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American literature

American literature

Classical Hollywood, American Modernism

A Literary History of the Studio System

Brower, Jordan | University of Kentucky

This book charts the Hollywood studio system’s genesis, international dominance, and selfunderstood demise by way of its influences on modernist literature in the United States. It shows how the American film industry’s business practices and social conditions inflected the form of some of the greatest works of prose fiction and non-fiction.

262pp

Jan. 2024 9781009419154 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009419192

Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction

Chinn, Sarah E. | Hunter College, City University of New York

The book is a study of the ways that white radicals deployed the physical and literary image of amputation during the Civil War and Reconstruction to argue for full Black citizenship and against a national reconciliation that reimposed white supremacy. It gives readers a new way to think about the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Cambridge Studies in American literature and Culture, 194

270pp

Jul. 2024 9781009442695 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009442657

Robert Lowell In Context

Austenfeld, Thomas | University of Fribourg

Robert Lowell was one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century. This volume explores the various contexts of Lowell’s life and work. It evaluates his oeuvre from new perspectives, including race and privilege, feminism, ecoconsciousness, and his engagement with the natural environment.

Literature in Context

338pp

The Cambridge Companion to American Utopian Literature and Culture since 1945

Vint, Sherryl | University of California, Riverside

Providing a comprehensive overview of American thought in the period following World War II, this Companion charts how the utopian has been understood in America since the country became a global leader. Individual chapters explore climate change, economic justice, technology, utopian traditions outside Western frameworks, and more.

Cambridge Companions to Literature

332pp

May 2024 9781009180054 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

May 2024 9781009180061 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99

eISBN 9781009180078

The Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac

Belletto, Steven | Lafayette College, Pennsylvania

The Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac brings together 19 leading Kerouac scholars, who offer fresh perspectives on his multifaceted body of work, ranging from detailed analyses of his most significant books to wide-angle perspectives that place Kerouac in key literary, theoretical, and cultural contexts.

Cambridge Companions to Literature

322pp

Jun. 2024 9781009423564 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99

Jun. 2024 9781009423601 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781009423571

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American literature and Politics

Kerkering, John D. | Loyola University, Chicago

Apr. 2024 9781009465717 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009465731

The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

The Great Gatsby is often called the great American novel. This authoritative collector’s edition provides fascinating cultural and historical context and many rich illustrations. Readers from all backgrounds will appreciate anew Fitzgerald’s classic work of illicit desire and glittering parties among the super-rich in jazz-age New York.

278pp

Jan. 2025 9781009414593 Hardback GBP 20.00 / USD 24.95

eISBN 781009414579

This volume addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed, and criticized. It shows how a variety of literary genres and forms, such as poetry, drama, fiction, oratory, and nonfiction, engaged with political questions and participated in political debate.

Cambridge Companions to Literature 300pp

Jan. 2025 9781108815260 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Jan. 2025 9781108841894 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 100.00

eISBN 9781108895095

The Cambridge Companion to Race and American literature

Ernest, John | University of Delaware

Offering an accessible introduction to the history of race, this volume shows how this history has been represented in literature, and how those representations have influenced American culture. It addresses the centrality of race in American literature by foregrounding the conflicts across different traditions and modes of interpretation.

Cambridge Companions to Literature

318pp

Jun. 2024 9781108812993 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Jun. 2024 9781108835657 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781108891189

The Cambridge Companion to the Black Body in American literature

Sherrard-Johnson, Cherene | Pomona College, California

This volume tracks and uncovers the Black body as a persistent presence and absence in American literature. It provides an invaluable guide for teachers and students interested in literary representations of Blackness and embodiment. It centers Black thinking about Black embodiment from current, diverse, and intersectional perspectives. Cambridge Companions to Literature

330pp

May 2024 9781009204194 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

May 2024 9781009204156 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 100.00

eISBN 9781009204200

The Cambridge History of Queer American literature

Kahan, Benjamin | Louisiana State University

This book narrates the history of queer American literature from its earliest writings to the present, telling the never before told story of how queer American literature and the field of queer American literary studies develop.

924pp

Jun. 2024 9781108843454 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 190.00

eISBN 9781108918725

The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script

West III, James L. W. | Pennsylvania State University

The first-ever print edition of the script for the 1926 Broadway adaptation of The Great Gatsby. Owen Davis, 1923 Pulitzer Prize winner, and George Cukor, later of Hollywood fame, turned Fitzgerald’s novel into a fast-moving drama of bootlegging, jazz and violence, resulting in an evening of first-rate entertainment for theatergoers.

142pp

Apr. 2024 9781009385220 Hardback GBP 20.00 / USD 26.99

eISBN 9781009377508

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway

Volume 6 1934–1936

Hemingway, Ernest

The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies

Castronovo, Russ | University of Wisconsin, Madison

This book offers a fresh examination of key interpretative issues in the field of nineteenthcentury American literary studies. It presents a wide range of new approaches to key topics such as Black studies, Latinx studies, disability, gender and sexuality, new materialism, and Indigeneity.

Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions

342pp

Dec. 2024 9781009296731 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009296748

English literature

English literature - 1700 - 1830

A Performance History of The Fair Penitent

McGirr, Elaine | University of Bristol

This Element is of the eighteenth-century performance history of The Fair Penitent demonstrates the interrelation of print and performance and models how readers can recover elements of performance through close attention to text.

Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections

84pp

Mar. 2024 9781009351843 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Mar. 2024 9781009485968 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009351850

African American Gothic in the Era of Black Lives Matter

Wester, Maisha | Indiana University

This Element explores twenty-first century Black Gothic literature and film as it responds to American anti-Blackness and as they illustrate a mode of Black Gothic fiction. It also examines the costs of waging war against racial oppression and the power of embracing ‘monstrosity’.

Hemingway’s letters constitute a rich, continuous portrait of the artist. Never intended for publication, the letters record immediate experiences that inspired Hemingway’s art, afford insight into his creative process, trace the development of works in progress, and express his candid assessments of his own work and that of his contemporaries.

The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 6 786pp

May 2024 9780521897389 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 39.95

eISBN 9781139021616

Elements in the Gothic

75pp

Jan. 2025 9781009161015 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2025 9781009571401 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009161008

British Romanticism and the Matter of Voice

Rhodes, Alice | University of York

Bringing together ideas about poetry, philosophy, medicine, and politics to investigate the relationship between bodies and voices in Romantic-era British literature, Alice Rhodes reveals how Erasumus Darwin, John Thelwall, and Percy Bysshe Shelley came to present the voice as a form of physical, autonomous, and effective political action.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

199pp

Jan. 2025 9781009503419 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009503426

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Byron Among the English Poets

Literary Tradition and Poetic Legacy

Bucknell, Clare | All Souls College, Oxford

The most comprehensive coverage to date of Byron’s place within the English poetic tradition, this landmark study boasts a cast of the most eminent individuals working in the field and will become invaluable to students and scholars of Byron, Romantic Literature and English literary history more generally.

377pp

Jul. 2024 9781108829670 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108903790

Byron: A Life in Ten Letters

Stauffer, Andrew | University of Virginia

A Byron biography like no other – published to mark the bicentennial of his death – it tells the remarkable life story of the celebrated Romantic poet through ten of his best, most resonant letters.

Using Byron’s correspondence, Stauffer relates a vivid and engaging story of creativity, fame, sexual transgression and scandal.

300pp

Feb. 2024 9781009200165 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 29.95

eISBN 9781009200134

Democracy and the American Gothic

Blouin, Michael J. | Milligan University, Tennessee

The American Gothic decentralizes by exposing malaise and reflects the widespread mistrust of the masses. This Element theorizes the democratic and anti-democratic elements of the American Gothic by surveying the conflicted imaginaries of the genre’s mainstays, including Charles Brockden Brown, George Lippard, Shirley Jackson, and Stephen King.

Elements in the Gothic 84pp

Early English Periodicals and Early Modern Social Media

Ezell, Margaret J. M.| Texas A & M University

This Element explores a new print genre which became popular in England at the end of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the periodical. It says that the relationship between the authors, publishers, and audiences in the early periodicals is a dynamic participatory culture. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections

92pp

Oct. 2024 9781108791748 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Oct. 2024 9781009507240 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781108866590

Embodied Experience

in British and French Literature, 1778–1814

Women and Belonging

Heydt-Stevenson, Jillian | University of Colorado Boulder

Combining feminist, materialist, and comparatist approaches, Jillian Heydt-Stevenson reveals evocative and hidden information about objects like diamonds, hats, and statues, demonstrating women’s life-preserving ecological, social, and political connections to material things in literature from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

306pp

Nov. 2024 9781009463980 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009463966

Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century

The Imprint of Women, c. 1700–1830

Martinez, Cristina S. | University of Ottawa

Oct. 2024 9781009279970 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Oct. 2024 9781009539111 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009279932

Dickens and the Gothic Smith, Andrew | University of Sheffield

This Element focuses on representations of social and psychological entrapment demonstrating how Dickens employs the Gothic to evaluate how institutions and formations of history impinge on the individual. An analysis of these forms of Gothic entrapment reveals how these institutions and representations of history function Gothically in Dickens.

