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Literature – English Literature
War and American Literature
Edited by Jennifer Haytock | State University College, Brockport, New York War and American Literature examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up new lines of inquiry. Readers will find accessible yet sophisticated essays that lay out key questions and scholarship in the field. • Makes connections among literature about all major US wars • Introduces new lines of inquiry, explaining five of the latest theoretical approaches and how these approaches can illuminate the subject of war in American literature • Provides grounding in literature and scholarship of major US wars
Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture
December 2020 228 x 152 mm c.375pp 978-1-108-49680-3 Hardback c. £80.00 / c. US$110.00 R
After the Human Culture, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century
Edited by Sherryl Vint | University of California, Riverside After the Human documents the emergence of posthumanist ideas in the fractures within traditional disciplines, examines the new objects of analysis that thus came into prominence, and theorizes new interdisciplinary methods of study that followed. • Contextualizes the shifting terminology that shapes this area of study, and clarifies a history of various terms, from antihumanism to posthumanism, transhumanism, critical posthumanism and beyond • Demonstrates that there are a certain shared set of premises across a range of posthumanist thinkers, but also points to areas of tension or omission among them • Describes a trajectory of how scholarly enquiry has been changed in both its objects of analysis and its methods of theorization via the emergence of a diverse set of philosophical perspectives, situated analyses, and ethical frameworks loosely categorized as posthumanism
After Series, 6
December 2020 229 x 152 mm c.260pp 978-1-108-83666-1 Hardback £79.99 / US$105.00 P 978-1-108-81916-9 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P
Beyond the Anthropological Difference
Matthew Calarco | California State University, Fullerton This Element provides a novel framework for understanding the nature of violence against animals. The author argues that the search for human uniqueness (an ‘anthropological difference’) is at the heart of this violence and should be replaced by a way of life based on the notion of human and animals being indistinct.
Elements in Environmental Humanities
July 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-79737-5 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
The New Feminist Literary Studies
Edited by Jennifer Cooke | Loughborough University This book presents sixteen essays by feminists of theory and literature. It is useful to academics and students of feminism, gender studies, queer theory, and contemporary literature. Its essays both account for the current state of the field and sub-disciplines they tackle as well as making fresh critical interventions. • Intervenes in feminist debates and the subfields with which it intersects • Organized into useful sections – Frontiers, Fields, and Forms – making it easy to use and to find relevant essays easily • Presents both established and emerging feminist voices
Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
October 2020 229 x 152 mm c.260pp 978-1-108-47193-0 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Anatomy of Deep Time Rock Art and Landscape in the Altai Mountains of Mongolia
Esther Jacobson-Tepfer | University of Oregon Analysis of Petroglyphic rock art in three valleys of Mongolia’s Altai Mountains begins to explain the rhythm of cultural manifestations: where rock art appears, when it disappears, and why. The material and this remote arena offer an ideal laboratory to study the intersection of prehistoric culture and paleoenvironment.
Elements in Environmental Humanities
March 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 50 b/w illus. 978-1-108-79008-6 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data
Andrew Piper | McGill University, Montréal This Element combines a machine learning-based approach to detect the prevalence and nature of generalization across tens of thousands of sentences from different disciplines alongside a robust discussion of potential solutions to the problem of the generalizability of textual evidence.
Elements in Digital Literary Studies
September 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 13 b/w illus. 978-1-108-92620-1 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
The Environmental Humanities and the Ancient World Questions and Perspectives
Christopher Schliephake | Universität Augsburg This Element aims to show why the ancient tradition still matters in the Anthropocene. Revisiting ancient materials alongside central concepts of contemporary environmental theory, Schliephake offers new perspectives and argues that classical ecological knowledge is a powerful resource for creating alternative world views.
