Literature Catalogue 2023

2023 CATALOGUE

LITERATURE

American literature

American literature

American literature

Canadian literature

English literature

English literature

English literature - 1830 – 1900 6

English literature – 1900 – 1945..................................... 7

English literature – 1945 and beyond

English literature – Anglo-Saxon and Medieval 8 English literature – Renaissance and early modern to 1700

8 English literature (general)

Literary theory 14 Literature – editions, texts

Publishing, printing history, history of the book

European and world literature

European and world literature (general)

17 European literature 18 Irish literature

18 Latin American literature

American literature

American literature

A History of the African American Novel

Valerie Babb | University of Georgia

This History is intended for a broad audience seeking knowledge of how novels interact with and influence their cultural landscape. Its interdisciplinary approach will appeal to those interested in novels and film, graphic novels, novels and popular culture, transatlantic blackness, and the interfacing of race, class, gender, and aesthetics.

498pp Jul. 2022 9781107646780 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781107448773

African American Literature in Transition, 1750–1800

Volume 1

Rhondda Robinson Thomas | Clemson University, South Carolina

This volume provides a meticulous analysis of the development of early African American literature from an African diasporic perspective. It includes explorations of both oral and written texts by people of African descent who created a distinct literary tradition shaped by transitional forces—from forced migrations to political revolutions.

African American Literature in Transition 400pp Apr. 2022 9781108495073 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781108860864

African American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930

Volume 9

Miriam Thaggert | University of Iowa

This book looks beyond the familiar story of the Harlem Renaissance or New Negro Movement. Discussing the ephemeral qualities of periodicals, clothes, and décor alongside more concrete historical and literary analyses, the volume investigates concepts, events, and figures that have been obscured by the customary narratives of the era.

African American Literature in Transition 350pp

Apr. 2022 9781108834162 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781108992039

African American Literature in Transition, 1930–1940

Volume 10

Eve Dunbar | Vassar College, New York

The volume is for scholars and researchers interested in African American and American literature and history. Chapters explore African American writing during the Great Depression to examine 1930s Black life, culture, and politics and, ultimately, to document the ways Black artists and everyday people managed their economic vulnerability.

African American Literature in Transition 350pp

Apr. 2022 9781108472555 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781108560665

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.

African American Literature in Transition 350pp

Oct. 2022 9781108422932 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781108386043

American

Literature in Transition, 1770–1828

William Huntting Howell | Boston University

This volume presents a complex portrait of a US grappling with the trials of national adolescence. Subjects include: power, memory, racial and economic inequality, Indigeneity, disability, gender and sexuality, literary genre, poetics, performance, and foodways.

Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition 350pp Jun. 2022 9781108475860 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781108675239

American Literature in Transition, 1820–1860

Volume 2

Justine S. Murison | University of Illinois

Tracing the historical contexts, global coordinates, and present reverberations of American literature in the decades preceding the Civil War, this volume offers exciting new avenues for research and teaching and makes antebellum literature relevant for a new generation of students and scholars.

American Literature in Transition: The Long Nineteenth Century 350pp Jun. 2022 9781108475365 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781108566872

American Literature in Transition, 1851–1877

Cody Marrs | University of Georgia

This is a new account of the literary and cultural history of the Civil War era. It offers scholarly histories of the major authors, texts, forms, and movements that comprised American literature between 1851 and 1877. The approaches used in the volume reflect the most up-to-date and cutting-edge research methods of American literary studies.

American Literature in Transition: The Long Nineteenth Century 350pp Jun. 2022 9781108474542 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781108565615

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American Literature in Transition, 1876–1910

Volume 4

Lindsay V. Reckson | Haverford College, Pennsylvania

Addressing US literature from 1876 to 1910, this volume aims to account for the period’s immense transformations. Approaching literature through the cultural changes of the post-Reconstruction era, contributors examine a range of literary forms with an eye towards aesthetic innovation and social upheaval.

American Literature in Transition: The Long Nineteenth Century 381pp

Aug. 2022 9781108477505 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781108763714

American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War

A Cultural History

2

Will Kaufman | University of Central Lancashire, Preston

This groundbreaking book explores the hidden history of American song and struggle, from the moment Columbus made fateful landfall to the start of the Second World War. Recovering the passionate voices of an entire nation, it shows that these songs are woven into the very fabric of the American people.

530pp

Aug. 2022 9781316514337 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009086769

American literature

Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature

Jolene Hubbs | University of Alabama

This book explores connections between narrative forms and social history. It will appeal to readers interested in twentieth-century U.S. literature, race, and social class.

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture 280pp Jan. 2023 9781009250658 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009250627

Don DeLillo In Context

Jesse Kavadlo

Don DeLillo In Context benefits scholars and students interested in intersections between his literature and its contexts. Essays examine how geography, biography, history, media studies, culture, philosophy, and the writing process provide critical frameworks and ways of reading and understanding his body of work.

Literature in Context

375pp

Jun. 2022 9781316515433 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009025676

Langston Hughes in Context

Vera M. Kutzinski | Vanderbilt University, Tennessee

This volume is for students, scholars, and general readers interested in the many facets of Langston Hughes’s career. Reading essays that track his career from Harlem to the Caribbean, Europe, South America, Asia and the African continent, readers will come away with a different sense of the twentieth century.

Literature in Context

400pp

Dec. 2022 9781316512128 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 110 eISBN 9781009057783

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.

466pp Jun. 2022 9781108487399 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108766654

The Cambridge Companion to American Horror

Stephen Shapiro | University of Warwick

This book provides an essential guide to one of the most popular contemporary genres. Ranging across disciplines, underpinned by historical scholarship and alert to the latest thinking, this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in America’s dark past and present.

Cambridge Companions to Literature 300pp

Aug. 2022 9781009069892 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Aug. 2022 9781316513002 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009071550

The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Body

Travis M. Foster | Villanova University, Pennsylvania

This volume offers a rigorous yet accessible overview of the key questions and intersectional approaches pertaining to American literature and the body. The chapters have been written in an accessible style, making them useful for undergraduates as well as for more experienced researchers.

Cambridge Companions to Literature 300pp

Jun. 2022 9781108815291 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jun. 2022 9781108841924 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108895170

The Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment

Sarah Ensor | University of Wisconsin, Madison

This book offers a broad overview of American environmental literature and criticism. Demonstrating links between ecocriticism and fields such as Black feminism, food studies, Latinx studies, Indigenous studies, and queer theory, it reveals the persistent relevance of literary methods within the interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities.

Cambridge Companions to Literature 300pp

Mar. 2022 9781108815277 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 29.99 Mar. 2022 9781108841900 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781108895118

The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American Civil War and Reconstruction

Kathleen Diffley | University of Iowa

Drawing together leading scholars in literary studies and history, this volume offers accessible treatments of major authors and subjects. Its twenty carefully-curated essays make cutting-edge scholarship available to diverse readers, while touting the ongoing relevance of this period and its literature to our contemporary moment.

Cambridge Companions to Literature

375pp

Aug. 2022 9781009159197 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 Aug. 2022 9781009159180 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009159173

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The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature

John Morán González | University of Texas, Austin

This volume offers state-of-the-art research on the field of Latina/o literature. By emphasizing both roots and routes, and covering new geographic and linguistic configurations that recognize the priority of migration and displacement as a necessary complement to language-based or national traditions, this volume will interest scholars working in Latina/o, American, Latin American literatures in addition to scholars of periods and movements. 855pp

Apr. 2022 9781316634172 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 Apr. 2018 9781107183087 Hardback GBP 147 / USD 189 eISBN 9781316869468

The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry since 1945

Andrew Epstein | Florida State University

Designed for students, scholars, poets, and general readers, this book provides a useful guide for anyone interested in contemporary American poetry. By offering close readings of exemplary poems in relation to historical and political contexts, this book gives readers the background and tools necessary to understand post-1945 American poetry.