Elements in the Gothic 64pp

Oct. 2024 9781009282475 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Oct. 2024 9781009539104 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009282512

Sixteen international scholars uncover neglected histories about the contributions of eighteenthcentury women to making, selling and publishing prints and emphasise the creativity and acumen they displayed. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

292pp

Mar. 2024 9781108844772 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781108953535

Folk Gothic

Keetley, Dawn

Folk Gothic asserts that a significant part of what has been categorised as folk horror is more accurately and usefully labelled as Folk Gothic. In emphasising temporal and spatial structures, it tells stories that foreground land and ‘things’, consequently loosening the grip of anthropocentrism.

Elements in the Gothic

78pp

Feb. 2024 9781009160896 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009467810 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009160902

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Irony and Earnestness in Eighteenth-Century Literature

Dimensions of Satire and Solemnity

Herron, Shane | 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.

248pp

Jul. 2024 9781108995047 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108993227

Jonathan Swift in Context

Hone, Joseph | University of Newcastle upon Tyne

The comprehensive one-stop guide to the writings, life, and times of Jonathan Swift. With forty-four tightly-focused chapters, this book communicates the latest academic research on Swift in a way that will engage undergraduate students while also remaining useful for advanced scholars. An indispensable volume for Swift students and teachers.

Literature in Context

418pp

Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy

The Feminist Critique of Commercial Modernity

Packham, Catherine | University of Sussex

A compelling new account of Wollstonecraft as critic of commercial modernity. Through her major works, Wollstonecraft emerges as both political and economic radical, anticipating later Romantics. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

302pp

May 2024 9781108831437 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781108917254

Labour of the Stitch

The Making and Remaking of Fashionable Georgian Dress

Dyer, Serena | De Montfort University

This Element centres the sartorial hand as a point of connection across the trades which generated fashionable dress in the eighteenth century. It explores how the agency and skill of the stitching hand can inform understandings of craft, industry, gender, and labour in the eighteenth century. Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections

90pp

Feb. 2024 9781009395847 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009395823

Paratext Printed with New English Plays, 1660–1700

Hume, Robert D. | Pennsylvania State University

This Element has a lot to tell us about what playwrights were attempting to do and how audiences responded, thereby contributing substantially to our understanding of larger patterns of generic evolution across the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections

92pp

Feb. 2024 9781009270519 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009454124 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009270502

Apr. 2024 9781009177696 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Apr. 2024 9781009507493 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99 eISBN 9781009177689

Living with Jane Austen

Todd, Janet | University of Cambridge

This intimate personal engagement, by an eminent Austen authority, shows how living with Jane Austen can transform the way we look at the world. Janet Todd discusses all Austen’s works –fragments, childhood writings, novels and letters –uncovering a timeless writer whose themes and prose continue powerfully to speak to us.

185pp

Mar. 2025 9781009569316 Hardback GBP 18.99 / USD 25.95

eISBN 9781009569323

Percy Shelley for Our Times

Miranda, Omar F. | University of San Francisco

Two centuries after Percy Shelley’s death, his writings still resonate with pressing societal issues. This collection explores Shelley’s remarkable collaboration with audiences across spaces and times. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

306pp

Mar. 2024 9781009206532 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009206549

Percy Shelley in Context

Wilson, Ross | University of Cambridge

The indispensable guide to Shelley’s life and career for students and general readers interested in his vital literary presence, this volume also introduces fresh critical perspectives on Shelley’s work by bringing together established Shelley scholars with some of the most exciting emerging voices in the field.

Literature in Context

382pp

May 2025 9781009223706 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00

eISBN 9781009223690

Reading with the Burneys

Patronage, Paratext, and Performance

Coulombeau, Sophie | University of York

This Element offers a multidimensional study of reading practice and sibling rivalry in late eighteenth-century Britain. It enriches scholarly understanding of the reception of Frances Burney’s fiction, with broader implications for studies of gender, class, kinship and reading. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections

75pp

Jun. 2024 9781009439510 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jun. 2024 9781009532945 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009439480

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Rethinking the Secular Origins of the Novel

The Bible in English Fiction 1678–1767

Seidel, Kevin | Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia

Unsettling the usual ways we think about the relationship between religion and secularism, and focusing on scenes where the Bible shows up as a physical object in eighteenth-century English fiction, this book powerfully argues that the English novel rose with the Bible, not after it.

337pp

Feb. 2024 9781108792165 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108867290

Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons Romanticism’s Black Geographies

Castellano, Katey | James Madison University, Virginia

The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race

Chander, Manu Samriti | Georgetown University

This classroom-ready Companion brings together diverse specialists to discuss how Romantic-era thinkers engaged with race in sometimes explicit and sometimes less obvious ways. Combining academic rigor with accessibility, the contributors present non-specialists with a rich picture of this key moment in the literary and cultural history of race.

Cambridge Companions to Literature 276pp

Nov. 2024 9781009180153 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Nov. 2024 9781009180160 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99

eISBN 9781009180177

The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of John Cleland

Cleland, John

This first collected edition of John Cleland’s correspondence provides a rare insight into a major literary figure and his one-of-a-kind witness account of jobbing authorship in the eighteenth century. Featuring several new attributions, the volume demonstrates for the first time the extent of Cleland’s participation in the European Enlightenment. 456pp

Jun. 2024 9781108474382 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 135.00

eISBN 9781108694131

This book explores Robert Wedderburn’s political thought, influenced by his enslaved ancestors and London’s ultraradical circles. Wedderburn envisioned abolition through a transatlantic alliance, favoring Caribbean ecological projects over British colonial interests. His narratives offer a fresh perspective on the Romantic period’s abolition, landscape aesthetics, and radical politics.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 242pp

Dec. 2024 9781009523905 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009523875

The Art of the Actress Fashioning Identities

Engel, Laura | Duquesne University, Pittsburgh

This Element looks at the art of the actress in the eighteenth century. It shows how visual materials across genres contribute to our understanding of the nuances of female celebrity, fame, notoriety, and scandal.

Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections

84pp

Feb. 2024 9781108977906 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009486811 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781108973519

The Domino and the Eighteenth-Century London Masquerade

A Social Biography of a Costume

Kobza, Meghan | Newcastle University

This Element presents new cultural, social, and economic perspectives on the eighteenth-century London masquerade through an in-depth analysis of the classic domino costume. It examines the domino’s physical and figurative movements from the masquerade warehouse into print and visual culture.

Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections

88pp

Feb. 2024 9781009045551 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009468244 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009042406

The Eternal Wanderer

Christian Negotiations in the Gothic Mode

Going, Mary | University of Sheffield

The Eternal Wanderer: Christian Negotiations in the Gothic Mode provides new ways of reading the Gothicisation of the Wandering Jew. By reading the production with historical and theological underpinnings, this Element provides a dedicated account of Gothic iterations of this figure and examines its alchemical, Faustian and theological figurations.

Elements in the Gothic

75pp

Jan. 2025 9781009517102 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009151412

The Last Man and Gothic Sympathy

Cameron, Michael | Dalhousie University

This Element explores the ‘Gothic sympathy’ as it appears in a collection of ‘Last Man’ novels. It does this by dramatizing complicated relationships between a lone liberal-humanist subject and other-than-human or posthuman subjects that will persist beyond humanity’s extinction.

Elements in the Gothic

75p

Mar. 2024 9781009357531 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Mar. 2024 9781009494526 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009357500

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The Letters in the Story

Narrative-Epistolary Fiction from Aphra Behn to the Victorians Bannet, Eve Tavor | University of Oklahoma

Combining literary and historical analysis, this book offers the first study of largely femaleauthored novels that used embedded letters and third-person narrative to explore reading and misreading, knowledge and ignorance, communication and credulity, challenging empiricism on its own ground in plots centred on mysteries of identity.

