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2015-16 Literary Studies
Literary Studies
2015-16
LITERARY STUDIES
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Contents
Letter from the Editors............................................. 2
Literary Theory....................................................... 3
Contemporary Literature......................................... 10
Modernism.......................................................... 13
British and Irish Literature....................................... 17
North American Literature....................................... 19
World Literature................................................... 23
Environmental Literature......................................... 26
Comparative Literature........................................... 28
Religion and Literature........................................... 30
Writing............................................................... 32
Literary Biography................................................. 33
The Arden Shakespeare........................................... 34
Bloomsbury Academic Collections............................... 43
Bestsellers.......................................................... 45
Index................................................................. 48
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L etter from the E ditors
Bloomsbury Literary Studies
Incorporating The Arden Shakespeare
Welcome to the new Bloomsbury Literary Studies catalogue.
Book Highlights
In a fantastic line-up of new books, we continue to explore the ever-changing world of contemporary literature: from our new biography
Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage to Maya Angelou: Adventurous Spirit and Crunch Lit (p.10), the first study of post-credit
crunch fiction. We are also launching an exciting series, New Horizons in Contemporary Writing (p.33) which will bring you the best of
contemporary literary studies scholarship.
Other important series include New Modernisms (p.15), which surveys key topics in contemporary modernist studies over the last decade
and Object Lessons—concise, collectable, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things—with volumes ranging from
Hotel to Cigarette Lighter to Tree (p.5-7). You will also find here new books for classroom use such as Poetry: A Survivor's Guide (p.3) and
Supplanting the Postmodern (p.10).
In 2016 The Arden Shakespeare marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death with a celebration of poetry in On Shakespeare’s
Sonnets and a ‘state of the nation’ collection of new essays, Shakespeare in Our Time (p.37). New titles in the Third Series include Henry
IV, Part 2 and revised editions of Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet and Othello (p.34).
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collections. Plays from Nick Hern Books include works from Howard Brenton, Jez Butterworth and Caryl Churchill. 350 audio plays
from L. A. Theatre Works bring the highest quality recordings from leading actors performing iconic works from such playwrights as
Arthur Miller, David Mamet and Eugene O’Neill. New content includes plays from Nick Hern Books, audio plays from L.A. Theatre Works
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www.actorsandperformers.com provides advice and contacts for actors and performers at all stages of their careers. And, in collaboration
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Present Tense
Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New
Orleans, USA
A Poetics
"A strong and innovative book. The End of
Airports finds new ways to think about, among
other things, drones, airport/aircraft seating,
weather, jet bridges, viral stories about flight,
tensions with new media expectations and
technologies, and seatback pockets. A fascinating
read for anyone interested in airports and airplanes, but also
for readers of cultural studies, media studies, and creative
nonfiction." Kathleen C. Stewart, The University of Texas at Austin,
USA
"Thanks to Schaberg the airport may become the new figure
with which to think place, time, labor, leisure, organization, and
communication, as well as hope, fatigue, loneliness, and desire."
Margret Grebowicz, Goucher College, USA
UK November 2015 • US November 2015 • 232 pages • 19 colour illustrations & 6 b/w
illustrations
PB 9781501305498 • £13.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781501305504 • £50.00 / $75.00
Individual eBook 9781501305511 • £9.99 / $16.99
Library eBook 9781501305528
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Poetry: A Survivor's Guide
Mark Yakich, Loyola University New Orleans, USA
"Yakich’s irreverent style, conversational tone,
and quirky illustrations make for a guide that will
be both instructive and entertaining for anyone
interested in learning more about reading and
writing poetry." Publishers Weekly
"If you’re a poet, this book will remind you of
the reasons why you fell in love with the art in the first place. If
you’re a reader falling in love with the art in the first place,
it might just make you a poet." Srikanth Reddy, University of
Chicago, USA
"A funny, brash, sweet, in-your-face, humble, questioning, advicedispensing, and utterly smart-as-hell book." Shara McCallum,
Bucknell University, USA
UK December 2015 • US November 2015 • 232 pages • 20 b/w illustrations
PB 9781501309496 • £13.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781501309502 • £50.00 / $75.00
Individual eBook 9781501309519 • £9.99 / $16.99
Library eBook 9781501309526
Bloomsbury Academic
The Bloomsbury Introduction to
Adaptation Studies
Adapting the Canon in Film, TV, Novels
and Popular Culture
Yvonne Griggs, University of New England,
Australia
Adaptations of literary classics are a constant
feature of popular culture today. This textbook helps students master
the history, theory and practice of analysing literary adaptations.
