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English literature
Articulating Resistance under the Roman Empire
Edited by Daniel Jolowicz Jaś Elsner
Explores the diverse forms of elite resistance to and in the Roman Empire, often in subtle and silent ways.
January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781108484909 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Anti-Racist Shakespeare
Ambereen Dadabhoy and Nedda Mehdizadeh
This Element argues that Shakespeare is a productive site to cultivate an anti-racist pedagogy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Elements in Shakespeare and Pedagogy
January 2023 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 9781009001328 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P
The Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre
Text, Translation, and Commentary Editor (introduction and notes) Alison E. Cooley
Examines the emergence of dynastic rule at Rome in the early Principate via analysis of the senatorial decree concerning Piso.
March 2023 244 x 170 mm c.250pp 9781108714563 Paperback £19.99 / US$25.99 P
Writing about Discovery in the Early Modern East Indies
Su Fang Ng
This Element puts into dialogue early Portuguese and Malay travel writing of Melaka to re-examine ‘discovery’ as a cross-cultural trope.
Elements in Travel Writing
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009045865 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P
Sappho
A New Translation of the Complete Works
Second edition
Edited and translated by Diane J. Rayor Editor (introduction and notes) André Lardinois
Graceful modern translations of all the surviving poems and fragments of Sappho, Greece’s most famous woman poet.
February 2023 216 x 140 mm c.214pp 2 b/w illus. 9781108926973 Paperback £12.99 / US$16.95 X
Eighteenth-Century Connections
secret Writing in the long Eighteenth Century
Theories and Practices of Cryptology
Katherine Ellison
ISSN 2632-5578 (online) ISSN 2632-556X (print)
Secret Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century
Theories and Practices of Cryptology Katherine Ellison
Promoted as practice of selfimprovement, cryptology of the long eighteenth century granted secret writing methods disciplinary legitimacy.
Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009078146 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P
The Greeks and Their Histories
Myth, History, and Society Hans-Joachim Gehrke Translated by Raymond Geuss Preface by Jonas Grethlein
Argues that Greek communities used their histories to help shape political and social realities, with a lasting impact on historiography.
Classical Scholarship in Translation
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.180pp 9781316519783 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C
Joseph Conrad: Contemporary Reviews
Edited by John G. Peters Allan H. Simmons
This volume supplements and completes Joseph Conrad: Contemporary Reviews. In a single volume it gathers reviews that span Conrad’s career.
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad
January 2023 216 x 138 mm c.750pp 9781009100199 Hardback c. £110.00 / c. US$130.00 R
Neil Ramsey
This book illuminates the genesis and development of modern war writing in relation to Romanticism, biopolitics and disciplinary theory.
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 135
November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.250pp 9781009100441 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C
Science and Reading in the Eighteenth Century
The Hardwicke Circle and the Royal Society, 1740–1766 Markman Ellis
Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
March 2023 9781009217200 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P
Honor, Romanticism, and the Hidden Value of Modernity
Jamison Kantor
This rich cultural history shows how honor, as much as freedom, inspired poets, novelists, and abolitionists of the nineteenth century.
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
October 2022 229 x 152 mm c.217pp 9781009123013 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C
Theatre Closure and the Paradoxical Rise of English Renaissance Drama in the Civil Wars
Heidi Craig
Heidi Craig demonstrates how dramatic and theatrical activity paradoxically thrived during the English theatre closures, 1642–1660.
February 2023 229 x 152 mm c.255pp 9781009224031 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C
Gothic Voices
The Vococentric Soundworld of Gothic Writing Matt Foley
This fascinating study reads Gothic fiction’s terrifying and horrifying voices as they develop from the Romantic period until today.
Elements in the Gothic
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781009162562 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P
Stage Spectacle and Audience Response Lauren Robertson
Lauren Robertson shows how the commercial theater transformed early modernity’s crisis of uncertainty into spectacular onstage display.
January 2023 229 x 152 mm c.290pp 9781009225151 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Romanticism, Republicanism, and the Swiss Myth
Patrick Vincent
A detailed treatment of Switzerland in British literature, the book shows how a republican myth contributed to Romanticism and liberalism.
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 138
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 9781009210294 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The New Joyce Studies
Edited by Catherine Flynn
This volume seeks to use Joyce’s canonical centrality to inform modernist studies more broadly.
Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
September 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 9781009235679 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Performing Restoration Shakespeare
Edited by Amanda Eubanks Winkler Claude Fretz Richard Schoch
The first book on Restoration Shakespeare in performance, drawing on theatre history, musicology and literary criticism.
