2021 Literature catalogue

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CATALOGUE 2021

Contents American Literature American Literature.................................

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English Literature English Literature - 1700 - 1830..............

English Literature - 1830 - 1900..............

English Literature - 1900 - 1945..............

English Literature - 1945 and beyond......

English Literature - Anglo-Saxon and Medieval.........................................

English Literature - Renaissance and Early Modern to 1700............................

English Literature (General).....................

Literary Theory.........................................

Literature - Editions, Texts.......................

Publishing, Printing History, History of the Book...............................

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European and World Literature African, Caribbean Literature..................

Asian Literature........................................

European and World Literature (General)...............................

European Literature.................................

Irish Literature.........................................

Latin American Literature........................

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American Literature

American Literature American Literature A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War Tim Dayton | Kansas State University

The collection explores the various, often conflicting representations of the war offered by US writers, artists, intellectuals, and political figures.

This multidisciplinary study, a collaboration of premier scholars, serves readers and students interested in American literature, history, and politics as well as specialists in these subjects.

• Presents the latest research on US literature and culture of the First World War by premier scholars • Covers multiple genres and media: poetry, fiction, film, drama, memoir, journalism, music, architecture, and visual art • Reconsiders the longstanding assumption of American disillusionment with the war 400pp December 2020 9781108475327 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108615433

A History of American Puritan Literature Kristina Bross | Washington University, St Louis

This book captures and the reconfigures understanding of puritan literature and its history.

It offers a sense of where puritan studies stands with pointers toward where they might go next—an account of American puritan literature accessible and useful to a broad range of students, teachers, scholars, and readers.

• Resituates puritan New England in in the context of a much more interconnected Atlantic and global world • Introduces readers to the changed understanding of American exceptionalism and puritan origin stories • Captures the renaissance in puritan studies and presents the reconfigured understanding to readers at multiple levels of expertise 375pp October 2020 9781108840033 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108878425

African American Literature in Transition Volume 4 1850–1865 Teresa Zackodnik | University of Alberta

This volume reframes mid-century African American literature and challenges our current understanding. A fluid tradition attentive to history, science, politics, economics, space and movement, the visual, and the sonic. Black writing was highly conscious of transnational and international politics, textual circulation, and revolutionary imaginaries • Links the mid-19th century to literary developments that preceded and followed that period.

• Frames mid-19th century African American literature in terms of Black personhood and citizenship, genre and circulation, and space and movement.

• Explores mid-19th century African American literature and the concerns currently preoccupying African American literary studies.

African American Literature in Transition, 1800–1830 Volume 2 1800–1830 Jasmine Nicole Cobb

This volume considers texts produced by African Americans between 1800 and 1830, under unique constraints. This volume fills a gap in what scholars and students understand about early African American literature, and reframes approaches to the archive and to primary resources of the period.

• Employs a thematic approach to African American literature from 1800 to 1830 • Explores African American literature produced in the face of suppression • Addresses the unique restraints on African American writing and expressivity at the beginning of the nineteenth century African American Literature in Transition 350pp May 2021 9781108429078 Hardback GBP 70 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108632003

African American Literature in Transition, 1830–1850 Volume 3 Benjamin Fagan | Auburn University, Alabama

This volume examines the transitions between the years 1830 to 1850. It introduces readers, teachers, and students of African American literature and culture to innovative approaches to material of this period.

• Offers innovative approaches to African American literature of the period • Introduces readers to understudied works and authors • Highlights leading and emerging scholars of the field African American Literature in Transition 350pp March 2021 9781108422949 Hardback GBP 70 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108386067

African American Literature in Transition, 1865–1880 Black Reconstructions Volume 5 1865–1880 Eric Gardner

This volume provides the richest study available of African American literature during the years immediately following the Civil War. Studying authors from Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and William Wells Brown to Mattie Jackson and William Steward, it both recovers and innovatively studies Black print culture of US Reconstruction.

• Provides the richest, most nuanced study of African American literature during Reconstruction available • Showcases cutting-edge work by both established and emerging scholars of African American print culture • Treats both better-known figures like Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and William Wells Brown as well as less-studied authors from Mattie Jackson to William Steward in a framework that emphasizes their connections to broader African American literary history African American Literature in Transition 350pp March 2021 9781108427470 Hardback GBP 70 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108551724

African American Literature in Transition 350pp April 2021 9781108427487 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108647847

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African American Literature in Transition, 1900–1910 Volume 7 Shirley Moody-Turner | Pennsylvania State University

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This book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to African American literary history, showcasing the transitions in literary and cultural productions that took shape at the turn into the twentieth century. Its range and scope make it a key resource for scholars, students, and researchers.

• Offers a wide-ranging inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the development of African American literature and culture at the beginning of the twentieth century • Structured by 4 key areas: Publishing, Genre, Racial/Gender/Class politics, and Geography • Showcases the fertile work done by black painters, photographers, poets, newspaper editors, boxers, and entertainers to shape ‘New Negro’ identity African American Literature in Transition 350pp April 2021 9781108422086 Hardback GBP 70 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108380669

American Literature and Immediacy Literary Innovation and the Emergence of Photography, Film, and Television Heike Schaefer

This book combines close literary readings with detailed considerations of visual media to demonstrate that key American authors of the past two centuries created new literary forms by reworking the immediacy effects of photography, film, and TV. It will appeal to scholars of American literature.

• Uses a historical long-range perspective to show that American writers in the past two hundred years typically have responded to the emergence of new visual media with innovative experiments in literary form • Identifies a common pattern of response across multiple eras, genres, and media • Combines the perspectives of literary studies, cultural studies, and media studies Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture 324pp January 2020 9781108487382 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108766630

Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture John Hay | University of Nevada, Las Vegas

This book is for students and instructors of American literature and culture. It features two dozen scholarly essays on different aspects of the theme of apocalypse in America, from the colonial era to the present.

Imagining the end of the world has always been a popular pastime, especially in America.

• Specifically addresses many key texts and periods commonly covered in undergraduate survey courses • Organized according both to key aspects of Apocalypse and to notable periods in American literary history • Offers twenty-five essays on many different periods and aspects of American literary history Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture 400pp November 2020 9781108493840 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108663557

Climate and American Literature Michael Boyden | Uppsala Universitet, Sweden

This book explores how American literature engages with the climate.

By dissecting the cultural roots of American climate discourses, the book at once allows for a better understanding of the polarized reception of the findings of climate science and offers a fresh perspective on classic American texts.

• Offers a long-term perspective on cultural constructions of climate in American society • Reperiodizes American literary history through the lens of climate and climate perceptions • Shows how recent debates in humanities research and wider public debates are informed by historical climate thinking Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture 400pp January 2021 9781108484879 Hardback GBP 80 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108669573

Cormac McCarthy in Context Steven Frye | California State University, Bakersfield

This collection will be useful to scholars, students, and thoughtful readers as they seek to come to terms with one of the most dense and philosophically rich authors in the contemporary canon. To understand him, one must understand a host of ideas and perspectives.

• Offers details on the various contexts that informed McCarthy’s work, including religious, philosophical, and cultural • Presents limited but substantive close readings that apply those contexts to various works • Provides readers with an understanding of varioushistorical, cultural, scientific materials together and separate from their understanding of McCarthy’s work Literature in Context 418pp January 2020 9781108488839 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 125 eISBN 9781108772297

Credit Culture The Politics of Money in the American Novel of the 1970s Nicky Marsh | University of Southampton

The book offers a new reading of the relationship between fiction and economics in the 1970s, the postmodern period. It emphasizes the novel’s interaction, rather than rejection, of an intertextual history of credit that brings the political implications of class, race and gender into view.

• Offers a new account of the postmodern novel’s relationship to economics, one that re-historicises the material contexts of the form • Shows the novel critically represented the relationship between race, gender and class and the function of credit in twentieth century America • Offers an interdisciplinary reading of the different forms of credit that proliferated in twentieth century America, including not only state, consumer and corporate credit but also the alternative forms of credit imagined by co-operate and political groups 280pp July 2020 9781108836470 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108871211

American Literature

Emily Dickinson: Poetics in Context Melanie Hubbard

Modernist Invention Media Technology and American Poetry Edward Allen | Christ’s College, Cambridge

This book considers the twin puzzles of Dickinson’s striking stylistic choices and odd manuscript practices in light of what she and her peers were taught about language, communication, and the mind. It will appeal to graduates and researchers working on Emily Dickinson specifically, and nineteenth-century American literature generally.

• Connects Dickinson’s compositional processes in the manuscripts to popular practice in her time • Provides photo illustrations of archival manuscript materials to compare Dickinson’s composition practices with those of her peers • Combines close readings of poems with contextualizing information about contemporary conflicts in intellectual history

This book will be of use primarily to academics and students of twentieth-century literature, and particularly to those who are interested in the relationship between literature and technology.

It will provide them with a series of contexts and methods with which to read modernist poetry from the point of view of media history.

• Provides a history of literary modernism that runs in parallel with a history of media • Stages close readings of many different kinds of texts, including poems, films, song lyrics, and essays • Provides examples of interdisciplinary contact between the humanities and science

268pp 37 b/w illus.

February 2020 9781108491761 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108648752

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July 2020 9781108496322 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108866927

Gender in American Literature and Culture

New York

Jean Lutes | Villanova University, Pennsylvania

This book introduces readers to key developments in gender studies and American literary criticism, offers new readings of literary conventions and genres from early American writings to the present, and illustrates how rigid ideas about gender have perpetuated a legacy of violence and exclusion in the United States.

• Applies insights from gender criticism on US literature to pressing issues of the current day • Showcases central new developments in gender studies and American literary criticism • Introduces readers to innovative readings of gender in both wellknown and neglected literary texts from early America to the present Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture 400pp February 2021 9781108477536 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108763790

Mark Twain in Context John Bird

This book places Mark Twain in his literary, historical, and cultural contexts. Its thirty-four chapters, written by experts on the various topics, cover many facets of Twain’s life and works. The book will be of interest to scholars and students researching Twain.

• Provides a broad and deep examination of Mark Twain’s life, work, and era • Introduces readers to key topics that are necessary for a contextual understanding of Mark Twain • Shows how deeply and widely Twain was involved in the issues and concerns of his era, reacting to great change and contributing to the national conversation Literature in Context 422pp 6 b/w illus.

January 2020 9781108472609 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108617208

A Literary History Ross Wilson | University of Nottingham

Using an international perspective on New York’s literary tradition, it expands the meaning of literature for students and researchers to explore how novels, poetry, periodicals, and newspapers have shaped the lives of New Yorkers and how the city has been seen across the world.

• Connects the city’s literature through themes and issues rather than chronology, to explain the changes in the city’s literary traditions in an innovative way • Provides readers with greater insight into the global authorship and readership that constitutes New York’s literature • Uses a broader understanding of literature to move beyond the novel and consider how poetry, periodicals, and newspapers have all shaped the metropolis 332pp February 2020 9781108470810 Hardback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108557139

The Beats A Literary History Steven Belletto | Lafayette College, Pennsylvania

By detailing one of the most popular and significant cultural movements of the post-World War II era, readers will encounter a rich literary history that focuses on text rather than biography.

This reframes Beat scholarship around the merits of Beat literary production, rather than the lives of the artists.

• Offers a new synthetic history of the Beat literary movement • Expands the ‘Beat canon’ beyond the most well-known names • Focuses on texts rather than biographies 476pp March 2020 9781107176683 Hardback GBP 26.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781316817179

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The Cambridge Companion to TwentyFirst-Century American Poetry

The Indian in American Southern Literature

Timothy Yu

Melanie Benson Taylor

This book provides students and academic researchers with a high-level introduction to major issues in the study of contemporary American poetry. These original essays survey African American, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous poetry, as well as the intersection of poetry and the environment, disability, bioethics, and capitalism.

• Offers a wide-ranging introduction to the study of American poetry in the twenty-first century • Each essay explores continuity with twentieth-century poetry but also emphasizes the rapidly changing context and paradigms for reading poetry in the twenty-first century • Brings the study of American poetry into the present by highlighting and reflecting the growing diversity of American poetic production

The first book to explore the abundance of Native American representations in US Southern literature.

While many Americans mistakenly assume that Indians were removed from the area in the nineteenth century, Indians’ memory, vulnerability, vitality, and frustrated sovereignty haunt the white southern imagination in complex ways.

• Establishes the centrality of Indian tropes in southern literature, bringing attention to Indigenous issues in the region • Provides a framework for understanding the ‘Indian’ as an ideological trope for white southerners, helping move conversations away from ‘realism’ or ‘race’ as default categories for assessing Indigenous representations • Uses a materialist analysis to uncover the economic etiologies of literary representations of Indigeneity

Cambridge Companions to Literature 300pp January 2021 9781108482097 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110 January 2021 9781108741958 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 eISBN 9781108699518

The Cambridge History of Native American Literature Volume 1 Melanie Benson Taylor | Dartmouth College, New Hampshire

This book is intended for scholars and students of Native American literature, US & Canadian literature, comparative literature, literary theory, multi-ethnic studies, cultural studies, and American studies. Expert commentaries represent a variety of disciplines and come from the US, Canada, England, and Europe.

• Advances a provocative narrative about Native American literature as uniquely sited and constructed within US settler space and economies • Assembles a collection of authoritative perspectives from within and outside of the field • Offers important perspectives from individuals within the publishing industry and creative process 750pp September 2020 9781108482059 Hardback GBP 120 / USD 155 eISBN 9781108699419

300pp July 2020 9781108495318 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108861892

The New Hemingway Studies Suzanne del Gizzo

Hemingway continues to command attention in popular culture and in literary studies. The New Hemingway Studies outlines Hemingway’s continued relevance for the twenty-first century scholars and readers, highlights the latest critical trends, and indicates the paths yet to be taken.

• Provides an overview of recent scholarly trends in Hemingway studies • Re-imagines Hemingway studies in new contexts • Demonstrates gaps in current scholarship and adumbrates possible paths for future inquiry Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions 318pp September 2020 9781108494847 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108860062

War and American Literature Jennifer Haytock | State University College, Brockport, New York

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The Cambridge History of the American Novel Leonard Cassuto | Fordham University, New York

This state-of-the-art literary history of the American novel, from the late eighteenth century to the modern day, presents original essays by renowned scholars from all over the world. Together they form a chronological narrative offering updated views on classics while also introducing new views, new categories, and a new format.