Elements in Environmental Humanities
July 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-74904-6 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies
Edited by Siobhan B. Somerville | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign This Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays gathered here represent work in queer studies in the vital present, suggesting new and emerging areas, including transgender studies. It will appeal to undergraduates, tutors, and lecturers studying and teaching Queer Studies. • Reflects the newest areas of queer studies scholarship, including queer of color critique, indigenous studies, disability studies, and transgender studies • Emphasizes queer literary and cultural studies, with essays on topics such as poetics, narrative, popular culture, performance studies, and digital culture • Familiarizes readers with the history of queer literary and cultural studies, as well as the most current debates
Cambridge Companions to Literature
June 2020 228 x 152 mm 276pp 978-1-108-48204-2 Hardback £74.99 / US$99.99 P 978-1-108-74189-7 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 G
The Edited Collection Pasts, Present and Futures
Peter Webster | Webster Research Consulting Edited collections are widely supposed to contain lesser work than scholarly journals. After examining the origins of this critique, this Element explores the modern history of the edited collection and the particular roles it has played as a model of collaboration, trust and mutual obligation.
Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
June 2020 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-73937-5 Paperback £9.99 / US$12.99 P
All the Sonnets of Shakespeare William Shakespeare
Edited by Paul Edmondson | The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Intended for all readers of Shakespeare, this beautiful and ground-breaking book arranges Shakespeare’s sonnets printed in 1609 in chronological order and intersperses the sonnets from the plays among them. A lively introduction provides essential background, while explanatory notes and modern English paraphrases illuminate the sonnets’ meanings. • A breath of fresh air which encourages readers to engage anew with
Shakespeare as a writer in sonnet form • Encourages new insights into the relationship between Shakespeare’s life and work • Significantly enhances comprehension of these often difficult poems through easily intelligible summaries and paraphrases September 2020 216 x 138 mm 306pp 978-1-108-49039-9 Hardback £12.99 / US$17.95 T
The Tragedy of King Lear
Third edition
William Shakespeare
Introduction by Lois Potter | University of Delaware, Emeritus For this updated critical edition of King Lear, Lois Potter has written a completely new introduction, taking account of recent productions and reinterpretations of the play, with a particular emphasis on its afterlife in global performance and adaptation. • A completely fresh introduction equips students to analyse the language and staging of the play for themselves • Provides a guide to key critical interpretations of the play, including philosophical, political, feminist and ecocritical readings • Equips students to think about the play in performance and adaptation around the world Contents: Introduction; Textual Analysis; Preface by Brian Gibbons; Textual Analysis, Part 1; A Note on the Text; List of Characters; The Play; Textual Analysis, Part 2; Appendix: Passages Unique to the First Quarto; Reading List.
The New Cambridge Shakespeare
May 2020 228 x 152 mm 312pp 19 b/w illus. 978-1-107-19586-8 Hardback £49.99 / US$61.99 X 978-1-316-64697-7 Paperback £8.99 / US$11.95 G
The Presence of Rome in Medieval and Early Modern Britain Texts, Artefacts and Beliefs
Andrew Wallace | Carleton University, Ottawa This study will appeal to students and scholars of literature, history, and culture who are interested in Rome’s persistence in medieval and early modern Britain. • Provides a nuanced and multi-disciplinary account of the persistence of
Rome in Britain • Puts the persistence of Rome in Britain in an extremely wide historicalcultural frame of reference, keeping texts written in Britain in dialogue with continental texts ranging from antiquity to the early modern period • Places medieval texts in a range of languages (Latin, medieval Welsh,
Old English, Old French) in conversation with texts written in early modern English and humanistic Latin September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 5 b/w illus. 978-1-108-49610-0 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Paper in Medieval England From Pulp to Fictions
Orietta Da Rold | University of Cambridge Detailed analysis of the coming of paper to medieval England, and its influence on the literary and non-literary culture of the period. In this analysis, book production is one of the elements of a wider story. The book considers a wider matrix of historical, economic, social and cultural interrelations and people’s networks. • Gives the most expert advice and information on how to approach the study of medieval paper, providing a step-by-step approach • Provides a multi-disciplinary analysis on the use of paper in medieval manuscript production including multilingual examples of how disciplines must interact to understand the complex affordances of paper • Demonstrates the importance of the study of paper for manuscript in historical and literary studies
