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Byzantine Commentaries on Ancient Greek Texts, 12th–15th Centuries
Baukje van den Berg Divna Manolova Przemyslaw Marciniak
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Addresses the importance of ancient literature for Byzantine society and explores various ways of recycling and understanding ancient works.
September 2022 229 x 152 mm c.360pp 9781316514658 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
The Trade in Rare Books and Manuscripts between Britain and America c. 1890–1929
Danielle Magnusson Laura Cleaver
This Element examines the earlytwentieth century rare book trade from the perspectives of British and American collectors and dealers.
Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
July 2022 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 9781009069052 Paperback £9.99 / US$12.99 P
Expositio Notarum
A. C. Dionisotti
Edition of a unique, unpublished Latin text illuminating education in the time of Augustine and the formation of Latin glossaries.
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, 64
August 2022 216 x 138 mm c.350pp 10 b/w illus. 10 tables 9781316514795 Hardback £110.00 / US$145.00 R
George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture
Simon Jackson
The first full-length study to uncover the profound impact of early modern musical culture on George Herbert’s religious verse.
October 2022 229 x 152 mm c.350pp 9781009098069 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond
The Roman Tradition at the Heart of the Modern Michèle Lowrie Barbara Vinken
The Roman tradition represents civil war as a political matter that cuts to the heart of family, sexuality, and society.
Classics after Antiquity
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.360pp 7 colour illus. 9781316516447 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
Boy Actors in Early Modern England
Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre Harry R. McCarthy
This innovative study draws on theatre history and present-day performance to re-appraise the remarkable skills of early modern boy actors.
September 2022 229 x 152 mm c.320pp 9781009098953 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C ENGLISH LITERATURE
The Cambridge Companion to The Essay
Edited by Kara Wittman and Evan Kindley
The book studies the history and theory of the essay and its social, political, and aesthetic contexts.
Cambridge Companions to Literature
October 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781009011143 Paperback c. £18.99 / c. US$29.99 P
Neil Ramsey
This book illuminates the genesis and development of modern war writing in relation to Romanticism, biopolitics and disciplinary theory.
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 135
November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.250pp 9781009100441 Hardback c. £75.00 / c. US$99.99 C
A History of World War One Poetry
Jane Potter
A History of World War One Poetry offers a new perspective on the literary and human experience of 1914-1918.
October 2022 229 x 152 mm c.425pp 9781009100649 Hardback £89.99 / US$120.00 R
Simulating Antiquity in Boys’ Adventure Fiction
Maps and Ink Stains Thomas Vranken
This Element presents ‘lost world’ adventure fiction as a response to print culture’s nineteenth- and twenty-first-century automation.
Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
August 2022 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 9781009158947 Paperback £9.99 / US$12.99 P
After Darwin
Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century Devin Griffiths Deanna Kreisel
This book explores the philosophy and writings of Charles Darwin and their contribution to theories of philosophy, evolution, and beauty.
After Series
September 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781009181150 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P
Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature
Derek Ryan
Argues that the Bloomsbury group’s fascination with beasts was integral to their exploration of imperialism, race, gender, sexuality and technology.
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781009182973 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Milton’s Late Poems
Forms of Modernity Lee Morrissey
Lee Morrissey explores how Milton’s major late poems narrate varying responses to modernity: adjustment, avoidance, and antagonism.
August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781009197083 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Conversing in Verse
Conversation in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry Elizabeth Helsinger
Conversing in Verse considers when and why poets turn to conversation to explore and expand the potential of poetry.
Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture
August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.205pp 9781009200202 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages
Regionalism and Nationalism in Medieval English Literature Joseph Taylor
Uncovering the medieval origin of England’s North-South divide, Joseph Taylor examines the complex dynamics of regionalism and nationalism.
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 119
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781009182119 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Outer Space: 100 Poems
Editor (introduction and notes) Midge Goldberg
Across time and cultures, poets and astronomers have often asked the same questions about outer space, and about ourselves.
September 2022 198 x 129 mm c.200pp 9781009203609 Hardback £12.99 / US$16.99 G
The Electoral Imagination
Literature, Legitimacy, and Other Rigged Systems Kent Puckett
An intellectual history and aesthetic theory of democratic elections, this book offers a critical alternative to the ‘myth of rigging.’
