American literature

Shakespeare’s ‘Lady Editors’

A New History of the Shakespearean Text Molly G. Yarn

This bold and compelling revisionist history tells the remarkable story of the forgotten lives and labours of Shakespeare’s women editors.

December 2021 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 978-1-316-51835-9 Hardback c. £29.99 / c. US$39.99 P

AMERICAN LITERATURE Chicago

A Literary History Frederik Byrn Køhlert

The book provides an inclusive, engaging, innovative, and interdisciplinary overview of the often overlooked literary history of Chicago.

September 2021 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-47751-2 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 R

The Letters in the Story

Narrative-Epistolary Fiction from Aphra Behn to the Victorians Eve Tavor Bannet

First study of a long tradition of mixed-mode writing, largely favored by British women novelists, that combined fullytranscribed letters with thirdperson narrative.

October 2021 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 978-1-316-51885-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

Ralph Ellison in Context

Paul Devlin

This book sums up longstanding conversations with definitive chapters, and offers groundbreaking essays on a various topics not yet covered.

Literature in Context

October 2021 229 x 152 mm c.375pp 978-1-108-48896-9 Hardback c. £84.99 / c. US$110.00 R

Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism

Stephanie O’Rourke

Innovative, alternative account of romanticism, exploring how art and science together contested the evidentiary authority of the human body.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

November 2021 229 x 152 mm c.205pp 978-1-316-51902-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

A History of the Literature of the U.S. South

Volume 1

Harilaos Stecopoulos

Drawing on diverse theories and methods, this collective volume emphasizes the multi-ethnic and transnational aspects of southern literature over a four hundredyear period.

May 2021 228 x 152 mm 466pp 978-1-108-49167-9 Hardback £84.99 / US$110.00 R

Vagrancy in the Victorian Age

Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Alistair Robinson

An interdisciplinary study of the rich Victorian taxonomy of vagrancy, and the concepts of poverty, mobility and homelessness it expressed.

Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture, 134

December 2021 229 x 152 mm c.228pp 978-1-316-51985-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X

The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction

Joshua Miller

This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction’s genres, themes, and concepts.

Cambridge Companions to Literature

September 2021 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-83827-6 Hardback £84.99 / US$110.00 P