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A History of the Harlem Renaissance

Rachel, Farebrothepp

This book presents original essays that provide comprehensive analysis of the dynamism of Harlem Renaissance literature and culture. An authoritative collection on the major writers and issues of the period, it takes stock of nearly a hundred years of Harlem Renaissance studies.

454pp

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American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War II

A Cultural History

Will, Kaufman | University of Central Lancashire, Preston

Aug. 2025 9781108737449 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108656313

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American Literature and Immediacy

Literary Innovation and the Emergence of Photography, Film, and Television

Heike, Schaefe | University of Education Karlsuhe

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.

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 184 330pp

Oct. 2025 9781108720137 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 97811087666303

American Modernism and the Cartographic Imagination

Aaron, Nyerges | University of Sydney

This book is for university teachers and students of modern American literature.

By focusing on literature's relationship to maps, it adds a unique international dimension, bringing canonical US authors into dynamic relation with writers from former US possessions such Cuba and the Philippines.

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture 251pp

Oct. 2025 9781009515337 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009515320

American Narrative Realism

The Novel, Film, Television, and Theater

David R., Shumway | Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania

Realism has been disparaged for over a hundred years as an outmoded form, and, more recently, as a pernicious illusion, typical of nineteenth-century novels and Hollywood movies alike. American Narrative Realism shows why both views are wrong, demonstrating the vitality of realism in contemporary narratives across media.

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 199 197pp

Nov. 2025 9781009660099 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009660143

This groundbreaking book explores the hidden history of American song and struggle, from the moment Columbus made fateful landfall to the start of the Second World War. Recovering the passionate voices of an entire nation, it shows that these songs are woven into the very fabric of the American people.

530pp

Jul. 2025 9781009078092 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009086769

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Black Women and Energies of Resistance in NineteenthCentury Haitian and American Literature

Mary Grace, Albanese | SUNY Binghamton

This book re-evaluates traditional narratives of 19th-century modernity by placing Black women at the center of an increasingly connected world. It redefines energy and modernity by exploring how early Black transnational networks practiced energy across Haiti and the USA.

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

206pp

Oct. 2025 9781009314213 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99

eISBN 9781009314268

NEW IN PAPERBACK Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature

Jolene, Hubbs | University of Alabama

This book explores connections between narrative forms and social history. It will appeal to readers interested in twentieth-century U.S. literature, race, and social class.

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 190 206pp

Jul. 2025 9781009250641 Paperback GBP 24.99 / USD 33.00

eISBN 9781009250627

Complicity and the Antebellum Moral Imagination

David A., Zimmerman | University of WisconsinMadison

Will appeal to scholars, students, and general audiences interested in American history, religion, and reform before the Civil War. Focusing on moral complicity, or participation in social evils and political and economic harms, it addresses topics such as slavery, anti-Catholicism, conspiracies, urban exposés, and Black economic enterprise.

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

295pp

Feb. 2026 9781009685511 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009685559

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Counterfeit Culture

Truth and Authenticity in the American Prose Epic since 1960

Rob, Turner | University of Exeter

Counterfeit Culture explores the possibility of writing epic in an age of alternative facts. It addresses the relationship between the American epic and postmodernism. This book is for graduates and researchers working on post World War II American literature.

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 181 240pp 4 b/w illus.

Oct. 2025 9781108449731 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99

eISBN 9781108625418

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

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

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

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 194 270pp

Oct. 2025 9781009442701 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99

eISBN 9781009442657

Embodiment in NineteenthCentury American Literature

Matthew, Rebhorn | James Madison University, Virginia

Nineteenth-century American Literature often features bodies that seem to have minds of their own. This book recovers these bodies to tell a new story of American Literature, reimagining what it meant to be human for women, workingclass, and Black subjects who were dehumanized precisely because of their bodies.

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture 218pp

Jul. 2025 9781009527729 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009527699

Latinx Literature in Transition, 1444–1886

Volume 1

Kenya C., Dworkin y Méndez | Carnegie Mellon University

This book will appeal to readers seeking diverse perspectives and untold stories. It uncovers ignored and forgotten voices, explores early Latinx writings and other cultural forms, and by foregrounding the intersection between language and power, interrogates the dynamics of historical cultural exchange and its link to our contemporary world.

Latinx Literature in Transition,

1848–1992

Volume 2

John, Alba Cutler | University of California, Berkeley

Introduces scholars and students of literature to previously neglected or unknown works of literature, as well as new approaches to canonical texts. It challenges how previous generations of scholars have understood American modernity and shows the diversity of US Latinx communities and cultures.

422pp

Latinx Literature in Transition

492pp

Jul. 2025 9781009313995 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009314008

Apr. 2025 9781009314169 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009314206

Latinx Literature in Transition, 1992–2020

Volume 3

William, Orchard | Queens College, CUNY

This volume chronicles important formal and theoretical innovations in Latinx literature during a period when Latinx writers received increasing acclaim while Latinx communities became targets of hostility. The essays in this collection show how Latinx writers confront this contradiction during a period of rapid change and transformation.

Latinx Literature in Transition

436pp

Jul. 2025 9781009314145 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009314091

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Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era

Ryan M. Brooks | West Texas A&M University Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era argues that a new, postpostmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as a group of American writers – including Mary Gaitskill, George Saunders, Richard Powers, Karen Tei Yamashita, and others –grapples with the political triumph of freemarket ideology.

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

254pp

Oct. 2025 9781009011198 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99

eISBN 9781009019040

Manufacturing Dissent

American Modernism and the Science of Belief

Stephanie, Hawkins | University of North Texas

Manufacturing Dissent reveals how the early twentieth century's 'lost generation' of writers, artists, and intellectuals combatted disinformation and 'fake news.' Cultural historians, literary scholars, and those interested in the power of literature to encourage critical thought and promote democracy will find this book of particular value.

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

254pp

Aug. 2025 9781009574679 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009574655

Money and American Literature

Paul, Crosthwaite | University of Edinburgh

American literature's engagements with money are among Americanists' most prominent concerns. This volume synthesizes and builds upon this abundance of research, providing the first comprehensive mapping of money's crucial role over five centuries of American literary history.

Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture 418pp

Jul. 2025 9781009350471 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009350488

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Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History

Juliana, Chow

This book discusses how literary writers reenvisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of dispersal. It will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-Century American literature and Literature and the Environment.

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture 238pp

Oct. 2025 9781108964920 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781108990660

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Nineteenth-Century American Women's Serial Novels

Dale M. Bauer | University of Illinois

This book shows how serials deployed the repetition of plots and the traumas representing the sources of women's anxieties and pain. It addresses how American literature scholars engaged with expanding the range of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century women's novels, especially as those fictions are available on HathiTrust and other digital services.

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 183 198pp 10 b/w illus.

Oct. 2025 9781108707930 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99

eISBN 9781108761017

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Poetry and the Limits of Modernity in Depression America

Justin, Parks | University of Tromso

Furnishing a novel take on the poetry of the 1930s within the context of the cultural history of the Depression, this book argues that the period's economic and cultural crisis was accompanied by an epistemological crisis in which cultural producers increasingly cast doubt on language in its ability to represent society.

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Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in NineteenthCentury American Literature

Hawthorne, Douglass, Stowe, Dickinson Marianne, Noble | American University, Washington DC

The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and 1860s. It will appeal to undergraduates and scholars seeking new approaches to canonical American authors, psychological theorists of sympathy and empathy, and philosophers of moral philosophy.

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 182 320pp

Oct. 2025 9781108722216 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99

eISBN 9781108698931

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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.

480pp

Nov. 2025 9781316629918 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781316817179

The Cambridge Centennial Edition of The Great Gatsby

F. Scott, Fitzgerald

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

278pp

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture 240pp

Oct. 2025 9781009347785 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781009347808

Jan. 2025 9781009414593 Hardback GBP 20.00 / USD 24.95

eISBN 9781009414579

The Harlem Renaissance Weekly

Reading the New Negro?Movement in 1920s?Black Newspapers

Martha H. Patterson | McKendree University

Introducing readers to a fascinating trove of serial fiction published in 1920s Black newspapers, this book upends the prevailing view of the Renaissance as a strictly cultural phenomenon. Instead, Martha Patterson shows newspaper fiction's deep investment in sociopolitical debates over drinking, interracial marriage, and anti-lynching activism.

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 198 316pp

Nov. 2025 9781009566681 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009566711

The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies

Russ, Castronovo | University of Wisconsin, Madison

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

Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions

338pp

Jan. 2025 9781009296731 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009296748

The World of Leonard Cohen

David R. Shumway | Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania

A serious, comprehensive, and engaging book for fans, students, scholars, or anyone who wants to know more about Leonard Cohen, a unique artist: a poet and novelist who became a rock star whose career peaked in his eighth decade, and whose popularity is still growing today.

400pp

Jan. 2026 9781009350594 Hardback GBP 27.00 / USD 35.00

eISBN 9781009350549

Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos

The Literature and Culture of U.S. Transiency 1890–1940

Owen, Clayton | University of Lincoln

This book frames transiency within a nineteenth-century literary tradition of the vagabond, a figure who attempts to travel without money. It explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around 'the hobo' and 'the tramp'. It provides new ways for scholars to think about the activity and representation of US transiency.

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

358pp

Oct. 2025 9781009348089 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99

eISBN 9781009348065

Whiteness and American Literature

Jolene, Hubbs | University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

This book brings together essays by leading scholars in the field to explore the diverse ways that whiteness has shaped and been represented in American arts (literature as well as music, cinema, and television) from the early national period to the present.

Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture

344pp

Jul. 2025 9781009522793 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009522748

NEW IN PAPERBACK 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.

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, 185 266pp

Oct. 2025 9781108829458 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 44.99

eISBN 9781108909952

English literature

English literature - 1700 - 1830

A Funny Thing

Eighteenth-Century Literature Undisciplined

Eugenia, Zuroski | McMaster University, Ontario

For any reader curious about the wilder flights of fancy in eighteenth-century fiction and how they challenge colonial reality, this book is equally delightful and disruptive. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

303pp

Jun. 2025 9781009486231 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009486255

African American Gothic in the Era of Black Lives Matter

Maisha, Wester | Indiana University

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

Elements in the Gothic

82pp

Jan. 2025 9781009161015 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00

Jan. 2025 9781009571401 Hardback GBP 55.00 / USD 70.00

eISBN 9781009161008

British Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century

Melissa J. Ganz | Marquette University, Wisconsin

Revealing how legal developments in Britain shaped and were shaped by imaginative writing, this volume provides fresh insights for scholars and students of eighteenth-century literature, law, and culture, while exploring legal and ethical questions that remain of concern to this day.