August 2023 229 x 152 mm c.292pp 9781009241205 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C
Emotion and the Self in English Renaissance Literature
Reforming Contentment Paul Joseph Zajac
Unearthing a little-studied Reformation discourse of contentment, this book shows its surprising significance in Renaissance literature.
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.232pp 9781009271660 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C
The Postsecular Restoration and the Making of Literary Conservatism
Corrinne Harol
Corrinne Harol reveals how secularization catalysed conservative writers to respond and thereby contribute impactfully to literary history.
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.252pp 9781009273480 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Late Romanticism and the End of Politics
Byron, Mary Shelley, and the Last Men John Havard
A provocative examination of how Romantic imaginings of the end of the world shaped thinking about politics and political change.
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
March 2023 229 x 152 mm c.217pp 9781009289207 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C
Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom
Walking with Euclid Ann C. Colley
Ann Colley reveals how geometry, both Euclidean and nonEuclidean, channelled and shaped Coleridge’s thought and his perception of nature.
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 139
March 2023 229 x 152 mm c.205pp 9781009271752 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C
The Diary of George Lloyd
Volume 64 Part 1
Edited by Daniel Patterson
The diary of George Lloyd (1642–1718) is an invaluable resource for scholars of English social and cultural history.
Camden Fifth Series
December 2022 216 x 138 mm c.480pp 9781009323413 Hardback £45.00 / US$80.00 C
The Art of the Reprint
Nineteenth-Century Novels in Twentieth-Century Editions Rosalind Parry
A rich history of the nineteenthcentury novel as it was reimagined for everyday readers by extraordinary twentieth-century illustrators.
Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture
March 2023 229 x 152 mm c.215pp 9781009272049 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C
Watch and Ward
Henry James Edited by Pierre A. Walker Jay S. Spina
This is the first-ever scholarly edition of Henry James’s first novel, Watch and Ward.
The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James, 3
March 2023 228 x 152 mm 500pp 9781107086487 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 R
Reimagining Shakespeare Education
Teaching and Learning through Collaboration Edited by Liam E. Semler Claire Hansen Jacqueline Manuel
A showcase of innovative, global, collaborative Shakespeare education projects between institutions, educators, practitioners and students.
February 2023 228 x 152 mm c.308pp 9781108478670 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C
Shakespeare and Virtue
A Handbook Edited by Julia Reinhard Lupton Donovan Sherman
Through classical, Scriptural, and global notions of virtue, this handbook illuminates the shared worlds of Shakespeare’s plays.
December 2022 229 x 152 mm c.400pp 9781108843409 Hardback £95.00 / US$125.00 R
Empirical Knowledge in the EighteenthCentury Novel
Beyond Realism Aaron R. Hanlon
Focusing on formal realism has obscured how important the novel actually was to Enlightenment empiricism.
Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108791649 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P
Carnivals of Ruin
Beckett, Ireland, and the Festival Form Trish McTighe
This Element unpacks what it means to festivalise Beckett and examines how Beckett’s work may offer grounds for critique of the festival form.
Elements in Beckett Studies
November 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 9781108965699 Paperback £17.00 / US$22.00 P
The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro
Edited by Andrew Bennett
A lively, accessible and authoritative introduction to the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, one of the leading novelists of our time.
Cambridge Companions to Literature
April 2023 229 x 152 mm c.293pp 9781108822022 Paperback c. £18.99 / c. US$29.99 P
The New Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson
Edited by Greg Clingham
Deeply informed and accessible, this Companion unveils Johnson’s strikingly progressive engagement in literature, politics, and society.
Cambridge Companions to Literature
September 2022 229 x 152 mm c.275pp 9781108965781 Paperback £25.99 / US$34.99 P
Sexual Restraint and Aesthetic Experience in Victorian Literary Decadence
Sarah Green
Sarah Green shows how late Victorian Decadent literature paradoxically treats sexual restraint as healthy and aesthetically productive.
Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture, 142
March 2023 229 x 152 mm c.274pp 9781108831512 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 C
Are Books Still ‘Different’?
Literature as Culture and Commodity in a Digital Age Caroline Koegler Corinna Norrick-Rühl
This Element offers a unique interdisciplinary exploration of literature as culture and commodity in a digital age.
Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
March 2023 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 9781108987127 Paperback £12.49 / US$17.99 P