294pp

Jul. 2024 9781009001823 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009003698

The Music of the Gothic:1789–1820

McEvoy, Emma | University of Westminster

In the 1790s, the music of Gothic novels and plays was celebratory, calming rather than scary. By 1820, the music of Gothic is more likely to provoke shock, discomfort, and unease. This Element shows Melodrama brings about this change which had long-lasting effects on the music of the Gothic in fiction and poetry, on the stage and the screen. Elements in the Gothic

75pp

English literature - 1830 - 1900

Acoustics

in

NineteenthCentury Literature and Science

Listening at the Threshold

Dickson, Melissa | University of Queensland Focusing on moments of exchange between acoustic theories and evolving practices in fiction, medicine, psychiatry, psychology, philosophy, animal studies, and religion, this study ranges from Eliot’s Middlemarch to Du Maurier’s Trilby to demonstrate how the boundaries of the human were challenged by new sound technologies in the Victorian period.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 151 283pp

Jan. 2025 9781009490450 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009490436

Biopolitics and Animal Species in NineteenthCentury Literature and Science

Rowlinson, Matthew | University of Western Ontario Documenting a nineteenth-century crisis in the species concept, Matthew Rowlinson shows that taxonomy is a literary as well as a scientific project. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Nov. 2024 9781009170376 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009532860 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009170369

Time and Terrain in British Romantic Writing

Vardy, Alan | Hunter College, City University of New York Walking and its relationship to our mental and cultural lives has been a topic of much recent academic and popular interest. Here, Alan Vardy explores the role of walking in Romantic texts from the canonical to the ephemeral, illuminating the quotidian, fleeting events that nonetheless constitute our subjective selves.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

300pp

Dec. 2024 9781009480017 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009479974

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 147 264pp

Feb. 2024 9781009409957 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009409940

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Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910

Decay, Desire, and the Pagan Revival Denisoff, Dennis | University of Tulsa Decadent Ecology illuminates the networks of nature, paganism, and desire in 19th- and early 20th-century decadent literature and art. Combining the environmental humanities with aesthetic, queer and literary theory, this study reveals the interplay of art, eco-paganism and science during the formation of modern ecological and evolutionary thought.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 278pp

Jul. 2024 9781108994279 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108991599

Evolutionary Aestheticism in Victorian Culture

Wilhelm, Lindsay | Oklahoma State University

Although the hard-nosed scientist and the dandy aesthete seem unlikely allies at first glance, Lindsay Wilhelm argues that Victorian evolutionism and the Aesthetic (or “art for art’s sake”) Movement converged on surprisingly utopian ideas about beauty, pleasure, and the power of good taste to shape our society for the better.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 148 272pp

Dec. 2024 9781009469357 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009469371

Gerard Manley Hopkins in Context

Dubois, Martin | University of Durham

A concise and authoritative guide to the ideas and influences shaping Hopkins’s life and writing, this volume covers traditional areas of scholarly focus as well as newer trends in criticism. It provides both an invaluable resource for undergraduates and various points of departure for future research.

Literature in Context

380pp

Feb. 2025 9781009183208 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00

eISBN 9781009183185

Liturgy, Ritual, and Secularization in NineteenthCentury British Literature

McQueen, Joseph | Northwest University

Liturgy incarnates unseen realities in concrete forms – bread, wine, water, the architectural arrangement of religious buildings. Uncovering a nineteenth-century fascination with liturgy, Joseph McQueen here shows how Romantic and Victorian writers used such forms in their work to invest ordinary material life with spiritual and ethical meaning.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

262pp

Nov. 2024 9781009435956 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009435932

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s

Gardner, John | Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge

A detailed and engaging exploration of a crucial transitional period between the Romantic and Victorian ages, this instalment covers a diverse range of literary and cultural forms to reimagine the 1830s, including within its ambit canonical figures such as Dickens and the Brontës alongside marginal voices from around the globe.

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition

370pp

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1860s

Gilbert, Pamela K. | University of Florida

An in-depth exploration and reappraisal of the 1860s in British literature, featuring chapters by a wide range of scholars on characteristic literary genres and themes. Thematic chapters range from empire and slavery to evolution, economics, and the environment. The Introduction limns historical as well as current scholarly context.

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition, 7 368pp

Feb. 2024 9781316511831 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009053051

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On Style in Victorian Fiction

Tyler, Daniel | 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.

327pp

Jul. 2024 9781108446266 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108614931

Jun. 2024 9781009268516 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009268486

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition:

The 1850s

Marshall, Gail | University of Reading

Examining the literature of a profoundly influential decade by some of the century’s major writers, this volume brings new primary material to light whilst also re-reading it through today’s critical and political preoccupations and approaches, including with race, gender, and the environment.

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition

346pp

Nov. 2024 9781009100427 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009118682

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Scottish Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

The Romance of Everyday Life

Shields, Juliet | University of Washington

Introducing the neglected tradition of Scottish women’s writing to readers who may already be familiar with English Victorian realism or the historical romances of Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, this book corrects male-dominated histories of the Scottish novel by demonstrating how women appropriated the masculine genre of romance.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 221pp

Jul. 2024 9781108999816 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009000048

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Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction

Form, Ethics, and the Novel Sussman, Matthew | University of Sydney

An innovative approach to literary stylistic analysis that targets students and scholars of nineteenthcentury literature and culture through provocative interpretations of style in Victorian novels and succinct revaluations of major figures in rhetoric, criticism, and philosophy.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 130 273pp

Jul. 2024 9781108965903 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108966436

Temporal Forms and the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean

Writing British Heritage in Ancient Lands

Chappell, Lindsey N. | Georgia Southern University

This study is the first to explore the Mediterranean and its ubiquity in nineteenth-century British literature. Lindsey N. Chappell recovers the region’s centrality to Romantic and Victorian constructions of the past, the present, and the shape of time itself, revealing how classical and biblical heritage shaped British imperialism.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

322pp

Nov. 2024 9781009469807 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009469791

The Art of Uncertainty

Probable Realism and the Victorian Novel Williams, Daniel | Bard College, New York

Daniel Williams reveals how George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, William Thackeray, Thomas Hardy, and Joseph Conrad drew on science, mathematics, philosophy, and the law to cultivate responses to uncertainty as intellectual and cultural concern, and how they both participated in and resisted the ideas of a profoundly numerical age.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

346pp

Mar. 2024 9781009436113 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009436120

The Cambridge Companion to John Clare

Houghton-Walker, Sarah | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

A window into the fascinating life and writing of the early nineteenth-century labouring-class poet John Clare, this Companion discusses his poetic craft and reappraises ideas of self-image and identity. Essays situate Clare’s work within a wide range of discourses, including ecocriticism, health studies, religion, natural history and aesthetics.

Cambridge Companions to Literature

300pp

Undercover

Victorian Investigative Journalism in Fact and Fiction

Donovan, Stephen | Uppsala Universitet, Sweden When, where, and how did undercover investigative journalism originate and how did it change British society? For scholars of Victorian literature, nineteenth-century British history, and the history of journalism, this book traces a distinctly British tradition and reconstitutes the pioneering investigations that shaped its global development.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 153 336pp

Apr. 2025 9781009586399 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009586351

Victorian Automata Mechanism and Agency in the Nineteenth Century

Anger, Suzy | University of British Columbia, Vancouver Speaking to today’s fascinations and anxieties surrounding artificial intelligence, this multidisciplinary collection is the first to examine the widespread Victorian interest in human and mechanical automata. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

360pp

Nov. 2024 9781009262606 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Nov. 2024 9781009262576 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99

eISBN 9781009262583

The Cambridge Companion to William Morris

Waithe, Marcus | University of Cambridge

In his short life, William Morris (1834-96) combined the roles of poet, author, painter, designer, translator, lecturer, political activist, journalist, weaver, bookmaker, and businessman. This accessible volume gathers influential, crossdisciplinary voices who have participated in his recent critical, political, and curatorial revival. Cambridge Companions to Literature

358pp

May 2024 9781108940634 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

May 2024 9781108832175 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781108939942

Mar. 2024 9781009100274 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009110129

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Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages

O’Dochartaigh, Eavan | National University of Ireland, Galway Uncovering a wealth of neglected archival information, this book examines both visual and textual material from the mid-nineteenth century Franklin Search Expeditions to the Arctic, painstakingly tracing their influence on popular imagination. Its surprising findings present a compelling challenge to the still-dominant ‘manversus-nature’ trope.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 136 292pp

Sep. 2024 9781108994897 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108992794

Vivisection and LateVictorian Literary Culture

Hornsby, Asha | University of St Andrews

This is the first interdisciplinary literary-critical study of vivisection. It reveals how animal experimentation intrigued diverse writers, raised major representational issues, and seeped into the heart of nineteenth-century culture. It represents a landmark in nineteenth-century literature, animal studies, and history of science and emotions.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 152 280pp

Jan. 2025 9781009503525 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009503532

Wessex Tales

Hardy, Thomas

Hardy’s first collection of short stories, Wessex Tales contains some of his most famous narratives.

This edition provides an authoritative text and full scholarly apparatus, allowing the reader to trace Hardy’s creative process for each of the stories, alongside an introductory essay and comprehensive explanatory notes.