302pp

Oct. 2025 9781009224130 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009224185

British Romanticism and the Matter of Voice

Alice, Rhodes | University of York

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

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

210pp

Jan. 2025 9781009503419 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009503426

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British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century

Amanda, Hiner | Winthrop University

Gathering ground-breaking essays by leading scholars, this collection forwards an innovative feminist theory of satire and showcases women writers' unique contributions to the satirical tradition. For scholars, researchers, and students interested in women writers and eighteenth-century British literature, this volume is an indispensable resource.

318pp

Jul. 2025 9781108940559 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108938952

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Byron and the Poetics of Adversity

Jerome, McGann | University of Virginia

Upending traditional Byron criticism to reveal a more relentlessly precise and skeptical poetic mind than ever previously thought, Jerome McGann offers numerous close readings of Byron's verse alongside that of his contemporaries to show how he challenged the limits of poetry and exposed the illusions and contradictions of his age.

228pp

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Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel

Olivia, Ferguson

This one-of-a-kind cultural history explores caricature as a distinctively literary phenomenon, exploring how realism co-operates with 'caricature talk' in British novels of the Romantic period. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available

Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 148 278pp

Nov. 2025 9781009274241 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009274227

Childhood Writings

The Collector's Edition

Jane, Austen

This complete collection of Jane Austen's childhood writings, including her sister Cassandra's illustrations to Jane's 'The History of England', vividly showcases their rambunctious, indecorous and surreal character. Explanatory endnotes illuminate the cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.

The Cambridge Jane Austen 272pp

Jul. 2025 9781009232937 Paperback GBP 16.99 / USD 19.99 eISBN 9781009232968

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Byron: A Life in Ten Letters

Andrew, Stauffer | University of Virginia

A Byron biography like no other –published to mark the bicentennial of his death – it tells the remarkable life story of the celebrated Romantic poet through ten of his best, most resonant letters. Using Byron's correspondence, Stauffer relates a vivid and engaging story of creativity, fame, sexual transgression and scandal.

412pp

May 2025 9781009432382 Hardback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.95

eISBN 9781009432375

NEW IN PAPERBACK Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom

Walking with Euclid

Ann C. Colley | State University of New York, Buffalo

Adding to Coleridge's already substantial role as a multifaceted intellectual of the Romantic period, Ann Colley reveals how geometry channelled and shaped his thought and his perceptions of nature, illuminating the richness of the culture of walking, and the unexpected potential of landscape writing.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 139 214pp

Sep. 2025 9781009599412 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 22.95

eISBN 9781009200134

Aug. 2025 9781009271745 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009271769

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Decoding Anne Lister

From the Archives to 'Gentleman Jack' Caroline, Gonda | St Catharine's College, Cambridge

The first edited collection on Anne Lister (1791-1840), this interdisciplinary book explores how her diaries (as historical and literary text and in adaptation) reframe same-sex practices. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

302pp

Feb. 2025 9781009280747 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009280723

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Defoe's Tour and Early Modern Britain

Panorama of the Nation

Pat, Rogers | University of South Florida

This first comprehensive account of Daniel Defoe's Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain explores the content, sources, form, and historical significance of one of the foremost books written about Britain during the eighteenth century. Pat Rogers' study offers fresh interdisciplinary insight for both new readers and Defoe students. 342pp

Jul. 2025 9781009102773 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009106412

Discovering Britain and Ireland in the Romantic Period

Grand Tours

James, Watt | University of York

This collection reveals how travellers, writers and readers discovered Britain and Ireland as sites of tourism during the heyday of the continental Grand Tour. Essays from across disciplines consider how diverse travellers deployed comparative frames of reference to understand the distinctiveness and significance of the sites they visited.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 151

291pp

Mar. 2025 9781108842693 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781108903981

Embodied Experience in British and French Literature, 1778–1814

Women and Belonging

Jillian, Heydt-Stevenson | University of Colorado Boulder

Combining feminist, materialist, and comparatist approaches, Jillian HeydtStevenson reveals evocative and hidden information about objects like diamonds, hats, and statues, demonstrating women's life-preserving ecological, social, and political connections to material things in literature from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. 314pp

Jan. 2025 9781009463980 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009463966

Emma

The Collector's Edition

Jane, Austen

Jane Austen's stylish masterpiece, Emma is a brilliant psychological comedy about the mind's deception of itself. It speaks to the tedium of family and social existence, yet does so in a sparkling, utterly beguiling manner. Explanatory endnotes illuminate cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.

The Cambridge Jane Austen

480pp

May 2025 9781009432719 Hardback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.95 eISBN 9781009432733

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

The Imprint of Women, c. 1700–1830

Cristina S., Martinez | University of Ottawa

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

292pp

Mar. 2025 9781108948852 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108953535

Getting Lost in the Novel

Strategic Confusion in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

Amanda, Auerbach | Catholic University of America, Washington DC

Focusing on the psychological needs that drew readers in the past – and that still draw readers today – to eighteenthand nineteenth-century novels, Amanda Auerbach reveals the conditions within readers' lives that led them to find books by authors such as Jane Austen and George Eliot so moving and meaningful.

180pp

Aug. 2025 9781009585514 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009585477

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Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity

Jamison, Kantor | Ohio State University

This book reveals the development of a progressive sense of honor and dignity – against its usual counterpoint, freedom – within nineteenth-century British poetry, prose, and abolitionist media. For readers of literature, sociology, politics, and economics, it offers a rich cultural history of a value long viewed as reactionary and regressive. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 210pp

Jun. 2025 9781009124140 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009127233

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Jane Austen and Other Minds

Ordinary Language Philosophy in Literary Fiction

Eric Reid, Lindstrom | University of Vermont

Jane Austen and Other Minds offers a lively reintroduction to all six of Austen's finished novels through an ambitious choice to pair analysis of her novelistic ordinary language — her style, conversation, and moral thought —?with the major practitioners of twentiethcentury ordinary language philosophy, including J. L. Austin and Stanley Cavell.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 136 308pp

Apr. 2025 9781009206952 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009206976

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Late Romanticism and the End of Politics

Byron, Mary Shelley, and the Last Men

John, Havard | Binghamton University, State University of New York

This study invites researchers of Romantic literature and literary and political culture to consider how this period's imaginings of the end of the world shaped thinking about politics and political change. Its highly original arguments on this current theme will interest students of political thought, affect theory, and ecocriticism.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

256pp

Sep. 2025 9781009289191 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009289160

Later Manuscripts

The Collector's Edition

Jane, Austen

This unique volume compiles Austen's unpublished mature work. An enlightening companion to the published novels, it includes her comic poems, a novella, two unfinished novels, literary spoofs and letters giving advice on writing fiction.

Explanatory endnotes illuminate cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.

The Cambridge Jane Austen

272pp

Mansfield Park

The Collector's Edition

Jane, Austen

Many critics regard Mansfield Park as Austen's supreme achievement. Serious, even earnest, it shows that integrity is essential for individual and nation – but it comes at a cost. Comedy derives from the self-deception of good and flawed characters. Explanatory endnotes on culture, history and literature bring Austen's world to life.

The Cambridge Jane Austen 480pp

May 2025 9781009432818 Hardback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.95

eISBN 9781009432825

Living with Jane Austen

Janet, Todd | University of Cambridge

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

246pp

May 2025 9781009432665 Hardback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.95

eISBN 9781009432658

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Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy

The Feminist Critique of Commercial Modernity

Catherine, Packham | University of Sussex

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

302pp

Mar. 2025 9781009569316 Hardback GBP 18.99 / USD 25.95

eISBN 9781009569323

Lost Plots

Interpolated Tales and the EighteenthCentury Novel

Katherine G. Charles | Washington College

Investigating the peculiar literary history of interpolated tales and the ways in which they persistently unnerve readers with the sense that they have 'lost the plot', Katie Charles argues that attending to this strange and forgotten body of work opens up a new account of gendered speech and power.

205pp

Jul. 2025 9781009395816 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009395823

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Mediating

Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland

From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising

Leith, Davis | Simon Fraser University, British Columbia

Jan. 2026 9781009588621 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009588614

This is the first book to analyze the interplay of cultural memory, national identity and the changing media ecology of early eighteenth-century Britain. It examines the initial inscription of five pivotal episodes of English, Scottish and Irish history, revealing the mixture of memories and counter-memories in their subsequent mediations.

317pp

Jun. 2025 9781009018487 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009039765

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1800s

Andrew, Stauffer | University of Virginia

For students and scholars of British literature, the fourteen essays contained in this volume open fresh perspectives on a key transitional decade. Each models a new approach to the literary culture of this era, challenging old understandings of the nineteenth century's first decade via new methods of reading and analysis.

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition, 1 365pp

Feb. 2026 9781009200981 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009201018

Northanger Abbey

The Collector's Edition

Jane, Austen

Austen's ingenious Gothic parody illuminates the material and social conditions of genteel English society in the late eighteenth century. Through its naive young heroine, we delight in escapist fiction while learning its limitations. Explanatory endnotes illuminate cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.

The Cambridge Jane Austen 256pp

May 2025 9781009432429 Hardback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.95 eISBN 9781009432405

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Orientation in European Romanticism

The Art of Falling Upwards

Paul, Hamilton | Queen Mary University of London

Exploring the Romantic period's experiments in individual and national self-consciousness, this essential comparative study of European literature, philosophy and politics makes striking connections and contrasts to reveal identities being re-orientated and disorientated in response to historical change from the French Revolution onwards. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 137 322pp

Pride and Prejudice

The Collector's Edition

Jane, Austen

Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Austen's six remarkable novels, achieving the finest balance of comedy and reflection, liveliness and solemnity. It is considered one of the great love stories of English literature. Explanatory endnotes illuminate the cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.

The Cambridge Jane Austen 400pp

May 2025 9781009432580 Hardback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.95

eISBN 9781009432603

Prison and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Form and Reform

Lucy, Powell | University of Oxford

Lucy Powell recovers lost layers of meaning within the prison scenes which abound in the eighteenth-century novel. Powell reveals prisons' fourfold particularity as cultural and narrative spaces, stressing, with bold originality, the political and social, as opposed to the domestic and interior, aspects of the novel as a form.

230pp

Apr. 2025 9781009268257 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009268226

Percy Shelley in Context

Ross, Wilson | University of Cambridge

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

Literature in Context

393pp

Apr. 2025 9781009223706 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00

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Persuasion

The Collector's Edition

Jane, Austen

Persuasion is a powerful portrait of female grief triumphantly overcome. Opening with its heroine lamenting the loss of love in a painful reversal of the courtship novel, it transforms by degrees into a rapturous romantic comedy. Explanatory endnotes illuminate cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.