The book includes chapter overviews and a glossary of critical terms
to give students quick access to key information for further study,
reference and revision and covers adaptations of: Frankenstein;
Little Women; Jane Eyre; Great Expectations; The Turn of the
Screw; Hamlet; The Great Gatsby; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest;
Atonement.
Armen Avanessian & Anke Hennig, both at Free
University Berlin, Germany
“Drawing on narratology, cognitive science,
deconstruction and philosophy of language,
Avanessian and Hennig reconceptualize the
relation between time and narrative; what
is more, they rethink poetics as an expanded cultural theory
concerned with human world-making. An impressive tour de
force.” Andreas Gailus, University of Michigan, USA
L iterary T heory
The End of Airports
The invention of the present-tense novel is a literary event whose
importance is on par with the discovery of perspective in painting.
This book describes how the present tense was invented and why the
poetics of the present tense novel is essential for an understanding
of contemporary literature and the evolution of the novel since
modernism.
UK November 2015 • US September 2015 • 304 pages
PB 9781628927641 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781628927658 • £80.00 / $120.00
Individual eBook 9781628927665 • £14.99 / $25.99
Library eBook 9781628927672
Bloomsbury Academic
World English
Macbeth, Macbeth
Ewan Fernie, University of Birmingham, UK & Simon Palfrey
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth – pored over by students and critics
for generations – is one of the most familiar works of literature in
the Western canon. Macbeth, Macbeth explores how, through the act
of re-imagining the story of the play, we as readers might return to
Shakespeare’s tragedy with fresh eyes. In Macbeth, Macbeth, Ewan
Fernie and Simon Palfrey construct a prose adaptation of the
Macbeth story, with critical commentary throughout, exploring the
process of adaptation from the inside and its roots and sources in
Shakespeare’s text.
UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 224 pages
PB 9781474235549 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474235556 • £65.00 / $112.00
Individual eBook 9781474235587 • £19.99 / $27.99
Library eBook 9781474235570
Series: Beyond Criticism • Bloomsbury Academic
The Modes of Modern Writing
Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Typology of
Modern Literature
David Lodge
The Modes of Modern Writing tackles some of the
fundamental questions we encounter when studying
or reading literature, such as: what is literature?
What is realism? What is relationship between form
and content? In answering these questions, the book examines texts
by a wide range of modern novelists and poets, including James
Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf,
Samuel Beckett and Philip Larkin, and draws on the work of literary
theorists from Roman Jakobson to Roland Barthes. The Bloomsbury
Revelations edition includes a new Foreword and Afterword by the
author.
UK October 2015 • US December 2015 • 368 pages
PB 9781474244213 • £16.99 / $29.95
Individual eBook 9781474244220 • £16.99 / $26.99
Library eBook 9781474244237
Series: Bloomsbury Revelations • Bloomsbury Academic
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 272 pages
PB 9781441166142 • £19.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781441138484 • £65.00 / $112.00
Individual eBook 9781441167699 • £19.99 / $27.99
Library eBook 9781441167026
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L iterary T heory
British Working-Class Fiction
The Slow Philosophy of J.M. Coetzee
Narratives of Refusal and the Struggle
Against Work
Jan Wilm
Roberto del Valle Alcalá
British Working-Class Fiction offers an account of
British literary responses to work from the ‘affluent’
1950s to the onset of the ‘Great Recession’. Alcalá
argues that throughout this period, workingclass writing developed new strategies of resistance against the
social discipline imposed by capitalist work. Drawing on the work
of theorists including Deleuze and Guattari, Giorgio Agamben and
Antonio Negri Alcalá offers an innovative account of British literary
treatments of work. The book includes close readings of fiction by
Alan Sillitoe, David Storey, Nell Dunn, Pat Barker, James Kelman,
Irvine Welsh, Monica Ali, and Joanna Kavenna.
