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English literature
Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 – 700 CE
Chris L. de Wet Maijastina Kahlos Ville Vuolanto
An investigation into slaveholding and slave experience in late antiquity, focusing on ideological, moral and cultural aspects of slavery.
February 2022 228 x 152 mm c.400pp 978-1-108-47622-5 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
Tense-Switching in Classical Greek
A Cognitive Approach Arjan A. Nijk
Explores the relationship between the present tense and the conceptualisation of ‘presence’ in Greek from a cognitive perspective.
February 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-316-51715-4 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Hera of Zeus
Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Gabriella Pironti Translated by Raymond Geuss Preface by Fritz Graf
Rethinks the workings of polytheism in ancient Greece through exploring the goddess Hera in her complex relationship to Zeus.
Classical Scholarship in Translation
November 2021 228 x 152 mm c.348pp 978-1-108-84103-0 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 C
ENGLISH LITERATURE
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate
Adeline Johns-Putra Kelly Sultzbach
This volume unfolds the complex relationship between literature and climate by uniquely illuminating historical complexity, diverse viewpoints, and emerging issues.
Cambridge Companions to Literature
March 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-00-906081-3 Paperback c. £22.99 / c. US$29.99 P
The Attalids of Pergamon and Anatolia
Money, Culture, and State Power Noah Kaye
Reveals how the empire of Attalid Pergamon dominated the Hellenistic world by controlling culture and identity through its fiscal system.
April 2022 244 x 170 mm c.300pp 30 b/w illus. 5 maps 978-1-316-51059-9 Hardback £105.00 / US$135.00 C
After Marx
Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century Colleen Lye Christopher Nealon
After Marx showcases the importance of Marxist literary study for an era of intersectional politics and economic decline.
After Series
March 2022 228 x 152 mm c.280pp 978-1-108-70224-9 Paperback c. £19.99 / c. US$26.99 P
Isis in a Global Empire
Greek Identity through Egyptian Religion in Roman Greece Lindsey A. Mazurek
It introduces a religious dimension to the study of ethnic identity and globalization in the provinces of the Roman Empire.
February 2022 253 x 177 mm c.350pp 978-1-316-51701-7 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Edited by Vera J. Camden
Combining literature and psychoanalysis, this collection foregrounds the work of literary creators as foundational to psychoanalysis.
Cambridge Companions to Literature
December 2021 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-73288-8 Paperback £22.99 / US$29.99 P
Globalization and Literary Studies
Joel Evans
This book provides a 5000-year history of the ways in which literary forms have shaped out notions of globalization.
Cambridge Critical Concepts
April 2022 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-84092-7 Hardback £84.99 / US$110.00 R
Literary Geographies in Balzac and Proust
Melanie Conroy
Are Proust and Balzac really so different? This Element uses literary mapping to explore the fictional worlds of the novelists.
Elements in Digital Literary Studies
December 2021 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-99491-0 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
New Adult Fiction
Jodi McAlister
This Element uses the tumultuous history of new adult fiction to provoke exciting new ways of thinking about genre.
Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
November 2021 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-82788-1 Paperback £9.99 / US$12.99 P
Pre-Web Digital Publishing and the Lore of Electronic Literature
Astrid Ensslin
This Element examines pre-web literary hypertext as a watershed moment in the history of digital publishing.
Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
March 2022 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-82888-8 Paperback c. £9.99 / c. US$12.99 P
Publication and the Papacy in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Samu Niskanen
Papal involvement in publication constituted a powerful promotional technique used by late antique and medieval authors.
Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
January 2022 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 978-1-00-911108-9 Paperback £9.99 / US$12.99 P
The Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1561
Peter W. M. Blayney
A groundbreaking new history of the origins and evolution of the Anglican liturgy which transforms understanding of the English Reformation.
January 2022 229 x 152 mm c.290pp 978-1-108-83741-5 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
Teaching Publishing and Editorial Practice
The Transition from University to Industry Jocelyn Hargrave
Concepts of being, learning and doing have potential to form a holistic practice-led pedagogy for students of editing and publishing.
Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
January 2022 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-79194-6 Paperback £9.99 / US$12.99 P
The Spread of Print in Colonial India
Into the Hinterland Abhijit Gupta
This Element looks at new archival material to throw light on the neglected history of printing in the Bengal countryside.
Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
November 2021 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-96983-3 Paperback £9.99 / US$12.99 P
Sir Charles Grandison
4 Volume Set
Samuel Richardson E. Derek Taylor Melvyn New Elizabeth Kraft
The comprehensive scholarly edition of The History of Sir Charles Grandison, the most important English courtship novel before Austen.