The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy

536pp

Feb. 2025 9781107091054 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781316117460

English literature - 1900 - 1945

Bad Godots

‘Vladimir Emerges from the Barrel’ and Other Interventions

Gontarski, S. E. | Florida State University

This Element focuses on the machinery of that world, on extra-authorial interventions into the creative process and on the people and institutional forces that foster them. It focuses on the hybrid genre of theatre where collective esthetics tends to override and so to supersede individual creation.

Elements in Beckett Studies

82pp

Feb. 2024 9781009180719 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009467803 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009180702

Beckett and Cioran

Matthews, Steven | University of Reading

This Element discusses the link between Samuel Beckett and E. M. Cioran, drawing upon the terms of Beckett’s engagement with Cioran’s writings, from the 1950s to the 1970s. Aspects of Cioran’s conclusion about the formal nature that philosophy must assume chime with some of the formal decisions taken by Beckett in the mid-late prose.

Elements in Beckett Studies

76pp

Henry James and the Writing of Transport

Rix, Alicia | University of Cambridge

For students of Henry James, this book offers new critical perspectives on both established and forgotten texts. More broadly, it is for anyone interested in the enormous changes in transport that occurred throughout the nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, and their impact upon social life, reading habits, and literary genre.

250pp

Apr. 2025 9781108473170 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781108562980

Modernism and Finance Capital

British Literature, 1870–1940

Martin, Regina | Denison University, Ohio

Interpreting modernism as a historical moment of financial crisis, this book expands the definition of finance capital beyond mode of capital accumulation and value form. Scholars working at the crossroads of economic and cultural studies will find a model for how to interpret literature as participating in economic processes of finance capital.

238pp

May 2024 9781009351553 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

May 2024 9781009494724 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009351560

Beckett and Derrida

Martell, James | Lyon College

This Element explores the connection between Beckett and Derrida’s oeuvres, focusing on their shared historical and personal contexts. It explores their engagement with beginnings, origins, genetic grounds, and critiques of sovereignty, revealing why Derridean deconstruction mirrors Beckett’s literary achievements.

Elements in Beckett Studies

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009414395 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009494366 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009414364

Nov. 2024 9781009474368 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009474344

Modernism and the Idea of India

The Art of Passive Resistance

The Art of Passive Resistance | Indiana University

This study of India’s historical background, aesthetic context and philosophical approach to art will appeal to a broad audience of educated readers interested in the relationship between art and politics. Fans of modernism will find the Indian connections to figures such as Woolf and Le Corbusier both surprising and illuminating.

210pp

Dec. 2024 9781009505246 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009505222

Modernism, Aesthetics and Anthropology

Hoffmann, John | Chapman University, California John Hoffmann’s book examines how modernist writers used aesthetics and anthropology to challenge 19th-century social hierarchies. It reveals the influence of Enlightenment thought and German idealism on anti-colonialism, Zionism, and post-WWI racism critiques, highlighting the role of aesthetics in shaping and resisting social hierarchies.

316pp

Dec. 2024 9781009474474 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009474498

Nietzsche and Literary Studies

Porter, James I. | University of California, Berkeley

This book offers a complete guide to Nietzsche’s writings, which draw on two and a half millennia of literary and philosophical history and have inspired a further century of responses from literary writers and philosophers.

310pp

Apr. 2024 9781316511312 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009052160

Pilgrim’s Gress: The Beckett Walk As Aesthetic Practice

Furlani, Andre | Concordia University, Montréal

Samuel Beckett’s literary pedestrianism transitions from Romanticism and Edwardian autonomy to mutuality and transitory being. The walk serves as a motif, rhythm, compositional principle, and ontology. This Element examines the Beckett walk using cognitive, materialities, environmental, infrastructure, cultural, and performance studies. Elements in Beckett Studies

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009180696 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009507462 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009180689

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Queer Kinship after Wilde

Transnational Decadence and the Family Mahoney, Kristin | 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.

299pp

Feb. 2024 9781009011501 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99

eISBN 9781009019682

The British Novel of Ideas

George Eliot to Zadie Smith

Potter, Rachel | University of East Anglia

The Novel of Ideas is an important form that is both under-theorised and largely neglected in accounts of the development of the novel in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Through new accounts of key novelists in the tradition, this book celebrates the diversity, inventiveness, and vitality of the novel of ideas.

496pp

Dec. 2024 9781316514320 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009086745

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The Persistence of Realism in Modernist Fiction

Stasi, Paul | University of Albany

Designed for scholars of literature as well as readers of realist and modernist fiction, The Persistence of Realism provides new readings of works by James, Joyce, Woolf, Beckett and Ellison, showing how they were influenced by the realist writers that preceded them.

242pp

Apr. 2024 9781009223164 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009223126

The Possibility of Literature

The Novel and the Politics of Form

Boxall, Peter | University of Oxford

An essential collection from a singular voice in contemporary literary studies. Assembling key compositions from the last twenty-five years, and several new pieces, Boxall demonstrates the changing fate of literary thinking over the first decades of this century while giving critical expression to the imaginative possibilities of literature itself.

408pp

Sep. 2024 9781009314299 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009314305

The Prefaces

James, Henry

This is the first scholarly edition of an important group of critical writings by Henry James, the Prefaces to his New York Edition (1907–9). It will be of value to James scholars and to scholars and advanced students of 19th- and 20th-century British and American literature and book history.

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James 829pp

Mar. 2024 9781107002685 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 115.00

eISBN 9780511756573

Twentieth-Century Literature

and the Aftermath of War

Bryan, Rachel | All Souls College, Oxford

The notion that wars impel conceptual and aesthetic innovations is well-established in studies of modern literature. This book offers nuance to such accounts by exposing and exploring the reparative work done by counterfactual speculations and traditional imaginative forms in post-war writings by Henry James, Elizabeth Bowen and Kazuo Ishiguro.

275pp

Dec. 2024 9781009493383 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009493390

Yeats, Revival, and the Temporalities of Irish Modernism

Castle, Gregory | Arizona State University

By examining Yeats’s worldmaking capacity to engage with the Irish past, this book offers a new understanding of Yeats’s revivalism and its relation to his modernism. It considers, through close reading and contextual analysis, the nature of Yeats’s achievements and innovations in poetry, drama, essays, autobiography, and occult philosophy.

274pp

Apr. 2024 9781009411677 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009411691

English literature - AngloSaxon and Medieval

English literature and the Crusades

Anxieties of Holy War, 1291–1453

Elias, Marcel | Yale University, Connecticut

An essential resource for anyone interested in crusade culture and Christian-Muslim relations, building on insights from postcolonialism and emotion studies to reinterpret late medieval crusade culture. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available open access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

252pp

Oct. 2024 9781108832212 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781108935463

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Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England

Making English Literary Manuscripts, 1400–1500

Volume 0

Wakelin, Daniel | 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

Aug. 2024 9781009113311 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009119313

Medieval Love Letters

A Critical Anthology

Stokes, Myra | University of Bristol

Through a carefully-chosen selection of medieval love letters, Myra Stokes and Ad Putter explore the blurred boundary between literary art and actual missives. This anthology brings together epistolary poems, model letters and real letters and includes critical editions of seven remarkable and substantial texts not easily available elsewhere.

600pp

Nov. 2024 9781009398107 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009398091

The Cambridge History of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature

O’Donoghue, Heather | University of Oxford

An in-depth, accessible history of Old NorseIcelandic literature, this book provides analysis of all key genres in this celebrated body of writing and of their literary and historical contexts. Through essays by internationally distinguished scholars, it presents a fresh, unified, authoritative guide for specialists, students and general readers.

648pp

The Theology of Debt in Late Medieval English literature

Schuurman, Anne | University of Western Ontario

Beyond merely examining debt in Middle English texts, Anne Schuurman shows how medieval literature, particularly Chaucer and Langland, engenders capitalism, a system rooted in penitential theology. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 124 268pp

Jan. 2024 9781009385954 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009385947

Women’s Genealogies in the Medieval Literary Imagination

Matrilineal Legacies in the High Middle Ages

Bérat, Emma O. Emma O. Bérat uncovers the striking array of female alternatives to patrilineal narratives in medieval texts and explores strategies of writing and illustration that creatively and purposefully depict women’s legacies. Her book underlines the centrality of female characters and historical women to this fundamental aspect of medieval consciousness. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 125 246pp

Mar. 2024 9781009434751 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009434720

English literature - Renaissance and early modern to 1700

Approaching the Interval in the Early Modern Theatre

The Significance of the ‘Act-Time’ Hutchings, Mark | Universidad de Salamanca, Spain In requiring artificial light, the early modern indoor theatre had to interrupt the action so that the candles could be attended to, if necessary. This Element explores how the interval affected composition and stagecraft and how amphitheatre plays were converted for indoor performance (and vice versa).