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 112
October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.280pp 978-1-108-84057-6 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Imagining the Medieval Afterlife
Edited by Richard Matthew Pollard | Université du Québec à Montréal This first comprehensive study in English of the many and variegated ways the afterlife was envisioned in the Middle Ages presents exciting new interpretations that will interest literary scholars, (art) historians, and theologians. • Offers the first comprehensive treatment in English of how the afterlife was envisioned, from Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages • Includes the most up to date scholarship on the medieval afterlife, with fresh perspectives that push the field in new directions • Features a range of perspectives from leading historians, art historians, literary scholars, classicists and theologians to afford a crossdisciplinary perspective
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 114
November 2020 228 x 152 mm 320pp 978-1-107-17791-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Edited by Orietta Da Rold | University of Cambridge This book orientates students in the complex, multidisciplinary study of medieval book production and contemporary display of manuscripts. It illustrates the major methodologies and explains why skills in understanding early book production are so critical for reading, editing, and accessing a rich cultural heritage. • Chapters by leading specialists in the specific area of manuscript studies • Interdisciplinary scholars take readers through the how and why of working with manuscripts from Britain, c.600–1500 • Extensive in coverage and clearly written, including all aspects of what manuscript studies can achieve for practitioners
Cambridge Companions to Literature
September 2020 228 x 152 mm 340pp 978-1-107-10246-0 Hardback c. £59.99 / c. US$79.95 P 978-1-107-50014-3 Paperback c. £18.99 / c. US$24.95 P
The Afterlife of St Cuthbert Place, Texts and Ascetic Tradition, 690–1500
Christiania Whitehead | Universities of Warwick and Lausanne Introduces readers interested in insular spirituality and hagiography to the major texts associated with the cult of the great northern English saint, Cuthbert. The first sustained analysis of this textual tradition from 690-1500, emphasizing his ascetic evolution, and association with changing perceptions of northernness and nationhood. • The first book to tell the entire story of the textual tradition of St
Cuthbert’s cult, from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries • Gives the reader insight into northern eremiticism over an expansive time scale, exploring how the distinctive characteristics of Cuthbert’s eremitic lifestyle and spirituality change in visibility and value • Explores environmental contexts: Cuthbert’s connections with a series of northern spaces, including the landscape, the monastery, the diocese, the eremitic island, and the Anglo-Scottish border
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-49035-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Ben Jonson and Posterity Reception, Reputation, Legacy
Edited by Martin Butler | University of Leeds Bringing together leading scholars and multiple critical perspectives, this collection provides new insights into Jonson’s reception and legacy over four centuries, benefitting students and scholars of Jonson and early modern literary studies, as well as all those interested in intertextuality and reception from the Renaissance to the present. • Aligns leading scholars who have contributed to major editions and studies of Jonson in the past decade • Explores questions regarding Jonson’s reputation and reception over four centuries • Cross-examines the history of Jonson’s reputation and what it reveals about our relationship with the early modern past October 2020 229 x 152 mm c.260pp 978-1-108-84268-6 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Shakespeare and Emotion
Edited by Katharine Craik | Oxford Brookes University These twenty-three new essays by an international team of experts will be essential reading for students and scholars working on Shakespeare, the history of the body and emotions, and performance theory or practice. It brings the current surge of interest in affective life into conversation with current debates in Shakespeare studies. • Explores emotional experience as a central feature of Shakespeare’s works, offering innovative approaches to the plays and poems • Forges new insights into the vibrant field of the early modern history of the emotions • Builds on Shakespeare’s enduring legacy to make links between past and present emotional experience, considering the real-world benefit of Shakespeare’s creativity for today’s geo-political realities October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-41616-0 Hardback £74.99 / US$99.99 R
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Anne Finch