• A chronological set of essays charting the development of the novel form in the United States • Balances coverage of canonical authors - Melville, Wharton, Dreiser with attention to genre fiction and lesser known works • Contributors are in dialogue with each other, allowing different points of view to be aired 1272pp 8 b/w illus. 2 tables January 2020 9781107571839 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 March 2011 9780521899079 Hardback GBP 164 / USD 234.95 eISBN 9780511782046

War and American Literature examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up new lines of inquiry. Readers will find accessible yet sophisticated essays that lay out key questions and scholarship in the field.

• Makes connections among literature about all major US wars • Introduces new lines of inquiry, explaining five of the latest theoretical approaches and how these approaches can illuminate the subject of war in American literature • Provides grounding in literature and scholarship of major US wars Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture 375pp December 2020 9781108496803 Hardback GBP 80 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108654883

American Literature / English Literature

Wild Abandon American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology Alexander Menrisky | University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

Wild Abandon serves scholars and students of American literature, environment, and postwar history. It chronicles the environmental movement’s development and interaction with identity politics in the late 20th century, focusing on psychoanalysis’s influence on environmentalism, and its impact on literary representations of nature and ecology.

• Provides historical background on numerous branches of the American environmental movement, as well as other political movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and also asserts that all of these trends influenced current debates in environmental politics and philosophy • Provides examples of methodological crossover among literary criticism, American studies, and the environmental humanities • Introduces an accessible theoretical vocabulary for understanding the interaction between ecological science, various political concepts, and their literary resonances Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture 290pp December 2020 9781108842563 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108909952

English Literature English Literature - 1700 - 1830 NEW IN PAPERBACK

China and the Writing of English Literary Modernity, 1690–1770 Eun Kyung Min | Seoul National University

This book shows that the self-conscious construction of ideas about modern English literary character derived in part from debates about Chinese history, taste, and culture. By writing China into new literary forms such as the novel, periodical paper, and newspaper, writers helped define what constituted modern English identity.

• Delivers a new account of the rise of English literary modernity and how new literary forms were influenced by notions of other cultures and traditions • Provides an exploration of the relationship between new print media in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the self-conscious understanding of modern English identity • Offers new insights into the debate between the Ancient and the Moderns, and into other early eighteenth-century arguments conducted in novels and magazines 289pp 4 b/w illus.

June 2020 9781108433075 Paperback GBP 22 / USD 27 April 2018 9781108421935 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108379793

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European Literatures in Britain, 1815–1832: Romantic Translations Romantic Translations Diego Saglia

This book offers an original approach to the presence of Continental European literatures in post-Napoleonic Britain. In doing so it reconstructs a literary and cultural environment in which patriotic discourse - the expression of a triumphant international power - combined with intensely transformative engagements with foreign literary traditions.

• Reconsiders the supposed insularity of British literary culture in the post-Napoleonic period • Demonstrates close relationship between British and Continental European Romantic literature • Investigates how European literatures were transmitted in Romanticera Britain Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 285pp November 2020 9781108445122 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 October 2018 9781108426411 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108669900

Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century A Literary History of Atheism James Bryant Reeves | Texas State University, San Marcos

Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century traces satiric responses to atheism in eighteenth-century Britain. Appealing to scholars of literature, history, and religion, the book shows how imaginative literature informed eighteenth-century belief and how opposition to atheism contributed to the process of secularization and the development of religious pluralism.

• Presents the first history of unbelief in the eighteenth-century, documenting atheism’s prevalence in the literature of the period, improving our understanding of secularization • Demonstrates how negative affective responses to atheism often sustained forms of belief • Challenges traditional narratives of secularization, charting a pluralist, ecumenical impulse that develops throughout the eighteenth-century in response to atheism’s perceived rise 260pp July 2020 9781108835909 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108869461

Jane Austen’s Style Narrative Economy and the Novel’s Growth Anne Toner | University of Cambridge

A study of the innovative stylistic features of Jane Austen’s writing, relatively unexplored to date.

This book is suitable for a broad range of readers, including students and scholars of Austen and anyone with an interest in questions of prose style or the history of the English novel.

• Presents new readings of Austen’s narrative style and an in-depth analysis of her innovative writing techniques • Considers Austen’s early writing, including her juvenilia, helping readers to engage with the development of her fiction over time • Examines some relatively unexplored features of Austen’s narrative style that can be extended to other authors 220pp 13 b/w illus.

March 2020 9781108424158 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 74.99 March 2020 9781108439404 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108539838

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Mary Wollstonecraft in Context Nancy E. Johnson | State University of New York, New Paltz

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Provides crucial biographical, critical, historical, and cultural context for the works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Britain’s first feminist and political theorist. Leading scholars provide students and scholars of eighteenth-century feminism, literature, social, and political theory with essential background to understand Wollstonecraft’s diverse writing.

• Chapters on biographical context unpack Wollstonecraft’s life and relationships with family, friends, and other intellectuals • Explains the reception of Wollstonecraft’s work, from her contemporaries to the twenty-first century, with references to the most important historical analyses of her works • Provides the most wide-ranging explanation yet of the historical period in which Wollstonecraft wrote, and its influence on her writing • Includes chapters on British radicalism and conservatism, the rights of women debate, social and political theory, law, education, and literature Literature in Context 390pp February 2020 9781108416993 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108261067

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 250pp November 2020 9781108836708 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108872126

Print and Performance in the 1820s Improvisation, Speculation, Identity Angela Esterhammer | University of Toronto

Print and Performance in the 1820s explores a key decade of cultural change, focusing on fiction, periodicals, and theatrical performances in metropolitan centres such as London, Edinburgh, and Paris. Combining literary and cultural studies with media and performance history, it illuminates the importance of the late-Romantic age.

• Provides detailed analysis of novels, periodicals, and performances of the 1820s together with their sociocultural context • Explores the middle-class popular culture of the late-Romantic era • Interweaves literature, book and publishing history with theatre and media studies Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 280pp 10 b/w illus.

February 2020 9781108493956 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108656832

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Masculinity, Militarism and Eighteenth-Century Culture, 1689–1815 Julia Banister | Leeds Beckett University

This book investigates ideas surrounding the figure of the military man throughout the eighteenth century. Drawing on printed materials and case studies, such as the court martial of Admiral John Byng, Julia Banister discusses the nature of masculinity in relation to cultural values attached to heroism, professionalism, politeness and sensibility.

• Provides a multifaceted discussion of the ideas surrounding the figure of the military man in the long eighteenth century • Investigates ideas of masculinity through case studies of five courtmartials of such men as Admiral John Byng • Draws on the work of a range of writers from Hume to Austen as well as other less often studied printed sources 266pp August 2020 9781316646670 Paperback GBP 22 / 27 April 2018 9781107195196 Hardback GBP 75 / 99.99 eISBN 9781108163927

Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature Essaka Joshua | University of Notre Dame, Indiana

This book is for Romantic era scholars/students interested in revising their view on major Romantic texts by reading with sensitivity to ideas and concepts around disability; and for literary disability studies’ scholars and students wishing to extend their understanding of the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries.

• Provides an overview of scholarship in the field of critical disability studies; and an overview of literary criticism on disability, making a disability studies approach accessible to Romanticists • Uses a series of case studies of single authors, groups of writers, and single texts allowing readers insight into how a disability studies reading might work in a range of contexts • Eschews anachronistic terminology and concepts, providing new period-appropriate terminology for ‘disability’ and period-appropriate concepts of disability

Daniel Cook | University of Dundee

The first of its kind since 1988, this book is the most extensive study of Swift’s poetry yet, as it examines dozens of poems written over a long career, from the early 1690s to the late 1730s, along with the works of other authors.

• Critically examines Swift’s poems, one of the most important bodies of poetry produced in the eighteenth century, and other works, in the most extensive study of its kind to appear in more than thirty years • Draws from the latest research in a variety of disciplines, also provides a condensed overview of and critical engagement with prior Swift scholarship • Repositions Swift in a range of competing poetic and literary traditions, revealing surprising connections between Swift and other major and lesser known classical and modern writers 264pp August 2020 9781108840958 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108888172

Rethinking the Secular Origins of the Novel The Bible in English Fiction 1678–1767 Kevin Seidel | 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.

• Takes up recent, interdisciplinary discourse on secularism and applies it to literary studies, providing new ways to think about secularity in literature • Productively connects histories of the novel and histories of the Bible • Explores the Bible as a material object, not just a text, to understand its plural and varied authority within the novel and among various social practices connected to the Bible 280pp October 2020 9781108491037 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108867290

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Romantic Art in Practice Cultural Work and the Sister Arts, 1760–1820 Thora Brylowe | University of Colorado Boulder

This book engages with the professional politics and labour practices of Romantic period artists and craftsmen as they translated creative literary work into visual art. Exploring the developing cultural tensions and connections that created a ‘sister-art’ movement in the period of new print technology and mass media.

• Undertakes a reframing of the traditional view of the sister-arts movement • Explores many examples of well-known artefacts such as Wedgwood’s Portland Vase and casts new light on well-known texts by Blake, Wordsworth and Keats • Examines the professional politics of labouring artists in the Romantic period, including the engraver John Landseer Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 281pp 22 b/w illus.

November 2020 9781108445115 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 34.99 August 2018 9781108426404 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108550949

Romantic Cartographies Mapping, Literature, Culture, 1789–1832 Sally Bushell | Lancaster University

Romantic Cartographies is the first collection to fully explore the reach and significance of cartographic practice in Romantic-period culture.

Revealing the diverse ways in which the period mapped itself, the volume also considers our contemporary engagements with Romanticism from the perspective of our own spatialised culture.

• Provides a range of interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives on the practice and cultural significance of cartographic work in the romantic period • Interrogates and opens up a deeper understanding of the concept of the map, including its place in wider cultural networks and its relation to other texts and bodies of knowledge • Clearly structured around three perspectives: historical, material and present day – including digital and other technologies 320pp 29 b/w illus.

October 2020 9781108472388 Hardback GBP 64.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108635936

Romanticism: 100 Poems Michael Ferber | University of New Hampshire

Choosing one hundred poems from what many consider to be the greatest era of poetry is no small feat. Michael Ferber’s refreshing collection includes seminal Romantic poems alongside lesser-known gems. Embodying the urgent international contexts of the Romantic movement, this transatlantic anthology features poetry translated from six languages.

• A uniquely international anthology of romantic poetry spanning many languages and nations across Europe • Includes helpful notes with engaging headnotes for poets and a concise, accessible introduction to orient general readers in the history, context, and meanings of ‘Romantic’ poetry • Uniquely concise, attractive, and affordable anthology of Romantic poems that will serve general readers as an engaging entry point or as an enriching supplementary text for secondary and university literature students 200pp October 2020 9781108491051 Hardback GBP 12.99 / USD 16.99 eISBN 9781108867337

Swift in Print Published Texts in Dublin and London, 16911765 Valerie Rumbold | University of Birmingham

This analysis of the printed books, pamphlets and single sheets in which Jonathan Swift’s writings were first published in Dublin and London provides a new perspective on the book history of Swift’s lifetime for students and scholars, and a fascinating introduction to the expressive print forms of Swift’s publications.

• Traces the development of the books, pamphlets and single sheets in which Swift’s works were published, connecting and comparing texts produced in Dublin and London, and featuring original illustrations of the printed items discussed • Gives a clear view of which works were actually available in print to readers at different stages of Swift’s career, and in what material and textual forms • Reinterprets Swift’s publishing career as a late expression of an early modern formation in which publishing was primarily an adjunct to public service, in contrast to the professional authorship modelled by his younger friend Alexander Pope 340pp 14 b/w illus. 1 table June 2020 9781108839440 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108878036

Technologies of the Novel Quantitative Data and the Evolution of Literary Systems Nicholas D. Paige | University of California Extension, Berkeley

Based on a systematic sampling of French and English novels over more than two centuries, this book sets aside the familiar histories of the genre’s so-called ‘rise’, proposing that the novel is a system whose constant yet patterned flux must be understood in the context of technological evolution more generally.

• Contains over one hundred graphs of the novel’s production over 230 years • Proposes a theory of literary evolution developed from approaches to the history of technology • Examines the similarities and differences between the national traditions of the novel in England and France 215pp December 2020 9781108835503 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108890861

The Cambridge Companion to ‘Lyrical Ballads’ Sally Bushell | Lancaster University

Lyrical Ballads is a text of huge cultural and literary significance. The cornerstone of British Romantic poetry, it is a must-read for any student of this subject. These accessible essays provide essential contexts and critical approaches, enabling students to find fresh ways of understanding and responding to the volume.

• Provides a clear and thorough introduction to a book that students on any Romanticism course will read, acting as a critical introduction allowing students to explore for themselves • The only collection to cover all aspects of this important work and all key themes within it, ranging across all three major editions • Recent critical approaches from a team of leading scholars contributing up-to-date approaches, continuing to make the collection fresh and relevant today Cambridge Companions to Literature 302pp January 2020 9781108416320 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 January 2020 9781108402835 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 28.99 eISBN 9781108236300

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The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Volume 2 Later Collections, Print and Manuscript Anne Finch

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Presenting uncollected poems and letters, some of which are unpublished, this second volume in the first complete, critical edition of the works of Anne Finch, Countess of Wilchelsea, provides established texts of her later collections in print and manuscript form, Miscellany Poems, on Several Occasions (1713) and The Wellesley Manuscript.

• Presents previously unpublished poems and letters • Provides established texts of Finch’s later collections in print and manuscript form • Includes a comprehensive introduction, extensive explanatory notes and thorough textual commentary 600pp 7 b/w illus.

January 2021 9781107068650 Hardback GBP 120 / USD 155 eISBN 9781107706026

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea 2 Volume Hardback Set Anne Finch

Scholars and students of women’s writing, poetry, and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature have long called for a complete, critical edition of the works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. This edition provides, for the first time, authoritative texts, textual apparatus and commentary for all known works by this important writer.

• The first ever complete, critical edition of the works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720) • Provides established texts of all Finch’s poems, plays, and letters, organized by their appearance in Finch’s authorized collections • Includes a comprehensive introduction, extensive explanatory notes and thorough textual commentary 1400pp September 2020 9780521196222 2 Hardback books GBP 200 / USD 260 eISBN 9781108668750

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The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764–1834 Slavery, Disease and Colonial Modernity Emily Senior | Birkbeck College, University of London

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Caribbean was known as the ‘grave of Europeans’. Drawing on a wide range of fictional and non-fictional accounts this book explores the cultural impact of such widespread disease, revealing how literature was crucial to the development and circulation of new medical ideas.

