IRISH LITERATURE from Cambridge
Irish Literature 2018
Dictionary of Irish Biography
Dictionary of Irish Biography
2 Volume HB Set Edited by James McGuire and James Quinn
From the Earliest Times to the Year 2010 11 Hardback Volume Set Edited by James McGuire and James Quinn
An indispensable resource containing substantial and comprehensive biographical treatment of over 600 prominent figures in Irish history. September 2018 244 x 170 mm c.1613pp 978-1-108-58790-7 2 Volume HB Set £150.00 / US$210.00
A comprehensive and authoritative biographical reference work available for Ireland, covering over 10,000 prominent figures in 11 volumes.
A History of Modern Irish Women’s Literature
The Value of James Joyce
Edited by Heather Ingman and Clíona Ó Gallchoir
This book explores the writings of James Joyce from his early poetry and stories to his final avantgarde work, Finnegans Wake.
Offers the first comprehensive survey of literature by women in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present day. July 2018 229 x 152 mm 506pp 978-1-107-13110-1 Hardback £31.99 / US$44.99
Margot Norris
The Value of March 2016 216 x 138 mm 160pp 978-1-107-58316-0 Paperback £12.99 / US$17.99
July 2018 247 x 174 mm c.11285pp 978-1-108-378499 11 Hardback Volume Set £899.00 / US$1250.00
The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets
A History of Irish Autobiography
Ulysses, Film and Visual Culture
Irish Political Writings after 1725
Edited by Liam Harte
Philip Sicker
Edited by Gerald Dawe
The first ever history of autobiographical writing in Ireland, based on original scholarship, and structured around key subgenres, themes, texts, and writers.
Shows how Joyce’s narrative styles and his protagonists’ perceptions are shaped by visual technologies, including dioramas, stereoscopes, mutoscopes and film.
A Modest Proposal and Other Works Jonathan Swift Edited by David Hayton and Adam Rounce
March 2018 229 x 152 mm 434pp 978-1-107-13144-6 Hardback £84.99 / US$110.00
September 2018 228 x 152 mm c.288pp 7 b/w illus. 978-1-108-42840-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$105.00
A fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times. Cambridge Companions to Literature November 2017 229 x 152 mm 470pp 978-1-108-41419-7 Paperback £26.99 / US$34.99
The first fully annotated, contextualised, and textually authoritative edition of Swift’s Irish prose writings from 1726 to 1738. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift, 14 August 2018 228 x 152 mm 656pp 6 b/w illus. 978-0-521-83385-1 Hardback £64.99 / US$84.99
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Irish Literature 2018
A History of Irish Working-Class Writing Edited by Michael Pierse
This book constitutes a wideranging and authoritative chronicle of the writing of Irish working-class experience. November 2017 229 x 152 mm 478pp 978-1-107-14968-7 Hardback £79.99 / US$105.00
The Letters of Samuel Beckett
The Letters of Samuel Beckett
The Letters of Samuel Beckett
4 Volume Hardback Set Samuel Beckett Edited by George Craig Martha Dow Fehsenfeld Dan Gunn and Lois More Overbeck
Volume 4: 1966–1989 Samuel Beckett Edited by George Craig Martha Dow Fehsenfeld Dan Gunn and Lois More Overbeck
Volume 3: 1957–1965 Samuel Beckett Edited by George Craig Martha Dow Fehsenfeld Dan Gunn and Lois More Overbeck
The acclaimed four-volume edition of the letters of one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary figures.
This final volume in the acclaimed edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett covers the last twenty-four years of Beckett’s life and work.
Volume three of the acclaimed fourvolume edition of the letters of one of the twentieth century’s greatest literary figures.
