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European and world literature
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.
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Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
75pp 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 Aug. 2022 9781009158947 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781009158930 New iN PAPerBACk
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.
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 (general)
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 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 New iN PAPerBACk
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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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
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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