• Provides the first substantial study of colonial Caribbean literatures in the context of the high rates of disease and death in the region • Develops a connection between the field of medical humanities, the history of medicine and colonial Caribbean literatures • Draws on a wide range of resources from first-hand accounts of local physicians and travellers to drama, fiction and poetry Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 303pp 6 b/w illus.

October 2020 9781108404198 Paperback GBP 22 / USD 27 April 2018 9781108416818 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108241977

The Ephemeral Eighteenth Century Print, Sociability, and the Cultures of Collecting Gillian Russell | University of York

This book revises the view of printed ephemera as a trivial or disposable by giving a history of its role in eighteenth-century culture. It explores how tickets, playbills and posters became a way of facilitating social interaction and, for collectors, a means of preserving the evanescence of daily life.

• The first major academic study of the history of printed ephemera in the eighteenth century, and its impact on culture and literature • Reorienting the subject of book history beyond the book itself, Russell offers fresh contexts and perspectives for writes such as Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen • Includes a wealth of contemporary examples from archival collections feature playbills, tickets and other forms of ‘ephemeral’ print Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 350pp 24 b/w illus.

August 2020 9781108487580 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108767347

The Italian Idea Anglo-Italian Radical Literary Culture, 1815–1823 Will Bowers | Queen Mary University of London

This book is a dual-perspective study of how English literary engagement with Italian ideas radicalised Romantic culture. Featuring new readings of poetry by Byron, Shelley, and Hunt, it also explores the work of Italian exiles in London, and reconfigures Dante’s importance to Romantic culture.

• Provides an original perspective on how influential Italian ideas radicalised English Romantic poets between 1815 and 1823 • Offers new readings of work by writers including Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley based on archival research of their Italian reading, and original manuscript research • Enters into a comprehensive discussion of the Italian poetry and philosophy that was at the centre of a Regency counter-culture Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 296pp January 2020 9781108491969 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108590228

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The Poetics of Decline in British Romanticism Jonathan Sachs | Concordia University, Montréal

This book provides a historically-nuanced account of anxieties about decline in Romantic-era Britain.

Combining close readings of Romantic literary texts with study of works from political economy, historical writing, classical studies, and media history Jonathan Sachs offers, through the lens of decline, a new way of understanding British Romanticism.

• Provides new perspectives on British Romanticism by exploring ideas of decline in literary and wider cultural contexts • Offers close readings of texts that focus on three aspects of literary experience: questions of value, the fascination with ruins and literature’s market culture • Draws on a wide range of literary texts alongside works of political economy, historical writing, classical studies, and media history Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 246pp 6 b/w illus.

June 2020 9781108413688 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 27.99 January 2018 9781108420310 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108333115

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The Poetry of the Age of Wordsworth An Anthology of the Five Major Poets J. Dover Wilson

Originally published in 1927, this anthology covers the five major poets at the forefront of the artistic movement known as Romanticism. Poems have been selected from the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats to be illustrative of each writer’s styles as well as to be revealing of the cultural atmosphere in which the poetry was produced.

302pp September 2020 9781107586086 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781316451489

Voltaire’s Correspondence Digital Readings Nicholas Cronk | University of Oxford

This Element addresses how modern readers can understand the subtle and playful literary performances that constitute Voltaire’s correspondence. Digital reading methods and resources enhance our understanding of this complex literary object and its relationship to Voltaire’s more canonical literary output, and to the Enlightenment world at large.

Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections 75pp October 2020 9781108791724 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108866552

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Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century Katrina O’Loughlin | University of Western Australia, Perth

A wide-ranging study of women’s travel writing between 1714 and 1789, including the writings of elite women on sensitive diplomatic missions, working governesses, and middle-class travellers.

Katrina O’Loughlin explores women’s use of the travel genre to authorise their experiences and to engage in contemporary cultural debates.

• Provides the first comprehensive overview of women’s involvement in the literary genre of travel writing in the eighteenth century • Offers close readings of literary works by women explorers including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), Jane Vigor (1699–1783) and Anna Maria Falconbridge (1769–1816) • Brings together accounts of journeys to Western Europe, Russia, the Ottoman Empire, the Caribbean, Africa and America 288pp June 2020 9781107459335 Paperback GBP 22 / USD 27 June 2018 9781107088528 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316104934 NEW IN PAPERBACK

Wordsworth and the Poetics of Air

July 2018 9781108424950 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108569316

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Automatism and Creative Acts in the Age of New Psychology Linda M. Austin | Oklahoma State University

Linda M. Austin explores the ways in which scientific questions about the relation between human beings and automata, raised by the ‘new psychology’ of the late nineteenth century, forced the re-examination of creativity in literature, photography, ballet, and high-level mental activities.

• Explores the late nineteenth-century concept of automatism and its impact on the creative arts in light of the ‘new psychology’ • Considers a variety of commonly overlooked art forms including ballet and art photography in relation to automatism • Discovers a link between efforts to establish standards of artistic practice and challenges to the idea of human exceptionalism Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 280pp 4 b/w illus.

June 2020 9781108450409 Paperback GBP 22 / USD 27 June 2018 9781108428552 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108552974

Children’s Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure’ Positive Thinking and Pseudo-Science at the Fin de Siècle Volume 126 Anne Stiles | Saint Louis University, Missouri

Positive thinking is good for you. Analysing nineteenth-century literature through the pervading lens of New Thought, which foreshadowed concepts of twentieth-century popular psychology, this volume uncovers unnoticed aspects of canonical works and classic children’s literature to reveal a new area of academic inquiry for scholars and students.

• First full-length treatment of New Thought in Anglophone fiction • Presents striking new readings of literary classics such as Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, The Turn of the Screw, The Secret Garden, Anne of Green Gables, and Herland • Provides potential interdisciplinary crossover to both academic and non-academic fields of interest Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 217pp January 2021 9781108830942 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108914604

Thomas H. Ford | University of Melbourne

This book explores how the meaning of ‘poetic atmosphere’ developed within larger ideas of Romanticism, particularly through the poetry of William Wordsworth, who was the first to see its potential as metaphor. Thomas H. Ford here makes a significant contribution to debates in the areas of literary ecology and ecocriticism.

• Examines Romantic-era poetry in the context of ecological and environmental studies • Explores how Wordsworth, in particular, marks a change in the meaning of ‘atmosphere’ • Considers how the shifting meanings of ‘atmosphere’, both scientific and metaphorical, affect our twenty-first-century readings of Romantic poets Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 288pp 6 b/w illus.

June 2020 9781108441032 Paperback GBP 22 / USD 27

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Idleness and Aesthetic Consciousness, 1815–1900 Richard Adelman | University of Sussex

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This book explores the failure of the Romantic critique of political economy by following changing conceptions of idleness and aesthetic consciousness from Shelley to Freud. Richard Adelman delivers an innovative study of cultural politics between 1815 and 1900 that shines new light on the complex legacy of Romantic thought.

• Traces changing perceptions of idleness and aesthetic consciousness across a wide range of intellectual discourses • Draws on a wide range of the nineteenth century’s most influential thinkers, including John Stuart Mill, George Eliot, John Ruskin and Karl Marx • Reconstructs debates over passivity and repose and their influence on cultural politics between 1815 and 1900 Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 248pp November 2020 9781108439381 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 August 2018 9781108424134 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108539791

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Malaria and Victorian Fictions of Empire

Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture Nature, Science and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination Will Abberley | University of Sussex

Throwing new light on how Victorians conceptualized identity, deception, originality and the relations between sciences and the arts, Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture offers fresh angles on canonical authors and texts.

It will appeal to scholars and students of literature and history, and general readers interested in cultural history and history of science.

• Provides a fresh perspective on theoretical discussions of ecocriticism and posthumanism in Victorian literature • Combines the sources and methods of history of science with literary criticism to generate new insights into the texts of authors including Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde and Charlotte Perkins Gilman • Draws on close textual analysis to discover the myriad mutual influences between the biology of adaptive appearance and literary culture, and wider cultural discourses of deception, mimicry, identity and creativity • Features original illustrations Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 308pp 10 b/w illus.

June 2020 9781108477598 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108770026

Jessica Howell | Texas A & M University

This study focuses on the depictions of malaria in nineteenth-century and postcolonial fiction of writers such as Charles Dickens, Henry James, H. Rider Haggard, and Rudyard Kipling amongst others. It also examines the multivalent and subversive potential of the disease in postcolonial literature of writers such as Amitav Ghosh and Derek Walcott.

• Offers the first book length study of the impact of malaria in nineteenth-century fiction literature • Analyses the connection between nineteenth-century discourses of scientific discovery and fiction • Encourages a more global understanding of health and illness in literature and culture Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 256pp 4 b/w illus.

November 2020 9781108462457 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 December 2018 9781108484688 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108693226

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Poetry, Media, and the Material Body Autopoetics in Nineteenth-Century Britain Ashley Miller | Albion College, Michigan

This book investigates the often surprising intersections and overlaps between three infrequently related fields: studies of poetry, studies of media, and studies of the body. At these intersections a neglected nineteenth-century theory of poetry becomes visible, one that imagines the body as a reproductive medium for poetry.

• Provides an articulate exploration of the tradition in nineteenth-century that identifies the human body as a material medium for poetry • Combines an exploration of media theory, theories of physiology and literary theory to further understanding of written forms of creativity that appear independent of the author’s will • Includes close readings of the works of nineteenth-century poets including William Wordsworth (1770–1850), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) and Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809–92) Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 211pp November 2020 9781108408585 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 August 2018 9781108418966 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108292474

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Science, Form, and the Problem of Induction in British Romanticism Dahlia Porter | University of Glasgow

Exploring a topic at the intersection of science, philosophy and literature, this book traces the history of induction - manipulating textual evidence by selective quotation - as a writerly practice, and accounts for mixtures of poetry and prose in the work of major Romantic-period writers.

• Explores how and why authors of Romantic-era literature adopted compositional practices from experimental science • Delivers a new perspective on a long-standing area of inquiry by reconsidering the importance of Enlightenment empiricism to Romantic period literature • Investigates the connection between contemporary concerns about digital media and early nineteenth-century debates about mass print Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 316pp June 2020 9781108408561 Paperback GBP 22 / USD 27 June 2018 9781108418942 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108292412

Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature Economics and Political Identity in the Networks of Empire Philip Steer | Massey University, Auckland

This new, wide-ranging framework for understanding Victorian settler colonialism reveals the energetic circulation of literary forms between Australia, New Zealand and Britain. Analysis of both literary and economic texts gives students an essential grounding in the historical and political context of empire that shaped the Victorian novel.

• Provides fresh insight into familiar novels of the Victorian canon, and coverage of lesser-known colonial texts • An illuminating interdisciplinary approach draws on both literary and economic texts - in depth coverage of finance, economics and history lacking in other studies of the period’s novels • Presents an expansive transnational approach with texts from Britain, Australia and New Zealand, enabling students to gain an overarching understanding of the period’s literature Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 246pp 4 b/w illus. 3 maps 3 tables January 2020 9781108484428 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108695824

The Princess Casamassima Henry James

The novel is essential reading for scholars, critics and general readers interested in the political and social crisis of late-Victorian Britain, the means by which writers of the time represented it, and the ways in which subsequent readers have interpreted it in relation to their own times.

• The first scholarly edition of this major nineteenth-century work explains the significance of the novel’s composition and first reception in the context of the time, 1885–6 • An extensive record of textual variants enables readers to trace the compositional process from manuscript to revisions for the New York Edition (1908–9) • Substantial explanatory notes assist the understanding of historical, cultural and literary references unfamiliar to the modern reader

The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy

This first complete scholarly edition of The Return of the Native is rich in supporting materials for readers of all backgrounds and interests, and includes an authoritative text, full apparatus, and comprehensive annotation and commentary on the first great novel of Hardy’s to engage ambitiously with problems of contemporary existence.

• The text is given a comprehensive introduction and situated within its wider context • Includes illustrated appendices on the origins and topography of Egdon and also Arthur Hopkinson’s illustrations • Provides an authoritative version of the text, along with detailed commentary and textual notes The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy 850pp February 2021 9781107037779 Hardback GBP 95 / USD 125 eISBN 9781139794978

The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare Bardology in the Nineteenth Century Charles LaPorte | University of Washington

This book will interest anyone who is curious about how Shakespeare became the presiding deity of English literature. It describes the Victorians’ quasi-Biblical culture surrounding Shakespeare’s work and discusses why Victorian devotion had an enduring impact upon English studies in the Western world.

• Demonstrates the religious dimensions of Victorian Shakespeare criticism • Places Victorian reverence for Shakespeare in the light of nineteenthcentury Biblical criticism • Presents in clear and non-specialist language the implications of modern biblical criticism Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 260pp October 2020 9781108496155 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108866262

Victorian Women and Wayward Reading Crises of Identification Marisa Palacios Knox

This book explores how Victorian women readers strategically identified with literature to defy stereotypes and inspire their action and creativity.

Engaging with nineteenth-century English literature and culture, the book engages with theories and histories of reading that appeal to literary scholars and educators.

• Clarifies the complex concept of literary identification, providing a history of its feminization and depreciation as a reading practice despite its ubiquity as a reading experience • Illuminates examples of deliberate reading by Victorian women that inspired public and professional action, countering prevalent stereotypes about women’s reading • Includes a chapter on the pedagogical and critical applications of identification, connecting critical analysis and history of nineteenthcentury literature to current teaching praxis Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 250pp October 2020 9781108496162 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108866293

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James 962pp March 2020 9781107011434 Hardback GBP 150 / USD 195 eISBN 9780511984457

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Beckett’s Art of Salvage Writing and Material Imagination, 1932–1987 Julie Bates | Trinity College, Dublin

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Offering an innovative new reading of this major modern author, and examining the material imagination at play in Beckett’s fiction, poetry, film and drama over fifty years, this volume will appeal to all students of Beckett, as well as to scholars of European and Irish theatre, literature or aesthetics.

• Proposes a new and striking reading of five decades of Beckett’s writing, offering the first full survey of this author’s distinctive and creative use of material objects • In considering Beckett’s creative oeuvre in its entirety, the book enables an integrated overview of a body of work that has often appeared daunting in its formal and generic range • The concept of ‘salvage’ offers a new interpretative methodology to those who are interested in the relationship between Beckett and contemporary writers and artists 250pp 10 b/w illus.

February 2020 9781108792554 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 April 2017 9781107167049 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316711521

Exhausted Ecologies Modernism and Environmental Recovery Andrew Kalaidjian | California State University, Dominguez Hills

This book showcases the importance of ecological themes in modern literature and will appeal to literary scholars, historians, and anyone interested in environmental issues. Featuring previously unpublished photos and archival texts, it is written in a clear style that presents a narrative on environmental changes for the years 1910–60.

