English literature

Pliny the Elder’s World

Natural History, Books 2-6 Translated by Brian Turner and Richard J. A. Talbert

New translation of the Natural History’s opening books giving an influential Roman perspective on the natural world and geography.

May 2022 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 9781108481755 Hardback £79.99 / US$105.00 R

Rome: An Empire of Many Nations

New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity

Second edition

Edited by Jonathan J. Price Margalit Finkelberg and Yuval Shahar

A panoramic and colourful view of the many ethnic identities, languages and cultures composing the Roman Empire.

April 2022 244 x 170 mm c.426pp 9781009256223 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 C

A Guide to the Geography of Pliny the Elder

Duane W. Roller

The first thorough English commentary on the geographical books of the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.650pp 9781108481809 Hardback £99.99 / US$130.00 R

Roman Law in Context

Second edition

David Johnston

This extensively updated second edition considers how Roman law worked in practice, viewed in its social and economic context.

Key Themes in Ancient History

May 2022 228 x 152 mm c.220pp 9781108700160 Paperback £19.99 / US$25.99 X

Housing in the Ancient Mediterranean World

Material and Textual Approaches J. A. Baird April Pudsey

Explores the possible dialogues between textual and archaeological sources in studying housing in the ancient Mediterranean world.

May 2022 244 x 170 mm c.400pp 54 b/w illus. 16 colour illus. 9781108845267 Hardback £105.00 / US$135.00 C

Thecla and Medieval Sainthood

The Acts of Paul and Thecla in Eastern and Western Hagiography Edited by Ghazzal Dabiri and Flavia Ruani

Explores Saint Thecla and her story as preeminent models for medieval hagiographers across Eurasia and North Africa.

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 9781316519219 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience

Esther Eidinow Armin W. Geertz John North

Explores the religious rituals and beliefs of ancient Greece and Rome, using modern research into human cognition.

Ancient Religion and Cognition

August 2022 228 x 152 mm c.348pp 9781316515334 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

ENGLISH LITERATURE

Writing Tudor Exploration

Richard Eden and West Africa Matthew Dimmock

This Element recovers the lost history of the first Tudor sea voyage accounts and the West African trade that generated them.

Elements in Travel Writing

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009045858 Paperback c. £15.00 / c. US$20.00 P

Actual Fictions

Literary Representation and Character Network Analysis Roel Smeets

Rethinks a foundational concept of literary theory (‘mimesis’) and the question of how narrative fiction reflects or influences society.

Elements in Digital Literary Studies

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009180795 Paperback c. £15.00 / c. US$20.00 P

The Shapes of Stories

Sentiment Analysis for Narrative Katherine Elkins

Every story has its own affective DNA, and now AI tools can help us explore it.

Elements in Digital Literary Studies

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009270397 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Institutions of Literature, 1700–1900

Jon Mee Matthew Sangster

This lively collection makes a compelling case for the importance of institutions in the production, reception, and meaning of literature.

August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.380pp 9781108830201 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Editing Fiction

Three Case Studies from Postwar Australia Alice Grundy

Learn the surprising ways that editorial intervention impacts on novels and the varied forces that help create literary fiction.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

June 2022 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 9781009017794 Paperback £9.99 / US$12.99 P

Eco-Travel

Journeying in the Age of the Anthropocene Michael Cronin

Travel writing has defined the natural world as we have come to know it, can it now save it?

Elements in Travel Writing

March 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108823340 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

Handbook for Academic Authors

How to Navigate the Publishing Process

Sixth edition

Beth Luey

Encouraging, no-nonsense advice for academic authors who want their research to reach the widest possible audience.

March 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781009073356 Paperback £16.99 / US$21.99 G

Readers in a Revolution

Bibliographical Change in the Nineteenth Century David McKitterick

This book traces a revolution in values that transformed nineteenth-century attitudes to second-hand books, bibliography and collecting.