Edited by Jennifer Keith | University of North Carolina, Greensboro Scholars and students of women’s writing, poetry, and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature have long called for a complete, critical edition of the works of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea. This edition provides, for the first time, authoritative texts, textual apparatus and commentary for all known works by this important writer. • The first ever complete, critical edition of the works of Anne Finch,
Countess of Winchilsea (1661–1720) • Provides established texts of all Finch’s poems, plays, and letters, organized by their appearance in Finch’s authorized collections • Includes a comprehensive introduction, extensive explanatory notes and thorough textual commentary September 2020 216 x 138 mm 1400pp 978-0-521-19622-2 2 Volume Hardback Set £200.00 / US$260.00 R
Time and Gender on the Shakespearean Stage
Sarah Lewis | King’s College London Lewis examines cultural and theatrical intersections between early modern temporal concepts and early modern gendered identities. Through close readings of the works of Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker, Heywood and others, she shows how temporal tropes are used to delineate masculinity and femininity on the early modern stage. • Sheds new light on Shakespeare by reading his works alongside less well-known plays • Explores how culturally constructed ideas of time and gender are connected in early modern drama and society • Focuses on the performance of gender and of temporality through the framework of three key concepts: patience, prodigality, and revenge September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.280pp 978-1-108-84219-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Shakespeare and Senecan Tragedy
Curtis Perry | University of Illinois A new approach to understanding the relationship between Shakespearean tragedy and Senecan tragedy, this book has implications for our understanding Shakespeare’s major tragedies, for our understanding of tragedy as a genre, and for our understanding of early modern classical reception. • Brings recent advances in understanding Senecan drama from Classics into Shakespeare Studies • Combines philology with up-to-date theoretical sophistication about classical reception, political theory, early modern race-making, and the history of the self • Rethinks Shakespeare and periodization by remapping the intersecting reception histories of Senecan and Shakespearean tragedy October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-49617-9 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Taste and Knowledge in Early Modern England
Elizabeth L. Swann | Durham University This book will be of use to students, postgraduates, and scholars with interests in the history of the senses and in Renaissance and early modern literature and culture. It offers new readings of influential texts by authors including Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Amelia Lanyer, and Robert Boyle. • Offers the first full and detailed account of the sense of taste in early modern England • Draws on texts from a vast spectrum of genres in order to offer a wideranging, interdisciplinary account of taste • Makes use of, and engages critically with, the influential approach known as ‘historical phenomenology,’ reframing this as a methodological tool November 2020 228 x 152 mm c.280pp 978-1-108-48765-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Shakespeare, Blackface and Race Different Perspectives
Coen Heijes | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands Through several case studies the author analyses the interaction between blackface and (institutional) racism in Dutch society and theatre and how Othello has become an active player in this debate.
Elements in Shakespeare Performance
September 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-82782-9 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen
Russell Jackson | University of Birmingham The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen offers critical introductions by a team of distinguished scholars on a diverse range of screen adaptations of Shakespeare from around the world. The volume provides crucial contexts for undergraduate and graduate students of Shakespeare and media. • Chapters encompass diverse critical and historical approaches to topics, providing a valuable introduction for non-specialist readers to different critical strategies • Featuring lively and engaging chapters on the history of cinema, television adaptations, major directors, world cinema and ‘live’
Shakespeare broadcast • Up-to-date analysis of recent films and digital adaptations of
Shakespeare with a broad range of productions released in the last ten years
Cambridge Companions to Literature
November 2020 228 x 152 mm c.320pp 978-1-108-42116-4 Hardback c. £59.99 / c. US$74.99 P 978-1-108-43155-2 Paperback c. £19.99 / c. US$24.99 P
About Shakespeare Bodies, Spaces and Texts
Robert Shaughnessy | University of Surrey Drawing upon the work of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare’s Globe and the Schaubühne Berlin, About Shakespeare examines theatrical bodies, the spaces inhabited by actors and audiences, and the texts that circulate around and between them.
