781108713221 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 12. 2019 9781108499170 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108615501
Colonial Law in India and the Victorian Imagination Leila Neti | Occidental College, Los Angeles
Focusing on criminality, caste, inheritance and adoption, this text illustrates how crosscurrents between literature and the law shaped, and were shaped by, broader Victorian ideological norms, appealing to scholars and students of nineteenthcentury literature, colonial and legal history, and particularly Indian colonial culture. • Introduces the disciplines of Victorian, postcolonial, and legal studies into conversation • Examines the specific archive of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in relation to major Victorian novels, providing a new point of reference • Juxtaposes the legal archive with literary and critical theory 230pp 4. 2021 9781108837484 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108938280
Convalescence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel The Afterlife of Victorian Illness Hosanna Krienke | University of Wyoming
This first scholarly overview of nineteenth-century convalescent care provides vital information for scholars of Victorian novels, history of medicine, and gender & disability studies. While scholars often discuss diseases individually, post-acute convalescent care benefited a wide range of ailments - such as consumption, overwork, and debility. • Examines a broad historical model of recovery from sickness that was shared across various disease categories • Revises established literary scholarship on invalidism, disability, and sickrooms to produce innovative close readings • Relates historical understandings of recuperation to the present day
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Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880–1900 Many Inventions Richard Menke | University of Georgia
Richard Menke links media innovation to imaginative literature, making the case for writers from Whitman to Twain, Kipling to Bram Stoker and Marie Corelli as the era’s media theorists. This book will appeal to scholars, students and researchers of nineteenth-century literature and culture, the history of printing, and media and technology. • Places literary history in dialogue with media archaeology to help readers understand the emerging discipline of media archaeology and how it can suggest new ways of interpreting literature • Includes new approaches to well-known texts and problems as well as examining less familiar works and issues • Features an extended case study of the history and fate of the threevolume novel - a classic issue in book history 277pp 17 b/w illus. 9. 2021 9781108730174 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 10. 2019 9781108492942 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108631884
On Style in Victorian Fiction Daniel Tyler | University of Cambridge
Suited to students and scholars alike, On Style in Victorian Fiction provides a timely and passionate argument for attending to the style of Victorian fiction as inseparable from meaning. Including a broad scope of major novelists from this period, the volume is indispensable for anyone working on Victorian literature. • Provides comprehensive coverage of the major Victorian novelists and their important contributions to literary style • Showcases a wide range of world-class scholars • Helps develop our understanding of the difficult concept of literary ‘style’ 320pp 9. 2021 9781108427517 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108614931
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Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel Imitation, Parody, Aftertext Adam Abraham | Virginia Commonwealth University
Explores the notion of plagiarism in Victorian fiction and how many writers of this period stole, altered or parodied the characters and plots of previous texts. This book will appeal to students and researchers of nineteenth-century literature and culture, and readers interested in issues of plagiarism, copyright, and intellectual property. • Studies literary imitation in Victorian Britain with a focus on the work of Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Edward Bulwer Lytton • Recovers plagiaristic works that have been neglected by critics over the years • Argues that the way in which famous writers responded to imitations and assaults of their work shaped the view we have of them today 299pp 6 b/w illus. 7. 2021 9781108717243 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 8. 2019 9781108493079 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108675406
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Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature How the ‘Terrible Lizard’ Became a Transatlantic Cultural Icon Richard Fallon | University of Birmingham
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Reimagining Dinosaurs is aimed at literary scholars, historians of science, and curious general readers. Unlike previous works, which suggest that American museums made dinosaurs famous, this book argues that British and American popular literature was critical for transforming the dinosaur into a transatlantic cultural icon between 1880 and 1920. • Sheds light on largely overlooked, but critically important, developments in the cultural history of palaeontology • Counterbalances existing works on this period by stressing the importance of popular and imaginative literature in making dinosaurs culturally relevant • Highlights relevance of transatlantic literary culture to the popularisation of dinosaurs and science more generally 217pp 9. 2021 9781108834001 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108989008
Scottish Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century The Romance of Everyday Life Juliet Shields | University of Washington
Introducing the neglected tradition of Scottish women’s writing to readers who may already be familiar with English Victorian realism or the historical romances of Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, this book corrects male-dominated histories of the Scottish novel by demonstrating how women appropriated the masculine genre of romance. • Introduces a previously overlooked tradition of nineteenth-century Scottish women’s writing • Provides an alternative to histories of the Scottish novel that privilege the works of Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson • Demonstrates how writers engaged with the Evangelical forms of Presbyterianism that emerged from the Great Disruption 220pp 7. 2021 9781316518267 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009000048
Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction Form, Ethics, and the Novel Matthew Sussman | University of Sydney
An innovative approach to literary stylistic analysis that targets students and scholars of nineteenthcentury literature and culture through provocative interpretations of style in Victorian novels and succinct revaluations of major figures in rhetoric, criticism, and philosophy. • Provides the first systematic overview of ‘stylistic virtue,’ a foundational theory of style with deep roots in criticism, rhetoric, and philosophy • Uses ‘stylistic virtue’ to produce revisionary readings of major Victorian authors • Reveals significance of virtue theory in nineteenth-century ethics and aesthetics, with implications for contemporary criticism 236pp 7. 2021 9781108832946 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108966436
The Aspern Papers and Other Tales, 1884–1888 Henry James
The nine tales in this collection, published between 1884 and 1888, exemplify James’ continuing interest in the art of short fiction. This first scholarly edition provides extensive annotations, a detailed textual history of the work, and a full introduction exploring the novel’s literary, cultural and historical contexts. • Provides a full critical introduction to ‘The Aspern Papers’, comprising an authoritative text and supported by full textual apparatus including notes, glossary and textual variants • The first scholarly edition of James’ collected short tales, exemplifying his response to French naturalism • Features extensive sections on textual history and contemporary critical reception as well as a comprehensive bibliography 650pp 12. 2021 9781107029644 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781139342438
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The Brontës and the Idea of the Human Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination Alexandra Lewis | University of Aberdeen
Investigating links between literature, science, psychology, religion, law, and ethics, this study re-evaluates nineteenth-century understandings of what it means to be human. Leading scholars argue for the centrality of the idea of the human within the works of the Brontë sisters, offering new insight on their writing and cultural contexts. • Eminent scholars provide new insights into the writing of the Brontë sisters and their cultural contexts • Investigates the relationships between between literature, science, psychology, religion, law, and ethics to re-evaluate nineteenth-century understandings of what it means to be human • Delivers an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between the role of the imagination and new definitions of the human subject
312pp 3. 2021 9781316608371 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 5. 2019 9781107154810 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316651063
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The Commodification of Identity in Victorian Narrative Autobiography, Sensation, and the Literary Marketplace Sean Grass | Rochester Institute of Technology, New York
The first book to study the rise of Victorian autobiography as a marketplace phenomenon rather than a vehicle for constructing identity, and to relate life-writing to broader cultural impulses to imagine identity as a textual thing. It will particularly appeal to scholars of nineteenthcentury literature, book history and material culture. • Extensive archival research reveals the diversity and complexity of Victorian autobiographical texts, facilitating new perspectives of the genre • Situates autobiographical writing in the context of book history, and innovatively analyses autobiographical texts with nineteenth-century novels • Offers new readings of key writers of the period, including Dickens, Braddon, Eliot, Collins and Reade
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The Divine in the Commonplace Reverent Natural History and the Novel in Britain Amy M. King | St John’s University, New York
Elegantly and persuasively argues that natural theology was an important presence, not only in the natural histories of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but also in the novels of the same period. Will appeal to students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and historians of science. • Brings the popular Victorian genre of natural history into greater critical prominence as both a scientific contribution and a non-fiction genre with literary attributes • Examines how Victorians observed commonplace nature as both an act of scientific observation and reverence • Explores the connection between the novel and a theological understanding of nature, and the way in which the novel may express theology in altered forms 316pp 11 b/w illus. 2 maps 3. 2021 9781108730181 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 7. 2019 9781108492959 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108631952
The Political Lives of Victorian Animals Liberal Creatures in Literature and Culture Anna Feuerstein | University of Hawaii, Manoa
Anna Feuerstein offers innovative readings of the politics of animal characters in the Victorian novel, and shows the limitations of liberalism as a framework for animal rights. This book will appeal to scholars and students interested in Victorian literature and culture, and the representation of animals in literature. • Uses animal studies and posthuman theory to offer a new understanding of animals in Victorian literature and culture • Explores the relationship between the increase in anti-animal cruelty legislation and the wider liberal movement in the Victorian period • Challenges the efficacy of liberalism as a framework for animal rights and animal welfare 270pp 4 b/w illus. 3. 2021 9781108730211 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 7. 2019 9781108492966 GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108632096
The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy
This first complete scholarly edition of The Return of the Native is rich in supporting materials for readers of all backgrounds and interests, and includes an authoritative text, full apparatus, and comprehensive annotation and commentary on the first great novel of Hardy’s to engage ambitiously with problems of contemporary existence. • The text is given a comprehensive introduction and situated within its wider context • Includes illustrated appendices on the origins and topography of Egdon and also Arthur Hopkinson’s illustrations • Provides an authoritative version of the text, along with detailed commentary and textual notes 876pp 2. 2021 9781107037779 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781139794978
Vagrancy in the Victorian Age Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Alistair Robinson | Birkbeck, University of London
Uncovering the rich taxonomy of nineteenthcentury vagrancy, this interdisciplinary study explores how the Victorians conceptualised poverty, mobility and homelessness. It offers an important resource for students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and history, situating major canonical texts within illuminating cultural contexts. • Reveals the sophisticated and multiform nature of the vagrant in the Victorian cultural imagination by closely analysing a series of distinct vagrant types • Unearths fruitful connections between national and colonial depictions of vagrancy, highlighting that Britain’s strategies of representing vagrancy circulated globally as well as locally across three topographies: the country, the city and the frontier • Incorporates material ranging from canonical literature, to newspaper articles, to visual art within its broad ambit, vividly demonstrating the mobility of vagrant figures between interconnected artistic forms 228pp 12. 2021 9781316519851 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009019392
Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel The Ethics and Aesthetics of Fictional Experience Timothy Gao | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel proposes a literary history of virtual reality, stemming from imaginary worlds created by nineteenth-century novelists such as Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, and William Thackeray, providing innovative approaches to interpreting realist fiction and fictional realities for scholars and students of literature. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. • Connects the phenomenon of children creating imaginary worlds to a wider history of fictional practices • Offers new readings of four major Victorian novels which focus on previously under-examined aspects of their imaginative design and experience • Provides an example of ‘post-critical reading’ in practice • This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core 230pp 4. 2021 9781108837163 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108938518
English literature - 1900 - 1945 A Set of Six Joseph Conrad
A Set of Six (first published in 1908) is the latest volume in the now well-established and widelypraised Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad. Following its predecessors, this volume offers scholars an authoritative text, free from the interference of typists, compositors and editors. • Delivers the first comprehensive critical edition of Joseph Conrad’s A Set of Six • Provides a full and authoritative history of composition and publication for the stories • Includes a rich selection of contextual materials, including explanatory notes and glossaries of foreign and nautical terms 592pp 8. 2021 9781107189133 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781316986998
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Beckett’s Intermedial Ecosystems
Modernism, Empire, World Literature
Closed Space Environments across the Stage, Prose and Media Works Anna McMullan | University of Reading
Joe Cleary | Yale University, Connecticut
This Element draws on the concept of ecosystems to investigate selected Beckett works across different media which present worlds where the human does not occupy a privileged place in the order of creation: rather Beckett’s human figures are trapped in a regulated system in which they have little agency. 75pp 2. 2021 9781108959056 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108938990
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British Literature in Transition, 1900–1920: A New Age? James Purdon | University of St Andrews, Scotland
British literature between 1900 and 1920 has usually been conceived in terms of the unstoppable rise of modernism and the social and cultural upheavals caused by the First World War. Telling a wider story, this volume illuminates the diversity of British literary culture in the century’s first two decades. • Discusses a wide range of British literary culture in the period 19001920, by canonical ‘modernists’, popular writers, and less well-known figures • Describes continuities between late-nineteenth and early-twentiethcentury writing, as well as showing how some writers sought to break with established conventions • Offers innovative readings of well known literary texts in their original historical context 375pp 11. 2021 9781108491754 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108648714
E. M. Forster and Music Tsung-Han Tsai
This book illustrates how Forster’s musical politics resonate across his oeuvre, uncovering the ideological force of his engagement with and representations of music by exploring overlooked contexts including: race and rhythm; material culture and empire; literary heritage and national character; hero-worship and war; gender and professionalism. • Explores subjects such as opera and national identity, Wagnerism and hero-worship, folksong and professional culture by close-reading Where Angels Fear to Tread, The Longest Journey, The Machine Stops, and Arctic Summer • Sheds light on the ideological potency of Forster’s engagement with music throughout his life • Uncovers the racial connotations of Forster’s concept of ‘rhythm’ and reveals Forster’s interest in the intersection of Western music, empire, and material culture 280pp 5. 2021 9781108844314 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108943604
This book will engage readers in Irish, American and Caribbean literatures, especially those interested in world literature, empire and postcolonial studies. Offers bold new readings by Henry James, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O’Neill and Derek Walcott in context of the rise of the United States to world power. • Offers a bold new argument about how Irish, American and Caribbean modernisms collectively contributed to the remaking of the world literary system and to the creation of ‘world literature’ • Provides significant new readings of major canonical modernist authors including Henry James, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eugene O’Neill and Derek Walcott • Connects American, Irish and Caribbean writing from the 1920s to the 1990s in a highly original manner 326pp 6. 2021 9781108492355 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108698146
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Poetry, Modernism, and an Imperfect World Sean Pryor
This book shows how modernist poetry understood itself to be complicit in the social injustice and unhappiness of its time. It will appeal to general readers with an interest in poetry, to scholars and students interested in the theory of poetry and the history of the concept of poetry, and to scholars and students working in modernist studies and on twentieth-century literature. • Will appeal to readers who are interested in the historical and political meanings of modernism • Engages in detailed textual analyses of poetic techniques and values, as well as offering broader accounts of aesthetic debates, social contexts, and political history • Offers detailed readings of forgotten as well as canonical poems
227pp 3. 2021 9781316635629 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 3. 2017 9781107184404 Hardback GBP 67.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316876909
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Reading the Ruins Modernism, Bombsites and British Culture Leo Mellor | Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
Mellor makes the persuasive argument that to understand Second World War British culture one must understand the ruined and fragmented cityscapes that it responds to. Of relevance to literary critics and cultural historians, and featuring famous and forgotten authors, this book makes modernism – and war literature – look vividly different. • Proposes an innovative view of the Second World War and British culture • Links together post and pre-war texts with those written during the conflict • Demonstrates the complexity of artistic responses to war-ruins within cities and places them within a longer history of interest in ‘the ruin’
255pp 9 b/w illus. 6. 2021 9781107534438 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 9. 2011 9781107009295 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.95 eISBN 9780511920813
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Samuel Beckett and Cultural Nationalism Shane Weller | University of Kent, Canterbury
Samuel Beckett and Cultural Nationalism explores Beckett’s engagement with the theme of cultural nationalism throughout his writing life, revealing the various ways in which he sought to challenge culturally nationalist conceptions of art and literature, while never embracing a cosmopolitan approach.