The Cambridge Jane Austen

288pp

Oct. 2025 9781009608558 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009608534

Reading Sympathy in Romantic Literature

Stacey, McDowell | University of Warwick Through incisive analysis, Stacey McDowell shows how Romantic writers reflect on ideas about reading, revealing what the literary portrayal of shared reading adds to histories of the book and moral philosophy, and how the effects of form and style aim to reproduce the shared experience of reading described.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

240pp

May 2025 9781009432771 Hardback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.95

eISBN 9781009432764

Jan. 2026 9781009380423 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

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Robert Wedderburn, Abolition, and the Commons

Romanticism's Black Geographies

Katey, Castellano | James Madison University, Virginia Centring Black experience and bringing together scholarship in Romanticism, Black studies, and environmental humanities, this study follows the political thought of Robert Wedderburn, using his stories of Black, place-based resistance to slavery to launch innovative readings of Romantic-era abolition, landscape, and revolution.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

242pp

Jan. 2025 9781009523905 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009523875

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Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era

Hannah Doherty, Hudson | Suffolk University, Massachusetts

In the Romantic period, more novels were published in England than ever before. This book offers scholars and book historians a new perspective on the effects of this change, showing how this age of mass production inspired both critique and innovation among authors, publishers, readers and reviewers.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 142 308pp 7 b/w illus.

Oct. 2025 9781009321938 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009321921

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Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing

Neil, Ramsey | UNSW, Canberra

In this book, Neil Ramsey examines the intellectual contexts of the period in which modern war writing first took shape: the Romantic era. Demonstrating the critical importance of theories of biopolitics in understanding modern war, Ramsey reveals rich and often surprising interconnections between military literature and Romantic culture.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 135 304pp

Jul. 2025 9781009114998 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009118798

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Romanticism, Republicanism, and the Swiss Myth

Patrick, Vincent | Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Illuminating the reasons for the immense popularity of travel to Switzerland and the proliferation of images of that country during the Romantic period, this book shows how its idealized republican landscape enabled contemporaries to compare the Alps with Britain and to imagine a liberal alternative to French liberty.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 138 329pp

Jun. 2025 9781009210300 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

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Satire, Instruction and Useful Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain

The Enlightenment Mock Arts

Paddy, Bullard | University of Reading

The early Industrial Revolution was not ignored by eighteenth-century writers. They addressed it in the Enlightenment Mock Arts, a curious genre of satires that fed into Gulliver's Travels, Tristram Shandy and Belinda. Paddy Bullard traces the oblique strategies that these authors used to avoid the constraints of Enlightenment instrumentalism. 278pp

Sense and Sensibility

The Collector's Edition

Jane, Austen

Appearing anonymously in 1811, Jane Austen's first published novel is an edgy, contrapuntal tale. Money and destructive passion overshadow romance in a darkly humorous work that depicts sex and greed with breath-taking sharpness. Explanatory endnotes illuminate cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life.

The Cambridge Jane Austen

384pp

May 2025 9781009460521 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009460477

May 2025 9781009432542 Hardback GBP 18.99 / USD 24.95

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Small Things in the Eighteenth Century

The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature Chloe Wigston, Smith | University of York

Featuring tiny books, buttons, ceramic trinkets, toothpick cases, handkerchiefs, mugs, tea caddies, coins and much more, this interdisciplinary book explores how people in the eighteenth century interacted with the small things they used, wore, played with, and displayed to signal their engagement with the larger world.

346pp

Mar. 2025 9781108995078 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108993296

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Staël, Romanticism and Revolution

The Life and Times of the First European John Claiborne, Isbell | University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley

Two centuries of sexism obscured Staël's legacy. John Isbell here restores her reputation as historian, theorist of Romanticism, and Revolutionary, revealing her abolitionist and anti-imperialist commitment. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 146 314pp

Mar. 2025 9781009362733 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009362719

The Art of Walking in London

Representing the Eighteenth-Century City, 1700–1830

Alison, O'Byrne | University of York

Considering how the mobility afforded by walking made possible the various surveys and tours that characterized descriptions of the capital during the long eighteenth century, this study engages with accounts across genres to demonstrate how walking shaped representations of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century city.

282pp

eISBN 9781009524018

Jan. 2025 9781009524032 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

The Complete Cambridge Jane Austen 8 Volume Hardback Set

The Collector's Edition 8-vol Boxed Set Limited Edition

Jane, Austen

A treasure for all lovers of Jane Austen, this authoritative and attractive new edition is accessible and informative for readers at all levels. With helpful notes and enlightening prefaces, it presents the general reader with the celebrated published novels alongside the unpublished writings, from Austen's youth to her final years.

The Cambridge Jane Austen 2816pp

May 2025 9781009421256 8 Hardback books GBP 160.00 / USD 195.00

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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 eighteenthcentury 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.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 129 324pp

Oct. 2025 9781108720663 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108767347

The Italian; or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents

Volume 6

Ann, Radcliffe

Part of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ann Radcliffe, this volume presents the first fully annotated edition of?The Italian. Its introduction and appendices describe the novel's key contexts and features, and chronicles its composition, publishing history, reception, and Radcliffe's revisions to later editions.

600pp

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The Poetics of Prophecy

Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition

Yosefa, Raz | University of Haifa, Israel Yosefa Raz reveals surprising entanglements between scholarly and poetic traditions in the project of reinventing prophecy. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

230pp

Sep. 2025 9781009366298 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009366311

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The Postsecular Restoration and the Making of Literary Conservatism

Corrinne, Harol | University of Alberta Focused on conservative writers of the long Restoration, this book reveals a synergistic relationship between postsecularity and the modern sphere of literature. Its provocative account of the relationship between literature and politics is stimulating for scholars of eighteenth-century culture, literary studies, religion, and postsecularity.

294pp

Jan. 2026 9781108837828 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00

eISBN 9781108943222

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The Letters of Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver, Goldsmith

This is the first modern scholarly edition of the letters of Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774), one of the major literary figures of the eighteenth century. Containing extensive introductory and contextual material, this volume is essential for those interested in Goldsmith and his circle, including Samuel Johnson and David Garrick.

234pp 6 b/w illus.

Jun. 2025 9781107474543 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781316145203

Jun. 2025 9781009273459 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009273497

Time and Terrain in British Romantic Writing

Alan, Vardy | Hunter College, City University of New York

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

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

294pp

Jan. 2025 9781009480017 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009479974

Wales, Romanticism, and the Making of Imperial Culture

Timothy, Heimlich | Duke University, North Carolina

This ambitious study argues that in the long eighteenth century the meanings of Britain and Britishness, once synonymous with Wales, transformed. It opens paradigm-shifting insight into the influences of empire and imperialism upon British literary production, engaging in debates around imperialism both internally and abroad.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

300pp

Dec. 2025 9781009618878 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009618922

Weeping Eyes

Seeing and Feeling in the Sentimental Tradition

Megan, Nash | University of Sydney

Academic discourse on eyes has focused overwhelmingly on their visual function. Weeping Eyes turns instead to their role in affect and emotion, probing the different ways that tears are conceptualised in the sentimental and scientific literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

225pp

Jan. 2026 9781009661751 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009661720

William Blake and Romantic Biology

Evolution, Originality, and Organic Form

Tara, Lee | The University of Hong Kong

Delving into his biological imagery, Tara Lee shows how Blake articulates radical views about spirituality and embodiment, revolutionary politics, sexuality and genius, as well as textual and artistic reproduction. This insightful study sheds new light on the relationship between literature, science, and culture in the long eighteenth century.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

250pp

Dec. 2025 9781009626453 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009626422

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Wordsworth After War

Recovering Peace in the Later Poetry

Philip, Shaw | University of Leicester

Providing new perspectives on Wordsworth's later poetry, Philip Shaw reveals how his work after the revolutionary and Napoleonic wars reflects poetic and political engagement with peace. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism 298pp

Mar. 2025 9781009363167 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009363150

English literature - 1830 - 1900

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Birdsong, Speech and Poetry

The Art of Composition in the Long Nineteenth Century

Francesca, Mackenney | University of Leeds

This interdisciplinary work explores how scientists, musicians and poets have listened to, and tried to understand, the everyday mystery of birdsong. Paying particular attention to Romantic and Victorian writing on other species, it offers valuable insights for scholars working in the fields of literary criticism and the environmental humanities.

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Collaborative Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

Sympathetic Partnerships and Artistic Creation

Heather Bozant, Witcher | Auburn University, Montgomery

Celebrating plurality in collaboration and underscoring the truly social nature of nineteenth-century writing, Heather Witcher draws on a range of examples to show the myriad ways, both social and material, in which nineteenth-century authors interacted and co-created. Ultimately, this study overhauls how we view authorship itself.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 135 282pp

Mar. 2025 9781009073929 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

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Confidence

Henry, James

The first fully annotated edition of one of Henry James's least-known novels. A compelling portrait of a deracinated group of leisured Americans in a new era of global travel, Confidence traces the twists and turns of a moralpsychological experiment in the balance of relations between the sexes.

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James 536pp

Aug. 2025 9781107086517 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00

eISBN 9781316091500

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Fashionable Fictions and the Currency of the NineteenthCentury British Novel

Lauren, Gillingham | University of Ottawa

Offering a revisionist account of the history of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Lauren Gillingham contends that nineteenth-century novelists found in fashion a temporal model for articulating a heightened sense of the evanescence of modernity and the cycle of novelty and obsolescence that organizes contemporary life.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 143 328pp

Jun. 2025 9781009296588 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

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Gerard Manley Hopkins in Context

Martin, Dubois | University of Durham

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

Literature in Context

380pp

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 256pp

Mar. 2025 9781009074681 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009075909

Jan. 2025 9781009183208 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00

eISBN 9781009183185

Landscapes of Genius and the Transatlantic Origins of Environmentalism

Nineteenth-Century British and American Literary Cultures of Nature

Scott, Hess | Earlham College

Scott D. Hess explores how British and American authors' 'genius' became associated with natural landscapes during the nineteenth century, defining nature through fine arts and national high culture. His history traces the roots of a transatlantic environmental movement that was deeply shaped by social distinctions of race, class, and gender.

292pp

Aug. 2025 9781009561259 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009561266

Maritime Relations

Life, Labour and Literature at the Water's Edge, 1850–1914

Emily, Cuming | Liverpool John Moores University

Exploring representations of ordinary sailors, their families and the sea in Britain's long nineteenth century, this study engages a wealth of new archival material, including unpublished life writing, alongside re-readings of familiar novels and social surveys, to present an innovative account of the relations between class, family and the sea.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 300pp

Sep. 2025 9781009569538 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009569552

Michael Field in Context

Sarah, Parker | Loughborough University

The authoritative introduction to Michael Field's diverse cultural contexts, exploring their historical and contemporary influences from Ancient Greece to modernism, delving into their connections with other authors, including Wilde, Pater and New Women Writers, and showcasing critical perspectives that bring their work into the present.