September 2022 228 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781009206655 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
The Masculinities of John Milton
Cultures and Constructs of Manhood in the Major Works Elizabeth Hodgson
This first published book on Milton’s masculinities exposes how Milton constructs the powercultures of manhood in his most famous works.
September 2022 234 x 156 mm c.290pp 9781009223584 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Jane Austen and Other Minds
Ordinary Language Philosophy in Literary Fiction Eric Reid Lindstrom
Jane Austen and Other Minds demonstrates how Austen’s fiction is both philosophy and a resource to ordinary language philosophy.
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 136
October 2022 229 x 152 mm c.294pp 9781009206990 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Black Shakespeare
Reading and Misreading Race Ian Smith
In his compelling new book Ian Smith addresses the pernicious influence of systemic whiteness on our interpretation of Shakespeare’s plays.
September 2022 234 x 156 mm c.280pp 9781009224086 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
Samuel Beckett’s Poetry
James Brophy William Davies
The first book-length study of Samuel Beckett’s complete poetry, combining new work from major literature critics and new critical perspectives.
November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781009222549 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater
Stage Spectacle and Audience Response Lauren Robertson
Lauren Robertson shows how the commercial theater transformed early modernity’s crisis of uncertainty into spectacular onstage display.
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.290pp 9781009225151 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Persistence of Realism in Modernist Fiction
Paul Stasi
Demonstrates the persistence of realism’s characteristic concerns – sympathy, melodrama, gender and class – in the most aesthetically innovative works of modernist fiction.
October 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781009223140 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Byron and the Poetics of Adversity
Jerome McGann
A landmark study that unearths Byron’s profound, enduring critique of the failures of language and the contradictions of his age.
November 2022 186 x 123 mm c.150pp 9781009232951 Hardback £19.99 / US$25.99 P
Shakespeare Survey 75
Othello Emma Smith
The theme for Volume 75 is ‘Othello’.
Shakespeare Survey
August 2022 246 x 189 mm c.450pp 9781009245821 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 R
The Near Future in 21st Century Fiction
Climate, Retreat and Revolution David Sergeant
Explores contemporary fiction set in the near future to shed new light on our culture’s relationship to the Anthropocene.
Cambridge Studies in Twenty-FirstCentury Literature and Culture
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781009279888 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Deep History, Climate Change, and the Evolution of Human Culture
Louise Westling
Two million years of climate change have driven evolution, migrations and cultural development from Homo erectus to modern humans.
Elements in Environmental Humanities
August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009257336 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
Washington Square
Henry James Gert Buelens Susan M. Griffin
The first scholarly edition of this popular Henry James novel, providing full socio-historical context and textual history.
The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James
August 2022 229 x 152 mm 275pp 9781107003897 Hardback £89.99 / US$120.00 R
Orientation in European Romanticism
The Art of Falling Upwards Paul Hamilton
This book frames Romanticism as the epicentre of modern Europe’s fascination with orientation and disorientation in literature and politics.
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 137
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.278pp 9781009268233 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe Nicholas Seager Marc Mierowsky Andreas K. E. Mueller
The complete and authoritative scholarly edition of Defoe’s letters, including full biographical, literary, and historical information.
September 2022 228 x 152 mm 600pp 9781107133099 Hardback £89.99 / US$120.00 R
The Year That Shaped the Victorian Age
Lives, Loves and Letters of 1845 Michael Wheeler
Michael Wheeler is a leading authority on the Victorian age. His exploration of 1845 transforms our understanding of the period.
December 2022 216 x 138 mm c.280pp 9781009268851 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
Thinking of the Medieval
Midcentury Intellectuals and the Middle Ages Benjamin A. Saltzman R. D. Perry
This book examines how midtwentieth-century intellectuals’ engagement with the Middle Ages shaped politics, art, and history.
November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.290pp 9781108478960 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Translation
Crafts, Contexts, Consequences Jan Steyn
Translation practice, its contexts, and its broader consequences, too often studied separately, are here brought into conversation.