• Takes an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing literature and environment • Situates early twentieth-century writers and activists within contemporary debates about the environment • Provides extensive archival material to illustrate environmental history, as well as giving a deeper discussion of authors 342pp 13 b/w illus.

January 2020 9781108477918 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108775212

Experimental Beckett Contemporary Performance Practices Nicholas E. Johnson | Trinity College Dublin

How do twenty-first century theatre practitioners negotiate the dynamics of tradition and innovation across the works of Samuel Beckett?

Reading recent performances for creative uses of embodiment, environment, and technology reveals the increasingly interdisciplinary, international, and intermedial character of contemporary Beckettian practice.

Elements in Beckett Studies 75pp April 2020 9781108737791 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108767750

Jacob’s Room Virginia Woolf

This edition is for students and academics of Woolf’s works. It aims to be as comprehensive as possible in providing an authoritative text, hundreds of explanatory notes and an extensive introduction describing the composition of the novel and its critical reception 1922–41.

• Provides hundreds of explanatory notes, helping readers understand the historical and literary resonances of objects, phrases, and scenes • The introduction gives a detailed account of the composition of the novel, together with a separate timeline • Details the critical reception of the novel from publication to Woolf’s death (1922–41) The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf 500pp October 2020 9780521846745 Hardback GBP 105 / USD 135 eISBN 9780511842719

James Joyce and the Jesuits Michael Mayo | University of Oxford

Using Joyce’s religious education and psychoanalytic theories of depression and paranoia, the book opens radical new possibilities for reading Joyce. The book appeals to Joyce scholars and scholars interested in religion and Kleinian theory, as well as any general reader interested in Joyce.

• Performs a series of fresh and profound close readings, offering radically new interpretations of key texts in the literary canon • Analyzes Joyce’s work in its religious context., taking a non-partisan approach and looking at the actual contours of Jesuit practice alongside Joyce’s work • Uses Kleinian theories of paranoia and depression to address questions of literary aesthetics 234pp April 2020 9781108495295 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108861830

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Modernism and Homer The Odysseys of H.D., James Joyce, Osip Mandelstam, and Ezra Pound Leah Culligan Flack | Marquette University, Wisconsin

This book explores the surprising versatility of Homer’s epics of wandering and homecoming for the radical formal experiments and changing sociopolitical agendas of modernist writers responding to war, tyranny, censorship, and empire.

Of interest to students and researchers interested in classical receptions, modernism, twentiethcentury literature, and comparative literature.

• Will help readers in both classics and modernist studies to appreciate the special significance of Homer to transnational modernism • Combines both formalist and historicist literary analysis with several different methodological approaches, including reception studies and genetic criticism • Engages multiple linguistic, cultural, and national traditions in order to explore the transnational dimensions of modernist Homeric writing Classics after Antiquity 246pp January 2020 9781107518469 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 September 2015 9781107108035 Hardback GBP 72.99 / USD 113 eISBN 9781316257654

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Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd

Samuel Beckett’s Geological Imagination

Judith Paltin | University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Mark Byron | University of Sydney

This book argues that literary modernists engaged creatively with modernity’s expanding forms of collective experience and performative identities; their work clarifies how popular subjectivity evolves from a nineteenth-century liberal citizenry to the contemporary sense of a range of political multitudes struggling with conditions of oppression.

• Examines and analyzes crowds, political agency, and group performativity across a set of canonical and lesser known modernist works • Offers a comprehensive anatomy of the social mind as theorized from within modernist studies, democracy studies, and literary studies • Engages with a variety of period archives including fiction, drama, poetry, music, painting, newspapers, police and government records, published correspondence, manifestos, private writings, and exhibitions

Samuel Beckett’s Geological Imagination addresses the ubiquity of earthy objects in Beckett’s prose, drama and poetry, exploring how mineral and archaeological objects bear upon the themes, narrative locus, and sensibilities of Beckett’s texts in surprisingly varied ways.

290pp October 2020 9781108842235 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108907026

Modernism in the Metrocolony Urban Cultures of Empire in Twentieth-Century Literature Caitlin Vandertop | University of the South Pacific

This book considers the place of the British colonial city in modernist fiction. While modernism is often linked to the cultural transformations of the Euro-American metropolis, Modernism in the Metrocolony shows how writers responded to empire’s urban legacies, tracing an alternative, peripheral history of the modernist city.

• Provides examples of interdisciplinary approaches to modernist literature, postcolonial studies and urban history • Produces an innovative theoretical overview outlining the significance of peripheral urbanism to modernism, drawing primarily on theorists from the global South • Intervenes in debates over the cultural, political and ecological legacies of colonial urbanism 280pp October 2020 9781108835626 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108891127

Postcognitivist Beckett Olga Beloborodova | Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium

A reassessment of Beckett’s alleged Cartesianism using the theoretical framework of extended cognition. The argument defended here is that Beckett’s fictional minds are not isolated ‘skullscapes’: they are grounded in interaction with their fictional storyworlds, however impoverished those may have become in the later part of his writing career.

Elements in Beckett Studies 75pp June 2020 9781108708616 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108771108

Elements in Beckett Studies 75pp October 2020 9781108738965 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108772457

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T. S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination Sarah Kennedy | University of Cambridge

How is a poem made? From what constellation of inner and outer worlds does it issue forth? T. S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination charts the relations between metaphor and creativity in Eliot’s poetry and criticism in dialogue with developments in ‘new physics’, optics, colour theory, cognitive psychology, and anthropology.

• Contextualises Eliot’s work in relation to the intellectual currents of his time • Engages with recent developments in the theory of metaphor while modelling their application to a clear range of examples • Provides close-readings of Eliot’s poetry, plays and criticism that will appeal to students and general readers who are looking for guidance in their reading of a difficult and allusive poet 280pp September 2020 9781108441346 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 April 2018 9781108425216 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108643016

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four Nathan Waddell | University of Birmingham

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen EightyFour is aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates, and academics. Situating the novel in multiple frameworks, including contextual considerations and literary histories, the book asks new questions about the novel’s significance in an age in which authoritarianism finds itself freshly empowered.

• Provides analyses of Nineteen Eighty-Four across multiple media, including literature, film and television, radio, songs, dance, comics, and video games • The book is structured around four key emphases: contexts, histories, questions, and media • Situates Nineteen Eighty-Four not only in new conceptual and literaryhistorical contexts, but also in relation to the rest of his writing Cambridge Companions to Literature 280pp October 2020 9781108841092 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 October 2020 9781108814713 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108887090

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The Literature of Absolute War Transnationalism and World War II Nil Santiáñez | St Louis University, Missouri

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The Literature of Absolute War explores for the first time the literature of absolute war in connection to the world war of 1939–45. From a transnational standpoint, it addresses a set of theoretical, historical, and literary questions, shedding new light on the nature of absolute war and the literature on World War II. • Reveals the existence of a robust global literature on that military conflict, offering a new view of an extensive corpus of works • Shows that in our global world it is crucial to apply a transnational methodology for the understanding of specific themes in the humanities • Demonstrates that the history of modern warfare can be understood better if we differentiate between absolute war and total war

280pp May 2020 9781108495127 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108861144

The New Modernist Studies Douglas Mao | The Johns Hopkins University

This is the first book devoted to the history and prospects of the new modernist studies. It will be a key resource for readers seeking an authoritative account of the field’s early years and for those seeking out new directions in modernist scholarship.

• Includes detailed accounts of intellectual milieu into which the new modernist studies emerged as well as a rich institutional history of the early years of the field • Explores new directions in modernist studies and offers readers a sense of where the new modernist studies may be headed in the near future • Chapters provide an enthusiastic, informed take on a continuously evolving field

Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions 280pp October 2020 9781108487061 Hardback GBP 70 / USD 110 October 2020 9781108732147 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108765428

Tragedy and the Modernist Novel Manya Lempert | University of Arizona

This book brings together the study of modern fiction, tragedy, chance, and the natural world. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers interested in British and European modernism, philosophy, science and literature, and classical reception studies. It will also interest scholars studying the novel or tragedy more generally.

• Explains how modern novelists thought about ancient and modern tragedy • Unveils the similarities between Greek tragedy and Darwinian evolution • Explores modernist authors’ depictions of nihilism, suicide, and political violence and apathy as cautionary tales for readers today, showing how fiction can endorse and condemn different ethical and political positions

290pp September 2020 9781108496025 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108865616

Women, Literature, and the Arts of the Countryside in Early TwentiethCentury England Judith W. Page | University of Florida

Focusing on eight writers and artists, this book examines the centrality of the countryside to women’s work, creativity, and aspirations. The authors tell these women’s stories through their art and literature and in the context of the history and culture of gardens, constructed landscapes, and the countryside.

• Introduces readers to a range of writers and artists of the period, some of whom have not been widely read or viewed in recent years • Adopts an interdisciplinary approach, which differs from some more conventional readings of the garden in history • Focuses in detail on eight figures and places them in historical and cultural contexts and in relation to each other 300pp February 2021 9781108491150 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108867740

English Literature - 1945 and beyond Book, Text, Medium Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age Garrett Stewart | University of Iowa

This book assess the transformative arc between medieval books and today’s e-books. It will appeal to graduates and researchers working in the 21st century literary studies generally, in the relationships between the book and the digital age specifically.

• Brings together book studies and the history of book arts with textual readings, literary theory, and the philosophy of language • Makes direct connections between art history, including painting and conceptual sculpture, and the nuances of literary process in an age of digital poetics • Develops an interdisciplinary concept of medium that challenges or augments many leading contemporary theories in the field Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture 280pp December 2020 9781108834599 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108876216

Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing The New Audacity Jennifer Cooke | Loughborough University

Contemporary Feminist Life-writing is the first volume to identify and analyse the new audacity of recent feminist writings from life. It discusses texts that feature rape, struggles with mental health, sexual and chemical experimentation, transitioning, sex work, and women’s self-authorship, and challenges conventional discourses of women’s victimhood.

• Delineates a new significant characteristic - audacity - in feminist life-writing writing and offers a theoretical and critical analysis of its significance and reach • Examines a significant body of emergent texts in life-writing by authors who have gained literary notice and notoriety, but which little scholarship exists upon thus far • Discusses prominent contemporary topics in this field, such as masochism; sex work; trans lives; sexual and chemical experimentation Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture 234pp April 2020 9781108489911 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108779692

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The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Coetzee Jarad Zimbler | University of Birmingham

This Companion introduces readers to the writings of Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee. It provides a compelling introduction for new readers, as well as fresh perspectives and provocations for those long familiar with Coetzee’s works, including his novels, autobiographical fictions, translations, scholarly books, and volumes of correspondence.

• Provides a thorough introduction to the writings of J. M. Coetzee • Approaches Coetzee’s corpus on the grounds of his practice and relations • Provides critical engagements with recent trends in Coetzee scholarship by addressing translation, adaptation, philosophy, archives and life writing Cambridge Companions to Literature 334pp April 2020 9781108475341 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 April 2020 9781108466738 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 26.99 eISBN 9781108623087

English Literature - AngloSaxon and Medieval Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England Experiments in Interpretation Andrew Kraebel | Trinity University, Texas

This new framework for understanding biblical commentary and translation in medieval England draws on a rich array of unpublished manuscripts, quoted and translated at length for the first time to illustrate the culture of scholastic interpretation.

This will appeal to scholars and students of medieval literature, manuscripts, theology and philosophy.

• Presents substantial analysis of a wide range of previously unstudied and unpublished rare manuscript sources, quoted and translated for the first time • Revises longstanding accounts of medieval biblical commentary, revealing the complexity and creativity of scholastic interpretation • New analysis of the arrangement of texts on the manuscript page gives fresh insights into medieval scribal practices, textual production, and the relationship between authors and scribes Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 322pp 17 b/w illus.

March 2020 9781108486644 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108761437

Imagining the Medieval Afterlife Richard Matthew Pollard | Université du Québec à Montréal

This first comprehensive study in English of the many and variegated ways the afterlife was envisioned in the Middle Ages presents exciting new interpretations that will interest literary scholars, (art) historians, and theologians.

• Offers the first comprehensive treatment in English of how the afterlife was envisioned, from Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages • Includes the most up to date scholarship on the medieval afterlife, with fresh perspectives that push the field in new directions • Features a range of perspectives from leading historians, art historians, literary scholars, classicists and theologians to afford a crossdisciplinary perspective

Paper in Medieval England From Pulp to Fictions Orietta Da Rold | University of Cambridge

Detailed analysis of the coming of paper to medieval England, and its influence on the literary and non-literary culture of the period. In this analysis, book production is one of the elements of a wider story. The book considers a wider matrix of historical, economic, social and cultural interrelations and people’s networks.

• Gives the most expert advice and information on how to approach the study of medieval paper, providing a step-by-step approach • Provides a multi-disciplinary analysis on the use of paper in medieval manuscript production including multilingual examples of how disciplines must interact to understand the complex affordances of paper • Demonstrates the importance of the study of paper for manuscript in historical and literary studies Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 280pp October 2020 9781108840576 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108886536

The Afterlife of St Cuthbert Place, Texts and Ascetic Tradition, 690–1500 Christiania Whitehead

Introduces readers interested in insular spirituality and hagiography to the major texts associated with the cult of the great northern English saint, Cuthbert. The first sustained analysis of this textual tradition from 690-1500, emphasizing his ascetic evolution, and association with changing perceptions of northernness and nationhood.

• The first book to tell the entire story of the textual tradition of St Cuthbert’s cult, from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries • Gives the reader insight into northern eremiticism over an expansive time scale, exploring how the distinctive characteristics of Cuthbert’s eremitic lifestyle and spirituality change in visibility and value • Explores environmental contexts: Cuthbert’s connections with a series of northern spaces, including the landscape, the monastery, the diocese, the eremitic island, and the Anglo-Scottish border Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 350pp October 2020 9781108490351 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108780766

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts Orietta Da Rold | University of Cambridge

This book orientates students in the complex, multidisciplinary study of medieval book production and contemporary display of manuscripts. It illustrates the major methodologies and explains why skills in understanding early book production are so critical for reading, editing, and accessing a rich cultural heritage.