Literature in Context

382pp

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1850s

Gail, Marshall | University of Reading

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

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition

380pp

Jan. 2025 9781009100427 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009118682

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1870s

Alison, Chapman | University of Victoria, British Columbia

Examining the cultural confidence and metropolitan elitism identified with the 1870s, this volume establishes a new interdisciplinary literary history based on diverse authors, giving a fresh and accessible account of this key decade's debates about literature and culture as intrinsic to the Victorian era and even to 'Victorianism' itself.

Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition

346pp

Sep. 2025 9781009382625 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009382670

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Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle

Fraser, Riddell | University of Durham

Synthesizing music, literature and theory, Fraser Riddell reveals the importance of music in emergent queer identities at the fin de siècle. Illuminating for both students and researchers of the period, his compelling arguments for music's queer agency will fascinate anyone interested in Aestheticism, Decadence and the Bloomsbury Group.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 137 298pp

Mar. 2025 9781108984584 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108989541

Feb. 2025 9781108845182 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00

eISBN 9781108954792

Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel

From Platform to Plot via the Railroad

Nicola, Kirkby | City St George’s, University of London

Railway and novel infrastructure shared the task of getting nineteenth-century society moving in new ways. In canonical fiction by Dickens, Gaskell, Trollope, Eliot, Hardy, and Forster, Nicola Kirkby reveals imaginative entanglement between new largescale infrastructure and changing logistical possibilities of the novel in the first railway age.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 155 258pp

Aug. 2025 9781009295574 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009295598

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Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence

Sarah, Green | University of Oxford

Can sexual restraint be good for you?

Many Victorians thought so. This book explores a surprisingly positive view of restraint in an unlikely place: late nineteenth-century Decadence. It reads Decadent texts alongside medical manuals, periodicals, and adverts, finding representations of restraint as healthy, productive, and aesthetically enriching.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 142 282pp

Aug. 2025 9781108926683 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108917490

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The Ambassadors

Henry, James

Henry James considered his late novel

The Ambassadors (1903) 'quite the best, 'all round'' of all his works. This volume based on the first book edition provides extensive annotations, a detailed textual history of the work and a full introduction exploring the novel's literary, cultural and historical contexts.

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James 670pp 1 b/w illus. 1 map

May 2025 9781009655705 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9780511757495

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The Art of the Reprint

Nineteenth-Century Novels in TwentiethCentury Editions

Rosalind, Parry

The Art of the Reprint is a vivid and engaging history of the nineteenthcentury novel as it was re-imagined for everyday readers by extraordinary twentieth-century illustrators. With biographical, archival, and art- and literary-historical sources, this is a richlyillustrated account of how artists reinvent canons for the general reader.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 231pp

Aug. 2025 9781009272056 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009272032

The

Aspern Papers and Other Tales, 1884–1888

Henry, James

The nine tales in this collection, published between 1884 and 1888, exemplify James' continuing interest in the art of short fiction. This first scholarly edition provides extensive annotations, a detailed textual history of the work, and a full introduction exploring the novel's literary, cultural and historical contexts.

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James 898pp

May 2025 9781009662109 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781139342438

The Book Unbound Material Cultures of Reading and Collecting, 1750–1850

Luisa, Calè | Birkbeck College, University of London

Exploring Romantic-period works as open-ended collections of discrete book parts, prints, watercolours, manuscripts, and serial publications, this monograph changes understandings of the book as a medium through case studies on Walpole's private press publications, Blake's printmaker-poet's book making, and Dickens's serial fiction.

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The Bostonians

Henry, James

The Bostonians is a brilliant tragicomedy, as fresh and sharp today as when it first appeared. This full critical edition of one of Henry James's most distinctive works will interest researchers, scholars and advanced students of Henry James, and of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American fiction and literature.

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James 694pp

May 2025 9781009662086 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 32.99

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The Europeans

Henry, James

Henry James' wryly comic novel, The Europeans (1878), gently satirizes both early nineteenth-century Boston society and the sophisticated Europeans who visited the city. This first scholarly edition provides extensive annotations, a detailed textual history of the work, and a full introduction exploring the novel's literary, cultural and historical contexts.

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James 284pp 2 b/w illus.

May 2025 9781009655941 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9780511782527

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The Portrait of a Lady Henry, James

The Cambridge Edition of The Portrait of a Lady (1881) offers the most authoritative and most comprehensively annotated text of Henry James's first masterpiece. Extensive textual variants provide complete collation of all published versions since its first appearance in serial form through the New York edition of 1908.

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

316pp

Nov. 2025 9781009599986 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009599955

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James 1078pp 4 b/w illus.

May 2025 9781009655699 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 34.99

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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 Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James 964pp

May 2025 9781009662239 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9780511984457

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The Reverberator

Henry, James

In 1888, Henry James turned from realist fiction, The Bostonians and The Princess Casamassima, to a comedy of manners set in Paris and concerning a scandal sheet, 'The Reverberator'.

Featuring comprehensive scholarly apparatus based on original research, this authoritative edition will be essential for scholars and advanced students.

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James 394pp 2 b/w illus.

May 2025 9781009655538 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9780511756597

Undercover

Victorian Investigative Journalism in Fact and Fiction

Stephen, Donovan | Uppsala Universitet, Sweden

When, where, and how did undercover investigative journalism originate and how did it change British society?

For scholars of Victorian literature, nineteenth-century British history, and the history of journalism, this book traces a distinctly British tradition and reconstitutes the pioneering investigations that shaped its global development.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 153

317pp

Mar. 2025 9781009586399 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009586351

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Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany

Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity Linda, Hughes | Texas Christian University Progressive women writers discovered unparalleled freedoms and opportunities for intellectual agency in Germany during the long nineteenth century. Linda K. Hughes reveals how ten such writers, each of whom immersed herself in German language and culture, modelled ways of productively negotiating cultural differences that remain invaluable today.

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 138

306pp

Mar. 2025 9781009069328 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009072243

Vivisection and LateVictorian Literary Culture

Asha, Hornsby | University of St Andrews

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

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, 152

358pp

Feb. 2025 9781009503525 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009503532

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Washington Square

Henry, James

This first scholarly edition of Washington Square, one of Henry James' most iconic works, presents a rare instance of an illustrated full-length text by James. Leading scholars undertake extensive annotation and contextualisation, provide a full introduction, and present a complete textual history, comparing the novel's serial and book publications.

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James 324pp

May 2025 9781009661706 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9780511782268

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Henry, James

Watch and Ward is James' first novel. Serialised in 1871 and published in book form in 1878, it marks an important stage in James's novelistic development. This first-ever scholarly edition provides extensive annotations, a detailed textual history, and a full introduction exploring the novel's literary, cultural and historical contexts.

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James 342pp

May 2025 9781009661690 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781316091463

Wessex Tales

Thomas, Hardy

Hardy's first collection of short stories, Wessex Tales contains some of his most famous narratives. This edition provides an authoritative text and full scholarly apparatus, allowing the reader to trace Hardy's creative process for each of the stories, alongside an introductory essay and comprehensive explanatory notes.

The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy 536pp

Feb. 2025 9781107091054 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781316117460

A History of the Bloomsbury Group

Derek, Ryan | University of Kent

This landmark publication offers an expansive, detailed, and varied history of the Bloomsbury group's aesthetic, global, intimate, and public dimensions. This book is essential for new students and established researchers.

456pp

Oct. 2025 9781009423663 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009423632

After Impressionism

Poetry and Painting, 1874-1914

Rob, Harris | Magdalen College, Oxford

First study of the poetry written after impressionism. It has a wide interdisciplinary range across the fields of literary, philosophical, art-historical and cultural studies. Would be useful for scholars as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students working in these disciplines. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

226pp

Dec. 2025 9781009534789 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009534765

English literature - 1900 - 1945

Henry James and the Writing of Transport

Alicia, Rix

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

245pp

Modernism, Aesthetics and Anthropology

John, Hoffmann | Chapman University, California John Hoffmann shows that Enlightenment theorists synthesized aesthetics and anthropology in an effort to reconcile social unity with the diversity of human forms. Writers in the twentieth century then took up that synthesis in order to reject social hierarchies, which had been legitimized by nineteenth century anthropology.

326pp

Apr. 2025 9781108473170 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781108562980

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James Joyce and the Matter of Paris

Catherine, Flynn | University of California, Berkeley

This book is essential reading for Joyceans, Irish modernists, and Anglophone modernists, and also for scholars of transnational modernism, of comparative European literatures, of the life of the sensorium, and of culture and capitalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 254pp 3 b/w illus.

May 2025 9781108707329 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 25.00

eISBN 9781108752053

Modernism and the Idea of India

The Art of Passive Resistance

Judith, Brown | Indiana University

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

208pp

Jan. 2025 9781009474474 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009474498

Nostalgia and National Identity in the British and Irish Modernist Epic

Sarah, Coogan

This study explores the relationship between nostalgia and national identity and offers new insight into the genre of 'modernist epic'. It will be of interest to humanities scholars, as well as to those generally curious about the role of nostalgia in culture.

220pp

Dec. 2025 9781009686655 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009686679

Samuel Beckett and Medicine

Ulrika, Maude | University of Bristol Offers the first sustained analysis of Beckett's abiding interest in medicine and its impact on the form and content of his work. The book advances new readings of Beckett's poetry, prose and drama, drawing on his reading notes on medicine and psychology, and on his correspondence and critical writings.

222pp

Jul. 2025 9781108840736 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781108887540

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The Jolly Corner and Other Tales, 1903–1910

Henry, James

Jan. 2025 9781009505246 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009505222

This scholarly edition includes the final ten stories Henry James wrote, and presents satirical critiques of an increasingly narcissistic, acquisitive society. With its extensive textual history and wide-ranging notes, the volume will be of interest to James scholars and students of early twentieth-century Anglo-American culture.

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James 692pp

May 2025 9781009655613 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9780511757440

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The Outcry

Henry, James

Henry James's last completed novel, The Outcry (1911), was originally conceived as a play, then adapted into novel form by James with great success. This first authoritative edition provides extensive annotations, a detailed textual history of the work, and a full introduction exploring the novel's literary, cultural and historical contexts.

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James 360pp 3 b/w illus. 1 map

May 2025 9781009655620 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9780511756580

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The Prefaces

Henry, James

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

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James 830pp

May 2025 9781009661683 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9780511756573

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The Sacred Fount

Henry, James

The first critical edition of Henry James's The Sacred Fount, featuring a full critical apparatus including introduction, notes, glossary, textual variants and bibliography. The volume will be of interest to researchers, scholars and students of Henry James, and of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American fiction and literature.

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James 334pp

May 2025 9781009662093 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781139506786

Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation

Giuseppe, Pezzini | Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Guiding readers into the depths of Tolkien's world, Giuseppe Pezzini combines scholarly rigour with accessible language to reveal the majestic mosaic of Tolkien's vision of the 'mystery of literary creation', showing the unparalleled depth and complexity of his work and engaging with Tolkien and his 'theory' on their own terms.