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Samuel Richardson
March 2022 228 x 152 mm 3000pp 978-0-521-83306-6 4 Volume Set £400.00 / US$520.00 R
Shakespeare’s Dialectic of Hope
From the Political to the Utopian Hugh Grady
Shakespeare was fascinated by power throughout his career but also understood its dangers and limits. Utopian visions were his solution.
April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 978-1-00-909809-0 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Inheritors and The Nature of a Crime
Joseph Conrad Edited by Jeremy Hawthorn In collaboration with Max Saunders
The first authoritative critical edition of two unjustly neglected works produced in collaboration by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford.
The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad
February 2022 216 x 138 mm 350pp 978-1-107-01681-1 Hardback £94.99 / US$125.00 P
Playing and Playgoing in Early Modern England
Actor, Audience and Performance Simon Smith Emma Whipday
Offers a new, interdisciplinary account of early modern drama through the lens of playing and playgoing.
October 2021 228 x 152 mm c.350pp 978-1-108-48905-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X
Literary Beginnings in the European Middle Ages
Mark Chinca Christopher Young
A ground-breaking investigation into the emergence of new written literatures in the vernacular languages of medieval Europe.
Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
March 2022 229 x 152 mm c.330pp 978-1-108-47764-2 Hardback c. £75.00 / c. US$105.00 C
Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe
Andrew Hiscock
Andrew Hiscock locates Shakespeare’s history plays within debates over the status and function of violence in a nation’s culture.
March 2022 229 x 152 mm c.290pp 978-1-108-83018-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Shakespeare and Virtual Reality
Stephen Wittek David McInnis
This Element considers the intersection between Shakespearean drama and the exciting new medium of virtual reality.
Elements in Shakespeare and Pedagogy
January 2022 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 978-1-00-900187-8 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
Shakespeare and British World War Two Film
Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr
Garrett Sullivan offers a new approach to cinematic adaptation and appropriation of Shakespeare at a watershed moment in British history.
April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.250pp 978-1-108-84264-8 Hardback c. £75.00 / c. US$105.00 C
Liberty and the Politics of the Female Voice in Early Stuart England
Christina Luckyj
This study illuminates the female voice as a means of signalling resistance to tyranny in early Stuart literature and discourse.
March 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-108-84509-0 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Defoe’s Tour and Early Modern Britain
Panorama of the Nation Pat Rogers
Authoritative yet accessible, this is the first-ever comprehensive account of a true landmark in eighteenth-century writing on Britain.
April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.300pp 978-1-00-909886-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Viral Shakespeare
Performance in the Time of Pandemic Pascale Aebischer
How has Covid-19 changed modes of watching Shakespeare? How have performers used digital platforms to respond to the pandemic?
Elements in Shakespeare Performance
January 2022 178 x 127 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-94796-1 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
Architecture of Sovereignty
Stone Bodies, Colonial Gazes, and Living Gods in South India Gita V. Pai
March 2022 978-1-00-915015-6 Hardback TBA / TBA
Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade
English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany Sarah Neville
In the early modern herbal, Sarah Neville finds a captivating example of how Renaissance print culture shaped scientific authority.
February 2022 229 x 152 mm c.290pp 978-1-316-51599-0 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Headlong Hall
Thomas Love Peacock Nicholas Joukovsky
Peacock’s first novel is situated within its literary and historical contexts via a substantial introduction, generous notes, and annotated appendices.
The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock, 1
February 2022 216 x 138 mm 300pp 978-1-107-03073-2 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 R
Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare
Stationers Shaping a Genre Amy Lidster
Showing how overlooked publication agents constructed and read early modern history plays, this book fundamentally re-evaluates the genre.
February 2022 229 x 152 mm c.280pp 978-1-316-51725-3 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Melincourt
Thomas Love Peacock Edited by Gary Dyer
This first scholarly edition expertly situates Thomas Love Peacock’s most ambitious satirical novel in its historical and literary contexts.
The Cambridge Edition of the Novels of Thomas Love Peacock, 2
April 2022 216 x 138 mm 600pp 978-1-107-03226-2 Hardback £90.00 / US$120.00 R
Irony and Earnestness in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Dimensions of Satire and Solemnity Shane Herron
Shane Herron demonstrates how eighteenth-century irony was used not only in derision but also to clarify and sharpen emotional investments.