• Chapters by leading specialists in the specific area of manuscript studies • Interdisciplinary scholars take readers through the how and why of working with manuscripts from Britain, c.600–1500 • Extensive in coverage and clearly written, including all aspects of what manuscript studies can achieve for practitioners Cambridge Companions to Literature 340pp October 2020 9781107102460 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.95 October 2020 9781107500143 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.95 eISBN 9781316182659

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 320pp October 2020 9781107177918 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316823255

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The Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales Frank Grady | University of Missouri, St Louis

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This selection of essays delivers an accessible introduction to the variety, depth, and wonder of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Fresh engagement with the individual tales provides a lively and provocative guide to arguably the most important text in the teaching of medieval literature.

• Provides lively, up-to-date, and accessible scholarship on Geoffrey Chaucer’s best known work • Provides 15 original essays by leading scholars that shed new light on this important medieval work in light of contemporary critical approaches • A post-script of brief essays provides advice for talking about and promoting the study of Chaucer outside the typical classroom Cambridge Companions to Literature 320pp 7 b/w illus.

September 2020 9781107181007 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99 September 2020 9781316632437 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781316848463

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The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature Irina Dumitrescu | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

This engaging study explores how early medieval writers reflected on the nature of education and the acquisition of wisdom. By studying representations of teaching and learning in five early English texts, Irina Dumitrescu sheds light on the underappreciated emotional and cognitive complexities of Anglo-Saxon instruction.

• An original and engaging study of early English education - a research area from which such nuanced critical investigations have been largely absent • Investigates the emotional and cognitive complexities of early English education through the close reading of five texts including Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People as well as some lesser known works • Combines careful literary analysis with educational history Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 254pp November 2020 9781108403368 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 January 2018 9781108416863 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108242103

The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain Texts, Artefacts and Beliefs Andrew Wallace | Carleton University, Ottawa

This study will appeal to students and scholars of literature, history, and culture who are interested in Rome’s persistence in medieval and early modern Britain.

• Provides a nuanced and multi-disciplinary account of the persistence of Rome in Britain • Puts the persistence of Rome in Britain in an extremely wide historicalcultural frame of reference, keeping texts written in Britain in dialogue with continental texts ranging from antiquity to the early modern period • Places medieval texts in a range of languages (Latin, medieval Welsh, Old English, Old French) in conversation with texts written in early modern English and humanistic Latin

350pp 5 b/w illus.

September 2020 9781108496100 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108866071

English Literature - Renaissance and Early Modern to 1700 About Shakespeare Bodies, Spaces and Texts Robert Shaughnessy | University of Surrey

Drawing upon the work of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare’s Globe and the Schaubühne Berlin, About Shakespeare examines theatrical bodies, the spaces inhabited by actors and audiences, and the texts that circulate around and between them.

Elements in Shakespeare Performance 75pp September 2020 9781108725484 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108643375

Ben Jonson and Posterity Reception, Reputation, Legacy Martin Butler | University of Leeds

Bringing together leading scholars and multiple critical perspectives, this collection provides new insights into Jonson’s reception and legacy over four centuries, benefitting students and scholars of Jonson and early modern literary studies, as well as all those interested in intertextuality and reception from the Renaissance to the present.

• Aligns leading scholars who have contributed to major editions and studies of Jonson in the past decade • Explores questions regarding Jonson’s reputation and reception over four centuries • Cross-examines the history of Jonson’s reputation and what it reveals about our relationship with the early modern past 260pp September 2020 9781108842686 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108903967

Crafting Poetry Anthologies in Renaissance England Early Modern Cultures of Recreation Michelle O’Callaghan | University of Reading

This study of how poetry was collected in anthologies in Renaissance England reads canonical authors – Surrey, Spenser, and Sidney – alongside women and non-elite writers. Designed for English literature students, its innovative focus on the crafted book andrecreation will also interest students of early modern history, book history, and musicology.

• Employs a model of craft to study how poetry anthologies were made, demonstrating the skill, work, and design involved in compiling and publishing anthologies • Foregrounds the multi-media recreational uses of poetry anthologies through a series of case studies • Introduces readers to a wide range of poetry written by men and women, both elite and non-elite, arguing that poetry anthologies exemplify the lively diversity of vernacular literary cultures 290pp November 2020 9781108491099 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108867412

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Discoveries on the Early Modern Stage Contexts and Conventions Leslie Thomson | University of Toronto

A study of the action of discovery as plot device, visual motif, and thematic trope on the early modern stage. With strong reference to the visual arts, and examples taken from a wide range of plays, Leslie Thomson offers an original perspective on the staging and meaning of early modern drama.

• Presents a detailed and evidence-based approach to the study of the action of discovery in early modern drama • Combines the study of theatre history, literary analysis, art history, and religion in early modern Britain • Includes extensive illustrative materials as well as online resources to further develop the exploration of the action of discovery on the early modern stage 277pp 32 b/w illus.

November 2020 9781108454360 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 July 2018 9781108494472 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108590488

Early Shakespeare, 1588–1594 Rory Loughnane | University of Kent, Canterbury

A re-appraisal of Shakespeare’s early career by leading scholars, including essays about the idea of ‘early Shakespeare’, his early collaborators and rivals, and the burgeoning theatrical industry of the 1580s and early 1590s. With broad appeal for scholars and graduate students of Shakespeare, early modern drama and attribution studies.

• Sets out the main new findings and current debates about the early Shakespeare canon, a period widely overlooked or misunderstood in twentieth and early twenty-first century criticism • Responds to recent critical work which fundamentally revises our understanding of Shakespeare’s early career, including pushing the date of Shakespeare’s earliest extant writings into the 1580s and the identification of new plays and new co-authors in the early canon • Situates Shakespeare’s early working life in the context of several of his peers, including John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe and others 336pp April 2020 9781108495240 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108861748

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Nostalgia in Print and Performance, 1510–1613 Merry Worlds Harriet Phillips | Queen Mary University of London

Explores nostalgia for the medieval past in early modern popular entertainment, bringing together plays by Shakespeare, Heywood, Munday and Chettle, together with extensive research on contemporary ballads and other cheap print. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of early modern literature, history, drama and print culture.

• Challenges existing historiography to offer a new insight into the invention of ‘Merry England’ in the sixteenth century • Explores the relationship between early modern broadside ballads and the theatre • Reframes the ostensibly limiting components of broadside ballads repetition and conventionality - as key to their appeal

Performing Early Modern Drama Beyond Shakespeare Edward’s Boys Harry McCarthy | University of Exeter

The first in-depth study of the present-day all-boy company, Edward’s Boys, who are based at King Edward VI School (‘Shakespeare’s School’) in Stratford-upon-Avon. Since 2005, the company has produced a wide array of early modern plays, providing the most substantial repertory of early modern drama available for examination by scholars.

Elements in Shakespeare Performance 75pp October 2020 9781108810234 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108893848

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Printers without Borders Translation and Textuality in the Renaissance A. E. B. Coldiron | Florida State University

This innovative book reveals how early printing and translation transformed English Renaissance literary culture. Combining insights from both textual and translation studies, ten detailed case studies explore printed translations between Caxton and the late Elizabethan era. This volume appeals to readers interested in early modern English literature, translation, and print culture.

• Combines textual and translation studies to illuminate the Renaissance more fully • Features ten case studies with detailed analysis of printed translations between 1473 and 1588 • Considers a broad range of sub-topics, including William Caxton’s work, Armada literature and poetry, multilingual printing and the printer John Wolfe 355pp 19 b/w illus. 3 tables November 2020 9781107421561 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 April 2015 9781107073173 Hardback GBP 77.99 / USD 109.95 eISBN 9781139681056

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Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama Lieke Stelling | Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands

The first cross-religious exploration of conversion on the early modern English stage. Discussing over forty dramatic pieces, the book introduces little known conversion plays and offers fresh readings of canonical drama, including Shakespeare’s Othello, to reveal telling patterns in the stage’s treatment of conversion and religious identity.

• Delivers the first book-length study of religious conversion in early modern English drama • Combines examinations of broad scope of canonical and lesser known plays • The comprehensive appendix provide an overview of early modern English conversion plays 229pp October 2020 9781108701822 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 January 2019 9781108477031 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108569408

251pp October 2020 9781108711807 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 June 2019 9781108482271 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108612685

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Shakespeare and Emotion

Shakespeare Survey 73

Katharine Craik | Oxford Brookes University

Shakespeare and the City Emma Smith | University of Oxford

These twenty-three new essays by an international team of experts will be essential reading for students and scholars working on Shakespeare, the history of the body and emotions, and performance theory or practice. It brings the current surge of interest in affective life into conversation with current debates in Shakespeare studies.

• Explores emotional experience as a central feature of Shakespeare’s works, offering innovative approaches to the plays and poems • Forges new insights into the vibrant field of the early modern history of the emotions • Builds on Shakespeare’s enduring legacy to make links between past and present emotional experience, considering the real-world benefit of Shakespeare’s creativity for today’s geo-political realities 350pp October 2020 9781108416160 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108235952

Shakespeare and Lost Plays Reimagining Drama in Early Modern England David McInnis | University of Melbourne

Shakespeare and Lost Plays returns Shakespeare’s dramatic work to its most immediate and (arguably) important context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us, revisiting key moments in Shakespeare’s career to provide a richer, more accurate picture of dramatic activity than has hitherto been possible.

• Reassesses the value of lost plays, asking how attending to these could shape our perception of early modern drama • Considers a variety of ways to grapple with the problem of lost, imperceptible, or ignored texts • Provides a richer, more accurate picture of dramatic activity by revisiting key moments in Shakespeare’s career and the development of the Chamberlain’s (later King’s) Men 280pp March 2021 9781108843263 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108915250

Shakespeare and Senecan Tragedy Curtis Perry | University of Illinois

A new approach to understanding the relationship between Shakespearean tragedy and Senecan tragedy, this book has implications for our understanding Shakespeare’s major tragedies, for our understanding of tragedy as a genre, and for our understanding of early modern classical reception.

• Brings recent advances in understanding Senecan drama from Classics into Shakespeare Studies • Combines philology with up-to-date theoretical sophistication about classical reception, political theory, early modern race-making, and the history of the self • Rethinks Shakespeare and periodization by remapping the intersecting reception histories of Senecan and Shakespearean tragedy 350pp October 2020 9781108496179 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108866316

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production.

The theme for Volume 73 is ‘Shakespeare and the City’. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at https://www.cambridge.org/ core/what-we-publish/collections/shakespeare-survey.

• The 73rd in the annual series of volumes devoted to Shakespeare study and production • The lively theme of Shakespeare and the City occupies most of the articles in this issue • A substantial review section covers books published on Shakespeare during 2019 and productions throughout the UK Shakespeare Survey 400pp September 2020 9781108830539 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781108908023

Shakespeare, Blackface and Race Different Perspectives Coen Heijes | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands

Through several case studies the author analyses the interaction between blackface and (institutional) racism in Dutch society and theatre and how Othello has become an active player in this debate.

Elements in Shakespeare Performance 75pp September 2020 9781108827829 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108900546

Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance Pascale Aebischer | University of Exeter

Rapid changes in performance technologies are changing how we view early modern drama. The book explores how candlelight and architecture make each spectator’s viewing experience unique; how digital media alter viewers’ interactions with live performances; and how theatre broadcasts fundamentally affect the reception of Shakespeare.

• Provides a framework for thinking about spectatorship of Shakespearean and early modern drama in relation to performance technologies • Connects present-day developments in performance media and technologies to early modern performance practices and offers a theoretical framework that stresses continuity, illustrated with photographs of productions • Demonstrates through in-depth case studies the ways in which the different technologies used in the performance of early modern drama today are connected while also paying attention to media specificity 256pp April 2020 9781108420488 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108339001

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Shakespeare, Technicity, Theatre W. B. Worthen | Barnard College, Columbia University

Theatre has always been technological. This book explores the technicity of theatre, its changing work as an intermedial technology, focusing on distinctive modes of contemporary Shakespeare performance. Tracing live, mediated, and digitallyinflected performances, this book will appeal to scholars and students of Shakespeare and theatre.

• Enables a rethinking of the uses of digital media in theatre as part of a longer-term history of theatre as a technology in itself • Features wide-ranging reference to contemporary and historical performance, and provides cutting-edge scholarship of recent theatre and Shakespeare performance • Provides close discussion and exemplary illustration of a range of innovative theatrical productions, from postcard plays, to Original Practices, immersive theatre, and algorithmic performance 278pp 11 b/w illus.

April 2020 9781108498135 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108628464

Shakespearean Charity and the Perils of Redemptive Performance Todd Landon Barnes | Ramapo College of New Jersey

Examining documentaries depicting youths who are redeemed by Shakespeare. These films emerged in response to four historical developments: the rise of reality television; the rise of neoliberalism and emotional capitalism; the privatization of public education and the rise of charter schools; and the emergence of new modes of address.

Elements in Shakespeare Performance 112pp 9 b/w illus.

April 2020 9781108743167 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108785716

Shakespearean Futures Casting the Bodies of Tomorrow on Shakespeare’s Stages Today Amy Cook

This Element focuses on the casting in productions of Shakespeare from 2017–2020 to demonstrate how directors are using casting as the central mode of meaning-making in productions of Shakespeare.

Elements in Shakespeare Performance 75pp September 2020 9781108749558 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108782951

Shakespeare’s Accents Voicing Identity in Performance Sonia Massai | King’s College London

Focusing on the vocal dimensions of Shakespearean performance, this book will appeal to scholars and students interested in the history of the reception of Shakespeare on the English stage, as well as theatre performance and voice studies students, and to theatre artists and funders interested in enhancing inclusion and diversity.

• Elucidates the cultural forces that have affected how Shakespeare has been spoken on stage and decoded by audiences over the last four hundred years • Links the reception of accents on the Shakespearean stage to wider concerns about national, regional and social identities • Presents fresh archival evidence to identify new influential interventions in the history of the acoustic reception of Shakespeare on the English stage

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Shakespeare’s Domestic Tragedies Violence in the Early Modern Home Emma Whipday | Newcastle University

This book explores the relationship between Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies and the genre of ‘domestic tragedy’: plays about murder and adultery in ordinary households. In tracing representations of violent homes in early modern culture, Emma Whipday proposes a new way of reading Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth.

• Proposes a new generic category for Shakespeare’s tragedies • Explores the significance of domestic violence in early modern culture and how it informs modern ideas of the issue • Offers readings of less well known domestic tragedies alongside more famous works 274pp October 2020 9781108463300 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 January 2019 9781108474030 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108564359

Skepticism in Early Modern English Literature The Problems and Pleasures of Doubt Anita Gilman Sherman | American University, Washington DC

Skeptical doubt – a foundation of modernity – inspired the burst of artistic creativity illuminating the age of Shakespeare. Literary and philosophical innovation flourished when writers like Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Cavendish, Marvell and Milton channeled their skeptical questions and doubts, forever changing the face of English literature.