75pp 6. 2021 9781009045483 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009042277
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Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts Conor Carville | University of Reading
Moving fluently between art history, philosophy, literary analysis and historical context, Samuel Beckett and the Visual Arts rethinks the trajectory of Beckett’s career, and reorients his relationship to modernism, late modernism and the avant-gardes. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the most important writer of the twentieth century. • Draws on a wide range of new sources, both published and unpublished • Demonstrates the changes in Beckett’s thinking about art and aesthetics over his career • Reorients Beckett’s relationships with modernism, late modernism and the avant-gardes 275pp 10 b/w illus. 7. 2021 9781108436373 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 4. 2018 9781108422772 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108399852
T. S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination
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The New Modernist Studies Douglas Mao | The Johns Hopkins University
This is the first book devoted to the history and prospects of the new modernist studies. It will be a key resource for readers seeking an authoritative account of the field’s early years and for those seeking out new directions in modernist scholarship. • Includes detailed accounts of intellectual milieu into which the new modernist studies emerged as well as a rich institutional history of the early years of the field • Explores new directions in modernist studies and offers readers a sense of where the new modernist studies may be headed in the near future • Chapters provide an enthusiastic, informed take on a continuously evolving field 280pp 2. 2021 9781108732147 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 2. 2021 9781108487061 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108765428
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Thomas Hardy and Animals Anna West | University of St Andrews, Scotland
Adding to the critical dialogue on animals in literary criticism, Victorian studies and animal studies, this accessible work will also appeal to scholars of science and posthumanism. Bringing an important author within range of a new and developing area of critical inquiry, Anna West offers a new approach to Hardy criticism. • Provides the first comprehensive study of animals in Hardy’s novels • Offers scholars and readers a new approach to Hardy criticism • Combines interests in Hardy and animal studies
220pp 1 b/w illus. 4. 2021 9781316631195 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 4. 2017 9781107179172 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316831861
Sarah Kennedy | University of Cambridge
How is a poem made? From what constellation of inner and outer worlds does it issue forth? T. S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination charts the relations between metaphor and creativity in Eliot’s poetry and criticism in dialogue with developments in ‘new physics’, optics, colour theory, cognitive psychology, and anthropology. • Contextualises Eliot’s work in relation to the intellectual currents of his time • Engages with recent developments in the theory of metaphor while modelling their application to a clear range of examples • Provides close-readings of Eliot’s poetry, plays and criticism that will appeal to students and general readers who are looking for guidance in their reading of a difficult and allusive poet 280pp 9. 2021 9781108441346 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 4. 2018 9781108425216 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108643016
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Threshold Modernism New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London Elizabeth F. Evans | University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Evans shows how ideas about gender and race in Britain from the 1880s through the 1930s shaped - and were shaped by - London and its literature. She considers canonical realist and modernist authors, from George Gissing to Virginia Woolf, alongside understudied colonial writers like Duse Mohamed Ali and Una Marson. • Proposes a new way to understand the relationship between modernity and modernism • Examines diverse primary texts, including high modernist and popular fiction, journalism and advertisements, unpublished playscripts, travelogues and London guides • Demonstrates how mapping the real locations of a fictional text can produce new insights • Brings to light little-known works by colonial authors of color 273pp 11 b/w illus. 7. 2021 9781108466608 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 12. 2018 9781108479813 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108632812
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Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity Catriona Livingstone
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This book offers an extensive analysis of Woolf’s engagement with science, and identifies a littleexplored source for Woolf’s scientific knowledge – early BBC science broadcasts. It will therefore be of value to scholars working on modernist literature, and on literature and science. • Explores Woolf’s engagement with four areas of modernist science: quantum physics, neurology, radio, and evolutionary science • Includes detailed accounts of early BBC science broadcasts • Demonstrates that the popular science of the modernist period participates in the construction of multiple, expansive models of identity that is characteristic of modernist literature 274pp 4. 2022 9781316514078 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009082501
Women, Literature, and the Arts of the Countryside in Early TwentiethCentury England
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Book, Text, Medium Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age Garrett Stewart | University of Iowa
This book assess the transformative arc between medieval books and today’s e-books. It will appeal to graduates and researchers working in the 21st century literary studies generally, in the relationships between the book and the digital age specifically. • Brings together book studies and the history of book arts with textual readings, literary theory, and the philosophy of language • Makes direct connections between art history, including painting and conceptual sculpture, and the nuances of literary process in an age of digital poetics • Develops an interdisciplinary concept of medium that challenges or augments many leading contemporary theories in the field 225pp 8. 2021 9781108819688 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 1. 2021 9781108834599 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108876216
Metamodernism and Contemporary British Poetry
Judith W. Page | University of Florida
Antony Rowland | Manchester Metropolitan University
Focusing on eight writers and artists, this book examines the centrality of the countryside to women’s work, creativity, and aspirations. The authors tell these women’s stories through their art and literature and in the context of the history and culture of gardens, constructed landscapes, and the countryside. • Introduces readers to a range of writers and artists of the period, some of whom have not been widely read or viewed in recent years • Adopts an interdisciplinary approach, which differs from some more conventional readings of the garden in history • Focuses in detail on eight figures and places them in historical and cultural contexts and in relation to each other
This book discusses contemporary British poetry in the context of metamodernism. It asks if the concept of metamodernist poetry helps to recalibrate the opposition between mainstream and innovative poetry, and whether a new generation of British poets can be accurately defined as metamodernist. • Outlines the relevance of metamodernism to contemporary poetry • Engages with a range of contemporary poets, from established poets such as Geoffrey Hill and J. H. Prynne to relative newcomers such as Sandeep Parmar and Ahren Warner • Shows how enigmatical poetry cuts across the categories of mainstream and ‘innovative’ poetry
274pp 3. 2021 9781108491150 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108867740
English literature - 1945 and beyond Beckett and Buddhism Angela Moorjani | University of Maryland, Baltimore County
This book will be a key resource for readers interested in one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of the twentieth century, Samuel Beckett. In clear and accessible prose, the book reassesses and elucidates the Buddhist thinking coursing through Beckett’s fiction and theatre for over half a century. • Reassesses the role of Schopenhauer’s transmission of Eastern thought to the West and its extraordinary influence on modernist writing, art, and philosophical and psychoanalytic thinking in the first part of the 20th century • Provides incisive new readings of Beckett’s texts - prose fiction, drama, poems, and letters - from the late 1930s to the 1980s, based on the Buddhist echoes uncovered in his writings and their intersection with Western thought • Introduces philosophical and religious concepts - both Eastern and Western - in clear and comprehensible terms. 260pp 7. 2021 9781316519691 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009024082
280pp 10. 2021 9781108841979 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108895286
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Anthropocene John Parham | University of Worcester
This book is for readers interested in how literature tackles climate change, ‘petro-culture’, extinction, and the proposed ‘human’ epoch of the Anthropocene. Chapters discuss flooding, pollution, oil, humans, and animals, while revisiting old and new literary forms, including novels, poems, plays, and gaming. • Offers a comprehensive and global survey of literature and the Anthropocene at a critical juncture in the development and establishment of the Anthropocene proposal. • Features a step-by-step survey of literary genres and Anthropocene themes supported by an overview of literature and the Anthropocene in the introduction. • Offers a close focus on the particular qualities that each literary form or genre might bring to unravelling the complexities of the Anthropocene or to addressing the social, cultural, and philosophical questions that it raises. 340pp 6. 2021 9781108498531 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 6. 2021 9781108724197 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108683111
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Utopia and the Contemporary British Novel Caroline Edwards | Birkbeck College, University of London
This book is for scholars of contemporary literature. It argues for a renaissance of British literary talent in the twenty-first century, introducing readers to several new writers. The analysis of utopian anticipation will also be of interest to academics working in utopian studies, critical theory and the philosophy of time. • Contributes to an expanding field of utopian literary studies by offering an interrogation of the role of utopia in the twenty-first century • Presents a new way of reading temporality in twenty-first-century fiction through the concept of non-contemporaneity • Examines literary representations of time in a way that moves beyond older paradigms such as postmodernism, historiographic metafiction and nostalgia 277pp 7. 2021 9781108712392 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 7. 2019 9781108498708 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108595568
English literature - AngloSaxon and Medieval
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Geoffrey Chaucer in Context Ian Johnson | University of St Andrews, Scotland
This volume supports Chaucer’s modern readers by delivering the essential contexts - literary, historical, cultural, social, aesthetic, spiritual, philosophical, economic, psychological, linguistic and scientific - through which to read, interpret and enjoy his works with greater confidence and independence. • Illuminates context, rather than a simple provision of textual readings, in order to inform and enhance independent approaches to Chaucer • Contributions from leading international historians in addition to Middle English literature specialists ensure fresh and distinctive perspectives and information • Addresses all manner of questions - literary, historical, cultural, social, aesthetic, spiritual, political, economic, psychological, philosophical, scientific and linguistic - likely to be on the minds of anyone studying Chaucer
497pp 11 b/w illus. 3. 2021 9781009010603 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 7. 2019 9781107035645 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781139565141
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Chaucer and the Subversion of Form Thomas A. Prendergast | College of Wooster, Ohio
This exploration of literary form in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer delivers a timely and fresh approach to the study of one of the best known medieval English poets. This definitive collection of essays offers a variety of approaches to Chaucer and to the analysis of form. • Presents a fresh and definitive study of literary form in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer • Brings ‘new formalist’ approaches to bear on a range of Chaucer’s works • Brings a focus to Chaucerian moments of formal disorder and disruption, mistakes and problems 240pp 4. 2021 9781316644126 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 29.99 5. 2018 9781107192843 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108147682
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Chaucer’s Scribes London Textual Production, 1384–1432 Lawrence Warner | King’s College London
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Gods and Humans in Medieval Scandinavia Retying the Bonds Jonas Wellendorf | University of California, Berkeley
The first monograph in English on the medieval Scandinavian reception and re-interpretation of pre-Christian Scandinavian religion. Contextualizes the canonical Prose Edda by drawing on a range of less well known texts. Translations are provided of all quotations from medieval texts. • Presents the first study in English to explore ways in which medieval Scandinavians received and re-interpreted pre-Christian religion • Contextualizes the canonical Prose Edda through a close reading of less well-known mythological literary works including the Saga of Barlaam, the Hauksbók manuscript (c.1300) and Saxo Grammaticus’ History of the Danes • Offers full translation of Old Norse textual passages to provide an accessible study
220pp 4. 2021 9781108441063 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 4. 2018 9781108424974 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108677066
The importance of scribes in the production of Chaucer’s poetry has become increasingly apparent. Challenging widely accepted narratives and conclusions of recent scholarship through meticulously detailed argument, Lawrence Warner delivers an important intervention in the field of Middle English studies. • Delivers a challenge to widely accepted narratives on the identity of Chaucer’s scribe • Meticulous research provides new knowledge that illuminates the lives of scribes working in London in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries • Questions the earlier methodological approaches that have led to widely accepted orthodoxies to the subject of textual production in London at the formation of the canon 244pp 17 b/w illus. 3 tables 8. 2021 9781108444996 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99
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Landscape in Middle English Romance The Medieval Imagination and the Natural World Andrew M. Richmond | Southern Connecticut State University
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Richmond explores the landscapes, waterscapes, and ecological perspectives of popular Middle English romances at the onset of the Little Ice Age, revealing the literary roots of modern relationships with the natural world. This book will appeal to readers interested in medieval literature and culture, environmental history, and landscape studies. • Examines a broad variety of Middle English romances and popular ballads • Considers how Middle English romances reflect aspects of contemporary ecological perspectives • Sheds new light on how the start of the Little Ice Age was experienced by contemporary authors 290pp 8. 2021 9781108831499 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108917452
Literary Beginnings in the European Middle Ages Mark Chinca | University of Cambridge