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 192 pages
HB 9781474273749 • £60.00 / $104.00
Individual eBook 9781474273756 • £59.99 / $92.99
Library eBook 9781474273763
Bloomsbury Academic
Rethinking Joseph Conrad’s
Concepts of Community
Strange Fraternity
Kaoru Yamamoto
Rethinking Joseph Conrad’s Concepts of Community
uses Conrad’s phrase ‘strange fraternity’ from The
Rover as a starting point for an exploration of the
concept of community in his writing, including
his neglected vignettes and later stories. Drawing on the work of
continental thinkers including Jacques Derrida, Jean Luc-Nancy and
Hannah Arendt Yamamoto offers original readings of The Heart of
Darkness, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, The Rover and Suspense and
the short stories “The Secret Sharer”, “The Warrior’s Soul” and “The
Duel”. Working at the intersection between literature and philosophy
this is unique and interdisciplinary engagement with Conrad’s work.
UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 224 pages
HB 9781474250023 • £60.00 / $104.00
Individual eBook 9781474250030 • £59.99 / $92.99
Library eBook 9781474250047
Bloomsbury Academic
World English
Hurt and Pain
Literature and the Suffering Body
Susannah B. Mintz, Skidmore College, USA
"A brilliant analysis of pain refracted through
genre." Merri Lisa Johnson, University of South
Carolina, USA
"An informed, provocative, important book." Sara
van den Berg, St Louis University, USA
Hurt and Pain examines the strategies authors have used to portray
bodies in pain, drawing on a diverse range of literary texts from the
seventeenth century to the present day. Susannah B. Mintz provides
readings of canonical writers including John Donne, Emily Dickinson,
and Samuel Beckett, alongside contemporary writers such as Ana
Castillo and Margaret Edson and writers in a wide range of genres:
poetry, memoir, drama, and fiction.
UK June 2015 • US June 2015 • 208 pages
PB 9781474245425 • £18.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781441174482
Individual eBook 9780567558459 • £59.99 / $92.99
Library eBook 9781441148322
Bloomsbury Academic
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In The Slow Philosophy of J.M. Coetzee Jan Wilm analyses Coetzee’s
singular aesthetic style which, he argues, provokes the reader to read
his works slowly. Drawing on fresh archival material, this is the first
study of its kind to explore Coetzee’s writing process as already slow;
as a program of seemingly relentless revision which brings forth his
uniquely dense and crystalline style. The book includes close readings
of Coetzee's popular and lesser known work, including Disgrace,
Waiting for the Barbarians, Elizabeth Costello, Life and Times of
Michael K and Slow Man.
UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 256 pages
HB 9781474256452 • £60.00 / $104.00
Individual eBook 9781474256469 • £59.99 / $92.99
Library eBook 9781474256476
Bloomsbury Academic
The Pathos of Distance
Affects of the Moderns
Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania,
USA
Rabaté uses Nietzsche’s image of a “pathos of
distance,” the notion that certain values cannot
originate in a community but are created by a
few gifted and lofty individuals, as the basis for a
wide-ranging investigation into the ethics of the moderns. By first
establishing an unlikely meeting of Nietzsche and Benjamin through
their ideas of history and ethics, Rabaté is able to provide an original
genealogy for the ethics of the modern, moving through figures and
moments as varied as Yeats, Woolf, Rilke, Apollinaire, Gide, Derrida,
and Joyce. The result is a fascinating critique of Nietzsche, Benjamin,
affect theory, and the origins of the ethics of modernism.
UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 224 pages
PB 9781501307997 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501308000 • £80.00 / $120.00
Individual eBook 9781501307980 • £14.99 / $25.99
Library eBook 9781501307973
Bloomsbury Academic
The New Human in Literature
Posthuman Visions of Changes in Body,
Mind and Society after 1900
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Aarhus University,
Denmark
Twentieth-century literature changed
understandings of what it meant to be human. Mads
Rosendahl Thomsen here chronicles literature's
changing ideas of mankind, questioning the degree to which
literature records and creates visions of the new human.
Grounded in the theory of Niklas Luhmann, Thomsen uses literary
changes in the mind, body and society to define the new human. He
begins with the modernist minds of Virginia Woolf, Williams Carlos
Williams and Louis-Ferdinand Celine's, the society-changing concepts
envisioned by Chinua Achebe, Mo Yan and Orhan Pamuk and ends with
Don DeLillo and Michel Houellebecq's ideas of revolutionizing man
through biotechnology.
UK March 2015 • US March 2015 • 256 pages
PB 9781474228190 • £18.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781441183194
Individual eBook 9781441114068 • £18.99 / $27.99
Library eBook 9781472531254
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Series Editors: Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA and Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New Orleans, USA.