Elements in Shakespeare Performance

114pp

Feb. 2024 9781108486811 Hardback GBP 125.00 / USD 175.00

eISBN 9781108762618

Apr. 2024 9781108791922 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

eISBN 9781108866842

Botanical Culture and Popular Belief in Shakespeare’s England

Lander Johnson, Bonnie | Newnham College, Cambridge Addressing an imbalance in early modern studies, Bonnie Lander Johnson reveals how, through interest in popular plant cultures and beliefs – tree ballads, embroidery, pedagogical tales, almanacs –Shakespeare put illiterate culture in contact with questions usually deemed learned and elite: theology, politics, the military and medicine.

202pp

Dec. 2024 9781009396523 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009396530

Disavowing Authority in the Shakespeare Classroom

Griffiths, Huw | University of Sydney

This Element questions the role of authority in Shakespeare teaching. It connects an understanding of how Shakespearean texts function with critical thinking about teaching, especially derived from the work of Jaques Rancière.

Elements in Shakespeare and Pedagogy

78pp

Apr. 2024 9781108948692 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

eISBN 9781108953115

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Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade

English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany

Neville, Sarah | Ohio State University

Herbals, books describing the characteristics and uses of plants, were extraordinarily popular as a genre in early modern England. Illuminating the herbal’s rich material history and its remarkable popularity across the social spectrum, Sarah Neville reveals the close relationship between print culture and the construction of scientific authority.

306pp

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Liberty and the Politics of the Female Voice in Early Stuart England

Luckyj, Christina | Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia

This study argues that the female voice occupied a key role in the early Stuart political imaginary as a means of signalling resistance to tyranny. Like their male contemporaries, including Shakespeare, early modern women writers deployed female voices to craft powerful new discourses of religious and political liberty.

291pp

Aug. 2024 9781009013604 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009031615

Early Modern Media Ecology

Marx, Peter W. | University of Cologne

This Element introduces thaumaturgy, the art of making wonder, encompasses everything from magic lanterns to puppets to fireworks, and deliberately mingling the spheres of commercial entertainment, art, and religion. It also suggests a new form of historiography-media ecology.

Elements in Shakespeare Performance

142pp

Feb. 2024 9781009298100 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

eISBN 9781009298148

Extended Reality Shakespeare

Mancewicz, Aneta | Royal Holloway, University of London

This Element argues for the importance of extended reality as an innovative force that changes our understanding of theatre and Shakespeare. It shows how the inclusion of augmented and virtual realities in performance can reconfigure the senses of the experiencers, enabling them to engage with technology actively.

Elements in Shakespeare Performance

96pp

Feb. 2024 9781108949521 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108954525

Milton’s Ireland

Royalism, Republicanism, and the Question of Pluralism

Morrissey, Lee | Clemson University, South Carolina

This first book devoted to Milton’s engagement with Ireland reveals an Ireland before the Cromwellian Conquest and traces the paradoxical resonances of Milton’s republicanism in Ireland to this day. Lee Morrissey sheds new light on Milton’s political development, exposing the persisting influence of Anglocentric scholarly interpretations.

280pp

Nov. 2024 9781009462419 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009462389

Performing Ethics in English Revenge Drama

Wild Play

Reisner, Noam | Tel-Aviv University

Noam Reisner sets out a unique approach to Renaissance English revenge drama, demonstrating how it carried out important ethical work through audience participation and metatheatre. It offers fresh readings of key plays, including Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, Shakespeare’s Hamlet and related examples by other contemporary playwrights.

292pp

Jun. 2024 9781009044561 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

eISBN 9781009043854

Jun. 2024 9781009462440 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009462488

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Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England

Actor, Audience and Performance

Smith, Simon | 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.

306pp

Feb. 2024 9781108733328 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108773775

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Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare

Stationers Shaping a Genre

Lidster, Amy | University of Oxford

For scholars and students of Shakespeare Studies, Book History and Early Modern Drama, this book overturns how we understand the relationships between history plays on the stage and in print, between history plays and the period’s historical culture and politics, and between publication and the construction of genre.

299pp

Feb. 2024 9781009044493 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009043656

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Shakespeare and British World War Two Film

Sullivan, Jr, Garrett A. | 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.

215pp

Feb. 2024 9781108829663 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108903776

Shakespeare and Nonhuman Intelligence

Warren-Crow, Heather | Texas Tech University

According to the Infinite Monkey Theorem, an infinite number of typing monkeys will eventually generate the works of Shakespeare. This Element is a metaphysical analysis of the Bard’s function in the Theorem in various contexts over the past century. It argues that Shakespeare performs as an interface between the human and our Others.

Elements in Shakespeare Performance

108pp

May 2024 9781009202640 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

eISBN 9781009202633

Shakespeare Survey 77

Shakespeare’s Poetry

Crawforth, Hannah | King’s College London

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. The theme for Volume 77 is ‘Shakespeare’s Poetry’. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at www. cambridge.org/core/publications/collections/ cambridge-shakespeare.

Shakespeare Survey

372pp

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Shakespeare’s ‘Lady Editors’

A New History of the Shakespearean Text Yarn, Molly G.

From novelists and professors to suffragists and Irish revolutionaries, Shakespeare’s women editors lived extraordinary lives and produced editions that, throughout England and America, were read and used by people of all ages. This compelling book draws on book history, literary studies and women’s history alike to tell their remarkable stories.

351pp

Jul. 2024 9781009001120 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009000307

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Shakespeare’s

Dialectic

of Hope

From the Political to the Utopian Grady, Hugh | 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.

257pp

Jul. 2024 9781009107754 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009106986

Shakespeare’s Political Spirit

Negative Theology and the Disruption of Power

Luke, Nicholas | The University of Hong Kong

Reading Shakespeare’s drama as a negative mode of political experience and thought, Nicholas Luke reorients how we think about politics in Shakespeare. He draws on a long religious and philosophical tradition to develop an original notion of negative political theology, establishing Shakespeare’s drama as a force of freedom and creativity.

275pp

Nov. 2024 9781009531399 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 115.00

eISBN 9781009531351

Nov. 2024 9781009348249 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009348232

Sleep No More and the Discourses of Shakespeare Performance

Hopkins, D. J. | San Diego State University

This Element focuses on Sleep No More, theatre adaptation of Macbeth produced by the British company Punchdrunk. It frames the Shakespeare adaptation as part of a system of ghostly citationality through which audiences understand the significance of the past in performances today.

Elements in Shakespeare Performance

110pp

Feb. 2024 9781009436892 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

eISBN 9781009436908

Staging Disgust

Rape, Shame, and Performance in Shakespeare and Middleton

Panek, Jennifer | University of Ottawa

This Element turns to the stage to ask a simple question about gender and affect: what causes the shame of the early modern rape victim? Beneath honour codes and problematic assumptions about consent, the answer lies in an affect even more intractable than shame: disgust.

Elements in Shakespeare Performance

106pp

Feb. 2024 9781009379823 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

eISBN 9781009379816

Teaching English as a Second Language with Shakespeare

Ciambella, Fabio | Sapienza University of Rome

This Element aims to address a gap in the scholarly debate about Shakespeare and pedagogy, combining pragmatic considerations about how to approach Shakespeare’s language today in ESL classes, and practical applications in the shape of ready-made lesson plans for both university and secondary school students.

Elements in Shakespeare and Pedagogy

116pp

English literature (general)

Contemporary Body Horror

Aldana Reyes, Xavier | Manchester Metropolitan University

This Element explores body horror, a horror subgenre transformation, loss of control, and the human body’s susceptibility to disease. It highlights its growth and ethical implications due to feminist, queer, and anti-racist practitioners’ progressive vision, incorporating celebratory liberation and fantastic metamorphoses.

Elements in the Gothic

75pp

Jun. 2024 9781009331968 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

eISBN 9781009332002

The Pedagogy of Watching Shakespeare

Marshall, Bethan | King’s College London

This Element offers suggestions for how teachers might re-think the ways in which they present Shakespeare performed to their students particularly as a powerful way of building personal and critical responses to the plays.

Elements in Shakespeare and Pedagogy

84pp

May 2024 9781009114974 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

eISBN 9781009118743

The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary

Loveman, Kate | University of Leicester

Kate Loveman explores the creation of the most famous English diary, how it came to be published, and the many remarkable roles it has since played in British culture. In so doing, she shows how Pepys’s own strange history has become part of the history of the nation.

254pp

Mar. 2025 9781009554114 Hardback GBP 22.95 / USD 29.95

eISBN 9781009554107

Touring Shakespeare

Theatre and Post-War Cultural Diplomacy

Taylor, Jim

Exploring the politics behind English Shakespeare’s global dissemination throughout the mid-twentieth century, Touring Shakespeare reveals a wealth of new historical evidence informing current debates on Shakespearean soft power, globalisation, and decolonisation. Its will prove stimulating for researchers of Shakespeare and Cold War history alike.