The contributors to this volume offer a ground-breaking investigation into the birth of new literatures in the vernacular languages of medieval Europe. Essential for scholars of medieval literature, the book opens new perspectives for specialists in specific languages and national literatures through a comparative, transnational approach. • Covers medieval vernacular literatures from Iceland and Iberia to Byzantium and Russia, highlighting common factors in the emergence of written vernacular literatures as well as revealing what is distinctive in any single-language tradition • Disrupts the accepted framework of national literary history, providing clear and authoritative accounts of the earliest phases of written literature in each language or region, while simultaneously emphasizing interactions between languages and avoiding teleological assumptions about the direction of literary development • Emphasizes institutional and systemic aspects of literature, considering outstanding works of early medieval literature while also directing attention to literature as a dynamically evolving system 330pp 3. 2022 9781108477642 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108776912
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Literary Value and Social Identity in the Canterbury Tales Robert J. Meyer-Lee | Agnes Scott College, Decatur
Focusing on the Clerk, Merchant, Franklin and Squire sequence in The Canterbury Tales, this book explores Chaucer’s meditation on the fraught relation between the value of literature and the values underlying various non-literary ways of earning a living. It will appeal to scholars and students of medieval studies. • The first reading of a sequence of four tales at the heart of The Canterbury Tales • Considers the concept of literary value in a novel fashion, elucidating the complexity of the concept as it enters into the creative process • Explores the implications that the conditions of The Canterbury Tales manuscripts have for principles of interpretation of the work, focusing particularly on the state of the earliest manuscripts and the limits on interpretation that they suggest
296pp 1 table 9. 2021 9781108707435 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 10. 2019 9781108485661 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108757621
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Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion Glenn D. Burger
This collection conducts an intersectional investigation of affects, feelings, and emotions in non-religious late Middle English literatures. From Geoffrey Chaucer to Gavin Douglas, eight chapters by leading scholars examine the coexistence of emotion and affect in Late Medieval representations of feeling. • Proposes an intersectional approach to affect, feeling and emotion in late Medieval English literature • Does not confine the study of affect to pious works but applies them to secular literature • Examines works by authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer and Gavin Douglas
263pp 4 b/w illus. 3. 2021 9781108458887 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 4. 2019 9781108471961 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108672474
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Middle English Mouths Late Medieval Medical, Religious and Literary Traditions Katie L. Walter | University of Sussex
Through new readings of canonical Middle English texts in relation to broader traditions and practices of the body and the senses, knowledge and ethics, this study offers an original contribution towards a history both of the human body and of medieval Christianity. • The first full length monograph study of the centrality of the mouth to Middle English thought • Focuses on the ‘everyday’ body rather than the extreme or grotesque • Offers new readings of canonical Middle English writers including Geoffrey Chaucer and Julian of Norwich
272pp 4. 2021 9781108445290 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 29.99 6. 2018 9781108426619 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108551106
English literature - Renaissance and early modern to 1700 A Short History of Shakespeare in Performance From the Restoration to the Twenty-First Century Richard Schoch | Queen’s University Belfast
This short history of Shakespeare in global performance-from the re-opening of London theatres upon the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to our present multicultural day-provides a comprehensive overview of Shakespeare’s theatrical afterlife and introduces categories of analysis and understanding to make that afterlife intellectually meaningful. 75pp 5. 2021 9781108714440 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108625838
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A User’s Guide to Melancholy Mary Ann Lund | University of Leicester
A User’s Guide to Melancholy takes Robert Burton’s encyclopaedic masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy as a guide to melancholy, from cause to cure. Through case studies, it explores a Renaissance disease of the mind that inclined its sufferers towards sadness and fear but also delusion, despair, hilarity, and artistic creativity. • Introduces a new generation of readers to The Anatomy of Melancholy 400 years after its first publication • Offers an accessible and digestible text to readers without special training in the history of medicine or the Renaissance period • Provides a detailed exploration of the history of mental health as it was approached in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century England, using case studies as focal points 268pp 2. 2021 9781108838849 Hardback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108978996
Boxes and Books in Early Modern England Materiality, Metaphor, Containment Lucy Razzall
Razzall offers close readings of literary texts alongside artefacts from chests to book-bindings and reliquaries, to reveal the importance of the box as object and idea in early modern culture. This book is for students and researchers in English Literature, History, and Art History, as well as book historians and librarians. • Explores the box as object and idea in early modern culture • Brings scholarship on the Reformation together with perspectives on material culture • Sheds new light on the relationships between early modern literature and material culture. 290pp 8. 2021 9781108831338 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108916912
Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare’s World Rethinking Female Adolescence Caroline Bicks | University of Maine, Orono
Mining a variety of genres from Shakespearean plays and medical texts to autobiographical writings, Bicks demonstrates how early moderns depicted female puberty as a transformative event that activated girls’ cognitive faculties in dynamic ways, gifting them with the ability to invent, judge, and remember what others could or would not. • Provides new readings of Shakespeare’s girls that make Shakespeare relevant to current debates about female empowerment • Gives little-known examples of how early moderns depicted the gendered changes to the brain at puberty • Includes a chapter on the rarely discussed autobiographical writings of Catholic pioneer Mary Ward and extensive readings of two rarely studied accounts of Mary Glover’s possession
Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture Feeling and Practice Kristine Steenbergh | Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
For readers interested in exploring the history of emotional responses to suffering, this volume describes the theory and practice of compassion in the context of early modern Europe’s sectarian strife, and will engage those looking to make connections between early modern history and our present political moment. • Provides examples of early modern compassion in theory and practice • Explores the place of literary texts and of reading in the history of emotions • Contextualises the literature of compassion in a variety of European traditions 290pp 4. 2021 9781108495394 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108862172
Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany Sarah Neville | Ohio State University
Herbals, books describing the characteristics and uses of plants, were extraordinarily popular as a genre in early modern England. Illuminating the herbal’s rich material history and its remarkable popularity across the social spectrum, Sarah Neville reveals the close relationship between print culture and the construction of scientific authority. • Offers a valuable resource for students and scholars of book history, explaining how stationer behavior accounted for the emergence of early printed material through a detailed history of the patent system prior to and following the incorporation of the Stationers’ Company in 1557 • Invites interdisciplinary engagement with book history, explaining early modern print culture to historians of science and helping book historians situate works of premodern science in the fluctuating circumstances that defined the first eight decades of English printing • Shows that authorship itself generated commercial effects, extending Foucault’s theory of the ‘author-function’ to offer a theoretical rationale capable of accommodating material texts alongside verbal and linguistic works and thereby making textual theory and bibliography legible to historians in other fields • This book is also available as Open Access 290pp 3. 2022 9781316515990 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009031615
300pp 7. 2021 9781108844215 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108933919
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George Herbert: 100 Poems
John Donne in Context
George Herbert
Michael Schoenfeldt | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
This selection of one hundred poems by one of the greatest devotional poets in the English language, George Herbert, is designed for readers to enjoy the verse for its beauty, spirituality and humanity. The book is simply and elegantly designed, and includes a preface introducing key features of Herbert’s poetry. • Allows the reader to enjoy a wide range of lyric poems from George Herbert - one of the greatest devotional poets in the English language • Offers an authoritative text of one hundred of Herbert’s lyric poems in the original spelling and layout • Beautifully presented, this collection makes an ideal gift for poetry lovers and Herbert fans alike
Short, lively, and eminently readable chapters, written by leading experts in early modern studies, illuminate various aspects of Donne’s life, work, career, and reputation. These engaging chapters are supplemented by a chronology of Donne’s life and works and a comprehensive bibliography. • Delivers a comprehensive overview of the life and works of John Donne, and the social and intellectual contexts that his writing draws on • Provides a wide range of scholarly yet accessible chapters written by leading scholars in early modern studies • The collection is supported by a chronology of John Donne’s life and works and an extensive bibliography
183pp 4. 2021 9781009011891 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 14.95 5. 2016 9781107151451 Hardback GBP 13.99 / USD 18.95 eISBN 9781316584910
396pp 9 b/w illus. 3. 2021 9781009010481 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 32.99 3. 2019 9781107043503 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781107338593
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‘Hamlet’ and World Cinema Mark Thornton Burnett | Queen’s University Belfast
Making a case for Hamlet as the world’s most frequently filmed text, and using specially commissioned interviews with cast, directors and screenwriters, ‘Hamlet’ and World Cinema reveals a rich history of cinematic production. This book will appeal to students studying Shakespeare in performance and film and media studies. • Introduces the canon of international cinematic adaptations of Hamlet and explores the depth and diversity of the world’s most filmed text • Contextual discussion of the relationship between politics and Shakespearean adaptation aids appreciation of how world cinema refracts and negotiates contemporary conflict • Features rare illustrations which allow visual engagement with the argument
307pp 25 b/w illus. 3. 2021 9781316501306 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 7. 2019 9781107135505 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316471708
Hunger, Appetite and the Politics of the Renaissance Stage Matt Williamson | Universitetet i Oslo
Matthew Williamson explores the role of hunger and appetite in political debate as it was enacted on the early modern stage. Considering a range of canonical and non-canonical early modern drama, this book engages with key Renaissance literary themes ranging from revolt and colonialism to hospitality, gender and class. • Foregrounds the drives of hunger and appetite, revealing how the representation of food is bound up with the forces of polarisation and expansion shaping early modern society • Considers canonical figures such as Shakespeare and Jonson alongside lesser-known writers such as John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, offering a more nuanced understanding of the role of food in early modern theatre • Emphasises the early modern playhouse as a space devoted to the theatrical representation and physical sale of food, shedding new light on processes of performativity and identification 280pp 6. 2021 9781108832069 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108937672
Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of SixteenthCentury English Love Poetry Lascivious Poets Linda Grant | Royal Holloway, University of London
A dedicated study of how classical Latin erotic elegy was read in the Renaissance and helped shape the emergence of English love poetry. This book will be of interest to scholars of early modern literature and classical literature, in particular love, gender, sex and the body. • Offers fresh and original readings of both Latin and Renaissance poetry as well as exploring the sometimes surprising and unexpected connections between them • Widens the contours of erotic love and revitalises the debates about what love is, does and means in literary terms • Develops and extends reception methodology to revitalise how we think about the relationships and points of intertextual contacts between texts
271pp 7. 2021 9781108725644 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 8. 2019 9781108493864 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108663847
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Literature and Nature in the English Renaissance An Ecocritical Anthology Todd Andrew Borlik | University of Huddersfield
This anthology delivers a panoramic survey of English Renaissance texts concerned with nature and natural history. Primary sources from all corners of society cover an extensive range of topics, all of which are supported by editorial apparatus including glossaries, chronologies and guides to further reading. • Compendium of over two hundred primary sources that demonstrates the broad range of environmental representations in English renaissance literature • Provides fresh perspectives on the environmental issues of early modern England, such as population growth and protoindustrialisation • Supported by a range of editorial apparatus including introductions to each text, guides to further reading, glossaries and chronologies of environmental events and literature 624pp 3. 2021 9781316649534 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 39.99 6. 2019 9781316510155 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108224901
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Material Texts in Early Modern England Adam Smyth | Balliol College, Oxford
What was a book in early modern England? Material Texts in Early Modern England focuses on neglected bibliographical cultures, including cutting, destruction, recycling, and errors. It explores how authors including Herbert, Milton, and Cavendish responded to this rich bibliographical context. • Connects the study of the early modern book to literary texts of the same period, appealing to both literary scholars and book historians • Re-examines the nature of the book in the early modern period, revising established narratives about the history of the book and of print culture • Brings together meticulous archival work and literary reading, allowing this book to be used for different purposes 221pp 4 tables 4. 2021 9781108431774 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 1. 2018 9781108421324 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108367868
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Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England Heather James | University of Southern California