The Letters of Samuel Beckett
The Letters of Samuel Beckett
The Letters of Samuel Beckett
September 2016 216 x 138 mm 3490pp September 2016 216 x 138 mm 942pp 978-1-316-50657-8 4 Volume Hardback Set 19 b/w illus. £100.00 / US$150.00 978-0-521-86796-2 Hardback £30.00 / US$49.99
The Letters of Samuel Beckett
The Letters of Samuel Beckett
Volume 2: 1941–1956 Samuel Beckett Edited by George Craig Martha Dow Fehsenfeld Dan Gunn and Lois More Overbeck
Volume 1: 1929–1940 Samuel Beckett Edited by Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck Edited in association with Dan Gunn and George Craig
In The Letters of Samuel Beckett This authorised edition with full scholarly readers discover the life and work apparatus will be welcomed by all of a literary giant in his own words. scholars of modern literature and drama. The Letters of Samuel Beckett
The Letters of Samuel Beckett
September 2011 216 x 138 mm 886pp 20 b/w illus. 978-0-521-86794-8 Hardback £30.00 / US$49.99
February 2009 228 x 152 mm 866pp 18 b/w illus. 978-0-521-86793-1 Hardback £30.00 / US$49.99
Ireland, Reading and Cultural Nationalism, 1790–1930 Bringing the Nation to Book Andrew Murphy
Examination of literacy and reading habits in nineteenthcentury Ireland and implications for an emerging cultural nationalism. October 2017 228 x 152 mm 262pp 978-1-107-13356-3 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99
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September 2014 216 x 138 mm 816pp 29 b/w illus. 978-0-521-86795-5 Hardback £30.00 / US$49.99
James Joyce in Context Edited by John McCourt
This collection of original, cohesive and concise essays charts the vital contextual backgrounds to James Joyce’s life and writing. Literature in Context February 2009 228 x 152 mm 434pp 978-0-521-88662-8 Hardback £82.00 / US$139.00
Irish Literature 2018
Beckett’s Political Imagination
The Best Are Leaving
Oscar Wilde in Context
Samuel Beckett’s Library
Emilie Morin
Emigration and Post-War Irish Culture Clair Wills
Edited by Kerry Powell and Peter Raby
Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon
Concise and illuminating articles explore Oscar Wilde’s life and work in the context of the turbulent landscape of his time.
The first study to assess the importance of the marginalia, inscriptions, and other manuscript notes in the 750 volumes of Samuel Beckett’s personal library.
Beckett’s Political Imagination uncovers Beckett’s lifelong engagement with political thought and political history. September 2017 228 x 152 mm 276pp 978-1-108-41799-0 Hardback £31.99 / US$39.99
Clair Wills’s The Best Are Leaving is a study of representations of Irish emigrant culture and of Irish immigrants in Britain.
Literature in Context
March 2015 228 x 152 mm 220pp 8 b/w illus. 978-1-107-68087-6 Paperback £12.99 / US$19.99
December 2013 228 x 152 mm 438pp 39 b/w illus. 978-1-107-01613-2 Hardback £64.99 / US$103.00
August 2013 228 x 152 mm 330pp 978-1-107-00126-8 Hardback £70.00 / US$108.00
The Cambridge Companion to Ulysses
The Cambridge Companion to Irish Modernism
Swift and History
Swift and Others
Politics and the English Past Ashley Marshall
Claude Rawson
Edited by Sean Latham
Edited by Joe Cleary
Through a series of incisive and insightful essays by accomplished scholars, this Companion offers readers a new window to the world of Ulysses.
This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to Irish modernism, offering readers an accessible overview of key writers and artists.
Cambridge Companions to Literature
Cambridge Companions to Literature
December 2014 228 x 152 mm 244pp 4 b/w illus. 978-1-107-42390-9 Paperback £19.99 / US$31.99
October 2014 228 x 152 mm 284pp 978-1-107-65581-2 Paperback £20.99 / US$31.99
This book explores the importance of history to Jonathan Swift through close reading of his historical, polemical and satirical writings. August 2017 229 x 152 mm 292pp 978-1-107-49927-0 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99
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Explores the impact of the great satirist Jonathan Swift on other writers of the English Augustan tradition. March 2015 228 x 152 mm 320pp 1 b/w illus. 978-1-107-61012-5 Paperback £14.99 / US$21.99