456pp

Twentieth-Century Literature and the Aftermath of War

Rachel, Bryan | All Souls College, Oxford

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

268pp

May 2025 9781009479677 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009479714

Jan. 2025 9781009493383 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009493390

A History of Modern Hebrew Literature

Yaron, Peleg | University of Cambridge

A new history of modern Hebrew literature updated according to contemporary theories of literature, culture, identity, and canon. Aimed at scholars of Israeli, Jewish, and Middle Eastern literatures and cultures and questions related to these subjects, including minority studies, regionalism, diaspora, multi-linguicism, and colonialism.

466pp

Dec. 2025 9781009667395 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009667418

English literature - 1945 and beyond

Contemporary American Fiction and Cultures of Self-Help

Gillian, Moore | Trinity College Dublin

Offers a unique look at the charged relationships between contemporary fiction and self-help culture. It explores how writers including David Foster Wallace, Tao Lin, and Alexandra Kleeman take critical and creative inspiration from commencement speeches, anti-racist self-help, time-management productivity manuals, and brain-body change programs.

Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture 287pp

Sep. 2025 9781009438490 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009438520

Entangled Life in TwentyFirst-Century Fiction

A Multi-Scalar Poetics

Liliane, Campos | Sorbonne Nouvelle University and Institut Universitaire de France

Will appeal to all readers interested in the ecological power of literature. Views fiction as a sensing instrument which helps us to engage with other scales of life. It shows how contemporary novels and short stories are shaping our biological awareness and ecological responsibility. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture 280pp

Mar. 2026 9781009699419 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009699426

Sylvia Plath and the Supernatural Dorka, Tamás

Refocuses Sylvia Plath's affiliations with 'the occult' on the legacies of the early modern witch trials. Drawing on newly published materials and Plath's manuscripts, this book reveals her multifaceted engagement with the supernatural, paralleling trends in the literature, culture, and politics of post-war America and Britain.

280pp

Jan. 2026 9781009575515 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009575539

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Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages

Interpretation, Invention, Imagination

Ardis, Butterfield | Yale University

This collection makes a new, profound and far-reaching intervention into the rich yet neglected terrain? between Latin scholastic theory and vernacular literatures. Written by a multidisciplinary team of leading international authors, the chapters honour and advance Alastair Minnis' fielddefining scholarship.

348pp

The Desire for Syria in Medieval England

E. K. Myerson | University of Cambridge Arguing for the irresistible allure of real and forged Syrian goods for English consumers in the Middle Ages, E. K. Myerson's innovative book puts a fresh perspective on culture in medieval England. Adopting a postcolonial approach, their narrative shows how these artefacts transformed science, industry, cookery, medicine, poetry, and religion.

276pp

Sep. 2025 9781108716628 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108698351

The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing

Sebastian, Sobecki | University of Toronto

The Middle Ages laid the foundations for the long European and Middle Eastern history of colonialism, expansion, and voyaging. With a focus on medieval Europe, this is the first book to cover global medieval travel writing from Iceland to Indonesia, paying particular attention to questions of race, gender, manuscript culture, and multilingualism.

870pp

Dec. 2025 9781009426800 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 44.99

eISBN 9781009426848

The Joy of Love in the Middle Ages

A European Literary History

Lucie, Kaempfer | University of Geneva

Joy in literature and culture remains a little-studied subject, one sometimes even viewed with suspicion. Here, Lucie Kaempfer reveals its place at the crux of medieval discourses on love in literary culture throughout Europe and across French, English and Italian literatures, unearthing a language that still speaks to us today.

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature

246pp

Oct. 2025 9781108493680 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00 eISBN 9781108642897

The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture 2 Volume Hardback Set

Raluca L. Radulescu | Bangor University, Wales Arthur and his knights, Lancelot and Guinevere, Merlin the wise man, Mordred the traitor: these and so many other Arthurian tales make a living link between the distant British past and the contemporary world. This is the history of Arthur's development, over sixteen centuries, into a global cultural phenomenon.

The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture 1364pp

Dec. 2025 9781009031202 2 Hardback books GBP 225.00 / USD 290.00

Volume 1 eISBN 9781009031653

Volume 2 eISBN 9781009031684

Dec. 2025 9781009553445 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009553469

The Recognition of Sovereignty

Politics of Empire in Early Anglo-Scottish Literature

Lee, Manion | University of Missouri

In this timely contribution to debates over the relationship of politics to storytelling, Lee Manion uncovers the centrality of narrative to European concepts of sovereignty. Situating medieval and early modern Scotland and England in a broader inter-imperial milieu, Manion shows how established discourse prevented more equitable political unions.

390pp

Oct. 2025 9781009633413 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00 eISBN 9781009633406

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Thinking of the Medieval

Midcentury Intellectuals and the Middle Ages

Benjamin A. Saltzman | University of Chicago

Revealing the profound influence of the Middle Ages on mid-twentiethcentury thought and the influence of these intellectual endeavours on present-day politics, art, and history, this interdisciplinary collection reveals a surprising undercurrent in the work of a diverse group of thinkers and traces their ongoing legacy in intellectual history.

360pp

Mar. 2025 9781108748766 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108781565

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Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages

Regionalism and Nationalism in Medieval English

Literature

Joseph, Taylor | University of Alabama, Huntsville

Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages examines the origins of England's North-South divide, illustrating how discourse of the modern divide is established and cultivated in medieval English literature including works such as the Canterbury Tales, the ballads of Robin Hood, and even medieval mystery plays.

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 119 273pp

Jun. 2025 9781009182096 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009182102

English literature - Renaissance and early modern to 1700

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A History of English Georgic Writing

Paddy, Bullard | University of Reading

This volume surveys the literature of rural working lives and landscapes written in English between 1500 and the present day, offering a range of scholarly perspectives on the georgic tradition, with insights from literary criticism, historical scholarship, classics, post-colonial studies, rural studies and ecocriticism.

401pp

Auerbach's Renaissance

Rebirths of an Aesthetic from Shakespeare to Ferrante

Chris, Warley | University of Toronto

Auerbach's reading of Renaissance writing presents a challenge to the pessimism of today, and in Mimesis he reveals democratic possibility through such writers as Dante, Rabelais, Montaigne, and Shakespeare. Christopher Warley rediscovers the powerful beauty of this major critical work and shows its vitality for contemporary literary criticism.

288pp

Jun. 2025 9781009011297 Paperback GBP 30.00 / USD 35.00

eISBN 9781009019507

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A Literary History of Latin & English Poetry

Bilingual Verse Culture in Early Modern England Victoria, Moul | University College London

Painting the fullest picture to date of early modern England's bilingual poetic culture, this study contextualises landmark texts ranging from Tottel's miscellany to the hymns of Isaac Watts, via Shakespeare, Jonson, Herbert, Marvell, Milton and Cowley. This account is invaluable for both scholars of early modern English poetry and classicists. 600pp

Aug. 2025 9781316642634 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108131667

Apr. 2025 9781009545495 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 44.99

eISBN 9781009545457

Ballad Business

Selling Early Modern Theatre

Tiffany, Stern | University of Oxford

In this first-ever account of the broadsheet ballads sold outside playhouses, Tiffany Stern reveals how ballads were productplaced in the plays of Shakespeare and Jonson, after plays as jigs by Tarlton, Kemp and Armin, and merchandised as plot summaries for plays by Marlowe, Kyd, Shakespeare and others.

350pp

Dec. 2025 9781107179677 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00

eISBN 9781316838976

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Black Shakespeare

Reading and Misreading Race

Ian, Smith | Lafayette College, Pennsylvania

In his compelling new book Ian Smith addresses the pernicious influence of systemic whiteness on our interpretation of Shakespeare's plays. Unmissable reading for students and scholars of drama, cultural and early modern studies.

228pp

Mar. 2025 9781009224093 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99

eISBN 9781009224116

Botanical Culture and Popular Belief in Shakespeare's England

Bonnie, Lander Johnson | Newnham College, Cambridge

Addressing an imbalance in early modern studies, Bonnie Lander Johnson reveals how, through interest in popular plant cultures and beliefs – tree ballads, embroidery, pedagogical tales, almanacs – Shakespeare put illiterate culture in contact with questions usually deemed learned and elite:

theology, politics, the military and medicine.

206pp

Jan. 2025 9781009396523 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009396530

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Boy Actors in Early Modern England

Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre

Harry R. McCarthy | University of Cambridge Harry R. McCarthy's innovative study draws on theatre history and presentday performance to foreground how boys' physical skills shaped the plays in which they performed. Through in-depth readings of a wide range of plays, this book offers a critical reimagining of early modern theatrical culture.

264pp

Mar. 2025 9781009102025 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009106658

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Emotion and the Self in English Renaissance Literature

Reforming Contentment

Paul Joseph, Zajac | McDaniel College

The first full-length study of early modern contentment, this book examines the intersection of this guiding principle of English Protestant psychology with Renaissance literature, considering works by Shakespeare, Milton, Spenser and Sidney. It will prove illuminating for researchers of literature, history, religion and affect theory.

242pp

How the World Became a Book in Shakespeare's England

Jonathan P. Lamb | University of Kansas Just as computers have spawned new descriptive language today, then-new book technologies helped build previously unheard-of metaphorical worlds in early modern England. Drawing on thousands of examples, Jonathan P. Lamb shows how writers from Shakespeare to Cavendish used the language of books to shape their reality.

336pp

Jun. 2025 9781009271707 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009271653

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George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

Simon, Jackson | University of Cambridge

The first full-length study to fully situate Herbert's verse in the early modern culture from which it emerged, this interdisciplinary book argues for an innovative 'musical' mode of reading lyric that will prove illuminating for students and scholars working in early modern literary studies and in seventeenth-century music and theology.

284pp

Aug. 2025 9781009460415 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 44.99

eISBN 9781009460378

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Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England

William E. Engel | University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee

This collection of essays by leading scholars of death and memory studies outlines the cultural, religious, epistemological, and political contexts for understanding how people in Renaissance England engaged with memorialization while at the same time recalling their own mortality.

310pp

Jun. 2025 9781009107693 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009106887

Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge

Alice, Wickenden | University of Cambridge

Alice Wickenden uses Hans Sloane's remarkable collection – the founding core of the British Library and British Museum – to ask what a library really is. Hers is the first book to bring methodologies of material culture, book history, and bibliography alongside a full-length study of the establishment of the British Library.

294pp

Apr. 2025 9781108829014 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108918565

Milton's Strenuous Liberty

Tobias, Gregory | Catholic University of America, Washington DC

What motivated Milton? Tobias Gregory advances a new paradigm for Milton's shifting priorities, arguing that, at the heart of his public agenda from the early 1640s to the end of his life, there lay a concern to maximize liberty of conscience for heterodox godly lay intellectuals like himself.