Addressing early modern scholars, classicists, historians, literary critics and scholars of imitation and adaptation of all levels, this book reveals how the work of Ovid, poet-philosopher of literary innovation and the liberty of speech, catalysed the extraordinary rise of new and audacious poetic forms during the English Renaissance. • Emphasizes, in contrast to the standard critical model of male competition, the collaboration and collective enterprise that took place among those early modern writers who engaged in classical imitation and innovation • Identifies the liberty of speech as the galvanizing principle of poetic innovation in the English Renaissance, proposing a new view of the relationship between early modern poetry and political philosophy • Establishes Ovid’s simultaneously creative and polemical form of engagement with literary and social history and accounts for his status as the most imitated and adapted poet of the Augustan age in Renaissance England 320pp 7. 2021 9781108487627 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108767484
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Performances at Court in the Age of Shakespeare Sophie Chiari
Shakespeare wrote most of his plays with a court audience in mind. This volume sheds fresh light on court entertainment and provides fascinating insights into what was then a multimedia phenomenon encompassing dance, music and performance. It will appeal to scholars and graduate students of early modern theatre. • Introduces and analyses specific dimensions of performances at court in the early modern period, including music, dance, architecture, painted cloths and shows within • Offers recent and innovative research on aristocratic entertainment in Shakespeare’s time from literary, historical, cultural and political perspectives • Features chapters on Shakespeare’s predecessors as well as his contemporaries, with a special focus on Ben Jonson 294pp 2 b/w illus. 1 table 9. 2021 9781108708180 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 10. 2019 9781108486675 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108761543
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Milton’s Visual Imagination Imagery in Paradise Lost Stephen B. Dobranski | Georgia State University
Critics have traditionally thought of John Milton as an author who wrote for the ear more than the eye. In Milton’s Visual Imagination, Stephen B. Dobranski proposes that, on the contrary, Milton enriches his biblical source text with acute and sometimes astonishing visual details. • Presents a detailed and thorough analysis of Milton’s visual techniques in Paradise Lost, arguably the greatest single poem written in English • Uncovers new cultural and historical evidence that sheds light on the meaning of Milton’s individual descriptions • Situates Milton’s visual strategies in the context of early modern and classical debates about the relative power of verbal expression and visual art 233pp 12 b/w illus. 7. 2021 9781107476240 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99
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Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England
Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare
Actor, Audience and Performance Simon Smith | Simon Smith
Stationers Shaping a Genre Amy Lidster | King’s College London
This book presents the latest research on - and freshest approaches to - the early modern theatre, from an international team of leading scholars. Its novel methodology brings together theatre history, literary criticism and performance studies, making it essential reading for all students and scholars working on Shakespeare and early modern drama. • Offers a new view of early modern drama through the lens of playing and playgoing that will prove invaluable for students and researchers of Shakespeare and of the theatre of this period • Brings together literary criticism, theatre history and performance studies in its approach to early modern drama, offering rich interdisciplinary insights into dramatic texts as well as theatre and performance culture • Provides a range of authoritative and varied perspectives and draws on alternative methodological and theoretical approaches to offer an original and compelling account of early modern drama and performance
For scholars and students of Shakespeare Studies, Book History and Early Modern Drama, this book overturns how we understand the relationships between history plays on the stage and in print, between history plays and the period’s historical culture and politics, and between publication and the construction of genre. • The first study of the early modern history play to examine the genre through the publication process, combining the traditionally divergent methodologies of book history and genre criticism • Upends conventional understandings of genre and its construction, revealing how book history can be used to examine genre and demonstrating the importance of evaluating the history play both on the stage and on the page • Offers detailed readings of history plays alongside the non-dramatic publications of their stationers in order to show how dramatic and non-dramatic publications responded to each other within the geopolitics of the book trade in early modern London
350pp 12. 2021 9781108489058 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108773775
Plays 1682–1696 Volume 4 The Plays 1682–1696 Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) is renowned as the first professional woman of literature and drama in English. Best-known for her plays, she also wrote fiction, poetry, and translations, and edited verse collections. This edition includes comprehensively introduced and fully annotated texts of all works known or plausibly believed to be hers. • Provides fully annotated, trustworthy texts of the works of Aphra Behn (1682-1696), incorporating the latest scholarship • Detailed introductions place Behn’s works in literary and historical contexts, provides a knowledgeable guide both to Behn’s work and to the literary and political cultures of the Restoration • Incorporates cutting-edge research on authorship analysis, informed by both literary and Digital Humanities approaches, enabling readers to evaluate the likely authorship of dubious works that have been historically attributed to Behn 954pp 11 b/w illus. 3. 2021 9781108840743 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108887564
280pp 3. 2022 9781316517253 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009043656
Robert Lepage’s Intercultural Encounters Christie Carson
This study returns to the origins of Robert Lepage’s directorial work and his first cross-cultural interaction with a Shakespearean text to provide some background for his later work. This early work is situated within the political and social context of Quebec and Canada in the 1980s.
75pp 2. 2021 9781108940481 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108938730
Shakespeare and Lost Plays Reimagining Drama in Early Modern England David McInnis | University of Melbourne
Shakespeare and Lost Plays returns Shakespeare’s dramatic work to its most immediate and (arguably) important context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us, revisiting key moments in Shakespeare’s career to provide a richer, more accurate picture of dramatic activity than has hitherto been possible. • Reassesses the value of lost plays, asking how attending to these could shape our perception of early modern drama • Considers a variety of ways to grapple with the problem of lost, imperceptible, or ignored texts • Provides a richer, more accurate picture of dramatic activity by revisiting key moments in Shakespeare’s career and the development of the Chamberlain’s (later King’s) Men 234pp 3. 2021 9781108843263 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108915250
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Shakespeare and Textual Studies
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Shakespeare for Freedom
Margaret Jane Kidnie | University of Western Ontario
Why the Plays Matter Ewan Fernie | Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham
This cutting-edge and comprehensive collection gathers contributions from the leading specialists in the fields of manuscript and textual studies, book history, editing, and digital humanities to provide a comprehensive reassessment of how manuscript, print and digital practices have shaped the body of works that we now call ‘Shakespeare’. • Contributors include a wide range of experts, from Shakespeare editors, to manuscript and textual scholars, book historian and digital humanities specialists • Presents the latest evidence about the treatment of Shakespeare’s texts in the early modern period and identifies the legacies of older theories and practices in current approaches • Discusses the transmission of Shakespeare’s texts through manuscript, print and digital technologies and explains the impact of archival research upon the editing of Shakespeare
337pp 4. 2021 9781107577251 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 32.99 3. 2017 9781107130852 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 57.99 eISBN 9781316452134
448pp 34 b/w illus. 6. 2021 9781009045490 Paperback GBP 23.00 / USD 35.00 11. 2015 9781107023741 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781139152259
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Shakespeare and the Admiral’s Men Reading across Repertories on the London Stage, 1594–1600 Tom Rutter | University of Sheffield
This book examines the two-way influence between Shakespeare and his company’s main competitors in the 1590s, the Admiral’s Men. Providing a valuable addition to the thriving field of repertory studies, it offers new insights into Shakespeare’s development as well as readings of important, sometimes neglected plays by his contemporaries. • Enhances the understanding of Shakespeare’s relationships with his contemporaries by offering new insights into the influence of Admiral’s Men dramatists on Shakespeare, and his influence on them • Offers a critical survey of plays by a single acting company, the Admiral’s Men, and provides an essential point of reference for the understudied plays of A Knack to Know an Honest Man, Captain Thomas Stukeley and The Two Angry Women of Abington • Provides a useful introduction to the wider critical discourse in repertory studies 236pp 4. 2021 9781107434387 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 2. 2017 9781107077430 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781139924870
Shakespeare for Freedom presents a powerful, plausible and political argument for Shakespeare’s meaning and value. It ranges across the breadth of the Shakespeare phenomenon, offering a new interpretation not just of the characters and plays but also of the part they have played in theatre, criticism, civic culture and politics. • Offers a powerful, plausible and political argument for the meaning and value of Shakespeare • Written in an accessible style which will appeal to a broad readership • Incorporates an extremely wide field of reference, recovering a more exciting and engaged Shakespeare from neglected radical and European traditions
Shakespeare in Print A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing Second edition Andrew Murphy | Trinity College Dublin
Described by The Library as ‘a genuinely awesome achievement’, this volume now appears in a revised and expanded edition which brings the history of Shakespeare publishing vividly to life, offering a masterful historical overview and revealing the greater cultural significance of the ways in which Shakespeare’s work has been disseminated. • Remains the only single volume history of Shakespeare publishing and editing covering the entire period from the 1590s to the present • In this new edition, the history of digital Shakespeare publishing is tracked for the first time • Completely new opening chapters provide a thorough, comprehensive account of early modern publishing in London 668pp 5. 2021 9781108838009 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781108936927
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Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear Victoria Bladen | University of Queensland
Offers up-to-date coverage of screen versions of King Lear, featuring films, TV productions, translations, free retellings and appropriations from around the world. This book will appeal to libraries and specialists working on King Lear in courses within Shakespeare studies, Shakespeare in performance and Shakespeare on screen. • An in-depth study of Shakespeare’s King Lear on screen, showing the enduring relevance of the play and the themes it tackles • Explores films and TV productions from the US and UK and explores translations, free retellings and appropriations from Japan, Australia, France, Poland and Russia • Emphasizes the new media, transmedia and constant evolution of technologies in the production, reception and dissemination of ‘Shakespeare on film’ 276pp 13 b/w illus. 8. 2021 9781108446891 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 9. 2019 9781108426923 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108589727
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Shakespeare Survey
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream Volume 65 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Peter Holland | University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Volume 69 Shakespeare and Rome Peter Holland | University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production which has published the best international scholarship in English since 1948. The theme for Volume 65 is ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at http://www.cambridge.org/online/ shakespearesurvey. 558pp 52 b/w illus. 4. 2021 9781009013338 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 37.99 11. 2012 9781107024519 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781139170000
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Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production which has published the best international scholarship in English since 1948. The theme for Volume 69 is ‘Shakespeare and Rome’. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at http://www.cambridge.org/ online/shakespearesurvey. • Each volume is devoted to the year’s theme • Each volume contains reviews of critical books and theatre performances
521pp 65 b/w illus. 4. 2021 9781316611869 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 37.99 10. 2016 9781107159068 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781316670408
Shakespeare Survey Working with Shakespeare Volume 66 Working with Shakespeare Peter Holland
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production which has published the best international scholarship in English since 1948. The theme for Volume 66 is ‘Working with Shakespeare’. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at http://www.cambridge.org/online/ shakespearesurvey.
485pp 39 b/w illus. 4. 2021 9781009013635 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 34.99 11. 2013 9781107041738 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781107300699
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Shakespeare Survey 70 Creating Shakespeare Volume 70 Peter Holland | University of Notre Dame, Indiana
The seventieth volume in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The articles are drawn from the World Shakespeare Congress, held 400 years after Shakespeare’s death in July/August 2016 in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. The theme is ‘Creating Shakespeare’.
416pp 4. 2021 9781108405027 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 34.99 12. 2017 9781108417440 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 121.00 eISBN 9781108277648
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Shakespeare Survey Volume 67 Shakespeare’s Collaborative Work Peter Holland | University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and productions which has published the best international scholarship in English since 1948. The theme for Volume 67 is ‘Shakespeare’s Collaborative Work’. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at http://www. cambridge.org/online/shakespearesurvey.
526pp 43 b/w illus. 4. 2021 9781107417168 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 37.99 10. 2014 9781107071544 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00 eISBN 9781107775572
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Shakespeare Survey 71 Re-Creating Shakespeare Volume 71 Peter Holland | University of Notre Dame, Indiana
The 71st in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production. The theme is ‘Re-Creating Shakespeare’. • The 71st in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production
440pp 65 b/w illus. 4 tables 4. 2021 9781108456722 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 34.99 10. 2018 9781108470834 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781108557177
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Shakespeare Survey Volume 68 Shakespeare, Origins and Originality Peter Holland | University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production which has published the best international scholarship in English since 1948. The theme for Volume 68 is ‘Shakespeare, Origins and Originality’. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at http://www. cambridge.org/online/shakespearesurvey.