Cambridge Introductions to Literature 280pp

Dec. 2022 9781108712125 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 29.99 Dec. 2022 9781108482370 Hardback GBP 50 / USD85 eISBN 9781108687317

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The Poetics of Insecurity

American Fiction and the Uses of Threat

Johannes Voelz

The Poetics of Insecurity addresses a key concern of modern America - security - through close readings of American literary works. It combines literary studies with the philosophy of time and sociological theories of modernity, and provides new approaches to canonical American authors from the past two centuries.

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture 260pp

Jan. 2022 9781108407861 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 Dec. 2017 9781108418768 Hardback GBP 82.99 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108291408

Canadian literature

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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. 322pp

Aug. 2022 9781108406468 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Aug. 2021 9781108418089 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108284554

English literature

English literature - 1700 - 1830

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A Tale of a Tub and Other Works

Jonathan Swift

This 2010 edition provides the first full scholarly treatment of this important work for fifty years. The detailed introduction and explanatory notes address many previously unexplained issues. Texts have been fully collated and edited according to modern principles and are accompanied with a textual introduction and full textual apparatus. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift 684pp Aug. 2022 9781009200967 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 39.99 Jul. 2010 9780521828949 Hardback GBP 126 / USD 163 eISBN 9780511780219

British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century

Amanda Hiner

Gathering ground-breaking essays by leading scholars, this collection forwards an innovative feminist theory of satire and showcases women writers’ unique contributions to the satirical tradition. For scholars, researchers, and students interested in women writers and eighteenthcentury British literature, this volume is an indispensable resource. 276pp

Apr. 2022 9781108837361 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108938952

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Byron and the Poetics of Adversity

Jerome McGann | University of Virginia

Upending traditional Byron criticism to reveal a more relentlessly precise and skeptical poetic mind than ever previously thought, Jerome McGann offers numerous close readings of Byron’s verse alongside that of his contemporaries to show how he challenged the limits of poetry and exposed the illusions and contradictions of his age.

150pp Nov. 2022 9781009232951 Hardback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9781009232968

Defoe’s Tour and Early Modern Britain

Panorama of the Nation

Pat Rogers | University of South Florida

This first comprehensive account of Daniel Defoe’s Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain explores the content, sources, form, and historical significance of one of the foremost books written about Britain during the eighteenth century. Pat Rogers’ study offers fresh interdisciplinary insight for both new readers and Defoe students.

300pp Feb. 2022 9781009098861 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009106412

Gulliver’s Travels

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver’s Travels is one of the most important books in English literature. This new edition will be indispensable for students, researchers and academics. Its introduction, commentary and ancillary materials place discussion of this book – a major text in world literature – on a new footing.

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift 910pp 13 b/w illus.

Jun. 2022 9781009159548 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 41.99 Sep. 2012 9780521841641 Hardback GBP 121 / USD 160 eISBN 9781139029087

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.

The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock 446pp

Jun. 2022 9781107030732 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781139344241

Irony and Earnestness in Eighteenth-Century

Literature

Dimensions of Satire and Solemnity

Shane Herron | Flinders University of South Australia

Delving into the interaction between satire and more serious forms of literature, Shane Herron overturns long-standing assumptions around genre and style to explore how eighteenth-century writers in fact used irony to deepen the serious content of popular fiction and, conversely, used earnestness to sharpen their satirical bite. 250pp Jan. 2022 9781108834438 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108993227

Jane Austen and Other Minds Ordinary Language Philosophy in Literary Fiction

Eric Reid Lindstrom | University of Vermont

Jane Austen and Other Minds offers a lively reintroduction to all six of Austen’s finished novels through an ambitious choice to pair analysis of her novelistic ordinary language — her style, conversation, and moral thought — with the major practitioners of twentieth-century ordinary language philosophy, including J. L. Austin and Stanley Cavell.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 294pp Oct. 2022 9781009206990 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009206976

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Mary Wollstonecraft in Context

Nancy E. Johnson | State University of New York, New Paltz

Provides crucial biographical, critical, historical, and cultural context for the works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Britain’s first feminist and political theorist. Leading scholars provide students and scholars of eighteenth-century feminism, literature, social, and political theory with essential background to understand Wollstonecraft’s diverse writing.

Literature in Context

392pp

Jan. 2022 9781108404235 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Feb. 2020 9781108416993 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 116 eISBN 9781108261067

Mediating Cultural Memory

in Britain and Ireland

From the 1688 revolution to the 1745 Jacobite rising

Leith 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 eighteenthcentury 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.

299pp Mar. 2022 9781316510810 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009039765

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Philosophical Connections

Akenside, Neoclassicism, romanticism

Chris Townsend | Christ’s College, Cambridge

This Element proposes that the mid-eighteenthcentury poet Mark Akenside, and his hugely influential Pleasures of Imagination, represent a case study in the deep connections between Neoclassicism and Romanticism.

Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections 75pp

May. 2022 9781009222976 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781009222990

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Physical Disability in British Romantic

Literature

Essaka Joshua | University of Notre Dame, Indiana

This book is for Romantic era scholars/students interested in revising their view on major Romantic texts by reading with sensitivity to ideas and concepts around disability; and for literary disability studies’ scholars and students wishing to extend their understanding of the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 318pp Nov. 2022 9781108799171 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Nov. 2020 9781108836708 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108872126

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Print and Performance in the 1820s

improvisation, Speculation, identity

Angela Esterhammer | University of Toronto Print and Performance in the 1820s explores a key decade of cultural change, focusing on fiction, periodicals, and theatrical performances in metropolitan centres such as London, Edinburgh, and Paris. Combining literary and cultural studies with media and performance history, it illuminates the importance of the late-Romantic age.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 281pp 10 b/w illus.

Jan. 2022 9781108713733 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Feb. 2020 9781108493956 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108656832

Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing

Neil Ramsey

In this book, Neil Ramsey examines the intellectual contexts of the period in which modern war writing first took shape: the Romantic era. Demonstrating the critical importance of theories of biopolitics in understanding modern war, Ramsey reveals rich and often surprising interconnections between military literature and Romantic culture.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 250pp

Oct. 2022 9781009100441 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009118798

Romanticism, Republicanism, and the Swiss Myth

Patrick Vincent | Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Illuminating the reasons for the immense popularity of travel to Switzerland and the proliferation of images of that country during the Romantic period, this book shows how its idealized republican landscape enabled contemporaries to compare the Alps with Britain and to imagine a liberal alternative to French liberty.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 300pp

Feb. 2023 9781009210294 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009210263

Small Things in the Eighteenth Century

The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature

Chloe Wigston Smith | University of York

Featuring tiny books, buttons, ceramic trinkets, toothpick cases, handkerchiefs, mugs, tea caddies, coins and much more, this interdisciplinary book explores how people in the eighteenth century interacted with the small things they used, wore, played with, and displayed to signal their engagement with the larger world.

280pp

Sep. 2022 9781108834452 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108993296

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Technologies of the Novel

Quantitative Data and the evolution of Literary Systems

Nicholas D. Paige | University of California, Berkeley

Based on a systematic sampling of French and English novels over more than two centuries, this book sets aside the familiar histories of the genre’s so-called ‘rise’, proposing that the novel is a system whose constant yet patterned flux must be understood in the context of technological evolution more generally.