• Provides a more holistic view of early modern skepticism, showing how it influences conditions of human possibility represented in literature • Organized around key topics on skepticism, including nominalism, fantasies of private language, illusions of neutrality, parodies of sovereignty, and exercises in aesthetic discrimination • Offers an extended chronological account, allowing readers to see the varied effects and shaping influence of skepticism in history and literature over time 300pp March 2021 9781108842662 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108903813

Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England Elizabeth L. Swann | Durham University

This book will be of use to students, postgraduates, and scholars with interests in the history of the senses and in Renaissance and early modern literature and culture. It offers new readings of influential texts by authors including Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Amelia Lanyer, and Robert Boyle.

• Offers the first full and detailed account of the sense of taste in early modern England • Draws on texts from a vast spectrum of genres in order to offer a wideranging, interdisciplinary account of taste • Makes use of, and engages critically with, the influential approach known as ‘historical phenomenology,’ reframing this as a methodological tool 280pp November 2020 9781108487658 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108767576

239pp 11 b/w illus.

April 2020 9781108429627 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108571739

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen Russell Jackson | University of Birmingham

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen offers critical introductions by a team of distinguished scholars on a diverse range of screen adaptations of Shakespeare from around the world. The volume provides crucial contexts for undergraduate and graduate students of Shakespeare and media.

• Chapters encompass diverse critical and historical approaches to topics, providing a valuable introduction for non-specialist readers to different critical strategies • Featuring lively and engaging chapters on the history of cinema, television adaptations, major directors, world cinema and ‘live’ Shakespeare broadcast • Up-to-date analysis of recent films and digital adaptations of Shakespeare with a broad range of productions released in the last ten years Cambridge Companions to Literature 320pp October 2020 9781108421164 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 74.99 October 2020 9781108431552 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108367479

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Theatre and the English Public from Reformation to Revolution Katrin Beushausen | Freie Universität Berlin

Provides fresh perspectives on the early modern public as an audience trained by theatre. Focusing on the period 1642–1660, it offers a new take on the public of the English Revolution and fills in important blanks in the history of the English stage for theatre and literary scholars and historians.

• Sheds new light on the English Civil War and Commonwealth period, discussing theatre under prohibition and filling in important blanks in the history of the English stage • Provides fresh insights into the literary and theatrical culture of the Interregnum, using theatre studies methodology to interpret numerous primary sources and case studies • Charts the impact of theatre on the early modern public under different regimes from the early sixteenth century to the late seventeenth century 312pp 11 b/w illus.

November 2020 9781316632666 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99 April 2018 9781107181458 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316850411

Time and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage Sarah Lewis | King’s College London

Lewis examines cultural and theatrical intersections between early modern temporal concepts and early modern gendered identities. Through close readings of the works of Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker, Heywood and others, she shows how temporal tropes are used to delineate masculinity and femininity on the early modern stage.

• Sheds new light on Shakespeare by reading his works alongside less well-known plays • Explores how culturally constructed ideas of time and gender are connected in early moderndrama and society • Focuses on the performance of gender and of temporality through the framework of three key concepts: patience, prodigality, and revenge 280pp September 2020 9781108842198 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108899093

English Literature (General) Decadence A Literary History Alex Murray | Queen’s University Belfast

This book will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates, and faculty who work across Victorian Studies and twentieth-century literature.

A comprehensive overview of Decadence, it also expands the methodological, geographical, and temporal coordinates of the movement, with a renewed focus on the role played by women writers.

• Offers a new history of Decadence • Provides a focus on translation and transnationalism • Corrects the historical neglect of female authors, returning them at the centre of the movement • Speaks to scholars working in modernism and post-1945 literary studies 350pp September 2020 9781108426299 Hardback GBP 84.99 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108640527

Humour in Verse An Anthology W. E. Slater

Originally published in 1937, this anthology of humorous poems was created for the younger reader as a supplement to the more serious material found in numerous school anthologies. The guiding principle of the text is that ‘Wit, as much as the passions, claims its place in poetry, and, in English particularly, enjoys the honour of a great tradition.’

140pp September 2020 9781316601723 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 26.99 eISBN 9781316551325

Sound and Literature Anna Snaith | King’s College London

Sound and Literature will be invaluable to students and scholars working in a range of disciplines: literary studies, sound studies, musico-literary studies, sensory history and media studies. The range of approaches to literary sound - such as music, noise, voice, vibration and deafness - make this book unique for its comprehensive mapping of the field.

• Provides examples of a range of approaches, methodologies and terminologies to the field of literary sound studies • Maps and interrogates the significance of sound as a central concept in literary studies • Treats sound in the widest sense, including noise, music, voice, and vibration Cambridge Critical Concepts 438pp 7 b/w illus.

June 2020 9781108479608 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 125 eISBN 9781108855532

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The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries

The Cambridge History of the Gothic

Sarah Ogilvie | University of Oxford

Volume 2 Gothic in the Nineteenth Century Dale Townshend | Manchester Metropolitan University

A thorough overview of the history of English monolingual dictionaries from the sixteenth century to the present day, including coverage of topical and controversial issues relating to dictionaries, and insights into lexicography throughout the English-speaking world, from the Oxford English Dictionary to dictionaries of Caribbean English.

• A team of twenty-seven leading international scholars and lexicographers give a thorough overview of the theory, practice and profound impact of dictionary making across the last four centuries • Features discussion of dictionaries of regional Englishes including those of South Africa, Canada and New Zealand, as well as slang dictionaries • Provides fresh insights in the importance of dictionary development in the history of both the English language and the book Cambridge Companions to Literature 350pp September 2020 9781108428903 Hardback GBP 70 / USD 99.99 September 2020 9781108451680 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108553780

The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing Susheila Nasta | Queen Mary University of London

This History covers four centuries of black and Asian British writing from the eighteenth century to the present. It provides contextualized introductions to a wide range of writers, exploring form, style, and genre within necessary social, political, and cultural contexts.

• Provides a wide-ranging overview of the literary and cultural contexts informing the evolution of black and Asian British writing from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first century • Offers analysis of little-known and often forgotten writers and texts • Chronological and transversal connections across periods and genres provide new ways of reading the past and present 700pp January 2020 9781107195448 Hardback GBP 99.99 / USD 130 eISBN 9781108164146

The Cambridge History of the Gothic Volume 1: Gothic in the Long Eighteenth Century Volume 1 Gothic in the Long Eighteenth Century Angela Wright | University of Sheffield

This volume offers a comprehensive account of the Gothic in Western civilisation, from the Gothic sacking of Rome in 410 AD, through seventeenthcentury Gothic politics, and up to the end of the long eighteenth century. Interdisciplinary in its focus, it includes essays on literature, architecture, politics and fine art.

• Provides a thorough and comprehensive historical overview of the Gothic, from antiquity to the end of the long eighteenth century, exploring new areas of criticism • Explores the Gothic in a range of different interdisciplinary contexts, tracking its imbrication in literature, architecture, fine art and politics • Shows the extent to which Gothic both responds to, and is an active participant in, some of the most important historical events in Western civilisation The Cambridge History of the Gothic 516pp August 2020 9781108472708 Hardback GBP 120 / USD 155 eISBN 9781108561044

Comprising 21 essays by leading international scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive account of Gothic culture in Britain, America and Continental Europe in the nineteenth century.

Interdisciplinary in its focus, it includes chapters on literature, architecture, science, theatre, historiography and popular entertainment.

• Provides a thorough and comprehensive historical overview of the Gothic in British, American and European culture in the nineteenth century • Explores the Gothic in a range of different interdisciplinary contexts, from literature and architecture to science and popular entertainment • Shows the extent to which Gothic both responds to, and is an active participant in, some of the most important historical events in Western civilisation in the period 1800–1900 The Cambridge History of the Gothic 558pp 14 b/w illus.

August 2020 9781108472715 Hardback GBP 120 / USD 155 eISBN 9781108561082

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The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative Third Edition H. Porter Abbott

This text helps readers understand what narrative is, how it is constructed, how it is transmitted, and how it changes when the medium or the cultural context change. It is a key resource for students and scholars across a wide range of fields, including literature and drama, film and media, society and politics, journalism, and autobiography.

• Applies and draws examples from conversation, the law, all major media (including electronic modes), and great works of art • Focuses on those terms and distinctions that are most useful in understanding narrative • Proceeds from the basics to the more complex and challenging dimensions of the Narrative Cambridge Introductions to Literature 280pp November 2020 9781108830782 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 90 November 2020 9781108823357 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108913928

The Prosthetic Imagination A History of the Novel as Artificial Life Peter Boxall | University of Sussex

This book offers an account of the historical development of the novel as a means of imagining and fashioning our bodies and our environments, in order to suggest that prose fiction can help us to understand new forms of artificial life as they are emerging in the twenty-first century.

• Identifies a new period in the history technological embodiment, offering the fullest account to date of the role of the imagination in responding to new forms of artificial life • Provides a response to contemporary theoretical developments and retheorizes the role and value of the novel, after the waning of postmodernism • Provides a long historical sweep, allowing the book to offer a comprehensive picture of the novel as a form, at a transitional moment in the history of literary criticism 300pp September 2020 9781108836487 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108871297

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The Value of Poetry Eric Falci | University of California, Berkeley

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The Value of Poetry shows how and why poetry matters in the contemporary world and demonstrates what poems can offer to twentyfirst century readers. It argues that poems are vital spaces in which the complexities of thought, feeling, and memory are shaped and displayed, and that poems offer unique and crucial forms of readerly experience.

• Provides a concise but rich account of the major critical and theoretical work that has shaped poetry and poetry criticism • Offers detailed and lively readings of significant contemporary poems that consider all major matters of form, style, and genre • Provides an original presentation of the importance of poetry in the twenty-first century The Value of 170pp October 2020 9781108429559 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99 October 2020 9781108454476 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 24.99 eISBN 9781108676915

Literary Theory Affect and Literature Alex Houen | University of Cambridge

This volume explores a wide range of affects, affect theory, and literature to consolidate a fresh understanding of the importance of affect for literary writing. The book will be of importance to students and academics in literary studies, philosophy, media, and communication studies.

• Presents cutting-edge research on concepts of affect in terms of a range of literary genres: fiction, poetry, drama • Explores a large range of positive, negative, and aesthetic affects • Considers different interdisciplinary approaches to affect theory Cambridge Critical Concepts 470pp February 2020 9781108424516 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108339339

After the Human Culture, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century Sherryl Vint | University of California, Riverside

After the Human documents the emergence of posthumanist ideas in the fractures within traditional disciplines, examines the new objects of analysis that thus came into prominence, and theorizes new interdisciplinary methods of study that followed.

• Contextualizes the shifting terminology that shapes this area of study, and clarifies a history of various terms, from antihumanism to posthumanism, transhumanism, critical posthumanism and beyond • Demonstrates that there are a certain shared set of premises across a range of posthumanist thinkers, but also points to areas of tension or omission among them • Describes a trajectory of how scholarly enquiry has been changed in both its objects of analysis and its methods of theorization via the emergence of a diverse set of philosophical perspectives, situated analyses, and ethical frameworks loosely categorized as posthumanism After Series 260pp December 2020 9781108836661 Hardback GBP 79.99 / USD 105 December 2020 9781108819169 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108874427

Beyond the Anthropological Difference Matthew Calarco | California State University, Fullerton

This Element provides a novel framework for understanding the nature of violence against animals. The author argues that the search for human uniqueness (an ‘anthropological difference’) is at the heart of this violence and should be replaced by a way of life based on the notion of human and animals being indistinct.

Elements in Environmental Humanities 75pp July 2020 9781108797375 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108862769

Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data Andrew Piper | McGill University, Montréal

This Element combines a machine learning-based approach to detect the prevalence and nature of generalization across tens of thousands of sentences from different disciplines alongside a robust discussion of potential solutions to the problem of the generalizability of textual evidence.

Elements in Digital Literary Studies 75pp 13 b/w illus.

September 2020 9781108926201 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108922036

Magical Realism and Literature Christopher Warnes | University of Cambridge

This book offers insight into the history of ideas behind magical realism by exploring its development in regions across the globe and providing new perspectives on primitivism, ethnography, and selfhood. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers of postcolonial fiction, transnational literary developments, and magical realism.

• Offers new perspectives on the history of ideas related to magic, realism, primitivism, ethnography, selfhood, time and space • Presents a robust global perspective on the development of magical realism in many particular regions • Generates new insights into topics of major contemporary relevance, including religion, trauma, film, ecology, diaspora, the city, and the literary market Cambridge Critical Concepts 350pp September 2020 9781108426305 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108551601

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Reading and Mapping Fiction Spatialising the Literary Text Sally Bushell | Lancaster University

This book explores why, and how, we map as we read; offering a new approach to the interpretation of literary space and place centred upon the emergence of a fictional map alongside the text in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

For students and scholars of literary studies and cartography.

• Unique in grounding a study of literary mapping in the dynamic between the map and the text, featuring a host of examples with nearly seventy illustrations, and a full colour plate section • A fully interdisciplinary account of the relationship between maps and texts for the mapping of fictional worlds, draws on theoretical and historical knowledge from both literature and cartography • Brings together a range of new and emerging theoretical ideas including cognitive mapping and critical cartography to offer a fully comprehensive and accessible account of what we understand the mapping of literature to be 350pp July 2020 9781108487450 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108766876

The Anatomy of Deep Time Rock Art and Landscape in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia Esther Jacobson-Tepfer | University of Oregon

Analysis of Petroglyphic rock art in three valleys of Mongolia’s Altai Mountains begins to explain the rhythm of cultural manifestations: where rock art appears, when it disappears, and why. The material and this remote arena offer an ideal laboratory to study the intersection of prehistoric culture and paleoenvironment.

Elements in Environmental Humanities 75pp 50 b/w illus.

March 2020 9781108790086 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108855518

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food J. Michelle Coghlan | University of Manchester

This Companion provides an engaging and expansive overview of gustation, gastronomy, agriculture and alimentary activism in literature from the medieval period to the present day. It rethinks literary food from a variety of critical angles, including gender and sexuality, race studies, postcolonial studies, eco-criticism and children’s literature.