280pp

Sep. 2025 9781009497398 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009497404

Nov. 2025 9781009561105 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009561112

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Performing Restoration

Shakespeare

Amanda, Eubanks Winkler | Syracuse University, New York

Performing Restoration Shakespeare embraces the performative and musical qualities of Restoration Shakespeare (1660–1714), drawing on the interdisciplinary expertise of theatre historians, musicologists, literary critics, and - crucially - theatre and music practitioners. It invites us to respond to Restoration Shakespeare on its own unique terms.

244pp

Jun. 2025 9781009241199 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009241212

Performing Shakespeare on an Endangered Planet

Katherine Steele, Brokaw | University of California, Merced

This Element explores how Shakespearean theatre can address environmental crises, offering insights on adapting his plays ecologically. It discusses eco-friendly practices in theatre, from set design to outdoor performances, with examples from recent eco-productions of The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Elements in Shakespeare Performance 124pp

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Shakespeare and Beckett

Claudia, Olk | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munchen

This book is the first monograph to study the rich correspondences between the works of William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett. It addresses an academic readership in literature and theatre studies, revealing hitherto undiscovered links between major works of both authors, including in music and in the visual arts.

250pp

Jul. 2025 9781009569590 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00

eISBN 9781009569613

Performing Visible Pregnancy in Shakespeare's Plays

Patricia, Lennox | New York University

This Element considers pregnant women and their costumes in the staging of Shakespeare's plays. The author focusses on the varied significance of its presence to actors and directors; explores how the archives to chart this previously under-examined interaction between social conventions, costumes, and the actors who wear them.

Elements in Shakespeare Performance 75pp

Nov. 2025 9781009624459 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00

eISBN 9781009624442

Plays 1676–1678

Volume 2 Plays 1676–1678

Aphra, Behn

Aphra Behn is renowned as the first professional woman writer in English. The plays in this volume, published and performed between 1676 and 1678, exemplify her skills in writing for individual performers, exhibiting both the topical political engagement with and sophisticated response to Restoration libertinism for which she is renowned.

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Aphra Behn 700pp

Dec. 2025 9781108471060 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00

eISBN 9781108557573

Security, Fiscal Policy, and Sovereignty in Renaissance

English Literature

David, Glimp | University of Colorado Boulder

David Glimp reveals how Renaissance England's growing tax system fundamentally reshaped its literature, influencing works by Shakespeare, Milton, Herbert, Marlowe, and More, among others. Foregrounding struggles over fiscal policy, he brings into striking relief how Renaissance authors sought to reimagine collective security and political life.

282pp

Sep. 2025 9781009618809 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009618762

Jun. 2025 9781009077200 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009082402

Shakespeare and Neurodiversity

Laura, Seymour | Birkbeck College, University of London

The Element promotes Shakespeare and Neurodiversity, focusing on reasonable adjustments, learning pace, diagnosis, and futures in education. It provides theoretical explanations and activities to help students and educators understand ableism's impact.

Elements in Shakespeare and Pedagogy

98pp

Feb. 2025 9781009295949 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00

eISBN 9781009295932

Shakespeare and Scale

The Archive of Early Printed English Anupam, Basu | Washington University, St Louis

This Element problematizes the specific affordances of computation and scale as primary conceptual categories. It then explores how computation can facilitate not only conventional modes of search and access to such a large corpus but how it can truly enable exploratory, experimental modes of discovery that respond to and shape humanistic inquiry.

Elements in Shakespeare and Text

118pp

Apr. 2025 9781009306713 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

eISBN 9781009306676

Shakespeare and the Restoration Repertory

Stephen, Watkins | University of Greenwich

This Element provides the first comprehensive study of William Davenant's Shakespeare adaptations within the broader context of the Restoration repertory. It reveals how Davenant adapted the plays in direct response to the institutional and commercial imperatives of the newly established theatre industry of the 1660s.

Elements in Shakespeare Performance 102pp

Mar. 2025 9781009324137 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00

eISBN 9781009324120

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Shakespeare Survey 75

Othello

Emma, Smith | University of Oxford

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. The theme for Volume 75 is 'Othello'. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at https:// www.cambridge. org/core/what-wepublish/collections/shakespeare-survey.

Shakespeare Survey

426pp

Teaching Shakespeare's Theatre of the World

Kristen Abbott, Bennett | Framingham State College, Massachusetts

This Element engages Shakespeare's thought-experiment: how does one navigate the 'theatre of the world'? It examines how Shakespeare challenges this metaphor's vertical hierarchies in response to changing understandings of cosmological order. Includes exercises to encourage students to practise non-linear critical and creative thinking. Elements in Shakespeare and Pedagogy

Jul. 2025 9781009245838 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009245845

Shakespeare Survey 78

Shakespeare and Communities

Emma, Smith | University of Oxford

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. The theme for Volume 78 is 'Shakespeare's Communities'. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at www.cambridge.org/core/publications/ collections/cambridge-shakespeare.

Shakespeare Survey, 78 442pp

Oct. 2025 9781009647571 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009647564

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Shakespeare's White

Others

David Sterling, Brown | Trinity College, Connecticut

Exploring the racially white 'others' whom Shakespeare illustrates in characters like Hamlet, Antony and the Macbeths –figures who are never quite 'white enough' – this urgent, compelling work shows how such racial categorisation begets anti-Blackness and sustains white supremacy. An essential contribution to Shakespeare and critical race studies.

240pp

75pp

Nov. 2025 9781009111096 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00

eISBN 9781009109888

Testimony, Faith and Religion in Early Modern English Literature

Making Belief

Joseph, Ashmore | University of Oxford

Joseph Ashmore argues that early modern literature became a key site for handling questions of faith during the Protestant Reformation. Presenting fresh studies of major authors, he reveals how legal ideas of evidence and proof shed light on the workings of faith.

290pp

Mar. 2025 9781009384124 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99

eISBN 9781009384155

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Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture

Richard, Meek | University of Hull

This is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of sympathy in the early modern period, providing an extensive and deeply researched examination of its development in Anglophone literature and culture.

304pp

Jan. 2026 9781009564045 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009564038

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The Death Arts in Renaissance England

A Critical Anthology

William E. Engel | University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee

This critical anthology, an ideal resource for researchers, instructors, and students, outlines the cultural contexts in which people grappled with their mortality in Renaissance England. Illuminating death's intersections with gender, sex, and race, this book offers indispensable insights into living with death in early modern England.

406pp

Sep. 2025 9781009280242 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009280259

Mar. 2025 9781108749565 Paperback GBP 25.00 / USD 33.00

eISBN 9781108782975

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The Masculinities of John Milton Cultures and Constructs of Manhood in the Major Works

Elizabeth, Hodgson | University of British Columbia, Vancouver

The first published book on John Milton's masculinities, this study shows how a revolutionary poet preached liberty yet elevated manly authority. Building on his era's practices of war, education, socialization, and political marriage, Milton's aggressive, ambivalent masculinities are exposed as strategically and emphatically self-serving.

230pp

Mar. 2025 9781009223591 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009223577

The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary

Kate, Loveman | University of Leicester

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

254pp

Apr. 2025 9781009554114 Hardback GBP 22.00 / USD 29.95 eISBN 9781009554107

The Will in English Renaissance Drama

Douglas, Clark | University of Oxford

Shedding light on a relatively neglected yet demonstrably crucial concern for dramatists in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, this is the first monograph to explain the central role that the performance of the will – as both faculty of the soul and legal document – took in English Renaissance drama.

208pp

Sep. 2025 9781009390941 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009390934

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Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars

Heidi, Craig | Texas A&M University

For students and researchers of early modern drama, Shakespeare, book history and theatre history, this book unearths a wealth of dramatic activity during a period typically dismissed as a dramatic dead zone, showing how many scholarly practices can be traced back to the period itself.

255pp

Voice and Ethics in Shakespeare's Late Plays

Kent, Lehnhof | Chapman University, California

Combining sound studies and contemporary philosophy, this study reveals the ethical potency of the sound of the voice in Shakespearean drama. Moving beyond merely verbal meaning, Kent Lehnhof mines the rich significance of the somatic and the sonorous, providing valuable insights for Shakespeare specialists and scholars of early modern literature.

300pp

Nov. 2025 9781009613873 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009613897

English literature (general)

About Suffering

On Louise Glück

Christos, Hadjiyiannis | University of Regensburg

Poetry has always courted suffering. Surveying a wide range of texts about poetry's relationship to suffering, and drawing surprising links between very different voices, this book situates Louise Glück both in the tradition of Rainer Maria Rilke's lyrical suffering and in the tradition of T. S. Eliot's impersonal approach to poetry. Elements in Poetry and Poetics

Aug. 2025 9781009224055 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009224017

Transdisciplinary Shakespeare Pedagogy

Coen, Heijes | University of Groningen

This Element offers a sense both of the opportunities and challenges in teaching Shakespeare beyond the confines of the English literature department by setting up structural partnerships across disciplinary units and provides possible ways forward on the road to wider cooperation, collaboration and integration.

Elements in Shakespeare and Pedagogy 114pp

Feb. 2025 9781009564298 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00

eISBN 9781009564267

78pp

Mar. 2025 9781009418874 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00

Mar. 2025 9781009539456 Hardback GBP 55.00 / USD 70.00

eISBN 9781009418843

Humour in Verse

An Anthology

W. E. Slatepp

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

eISBN 9781316551325

Kant and Literary Studies

Claudia, Brodsky | Princeton University, New Jersey

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

346pp

Sep. 2025 9781316601723 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 26.99

Jun. 2025 9781316513026 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009071611

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Law and Literature

Kieran, Dolin | University of Western Australia, Perth

Law and Literature presents an accessible new study of the many ways in which law and literature interact by providing a multi-focused history of literature's critical interest in ideas of law and justice, ranging from classical tragedy to comics, and from East Africa to Elizabethan England.

Cambridge Critical Concepts

397pp

Aug. 2025 9781108435192 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781108386005

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Modern British Nature Writing, 1789–2020

Land Lines

Will, Abberley | University of Sussex

Why has nature writing gained such popularity at a time of unprecedented ecological destruction? Guided by this question, this book offers an informed critical approach to modern British nature writing for specialist readers, as well as providing a valuable guide for general readers concerned by an increasingly diminished natural world.

286pp

The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry

Ann, Vickery | Deakin University

The Cambridge History of Australian Poetry is the authoritative volume on Australian poetry. It provides multiple insights into its diverse forms, communities, and audiences, as well as the role of poetry in shaping understandings of Australia across time and within local, regional, and global contexts.