287pp

Nov. 2022 9781108812849 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Nov. 2020 9781108835503 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108890861

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The Italian Idea

Anglo-italian radical Literary Culture, 1815–1823

Will Bowers | Queen Mary University of London

This book is a dual-perspective study of how English literary engagement with Italian ideas radicalised Romantic culture. Featuring new readings of poetry by Byron, Shelley, and Hunt, it also explores the work of Italian exiles in London, and reconfigures Dante’s importance to Romantic culture.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

297pp

Feb. 2022 9781108741378 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Jan. 2020 9781108491969 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108590228

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The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge

Tim Fulford | De Montfort University, Bedford

This new collection enables students and general readers to appreciate Coleridge’s renewed relevance 250 years after his birth. An indispensable guide to his writing for twenty-firstcentury readers, it contains new perspectives that reframe his work in relation to slavery, race, war, post-traumatic stress disorder and ecological crisis.

Cambridge Companions to Literature 276pp

Dec. 2022 9781108940795 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Dec. 2022 9781108832229 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781108935555

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William Blake in Context

Sarah Haggarty | University of Cambridge

Thirty-eight authoritative and lively essays by an international team of scholars examine a full range of Blake’s works from lyrical songs to later myth, from writing to artworks, situating them in historical and cultural contexts. Research driven yet accessibly written, the essays will appeal to students, teachers, and academic experts alike.

Literature in Context 393pp 20 b/w illus.

Jan. 2022 9781316508107 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Mar. 2019 9781107144910 Hardback GBP 72.99 / USD 93.99 eISBN 9781316534946

English literature - 1830 - 1900

Birdsong, Speech and Poetry

The Art of Composition in the Long Nineteenth Century

Francesca Mackenney | University of Leeds

This interdisciplinary work explores how scientists, musicians and poets have listened to, and tried to understand, the everyday mystery of birdsong. Paying particular attention to Romantic and Victorian writing on other species, it offers valuable insights for scholars working in the fields of literary criticism and the environmental humanities.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 250pp Nov. 2022 9781316513712 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009075909

Conversing in Verse

Conversation in Nineteenth-Century english Poetry

Elizabeth Helsinger | University of Chicago

In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Helsinger reframes lyric poetry as a social form. Taking nineteenth-century poetry as her focus, she explores varied historical and philosophical contexts to address the question of when and why poets adopt conversational forms, and how doing so might ultimately expand readers’ ethical and political horizons.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 205pp

Aug. 2022 9781009200202 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009200189

Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle

Fraser Riddell | University of Durham

Synthesizing music, literature and theory, Fraser Riddell reveals the importance of music in emergent queer identities at the fin de siècle. Illuminating for both students and researchers of the period, his compelling arguments for music’s queer agency will fascinate anyone interested in Aestheticism, Decadence and the Bloomsbury Group.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 250pp Apr. 2022 9781108839204 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108989541

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. 320pp

Jan. 2022 9781108427517 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108614931

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Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature economics and Political identity in the Networks of empire

Philip Steer | Massey University, Auckland

This new, wide-ranging framework for understanding Victorian settler colonialism reveals the energetic circulation of literary forms between Australia, New Zealand and Britain. Analysis of both literary and economic texts gives students an essential grounding in the historical and political context of empire that shaped the Victorian novel.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 247pp

Feb. 2022 9781108735858 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jan. 2020 9781108484428 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108695824

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The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare

Bardology in the Nineteenth Century Charles LaPorte | University of Washington

This book will interest anyone who is curious about how Shakespeare became the presiding deity of English literature. It describes the Victorians’ quasi-Biblical culture surrounding Shakespeare’s work and discusses why Victorian devotion had an enduring impact upon English studies in the Western world.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 231pp

Nov. 2022 9781108791588 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Nov. 2020 9781108496155 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108866262

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Victorian Women and Wayward Reading

Crises of identification

Marisa Palacios Knox

This book explores how Victorian women readers strategically identified with literature to defy stereotypes and inspire their action and creativity. Engaging with nineteenth-century English literature and culture, the book engages with theories and histories of reading that appeal to literary scholars and educators.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 253pp

Nov. 2022 9781108791601 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Oct. 2020 9781108496162 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108866293

English literature - 1900 - 1945

A History of World War One Poetry

Jane Potter | Oxford Brookes University

Situating First World War poetry in a truly global context, this book reaches beyond the British soldier-poet canon by engaging with the poetry of men and women writing in different languages, on different fronts, and from different national perspectives.

425pp

Oct. 2022 9781009100649 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120 eISBN 9781009120098

Absorption and Theatricality

On Ghost Trio

Conor Carville | University of Reading

Samuel Beckett’s 1976 Television play Ghost Trio is one of his most beautiful and mysterious works. It demonstrates Beckett’s exploration of the relationship between theatricality, absorption and objecthood, and shows how his work anticipates the development of video and installation art.

Elements in Beckett Studies

75pp

Mar. 2022 9781009001175 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781009000369

Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature

Derek Ryan | University of Kent, Canterbury

By focusing on animals, this book offers fresh perspectives on canonical figures such as Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster alongside original readings of lesser-studied texts by Leonard Woolf and David Garnett. It contains unpublished archival material and is informed by interdisciplinary research in natural history, science and critical theory.

280pp

Dec. 2022 9781009182973 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009182997

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Conrad’s Decentered Fiction

Johan Adam Warodell | University of Sussex

This is the first work in many decades to present new primary sources in Joseph Conrad’s own hand, in readings that span all of his fiction. The monograph brings the vibrant details of Conrad’s writing to the forefront for study and reproduces and analyzes newly-discovered artworks, maps, and manuscript pages.

290pp Mar. 2022 9781316512197 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009057905

Queer Kinship after Wilde

Transnational Decadence and the Family Kristin Mahoney | Michigan State University

This book draws on archival materials, such as diaries, correspondence, and photo albums, to tell the stories of queer subjects who engaged in translation, travel, and transnational collaboration as they generated new ways of approaching kinship.

280pp Sep. 2022 9781316519912 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009019682

Samuel Beckett’s Poetry

James Brophy | University of Maine, Orono

Samuel Beckett’s Poetry is the first systematic study of Beckett’s complete poetry, designed for students and scholars of 20th century poetry and literature, as well as for specialist readers of Beckett’s works. Readers will find accessible guidance for understanding the often difficult and uneven collected poetry of this modern literary icon.

280pp Nov. 2022 9781009222549 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009222563

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature and Politics

Christos Hadjiyiannis | University of Cyprus

Many twentieth-century literary writers were directly involved in political parties and causes, and many viewed their writing as part of their activism. This book explores literature’s direct relationship to politics, offering new ways of thinking about the troubled relationship between literature and politics.

Cambridge Companions to Literature

350pp

Nov. 2022 9781108814195 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Nov. 2022 9781108840521 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 84.99 eISBN 9781108886284

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The Cambridge History of Modernism

Vincent Sherry | Washington University, St Louis

This Cambridge History of Modernism identifies a coherent understanding of ‘modernism’ within the ‘modern’ period. In forty-three chapters, prominent scholars provide analytical narratives of literature, music, visual arts, architecture, philosophy, and science, extending the consideration across panEuropean and transatlantic locations. 963pp 30 b/w illus.

