MLA 2013 Book Highlights: Outstanding Journal Reviews!
Visit the Cambria Press booth (#316) to browse new titles as well as other Cambria Press titles that have received rave journal reviews, including:
Sacred Display: Divine and Magical Female Figures of Eurasia
Winner of Sarasvati Award for the Best Nonfiction Book in Women and Mythology!
The Jin Yong Phenomenon: Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and Modern Chinese Literary History
“A successful study … valuable and insightful opinions.” – CLEAR
Feminism and Global Chineseness: The Cultural Production of Controversial Women Authors
“Well crafted.” – Women and Gender in Chinese Studies Review
Reflections on Dream of the Red Chamber
“Delightful, fascinating, and enlightening.” – China Review International
The Lyrical Resonance Between Chinese Poets and Painters: The Tradition and Poetics of Tihuashi
“Far surpasses any previous English-language study of the subject.” – Journal of Asian Studies
Chinese in Australian Fiction, 1888–1988
“A valuable resource.” –Journal of Intercultural Studies
Singapore Stories: Language, Class, and the Chinese of Singapore, 1945–2000
“There is much good material in this book.” – Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature
“A worthwhile addition to the bookshelf.” – JASAL
Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist
“Not just an intellectual exercise, or a scholarly pleasure, but also a profound relief to read.” – Southerly
Perennial Empires: Postcolonial, Transnational, and Literary Perspectives
“A welcome collection.” – Transnational Literature
Postcolonial Literary History and Indian English Fiction
“An impressive array of established and emerging authors.” – Journal of Postcolonial Writing
Behind Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet: A Life in Letters: Volume I: The Early Years: 1940–1965
“An important addition.” – Times Literary Supplement
Behind Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet: A Life in Letters: Volume II: The Quartet and Beyond: 1966–1978
“A valuable biographical window … much to appreciate … admirably annotated volumes.” – Transnational Literature
Victorian Literature and Film Adaptation
Highly recommended.” – CHOICE
“Scholars in disability studies and Victorian studies will find this book useful and compelling.” – Victorian Studies
The Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature: The Danger and the Sexual Threat
“Recommended.” – CHOICE
The Traumatic Imagination: Histories of Violence in Magical Realist Fiction
“Cohesively presented … extensive and comprehensive.” – Transnational Literature
Viking Women: The Narrative Voice in Woven Tapestries
“A valuable contribution.” – Cosmos
J.M. Coetzee and the Power of Narrative
“A significant contribution.”- The Australian
Re-Presentations of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Portrayals in Fiction, Drama, Music, and Film
“This comprehensive book provides much information.” – Film & History
The Trouble with Dreiser: Harper and the Editing of Jennie Gerhardt
“A fine piece … the author should be applauded …” – Studies in American Naturalism
Brian Castro’s Fiction: The Seductive Play of Language
“An enlightening and heuristic guide.” – Review of Australian Studies
The Art of Literary Thieving: The Catcher in the Rye, Moby-Dick, and Hamlet
“Plenty here for the scholar of literature.” – Transnational Literature
Travel Narratives from New Mexico: Reconstructing Identity and Truth
“Valuable … Recommended.” – CHOICE
What Is Eating Latin American Women Writers: Food, Weight, and Eating Disorders
“Much to offer beginners and specialists alike.” – Feminist Collections
Reading Blindly: Literature, Otherness, and the Possibility of an Ethical Reading
“Fernando’s book provokes such crucial questions as well as setting out his position in alluring detail.” – Transnational Literature
Maria Graham: A Literary Biography
“Akel’s tome is an achievement.” – Times Higher Education
Thomas Traherne and the Felicities of the Mind
“Admirably contemporizes Traherne’s work.” – Seventeenth-Century News
Narrating the American West: New Forms of Historical Memory
“An important contribution.” – Western American Literature
Reading Literature After Deconstruction
“Rarely ever is theory illustrated so clearly in practice … laudable.” – Transnational Literature
Women’s War Drama in England in the Seventeenth Century
“A rewarding work … an original contribution.” – Modern Language Review
William Dean Howells and the American Memory Crisis
“A valuable addition.” – The Howellsian
David Foster: The Satirist of Australia
“An insightful critical study.” – Australian Book Review
Identity and Society in American Poetry: The Romantic Tradition
“Ambitious … Recommended.” – CHOICE
“An accessible read that adds to scholarship.” – Marvels & Tales
Philip Roth and the Zuckerman Books: The Making of a Storyworld
“A well-researched and sophisticated study … groundbreaking.” – Philip Roth Studies
The Sex Goddess in American Film, 1930–1965: Jean Harlow, Mae West, Lana Turner, and Jayne Mansfield
“A model for other books.” – The Journal of Popular Culture
Dramatic Theories of Voice in the Twentieth Century
“An exceptional book.” – Theatre Journal
“A highly readable, very compelling study of the cultural and political underpinnings of narrative form.” – Style
A 30% discount will be provided for all MLA attendees and their libraries.
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