Elements in Shakespeare Performance
September 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-72548-4 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
Romantic Cartographies Mapping, Literature, Culture, 1789–1832
Edited by Sally Bushell | Lancaster University Romantic Cartographies is the first collection to fully explore the reach and significance of cartographic practice in Romantic-period culture. Revealing the diverse ways in which the period mapped itself, the volume also considers our contemporary engagements with Romanticism from the perspective of our own spatialised culture. • Provides a range of interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives on the practice and cultural significance of cartographic work in the romantic period • Interrogates and opens up a deeper understanding of the concept of the map, including its place in wider cultural networks and its relation to other texts and bodies of knowledge • Clearly structured around three perspectives: historical, material and present day – including digital and other technologies October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.320pp 29 b/w illus. 978-1-108-47238-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Romanticism: 100 Poems
Edited by Michael Ferber | University of New Hampshire Choosing one hundred poems from what many consider to be the greatest era of poetry is no small feat. Michael Ferber’s refreshing collection includes seminal Romantic poems alongside lesser-known gems. Embodying the urgent international contexts of the Romantic movement, this transatlantic anthology features poetry translated from six languages. • A uniquely international anthology of romantic poetry spanning many languages and nations across Europe • Includes helpful notes with engaging headnotes for poets and a concise, accessible introduction to orient general readers in the history, context, and meanings of ‘Romantic’ poetry • Uniquely concise, attractive, and affordable anthology of Romantic poems that will serve general readers as an engaging entry point or as an enriching supplementary text for secondary and university literature students October 2020 198 x 129 mm c.200pp 978-1-108-49105-1 Hardback c. £12.99 / c. US$16.99 T
Rethinking the Secular Origins of the Novel The Bible in English Fiction 1678–1767
Kevin Seidel | Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia Unsettling the usual ways we think about the relationship between religion and secularism, and focusing on scenes where the Bible shows up as a physical object in eighteenth-century English fiction, this book powerfully argues that the English novel rose with the Bible, not after it. • Takes up recent, interdisciplinary discourse on secularism and applies it to literary studies, providing new ways to think about secularity in literature • Productively connects histories of the novel and histories of the Bible • Explores the Bible as a material object, not just a text, to understand its plural and varied authority within the novel and among various social practices connected to the Bible October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.280pp 978-1-108-49103-7 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature
Essaka Joshua | University of Notre Dame, Indiana This book is for Romantic era scholars/students interested in revising their view on major Romantic texts by reading with sensitivity to ideas and concepts around disability; and for literary disability studies’ scholars and students wishing to extend their understanding of the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries. • Provides an overview of scholarship in the field of critical disability studies; and an overview of literary criticism on disability, making a disability studies approach accessible to Romanticists • Uses a series of case studies of single authors, groups of writers, and single texts allowing readers insight into how a disability studies reading might work in a range of contexts • Eschews anachronistic terminology and concepts, providing new period-appropriate terminology for ‘disability’ and period-appropriate concepts of disability
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, 130
October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.250pp 978-1-108-83670-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Victorian Women and Wayward Reading Crises of Identification
Marisa Palacios Knox | University of Texas Rio Grande Valley This book explores how Victorian women readers strategically identified with literature to defy stereotypes and inspire their action and creativity. Engaging with nineteenth-century English literature and culture, the book engages with theories and histories of reading that appeal to literary scholars and educators. • Clarifies the complex concept of literary identification, providing a history of its feminization and depreciation as a reading practice despite its ubiquity as a reading experience • Illuminates examples of deliberate reading by Victorian women that inspired public and professional action, countering prevalent stereotypes about women’s reading • Includes a chapter on the pedagogical and critical applications of identification, connecting critical analysis and history of nineteenthcentury literature to current teaching praxis
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.250pp 978-1-108-49616-2 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare Bardology in the Nineteenth Century