September 2022 228 x 152 mm c.320pp 9781108485395 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Studying English Literature in Context
Critical Readings Paul Poplawski
From early medieval times to the present, this diverse collection of thirty-one essays sets literary texts in their historical contexts.
September 2022 246 x 189 mm c.500pp 9781108749572 Paperback £24.99 / US$32.99 X
Wittgenstein and Literary Studies
Robert Chodat John Gibson
Brings together recent literary scholars and philosophers of a Wittgensteinian bent, highlighting a shared understanding of language, judgment, and interpretation.
Cambridge Studies in Literature and Philosophy
November 2022 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 9781108833219 Hardback c. £85.00 / c. US$110.00 R
Small Things in the Eighteenth Century
The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature Chloe Wigston Smith Beth Fowkes Tobin
Playful, useful, decorative, revolutionary: small things possess a rich array of meanings, from the ordinary to the extraordinary.
September 2022 244 x 170 mm c.280pp 9781108834452 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature and Politics
Edited by Christos Hadjiyiannis and Rachel Potter
This book explores literature’s direct relationship to politics, offering new ways of thinking about the troubled relationship between literature and politics.
Cambridge Companions to Literature
November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.350pp 9781108814195 Paperback c. £22.99 / c. US$29.99 P
Nature and Literary Studies
Peter Remien Scott Slovic
Nature and Literary Studies supplies a broad overview of one of the most important and contested keywords in literary studies.
Cambridge Critical Concepts
August 2022 228 x 152 mm 438pp 9781108836760 Hardback £89.99 / US$120.00 R
Diversity and Inclusion in Young Adult Publishing, 1960–1980
Karen Sands-O’Connor
This study examines British young adult publishing between 1960-1980 and how editors approached inclusion of Black and Asian Britons.
Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
September 2022 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 9781108827836 Paperback c. £9.99 / c. US$12.99 P
Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England
William E. Engel Rory Loughnane Grant Williams
This collection reexamines commemoration and memorialization as generative practices illuminating the hidden life of Renaissance death arts.
October 2022 234 x 156 mm c.280pp 9781108843393 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Shakespeare and Virtue
A Handbook Julia Reinhard Lupton Donovan Sherman
Through classical, Scriptural, and global notions of virtue, this handbook illuminates the shared worlds of Shakespeare’s plays.
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.400pp 9781108843409 Hardback c. £95.00 / c. US$120.00 R
Birdsong, Speech and Poetry
The Art of Composition in the Long Nineteenth Century Francesca Mackenney
Illuminating the poetry of birdsong in the Romantic and Victorian periods, this timely study dissects historical attitudes to nonhuman life.
Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture
November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.250pp 9781316513712 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge
Tim Fulford
This new collection enables students and general readers to appreciate Coleridge’s renewed relevance now, 250 years after his birth.
Cambridge Companions to Literature
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.276pp 9781108940795 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P
The Pursuit of Style in Early Modern Drama
Forms of Talk on the London Stage Matthew Hunter
Matthew Hunter shows how early modern plays modeled diverse styles of talk for audiences inhabiting a newly public world.
August 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781316517468 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Podcasts and Feminist Shakespeare Pedagogy
Varsha Panjwani
This Element offers theoretical and practical approaches to harness podcasts for shaping a Shakespeare pedagogy that is empowering for women.
Elements in Shakespeare and Pedagogy
November 2022 178 x 111 mm c.75pp 9781108977180 Paperback c. £15.00 / c. US$20.00 P
A History of English Georgic Writing
Paddy Bullard
A history of English georgic writing – literature focused on working rural lives, landscapes and environments – from 1500 to the present.
November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.370pp 9781316519875 Hardback c. £90.00 / c. US$120.00 R
Russell McDonald
This book examines literary collaborations between women and men, revealing how deeply imbued and valuable gender conflict was in modernism.
November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781316512654 Hardback c. £75.00 / c. US$99.99 C
Queer Kinship after Wilde
Transnational Decadence and the Family Kristin Mahoney
Focuses on figures who saw themselves as part of a Decadent tradition as they revised the concept of the family in the early 20th century.
September 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781316519912 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