487pp 35 b/w illus. 4. 2021 9781107519770 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 9. 2015 9781107108844 Hardback GBP 119.00 / USD 166.95 eISBN 9781316258736
Shakespeare and Education Emma Smith | University of Oxford
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. The theme for Volume 74 is ‘Shakespeare and Education’. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/ collections/shakespeare-survey. • The 74th in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production • The lively theme of Shakespeare and Education occupies most of the articles in this issue • A substantial review section covers books published on Shakespeare during 2019 and productions throughout the UK 650pp 9. 2021 9781316517123 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115.00 eISBN 9781009036795
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Shakespeare, Popularity and the Public Sphere Jeffrey S. Doty | University of North Texas
When Shakespeare emphasized the importance of winning popular opinion, he offered ordinary playgoers a new understanding of power: to succeed, politicians needed the assent of the people. This book argues that Shakespeare’s dramatization of ‘popularity’ encouraged playgoers to understand public relations tactics and that it underlined their role in a critical public sphere. • An innovative study of Shakespeare’s theatre as a major institution within the early modern public sphere • Connects Shakespeare to modern political culture through his attention to popularity and public relations • Offers a theoretically nuanced account of the public sphere by exploring how ordinary playgoers engaged with Elizabethan and Jacobean politics through the plays they watched • Bridges recent studies in early modern historiography with Shakespeare studies, with a particular focus on political communication/publics 218pp 13 b/w illus. 4. 2021 9781316615164 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 1. 2017 9781107163379 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781316681312
Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe Andrew Hiscock | Bangor University
Providing close readings of Shakespeare’s history plays, compelling insights into late Elizabethan politics and renewed attention to neglected contemporary accounts of Elizabeth I from across Europe, this book uncovers the truly international environment through which the final years of the last Tudor monarch should be understood. • Uncovers the dilemmas and traumas of late sixteenth-century England, demonstrating the close connection between Shakespeare’s dramatic art and the power play of Elizabethan politics during the 1590s • Releases Shakespeare from a solidly Anglophone tradition of English literature, showing how European dramatists, librettists, poets and prose writers re-imagined Elizabeth, Ralegh, Essex and Shakespeare for audiences and readers in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries • Places Shakespearean drama and Elizabethan political life in conversation with modern theoretical debate concerning brutality, victimization, complicity and the status and function of violence itself 290pp 4. 2022 9781108830188 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 105.00 eISBN 9781108909464
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Shakespeare’s Dialectic of Hope From the Political to the Utopian Hugh Grady | Arcadia University, Pennsylvania
This study charts how Shakespeare’s early fascination with power developed into the profoundly optimistic utopian visions suffusing his later tragicomedies. Hugh Grady shows how five of Shakespeare’s most important plays presciently confront dilemmas of an emerging modernity, diagnosing and indicting instrumental politics and capitalism. • Makes concrete the dialectical connection between Shakespeare’s earlier political dramas (histories and most tragedies) with the late plays or tragicomedies which concluded his career • Demonstrates how the political and the aesthetic-utopian work not only as binary opposites but instantiate a dialectical process in which one develops a counter-concept that completes and fulfils the other • Reveals how five of Shakespeare’s most important plays – Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest – presciently confront dilemmas of an emerging modernity, enabling new and surprising symbioses between political and aesthetic critical concepts 280pp 4. 2022 9781009098090 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009106986
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Shakespeare’s Englishes Against Englishness Margaret Tudeau-Clayton | Université de Neuchatel, Switzerland
This urgent and original book shows how Shakespeare’s early comedies and the second tetralogy of history plays resist an emergent exclusionary idea of (the) ‘true’ English with its attendant violence towards others, proposing rather an inclusive idea of ‘our English’. • Provides a range of fresh historical contexts for analysis of Shakespeare’s linguistic practices and an original argument about their cultural and ideological significance • Proposes original readings of several plays, notably The Merry Wives of Windsor and the second tetralogy of history plays • Offers new readings of many specific words and phrases used by Shakespeare 255pp 3 b/w illus. 1 table 9. 2021 9781108725460 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 10. 2019 9781108493734 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108643245
Skepticism in Early Modern English Literature
A New History of the Shakespearean Text Molly G. Yarn
The Problems and Pleasures of Doubt Anita Gilman Sherman | American University, Washington DC
From novelists and professors to suffragists and Irish revolutionaries, Shakespeare’s women editors lived extraordinary lives and produced editions that, throughout England and America, were read and used by people of all ages. This compelling book draws on book history, literary studies and women’s history alike to tell their remarkable stories. • Rewrites and reassesses the Shakespearean editorial tradition, drawing on unpublished archival material and previously undervalued books to revive the lives and work of nearly seventy women editors of Shakespeare • Makes editorial history and textual studies accessible and relatable by focusing on biography and storytelling alongside incisive textual and historical analysis • Compiles new data in two detailed appendices, offering valuable new reference material and opening exciting avenues for future research
Skeptical doubt – a foundation of modernity – inspired the burst of artistic creativity illuminating the age of Shakespeare. Literary and philosophical innovation flourished when writers like Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Cavendish, Marvell and Milton channeled their skeptical questions and doubts, forever changing the face of English literature. • Provides a more holistic view of early modern skepticism, showing how it influences conditions of human possibility represented in literature • Organized around key topics on skepticism, including nominalism, fantasies of private language, illusions of neutrality, parodies of sovereignty, and exercises in aesthetic discrimination • Offers an extended chronological account, allowing readers to see the varied effects and shaping influence of skepticism in history and literature over time
280pp 12. 2021 9781316518359 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009000307
300pp 4. 2021 9781108842662 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108903813
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Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War
Altered Bodies and Contexts of Identity Alanna Skuse | University of Reading
David Loewenstein
This pioneering account offers a new perspective on debates concerning embodiment in the early modern period, examining the varied experiences of those who underwent surgical alteration as a starting point for discussing questions of personal integrity, morality, and resurrection. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. • First scholarly examination of post-mastectomy embodiment in early modern England • First detailed scholarly examination of phantom limb pain prior to the nineteenth century • Demonstrates the extent of variation in early modern approaches to embodiment • Open Access title available through Cambridge Core 220pp 2. 2021 9781108843614 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108919395
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The Afterlife of Shakespeare’s Sonnets Jane Kingsley-Smith | Roehampton University, London
This is a unique study of how readers have engaged with Shakespeare’s Sonnets over four centuries. Jane Kingsley-Smith reveals the fascinating cultural history of individual Sonnets and explores their belated entry into the Shakespeare canon. The work will appeal to specialists in Shakespeare studies, English poetry and Renaissance literature. • Examines the scholarly editions and anthologies through which the Sonnets were presented to the world, as well as the poetry, prose fiction and drama which they inspired • Challenges the division of the Sonnets between those directed to a man and those directed to a woman, opening up questions of their meaning in terms of gender, sexuality and race • Argues that Shakespeare’s cultural status was achieved at the expense of his poems, encouraging readers to consider how the poetry fits into the construction of the Shakespeare icon
296pp 7 b/w illus. 7. 2021 9781009060066 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 8. 2019 9781107170650 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316756683
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race Ayanna Thompson | Arizona State University
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. After reading this collection, lovers and skeptics of Shakespeare will better understand the historical materials that document early modern constructions of race and the contemporary performances that have altered them. • Provides a new analytical tool for understanding Shakespeare, especially for younger students who want to understand the history of race formation • Offers clearly written and accessible content in order to appeal to a diverse audience • Topics covered in chapters are wide-ranging, making the text useful in almost every Shakespeare classroom 280pp 2. 2021 9781108710565 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 2. 2021 9781108492119 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108684750
Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War illuminates the ways Shakespeare’s works provide a rich and imaginative resource for thinking about the topic of war in all its complexity. • Offers a broad treatment of Shakespeare and war, a topic featured in one-third of Shakespeare’s plays • Highlights why Shakespeare’s perspectives on war and its consequences continue to matter now and in the future • Features a distinguished line-up of contributing authors 320pp 9. 2021 9781108464963 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 9. 2021 9781316510971 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316998106
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The Restoration Transposed Poetry, Place and History, 1660–1700 Gillian Wright | University of Birmingham
Countering stereotypes of Restoration poetry as the topical preoccupations of elite London-based men, this book demonstrates how the period established English as a historically-conscious and diverse global literature. Appealing to scholars and students of early modern, long eighteenth-century literature, eco-criticism and women’s literature. • Offers extensive discussion of overlooked aspects of Restoration literature: its interest in literary history, the growth of Irish poetry, and poetry about the natural world • Highlights the pivotal role of female authors, integrating writing by and about women into a broader narrative of literary history • Wide ranging, covering many little-known writers and offering new perspectives on canonical poets such as Dryden, Rochester, Cowley, Milton, Marvell and Behn
277pp 9. 2021 9781108713757 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 10. 2019 9781108493970 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108624817
World-Making Renaissance Women Rethinking Early Modern Women’s Place in Literature and Culture Pamela S. Hammons | University of Miami
The sixteen women discussed in this collection were world-makers whose craft influenced cultural practice so incisively that their shaping authority can be traced far beyond their moment. For scholars and students of English literature, this volume shows why Renaissance culture cannot be rightly understood when women writers are ignored. • Puts early modern women at the centre of the study of early modern literature and culture, tracing the startling range of world-shaping contributions they made during this period • Discusses canonical and lesser-known women writers side-by-side, with analyses ranging from Aphra Behn and Margaret Cavendish to Mary Carey and Katherine Austen • Offers an invaluable interdisciplinary resource for scholars and students not only of the Renaissance but also of poetry, drama, literary history, the history of philosophy, manuscript culture, feminisms, queer theories, geographical approaches and religion and literature 300pp 11. 2021 9781108831154 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108923385
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English literature (general) Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction Sherryl Vint | University of California, Riverside
This book demonstrates how developments in biotechnology such as cloning, synthetic biology, surrogate pregnancies, organ transplants and more have significant implications for personhood, ethics, and governance. Drawing attention to the commodification of life, it shows how the biological functions of life itself are shaped to economic agendas. • Provides readings of fiction firmly grounded in contemporary scientific practice • Engages with a robust understanding of posthumanist theory, including critiques of posthumanism • Provides a biopolitical theorization of the risks of biological commodification 280pp 10. 2021 9781108839006 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108979382
Poetry and Bondage A History and Theory of Lyric Constraint Andrea Brady | Queen Mary University of London
Tracing metaphors of bondage in poetry from Ovid through the present day, Poetry and Bondage analyses the contributions of bound people to the history of the lyric. It brings canonical and contemporary poets together with the songs of the plantation and the lyrics of mass incarceration. • Offers new readings of canonical writers including Thomas Wyatt, Emily Dickinson, William Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Algernon Swinburne, Ovid, Christopher Marlowe, and Phillis Wheatley, alongside contemporary poets • Analyses the history of lyric from ancient Rome through the present day • Scrutinises the way that white critics and scholars have interpreted lyric poems, including by Black poets and singers, in ways that reproduce the privileges of whiteness 400pp 10. 2021 9781108845724 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108990684
Humour in Verse
The Cambridge Companion to Prose
An Anthology
Daniel Tyler | University of Oxford
W. E. Slater
Suitable for students of English literature and creative writing alike, this book is an introduction to the techniques of good prose writing. Written in an engaging style by eminent scholars, critics, novelists, and biographers, it is a handbook on the art of prose as exemplified by the best writers of fiction and creative non-fiction. • Draws on a wide historical (and geographical) range of literature • Individual chapters are suitable for use in various courses and classroom contexts • Avoids technical language, making the book engaging, accessible and more thoroughgoing in its discussions
Originally published in 1937, this anthology of humorous poems was created for the younger reader as a supplement to the more serious material found in numerous school anthologies. The guiding principle of the text is that ‘Wit, as much as the passions, claims its place in poetry, and, in English particularly, enjoys the honour of a great tradition.’ 140pp 9. 2021 9781316601723 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 26.99 eISBN 9781316551325
Modern British Nature Writing, 1789–2020 Land Lines Will Abberley | University of Sussex
Why has nature writing gained such popularity at a time of unprecedented ecological destruction? Guided by this question, this book offers an informed critical approach to modern British nature writing for specialist readers, as well as providing a valuable guide for general readers concerned by an increasingly diminished natural world. • Provides a critical overview of British nature writing from the Romantic period onwards that will benefit specialist and general readers alike. • Convincingly proposes a new understanding of British nature writing as conflict-driven, challenging the prevailing view of the genre as celebratory or compensatory. • Offers fresh readings of classic texts by Romantic, Victorian and Modern/ Contemporary authors, applying state-of-the-art critical and theoretical perspectives.
