Cambridge Library Collection - Literature |
| Benefiting from a unique collaboration between the world’s oldest publisher and the renowned Cambridge University Library, the Cambridge Library Collection makes accessible in new ways important historical works from the Library’s collections.
The Collection features a growing selection of out-of-copyright Literary titles, including the monumental Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin edited by Cook and Wedderburn, and the six-volume set of The Bowdler Shakespeare, a reissue of the 1853 edition.
Use the links below to browse our highlight collections, or click here to view the full list of Literary Studies titles from the Cambridge Library Collection. |
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 | "All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time." John Ruskin, 1891
39 Volume Paperback Set
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Individual volumes are also available separately, including the much sought after and rare Volume 18 Sesame and Lilies.
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'To Bowdlerise' - to remove words or parts from a book, play or film that are considered to be unsuitable or offensive. 6 Volume Paperback Set To suggest this series to your librarian, click on the book cover image, and follow the 'Email a friend' link on the catalogue page.
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Women's Writing
The later twentieth century saw a huge wave of academic interest in women's writing, which led to the rediscovery of neglected works from a wide range of genres, periods and languages. Many books that were immensely popular and influential in their own day are now studied again, both for their own sake and for what they reveal about the social, political and cultural conditions of their time. A pioneering resource in this area is Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present (http://orlando.cambridge.org), which provides entries on authors' lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, sets of internal links and bibliographies. Its editors have made a major contribution to the selection of the works reissued in this series within the Cambridge Library Collection, which focuses on non-fiction publications by women on a wide range of subjects from astronomy to biography, music to political economy and education to prison reform.
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| Travel and Exploration
The history of travel writing dates back to the Bible, Caesar, the Vikings and the Crusaders, and its many themes include war, trade, science and recreation. Explorers from Columbus to Cook charted lands not previously visited by Western travellers, and were followed by merchants, missionaries and colonists, who wrote accounts of their experiences. The development of steam power in the nineteenth century provided opportunities for increasing numbers of 'ordinary' people to travel further, more economically, and more safely, and resulted in great enthusiasm for travel writing among the reading public. Works included in this series range from first-hand descriptions of previously unrecorded places, to literary accounts of the strange habits of foreigners, to examples of the burgeoning numbers of guidebooks produced to satisfy the needs of a new kind of traveller - the tourist.
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