New and Forthcoming Critical Insights Titles

Following in the footsteps of a long line of award-winning titles from Salem Press, these new and forthcoming releases will provide students and researchers with a refreshing opportunity to examine a wide variety of literary works through a critical lens.

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New and Forthcoming Salem Critical Insights Titles

Critical Insights:

As You Like It

Exploring one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies, this volume helps readers place the work within its political and social context at the time of its writing.

It also provides insights into the reception, critical evaluation, and adaptation of the work from the time of its creation to the present day.

Readers will gain a fresh perspective on the important themes within the work including gender, the pastoral tradition, love, and identity.

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Pub Date: February 2025

ISBN: 979-8-89179-134-3 | List Price: $105

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Critical Insights:

A Farewell to Arms

This volume takes a close look at Hemmingway’s first best-selling novel, guiding readers through scholarly conversations surrounding this important piece of writing.

Exploring the work’s critical reception and legacy, it provides readers with important insights into the literary value of the story as well as Hemingway’s life, complete with a chronology, list of works, and bibliography.

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Pub Date: April 2025

ISBN: 979-8-89179-128-2 | List Price: $105

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Critical Insights:

Friendship

Covering the theme of friendship and its evolution in literature throughout history, this volume explores the topic from a variety of vantage points from the warrior bonds in ancient epics to the psychological complexities of the modern novel.

Approaching the theme from the perspective of a variety of frameworks including feminist, queer, and postcolonial theory, it offers readers an opportunity to approach the topic from a variety of perspectives.

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Pub Date: March 2025

ISBN: 979-8-89179-132-9 | List Price: $105.00

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Critical Insights:

Native Son

This volume offers readers an entry point into the study of Richard Wright’s groundbreaking novel. Approaching the narrative from both historical and contemporary contexts, this volume guides readers in analyzing the work, its reception, current relevance, and more.

Edited and written by some of academia’s most distinguished literary scholars, it provides authoritative, in-depth insights that will greatly benefit researchers and students.

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Pub Date: April 2025

ISBN: 979-8-89179-138-1 | List Price: $105

Includes Free Online Access