300pp 9. 2021 9781108940580 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 9. 2021 9781108837408 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108939201
300pp 2. 2022 9781107191327 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108123396
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The Cambridge Guide to Reading Poetry
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The Cambridge History of the English Short Story
Andrew Hodgson | University of Birmingham
Dominic Head | University of Nottingham
Aimed at students and readers of poetry at all levels, The Cambridge Guide to Reading Poetry takes a tour through a galaxy of examples, demonstrating how to come to terms with poetry’s verbal, formal, emotional, and conceptual power. It shows how reading poems enhances our enjoyment and understanding of life. • Demonstrates how reading and discussing a poem enriches our experience and understanding of life and shows – even before engaging with more technical aspects of analysis – that poetry matters • Furnishes students with an array of differing approaches to the challenge of unlocking a poem, providing worked examples and taking the reader through the process of rising to that challenge • Puts readers at ease by showing the ‘difficulty’ of poetry to be something felt by everyone, and to be part of what makes it rewarding • Reveals through worked examples how technical questions are always bound up with what a poem has to say and show us, thus training students to see metre and rhyme as means of expression and not merely matter for dry analysis • Fires enthusiasm for the sheer variety of poetry in English by introducing examples from the medieval period to the present and from a variety of geographical regions, offering students starting points for their own independent exploration • Helps
This is the first volume to capture the literary history of the English short story. Written by international experts, it seeks to overcome obstacles that have hindered this venture by providing readers with a chronological account of the short story from its origins to the present day. • Presents the first comprehensive analysis of the short story in England in one volume • Combines a chronological survey with a thorough account of different generic forms to facilitate an understanding of how forms and techniques have evolved • Provides readers with an exhaustive overview of the short story to encourage comparative study
250pp 10. 2021 9781108824125 Paperback GBP 15.99 / USD 19.95 10. 2021 9781108843249 Hardback GBP 65.00 / USD 80.00 eISBN 9781108915212 NEW IN PAPERBACK
The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature 2 Volume Paperback Set Ato Quayson | University of Toronto
The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature is the first major collaborative overview of the field. Chapters cover the most important national traditions, as well as more comparative geographical and thematic frameworks. This major reference work will set the future agenda for the field, synthesising its development for scholars and students. • Proposes a re-mapping of the field of postcolonial literary history • Chapters cover a range of geographic and thematic concerns from a variety of critical approaches • Covers literature from Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe and Australasia 1424pp 4. 2021 9781108906562 Multiple copy pack GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9780511842375
The Cambridge History of the English Novel Robert L. Caserio | Pennsylvania State University
The Cambridge History of the English Novel chronicles a body of fiction over three centuries. An interwoven narrative of the novel’s development unfolds over more than fifty chapters, tracing lines of influence through thematic chapters and showing how the greatest authors shaped the genre. • A one-volume reference work on the novel from its eighteenth-century beginnings to the present day • Approach is by topic or theme: form and genre is discussed in detail in relation to many examples • Combines expert perspectives on the novel with clarity and readability, avoiding technical jargon 956pp 2 b/w illus. 1. 2021 9781108745437 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781139013796
669pp 10. 2021 9781316618042 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 11. 2016 9781107167421 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 142.95 eISBN 9781316711712
The Cambridge History of the Gothic Volume 3: Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Volume 3 Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Catherine Spooner | Lancaster University
Comprising twenty three essays by leading international scholars, this book is a key reference work for anyone studying twentieth and twentyfirst-century Gothic, from A-level students and teachers to senior academics. Resolutely interdisciplinary in its focus, it offers unparalleled range and coverage as well as cutting-edge critical approaches. • The first volume to offer a thorough and comprehensive historical overview of the Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries • Explores the Gothic in a range of different interdisciplinary contexts, reflecting upon the latest critical ideas • Demonstrates the extent to which Gothic both responds to, and is an active participant in, some of the most important historical events in Western civilisation 552pp 8. 2021 9781108472722 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781108624268
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The Cambridge World History of Lexicography John Considine | University of Alberta
This volume delivers the first comprehensive history of all the dictionaries which have been made across the world in the last five thousand years. Leading scholars provide insight into the dictionaries of hundreds of languages, and into the imaginative worlds of those who used or observed them. • Offers the first comprehensive account of the full history of lexicography spanning five thousand years • Provides a truly global history of dictionaries, covering about three hundred languages • Delivers engaging and accessible contributions from leading scholars in the field
973pp 7. 2021 9781316631119 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 41.99 8. 2019 9781107178861 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781316827437
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Literary theory Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental Justice Poetics of Dissent and Repair Janet Fiskio | Oberlin College, Ohio
Through an exploration of speculative pasts and futures, practices of dissent and mourning, and everyday inhabitation and social care, Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental Justice illuminates the ways that expressive cultures of frontline communities resist environmental racism while protecting and repairing the world. • Places climate justice within decolonial and reparative perspectives • Develops analysis of the ways that expressive cultures resist environmental racism and practice repair • Enriches the environmental humanities by integrating interdisciplinary perspectives from environmental justice, performance studies, ecocriticism, environmental ethics, and critical race theory in the context of climate disruption 290pp 4. 2021 9781108840675 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108886819
Ecosemiotic Landscape A Novel Perspective for the Toolbox of Environmental Humanities Almo Farina
The distinction between humans and the natural world is an artefact and more a matter of linguistic communication than a conceptual separation. This Element proposes ecosemiotics as an epistemological tool to better understand the relationship between human and natural processes.
75pp 2. 2021 9781108819374 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108872928
Italo Calvino’s Animals Anthropocene Stories Serenella Iovino | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Italo Calvino’s Animals explores Anthropocene animals through the visionary eyes of a classic modern author. Animals emerge as complex subjects and inhabitants of a world under siege. Beside them, another figure appears in the mirror: that of an anthropos without a capital A, epitome of subaltern humans with their challenges and inequalities.
75pp 9. 2021 9781009065306 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781009063586
Surrealism Natalya Lusty | University of Melbourne
Appealing to research students and specialist scholars, this book brings fresh perspectives to many of Surrealism’s enduring critical concepts and experimental practices by placing them within an expanded historical and geographical framework. The book’s interdisciplinary focus makes it relevant for a range of arts and humanities disciplines. • Situates Surrealism as an expansive international and historical movement • Applies an interdisciplinary focus to the study of surrealism as an artistic, political, and intellectual movement • Brings historical ideas and practices into conversation with recent critical concepts
The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities Jeffrey Cohen | George Washington University, Washington DC
This book offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the environmental humanities, an interdisciplinary movement that responds to a world reconfigured by climate change and its effects, from environmental racism and global migration to resource impoverishment. It addresses the 21st century recognition of an environmental crisis. • Provides a wide ranging overview of the best recent and historical work within the field • Written so that even students new to the field can understand what the environmental humanities are and why they matter • Articulates how the humanities have responded to a world experiencing the wide ranging effects of climate change 376pp 9. 2021 9781009017763 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 9. 2021 9781316510681 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009039369
The Cambridge Introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin Ken Hirschkop | University of Waterloo, Ontario
This introduction presents those interested in Mikhail Bakhtin with a compact, readable, and sophisticated exposition of his work, using the most up-to-date sources and relying on the new, scholarly editions of Bakhtin’s texts. It is a key resource for students and teachers of literary theory and any courses on Bakhtin. • Based on up-to-date sources and recent scholarly editions of Bakhtin’s work • Sets Bahtkin’s work in its historical context, helping readers better understand and appreciate Bakhtin’s originality as a thinker • Presents a clear, systematic and comprehensive account of Bakhtin’s work 250pp 9. 2021 9781107521094 Paperback GBP 16.99 / USD 24.99 9. 2021 9781107109049 Hardback GBP 50.00 / USD 75.00 eISBN 9781316266236
The Novel and the Problem of New Life Aaron Matz | Scripps College, California
The novel since the nineteenth century has displayed a thorny ambivalence toward the morality of procreation. This is the first study to examine in literature a problem that has long troubled philosophers, environmental thinkers, and so many people in everyday life. • Provides a literary examination of a problem that has long troubled philosophers, environmental thinkers, and so many people in everyday life • Tackles a broad scope: the mid-nineteenth century to the present • Written in clear, jargon-free prose 280pp 7. 2021 9781108839273 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108989718
350pp 8. 2021 9781108495684 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108862639
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The Virus Paradigm A Planetary Ecology of the Mind Roberto Marchesini
In recent years, the word ‘virus’ has lost its biological perimeter of reference to acquire a much broader – could say ‘paradigmatic’ – meaning. This Element aims to shed light on how virality has become the most powerful metaphor available to describe very different phenomena. 75pp 2. 2021 9781108965811 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108966160
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Ato Quayson | Stanford University, California
This book focuses on a comparative reading of tragedy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to postcolonial examples from Africa, India, Ireland, and the African-American tradition. It will appeal to a wide range of both specialists and nonspecialists alike. • Introduces different dimensions of literary and tragic theory step-by-step using ordinary-language explanations and detailed textual examples throughout • Provides many literary examples from a diverse range of sources and traditions from the Greeks, through Shakespeare, to various examples from the Global South • Provides good examples of cross-cultural and comparative literary study in action 346pp 1. 2021 9781108830980 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108921992
Wasteocene Stories from the Global Dump Marco Armiero | KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Traveling between Naples (Italy) and Agbogbloshie (Ghana), science fiction and epidemic outbreaks, this Element will take the readers into the bowels of the Wasteocene, but it will also indicate the commoning practices which are dismantling it. 75pp 5. 2021 9781108826747 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108920322
Literature - editions, texts Textbook
As You Like It Third edition William Shakespeare
Michael Hattaway’s introduction to this bestselling edition accounts for what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous. This third edition includes a new section on recent critical interpretations and on recent as well as past stage productions and films of the play, as well as fresh illustrations. • Features a fresh introductory section which brings the edition’s analysis of scholarly criticism and performance right up-to-date • Provides a revised reading list • Includes fresh illustrations 262pp 4. 2021 9781108969192 Paperback GBP 8.99 / USD 11.95 4. 2021 9781108838979 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99 eISBN 9781108979306
Sir Charles Grandison 4 Volume Set Samuel Richardson
The History of Sir Charles Grandison was the most important English courtship novel before Austen, hugely influencing the comedy of manners genre. This edition of Richardson’s final novel provides comprehensive general and textual introductions, indispensable for literary scholars of the period, along with extensive notes and annotations. • First scholarly edition of the novel in nearly fifty years. A new general and textual introduction significantly revises and advances understanding of the composition and printing history of Richardson’s final novel • Expansive notes allow readers to understand the novel in its historical and literary contexts, and provide scholars paths to follow for future research • Features Richardson’s original Historical Index, which is not included in any other modern edition 3000pp 10. 2021 9780521833066 4 Hardback books GBP 225.00 / USD 290.00 eISBN 9781139020312
The Inheritors and The Nature of a Crime Joseph Conrad
This volume offers scholars the first authoritative text of two works produced collaboratively by two of the most important modern British novelists. Long hard to obtain and frequently neglected by critics, each can now be appreciated both in its own right and as part of the two authors’ individual oeuvres. • The first critical edition of both texts, including extensive explanatory material and rich contextual information • Includes a wide-ranging Introduction that outlines the authors’ meeting, friendship and collaborative working methods, relates the texts to other works by the authors and outlines the texts’ early reception in both the UK and the USA • Provides extensive notes explicating allusions and expressions that are likely to escape or baffle the modern reader, shedding light on the social, political and intellectual contexts of the works’ production and reception 350pp 2. 2022 9781107016811 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781139061452
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The Works of John Webster Sir Thomas Wyatt, Westward Ho, Northward Ho, The Fair Maid of the Inn Volume 4 Sir Thomas Wyatt, Westward Ho, Northward Ho, The Fair Maid of the Inn David Gunby | University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
This is the fourth and final volume of the Cambridge edition of the complete works of John Webster. This final volume contains four plays that Webster wrote in collaboration: Sir Thomas Wyatt, Westward Ho, Northward Ho and The Fair Maid of the Inn. • This edition preserves the original spelling of all the plays, poetry and prose • Integrates theatrical aspects of the plays with their bibliographical and literary features • Provides a brief biography, illustrations and a critical, textual and, for the drama, theatrical history of each work 672pp 3. 2021 9781009010597 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 39.99 5. 2019 9780521766012 Hardback GBP 130.00 / USD 170.00 eISBN 9781139015585
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Publishing, printing history, history of the book Aboriginal Writers and Popular Fiction The Literature of Anita Heiss Fiannuala Morgan | Australian National University, Canberra
Wiradjuri woman, Anita Heiss, is arguably one of the first Aboriginal Australian authors of popular fiction. In this Element a focus on the political characterises her chick lit; and her identity as an author is both supplemented and complemented by her roles as an academic, activist and public intellectual.