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English literature

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Apr. 2022 9781108978217 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 May. 2017 9781107034693 Hardback GBP 132 / USD 176 eISBN 9781139540902

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The Literature of Absolute War

Transnationalism and world war ii

Nil Santiáñez | St Louis University, Missouri

The Literature of Absolute War explores for the first time the literature of absolute war in connection to the world war of 1939–45. From a transnational standpoint, it addresses a set of theoretical, historical, and literary questions, shedding new light on the nature of absolute war and the literature on World War II.

281pp

Sep. 2022 9781108817035 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 May. 2020 9781108495127 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108861144

English literature - 1945 and beyond

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The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel

Jan Baetens

This collection provides the complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in the twentieth and twenty-first century. It will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of the graphic novel and popular culture. 689pp Apr. 2022 9781316622209 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 Oct. 2018 9781107171411 Hardback GBP 131 / USD 184 eISBN 9781316759981

English literature - Anglo-Saxon and Medieval

Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England

Making english Literary Manuscripts, 1400–1500

Daniel Wakelin | University of Oxford

This volume elucidates the craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes of scribes of late medieval English manuscripts to students and researchers. Introducing misunderstood and overlooked aspects of these manuscripts, it convincingly challenges current understandings of late medieval literary and material culture.

300pp Jun. 2022 9781009100588 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009119313

Literary Beginnings in the European Middle Ages

Mark Chinca | University of Cambridge

The contributors to this volume offer a groundbreaking 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.

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 330pp Aug. 2022 9781108477642 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108776912

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Paper in Medieval England

From Pulp to Fictions

Orietta Da Rold | University of Cambridge

Detailed analysis of the coming of paper to medieval England, and its influence on the literary and non-literary culture of the period. In this analysis, book production is one of the elements of a wider story. The book considers a wider matrix of historical, economic, social and cultural interrelations and people’s networks.

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 295pp

Nov. 2022 9781108814287 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Oct. 2020 9781108840576 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108886536

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The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain

Texts, Artefacts and Beliefs

Andrew Wallace | Carleton University, Ottawa

This study will appeal to students and scholars of literature, history, and culture who are interested in Rome’s persistence in medieval and early modern Britain.

266pp 5 b/w illus.

Aug. 2022 9781108791434 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Sep. 2020 9781108496100 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108866071

English literature - Renaissance and early modern to 1700

A History of English Georgic Writing

Paddy Bullard | University of Reading

This volume surveys the literature of rural working lives and landscapes written in English between 1500 and the present day, offering a range of scholarly perspectives on the georgic tradition, with insights from literary criticism, historical scholarship, classics, post-colonial studies, rural studies and ecocriticism.

370pp

Oct. 2022 9781316519875 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781009019507

A Literary History of Latin & English Poetry

Bilingual Verse Culture in early Modern england Victoria Moul | University College London

Painting the fullest picture to date of early modern England’s bilingual poetic culture, this study contextualises landmark texts ranging from Tottel’s miscellany to the hymns of Isaac Watts, via Shakespeare, Jonson, Herbert, Marvell, Milton and Cowley. This account is invaluable for both scholars of early modern English poetry and classicists.

450pp Jul. 2022 9781107192713 Hardback GBP 110 / USD 140 eISBN 9781108131667

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A Mirror for Magistrates

A Modernized and Annotated edition

Scott C. Lucas | The Citadel, South Carolina

The first modern critical edition of A Mirror for Magistrates - a collection of tragic verse narratives compiled by William Baldwin in 1559. This volume is aimed at scholars and advanced students of early modern English literature and history, and undergraduates researching the Mirror’s influence on early modern English authors.

482pp 3 b/w illus.

Aug. 2022 9781009224390 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Sep. 2019 9781107040014 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 116 eISBN 9781139626910

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Ben Jonson and Posterity reception, reputation, Legacy

Martin Butler | University of Leeds

Bringing together leading scholars and multiple critical perspectives, this collection provides new insights into Jonson’s reception and legacy over four centuries, benefitting students and scholars of Jonson and early modern literary studies, as well as all those interested in intertextuality and reception from the Renaissance to the present.

271pp

Nov. 2022 9781108822503 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99

Oct. 2020 9781108842686 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108903967

Black Shakespeare reading and Misreading race

Ian Smith | Lafayette College, Pennsylvania

In his compelling new book Ian Smith addresses the pernicious influence of systemic whiteness on our interpretation of Shakespeare’s plays. Unmissable reading for students and scholars of drama, cultural and early modern studies.

280pp Sep. 2022 9781009224086 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009224116

Boy Actors in Early

Modern England Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre

Harry R. McCarthy | University of Cambridge

Harry R. McCarthy’s innovative study draws on theatre history and present-day performance to foreground how boys’ physical skills shaped the plays in which they performed. Through in-depth readings of a wide range of plays, this book offers a critical reimagining of early modern theatrical culture.

320pp Sep. 2022 9781009098953 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009106658

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Canonising Shakespeare

Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640–1740

Emma Depledge | Université de Fribourg, Switzerland

This book appeals to scholars with interests in Shakespeare’s authorial and publication history and book history, from the Renaissance to the early eighteenth century. International experts show how booksellers, editors, printers and publishers shaped the Shakespeare canon, adapting the presentation of Shakespeare’s plays and poems for a range of consumers.

282pp 12 b/w illus.

Aug. 2022 9781316608258 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Sep. 2017 9781107154599 Hardback GBP 82.99 / USD 110 eISBN 9781316650752

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Richard Preiss | University of Utah

Designed for students and scholars and anyone with an interest in Shakespeare and Renaissance England, this book examines the role of the child in two key early modern institutions, the school and the stage, and shows, in turn, how these institutions shaped our understanding of childhood.

308pp 14 b/w illus.

Jun. 2022 9781107476059 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 May. 2017 9781107094185 Hardback GBP 70.99 / USD 110 eISBN 9781316145685

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Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce, and the Book Trade

Kirk Melnikoff |

University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Presents the first exploration of Christopher Marlowe’s complex place in the canon both bibliographically and theatrically. The collection considers Marlowe’s deliberate engagement with page and stage, the textual transmission of his work, and the reception of ‘Marlowe’ as style, perspective, and author. 335pp 7 b/w illus.

Jun. 2022 9781107566170 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Oct. 2018 9781107126206 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781316422120

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Clowning and Authorship in Early Modern Theatre

Richard Preiss | University of Utah

Richard Preiss presents a lively and provocative study of how the early modern stage clown defined -and changed - theatrical experience. Recovering the interactive entertainments with which comedians including Richard Tarlton, Will Kemp and Robert Armin engaged audiences, he draws new conclusions about how early modern theatre negotiated its own textuality.

297pp 11 b/w illus.

Jun. 2022 9781108438773 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Mar. 2014 9781107036574 Hardback GBP 82.99 / USD 117 eISBN 9781139567794

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Early Shakespeare, 1588–1594

Rory Loughnane | University of Kent, Canterbury

A re-appraisal of Shakespeare’s early career by leading scholars, including essays about the idea of ‘early Shakespeare’, his early collaborators and rivals, and the burgeoning theatrical industry of the 1580s and early 1590s. With broad appeal for scholars and graduate students of Shakespeare, early modern drama and attribution studies.

338pp

Aug. 2022 9781108817875 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Apr. 2020 9781108495240 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108861748

Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater

Stage Spectacle and Audience response

Lauren Robertson | Columbia University, New York

At the same time as it demonstrates how the theater transformed early modernity’s crisis of uncertainty into stage spectacle, this book supplies a new account of early modern theatrical experience, one that is informed by the period’s culture of playgoing and material conditions of performance.

