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ENGLISH LITERATURE
Sir Charles Grandison
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4 Volume Set
Samuel Richardson, E. Derek Taylor Melvyn New Elizabeth Kraft
The comprehensive scholarly edition of The History of Sir Charles Grandison, the most important English courtship novel before Austen.
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson
October 2021 228 x 152 mm 3000pp 978-0-521-83306-6 4 Volume Set c. £225.00 / c. US$290.00 R
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
November 2021 216 x 138 mm 300pp 978-1-107-03073-2 Hardback c. £85.00 / c. US$130.00 R
Samuel Beckett and Cultural Nationalism
Shane Weller
This Element reveals the importance of ideas of cultural nationalism in Beckett’s writing throughout his writing life.
Elements in Beckett Studies
June 2021 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-00-904548-3 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
On Style in Victorian Fiction
Daniel Tyler
Demonstrates the importance of attending to literary style in Victorian novels and provides exemplary readings of major novelists.
August 2021 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 978-1-108-42751-7 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X
Italo Calvino’s Animals
Anthropocene Stories Serenella Iovino
Calvino’s works ooze environmental imagination. Like his problematic humans, his animals are key to understand life in the Anthropocene.
Elements in Environmental Humanities
September 2021 978-1-00-906530-6 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
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
Edited by Catherine Spooner and Dale Townshend
The first volume to provide an interdisciplinary, comprehensive history of twentieth and twenty-first century Gothic culture.
The Cambridge History of the Gothic
August 2021 228 x 152 mm c.600pp 978-1-108-47272-2 Hardback £120.00 / US$155.00 R
The Aspern Papers and Other Tales, 1884–1888
Henry James Rosella Mamoli Zorzi Simone Francescato
A scholarly edition of the short fiction of Henry James, comprising nine tales including ‘The Aspern Papers’ and ‘The Liar’.
The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James, 27
December 2021 228 x 152 mm 650pp 978-1-107-02964-4 Hardback c. £85.00 / c. US$150.00 R
Jeffrey Barbeau
The first survey of the connections between literature, religion, and intellectual life in the British Romantic period.
Cambridge Companions to Literature
October 2021 229 x 152 mm c.325pp 978-1-108-48284-4 Hardback c. £72.00 / c. US$99.00 P
Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England
Actor, Audience and Performance Simon Smith Emma Whipday
Offers a new, interdisciplinary account of early modern drama through the lens of playing and playgoing.
December 2021 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-48905-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X
Entrepreneurship in US Book Publishing in the Twenty-First Century
Rachel Noorda
This Element provides the first focus on entrepreneurship in book publishing (freelancers, booksellers, and publishers).
Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
August 2021 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-81951-0 Paperback £9.99 / US$12.99 P
British Literature in Transition, 1900–1920: A New Age?
James Purdon
This book shows how early twentieth-century British literature responded to the uncertainties of a rapidly changing world.
British Literature in Transition
November 2021 228 x 152 mm c.375pp 978-1-108-49175-4 Hardback c. £85.00 / c. US$110.00 R
Disavowing Disability
Richard Baxter and the Conditions of Salvation Andrew McKendry
An interdisciplinary investigation, that explores how disability figured in seventeenth-century debates about justice and salvation.
Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
August 2021 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-82312-8 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
Publishing Scholarly Editions
Archives, Computing, and Experience Christopher Ohge
This Element argues that editing is computational, and that such ‘computations’ enable new methods of publishing, reading, and experiences.
Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
September 2021 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-72018-2 Paperback £9.99 / US$12.99 P
World-making Renaissance Women
Rethinking Early Modern Women’s Place in Literature and Culture Pamela S. Hammons Brandie R. Siegfried
This collection affirms the shaping authority of early modern women in literature and culture, evident well beyond their own moment.
November 2021 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-83115-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X
Writing Bestsellers
Love, Money and Creative Practice Kim Wilkins Lisa Bennett
A new perspective of art and the market, that sees them as productive together, with evidence from bestselling writers.
Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
September 2021 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-72563-7 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature
How the ‘Terrible Lizard’ Became a Transatlantic Cultural Icon Richard Fallon
Reimagining Dinosaurs argues that transatlantic popular literature was critical for transforming the dinosaur into a cultural icon between 1880 and 1920
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 132
October 2021 229 x 152 mm c.217pp 978-1-108-83400-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X
Biopolitical Futures in Twenty-First-Century Speculative Fiction
Sherryl Vint
A theorization of how the bioeconomy and biotechnology remake ‘life itself,’ creating crises in ethics and governance.
Cambridge Studies in Twenty-FirstCentury Literature and Culture
October 2021 228 x 152 mm c.280pp 978-1-108-83900-6 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
Metamodernism and Contemporary British Poetry
Antony Rowland
This book discusses contemporary British poetry in the context of metamodernism.
Cambridge Studies in Twenty-FirstCentury Literature and Culture
November 2021 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 978-1-108-84197-9 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Jeffrey Cohen Stephanie Foote
Offers a comprehensive introduction to the environmental humanities. It addresses the 21st century recognition of an environmental crisis.
Cambridge Companions to Literature
August 2021 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-316-51068-1 Hardback £74.99 / US$99.99 P
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War
David Loewenstein Paul Stevens
Illuminates the ways Shakespeare’s works provide a rich and imaginative resource for thinking about war in all its complexity.
Cambridge Companions to Literature
September 2021 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 978-1-316-51097-1 Hardback £74.99 / US$99.99 P
The Cambridge Guide to Reading Poetry
Andrew Hodgson
The only book that shows readers how to ask the questions which will make poems to speak to them.
November 2021 228 x 152 mm c.250pp 978-1-108-84324-9 Hardback c. £65.00 / c. US$80.00 X
Shakespeare Survey 74
Shakespeare and Education Emma Smith
The theme for Volume 74 is ‘Shakespeare and Education’.
Shakespeare Survey
August 2021 246 x 189 mm c.650pp 978-1-316-51712-3 Hardback £89.99 / US$115.00 R
Poetry and Bondage
A History and Theory of Lyric Constraint Andrea Brady
Offering a new theory of poetic constraint, this book analyses contributions of bound people to the history of the lyric.
October 2021 229 x 152 mm c.400pp 978-1-108-84572-4 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 X
Scottish Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century
The Romance of Everyday Life Juliet Shields
Nineteenth-century Scotswomen turned from the grand adventures of Walter Scott’s historical romances to the splendour and exhilaration of everyday life.
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
July 2021 229 x 152 mm c.220pp 978-1-316-51826-7 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X
