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Literature – American Literature
Scholastic Affect Gender, Maternity and the History of Emotions
Clare Monagle | Macquarie University, Sydney The history of the Virgin Mary in medieval theology is one of an ideologically useful vision of womanhood. This Element deploys the intellectual history of medieval thought to map the moves made in codifying Mary’s perfection. It then uses contemporary gender and affect theory, mapping the emotional regimes of the medieval past upon the present.
Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses
August 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-81426-3 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
A History of American Puritan Literature
Edited by Kristina Bross | Washington University, St Louis This book captures and the reconfigures understanding of puritan literature and its history. It offers a sense of where puritan studies stands with pointers toward where they might go next – an account of American puritan literature accessible and useful to a broad range of students, teachers, scholars, and readers. • Resituates puritan New England in in the context of a much more interconnected Atlantic and global world • Introduces readers to the changed understanding of American exceptionalism and puritan origin stories • Captures the renaissance in puritan studies and presents the reconfigured understanding to readers at multiple levels of expertise September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.375pp 978-1-108-84003-3 Hardback £85.00 / US$110.00 R
A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War
Edited by Tim Dayton | Kansas State University The collection explores the various, often conflicting representations of the war offered by US writers, artists, intellectuals, and political figures. This multidisciplinary study, a collaboration of premier scholars, serves readers and students interested in American literature, history, and politics as well as specialists in these subjects. • Presents the latest research on US literature and culture of the First
World War by premier scholars • Covers multiple genres and media: poetry, fiction, film, drama, memoir, journalism, music, architecture, and visual art • Reconsiders the longstanding assumption of American disillusionment with the war November 2020 228 x 152 mm c.400pp 978-1-108-47532-7 Hardback c. £89.99 / c. US$120.00 R
Volume 1 Edited by Melanie Benson Taylor | Dartmouth College, New Hampshire This book is intended for scholars and students of Native American literature, US & Canadian literature, comparative literature, literary theory, multi-ethnic studies, cultural studies, and American studies. Expert commentaries represent a variety of disciplines and come from the US, Canada, England, and Europe. • Advances a provocative narrative about Native American literature as uniquely sited and constructed within US settler space and economies • Assembles a collection of authoritative perspectives from within and outside of the field • Offers important perspectives from individuals within the publishing industry and creative process September 2020 228 x 152 mm 562pp 978-1-108-48205-9 Hardback £120.00 / US$155.00 R
The New Hemingway Studies
Edited by Suzanne del Gizzo | Chestnut College Hemingway continues to command attention in popular culture and in literary studies. The New Hemingway Studies outlines Hemingway’s continued relevance for the twenty-first century scholars and readers, highlights the latest critical trends, and indicates the paths yet to be taken. • Provides an overview of recent scholarly trends in Hemingway studies • Re-imagines Hemingway studies in new contexts • Demonstrates gaps in current scholarship and adumbrates possible paths for future inquiry
Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.318pp 978-1-108-49484-7 Hardback £89.99 / US$120.00 P
Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture
Edited by John Hay | University of Nevada, Las Vegas This book is for students and instructors of American literature and culture. It features two dozen scholarly essays on different aspects of the theme of apocalypse in America, from the colonial era to the present. Imagining the end of the world has always been a popular pastime, especially in America. • Specifically addresses many key texts and periods commonly covered in undergraduate survey courses • Organized according both to key aspects of Apocalypse and to notable periods in American literary history • Offers twenty-five essays on many different periods and aspects of
American literary history
Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture
December 2020 228 x 152 mm c.400pp 978-1-108-49384-0 Hardback £84.99 / US$110.00 R