894pp

Feb. 2025 9781316641897 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108123396

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A History and Theory of Lyric Constraint

Andrea, Brady | Queen Mary University of London

Tracing metaphors of bondage in poetry from Ovid through the present day, Poetry and Bondage analyses the contributions of bound people to the history of the lyric. It brings canonical and contemporary poets together with the songs of the plantation and the lyrics of mass incarceration.

438pp

Dec. 2025 9781009237192 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00

eISBN 9781009237215

The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature

Geraint, Evans | Swansea University

A chronological history of the literature of Wales in its two major languages (Welsh and English), this book covers fifteen centuries of literary production from the Middle Ages through to the twenty-first century. It is for researchers of British and Welsh literature. It will also appeal to medievalists.

864pp 8 maps

Oct. 2025 9781107514423 Paperback GBP 27.99 / USD 49.99

eISBN 9781316227206

'The People' and British Literature

Belonging, Exclusion, and Democracy

Benjamin, Kohlmann | Universität Regensburg, Germany

Aug. 2025 9781108964937 Paperback GBP 23.00 / USD 30.00

eISBN 9781108990684

Queer Cambridge

An Alternative History

Simon, Goldhill | University of Cambridge

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

316pp

Jan. 2025 9781009528061 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 29.95

eISBN 9781009528078

This book ranges across historical periods to offer a comprehensive and much-needed critical prehistory of contemporary invocations of 'the people' in political discourse and public debate. In doing so, the twenty-three essays also build on ideas and methods from other disciplines, such as political theory, sociology, and media history.

Cambridge Themes in British Literature and Culture 375pp

Nov. 2025 9781009299688 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009299671

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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.

424pp

May 2025 9781108819121 Paperback GBP 17.99 / USD 23.99

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Translation

Crafts, Contexts, Consequences

Jan, Steyn | University of Iowa

Translation practice, its specialized contexts, and its ethical and political aspects, too often studied separately, are here brought into conversation. This volume includes exciting new work from leading theorists, literary translators, and emerging voices in the field, as well as interdisciplinary insight from psychoanalysts and neuroscientists.

315pp

Aug. 2025 9781108706933 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108756846

Literary theory

Animal Illness and the Literary Imagination

A Cultural History of Animal Disease Management

Raymond, Malewitz | Oregon State University

Written for literary and animal studies scholars, this book shows how animal illnesses influence our cultures and our economies, our language and our politics; enabling us to investigate in narrative form the relationships between public health and veterinary health and between animal suffering and the suffering of humans.

300pp

Realism and the Novel A Global History

Paul, Stasi | University of Albany

Realism and the Novel will be of interest to anyone who has found themselves absorbed in the world of a novel, analysing the form's ability to transport its readers to different times and places and describing distinct novelist traditions and the cultures as it travels across the globe.

482pp

Dec. 2025 9781009670173 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009670166

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Lacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy

Patricia, Gherovici

Cutting-edge philosophers, psychoanalysts, literary theorists, and scholars use Freud and Lacan to shed light on laughter, humor, and the comic. Bringing together clinic, theory, and scholarship this compilation of essays offers an original mix with powerful interpretive implications.

254pp 4 b/w illus.

Jul. 2025 9781107450578 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

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Mudie's Select Library and the Shelf

Life of the Nineteenth–Century Novel

Karen, Wade | University College Dublin

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

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

94pp

Jun. 2025 9781009296885 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

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Space and Literary Studies

Elizabeth, Evans | Wayne State University, Detroit

Examines the evolving role of space as a concept crucial to literary studies. Treats the emergence and development of foundational theories in spatial literary studies alongside emergent approaches. Focus on intersection of space and power relations. Appeals to scholars and students in literature, history, and gender studies, among other fields.

Cambridge Critical Concepts

391pp

May 2025 9781009424240 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

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NEW IN PAPERBACK Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature

Ato, Quayson | Stanford University, California

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.

348pp

May 2025 9781108926195 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 29.99

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Transnational Crusoe, Illustration and Reading History, 1719–1722

Sandro, Jung | Fudan University

Feb. 2025 9781009479004 Paperback GBP 14.00 / USD 18.00

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Bringing illustration studies, the history of reading and transnational book history together, the Element offers an original micro-history of illustrated editions and iconic interpretations of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

126pp

Mar. 2025 9781009443302 Paperback GBP 14.00 / USD 18.00

eISBN 9781009443326

William James and Literary Studies

Kate, Stanley | University of Western Ontario

Demonstrates William James's role in the history of Anglo-American literary production and the practice of literary criticism and pedagogy. James's interdisciplinarity makes this volume instructive for scholars bringing literary studies into contact with his other areas of study, including psychology, philosophy, religious studies, and education.

Cambridge Studies in Literature and Philosophy 370pp

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Literature - editions, texts

Chance

A Tale in Two Parts

Joseph, Conrad

First published in 1914, Joseph Conrad's female-centred, uncharacteristically optimistic Chance represented a new departure in his writings. This edition is the first-ever authoritative text, free from the interference of typists, compositors and editors, and featuring a thorough introduction and detailed textual essay.

The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad 774pp

Dec. 2025 9781009618243 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00

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Far from the Madding Crowd

Thomas, Hardy

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

The Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy 960pp

Nov. 2025 9781108475051 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 160.00

eISBN 9781108655057

Women's Poetry from Ireland,

Scotland,

and Wales, 1400–1800: An Anthology

Sarah, Prescott | University of Edinburgh

A multilinguistic resource uncovering women's poetic activity across Ireland, Scotland, and Wales from 1400 to 1800, this anthology overturns the bias towards English writers that has historically shaped scholarly and popular perceptions of the canon of this period. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. 580pp

Publishing, printing history, history of the book

Art Books for the People

The Origins of The Penguin Modern Painters

David, Trigg

The Penguin Modern Painters (1944–1959) was a groundbreaking series of British art monographs designed to promote the work of contemporary artists to a general readership. This Element makes a contribution to the understanding of the relationship between publishing and the visual arts during the Second World War. Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

100pp

Dec. 2025 9781009489881 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009489904

Aug. 2025 9781009578141 Paperback GBP 14.00 / USD 18.00

eISBN 9781009578165

Asexuality in Young Adult Fiction

Noah, O'Connopp | Deakin University

The Asexual Exile trope positions asexual characters outside of society by portraying them as loners, inhuman, or adjacent to death. This research identifies trends in these portrayals by considering a corpus of 42 traditionally published novels of Young Adult fiction featuring asexual protagonists. Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

104pp

Feb. 2025 9781009582735 Paperback GBP 14.00 / USD 18.00

eISBN 9781009582766

E-books and 'Real Books'

Digital Reading and the Experience of Bookness

Laura, Dietz | University College London

Laura Dietz explores a paradox of the e-book revolution: mass adoption without full acceptance as 'real books'. Drawing on new data, she investigates how conceptions of e-books as ersatz, digital proxy, and incomplete books serve readers in unexpected ways. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. 263pp

Jan. 2025 9781009490764 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

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Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare

Rory, Loughnane | University of Kent

Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare explores the power of names in Shakespeare's works, focusing on Irish, Scottish, and Welsh characters and places. It explores who chooses names, why, and how they affect playgoers and readers. This Element offers a comprehensive case study for non-anglophone and global studies of Shakespeare and early modern drama. Elements in Shakespeare and Text 104pp

Jan. 2025 9781009521949 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00

eISBN 9781009521925

Inclusive Publishing and the Quest for Reading Equity

Agata, Mrva-Montoya | University of Sydney

Despite unprecedented opportunities to publish content in accessible formats, most books remain inaccessible to people with print disability. This Element offers the first holistic examination of this landscape, and argues for the need to move away from ad hoc remediation of books towards the commercial production of 'bornaccessible' content.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture 130pp

Scholarly Editing in Perspective

Wim, Van Mierlo | Loughborough University

Scholarly Editing in Perspective offers a critical reflection on the theory and methods of textual editing, as a contribution to a wider, comparative understanding of editorial practice. Elements in Publishing and Book Culture 101pp

Mar. 2025 9781009183789 Paperback GBP 14.00 / USD 18.00

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Shakespeare Broadcasts and the Question of Value

Aug. 2025 9781009528474 Paperback GBP 14.00 / USD 18.00 eISBN 9781009528511

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Institutions of Literature, 1700–1900

Jon, Mee | University of York

This collection provides a lively understanding of the roles institutions play in the production and reception of literature, arguing against the assumption that the institutional and the literary are necessarily at odds and demonstrating the particular importance of the period 1700–1900 to the development of the modern institutional landscape. 317pp

Jun. 2025 9781108822015 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781108909501

Pamphleteering

Polemic, Print, and the Infrastructure of Political Agency

Pierre-Héli, Monot | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

This Element provides a brief history of short-form polemical literature from the Reformation to the present. It argues that popular dissent and popular political agency must be understood in light of the material and, more recently, digital history of polemical literature. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

112pp

Beth, Sharrock | University of Warwick

This Element investigates the framing of Shakespeare's works in live theatre broadcasts by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Despite scholars' engagement, paratexts have been ignored. It examines how RSC Live broadcasts mediate lesserknown works and questions the theatre's role in (re)negotiating hierarchies of value in Shakespeare's canon.

Elements in Shakespeare and Text 104pp

Mar. 2025 9781009418003 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00

eISBN 9781009417990

The Form and Theory of Literary Doodling

Jeremiah R. Mercurio | Columbia University, New York

Oct. 2025 9781009550352 Paperback GBP 14.00 / USD 18.00

eISBN 9781009550338

Printing Technologies and Book Production in Seventeenth-Century Japan

Peter, Kornicki | Robinson College, Cambridge

This Element first sets the history of printing in Japan in its East Asian context, showing how developments in China, Korea and elsewhere had an impact upon Japan. It then reexamines printing in seventeenth-century Japan and in particular explores the reasons why Japanese printers abandoned typography less than fifty years after it was introduced. Elements in Publishing and Book Culture 100pp

Jan. 2025 9781009495516 Paperback GBP 14.00 / USD 18.00

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This Element investigates the phenomenon of literary doodling—the making of playful verbal and visual creations by professional authors while engaged in another activity. It argues that doodles, despite their apparent triviality, provide valuable insights into the creative processes, authorial habits, and finished works of literary doodlers.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture 125pp

Mar. 2025 9781009492430 Paperback GBP 14.00 / USD 18.00

eISBN 9781009492416

The People of Print Eighteenth-Century England

Adam James, Smith | York St John University

This collection profiles understudied figures in the book and print trades of the eighteenth century. With an explicit focus on intervening in the critical history of the trades, this volume profiles seven women and three men, emphasising the broad range of material, cultural, and ideological work these people undertook.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture 124pp

Oct. 2025 9781009629454 Paperback GBP 14.00 / USD 18.00

eISBN 9781009629461

Unprinted

Publication Beyond the Press

Daria, Kohlepp | KU Leuven

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

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture 114pp

Jan. 2025 9781009545310 Paperback GBP 14.00 / USD 18.00

eISBN 9781009545327

Women Booksellers in the Twentieth Century Hidden Behind the Bookshelves

Samantha J. Rayner | University College

London

The British women booksellers who built and ran successful businesses before, during, and after the Second World War have largely been forgotten. This Element seeks to reclaim some of these histories. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Publishing and Book Culture

120pp

Asian literature

The Indian Ocean and the Historical Imagination in Afro-Asian Fiction

Kritish, Rajbhandari | Reed College, Oregon As one among few studies of Indian Ocean literature, this book will benefit scholars and students in humanistic disciplines interested in transnational and migratory cultures of South Asia and Africa. A valuable resource for humanities programs expanding their curriculum with nuanced interdisciplinary perspectives on postcolonial literatures.