Object Lessons is a series of concise, collectable, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Each book starts from
a specific inspiration: an historical event, a literary passage, a personal narrative, a technological innovation—and from that starting point
explores the object of the title, gleaning a singular lesson or multiple lessons along the way. Featuring contributions from writers, artists,
scholars, journalists, and others, the emphasis throughout is lucid writing, imagination, and brevity. Object Lessons paints a picture of the
world around us, and tells the story of how we got here, one object at a time.
Glass
Hotel
John Garrison, Carroll University, USA
Joanna Walsh, Writer and Illustrator, UK
Look around and you will see that you are
surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light
through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament
above you; it’s in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies
shattered in a dented corner of an iPhone—you’re
drinking water out of a pint glass. Taking up a most
common object, rarely considered because assumed
to be transparent, John Garrison draws evocative connections between
historical depictions of glass and emerging visions that see it as holding
a unique promise for new forms of interaction.
UK November 2015 • US September 2015 • 136 pages • 15 b/w illustrations
PB 9781628924244 • £9.99 / $16.95
Individual eBook 9781628924282 • £8.99 / $14.99
Library eBook 9781628924299
Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic
Phone Booth
“A slim, sharp meditation on hotels and desire.”
The Paris Review
L iterary T heory
Object Lessons
“Joanna Walsh is fast becoming one of our most
important writers. Hotel is a dazzling tour de
force of embodied ideas.” Deborah Levy, author of
Black Vodka
Luxury, sex, power, anonymity, privacy: hotels are where our desires
go on holiday, but also places where our desires are shaped by the
hard realities of the marketplace. Part memoir and part meditation,
Hotel visits a series of rooms, suites, hallways, and lobbies—the
spaces and things that make up these modern sites of gathering and
alienation: hotels.
UK November 2015 • US September 2015 • 176 pages
PB 9781628924732 • £9.99 / $16.95
Individual eBook 9781628924763 • £8.99 / $14.99
Library eBook 9781628924770
Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic
Ariana Kelly, Harvard-Westlake School, USA
"Fascinated and attuned, I was cabled into Phone
Booth. Ariana Kelly replenishes the work on
speculative telephony in an altogether compelling
way." Avital Ronell, New York University, USA
The phone booth exists as a fond but distant memory
for some people, and as a strange and dysfunctional
waste of space for many more. Ariana Kelly approaches the phone
booth as an entity that embodies diverse attitudes about privacy,
freedom, power, sanctuary, and communication in its various forms all
around the world. Through portrayals of phone booths in literature,
film, personal narrative, philosophy, and religion, Phone Booth offers
a definitive account of an object on the cusp of obsolescence.
UK November 2015 • US September 2015 • 160 pages • 23 b&w illustrations
PB 9781628924091 • £9.99 / $16.95
Individual eBook 9781628924114 • £8.99 / $14.99
Library eBook 9781628924121
Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic
Silence
John Biguenet, Loyola University, New Orleans,
USA
"When I realized I was making notes on memorable
passages in Silence several times a page, I knew
I’d found the book I’ve been needing to read."
Valerie Martin, Orange Prize-winning novelist
Refrigerator
Jonathan Rees, Colorado State University Pueblo, USA
It may be responsible for a greater improvement in
human diet and longevity than any other technology
of the last two thousand years—but have you ever
thought seriously about your refrigerator? That box
humming in the background displays more than you
might expect, even who you are and the society in
which you live. Jonathan Rees examines the past, present, and future
of the household refrigerator with the aim of preventing its users
from ever taking it for granted again. No mere container for cold
Cokes and celery stalks, the refrigerator acts as a mirror—and what it
reflects is chilling indeed.
UK November 2015 • US September 2015 • 136 pages • 12 b/w images
PB 9781628924329 • £9.99 / $16.95
Individual eBook 9781628924343 • £8.99 / $14.99
Library eBook 9781628924350
Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic
Waste
Brian Thill, Golden West College, USA
What is silence? In a series of short meditations,
novelist and playwright John Biguenet considers silence as a servant
of power, as a lie, as a punishment, as the voice of God, as a
terrorist’s final weapon, as a luxury good, as the reason for torture—
in short, as an object we both do and do not recognize. Concluding
with the prospects for its future in a world burgeoning with noise,
Biguenet asks whether we should desire or fear silence—or if it is
even ours to choose.
Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every
object, plus time. Whatever else an object is, it’s
also waste—or was, or will be. All that is needed
is time or a change of sentiment or circumstance.