75pp 2. 2021 9781108747691 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.95 eISBN 9781108779579
African Literature and the CIA Networks of Authorship and Publishing Caroline Davis | Oxford Brookes University
This Element unravels the hidden networks and associations underpinning African literary publishing in the 1960s; it investigates the success of the CIA in disrupting and infiltrating African literary magazines and publishing firms, and determines the extent to which new circuits of cultural and literary power emerged.
75pp 1. 2021 9781108725545 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781108663229
Bluestockings and Travel Accounts Reading, Writing and Collecting Nataliia Voloshkova
This Element proposes to relate the eighteenthcentury world of travel and travel writing with the bluestocking salon. It locates eminent British travellers and explorers in the female-presided intellectual space and examines their multifaceted interaction with the bluestockings between 1760 and 1799.
75pp 3. 2021 9781108720724 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781108767514
Entrepreneurial Identity in US Book Publishing in the Twenty-First Century Rachel Noorda | Portland State University
This Element examines entrepreneurship through the lens of identity and narrative based on interview data with book publishing entrepreneurs in the US Book publishing entrepreneurship narratives of independence, culture over commerce, accidental profession, place, risk, (in)stability, busyness, and freedom are examined in this Element. 75pp 9. 2021 9781108819510 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781108875974
New Adult Fiction Jodi McAlister | Deakin University, Victoria
This Element uses new adult fiction as a case study to explore how genres develop in the twenty-first-century literary marketplace. It traces new adult’s evolution through three key stages in order to demonstrate the fluidity that characterises contemporary genres. It argues for greater consideration of paratextual factors in studies of genre.
75pp 10. 2021 9781108827881 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781108900737
Old Books and Digital Publishing: EighteenthCentury Collections Online Stephen H. Gregg | Bath Spa University
This is a history of Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, a database of over 180,000 titles. Published by Gale in 2003 it has had an enormous impact of the study of the eighteenth century. An essential aspect of this Element is how it explores the socio-cultural and technological debates around the access to old books. 75pp 1. 2021 9781108720694 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781108767415
Publishing against Apartheid South Africa A Case Study of Ravan Press Elizabeth le Roux | University of Pretoria
This Element aims to examinine the history of the most vocal and arguably the most radical of South Africa’s oppositional publishers, Ravan Press. Using archival material, interviews and the books themselves, this Element examines what the history of Ravan reveals about the role of oppositional print culture.
75pp 1. 2021 9781108737753 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781108642736
Publishing Scholarly Editions Archives, Computing, and Experience Christopher Ohge
Publishing Scholarly Editions offers new intellectual tools for publishing digital editions that bring readers closer to the experimental practices of literature, editing, and reading. This Element argues that editing is computational, and that such ‘computations’ enable new methods of publishing, reading, and experiences.
75pp 9. 2021 9781108720182 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781108766739
Reading ComputerGenerated Texts Leah Henrickson | University of Leeds
Natural language generation (NLG) is the process wherein computers produce output in readable human languages. Such output takes many forms, including news articles, sports reports, prose fiction, and poetry. This Element considers how NLG conforms to and confronts traditional understandings of authorship and what it means to be a reader.
75pp 2. 2021 9781108822862 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781108906463
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Reading Peer Review PLOS ONE and Institutional Change in Academia Martin Paul Eve | Birkbeck, University of London
This Element presents the background contexts and histories of peer review, the data-handling sensitivities of this type of research, the typical properties of reports in the journal to which the authors had access, a taxonomy of the reports, and their sentiment arcs. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. • This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core 75pp 2. 2021 9781108742702 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781108783521
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The Cambridge Handbook of Literary Authorship Ingo Berensmeyer | Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany
This Handbook provides the definitive guide to authorship studies. Covering a vast chronological range, Part I considers the history of authorship from cuneiform to contemporary literatures. Part II explores theories of authorship, while Part III explores practical dimensions of the subject, including attribution, copyright and censorship. • The chapters are original work specifically written for the book by leading scholars • Presents a one-stop guide to global literary authorship over the ages, ideal for scholars and advanced students of literature • Authorship studies is a new and burgeoning area of literary research and this work responds to the previous lack of a wide-reaching comprehensive handbook in the field, and addresses a popular desire to keep talking about the biographical author
503pp 3. 2021 9781316617946 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 37.99 6. 2019 9781107168657 Hardback GBP 115.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781316717516
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The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain Volume 7 The Twentieth Century and Beyond Andrew Nash | Institute of English Studies, University of London
Final volume of the seven-volume Cambridge History of the Book in Britain series, focusing on the twentieth century and beyond. The book is for students, scholars and a general audience interested in book history, publishing studies, and the cultural history of Britain in the twentieth century and beyond. • This book is the final volume in the authoritative series, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain • Contains accessible essays covering the publishing, reading, writing and bookselling history of Britain in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries • Delivers new essays from world leading scholars to advance studies in the field
784pp 3. 2021 9781009010474 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 39.99 6. 2019 9781107010604 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9780511862489
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The European Book in the Twelfth Century Erik Kwakkel | University of British Columbia, Vancouver
The first comprehensive study of how European books were made and used in the historical period known as the ‘long twelfth century’ (1075–1225). The book takes a multidisciplinary approach, blending book history (codicology, palaeography, art-history) and contextual studies (reading, libraries) with text-based investigations in such fields as medicine, classics, and philosophy. • Delivers the first comprehensive study of the European book in the historical period known as the ‘long twelfth century’ (1075–1225) • Brings together a number of interrelated cultural-historical events such as monastic reform and the introduction of Greek and Arabic science and philosophy to place in context the development of the manuscript and book during the ‘twelfth-century Renaissance’ • Chapters by leading scholars offer a multi-disciplinary approach to studying the phenomenon of the book in the twelfth-century from a European point of view
435pp 44 b/w illus. 1 table 4. 2021 9781316502037 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 34.99 7. 2018 9781107136984 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781316480205
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The European Encyclopedia From 1650 to the Twenty-First Century Jeff Loveland | University of Cincinnati
This book is for anyone interested in the history of encyclopedias, including academics in the humanities and non-academic readers with an interest in encyclopedias (for example, those nostalgic for printed encyclopedias and those curious about Wikipedia). The book offers a broad contextualization of the modern European encyclopedia since 1650. • Provides the first comprehensive history of the European encyclopedia to be written in English for over fifty years • Delivers a study of encyclopedias from multiple languages (notably English, French, and German, but also others) • Organized thematically, readers can get a broad sense of how encyclopedias evolved and compared with one another in a given area
461pp 34 b/w illus. 4 tables 3. 2021 9781108703802 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 34.99 7. 2019 9781108481090 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108646390
The Network Turn Changing Perspectives in the Humanities Ruth Ahnert | Queen Mary University of London
This Element contends that networks are a category of study that cuts across traditional academic barriers, uniting diverse disciplines through a shared understanding of complexity in our world. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
75pp 1. 2021 9781108791908 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781108866804
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The Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer , 1549–1561
The Spread of Print in Colonial India
Peter W. M. Blayney
Into the Hinterland Abhijit Gupta | Jadavpur University, Kolkata
This major, revisionist study upends our thinking about the ancestry and origins of the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer, revealing it to have necessitated unprecedented levels of shared printing. In its close analysis of Anglican liturgy it will have considerable appeal to bibliographers and historians of Reformation and Tudor England. • Completely transforms our understanding of how the Book of Common Prayer came into being, and will thus have major implications not just for the Book of Common Prayer itself but for Tudor history as a whole • The revisionist history the author tells is compelling, novel and multilayered, and provides an overview through the prism of the Book of Common Prayer of the entire history of the Reformations of Edward VI and Elizabeth I • Peter W. M. Blayney shows how a close, engaged and ‘archaeological’ examination of printed books can reveal novel and illuminating historical facts undiscoverable by other means 290pp 4. 2022 9781108837415 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108939713
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The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain The English Quattrocento David Rundle | University of Kent, Canterbury
The definitive study of humanist script in England before 1509, this book also provides an important re-interpretation of the success of Renaissance humanism. It introduces a range of Dutch, German, English and Scottish scribes in demonstrating humanism’s cosmopolitanism. • The book is supported with extensive illustrations and a colour plate section • Proposes a new understanding of English engagement with the Renaissance by focusing on a central element of humanist agenda, the reform of the manuscript • Explores a pan-European collection of manuscripts including texts from Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and Scotland 378pp 24 b/w illus. 16 colour illus. 3. 2021 9781316644201 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 32.99 5. 2019 9781107193437 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108147804
The Rise of American Girls’ Literature Ashley N. Reese | University of South Florida
This Element looks at the publishing history of the genre, girls’ literature, in the United States spanning 1850–1940. American girls’ literature shares a common bildungsroman: heroines ‘grow down,’ choosing community over individualism, by entering a domestic role.
75pp 6. 2021 9781108931540 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781108942546
This study focuses on the spread of print in colonial India towards the middle and end of the nineteenth century. This Element will look at this phenomenon in eastern India, and survey how printing spread from Calcutta to centres such as Hooghly-Chinsurah, Murshidabad, Burdwan, Rangpur etc.
75pp 10. 2021 9781108969833 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781108979870
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The Work and the Reader in Literary Studies Scholarly Editing and Book History Paul Eggert | Loyola University, Chicago
Paul Eggert remaps the concept of literary critique, providing new justification for close reading and bringing scholarly editions and book history into the centre of literary studies. This book will appeal to students, researchers and editors interested in textual editing, book history, literary theory and the history of reading. • Offers a new theoretical defence of close reading - a central practice of literary critical training which has been lacking justification for decades • Demonstrates how textual studies (book history, scholarly editing, editorial theory) can be incorporated into a newly defined form of literary studies • Shows how redefining the concept of the literary work helps to conceptualise and organise digital forms of the scholarly edition which will assist in archival and editorial practices 252pp 9 b/w illus. 7. 2021 9781108724494 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 8. 2019 9781108485746 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108641012
Underdevelopment and African Literature Emerging Forms of Reading Sarah Brouillette | Carleton University, Ottawa
The legal publishing industry in Africa campaigns to convince people to scorn pirates and plagiarists as a criminal underclass, and to instead purchase copyrighted, barcoded works that have the look of legitimacy about them. This Element is a study of the emergence of new forms of reading in English in African cities.
75pp 1. 2021 9781108713788 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781108624947
Virago Reprints and Modern Classics The Timely Business of Feminist Publishing D-M Withers | University of Reading
This Element elaborates how the success of Virago’s reprint publishing was contingent on its convergence with different ideas about history that circulated in late 70s and early 80s Britain. 75pp 5. 2021 9781108813358 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781108884440
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Writing Bestsellers Love, Money and Creative Practice Kim Wilkins | University of Queensland
While the term ‘bestseller’ explicitly relates books to sales, commercially successful books are also products of individual creative work. This Element presents a new perspective on the relationship between art and the market, with particular reference to bestselling writers and books.