290pp Dec. 2022 9781009225151 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009225137

George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

Simon Jackson | University of Cambridge

The first full-length study to fully situate Herbert’s verse in the early modern culture from which it emerged, this interdisciplinary book argues for an innovative ‘musical’ mode of reading lyric that will prove illuminating for students and scholars working in early modern literary studies and in seventeenth-century music and theology.

350pp Oct. 2022 9781009098069 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009106887

Margaret Cavendish

An interdisciplinary Perspective

Lisa Walters | University of Queensland

Margaret Cavendish was a remarkable polymath, and this collection brings together academics from a fittingly wide range of academic disciplines to examine each of her major works. A truly comprehensive resource for scholars and graduate students of both arts and sciences, this study reflects the astonishing breadth of Cavendish’s work.

300pp May. 2022 9781108490368 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108780780

Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England

William E. Engel | University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee

This collection of essays by leading scholars of death and memory studies outlines the cultural, religious, epistemological, and political contexts for understanding how people in Renaissance England engaged with memorialization while at the same time recalling their own mortality.

280pp

Nov. 2022 9781108843393 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108918565

Milton’s Late Poems

Forms of Modernity

Lee Morrissey | Clemson University, South Carolina

Offering a radically transhistorical view of modernity, Lee Morrissey recasts Milton’s major late poems as fictions narrating three varying responses to a world in upheaval: adjustment, avoidance and antagonism. This invigorating alternative to traditionally historicist Milton scholarship is simultaneously a prompt to rethink early modern studies.

280pp

Aug. 2022 9781009197083 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009197076

Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England

Actor, Audience and Performance

Simon Smith | Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham

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.

350pp

Mar. 2022 9781108489058 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108773775

Reading Shakespeare through Drama

Jane Coles

Reading Shakespeare through Drama arises out of case study research which focuses on reading as a socio-cultural practice. Underpinned by theories of reading, learning, drama and play, it is, nevertheless, rooted in the everyday work of secondary English classrooms. Elements in Shakespeare and Pedagogy 75pp

Jul. 2022 9781009001984 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781009004268

Shakespeare and Beckett

Claudia Olk | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen

This book is the first monograph to study the rich correspondences between the works of William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett. It addresses an academic readership in literature and theatre studies, revealing hitherto undiscovered links between major works of both authors, including in music and in the visual arts.

300pp

Jan. 2023 9781316514030 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009082402

Shakespeare and British World War Two Film

Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr | Pennsylvania State University Illuminating for students and researchers of Shakespeare, film and World War Two Britain alike, this book expertly draws on the theory and practice of adaptation and appropriation to demonstrate how the British cinema presented Shakespeare as both an emblem of national unity and a marker of internal division.

250pp

Mar. 2022 9781108842648 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108903776

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Shakespeare and Millennial Fiction

Andrew James Hartley | University of North Carolina, Charlotte

This book is a scholarly examination of the way that fiction produced since the year 2000 incorporates the work and legacy of Shakespeare. Some of these novels and short stories revisit the plots of Shakespeare’s plays, retelling their stories or otherwise adapting the material to explore contemporary concerns and issues.

277pp 1 table

Shakespeare and Virtue A Handbook

Julia Reinhard Lupton | University of California, Irvine

These thirty-eight short essays show how Shakespearean drama stages virtue as a capacity for connection within and across distinct environments of belonging. Individual virtues such as hospitality, prudence, wit, and trust enable pluralism while asserting core commitments, channelling strength and yearning into the courage to be seen and heard.

400pp

Jun. 2022 9781316622902

Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Nov. 2017 9781107171725 Hardback GBP 82.99 / USD 110 eISBN 9781316761601

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Shakespeare and Senecan Tragedy

Curtis Perry | University of Illinois

A new approach to understanding the relationship between Shakespearean tragedy and Senecan tragedy, this book has implications for our understanding Shakespeare’s major tragedies, for our understanding of tragedy as a genre, and for our understanding of early modern classical reception.

306pp Nov. 2022 9781108791618 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Oct. 2020 9781108496179 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108866316

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Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama

A. D. Cousins | Macquarie University, Sydney

The only book that comprehensively studies the soliloquy’s history and diversity of form, its theatrical functions, rhetoric, and socio-cultural significances in the period from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Davenant.

288pp

Jun. 2022 9781316623893 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Aug. 2018 9781107172548 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781316779118

Shakespeare and Virtual Reality

Stephen Wittek | Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania

This Element considers the intersection between Shakespearean drama and the exciting new medium of virtual reality. It discusses the key advantages and disadvantages of virtual reality, especially as it pertains to Shakespeare, and explores what Shakespeare can do for VR (rather than vice versa).

Elements in Shakespeare and Pedagogy

75pp

Jan. 2022 9781009001878 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781009003995

Nov. 2022 9781108843409 Hardback GBP 95 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108918589

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Shakespeare in the Marketplace of Words

Jonathan P. Lamb | University of Kansas

This book explores Shakespeare’s use of language to interact with the verbal marketplace in which he worked. With chapters focusing on particular rhetorical features in five of Shakespeare’s plays, the book appeals to scholars of Shakespearean language, digital humanities, history of the book, and the literary versus the theatrical Shakespeare. 255pp

Jun. 2022 9781316644140 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jul. 2017 9781107193314 Hardback GBP 82.99 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108147729

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Shakespeare Survey 74

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.

Shakespeare Survey 457pp

Aug. 2022 9781009005784 Paperback GBP 35 / USD 50 Sep. 2021 9781316517123 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781009036795

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Shakespeare, Love and Language

David Schalkwyk | Queen Mary University of London

This book delivers a comprehensive investigation into the historical context of the concept of love that Shakespeare inherited. Professor Schalkwyk explores the ways in which Shakespeare’s treatment of love may be illuminated by the philosophy and theory of writers including Plato, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jacques Derrida. 262pp

Jun. 2022 9781316637951 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jan. 2018 9781107187238 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781316941133

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Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance

Pascale Aebischer | University of Exeter

Rapid changes in performance technologies are changing how we view early modern drama. The book explores how candlelight and architecture make each spectator’s viewing experience unique; how digital media alter viewers’ interactions with live performances; and how theatre broadcasts fundamentally affect the reception of Shakespeare.

258pp

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Shakespeare’s Accents

Voicing identity in Performance

Sonia Massai | King’s College London

Aug. 2022 9781108430357

Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Apr. 2020 9781108420488 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108339001

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Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre

W. B. Worthen | Barnard College, Columbia University

Theatre has always been technological. This book explores the technicity of theatre, its changing work as an intermedial technology, focusing on distinctive modes of contemporary Shakespeare performance. Tracing live, mediated, and digitallyinflected performances, this book will appeal to scholars and students of Shakespeare and theatre. 279pp 15 b/w illus.

Aug. 2022 9781108703048 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Apr. 2020 9781108498135 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108628464

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. 290pp

Feb. 2022 9781108830188 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108909464

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Shakespearean Arrivals

The Birth of Character

Nicholas Luke | University of Queensland

This book provides a novel account of how Shakespeare creates his great tragic characters. It examines Shakespeare’s technique in orchestrating dramatic events alongside Christian notions of rebirth, Badiou’s philosophy of event, and process philosophy. It appeals to those interested in Shakespeare, aesthetics, and subjectivity.