April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.250pp 978-1-108-83443-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
The Aspern Papers and Other Tales, 1884–1888
Henry James Rosella Mamoli Zorzi Simone Francescato
A scholarly edition of the short fiction of Henry James, comprising nine tales including ‘The Aspern Papers’ and ‘The Liar’.
The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James, 27
February 2022 228 x 152 mm 650pp 978-1-107-02964-4 Hardback c. £85.00 / c. US$150.00 R
British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century
Edited by Amanda Hiner Elizabeth Tasker Davis
Featuring cutting-edge essays by leading scholars, this collection formulates a new feminist theory of eighteenth-century women’s satire.
March 2022 229 x 152 mm c.276pp 978-1-108-83736-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages
Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions Eavan O’Dochartaigh
Uncovering a wealth of archival information, Eavan O’Dochartaigh gives fresh and surprising insight into the Victorian image of the Arctic.
Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture, 136
March 2022 229 x 152 mm c.228pp 978-1-108-83433-9 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
How and Why to Do Things with Eighteenth-Century Manuscripts
Michelle Levy Betty A. Schellenberg
Demonstrates the rich variety and importance of literary manuscripts— of poems, letters, and fiction— produced between 1730 and 1820.
Elements in Eighteenth-Century Connections
December 2021 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-108-92613-3 Paperback £15.00 / US$20.00 P
Decadent Ecology in British Literature and Art, 1860–1910
Decay, Desire, and the Pagan Revival Dennis Denisoff
Decadent Ecology illuminates the networks of nature, paganism, and queer desire embodied in 19th- and early 20th-century literature and art.
Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture
December 2021 229 x 152 mm c.250pp 978-1-108-84597-7 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 X
Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland
From the 1688 Revolution to the 1745 Jacobite Rising Leith Ann Davis
The first book to analyze the interplay of cultural memory, politics and the changing media ecology of early eighteenthcentury Britain.
March 2022 229 x 152 mm c.299pp 978-1-316-51081-0 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Sympathetic Partnerships and Artistic Creation Heather Bozant Witcher
Examining social and material dimensions of collaboration, this book reveals the diverse networks of nineteenth-century literary exchange.
Cambridge Studies in NineteenthCentury Literature and Culture, 135
April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.250pp 978-1-316-51349-1 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Absorption and Theatricality
On Ghost Trio Conor Carville
The 1976 Television play Ghost Trio demonstrates Beckett’s exploration of the relationship between theatricality, absorption and objecthood.
Elements in Beckett Studies
February 2022 229 x 152 mm c.75pp 978-1-00-900117-5 Paperback c. £15.00 / c. US$20.00 P
The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel
Jan Baetens Hugo Frey Stephen E. Tabachnick
This collection provides the complete history of the graphic novel, including detailed analyses of its origins, rise and success.
October 2018 229 x 152 mm 690pp 978-1-107-17141-1 Hardback £125.00 / US$175.00 R
The Cambridge History of Modernism
Vincent Sherry
Provides a conceptually coherent understanding of ‘modernism’ to incorporate multiple genres and individuals in transatlantic and pan-European locations.
May 2017 228 x 152 mm 960pp 30 b/w illus. 978-1-107-03469-3 Hardback £126.00 / US$168.00 R
Unseen City
The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor Ankhi Mukherjee
Reconfiguring the lines between literature and psychoanalysis, this book argues that to alleviate poverty we engage with its psychic life.
Cambridge Studies in Twenty-FirstCentury Literature and Culture
November 2021 229 x 152 mm c.290pp 978-1-316-51758-1 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 P
Conrad’s Decentered Fiction
Johan Adam Warodell
Brings the vibrant details of Conrad’s writing to the forefront for study and analyzes newly-discovered artworks, maps, and manuscript pages.
March 2022 229 x 152 mm c.290pp 978-1-316-51219-7 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Modern British Nature Writing, 1789–2020
Land Lines Will Abberley Christina Alt David Higgins Graham Huggan Pippa Marland
This first full-length study of modern British nature writing is timely and invaluable for literary scholarship in the environmental crisis.
January 2022 228 x 152 mm 300pp 978-1-107-19132-7 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity
Catriona Livingstone
This book offers an extensive analysis of Woolf’s engagement with science, tracing the application of scientific concepts to questions of identity.
April 2022 229 x 152 mm c.274pp 978-1-316-51407-8 Hardback £75.00 / US$99.99 C
Hope: A Literary History
Adam Potkay
Compelling treatment of a question pervading literature from antiquity: when is hope a good thing and when is it not?
January 2022 216 x 138 mm c.285pp 978-1-316-51370-5 Hardback £29.99 / US$39.99 G
