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English literature
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.
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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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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 New iN PAPerBACk
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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4 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
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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
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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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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6 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 TeXTBOOk
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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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 New iN PAPerBACk
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 New iN PAPerBACk
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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Childhood, Education and the Stage in Early Modern England
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
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 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
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 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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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 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 New iN PAPerBACk
Shakespeare’s Accents
Voicing identity in Performance Sonia Massai | King’s College London 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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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
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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
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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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 New iN PAPerBACk
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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Journal to Stella
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
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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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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