260pp

Jun. 2022 9781108433822 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jan. 2018 9781108422154 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108380881

Focusing on the vocal dimensions of Shakespearean performance, this book will appeal to scholars and students interested in the history of the reception of Shakespeare on the English stage, as well as theatre performance and voice studies students, and to theatre artists and funders interested in enhancing inclusion and diversity. 250pp Aug. 2022 9781108454612 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Apr. 2020 9781108429627 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108571739

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. 280pp May. 2022 9781009098090 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009106986

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Shakespeare’s Rise to Cultural Prominence

Politics, Print and Alteration, 1642–1700 Emma Depledge | Université de Fribourg, Switzerland Combining scholarly methodologies of book and theatre history this book argues that the watershed moment in Shakespeare’s authorial afterlife came not in the eighteenth century, as critics have suggested, but instead as a result of a succession dispute known as the Exclusion Crisis, 1678–1682. 265pp 4 b/w illus. 10 tables Jun. 2022 9781108447669 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jul. 2018 9781108427104 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108648974

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Shakespeare’s

Workplace essays on Shakespearean Theatre

Andrew Gurr | University of Reading

Over the past thirty-five years Andrew Gurr’s work has become the standard means of access to the original Shakespearean theatre and the staging of Shakespeare’s plays. This is a selection of his key essays about the conditions under which Shakespeare and his contemporaries composed their playbooks.

294pp

Jun. 2022 9781316618271 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Oct. 2017 9781107167841 Hardback GBP 70.99 / USD 110 eISBN 9781316716755

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Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance

Sally Barnden | King’s College London

Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance is the first book-length study of the relationship between Shakespeare’s works and photography. It examines the place of photography in the reception of the Shakespeare canon since the invention of the camera, and how photographs have influenced perceptions of Shakespearean performance, character and cultural authority. 262pp 34 b/w illus.

Aug. 2022 9781108738255 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Dec. 2019 9781108487931 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108768337

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Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England

Elizabeth L. Swann | Durham University

This book will be of use to students, postgraduates, and scholars with interests in the history of the senses and in Renaissance and early modern literature and culture. It offers new readings of influential texts by authors including Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Amelia Lanyer, and Robert Boyle.

279pp

Nov. 2022 9781108720755 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Oct. 2020 9781108487658 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108767576

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Time and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage

Sarah Lewis | King’s College London

Lewis examines cultural and theatrical intersections between early modern temporal concepts and early modern gendered identities. Through close readings of the works of Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker, Heywood and others, she shows how temporal tropes are used to delineate masculinity and femininity on the early modern stage. 287pp

Aug. 2022 9781108820271 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Sep. 2020 9781108842198 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108899093

English literature (general)

Hope: A Literary History

Adam Potkay | College of William and Mary, Virginia

When is hope a good thing, and when is it not?

Adam Potkay creatively explores the cases for and against hope in literature, from antiquity to the present. Offering new insights for a wide readership, his book examines poetry, drama, and novels alongside philosophy, theology, and political theory.

434pp

Jan. 2022 9781316513705 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009075886

Humour in Verse

An

Anthology

W. E. Slater

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

Sep. 2022 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.

300pp Mar. 2022 9781107191327 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108123396

TeXTBOOk

Studying English Literature in Context

Critical

readings

Paul Poplawski

From early medieval times to the present, this diverse and wide-ranging collection of thirty-one essays explores the myriad ways in which literary texts are informed by their historical contexts. The essays draw on varied themes and perspectives to present stimulating new readings of both canonical and non-canonical texts and authors.

500pp

Sep. 2022 9781108749572 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 32.99 Sep. 2022 9781108479288 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 97.99 eISBN 9781108782999

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Economics

Paul Crosthwaite | University of Edinburgh

This Companion provides students and researchers with a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interdisciplinary field of literature and economics. Combining historical coverage with key topics, the volume will appeal to literary scholars and to historians and social scientists interested in the literary and cultural dimensions of economics. Cambridge Companions to Literature

300pp

Aug. 2022 9781009012997 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 Aug. 2022 9781316515754 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009026550

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Literary theory

Actual Fictions

Literary representation and Character Network Analysis

Roel Smeets | Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

This Element sheds a new light on the ubiquitous yet complex notion of mimesis. By systematically comparing the social dynamics of the Dutch population at a given time with the social dynamics of characters in Dutch literary fiction published in the same period.

Elements in Digital Literary Studies

75pp Aug. 2022 9781009180795 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781009180788

After Darwin

Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the TwentyFirst Century

Devin Griffiths | University of Southern California

An interdisciplinary and international study that helps readers explore the philosophy and writings of Charles Darwin and their contribution to theories of human evolution and difference, philosophy, and beauty. Short chapters detail specific elements of Darwin’s thinking about environments, animals, feminism, gender, disability, and ethics.

After Series 280pp Oct. 2022 9781009181150 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Oct. 2022 9781009181174 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009181167

After Marx

Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century

Colleen Lye | University of California, Berkeley

This book updates Marxist literary study for today. It showcases fresh approaches to reading poetry, fiction, film and drama, from Shakespeare to contemporary literature, and shows how Marxist criticism improves our understanding of racial capitalism, feminist politics, colonialism, deindustrialization, high-tech labor, and ecological crisis.

After Series 280pp

Mar. 2022 9781108702249 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Mar. 2022 9781108489287 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108776523

Deep History, Climate Change, and the Evolution of Human Culture

Louise Westling | University of Oregon

This Element follows the development of humans in constantly changing climates and environments from Homo erectus 1.9 million years ago, to fully modern humans who moved out of Africa to Europe and Asia 70,000 years ago.

Elements in Environmental Humanities 75pp Sep. 2022 9781009257336 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781009257343

Eco-Travel

Journeying in the Age of the Anthropocene

Michael Cronin | Trinity College Dublin

This Element explores human travel encounters with the environment over the centuries and asks, what is the future for travel writing in the age of the Anthropocene?

Elements in Travel Writing 75pp

Mar. 2022 9781108823340 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108913904

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English Authorship and the Early Modern Sublime

Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson

Patrick Cheney | Pennsylvania State University

Studying the sublime in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century writing, this book advances our understanding of Renaissance literature as a field in the arts and humanities today. Above all, the chapters feature a model of creative excellence and social liberty that explains the greatness of the English literary Renaissance. 328pp 2 b/w illus.

Jun. 2022 9781107627918 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Mar. 2018 9781107049628 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 105 eISBN 9781107279100

Globalization and Literary Studies

Joel Evans | University of Nottingham

This book is for literary scholars working across a range of periods who are interested in the ways in which literature interacts with and shapes our notions of globalization and global phenomena. It will appeal predominantly to contemporary and twentieth century scholars and students, but also people studying earlier periods.

Cambridge Critical Concepts 376pp

Apr. 2022 9781108840927 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108887915

Nature and Literary Studies

Peter Remien | Lewis-Clark State College, Idaho

This book supplies a broad and accessible overview of one of the most important and contested keywords in modern literary studies. Including chapters on wilderness, pastoral, gender studies, critical race theory, and digital literature, the book is perfect for students and professors seeking grounding in the environmental humanities.

Cambridge Critical Concepts 438pp

Aug. 2022 9781108836760 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108872263

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate

Adeline Johns-Putra

This book introduces students to the field of climate and literature while offering seasoned scholars novel ways to approach its dynamic expansions. It highlights diversity across geography, race, and class, as well as genre. It not only introduces key issues but also puts emerging themes in conversation.

Cambridge Companions to Literature 300pp Apr. 2022 9781009060813 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Apr. 2022 9781316512166 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781009057868

The Cambridge Companion to The Essay

Kara Wittman | Pomona College, California

This Companion, written by a diverse group of scholars for an audience of students and professors, considers the history, theory, and aesthetics of the essay form from the sixteenth century to the present.

