Category: Victorian Literature
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RMMLA 2014 Keynote Speech by Victor H. Mair – The Impact of Technology on the Study of Language and Literature
Victor Mair, renowned Sinologist at the University of Pennsylvania and editor of the Cambria Sinophone World Series, delivered the keynote address at the 68th RMMLA annual convention last Friday (October 10). Dr. Eduardo Caro (Arizona State University), the RMMLA president, kicked off the luncheon event, which was attended by hundreds of RMMLA attendees, by having Dr. Christopher…
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MLA 2014 annual convention: Incredible Success for Cambria Press!
Cambria Press enjoyed yet another tremendously successful MLA annual convention this year! One of the many reasons was that the Cambria Press booth was in a prime location–right in front of the MLA book exhibit hall entrance. There was a great deal of traffic, and attendees had very nice things to say about the display.…
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RMMLA 2013 Annual Convention — A Great Success!
With much gratitude to the RMMLA committee, in particular Joy Landeira and Christopher Lupke, Cambria Press had a very productive and enjoyable time at the RMMLA 2013 annual convention. Cambria Press director Toni Tan was heartened to meet many scholars daring enough to push the envelope when it comes to scholarship, given how Toni Tan‘s speech was…
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Cambria Press RMMLA 2013 Special Price!
Cambria Press is providing a special RMMLA price until Oct 31, 2013. Any hardcover title will be only $49 per title (savings of over 40%!). This includes the seminal book Gao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation by Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Gao Xingjian! To order, simply: Register Online Login Add the books you wish to…
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Happy New Year! Usher in 2013 with a Nobel Prize Winner!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! The 2013 MLA annual convention in Boston promises to be an especially exciting one because Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Gao Xingjian will be attending! Many new titles for Cambria Press will be showcased, including Nobel laureate Gao Xingjian’s long-awaited book Gao Xingjian: Aesthetics and Creation. There are two MLA sessions being…
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Cambria Press author Lillian Craton’s Book Praised by Victorian Studies for being “useful and compelling”
Cambria Press congratulates Lillian Craton on the outstanding review of her book The Victorian Freak Show: The Significance of Disability and Physical Differences in 19th-Century Fiction by renowned scholar Marlene Tromp in Victorian Studies, which states that Professor Craton’s book is “an important contribution” and that “the most significant innovation of the project is the way in…
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New Cambria Press Book! Victorian Literature and Film Adaptation (editors Abigail Bloom and Mary Sanders Pollock )
“Not your grandmother’s Victorians”! So says Professor Thomas Leitch (University of Delaware) in his brilliant introduction of the latest publication by Cambria Press, Victorian Literature and Film Adaptation, an insightful volume of edited essays that not only builds on major film theory and also on critical and theoretical work specifically about Victorian film and television…