Charles LaPorte | University of Washington This book will interest anyone who is curious about how Shakespeare became the presiding deity of English literature. It describes the Victorians’ quasi-Biblical culture surrounding Shakespeare’s work and discusses why Victorian devotion had an enduring impact upon English studies in the Western world. • Demonstrates the religious dimensions of Victorian Shakespeare criticism • Places Victorian reverence for Shakespeare in the light of nineteenthcentury Biblical criticism • Presents in clear and non-specialist language the implications of modern biblical criticism
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.260pp 978-1-108-49615-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Tragedy and the Modernist Novel
Manya Lempert | University of Arizona This book brings together the study of modern fiction, tragedy, chance, and the natural world. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers interested in British and European modernism, philosophy, science and literature, and classical reception studies. It will also interest scholars studying the novel or tragedy more generally. • Explains how modern novelists thought about ancient and modern tragedy • Unveils the similarities between Greek tragedy and Darwinian evolution • Explores modernist authors’ depictions of nihilism, suicide, and political violence and apathy as cautionary tales for readers today, showing how fiction can endorse and condemn different ethical and political positions September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.290pp 978-1-108-49602-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Modernism and the Idea of the Crowd
Judith Paltin | University of British Columbia, Vancouver This book argues that literary modernists engaged creatively with modernity’s expanding forms of collective experience and performative identities; their work clarifies how popular subjectivity evolves from a nineteenth-century liberal citizenry to the contemporary sense of a range of political multitudes struggling with conditions of oppression. • Examines and analyzes crowds, political agency, and group performativity across a set of canonical and lesser known modernist works • Offers a comprehensive anatomy of the social mind as theorized from within modernist studies, democracy studies, and literary studies • Engages with a variety of period archives including fiction, drama, poetry, music, painting, newspapers, police and government records, published correspondence, manifestos, private writings, and exhibitions November 2020 229 x 152 mm c.290pp 978-1-108-84223-5 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Modernism in the Metrocolony Urban Cultures of Empire in Twentieth-Century Literature
Caitlin Vandertop | University of the South Pacific This book considers the place of the British colonial city in modernist fiction. While modernism is often linked to the cultural transformations of the Euro-American metropolis, Modernism in the Metrocolony shows how writers responded to empire’s urban legacies, tracing an alternative, peripheral history of the modernist city. • Provides examples of interdisciplinary approaches to modernist literature, postcolonial studies and urban history • Produces an innovative theoretical overview outlining the significance of peripheral urbanism to modernism, drawing primarily on theorists from the global South • Intervenes in debates over the cultural, political and ecological legacies of colonial urbanism November 2020 228 x 152 mm c.280pp 978-1-108-83562-6 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Postcognitivist Beckett
Olga Beloborodova | Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium A reassessment of Beckett’s alleged Cartesianism using the theoretical framework of extended cognition. The argument defended here is that Beckett’s fictional minds are not isolated ‘skullscapes’: they are grounded in interaction with their fictional storyworlds, however impoverished those may have become in the later part of his writing career.
Elements in Beckett Studies
June 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-70861-6 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00
Experimental Beckett Contemporary Performance Practices
Nicholas E. Johnson | Trinity College Dublin How do twenty-first century theatre practitioners negotiate the dynamics of tradition and innovation across the works of Samuel Beckett? Reading recent performances for creative uses of embodiment, environment, and technology reveals the increasingly interdisciplinary, international, and intermedial character of contemporary Beckettian practice.
Elements in Beckett Studies
April 2020 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-73779-1 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
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The New Modernist Studies
Edited by Douglas Mao | The Johns Hopkins University This is the first book devoted to the history and prospects of the new modernist studies. It will be a key resource for readers seeking an authoritative account of the field’s early years and for those seeking out new directions in modernist scholarship. • Includes detailed accounts of intellectual milieu into which the new modernist studies emerged as well as a rich institutional history of the early years of the field • Explores new directions in modernist studies and offers readers a sense of where the new modernist studies may be headed in the near future • Chapters provide an enthusiastic, informed take on a continuously evolving field
Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