75pp 9. 2021 9781108725637 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 20.00 eISBN 9781108663724
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European and world literature African, Caribbean literature Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920 Volume 1 Evelyn O’Callaghan | University of the West Indies
Maps out a history of the region’s literary production alongside a history of its reception and interpretation. It provides new critical approaches that will open up future scholarly engagement with early Caribbean literature. • Proposes a complete re-examination of early Caribbean literature • Employs a fluid temporal frame, despite concentration on specific historical period in formation of ‘Caribbean literature’ • Includes unknown/overlooked authors and writing previously considered ‘non-literary’. 498pp 1. 2021 9781108475884 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108647830
Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1920–1970
Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020 Volume 3 Ronald Cummings | Brock University, Ontario
This volume offers comprehensive insights into the diversity of Caribbean literature, writers, themes, genres, and political interests. Drawing on the approaches of postcolonial studies, gender studies, queer studies, eco-criticism, and digital humanities, these essays open up new critical horizons and bring an expanded tradition into view. • Extends the familiar range of Caribbean writers and works to provide a much more comprehensive account of the contemporary period • Develops the connections between Anglophone Caribbean literature and Francophone and Hispanophone authors and texts • Revisits key moments in Caribbean literary history to look at them from new perspectives 486pp 1. 2021 9781108474009 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108564274
Asian literature The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo M. W. Shores | University of Sydney
Rakugo (comic storytelling) has played a major role in Japanese culture and society, and yet has been largely overlooked in scholarship. This pioneering study of Kamigata rakugo - the ‘other’ rakugo tradition - is a corrective to works that view rakugo and other facets of Japan through a distorting Tokyo-centric lens. • The first English monograph on Kamigata rakugo • First English translation of complete rakugo stories • Comprehensive study of Kamigata rakugo from the seventeenth century to the present day. 270pp 8. 2021 9781108831505 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108917476
Volume 2 Raphael Dalleo | Bucknell University, Pennsylvania
1920 to 1970 are key years for the development of Caribbean literature. This volume revisits important moments from that era to open up new perspectives. Collecting the major voices in the current debates around Caribbean literature, this volume explores its emergence, consolidation, and dissemination throughout the world. • Covers crucial years in the development of Caribbean literature (the 1920s to 1970s) • Revisits key moments in Caribbean literary history to look at them from new perspectives • Includes major scholars in the field as well as emerging voices 436pp 1. 2021 9781108495523 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108850087
European and world literature (general) South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English Roanne Kantor | Stanford University, California
This book traces an unexpected journey to Latin America for South Asian literature in English. It shows how this encounter fundamentally shaped the way in which South Asian literature exploded into popularity from the 1980s until the mid-2000s. • Offers a new way of thinking about the relationship between theories of World Literature and the ascendent category of the Global Anglophone. • Rewrites the history of twentieth century South Asian literature in English to reveal its foundational debt to World Literature in translation. • Addresses a broad array of work in a range of literary and media genres, expanding the reach of a body of scholarship usually focused on canonical novels. 274pp 3. 2022 9781316510797 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009039727
European and world literature
The Cambridge History of World Literature Volume Set
Contemporary Fiction in French
Debjani Ganguly | University of Virginia
Anna-Louise Milne
The Cambridge History of World Literature offers one of the first comprehensive accounts of how the study of literature in our era has been shaped by global histories. It highlights scholarship that illustrates a networked logic of circulation drawn from multiple literary cultures and technologies of the textual. • Provides a comprehensive global and comparative history of world literature • Offers clear analysis of concepts, theories and methodologies that define the field • Highlights the foundational role of translation in studies of world literature
Illustrating the fluidity and constant evolution of our global literary field, this collection analyses contemporary French fiction in context, claiming the collapse of distinction between ‘French’ and ‘Francophone’ literature has opened up French writing to a world of new influences. • Thorough, up-to-date overview of contemporary fiction writing in French, produced both globally and in France • World-renowned scholars and up-and-coming voices align to present thoughtful responses anchored in close-reading • Chapters are organised to establish a historical and sociological context
1400pp 9. 2021 9781108557269 Multiple copy pack GBP 250.00 / USD 325.00 eISBN 9781009064446
The Idea of Europe A Critical History Shane Weller | University of Kent, Canterbury
Through a wide-ranging critical history of the idea of Europe from its origins in classical antiquity to the present day, this book offers a new conception of the European that challenges the Eurocentrism, Euro-supremacism, and Euro-universalism that have for so long beset the idea of Europe. • Charts the history of the idea of Europe from its origins in classical antiquity through to the present day, with detailed analyses of how Europe was conceived in the Enlightenment, the Romantic period, the later nineteenth-century, the interwar years, and the post-war world • Reveals the extent to which the discourse on the idea of Europe has been shaped by profoundly Eurocentric, Euro-supremacist, and Eurouniversalist tendencies, and has borne some striking similarities to nationalist discourses • Advocates some of the core values traditionally associated with European culture (including democracy, justice, tolerance, and secularism), while arguing that these values need to be complemented by a spirit of self-critique and humility 362pp 6. 2021 9781108478106 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108784252
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A History of the Bildungsroman Sarah Graham | University of Leicester
The Bildungsroman has been one of the most significant genres in Western fiction since the eighteenth century. This rich investigation charts its development from eighteenth-century European traditions to global popularity through numerous adaptations and adoptions that give expression to many social groups. • Delivers an unprecedented breadth and depth to the study of one of most significant genres in Western fiction since the eighteenth century • Provides readers with an extensive historical overview of the genre so its development is clear • Shows the Bildungsroman in its context of global popularity, having emerged from European literary traditions
320pp 3. 2021 9781108475792 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108570626
Dante’s Vita Nuova and the New Testament Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation William Franke | Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
Dante’s visionary grounding of knowledge in love and divine revelation still moves and inspires a wide readership. As well as offering new perspectives on the Vita nuova for medievalists and Dante scholars, this book also introduces the general reader to ideas that continue to inject Western culture with ‘new life’. • Provides modern readers with a window onto past modes of thought that are no longer understood, enabling an appreciation of the humanist tradition as foundational for our secular culture • Exposes and explores the process of divine revelation in the making, rendering understandable and believable how the Bible is both divinely inspired and a human poetic invention • Includes a new parallel translation of the Vita nuova, providing an invaluable resource for bilingual study at all levels 280pp 9. 2021 9781316516171 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009031127
The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism Jakob Norberg | Duke University, North Carolina
In this first comprehensive English-language portrait of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm as political thinkers and actors, Jakob Norberg reveals how history’s two most famous folklorists envisioned the role of literary and linguistic scholars in defining national identity, delineating national borders, and providing counsel to political regimes. • Sheds new light on the political motivations and ambitions that guided the Brothers Grimm throughout their scholarly careers, transforming how we view history’s most famous folklorists • Situates the Brothers Grimm in the political and ideological context of their turbulent epoch, providing crucial historical background to the Grimms’ widely known contribution to world literature and culture • Shows the close interaction between modern disciplinary research in the humanities and the emergence of nationalism, explaining the instrumental value of literary and linguistic scholarship to a major modern ideology 228pp 4. 2022 9781316513279 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009063890
362pp 3. 2021 9781316501870 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 32.99 1. 2019 9781107136533 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781316479926
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The Cambridge History of the Novel in French Adam Watt | University of Exeter
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This history, the first in a century to trace the novel in French from its beginnings to the present, will appeal to undergraduate and post-graduate students of French, comparative literature and world literature, as well as scholars in these areas. Accessible, chronologically arranged chapters by specialists encourage comparative cross-reference. • First wide-ranging history of the novel in French for 100 years • Chronological chapters are cross-referenced throughout to enable understanding of continuities and divergence between different periods • Offers a global, comparative perspective – including chapters on the French novel in Canada, the Caribbean, North and sub-Saharan Africa 790pp 2. 2021 9781108497077 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781108683920
The Divine Vision of Dante’s Paradiso The Metaphysics of Representation William Franke | Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
Bristling with interdisciplinary insights, this book will open up new dimensions for Dante scholars and attract researchers from a host of other fields, not least philosophy and theology. Alongside critical theory and phenomenology, William Franke also spotlights Dante’s striking pertinence to emergent fields in media studies and iconology. • Offers a bold new interpretation of Dante’s vision of Scripture in the Heaven of Jupiter that will draw in students and experts from a broad range of disciplines • Illuminates the postmodern by the pre-modern, and vice-versa, by bringing Hegel’s and Derrida’s insights to bear on Dante’s medieval theological perspectives, therewith proposing an original philosophical theory of mediation • Integrates contemporary art theory into the exegesis and comprehension of one of literature’s greatest ekphrastic scenes 300pp 8. 2021 9781316517024 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009037839
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The Russian Graphosphere, 1450-1850 Simon Franklin | University of Cambridge
This book explores a new approach to the study of writing, through the concept of the ‘graphosphere’. It presents a comprehensive interpretative guide to forms of writing in Russia across four centuries, and a test case for comparative study of graphospheres elsewhere. • Explores a new approach to writing, through the concept of the graphosphere - the space of visible words • Delivers a uniquely comprehensive coverage of over four centuries of the Russian graphosphere • Explores a distinctive feature of Russian culture
430pp 30 b/w illus. 3. 2021 9781108716901 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 32.99 5. 2019 9781108492577 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108592307
Irish literature A History of Irish Women’s Poetry Ailbhe Darcy | Cardiff University
A comprehensive survey of the field of Irish women’s poetry, this book will be of intense interest to students, researchers, and general readers alike. Coverings all historical periods – early medieval, Renaissance, eighteenth-century, modern and contemporary, it closely reads poetry through many prisms – mythology, gender, history, the nation. • Combines detailed literary history and theory with close readings of a huge range of texts • Contains points of entry for readers at every level – texts, contexts, background, history, theory • Covers Irish Women’s poetry from earliest times to the present day 1pp 7. 2021 9781108478700 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108778596
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Ireland, Enlightenment and the English Stage, 1740-1820 David O’Shaughnessy | Trinity College Dublin
Scholars of eighteenth-century Britain, Ireland, and Enlightenment theatre will welcome this book as it uncovers the considerable contribution made by Irish actors and playwrights to Georgian English theatre. It connects Irish patriotism with new historiography, revealing how theatrical culture demanded political and economic autonomy. • Presents a new perspective on the Irish Enlightenment • Draws attention to the cultural exchange between Ireland and England through the lens of theatre • Offers a new strand of the historiography of Irish patriotism • Deepens our current understanding of how theatrical culture strove for Irish economic and political autonomy 282pp 21 b/w illus. 5 tables 8. 2021 9781108703154 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 8. 2019 9781108498142 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108628747
Seamus Heaney in Context Geraldine Higgins | Emory University, Atlanta
This book combines historicizing scholarship with analytical depth and insightful new readings of Heaney’s work. The thematic sections offer different pathways to a deeper exploration of Heaney’s writing without requiring specialist knowledge. • Offers depth and context to the key developments in Heaney’s work • Reconsideration of the places, times and influences that made Seamus Heaney a poet that made Seamus Heaney a poet • Essays are jargon-free, making it suitable for students, scholars, and the general reader 384pp 4. 2021 9781107180147 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781316841372
European and world literature
Small World Ireland, 1798–2018 Seamus Deane | University of Notre Dame, Indiana
This book is for both general and scholarly readers interested in literary and cultural history. It is a survey of 200 years of Irish writing, its local and global contexts; it offers analytic accounts of works and authors (including Swift, Burke, Joyce, Bowen, Heaney), and their socio-political backgrounds. • Provides over-arching view of the social and political preoccupations of Irish writing in last 200 years. • Gives context for and examples of some of the great Irish writers from Swift to Joyce to Heaney. • Illuminates Ireland’s literary achievements in modernism, in the twentieth century revolution and in the era of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. 364pp 6. 2021 9781108840866 Hardback GBP 20.00 / USD 24.95 eISBN 9781108892810
The Irish Expatriate Novel in Late Capitalist Globalization Joe Cleary | Yale University, Connecticut
This book will engage readers interested in Irish fiction dealing with the United States, Asia, the Global South and Europe. A conceptually innovative study of Irish expatriate novels that situates Irish writing in terms of the country’s changing place in an international order in a time of turbulent global change. • Offers readers a groundbreaking study of the place of the contemporary Irish novel in the wider world capitalist and literary world systems • Offers an original world-facing overview of a broad selection of latetwentieth- and early-twenty-first century Irish fiction • Offers significant readings of major novels by leading Irish writers including Colm Tóibín, Joseph O’Neill, Colum McCann, Ronan Sheehan, Naoise Dolan, Anne Enright, Ronan Bennett, Aidan Higgins, Deidre Madden, and others 280pp 10. 2021 9781108833578 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108985598
Yeats on Theatre Christopher Morash | Trinity College Dublin
Latin American literature A History of Chilean Literature Ignacio López-Calvo
This book covers the heterogeneity of Chilean literary production from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present. It shifts critical focus from national identity and issues to a more multifaceted transnational, hemispheric, and global approach. Its emphasis is on the paradigm transition from the purportedly homogeneous to the heterogeneous. • Showcases the diversity and heterogeneity of Chilean literature throughout all periods, regions, ethnocultural groups, and social classes • Shifts critical focus from national identity and issues to a more multifaceted transnational, hemispheric, and global approach • Shifts focus from Transatlantic to Transpacific Studies, emphasizing East-West cross-cultural relations that go back to the times of the Manila Galleon 400pp 10. 2021 9781108487375 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781108766616
Framing Roberto Bolaño Poetry, Fiction, Literary History, Politics Jonathan Beck Monroe | Cornell University, New York
This is one of the first books to trace the development of Roberto Bolaño’s work from the beginning to the end of his career. It will appeal to graduates and researchers working on Bolaño and Latin American Literature generally, particularly the novel, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature. • Offers an original approach to Bolaño’s poet- and poetry-centered novels focused on the prose poem’s sustained, integral role in their development • Argues the importance of poetry, fiction, literary history, and politics for an understanding of the scope and scale of Bolaño’s achievement • Contributes to an expanded understanding of Bolaño’s importance as a writer beyond the Latin American context, situating himself within the larger contexts of both hemispheric studies and world literature 265pp 8. 2021 9781108735568 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 10. 2019 9781108498258 GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108633475
W. B. Yeats is recognised globally as a poet; but in his Nobel address, he singled out his work in the theatre as his main accomplishment. Yeats on Theatre restores Yeats not only a playwright, but as a thinker whose understanding of theatre was in advance of his own time. • Provides detailed chronological overviews of Yeats’s writing for the theatre and his writing about the theatre • Places Yeats’s work in the context of modernist European figures such as Artaud, but also in the context of philosophical approaches to theatre • Yeats produced a systematic body of theory on performance. This is the first time that has been put presented as such 300pp 7. 2021 9781316515389 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009031509
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