266pp

Nov. 2024 9781009280969 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009565165 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009280976

Crime Fiction and Ecology

From the Local to the Global

Ashman, Nathan | The University of East Anglia

This Element examines how contemporary ecological crime narratives are responding to the scales and complexities of the global climate crisis. It seeks to uncover examples of world crime fictions that are cultivating new forms of environmental awareness through textual strategies capable of conceiving of the planet as a whole.

Elements in Crime Narratives

75pp

Jan. 2025 9781009358637 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2025 9781009539319 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009358613

Europe in British Literature and Culture

Rau, Petra | University of East Anglia

How has Europe shaped British literature and culture – and vice versa – since the Middle Ages?

This volume discusses the long history of BritishEuropean cultural and literary interactions since the early modern period. It offers four different approaches to the complexity of ‘Europe.’

Nov. 2024 9781009381314 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009381284

Cambridge Themes in British Literature and Culture

454pp

Jun. 2024 9781009425490 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009425483

Female Anger in Crime Fiction

Reitz, Caroline | John Jay College of Criminal Justice and CUNY Graduate Center

This Element will explore the ethics and efficacy of anger in female-centered crime fiction from its first stirrings in the 19th century through second wave feminism’s angry, individualist heroes until today’s current explosion of women who reject respectability and justification.

Elements in Crime Narratives

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009358675 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009539333 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99 A

eISBN 9781009358699

Forensic Crime Fiction

Varvogli, Aliki | University of Dundee

This study of forensic crime fiction from the US and the UK examines the prominent roles that women play in many of these novels, arguing that there are historical continuities with earlier forms of contact with the dead body.

Elements in Crime Narratives

74pp

Oct. 2024 9781009365901 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Oct. 2024 9781009517249 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009365918

Humour in Verse

An Anthology

Slater, W. E.

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

The Cambridge Companion to the Poem

Pryor, Sean | University of New South Wales, Sydney

What is a Poem? Where did the genre come from and where might it be going? This book examines the poem from three angles: the idea of the poem, the workings of the poem, and the poem’s social and cultural contexts. Chapters will provide information on the history and the theory of the poem to explain how the emergence and maturity of key genres.

Cambridge Companions to Literature

368pp

Nov. 2024 9781316601723 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 26.99 eISBN 9781316551325

Kant and Literary Studies

Brodsky, Claudia | Princeton University, New Jersey

This book examines the premises and principles of Kant’s explicitly interdisciplinary philosophy in its specific relation to the defining features, means and aims of literature. It provides readers with analyses of Kant’s relationship to literature along intersecting, internal and external lines.

Cambridge Studies in Literature and Philosophy

Feb. 2025 9781316513026 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009071611

Queer Cambridge

An Alternative History

Goldhill, Simon | University of Cambridge

Simon Goldhill recounts the untold history of Cambridge’s gay academic community and the remarkable impact that it had on politics, art and culture. His affectionate portrait, brimful with unforgettable story and anecdote, reveals a separate world – yet one at the heart of the establishment with an influence still felt today.

316pp

Jan. 2025 9781009528061 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 29.95

eISBN 9781009528078

Radical Tenderness

Poetry in Times of Catastrophe

Brady, Andrea | Queen Mary University of London

Radical Tenderness argues for the importance of poetry in negotiating political and social catastrophes, through a focus on the unusual intimacies of committed writing. It reflects the perspectives provided by intimate poetries on the shared political emergencies of poverty, war, ecological catastrophe, racism, and illness.

Elements in Poetry and Poetics

108pp

Jun. 2024 9781009498906 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Jun. 2024 9781009498876 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 99.99

eISBN 9781009498852

The Cambridge History of the British Essay

Gigante, Denise | Stanford University, California

This book provides multiple perspectives on a key form of public discourse, addressing the essay’s postcolonial (Irish, Indian, African, American) and gendered contexts, its material manifestations in print (newspapers, essay periodicals, reviews, magazines), visual culture, and digital forms through today’s blogosphere.

880pp

Jul. 2024 9781316516508 Hardback GBP 130.00 / USD 175.00

eISBN 9781009030373

Vegetarianism and Veganism in Literature from the Ancients to the Twenty-First Century

Savvas, Theophilus | University of Bristol

This book traces the development of vegetarianism through literature. Its historical span ranges from ancient thinkers, such as Pythagoras and Ovid, to contemporary writers, including Ruth L. Ozeki and Jonathan Franzen. Its broad historical range is complemented by a cross-cultural focus which emphasises the connections between east and west.

264pp

May 2024 9781009393447 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

May 2024 9781009517331 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009393430

Jun. 2024 9781009287258 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009287265

Vulnerable Earth

The Literature of Climate Crisis

Nayar, Pramod K. | University of Hyderabad, India

Vulnerable Earth is a study of the literature of climate crisis. Shows how the literature of climate crisis foregrounds a feature that humans and nonhumans, the living and the non-living share, differentially, with the planet: vulnerability.

310pp

Nov. 2024 9781009496919 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009496896

Literary theory

China’s eBook Evolution

Disruptive Models and Emerging Book Cultures

Ren, Xiang | University of Sydney

This Element explores the changing landscape of eBook businesses and cultures in China in the past two decades and examines how disruptive innovation and the platform economy have transformed one of the world’s largest book markets.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

102pp

Jun. 2024 9781009464840 Paperback GBP 12.49 / USD 17.99

eISBN 9781009464864

Indigenous Knowledge and Material Histories

The Example of Rubber

Soentgen, Jens | Augsburg University

This Element deals with stories told about substances and ways to analyse them through an Environmental Humanitie’s perspective. It then takes up rubber as an example and its many stories.

Elements in Environmental Humanities

76pp

Jun. 2024 9781009442725 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jun. 2024 9781009517089 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009442756

Literature and Medicine

Elsner, Anna M. | Universität St Gallen, Switzerland

Literature and Medicine considers how these two dynamic fields have crossed over, and how they have developed alongside one another. It covers a broad spectrum of conceptual, thematic, theoretical, and methodological approaches that provide a solid foundation for understanding a vibrant interdisciplinary field.

Cambridge Critical Concepts

406pp

Slime

An Elemental Imaginary Estok, Simon C. | Sungkyunkwan University Slime has always stirred the imagination and evoked strong responses. This Element discusses slime as it defines the very parameters of life, from the primordial slime through which life began to the rot and slime to which life decomposes; despite slime’s ubiquity, its dearth in discussions within the Environmental Humanities is pronounced.

Elements in Environmental Humanities

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009550697 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009550703 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009550680

The Cambridge Companion to Literature in a Digital Age

Hammond, Adam | University of Toronto Literature has experienced two great medium shifts: from orality to writing, and from writing to printing. Today we are experiencing a third, from printed to digital forms. This book explores the way that this latest shift is reconfiguring the foundational concepts of literary studies: the canon, periodization, authorship, narrative, and beyond.

Cambridge Companions to Literature

328pp

Jan. 2024 9781009300063 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009300070

Mudie’s

Select

Library

and the Shelf Life of the Nineteenth–Century Novel

Wade, Karen | University College Dublin

This Element describes a data analysis of a collection of Mudie’s catalogues spanning eighty years, in order to reassess understandings of the library’s role in the nineteenth-century publishing industry. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009349543 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Nov. 2024 9781009349529 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781009349567

The Cambridge Introduction to Literary Posthumanism

Tabbi, Joseph | Universitetet i Bergen, Norway

At a time when scholars in both literary and scientific disciplines are advancing the term posthumanism, this literary introduction defines Posthumanism, gives a summary account of the key literary and cultural theorists in the field, provides close readings of posthuman fiction, poetry, and conceptual approaches that help ground the discipline.

Jan. 2025 9781009479004 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

eISBN 9781009478991

Cambridge Introductions to Literature 236pp

Nov. 2024 9781009256452 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 26.99

Nov. 2024 9781009256506 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781009256476

The Challenges of BornDigital Fiction

Editions, Translations, and Emulations

Grigar, Dene | Washington State University

This Element argues that when the emulation and migration of born-digital media translate the work’s code, it also impacts the edition and version outputted in the process and potentially our experience with the work.

Elements in Digital Literary Studies

94pp

Mar. 2024 9781009181471 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Mar. 2024 9781009507370 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009181488

The Open Veins of Modernity

Ecological Crisis and the Legacy of Byzantium and Pre-Columbian America

Kefala, Eleni | University of St Andrews

This Element shows the ecological crisis due to modernity’s colonial vision, of viewing Earth as natural resources and nonmodern cultures as passive or primitive. This led to the belief in intellectual maturity and infinite growth. This demands the need for decolonization of history and nature to mitigate humanity’s existential threat.