November 2020 228 x 152 mm c.280pp 978-1-108-48706-1 Hardback c. £70.00 / c. US$110.00 P 978-1-108-73214-7 Paperback c. £18.99 / c. US$29.99 P
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four
Edited by Nathan Waddell | University of Birmingham The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen EightyFour is aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates, and academics. Situating the novel in multiple frameworks, including contextual considerations and literary histories, the book asks new questions about the novel’s significance in an age in which authoritarianism finds itself freshly empowered. • Provides analyses of Nineteen Eighty-Four across multiple media, including literature, film and television, radio, songs, dance, comics, and video games • The book is structured around four key emphases: contexts, histories, questions, and media • Situates Nineteen Eighty-Four not only in new conceptual and literaryhistorical contexts, but also in relation to the rest of his writing
Cambridge Companions to Literature
October 2020 228 x 152 mm c.280pp 978-1-108-84109-2 Hardback £74.99 / US$99.99 C 978-1-108-81471-3 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 G
Jacob’s Room Virginia Woolf
Edited by Stuart N. Clarke | Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain This edition is for students and academics of Woolf’s works. It aims to be as comprehensive as possible in providing an authoritative text, hundreds of explanatory notes and an extensive introduction describing the composition of the novel and its critical reception 1922–41. • Provides hundreds of explanatory notes, helping readers understand the historical and literary resonances of objects, phrases, and scenes • The introduction gives a detailed account of the composition of the novel, together with a separate timeline • Details the critical reception of the novel from publication to Woolf’s death (1922–41)
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf
September 2020 216 x 138 mm 500pp 978-0-521-84674-5 Hardback £105.00 / US$135.00 R
Book, Text, Medium Cross-Sectional Reading for a Digital Age
Garrett Stewart | University of Iowa This book assess the transformative arc between medieval books and today’s e-books. It will appeal to graduates and researchers working in the 21st century literary studies generally, in the relationships between the book and the digital age specifically. • Brings together book studies and the history of book arts with textual readings, literary theory, and the philosophy of language • Makes direct connections between art history, including painting and conceptual sculpture, and the nuances of literary process in an age of digital poetics • Develops an interdisciplinary concept of medium that challenges or augments many leading contemporary theories in the field
Cambridge Studies in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Culture
December 2020 228 x 152 mm c.280pp 978-1-108-83459-9 Hardback c. £75.00 / c. US$105.00 C
Decadence A Literary History
Edited by Alex Murray | Queen’s University Belfast This book will appeal to undergraduates, postgraduates, and faculty who work across Victorian Studies and twentieth-century literature. A comprehensive overview of Decadence, it also expands the methodological, geographical, and temporal coordinates of the movement, with a renewed focus on the role played by women writers. • Offers a new history of Decadence • Provides a focus on translation and transnationalism • Corrects the historical neglect of female authors, returning them at the centre of the movement • Speaks to scholars working in modernism and post-1945 literary studies September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-42629-9 Hardback £84.99 / US$110.00 R
The Value of Poetry
Eric Falci | University of California, Berkeley The Value of Poetry shows how and why poetry matters in the contemporary world and demonstrates what poems can offer to twentyfirst century readers. It argues that poems are vital spaces in which the complexities of thought, feeling, and memory are shaped and displayed, and that poems offer unique and crucial forms of readerly experience. • Provides a concise but rich account of the major critical and theoretical work that has shaped poetry and poetry criticism • Offers detailed and lively readings of significant contemporary poems that consider all major matters of form, style, and genre • Provides an original presentation of the importance of poetry in the twenty-first century
The Value of
October 2020 216 x 140 mm c.170pp 978-1-108-42955-9 Hardback £49.99 / US$64.99 P 978-1-108-45447-6 Paperback £19.99 / US$24.99 P
The Cambridge History of the Gothic Volume 1: Gothic in the Long Eighteenth Century
Volume 1: Gothic in the Long Eighteenth Century Edited by Angela Wright | University of Sheffield This volume offers a comprehensive account of the Gothic in Western civilisation, from the Gothic sacking of Rome in 410 AD, through seventeenthcentury Gothic politics, and up to the end of the long eighteenth century. Interdisciplinary in its focus, it includes essays on literature, architecture, politics and fine art. • Provides a thorough and comprehensive historical overview of the
Gothic, from antiquity to the end of the long eighteenth century, exploring new areas of criticism • Explores the Gothic in a range of different interdisciplinary contexts, tracking its imbrication in literature, architecture, fine art and politics • Shows the extent to which Gothic both responds to, and is an active participant in, some of the most important historical events in Western civilisation