Cambridge Studies in World Literature

280pp

Jan. 2025 9781108445382 Paperback GBP 14.00 / USD 18.00

eISBN 9781108658584

European and world literature

African, Caribbean literature

Commodities and Literature

Sudesh, Mishra | University of the South Pacific

How have global commodities such as coffee, oil and lithium shaped literary texts, movements and genres? And how has literature imagined the stories of commodities as they travel across continents? This book will appeal to students and researchers interested in literary cultures, commodity histories, and their intersections.

Cambridge Critical Concepts

362pp

Jan. 2026 9781009627757 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009627764

European and world literature (general)

Arab Nationalism, Decolonization and the Making of a Transregional

Literature

Anne-Marie, McManus | Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin

Oct. 2025 9781009432320 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009432344

Photography and Film in the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee

Hermann, Wittenberg | University of Western Cape

Scholars, students and general readers of J. M. Coetzee's novels will find this book a fascinating guide to one of the most highly regarded authors of our times. Using extensive archival and photographic sources, and drawing from an interdisciplinary field of visual and critical theory, this book casts new light on Coetzee's literary work.

280pp

Demonstrates the formative influence of Arab nationalist thought on Arabic literature since decolonization. It is the first comparative study of literatures in Arabic and French across the Middle East and North Africa. It will interest scholars and students of Arabic and comparative literatures; Middle Eastern studies; and Maghrebi studies.

Cambridge Studies in World Literature

280pp

Dec. 2025 9781009575294 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009575270

Five Economies of World Literature

Nov. 2025 9781009548342 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009548397

Sandor, Hites | HUN-REN Research Center for the Humanities, Institute of Literary Studies Breaks new ground in the study of world literature by analysing the genesis of this concept in the context of early European political economy. Addressing readers interested in comparative literature, intellectual history, or economic thought, useful for any university course dealing with the theory and praxis of global cultural exchanges.

Cambridge Studies in World Literature

280pp

Nov. 2025 9781009654937 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009654944

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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. 242pp

Sep. 2025 9781108725743 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781108763899

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South Asian Writers, Latin American Literature, and the Rise of Global English

Roanne, Kantor | Stanford University, California

This book traces an unexpected journey to Latin America for South Asian literature in English. It shows how this encounter fundamentally shaped the way in which South Asian literature exploded into popularity from the 1980s until the mid-2000s.

Cambridge Studies in World Literature 244pp

Jul. 2025 9781009018449 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781009039727

The Aesthetics of Risk in Franco-East Asian Literatures

Amy, Xiaofan Li | University College, London

Arguing against the reductive understanding of risk as negative possibility, this book shows how risk is a necessary and creative force in literature, produced by playful and gamelike forms of writing and experience.

Cambridge Studies in World Literature 280pp

Feb. 2026 9781009670227 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009670180

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The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature

Sarah M. Quesada | Duke University, North Carolina

Through extensive Romance Languages archival and field research, this book challenges eurocentric notions of World Literature to create a 'Latin-African' literary history that interweaves the influential voices of African, Caribbean, and Latinx/Chicanx authors. This book bridges the long-neglected distance between hemispheric and African studies.

Cambridge Studies in World Literature 304pp

A History of Poetry in Italy

1200–1600

Guyda, Armstrong | University of Manchester

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

626pp

Dec. 2025 9781009424677 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009424660

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Cervantes the Poet

The Don Quijote, Poetic Practice, and the Conception of the First Modern Novel Gabrielle, Ponce-Hegenauepp | Wesleyan University, Connecticut

Recovering Cervantes' career as an itinerant poet, this study presents a new theory of the modern novel as an organic transformation of lyric practices native to the late-sixteenth century.

280pp

Oct. 2025 9781009045414 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009041119

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Dante and the Practice of Humility

A Theological Commentary on the Divine Comedy

Rachel K., Teubner | Australian Catholic University, Melbourne Examines humility as theologically central to the Comedy. Canto by canto, Teubner demonstrates the many means by which the poem's theology responds to contemporary readers' concerns. Readers will benefit richly from this gracefully written companion, which also introduces theologians to recent scholarship exploring Dante's religious thought.

368pp

Jul. 2025 9781009078139 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009086806

Jul. 2025 9781009315371 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009315340

Face and Form

Physiognomy in Literary Modernism

Anca, Parvulescu | Washington University, St Louis

Anca Parvulescu's prehistory of facial recognition technologies retells the story of literary modernism through the prism of the human face. She constructs an arc between twenty first-century conversations about the politics of the face and those physiognomic discourses that reflect modernism's long, complex and fascinating cultural history.

206pp

Sep. 2025 9781009599795 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009599801

Letterworlds in Late Nineteenth-Century France

The Epistolary Culture of Mallarmé, Morisot, Van Gogh, Cézanne, and Zola

Susan, Harrow | University of Bristol

What do letters written by cultural elites tell us about everyday living? Letterworlds advances a comparative thematic methodology, exploring the selected letter-writing of Mallarmé, Morisot, Van Gogh, Cézanne, and Zola through subjects that resonate today: physical and mental health; solitude and community; ethics and cultures of care.

290pp

Oct. 2025 9781009619004 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009619028

The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism

Jakob, Norberg | Duke University, North Carolina

In this first comprehensive Englishlanguage portrait of the Brothers Grimm as political thinkers and actors, Jakob Norberg shows how history's two most famous folklorists aspired to define national identity, delineate national borders, and even counsel regimes. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. 266pp

Mar. 2025 9781009073363 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009063890

The Cambridge Handbook of Literature and Plants

Bonnie, Lander Johnson | University of Cambridge

This wide-ranging, accessible handbook reveals the vital role plants have played in literature for two thousand years around the world. Its sections cover historical periods of plant literature, specific global regions and diverse literary forms.

406pp

Zola's Dream

Idealism on Trial

Claire, White | University of Cambridge

Spanning the period from Zola's epic Germinal to his intervention in the Dreyfus Affair, Zola's Dream paints a new and surprising picture of a towering figure within nineteenth-century literary and journalistic culture, building a bold, compelling case for the writer as an important thinker of the ideal.

304pp

Aug. 2025 9781009576680 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009576659

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A History of Modern Irish Women's Literature

Heather, Ingman | Trinity College Dublin

This book is aimed at students, researchers, and general readers who are interested in Irish literature and writing by women. It offers a comprehensive account of writing by women in Ireland from the seventeenth century to the present day, combining survey chapters with a focus on selected themes and authors.

508pp

Feb. 2025 9781108837736 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108942690

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The Cambridge History of French Thought

Michael, Moriarty | University of Cambridge

The book offers a comprehensive account of philosophical, religious, political and social thought in France from the Middle Ages to the present. It will appeal to the general reader as well as undergraduates, postgraduates, and academics wanting a succinct and wellinformed account of fields other than their own.

590pp

Jul. 2025 9781107578838 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 31.99 eISBN 9781316442999

Religion in Irish Literature and Culture

Willa, Murphy | Ulster University

This interdisciplinary volume asserts the ongoing and changing role of religion in Irish culture. Offering new perspectives on canonical literature's interrogation of Christianity, and Irish culture's responses to religious history, this book also explores recent developments in Irish spirituality across a range of cultural forms.

Cambridge Themes in Irish Literature and Culture

360pp

Jun. 2025 9781009668620 Paperback GBP 33.99 / USD 43.99 eISBN 9781316681572

Mar. 2026 9781009191623 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009191616

Seamus Heaney and Catholicism

Gary, Wade | University of Notre Dame, Australia

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

248pp

Feb. 2025 9781009541343 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

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Sean O'Casey in Context

James, Moran | University of Nottingham

Sean O'Casey is one of Ireland's bestknown writers. His work has been praised by figures from G. Bernard Shaw to Marilyn Monroe. This book offers a full contextualisation of O'Casey, examining his famous plays and his writings in other forms, and drawing on varying ideas in order to reassess his work.

Literature in Context

492pp

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The Global South and Literature

Russell, West-Pavlov | Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany

The Global South and Literature explores the historical, cultural and literary applications of the term applied to twentyfirst-century flows of transnational cultural influence, tracing their manifestations across the Global Southern traditions of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Jul. 2025 9781009304207 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009304191

The Cambridge Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes

Library Edition

James, Joyce

This book offers accessible support and lively discussions of Joyce's novel to curious general readers as well as students. Its eighteen essays by leading Joyce scholars on the eighteen chapters of the book are also of interest to scholars.

1000pp

Cambridge Critical Concepts 378pp 11 b/w illus. 1 table

Aug. 2025 9781108401128 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781108231930

Mar. 2025 9781009568449 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009568432

The Revival in?Irish Literature and Culture

Gregory, Castle | Arizona State University

Seeks to clarify the foundational ideals of the Irish Revival and to challenge misunderstandings about its aims and accomplishments by examining literary and cultural texts and analyzing the social and political impact of revivalism up to the present day.

Cambridge Themes in Irish Literature and Culture

378pp

Sep. 2025 9781009314442 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009314411

Latin American literature

Pablo Neruda in Context

Ignacio, López-Calvo | University of California Merced

Contextualizes Pablo Neruda's opus by including 42 essays focusing on his journeys, the Cold War, and how literary and political influences affected his poetic evolution and reception. It also considers his anti-colonial and ecocritical messages, relationships with women, and the significance of his plausible assassination.

Literature in Context

417pp

Dec. 2025 9781009635424 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781009635479

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

Taiwan

Room 311, 12th Floor, 51 Hengyang Road, Taipei, Taipei City 100, Taiwan Phone: (886)2 2254 1796 taipei@cambridge.org

Thailand

54 BB Building 1704 Sukhumvit 21 (Asoke), Wattana, Bangkok, 10110, Thailand

Phone: (66) 2 204 1451 Fax: (66) 2 204 1452 asia@cambridge.org

Vietnam

5F, YOCO Building

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

Phone: +84 (98) 8068727 Fax: +84 (98) 9141748 asia@cambridge.org