Cambridge Companions to Literature 300pp

Oct. 2022 9781009011143 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Oct. 2022 9781316519776 Hardback GBP 70 / USD 90 eISBN 9781009022255

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The New Feminist Literary Studies

Jennifer Cooke | Loughborough University

This book presents sixteen essays by feminists of theory and literature. It is useful to academics and students of feminism, gender studies, queer theory, and contemporary literature. Its essays both account for the current state of the field and sub-disciplines they tackle as well as making fresh critical interventions.

Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions 270pp

Aug. 2022 9781108458603 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 Dec. 2020 9781108471930 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108599504

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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. 263pp

Nov. 2022 9781108970563 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 Jul. 2021 9781108839273 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108989718

Literature - editions, texts

English Political Writings

1711–1714

‘The Conduct of the Allies’ and Other works

Jonathan Swift

This volume collects Swift’s political writings from the early 1710s, including most notably The Conduct of the Allies and The Publick Spirit of the Whigs. The volume includes an introduction drawing on current scholarly interpretations, detailed contextual explanatory notes, and a comprehensive account of the textual history of each work.

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift 576pp

Jun. 2022 9781009160483 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 37.99 eISBN 9781009071673

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Irish Political Writings after 1725

A Modest Proposal and Other works

Jonathan Swift

This latest volume of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift is the first fully annotated, contextualised, and textually authoritative edition of Swift’s Irish prose writings from 1726 to 1738, including A Modest Proposal, and will be the standard edition of these writings for scholars, researchers, and students.

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift 656pp 6 b/w illus.

Jun. 2022 9781009160391 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 39.99 Aug. 2018 9780521833851 Hardback GBP 67.99 / USD 88.99 eISBN 9781139046060

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Letters to esther Johnson and rebecca Dingley, 1710–1713

Jonathan Swift

These letters which make up the Journal to Stella were written during the most politically active period of Swift’s life, and offer an insider’s view of British political life at a pivotal point in eighteenthcentury history. They also offer a glimpse into the intimacy of some of Swift’s closest friendships. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift 890pp 13 b/w illus.

Jun. 2022 9781009160377 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 41.99 Dec. 2013 9780521841665 Hardback GBP 116 / USD 168 9781139016339

Outer Space: 100 Poems

Midge Goldberg

Throughout human history, poetry has provided stories about what people observe in the sky. Stars, planets, comets, and space travel serve as metaphors for love, loneliness, adventure, and awe. This anthology contains poems by poets and astronomers, across time and cultures, revealing how we think about outer space, and ourselves. 200pp Sep. 2022 9781009203609 Hardback GBP 12.99 / USD 16.99 eISBN 9781009203616

New iN PAPerBACk Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises

Polite Conversation, Directions to Servants and Other works

Jonathan Swift

This volume of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift, containing a fully annotated edition of Bickerstaff papers, ‘Polite Conversation’, ‘Directions to Servants’ and other works, will be the standard reference edition for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift 913pp 11 b/w illus.

Jun. 2022 9781009160384 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 41.99 Jul. 2013 9780521843263 Hardback GBP 105 / USD 152 eISBN 9781139016360

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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.

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson 3000pp

May. 2022 9780521833066 4 Hardback books GBP 400 / USD 520 eISBN 9781139020312

Publishing, printing history, history of the book

Diversity and Inclusion in Young Adult Publishing, 1960–1980

Karen Sands-O’Connor | Newcastle University

This Element examines the early years of British Young Adult (YA) publishing at three strategic publishing houses: Penguin, Heinemann and Macmillan. Specifically, it discusses their YA imprints (Penguin Peacocks, Heinemann New Windmills and Macmillan Topliners), all created when the population of Britain was changing and becoming more diverse.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture 75pp

Nov. 2022 9781108827836 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781108900584

Editing Fiction

Three Case Studies from Post-war Australia

Alice Grundy | Australian National University, Canberra Editing Fiction considers the collaborative efforts of literary production as well as editorial practice in its own right, using case studies by Australian novelists Jessica Anderson, Thea Astley and Ruth Park.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture 75pp

Aug. 2022 9781009017794 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781009039383

Fantasies of the Bookstore

Eben J. Muse | Bangor University

This Element surveys the place of the bookstore in the creative imagination (the fantasies of the bookstore) through a study of novels in which bookstores play a prominent role in the setting or plot. Nearly 500 ‘bookstore novels’ published since the first in 1917 have been identified.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

75pp Jul. 2022 9781108445399 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99

eISBN 9781108646000

Handbook for Academic Authors

How to Navigate the Publishing Process

Sixth edition | Beth Luey

Encouraging, no-nonsense advice on choosing a publisher, negotiating a contract, and working with your editor to ensure your research reaches the largest audience possible. The sixth edition has been revised and updated to address open access and digital publishing, the use of social media, and changes within the academic profession. 300pp Mar. 2022 9781009073356 Paperback GBP 16.99 / USD 21.99 Mar. 2022 9781316513262 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99 eISBN 9781009063876

Institutions of Literature, 1700–1900

Jon Mee | University of York

This collection provides a lively understanding of the roles institutions play in the production and reception of literature, arguing against the assumption that the institutional and the literary are necessarily at odds and demonstrating the particular importance of the period 1700–1900 to the development of the modern institutional landscape.

316pp Jul. 2022 9781108830201 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108909501

Is This a Book?

Angus Phillips | Oxford Brookes University

This is a book about the book. Is this a book? is a question of wide appeal and interest. With the arrival of ebooks, digital narratives and audiobooks, the time is right for a fresh discussion of what is a book.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture 75pp

Jun. 2022 9781108940344 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781108938389

Pre-web Digital Publishing and the Lore of Electronic Literature

Astrid Ensslin | Universitetet i Bergen, Norway

Examines a watershed moment in the recent history of digital publishing through a case study of the pre-web, serious hypertext periodical, the Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext (19941995). It deepens our understanding of the North American publishing industry’s history and contributes to the overdue preservation of early digital writing. Elements in Publishing and Book Culture 75pp

Mar. 2022 9781108828888 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781108903165

Publication and the Papacy in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

Samu Niskanen | University of Helsinki

This Element explores the papacy’s engagement in authorial publishing in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The opening discussion demonstrates that throughout the medieval period, papal involvement in the publication of new works was a phenomenon, which surged in the eleventh century. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

75pp

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Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books

Continuities of reading in the english reformation

Margaret Connolly | University of St Andrews, Scotland Investigating the reception of medieval manuscripts over a long century, and the members of the Tudor gentry family who owned them, reveals an unexpectedly strong interest in works of the past, and the continuing intellectual and domestic importance of medieval manuscripts in an age of print.

Jan. 2022 9781009111089

Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781009109864

Publishing in Wales

renaissance and resistance

Jacob D. Rawlins | Brigham Young University, Utah

The story of publishing in Wales is connected to the story of Wales itself. Wales, the Welsh people, and the Welsh language have survived invasion, migration, oppression, revolt, resistance, religious and social upheaval, and economic depression. The books of Wales chronicle this story and the Welsh people’s endurance over centuries of challenges.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

75pp

Apr. 2022 9781108948173 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781108951159

Readers in a Revolution

Bibliographical Change in the Nineteenth Century

David McKitterick | University of Cambridge Tracing a mid-nineteenth-century revolution in understandings of old and second-hand books, David McKitterick reveals a transformation in values that underpins bibliography, access and collecting today. This study illuminates how exhibitions, libraries, booksellers, scholars and popular writers all contributed to the modern world of book studies.