The Cambridge History of the Gothic
August 2020 228 x 152 mm 516pp 978-1-108-47270-8 Hardback £120.00 / US$155.00 R
The Cambridge History of the Gothic
Volume 2: Gothic in the Nineteenth Century Edited by Dale Townshend | Manchester Metropolitan University Comprising twenty-one essays by leading international scholars, this volume offers a comprehensive account of Gothic culture in Britain, America and Continental Europe in the nineteenth century. Interdisciplinary in its focus, it includes chapters on literature, architecture, science, theatre, historiography and popular entertainment. • Provides a thorough and comprehensive historical overview of the
Gothic in British, American and European culture in the nineteenth century • Explores the Gothic in a range of different interdisciplinary contexts, from literature and architecture to science and popular entertainment • Shows the extent to which Gothic both responds to, and is an active participant in, some of the most important historical events in Western civilisation in the period 1800–1900
The Cambridge History of the Gothic
August 2020 228 x 152 mm 558pp 14 b/w illus. 978-1-108-47271-5 Hardback £120.00 / US$155.00 R
Literature – European and World Literature
The City of Poetry Imagining the Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy
David Lummus | University of Notre Dame, Indiana This book is for students and scholars of medieval literature and for readers interested in the public intellectuals of the past. It provides new accounts of major authors like Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, and invites readers to make comparisons with current debates about the public humanities. • Unites the major authors of the medieval Italian literary canon in a single analytical frame that includes both canonical and oftenoverlooked texts • Clarifies key aspects of medieval literary culture that have been obfuscated by national literary histories and by Romantic notions of poetry and the poet • Makes difficult and often-obscure texts accessible to readers interested in the history of the public intellectual
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
November 2020 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-83945-7 Hardback c. £75.00 / c. US$99.99 C
The New Irish Studies
Edited by Paige Reynolds | College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts This book offers a pioneering critical account of twenty-first-century Irish literature and culture, underscoring the crucial role that contemporary writing plays in representing and influencing rapidly changing conditions in Ireland and Northern Ireland. It unsettles presumptions about what constitutes an Irish classic. • Gives an authoritative overview of contemporary
Irish literature in chapters that focus on texts, performances, institutions, historical conditions, and practices • Traces contemporary Irish literature from a range of perspectives and different critical approaches, including age studies, feminism, biodigital poetics, queer theory, neoliberalism, and globalism • Highlights the engagement and activism of contemporary Irish writers and considers the function of Irish writing in reflecting and influencing rapidly changing contemporary cultural conditions
Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
September 2020 228 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-47399-6 Hardback £74.99 / US$99.99 C
The Cambridge Companion to Rabindranath Tagore
Edited by Sukanta Chaudhuri | Jadavpur University, Kolkata This is the first one-volume guide in English, or indeed in Bengali, to the full spectrum of Tagore’s multi-faceted genius. It will cater to students and scholars of Indian and world literature, even those who know Bengali; also of Indian history, culture, philosophy, music, art, and South Asia studies. • All of Tagore’s fields of creation and activity covered and related to each other in a single volume • Takes into account the whole range of Tagore’s works, in Bengali and
English. Most English studies of Tagore confine themselves, in practice if not declaredly, only to material available in English • Draws on the best scholarship in the field, including Bengali experts who do not often write for English publications but might have the greatest expertise on Tagore • Presents this material in a contemporary international critical idiom • Brings together specialists in other fields where appropriate – historians, social scientists, artists, environmentalists, scientists etc.
Cambridge Companions to Literature
June 2020 228 x 152 mm c.515pp 978-1-108-48994-2 Hardback £74.99 / US$99.99 P 978-1-108-74773-8 Paperback £34.99 / US$44.99 P
Insurgent Imaginations World Literature and the Periphery
Auritro Majumder | University of Houston This book redefines the non-Western roots of world literature. A humanist imagination negotiated the struggles of groups outside the West. A wide range of aesthetic forms resisted nationalism: tracing the notion of peripheral internationalism across a range of cultural forms connecting India, Soviet Union, China, Africa, and the Americas. • Provides a situated account of non-Western literary cultures and intellectual histories of world literature • Illuminates connections between India/South Asia and other regions such as China, Latin America and Africa • Broadens the existing scope of scholarship on modernism, realism, and globalization in culture with a wide array of lesser-known sources December 2020 228 x 152 mm c.280pp 978-1-108-47757-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