July 2022 244 x 170 mm c.270pp 9781009200844 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P

Women and Letterpress Printing 1920–2020

Gendered Impressions Claire Battershill

This Element offers a new approach to the feminist historiography of printing as letterpress moves into a digital age.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

June 2022 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 9781009219327 Paperback £9.99 / US$12.99 P

Fantasies of the Bookstore

Eben J. Muse

An examination of the significance of the bookstore in the cultural imagination through a survey of 260 bookstore novels.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

May 2022 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 9781108445399 Paperback £9.99 / US$12.99 P

Outer Space: 100 Poems

Editor (introduction and notes) Midge Goldberg

Across time and cultures, poets and astronomers have often asked the same questions about outer space, and about ourselves.

August 2022 198 x 129 mm c.200pp 9781009203609 Hardback c. £12.99 / c. US$16.90 G

Translation Imperatives

African Literature and the Labour of Translators Ruth Bush

Explores historical and contemporary imperatives to (re) translate African literature which argues that translation is not a metaphor.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

June 2022 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 9781108720045 Paperback £9.99 / US$12.99 P

Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England

Making English Literary Manuscripts, 1400–1500 Daniel Wakelin

A compelling reassessment of the craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes of late medieval English scribes.

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781009100588 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Is This a Book?

Angus Phillips Miha Kovač

Examines the book and how it is changing in the light of digital developments.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108940344 Paperback c. £9.99 / c. US$12.99 P

Literary Beginnings in the European Middle Ages

Mark Chinca Christopher Young

A ground-breaking investigation into the emergence of new written literatures in the vernacular languages of medieval Europe.

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

March 2022 229 x 152 mm c.330pp 9781108477642 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Publishing in Wales

Renaissance and Resistance Jacob D. Rawlins

The history of publishing in Wales is an exciting story of conquest, rebellion, resistance, and renaissance spread over 2,000 years.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

May 2022 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 9781108948173 Paperback £9.99 / US$12.99 P

A New Literary History of the Long Twelfth Century

Language and Literature between Old and Middle English Mark Faulkner

Mark Faulkner offers a compelling new narrative of what happened to English-language writing after the Norman Conquest of 1066.

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 118

June 2022 229 x 152 mm c.290pp 9781316516096 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Shakespeare’s Dialectic of Hope

From the Political to the Utopian Hugh Grady

Shakespeare was fascinated by power throughout his career but also understood its dangers and limits. Utopian visions were his solution.

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781009098090 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Reading Shakespeare through Drama

Jane Coles Maggie Pitfield

Reading Shakespeare through Drama proposes a dynamic, reader-centred pedagogy which views classrooms as sites of cultural production and exchange.

Elements in Shakespeare and Pedagogy

July 2022 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 9781009001984 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P

A Literary History of Latin & English Poetry

Bilingual Verse Culture in Early Modern England Victoria Moul

The first account of the bilingualism of English poetic culture from the mid-sixteenth to the early eighteenth century.

July 2022 228 x 152 mm 450pp 9781107192713 Hardback £110.00 / US$140.00 C

Headlong Hall

Thomas Love Peacock Nicholas Joukovsky

Peacock’s first novel is situated within its literary and historical contexts via a substantial introduction, generous notes, and annotated appendices.

The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock, 1

June 2022 216 x 138 mm 300pp 9781107030732 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 R

The Death Arts in Renaissance England

A Critical Anthology William E. Engel Rory Loughnane Grant Williams

Expanding the ‘death arts’ beyond mere mourning and loss, this anthology recuperates the generative power of Renaissance mortality.

July 2022 228 x 152 mm c.380pp 9781108479271 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 R

Melincourt

Thomas Love Peacock Gary Dyer

This first scholarly edition expertly situates Thomas Love Peacock’s most ambitious satirical novel in its historical and literary contexts.

The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock, 2

May 2022 216 x 138 mm 600pp 9781107032262 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 R

Margaret Cavendish

An Interdisciplinary Perspective Edited by Lisa Walters and Brandie R. Siegfried

This collection provides the most comprehensive, multidisciplinary study of the works of Margaret Cavendish currently available.

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781108490368 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C

Philosophical Connections

Akenside, Neoclassicism, Romanticism Chris Townsend

A unique account of the shifting cultures of poetry across the Age of Enlightenment.

Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections

May 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009222976 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P