Cambridge Scholars Publishing English Studies in the 21st Century

English Studies in the 21st Century presents the results of recent academic research concerning a wide spectrum of subjects―including politics, psychology, religion, philosophy, history, culture, aesthetics, and education―related to literary, cultural, and language studies. Specifically, this collection includes scholarly reflections, interpretations, criticisms, and experiments that both strengthen and challenge dominant perspectives on the English literary tradition and contribute to a multifaceted discussion of contemporary drama and theater, contemporary theory and fiction, Neo-Victorianism, the Anthropocene, posthumanism, and interdisciplinary studies in English, including linguistics and ELT. The book will be an ideal reference for both academics and students. About the Author Zekiye Antakyalıoğlu, PhD, is a Professor of English at Gaziantep University, Turkey. She is the author of Stoppardian Drama: Postmodernist and Counter-postmodernist Attitudes (2009), Roman Kuramına Giriş (2013), and Bir Düşün Sonu: Milan Kundera Üzerine Bir İnceleme (2017). Kyriaki Asiatidou, PhD, is a Lecturer of English at Gaziantep University, Turkey. She is the author of “Meeting the Yahoos and the Houyhnhnms: Swift’s Sermon and the Function of Satiric Allegory” in English Studies: New Perspectives (2015) and “The Turn of the Screw and ‘Daisy Miller’: Henry James’s Puritan View on the Ideal Victorian Middle-class”. Ela İpek Gündüz, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of English at Gaziantep University, Turkey. She is the author of “Never Let Me Go: a Traumatic Dystopian World” in Literature, Narrative and Trauma (2019), “The New World as the American Sublime” in Perspectives on the Sublime in American Cultural Studies (2018), and “Fingersmith or Handmaiden: Adaptations from the Neo-Victorian Era to Contemporary Asia” in Adapted from the Original (2018). Enes Kavak, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of English at Gaziantep University, Turkey. He is the author of “Fin De Siècle Female Writers: Representing the New Femininity in the New Woman’s Short Stories”, “Exceptional Femininities as Historical Role Models in Cicely Hamilton’s A Pageant of Great Women”, and “Threatened Masculinity in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Imperialist Detective Fiction: The Sign of Four”. Gamze Almacıoğlu, PhD, is a Research Assistant of English at Gaziantep University, Turkey. She is the author of “Comparative Study of Turkish BA, MA and PhD ELT Students’ Attitudes towards Teaching Profession” in Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Education (2014).