446pp Jun. 2022 9781009200844 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009200882

Simulating Antiquity in Boys’ Adventure Fiction

Maps and ink Stains

Thomas Vranken | University of the South Pacific

This Element approaches the genre of boys’ adventure fiction as not just a catalogue of texts but a corpus of books. Examining early editions of Treasure Island, King Solomon’s Mines, and The Lost World, the Element argues that fin-de-siècle adventure fiction sought to resist the nineteenthcentury industrialisation of book production from within.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

75pp

Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology 332pp 19 b/w illus. 2 maps 4 tables Jun. 2022 9781108445528 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Jan. 2019 9781108426770 Hardback GBP 78.99 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108652421

European and world literature

European and world literature (general) Re-orienting

Modernism in

Arabic and Persian Poetry

Levi Thompson | University of Texas, Austin

This book situates Arabic and Persian poetries in relation to each other and to the development of modernism as a global phenomenon. Academics interested in Arabic and Persian literatures or in the concept of world literature will find a compelling case for studying Arabic and Persian modernist poetries comparatively.

Cambridge Studies in World Literature 280pp Dec. 2022 9781009164474 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009164467

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 mid2000s.

Cambridge Studies in World Literature 274pp Feb. 2022 9781316510797 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009039727

The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery

Laura Murphy

Aug. 2022 9781009158947

Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781009158930

This Companion provides original scholarly arguments about some of the most trenchant themes that arise in the literatures of slavery –including authentication and legitimation, ethnic formation and globalization, displacement, exile, and alienation. It challenges the reductive notion of what constitutes slavery and its representation.

Cambridge Companions to Literature 300pp

Nov. 2022 9781009068918 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Nov. 2022 9781316512647 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009070928

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The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction

Jesper Gulddal | University of Newcastle, New South Wales

Accessible yet comprehensive, this is the first systematic account of crime fiction’s rich history and extraordinary diversity across the globe. Deeply informative for general fiction readers, it also offers an important introduction for undergraduate and postgraduate students of popular fiction and world literature.

Cambridge Companions to Literature

320pp

Apr. 2022 9781108723350 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 Apr. 2022 9781108484596 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108614344

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Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium

The Authorial Voice of Constantine Manasses

Ingela Nilsson | Uppsala Universitet, Sweden

This is the first comprehensive study of occasional writing in Byzantium, focusing on the literary output of Constantine Manasses. It argues that, although such works were commissioned by wealthy ‘friends’ to mark specific events, he and his fellow writers succeeded in developing a strong and individual authorial presence within them.

231pp

Mar. 2022 9781108824262 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 30.99 Dec. 2020 9781108843355 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108910217

European literature

Believing in Dante

Truth in Fiction

Alison Cornish | New York University

Eminently readable, this book tackles specific issues in the Divine Comedy that seem particularly alien to modern ways of thinking and renders them compelling. It shows why faith is a question of trust and cannot be bracketed off as merely religious; rather it is a central theme of literature generally.

276pp

Jun. 2022 9781316515068 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009091923

Cervantes the Poet

The <i>Don Quijote</i>, Poetic Practice, and the Conception of the First Modern Novel Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer | Wesleyan University, Connecticut

Recovering Cervantes’ career as an itinerant poet, this study presents a new theory of the modern novel as an organic transformation of lyric practices native to the late-sixteenth century.

300pp

Dec. 2022 9781316517390 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009041119

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Dante: Convivio

A Dual-Language Critical edition

Dante Alighieri

Dante translator-scholar Andrew Frisardi has produced the first fully annotated English translation of Dante’s Convivio, and the first to include the parallel Italian text. The translation into modern English as well as the editorial commentary will make this volume essential for scholars and enthusiasts of Dante and early Italian literature.

728pp 6 b/w illus.

Jan. 2022 9781316505021 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 Dec. 2017 9781107139367 Hardback GBP 105 / USD 136 eISBN 9781316488805

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The ‘Roman de la Rose’ and Thirteenth-Century Thought

Jonathan Morton | Tulane University, Louisiana

Focusing on one of the most influential poems in the European literary tradition, this collection brings together specialised chapters on medieval intellectual history, legal history, psychology, ethics, and logic. Re-evaluates the significance of the Roman de la Rose: indispensable reading for literary specialists and intellectual historians. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 337pp

Aug. 2022 9781108443197 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 Jul. 2020 9781108425704 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108348799

Irish literature

A History of Irish Literature and the Environment

Malcolm Sen | University of Massachusetts, Amherst

The book provides a comprehensive survey of Irish literature and its multi-faceted environmental themes. Lucid analyses of well-known and forgotten texts contextualize Irish literature in historical, political, and ecological frameworks. It shows how the humanities can engage in discourses of environmental degradation and the climate crisis.

454pp

Jul. 2022 9781108490139 Hardback GBP 90 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108780322

Latin American literature

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Jorge Luis Borges in Context

Robin Fiddian | University of Oxford

This book is for an academic readership in Latin American and world literatures. It offers unprecedented coverage of the principal contexts in which leading Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) read and wrote, including family and Argentine history, the Western cultural tradition, both learned and popular, and the Middle East.

Literature in Context

307pp 2 b/w illus.

Feb. 2022 9781108456050 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Jan. 2020 9781108470445 Hardback GBP 88.99 / USD 116 eISBN 9781108635981

Latin American Literature in Transition 1800–1870

Volume 2

Ana Peluffo | University of California, Irvine

This volume includes multiple theoretical and historical perspectives on how different forms of print culture responded to and provided an impulse for social change before, during, and after the tumultuous years of Latin American independence. It will be a key resource for scholars, readers and students interested in Latin American literature.

Latin American Literature in Transition 375pp

Oct. 2022 9781009169455 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781009169448

Latin American Literature in Transition 1870–1930

Fernando Degiovanni | City University of New York

This book gives a panoramic view of the Latin American cultural production during the period 1870-1930 from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective, with an emphasis on the role that capital and global circulation of people and goods played in the Latin American cultural production of the period 1870-1930.

Latin American Literature in Transition 350pp Oct. 2022 9781108838740 Hardback GBP 97.99 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108976367

Latin American Literature in Transition 1980–2018

Volume 5

Mónica Szurmuk

Latin American Literature in Transition 1980-2018 examines the ways literary culture complicates national or area studies understandings of cultural production. This volume looks at literature and culture in general in this hinge period poised between a too-simplistic version of the past, and an as-yet unimagined future.

Latin American Literature in Transition 350pp Oct. 2022 9781108838764 Hardback GBP 97.99 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108976459

Nazism, the Second World War and the Holocaust in Contemporary Latin American Fiction

Emily M. Baker | University College London Nazism, the Second World War and the Holocaust in Contemporary Latin American Fiction charts the evolution of literary production in Latin America from the 19th Century to the present day and features the analysis of acclaimed novels from Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. 262pp Jun. 2022 9781316512425 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009067195

Roberto Bolaño In Context

Jonathan B. Monroe | Cornell University, New York

This book provides a comprehensive, indispensable map for readers at all levels to explore the pivotal contexts, shaping events, and enduring concerns informing the diverse body of work of one of the most consequential writers of the late 20th century and the turn of the millennium.

Literature in Context

400pp

Sep. 2022 9781108835671 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108891226

Surveillance, the Cold War, and Latin American Literature

Daniel Noemi Voionmaa | Northeastern University, Boston

A new take on Latin American literature that analyzes secret police reports on writers and advances readings of their novels, short stories, and poems. It examines modernity, and the modern gaze, from the Italian Renaissance to the authoritarian regimes in Cold War Latin as the origins of today’s surveillance society. 290pp Aug. 2022 9781009153607 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009153591

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