• Examines food in English, American, and postcolonial literature across a wide variety of historical periods, literary genres, and fields • Provides a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to suggested further reading in literary food studies as well as a chronology of key publication and historical dates • Tells the story of cookbooks from medieval shorthand to runaway Victorian bestsellers, avant-garde culinary experiments, Soul Food activism and contemporary food blogs

The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies Siobhan B. Somerville | University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign

This Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays gathered here represent work in queer studies in the vital present, suggesting new and emerging areas, including transgender studies. It will appeal to undergraduates, tutors, and lecturers studying and teaching Queer Studies.

• Reflects the newest areas of queer studies scholarship, including queer of color critique, indigenous studies, disability studies, and transgender studies • Emphasizes queer literary and cultural studies, with essays on topics such as poetics, narrative, popular culture, performance studies, and digital culture • Familiarizes readers with the history of queer literary and cultural studies, as well as the most current debates Cambridge Companions to Literature 276pp June 2020 9781108482042 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 June 2020 9781108741897 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108699396

The Environmental Humanities and the Ancient World Questions and Perspectives Christopher Schliephake | Universität Augsburg

This Element aims to show why the ancient tradition still matters in the Anthropocene.

Revisiting ancient materials alongside central concepts of contemporary environmental theory, Schliephake offers new perspectives and argues that classical ecological knowledge is a powerful resource for creating alternative world views.

Elements in Environmental Humanities 75pp July 2020 9781108749046 Paperback GBP 15 / USD 20 eISBN 9781108782005

The New Feminist Literary Studies Jennifer Cooke | Loughborough University

This book presents sixteen essays by feminists of theory and literature.

It is useful to academics and students of feminism, gender studies, queer theory, and contemporary literature. Its essays both account for the current state of the field and sub-disciplines they tackle as well as making fresh critical interventions.

• Intervenes in feminist debates and the subfields with which it intersects • Organized into useful sections - Frontiers, Fields, and Forms - making it easy to use and to find relevant essays easily • Presents both established and emerging feminist voices Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions 260pp October 2020 9781108471930 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108599504

Cambridge Companions to Literature 314pp March 2020 9781108427364 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 March 2020 9781108446105 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99 eISBN 9781316997796

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Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature Ato Quayson | New York University

This book focuses on a comparative reading of tragedy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to postcolonial examples from Africa, India, Ireland, and the African-American tradition. It will appeal to a wide range of both specialists and non-specialists alike.

• Introduces different dimensions of literary and tragic theory stepby-step using ordinary-language explanations and detailed textual examples throughout • Provides many literary examples from a diverse range of sources and traditions from the Greeks, through Shakespeare, to various examples from the Global South • Provides good examples of cross-cultural and comparative literary study in action

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300pp January 2021 9781108830980 Hardback GBP 30 / USD 45 eISBN 9781108921992

Literature - Editions, Texts Bel-vedére or the Garden of the Muses An Early Modern Printed Commonplace Book Lukas Erne | Université de Genève

The first annotated edition of Bel-vedére, an influential commonplace book of 1600. This is an important volume for students of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and scholars of early modern poetry and drama, the history of the book, early modern canon-formation, and the reception history of leading authors of the time.

• The first annotated edition of an important commonplace book of 1600, providing readers with access to a text complete with full introduction and editorial apparatus • Analyzes the exact contents of Bel-vedére and traces the sources of the 4,482 quotations on which the book draws • Offers important information about the early reception history of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser and their contemporaries 486pp 10 b/w illus.

July 2020 9781107190023 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 125 eISBN 9781316996775

All the Sonnets of Shakespeare William Shakespeare

Intended for all readers of Shakespeare, this beautiful and ground-breaking book arranges Shakespeare’s sonnets printed in 1609 in chronological order and intersperses the sonnets from the plays among them. A lively introduction provides essential background, while explanatory notes and modern English paraphrases illuminate the sonnets’ meanings.

• A breath of fresh air which encourages readers to engage anew with Shakespeare as a writer in sonnet form • Encourages new insights into the relationship between Shakespeare’s life and work • Significantly enhances comprehension of these often difficult poems through easily intelligible summaries and paraphrases 306pp September 2020 9781108490399 Hardback GBP 12.99 / USD 17.95 eISBN 9781108780841

Sir Charles Grandison 4 Volume Set Samuel Richardson

The History of Sir Charles Grandison was the most important English courtship novel before Austen, hugely influencing the comedy of manners genre.

This edition of Richardson’s final novel provides comprehensive general and textual introductions, indispensable for literary scholars of the period, along with extensive notes and annotations.

• First scholarly edition of the novel in nearly fifty years. A new general and textual introduction significantly revises and advances understanding of the composition and printing history of Richardson’s final novel • Expansive notes allow readers to understand the novel in its historical and literary contexts, and provide scholars paths to follow for future research • Features Richardson’s original Historical Index, which is not included in any other modern edition The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson 3000pp August 2021 9780521833066 4 Hardback books GBP 225 / USD 290 eISBN 9781139020312

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The First Quarto of ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’ David Lindley | University of Leeds

A modernised edition of one of the most controversial early texts of a Shakespeare play.

With a full introduction discussing the various theories of its origins.

• A modernised text of the most neglected of the problematic quartos of Shakespeare plays • Provides a thorough introduction surveying the history of the text’s reception, and the various theories of its origin • Offers a full collation and textual notes The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos 100pp 1 b/w illus.

September 2020 9781107044098 Hardback GBP 69.99 / USD 89.99 eISBN 9781107358492

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway 1932–1934 Volume 5 1932–1934 Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway’s letters record immediate experiences that inspired his art, trace the development of his works, and present an eyewitness account of contemporary history. With broad appeal for scholars and students of twentieth-century literature, culture, journalism, creative writing, and general readers of this influential Nobel Laureate.

• Volume 5 provides accurate transcriptions of all located Hemingway letters written from January 1932 to May 1934 • Of the 392 letters, some eighty-five percent are appearing in print for the first time • Features a scholarly introduction, extensive annotations and editorial apparatus which includes a roster of correspondents, a chronology of the artist’s life to reveal his relationships and activities, and maps of the far-flung places that figure in his letters of this period • Contains over forty images including Hemingway’s own drawings and contemporary advertisements as well as photographs and facsimiles of letters The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway 840pp 16 b/w illus.

August 2020 9780521897372 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.95 eISBN 9781139051378

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The Tragedy of King Lear Third Edition William Shakespeare

For this updated critical edition of King Lear, Lois Potter has written a completely new introduction, taking account of recent productions and reinterpretations of the play, with a particular emphasis on its afterlife in global performance and adaptation.

• A completely fresh introduction equips students to analyse the language and staging of the play for themselves • Provides a guide to key critical interpretations of the play, including philosophical, political, feminist and ecocritical readings • Equips students to think about the play in performance and adaptation around the world The New Cambridge Shakespeare 312pp 19 b/w illus.

May 2020 9781107195868 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 61.99 May 2020 9781316646977 Paperback GBP 8.99 / USD 11.95 eISBN 9781108164412

Publishing, Printing History, History of The Book Adapting Bestsellers Fantasy, Franchise and the Afterlife of Storyworlds Ken Gelder | University of Melbourne

This Element looks at adaptations of bestselling works of popular fiction to cinema, television, stage, radio, video games and other media platforms. It focuses on ‘transmedia storytelling’, building its case studies around the genre of modern fantasy.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture 75pp January 2020 9781108731089 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 18 eISBN 9781108589604

Book Clubs and Book Commerce

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Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices A Global Comparative Approach Anthony Grafton | Princeton University, New Jersey

This book presents a major collection of essays that expand our vision of the history of textual practices. It explores the multiple ways across time and cultures in which texts have been selected for entry into official canons and then verified, corrected, glossed, interpreted, illustrated, excerpted, performed, archived, and otherwise put to use.

• Broadens the discussion of the history of scholarly practices beyond the limits of individual, usually Western cultural traditions, and develops modes of meaningful comparison across cultures and periods • Applies to the history of philology the techniques, concepts, and methods of the history of science - especially the relatively recent form of history of science that concentrates on practices and their development • Brings the history of the humanities, in the form of the history and methodology of philological practices, into the purview of the history of science 400pp 31 b/w illus.

January 2020 9781107513860 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 35.99 September 2016 9781107105980 Hardback GBP 106 / USD 132 eISBN 9781316226728

London and the Modernist Bookshop Matthew Chambers

The modernist bookshop, best exemplified by Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare & Co. and Harold Monro’s Poetry Bookshop, has received scant attention outside these more prominent examples.

This writing will review how bookshops like David Archer’s on Parton Street (London) in the 1930s were sites of distribution, publication, and networking.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture 75pp May 2020 9781108708692 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781108769853

Corinna Norrick-Rühl | Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany

The Edited Collection

In the twentieth century, cumulative millions of readers received books by mail from clubs like Book-of-the-Month Club. This Element offers an introduction to book clubs as a distribution channel and cultural phenomenon, and shows that book clubs and book commerce are linked inextricably. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

• This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

Edited collections are widely supposed to contain lesser work than scholarly journals. After examining the origins of this critique, this Element explores the modern history of the edited collection and the particular roles it has played as a model of collaboration, trust and mutual obligation.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture 75pp 1 b/w illus.

February 2020 9781108708814 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781108597258

Pasts, Present and Futures Peter Webster

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture 75pp June 2020 9781108739375 Paperback GBP 9.99 / USD 12.99 eISBN 9781108683647

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The Invention of Rare Books Private Interest and Public Memory, 1600–1840 David McKitterick | University of Cambridge

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Explores how the idea of rare books was shaped by collectors, traders and libraries from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Using examples from across Europe, David McKitterick looks at how rare books developed from being desirable objects of largely private interest to become public and even national concerns.

• The first study of the development of the idea of rare books from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries • Explores how rare books evolved over time from being objects of largely private interest to become public and even national concerns (in the first half of the nineteenth century) • An important new work by one of the world’s leading scholars of books and their history 462pp 22 b/w illus.

June 2020 9781108449335 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 July 2018 9781108428323 Hardback GBP 45 / USD 62.99 eISBN 9781108584265

Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970–2020 Volume 3 Ronald Cummings | Brock University, Ontario

This volume offers comprehensive insights into the diversity of Caribbean literature, writers, themes, genres, and political interests. Drawing on the approaches of postcolonial studies, gender studies, queer studies, eco-criticism, and digital humanities, these essays open up new critical horizons and bring an expanded tradition into view.

• Extends the familiar range of Caribbean writers and works to provide a much more comprehensive account of the contemporary period • Develops the connections between Anglophone Caribbean literature and Francophone and Hispanophone authors and texts • Revisits key moments in Caribbean literary history to look at them from new perspectives Caribbean Literature in Transition 400pp February 2021 9781108474009 Hardback GBP 80 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108564274

Asian Literature

European and World Literature African, Caribbean Literature Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920 Volume 1 Evelyn O’Callaghan | University of the West Indies

Maps out a history of the region’s literary production alongside a history of its reception and interpretation. It provides new critical approaches that will open up future scholarly engagement with early Caribbean literature.

• Proposes a complete re-examination of early Caribbean literature • Employs a fluid temporal frame, despite concentration on specific historical period in formation of ‘Caribbean literature’ • Includes unknown/overlooked authors and writing previously considered ‘non-literary’.

Caribbean Literature in Transition 400pp February 2021 9781108475884 Hardback GBP 80 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108647830

Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1920–1970 Volume 2

Raphael Dalleo | Bucknell University, Pennsylvania 1920 to 1970 are key years for the development of Caribbean literature.

This volume revisits important moments from that era to open up new perspectives. Collecting the major voices in the current debates around Caribbean literature, this volume explores its emergence, consolidation, and dissemination throughout the world.

• Covers crucial years in the development of Caribbean literature (the 1920s to 1970s) • Revisits key moments in Caribbean literary history to look at them from new perspectives • Includes major scholars in the field as well as emerging voices Caribbean Literature in Transition 400pp January 2021 9781108495523 Hardback GBP 80 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108850087

A Cultural History of Modern Chinese Literature Fuhui Wu | Peking University, Beijing

In this illustrated cultural history of the emergence of modern literature in China from the late nineteenth century to 1949, Wu Fuhui argues that this transformative period was informed both by developments in China’s domestic history and the dynamics of global circulation and encounter.

• Makes available the work of one of China’s leading literary scholars in English for the first time • Presents an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to literary history • Richly illustrated The Cambridge China Library 856pp 680 b/w illus. 10 maps 21 tables February 2020 9781107069497 Hardback GBP 150 / USD 195 eISBN 9781107706828

A History of Modern Chinese Popular Literature Boqun Fan | Fudan University, Shanghai

This is the first English translation of one of the most authoritative and significant studies of its kind. Utilising a broad range of literary genres from the late Qing through the Republican period, Fan Boqun’s innovative, illustrated analysis charts the historical blueprint of modern Chinese popular literature.

• Makes available the work of a leading Chinese scholar in English for the first time • Explores an often overlooked period of Chinese literature • Includes over 350 thoughtfully chosen illustrations using a broad range of literary genres The Cambridge China Library 830pp 350 b/w illus.

July 2020 9781107068568 Hardback GBP 135 / USD 175 eISBN 9781107705975

European And World Literature

The Cambridge Companion to Rabindranath Tagore Sukanta Chaudhuri | Jadavpur University, Kolkata

This is the first one-volume guide in English, or indeed in Bengali, to the full spectrum of Tagore’s multi-faceted genius. It will cater to students and scholars of Indian and world literature, even those who know Bengali; also of Indian history, culture, philosophy, music, art, and South Asia studies.

• All of Tagore’s fields of creation and activity covered and related to each other in a single volume • Takes into account the whole range of Tagore’s works, in Bengali and English. Most English studies of Tagore confine themselves, in practice if not declaredly, only to material available in English • Draws on the best scholarship in the field, including Bengali experts who do not often write for English publications but might have the greatest expertise on Tagore • Presents this material in a contemporary international critical idiom • Brings together specialists in other fields where appropriate historians, social scientists, artists, environmentalists, scientists etc.

Cambridge Companions to Literature 515pp June 2020 9781108489942 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 June 2020 9781108747738 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108779753

European and World Literature (General) Insurgent Imaginations World Literature and the Periphery Auritro Majumder | University of Houston

This book redefines the non-Western roots of world literature. A humanist imagination negotiated the struggles of groups outside the West. A wide range of aesthetic forms resisted nationalism: tracing the notion of peripheral internationalism across a range of cultural forms connecting India, Soviet Union, China, Africa, and the Americas.