Elements in Environmental Humanities

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009547109 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009547116 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009547079

Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700

Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700 | University of Helsinki

This Element develops and showcases a new methodological framework in which to study the connections between early modern travel writing and life- and self-writing. It opens perspectives to travel writing in its many modes. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Travel Writing

84pp

Apr. 2024 9781009180733 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Apr. 2024 9781009507431 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009180726

Literature - editions, texts

Correspondence

Primarily

on Pamela and Clarissa (1732–1749)

Richardson, Samuel

Samuel Richardson was unquestionably a leading innovator in literary form prior to 1800. His correspondence, not least with the major literary figures of his day, is key to his career in literature and printing. This is the authoritative collection of his correspondence during his apogee as a novelist.

The

Citizen of the World Goldsmith, Oliver

The Citizen of the World uses the letters written home by an imaginary Chinese philosopher, Lien Chi Altangi, to provide an estranged perspective –both naïve and critical – on the imperial metropolis and the transformation of British society across the eighteenth century.

The Cambridge Edition of the Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith

996pp

Nov. 2024 9781108479141 Hardback GBP 150.00 / USD 200.00

eISBN 9781108782593

The Vicar of Wakefield

A Tale, supposed to be Written by Himself Goldsmith, Oliver

A brand-new, scholarly yet accessible edition of one of English literature’s most widely reprinted works, offering an accurate text and extensive and helpful annotation. Contextual materials include a lively introduction to the history of the international reception of The Vicar of Wakefield by many kinds of readers over 250 years.

The Cambridge Edition of the Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith

384pp

Jun. 2024 9781108479165 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781108782654

Publishing, printing history, history of the book

The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, 9 344pp

Jun. 2024 9780521830355 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00

eISBN 9781139033145

Far from the Madding Crowd

Hardy, Thomas

Presenting the first-edition text of Far from the Madding Crowd for the first time since its 1874 publication, this volume includes every revision Hardy made over more than 40 years, an introduction containing new material about Hardy’s relationship with George Eliot, and numerous appendices detailing his creative process.

The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy 850pp

Jun. 2025 9781108475051 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781108655057

Behaviour Beyond the Text and the Morality Clause in Twenty-FirstCentury Publishing

Bullen, Chiara | University of Stirling

This Element investigates the presence of the morality clause in the UK book publishing industry in relation to an increased focus on author behaviour beyond the text in the twenty-firstcentury, examining the way it operates within the publishing field in the context of behaviour perceived to be ‘problematic’.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009573177 Paperback GBP 12.49 / USD 17.99

eISBN 9781009573184

Bot-mimicry in Digital Literary Culture

Imitating Imitative Software

Erslev, Malthe Stavning | VIA University College

This Element traverses the concept and practice of bot mimicry, defined as the imitation of imitative software, specifically the practice of writing in the style of social bots. It argues that bot mimicry engenders a new mode of knowing about and relating to imitative software.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

104pp

May 2024 9781009222389 Paperback GBP 12.49 / USD 17.99

eISBN 9781009222426

E-books and ‘Real Books’

Digital Reading and the Experience of Bookness

Dietz, Laura | University College London

Laura Dietz explores a paradox of the e-book revolution: mass adoption without full acceptance as ‘real books’. Drawing on new data, she investigates how conceptions of e-books as ersatz, digital proxy, and incomplete books serve readers in unexpected ways. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

256pp

Dec. 2024 9781009490764 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009490795

Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare

Loughnane, Rory | University of Kent

Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare explores the power of names in Shakespeare’s works, focusing on Irish, Scottish, and Welsh characters and places. It explores who chooses names, why, and how they affect playgoers and readers. This Element offers a comprehensive case study for non-anglophone and global studies of Shakespeare and early modern drama.

Elements in Shakespeare and Text

75pp

Libraries and the Academic Book

Shaw, Matthew J. | The Queen’s College, Oxford

This Element explores the history of the relationship between libraries and the academic book. It provides an overview of the development of the publishing history of the scholarly - or academic - book, and related creation of the modern research library.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009521949 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

eISBN 9781009521925

Innovations in Digital Comics

A

Popular Revolution

Benatti, Francesca | The Open University

The success of popular webcomics is the greatest revolution in the comics medium of the last two decades. After defining digital comics, webcomics and webtoons, this Element presents a case study of Korean platform WEBTOON, which achieved 100 billion global page views in 2019. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

100pp

Oct. 2024 9781009319966 Paperback GBP 12.49 / USD 17.99

eISBN 9781009319942

International Bestsellers and the Online Reconfiguring of National Identity

Noorda, Rachel | Portland State University

This Element explores how contemporary readers’ understandings of nation, race/ethnicity, gender, and class continue to shape their reading, using as case studies the online reception of three bestseller titles-Liane Moriarty’s Big Little Lies (Australia), Zadie Smith’s NW (UK), and Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians (USA).

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

78pp

Dec. 2024 9781108729796 Paperback GBP 12.49 / USD 17.99

eISBN 9781108688017

Old

Delhi’s

Parallel Book Bazaar

Dhingra, Kanupriya

This Element looks at Old Delhi’s Daryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar, as a parallel location for books and a site of resilience and possibilities.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009463010 Paperback GBP 12.49 / USD 17.99

eISBN 9781009463027

Selling Books with Algorithms

Muenchrath, Anna | Florida Institute of Technology

In 1997 Amazon started as a small online bookseller. It is now the largest bookseller in the US and one of the largest companies in the world, due, in part, to its implementation of algorithms and access to user data. This Element explains how these algorithms work, and specifically how they recommend books and make them visible to readers.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

75pp

May 2024 9781009108485 Paperback GBP 12.49 / USD 17.99

eISBN 9781009104388

Nov. 2024 9781009339698 Paperback GBP 12.49 / USD 17.99

eISBN 9781009339704

Space, Place, and Bestsellers

Moving Books

Fletcher, Lisa | University of Tasmania

From airport bookstores to deckchairs, as audiobooks downloaded by commuters, and on Kindles and other portable devices, twenty-first century bestsellers move in old and new ways. This Element examines the locations and mobilities of the contemporary bestseller as a multi-format commercial object.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

118pp

Jun. 2024 9781108738538 Paperback GBP 12.49 / USD 17.99

eISBN 9781108769167

Roman Liturgy and Frankish Creativity

The Early Medieval Manuscripts of the Ordines

Romani

Westwell, Arthur | Universität Regensburg, Germany

Arthur Westwell closely examines the manuscripts of the Ordines Romani and reveals the surprising creativity of their compilers. His study addresses changes and reinterpretations of ritual texts before print, using manuscripts to shed new light on how medieval churchmen read and used the scripts for religious ceremonies.

Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology

300pp

Jan. 2024 9781009360487 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009360500

Unprinted

Publication Beyond the Press

Kohler, Daria | KU Leuven

This Element explores the idea of publication in media used before, alongside, and after print. It contrasts multiple traditions of unprinted communication in their diversity and particularity.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

75pp

Jan. 2025 9781009545310 Paperback GBP 12.49 / USD 17.99

eISBN 9781009545327

YA Anthologies

Amplifying Voices, Building Community

Ramdarshan Bold, Melanie | University of Glasgow

Anthologies have received little scholarly attention. However, they play an important role in collecting, and reflecting upon, voices and identities that have often been on the fringes of publishing. This Element explores the sociocultural functions of anthologies in relation to discussions around exclusion/inclusion in the publishing industry.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

75pp

Jun. 2024 9781108725620 Paperback GBP 12.49 / USD 17.99

eISBN 9781108663687

European and world literature

African, Caribbean literature

A History of Haitian Literature

Daut, Marlene L. | Yale University

This is the first comprehensive history of Haitian literature published in the English language. It offers crucial insights into the aesthetic, political, cultural, linguistic, and historical frameworks necessary to comprehend Haiti’s vast literary history, both as a part of the Caribbean archipelago, and as a distinctly sovereign nation. 554pp

Nov. 2024 9781009485111 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009485142

Decolonising African Theatre

Ravengai, Samuel | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

This Element uses Afroscenology as a theory to read and comment on African theatre. The Element particularly focuses on the history of laboratories in which it was tested and emerged, the historicization of rombic theatre and the crafting of theatric theory.

Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political 82pp

Apr. 2024 9781009271479 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Apr. 2024 9781009500449 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009271455

The Cambridge History of Cuban Literature

Unruh, Vicky | University of Kansas

Written from a 21st century critical perspective, this book tells the intricate story of Cuban literary-intellectual culture from the 17th century to the 21st century. It highlights the intricacies of linguistic and cultural translation embodied in telling a story about a body of creative work that has unfolded in multiple languages.

816pp

Jul. 2024 9781009168342 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00

eISBN 9781009168359

The Festival of India

Development and Diplomacy at the End of the Cold War

Nicholson, Rashna Darius | University of Warwick

This Element studies the Festival of India in the United States (1985–1986), one of the biggest events ever mounted to promote goodwill between two countries. It delineates how this multisited spectacle of unprecedented size and near unfathomable political, economic, and cultural influence impacted theatre and performance studies.

Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political 86pp

May 2024 9781009358392 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

May 2024 9781009485999 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009358422

Asian literature

The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime

Berndt, Jaqueline | Stockholms Universitet

This Companion takes a unique approach, exploring manga and anime as two distinct but interrelated forms. Firmly based in Japanese sources, it offers a lively and accessible introduction, exploring the local contexts of production and reception in Japan, as well as the global influence and impact of these versatile media.

Cambridge Companions to Literature 305pp

Oct. 2024 9781009009980 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Oct. 2024 9781316518793 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781009003438

Utpal Dutt and Political Theatre in Postcolonial India

Sinha Roy, Mallarika | Jawaharlal Nehru University

This Element examines Dutt’s passionate engagement with Marxism and explores how this sense of urgency was actioned through the writing and producing of plays about the peasant revolts and armed anti-colonial movements which took place during the period of British rule.

Elements in Theatre, Performance and the Political 84pp

Apr. 2024 9781009264075 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Apr. 2024 9781009500227 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009264068

European and world literature

European and world literature (general)

Colonialism, World Literature, and the Making of the Modern Culture of Letters

Bhattacharya, Baidik | Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

This book offers an account of how the modern idea of the literary emerged, through the colonial archives. Situated at the cusp of postcolonialism and world literature, it offers a multilingual, multicultural, and comparative account of how literature became one of the most powerful cultural expressions of modernity.

Cambridge Studies in World Literature

302pp

Feb. 2024 9781009422642 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.95

eISBN 9781009422635

Insurgent Cultures

World Literatures and Violence from the Global South

Malreddy, Pavan Kumar | Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Am Main

European literature

A History of Poetry in Italy

1200–1600

Armstrong, Guyda | University of Manchester

Overturning the traditional canonical narrative, this history reveals the poetry of Italy between 1200 and 1600 as a site of plurality of genre, form and even language, including not just written texts but also those presented in performance, and sheds light on issues of content, context and media of transmission.

626pp

May 2025 9781009424677 Hardback GBP 95.00

eISBN 9781009424660

Moving beyond the normative frames of terrorism and counter-terrorism, this book shows how world literatures from the Global South can be used to examine the multiple modalities of violence that pervade contemporary world politics, such as communalism, factionalism, peasant wars, banditry, nationalist struggles, resource wars and acts of vengeance.

252pp

Dec. 2024 9781009443838 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009443869

The Cambridge Companion to Australian Poetry

Vickery, Ann | Deakin University, Victoria

The first major critical survey on Australian poetry, this volume investigates poetry’s key role in debates around colonialism, nationalism, cultural diversity, and the environment. Individual chapters examine Aboriginal writing and the archive, print culture, poetry and activism, the verse novel, performance poetries, and digital poetries.

Cambridge Companions to Literature

408pp

Jun. 2024 9781009470209 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Jun. 2024 9781009470230 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781009470186

V.S. Naipaul and World Literature

Mishra, Vijay | Murdoch University, Western Australia

V. S. Naipaul is a major and controversial figure in postcolonial and world literature. This book provides a challenging and uncompromisingly honest author study that engages with history, genre theory, aesthetics, and global literary culture, with close reference to V. S. Naipaul’s published and archival material.

Cambridge Studies in World Literature

272pp

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Contemporary Fiction in French

Milne, Anna-Louise

Illustrating the fluidity and constant evolution of our global literary field, this collection analyses contemporary French fiction in context, claiming the collapse of distinction between ‘French’ and ‘Francophone’ literature has opened up French writing to a world of new influences.

301pp

Feb. 2024 9781009433860 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009433853

Feb. 2024 9781108468916 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108570626

Dante’s Divine Comedy

A Reading Guide

Clarke, K. P. | University of York

This essential guide to reading Dante reveals the originality and power of the language of the Divine Comedy. It will enlighten and equip those already familiar with the poem, as well as those approaching it for the first time.

306pp

May 2024 9781009400824 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

May 2024 9781009400817 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781009400855

Goethe in Context

Lee, Charlotte | University of Cambridge

Covering topics ranging from literature and art to philosophy and natural science, this accessible collection of essays explores Goethe’s links to other cultures and his lasting impact today. In its remarkable breadth and depth, it gives students and researchers a scholarly overview commensurate with Goethe’s long and varied career.

Literature in Context

438pp

May 2024 9781316511039 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009036436

Oliver Goldsmith in Context

Griffin, Michael | University of Limerick

The Vicar of Wakefield, The Deserted Village, and She Stoops to Conquer number among the greatest literary works of the eighteenth century. With sections covering Goldsmith’s Life and Career; Social, Cultural, and Intellectual Contexts; Literary Contexts; and Critical Fortunes and Afterlives, this volume illuminates his extraordinary achievement. Literature in Context

376pp

Nov. 2024 9781316518915 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009004015

The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature

Franklin, Simon | University of Cambridge

The essential, authoritative new guide to Russian literature, this innovative volume considers literature’s multiple parallel histories ranging from the medieval period to the internet age. The open but easily navigable structure enables engagement with both traditional literary concerns and radical re-conceptualisations of Russian culture.

600pp

Transnationalism in Irish Literature and Culture

Parsons, Cóilín | Georgetown University, Washington DC

Presents a range of studies that highlight historical and emerging ways that Irish literature and culture have crossed borders, been read and rewritten transnationally, grappled with global and planetary issues, and sought to decenter the nation as the heart of Irish culture. Suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars.

Cambridge Themes in Irish Literature and Culture

368pp

Nov. 2024 9781108493482 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00

eISBN 9781108655620

Irish literature

Race in Irish Literature and Culture

Sen, Malcolm | University of Massachusetts, Amherst Race in Irish Literature and Culture provides an in-depth understanding of intersections between Irish literature, culture, and questions of race, racialization, and racism. Covering a vast historical terrain from the sixteenth century to the present, it demonstrates the crucial need for Irish Studies scholarship to engage the theme of race.

Cambridge Themes in Irish Literature and Culture

372pp

Nov. 2024 9781316511213 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009049597

Latin American literature

A History of Argentine Literature

Laera, Alejandra | University of Buenos Aires

Attentive to production in indigenous and migration languages, this book proposes a major reimagining of the field of Argentine literature. Individual chapters examine Argentine literature within the context of contemporary topics such as World Literatures, Gender, LGBQT+ identifications, Ecocriticism, Migration and Memory Studies.

574pp

Jan. 2024 9781316513118 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009071802

Seamus Heaney and Catholicism

Wade, Gary | University of Notre Dame, Australia

The book explores how Catholicism operates in Seamus Heaney’s poetry at the level of a felt sense. It is written in an accessible style and so will be of interest not only to an academic audience, but to the intelligent lay reader who is interested in poetry and or theology.

240pp

Apr. 2025 9781009541343 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009541374

May 2024 9781009283045 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009283069

A History of Mexican Poetry

Ruisánchez Serra, José Ramón | University of Houston

A History of Mexican Poetry provides a global understanding of Mexican poetry, its institutions and its main authors for students and scholars in any discipline connected to the subject.

354pp

Mar. 2024 9781108831451 Hardback GBP 85.00 \ USD 110.00

eISBN 9781108917315

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The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature

Rodríguez, Ileana | Ohio State University

The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature is an essential resource for anyone interested in the development of women’s writing in Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it explores women’s literature from ancient indigenous cultures to the beginning of the twenty-first century.

684pp 4 b/w illus.

Jan. 2024 9781107448889 Paperback GBP 32.99 / USD 49.99

eISBN 9781316050859

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Korea

2F, 42, Yanghwa-ro 11-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul, 04035, South Korea

Phone: (82) 2 547 2891 Fax: (82) 2 547 4411 acprokorea@cambridge.org

Singapore/Brunei

103 Penang Road

#05–06/07 Visioncrest Commercial, 238467, Singapore

(New address from March 2025) 16 Raffles Quay, #16-04/05 Hong Leong Building, Singapore 048581

Phone: +65 6323 2701 Fax: +65 6323 2370 asia@cambridge.org

Taiwan

Room 311, 12th Floor, 51 Hengyang Road, Taipei, Taipei City 100, Taiwan Phone: (886)2 2570 0508 taipei@cambridge.org

Thailand

54 BB Building 1705 Sukhumvit 21 (Asoke), Wattana, Bangkok, 10110, Thailand

Phone: (66) 2 204 1451

Fax: (66) 2 204 1452 asia@cambridge.org

Vietnam

5F, YOCO Building

41 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai District 1 Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Phone: +84 (98) 8068727

Fax: +84 (98) 9141748 asia@cambridge.org