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Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle
Fraser Riddell
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The first comprehensive study of music and queer identities in latenineteenth and early-twentieth century English literature.
Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture, 137
April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.250pp 9781108839204 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Queer Kinship after Wilde
Transnational Decadence and the Family Kristin Mahoney
Focuses on figures who saw themselves as part of a Decadent tradition as they revised the concept of the family in the early 20th century.
August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781316519912 Hardback c. £75.00 / c. US$99.99 C
Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany
Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity Linda Hughes
A vivid account of the alternative, emancipatory Germany that progressive British women writers discovered and wrote about, 1833-1910.
Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture, 138
June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.285pp 9781316512845 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Electoral Imagination
Literature, Legitimacy, and Other Rigged Systems Kent Puckett
An intellectual history and aesthetic theory of democratic elections, this book offers a critical alternative to the ‘myth of rigging.’
August 2022 228 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781009206655 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
A History of World War One Poetry
Jane Potter
A History of World War One Poetry offers a new perspective on the literary and human experience of 1914-1918.
August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.425pp 9781009100649 Hardback c. £60.00 / c. US$110.00 R
Edited by Paul Crosthwaite Peter Knight and Nicky Marsh
This book provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interdisciplinary field of literature and economics.
Cambridge Companions to Literature
July 2022 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781009012997 Paperback £21.99 / US$28.99 P
The Late Modernist Novel
A Critique of Global Narrative Reason Seo Hee Im
This study shows how the late modernist novel incorporated empirical structures as theme and form to expand the genre beyond the nation-state.
July 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781009168380 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
AMERICAN LITERATURE
Black Art, Politics, and Aesthetics
Volume 13
Shelly Eversley
Interrogates and explains 1960s writers and artists popular embrace of blackness as a source of power, as it confronts racism.
African American Literature in Transition
August 2018 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 9781108422932 Hardback £89.99 / US$115.00 R
American Literature in Transition, 1820–1860
Volume 2
Edited by Justine S. Murison
This volume offers exciting new approaches to the historical contexts, global coordinates, and present reverberations of antebellum American literature.
Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition
April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.350pp 9781108475365 Hardback c. £84.99 / c. US$110.00 R
Don DeLillo in Context
Jesse Kavadlo
This book uses a variety of frameworks to provide readers with ways into understanding Don DeLillo’s prodigious body of work.
Literature in Context
May 2022 228 x 152 mm c.375pp 9781316515433 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 R
Race in American Literature and Culture
Edited by John Ernest
The book shows how American racial history and culture have shaped, and been shaped in turn by, American literature.
May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.400pp 9781108487399 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era
Ryan M. Brooks
Argues that a new, postpostmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as American writers grapple with the triumph of freemarket politics.
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781316519813 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The New William Faulkner Studies
Sarah Gleeson-White Pardis Dabashi
The volume situates Faulkner within a range of current and emerging critical fields, such as African American studies and modernist studies.
Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781108840897 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Cambridge Companion to American Horror
Stephen Shapiro Mark Storey
Taking Horror seriously, the book surveys America’s bloody and haunted history through its most terrifying cultural expressions.
Cambridge Companions to Literature
August 2022 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781009069892 Paperback c. £22.99 / c. US$29.99 P
American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2
A Cultural History Will Kaufman
A groundbreaking work of historical recovery which tells the story of the American people who sang their way through struggle.
May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.400pp 9781316514337 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction
Kathleen Diffley Coleman Hutchison
This is an accessible, pathbreaking, and carefully-curated Companion written by leading scholars of the American Civil War and Reconstruction.
Cambridge Companions to Literature
August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.375pp 9781009159197 Paperback c. £18.99 / c. US$32.99 P