• Provides a situated account of non-Western literary cultures and intellectual histories of world literature • Illuminates connections between India/South Asia and other regions such as China, Latin America and Africa • Broadens the existing scope of scholarship on modernism, realism, and globalization in culture with a wide array of lesser-known sources 280pp October 2020 9781108477574 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108763899

Writer and Occasion in Twelfth-Century Byzantium The Authorial Voice of Constantine Manasses Ingela Nilsson | Uppsala Universitet, Sweden

This is the first comprehensive study of occasional writing in Byzantium, focusing on the literary output of Constantine Manasses. It argues that, although such works were commissioned by wealthy ‘friends’ to mark specific events, he and his fellow writers succeeded in developing a strong and individual authorial presence within them.

• Provides a modern up-to-date reading of Byzantine literature with the help of methods drawn from literary criticism • Creates a model for how to understand and analyse occasional literature that can be applied to other cultures or periods • Offers English translations of several texts that have not been translated or analyzed in detail before 248pp February 2021 9781108843355 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108910217

European Literature Dante’s Christian Ethics Purgatory and Its Moral Contexts George Corbett | University of St Andrews, Scotland

This book provides fresh, scholarly, but accessible analyses of key areas of Dante’s thought and poetry, including his ethics, politics, eschatology, conception of Purgatory, and moral autobiography.

It will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of Dante.

• Provides scholarly but accessible analysis of key areas of Dante’s thought and poetry, including his ethics, politics, eschatology, conception of Purgatory, and moral autobiography • Pioneers reading the poem ‘horizontally’ through its moral structure, correlative to experiments in ‘vertical reading’, with close readings of three terraces of Purgatory as narrative structural units and as moral regions • Opens up new contexts - in preaching and penitential sources - for Dante’s Christian ethics, including Peraldus’ treatise on the vices, as a point of comparison with Aquinas’ moral theology Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 246pp March 2020 9781108489416 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108776875

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German Women’s Life Writing and the Holocaust Complicity and Gender in the Second World War Elisabeth Krimmer | University of California, Davis

This book examines women’s life writing from the Second World War and the Holocaust. Chapters on army auxiliaries, nurses, refugees, rape victims, and Holocaust survivors allow insights into the nature of complicity itself, the emergence of violence in civil society, and the possibility of social justice.

• Sheds light on the experiences of ordinary German women during the Second World War • Furthers our understanding of the Third Reich and the Holocaust through a focus on bystanders (rather than perpetrators) and complicity • Examines various forms of German women’s life writings including memoirs, diaries, and autobiographical fiction 294pp November 2020 9781108460347 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 September 2018 9781108472821 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 105 eISBN 9781108563758

Goethe and the Myth of the Bildungsroman Rethinking the Wilhelm Meister Novels Frederick Amrine | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

A refreshingly unique reading of the most influential German novels. By jettisoning the problematical notion of the Bildungsroman, the second Wilhelm Meister novel is revealed as a sequel to the first. With a broad appeal to scholars and advanced students of German literature, Goethe and the Bildungsroman as a literary genre.

• A ground breaking interpretation of the most important German novels, with the potential to reinterpret the Bildungsroman: the major historical genre in German literature • Offers a new perspective on Goethe, bringing him closer to Jung and others that seek symbolic and archetypal themes rather than social structures • A unique reading of Goethe in light of the highly influential critic Northrop Frye 216pp April 2020 9781108477680 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108774468

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The ‘Roman de la Rose’ and Thirteenth-Century Thought Jonathan Morton | Tulane University, Louisiana

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Focusing on one of the most influential poems in the European literary tradition, this collection brings together specialised chapters on medieval intellectual history, legal history, psychology, ethics, and logic. Re-evaluates the significance of the Roman de la Rose: indispensable reading for literary specialists and intellectual historians.

• Offers a multi-faceted and in-depth approach to studying the Roman de la Rose, accommodating the latest scholarship • The strong focus on intellectual history in the volume brings a new intellectual rigour to scholarship on the Roman de la Rose, reconsidering the relationship between literature and philosophy • Addresses the relationship between the poem and thirteenth-century scholasticism, relevant for both literature specialists and historians of philosophy Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 344pp July 2020 9781108425704 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108348799

The Crimes of Marguerite Duras Literature and the Media in Twentieth-Century France Anne Brancky | Vassar College, New York

This readable book combines innovative analysis of Marguerite Duras’s works with an investigation of their relation to mass media, especially criminal faits divers. Considering Duras’s enduring fame and literature’s abiding value to the public sphere, it carries broad appeal for scholars and students of French literary, cultural and media history.

• Delivers a new perspective on Marguerite Duras as a writer deeply engaged in the mass media landscape and passionate about the true crimes of her time • Includes detailed analysis of numerous texts across Duras’s career, situating iconic works in their cultural, biographical and media contexts to reveal their social and political import • Demonstrates that Marguerite Duras represents a case study for the relationship between the media and literature in twentieth-century France, in particular the resulting negotiations between literary celebrities and the public sphere.

200pp 7 b/w illus.

July 2020 9781108490382 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108780827

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The Work of Literary Translation Clive Scott | University of East Anglia

Clive Scott argues that translation should be more concerned with triggering creative textual thinking in the reader than testing the hermeneutic skills of the translater. Translation thus understood deepens our thinking about languages, ecology, cultures, textual relationships and aesthetics, and challenges us to creative re-imaginings of text.

• Re-thinks the assumptions that lie behind institutional approaches to learning to expand the theoretical contexts of literary translation • Provides imaginative illustrations that demonstrate what re-thinking literary translation might mean on the page • Proposes that translation can play a key role in giving existing disciplines new orientations 297pp 15 b/w illus.

June 2020 9781108445818 Paperback GBP 22 / USD 27 June 2018 9781108426824 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108678162

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Vladimir Nabokov in Context David M. Bethea | University of Wisconsin, Madison

Indispensable for understanding the historical, cultural and intellectual contexts of Nabokov’s work for students of English, American and Russian literary and cultural studies. This book is also essential reading for established scholars wanting to keep up with the new approaches and methodologies in Nabokov studies which this collection showcases.

• Takes an updated and contemporary approach to Nabokov and his work that combines literary and historical scholarship • Readers are able to easily familiarise themselves with the important contexts of Nabokov’s life through concise and lively essays • Takes full account of the Russian and American contexts of Nabokov’s life and work Literature in Context 336pp June 2020 9781107519596 Paperback GBP 20 / USD 26 May 2018 9781107108646 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781316258132

Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy Brian Richardson | University of Leeds

Aimed at researchers and students interested in book history, women’s studies and the Renaissance, this is an integrated study of Italian women’s publication of works by themselves and others, their engagement with copying, printing and selling books, and their means of access to texts in writing or through listening.

• The first in-depth study of women’s involvement in all stages of the circulation of texts in Renaissance Italy • Brings together, in an integrated study, women as authors, financers, dedicatees, scribes, printers, owners, readers, listeners; showing interconnections and contrasts between different areas of textual culture • Sheds new light on the lives of laywomen and nuns, creating connections between women’s history and book history 294pp 16 b/w illus.

March 2020 9781108477697 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108774482

Irish Literature Irish Literature in Transition, 1700–1780 Volume 1 Moyra Haslett | Queen’s University Belfast

An innovative exploration of eighteenth-century Irish literature, this volume showcases the diversity of texts, authors, and approaches characterizing contemporary studies. It will appeal to scholars and students of the period as well as to readers interested in questions of gender, sexuality, national identity, and trans-national identity.

• Includes considerations of contemporary topics, such as gender and sexuality, environmentalism, and trans-cultural and trans-national dimensions • Captures the excitement of the field with the study of less familiar authors • Showcases the diversity of texts, authors, and approaches characterizing contemporary studies Irish Literature in Transition 424pp 6 b/w illus.

March 2020 9781108427500 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108689045

European And World Literature

Irish Literature in Transition, 1780–1830

Irish Literature in Transition, 1940–1980

Volume 2 Claire Connolly | University College Cork

Volume 5 Eve Patten | Trinity College Dublin

Presenting a vibrant account of Ireland’s literary voices, this volume will be a key reference for scholars and students of Irish literature and English romanticism. It offers a new account of the years that formed the crucible of Irish writing in English, taking account of colonial, European, and transatlantic contexts.

• Features a combination of historical, thematic, and author-based chapters • Will help readers locate Irish literature within a global historical context • The first account of the emergence of modern Irish literature as a distinct cultural category

These essays will engage readers interested in Ireland’s history between the Second World War and the Troubles, with analysis of Ireland’s literary connections to Europe and America, surveys of Irish censorship, publishing and criticism, and discussions of individual authors including Seán O’Faoláin, Samuel Beckett, Edna O’Brien and John McGahern.

• Outlines fresh conceptual frameworks for approaching twentieth century Irish literary culture • Presents a combination of survey and author-based case studies in accessible discussion essays • Maintains a guiding editorial emphasis throughout on concepts of transition, evolution, and connection in the literary history of twentieth century Ireland

Irish Literature in Transition 456pp 1 b/w illus.

March 2020 9781108492980 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108632218

Irish Literature in Transition, 1830–1880 Volume 3 Matthew Campbell | University of York

Exploring Irish fiction, poetry, and drama through the lens of nationalism, diaspora, and the catastrophes of famine and emigration, this volume offers a new perspective of emergent literature in the Victorian age. This book is a key resource for scholars and students of nineteenthcentury studies and English literature.

• Assesses the innovations and successes of nineteenth-century writing • Offers an authoritative overview of nineteenth-century Irish literature • Utilizes a thematic and historical approach, and addresses a broad anglophone readership in Victorian literature Irish Literature in Transition 340pp March 2020 9781108480482 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108634977

Irish Literature in Transition, 1880–1940 Volume 4 Marjorie Elizabeth Howes | Boston College, Massachusetts

Capturing the emerging trends and current debates in contemporary scholarship, this volume will interest scholars and students of Irish literature and culture. Its diverse chapters will help readers understand Irish writing through innovative contexts ranging from political and social history to the recovery of previously neglected authors.

• Suggests multiple ways of mapping the period rather than enforcing a single interpretation • Examines one of the most famous and richly productive periods in Irish literary history • Provides an accessible way for readers to make sense of a complex, changing literary landscape Irish Literature in Transition 396pp March 2020 9781108480451 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120 eISBN 9781108616379

Irish Literature in Transition 406pp March 2020 9781108480444 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781108616348

Irish Literature in Transition: 1980–2020 Volume 6 Eric Falci | University of California, Berkeley

This is among the very first collections for graduates and researchers to track Irish and Northern Irish writing across the twentieth century’s long turn, and the remarkable transitions that accompanied it. It revisits major writers and texts, providing path-making accounts of emergent figures through a range of perspectives.

• Gives an authoritative overview of contemporary Irish literature in chapters that focus on texts, performances, institutions, historical conditions, and practices • Situates Irish literature in a range of contexts relevant to larger understandings of the contemporary moment, a moment that is increasingly diverse, mobile, digital, and global • Offers incisive readings of recent work by contemporary Irish writers and cultural practitioners Irish Literature in Transition 448pp March 2020 9781108474047 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 115 eISBN 9781108564373

Seamus Heaney in Context Geraldine Higgins | Emory University, Atlanta

This book combines historicizing scholarship with analytical depth and insightful new readings of Heaney’s work. The thematic sections offer different pathways to a deeper exploration of Heaney’s writing without requiring specialist knowledge.

• Offers depth and context to the key developments in Heaney’s work • Reconsideration of the places, times and influences that made Seamus Heaney a poet that made Seamus Heaney a poet • Essays are jargon-free, making it suitable for students, scholars, and the general reader 350pp January 2021 9781107180147 Hardback GBP 65 / USD 110 eISBN 9781316841372

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The New Irish Studies Paige Reynolds | College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts

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This book offers a pioneering critical account of twenty-first-century Irish literature and culture, underscoring the crucial role that contemporary writing plays in representing and influencing rapidly changing conditions in Ireland and Northern Ireland. It unsettles presumptions about what constitutes an Irish classic.

• Gives an authoritative overview of contemporary Irish literature in chapters that focus on texts, performances, institutions, historical conditions, and practices • Traces contemporary Irish literature from a range of perspectives and different critical approaches, including age studies, feminism, biodigital poetics, queer theory, neoliberalism, and globalism • Highlights the engagement and activism of contemporary Irish writers and considers the function of Irish writing in reflecting and influencing rapidly changing contemporary cultural conditions Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions 300pp September 2020 9781108473996 Hardback GBP 74.99 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108564205

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Yeats and European Drama Michael McAteer | Queen’s University Belfast

The plays of W. B. Yeats reflect both developments in European theatre during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and also the author’s ideas concerning labour, commerce and social alienation.

Michael McAteer considers these works alongside those of the foremost dramatists of the period.

• Discusses seventeen plays by W. B. Yeats, providing the reader with a comprehensive survey of the works • Compares Yeats’s work with modern European dramatists in order to contextualise the work within European modernist theatre • Draws on reviews and essays from newspapers and journals of the period, allowing the reader to understand the plays in relation to debates on theatre reform 235pp 3 b/w illus.

January 2020 9781108798488 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99 August 2010 9780521769112 Hardback GBP 67 / USD 103 eISBN 9780511779992

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Framing Roberto Bolaño Poetry, Fiction, Literary History, Politics Jonathan Beck Monroe | Cornell University, New York

This is one of the first books to trace the development of Roberto Bolaño’s work from the beginning to the end of his career. It will appeal to graduates and researchers working on Bolaño and Latin American literature generally, particularly the novel, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature.

• Offers an original approach to Bolaño’s poet- and poetry-centered novels focused on the prose poem’s sustained, integral role in their development • Argues the importance of poetry, fiction, literary history, and politics for an understanding of the scope and scale of Bolaño’s achievement • Contributes to an expanded understanding of Bolaño’s importance as a writer beyond the Latin American context, situating himself within the larger contexts of both hemispheric studies and world literature 262pp September 2020 9781108735568 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 45

October 2019 9781108498258 Hardback GBP 75 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781108633475

Jorge Luis Borges in Context Robin Fiddian | University of Oxford

This book is for an academic readership in Latin American and world literatures. It offers unprecedented coverage of the principal contexts in which leading Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) read and wrote, including family and Argentine history, the Western cultural tradition, both learned and popular, and the Middle East.

• Delivers a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the multiple contexts in which we understand the life and work of Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) • Presents introductory essays on relevant topics, written by leading scholars from around the globe • Supported by a chronology of Borges’ life and a guide to further reading Literature in Context 306pp 2 b/w illus.

January 2020 9781108470445 Hardback GBP 85 / USD 110 eISBN 9781108635981

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