Waste is not merely the field of discarded objects,
but the name we give to our troubled relationship
with the decaying world outside ourselves. Waste
focuses on those waste objects that most fundamentally shape our
lives and also attempts to understand our complicated emotional and
intellectual relationships to our own refuse: nuclear waste, climate
debris, pop-culture rubbish, digital detritus, and more.
UK November 2015 • US September 2015 • 152 pages
PB 9781628921427 • £9.99 / $16.95
Individual eBook 9781628921441 • £8.99 / $14.99
Library eBook 9781628921465
Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic
UK November 2015 • US September 2015 • 152 pages • 20 b/w images
PB 9781628924367 • £9.99 / $16.95
Individual eBook 9781628924381 • £8.99 / $14.99
Library eBook 9781628924398
Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic
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L iterary T heory
Bookshelf
Cigarette Lighter
Lydia Pyne, University of Texas of Austin, USA
Jack Pendarvis, Freelance Writer, USA
Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells
a different story. Lydia Pyne finds bookshelves
to be holders not just of books but of so many
other things: values, vibes, and verbs that can be
contained and displayed in the buildings and rooms
of contemporary human existence. With a shrewd
eye toward this particular moment in the history
of books, Pyne takes the reader on a tour of the bookshelf that leads
critically to this juncture: amid rumors of the death of book culture,
why is the life of the bookshelf in full bloom?
UK March 2016 • US January 2016 • 144 pages • 7 b/w illustrations
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Smokers, survivalists, teenagers, collectors… The
cigarette lighter is a charged, complex, yet often
entirely disposable object that moves across these
various groups of people, acquiring and emitting
different meanings while always supplying its
primary function, that of ignition. Jack Pendarvis
explodes the lighter as something with deep
history, as something with quirky episodes in cultural contexts, and
as something that dances with wide ranging taboos and traditions.
Pendarvis shows how the lighter tarries with the cheapest ends of
consumer culture as much as it displays more profound dramas of
human survival, technological advances, and aesthetics.
UK March 2016 • US January 2016 • 152 pages
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Dust
Michael Marder, University of the Basque
Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Dust pervades everything. It gathers in even layers,
adapting to the contours of things and marking
the passage of time. In itself, it is also a gathering
place, a random community of what has been and
what is yet to be: dead skin cells and plant pollen,
hair and paper fibers, and dust mites. Dust blurs
the boundaries between the living and the dead, plant and animal
matter, the inside and the outside, you and the world. Dust treats
one of the most mundane and familiar phenomena, showing how
it can provide a key to thinking about existence, community, and
justice today.
UK March 2016 • US January 2016 • 160 pages
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Hood
Alison Kinney, Freelance Writer, New York, USA
We all wear hoods: the Grim Reaper, Red Riding
Hood, torturers, executioners and the executed,
athletes, laborers, anarchists, rappers, babies in
onesies, and anyone who’s ever grabbed a hoodie
on a chilly day. Alison Kinney’s Hood explores the
material and symbolic vibrancy of this everyday
garment and political semaphore, which often
protects the powerful at the expense of the powerless—with deadly
results. Kinney considers medieval clerics and the Klan, anti-hoodie
campaigns and the Hooded Man of Abu Ghraib, the Inquisition and the
murder of Trayvon Martin, uncovering both the hooded perpetrators
of violence and the hooded victims in their sights.
UK March 2016 • US January 2016 • 160 pages • 3 b/w
PB 9781501307409 • £9.99 / $16.95
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Shipping Container
Craig Martin, The University of Edinburgh, UK
The shipping container is all around: whizzing by
on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading
behind a big box store even as you shop there,
clanking on the docks just out of sight. 90% of the
goods and materials that move around the globe
do so in shipping containers. It is an absolutely
ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no
direct contact with it. But what is this thing? Where has it been, and
where is it going? Craig Martin’s book illuminates the “development
of containerization”—including design history, standardization,
aesthetics, and a surprising speculative discussion of the futurity of
shipping containers.
UK March 2016 • US January 2016 • 144 pages • 8 b/w
PB 9781501303142 • £9.99 / $16.95
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Questionnaire
Evan Kindley, Claremont McKenna College, USA
Questionnaires are everywhere: we fill them out in
doctor’s offices and at job interviews, to express
ourselves and to advance knowledge, to find love
and to kill time. But where did they come from,
and why have they proliferated? In Questionnaire,
Evan Kindley investigates the history of “the form
as form,” from the Victorian confession album to
the BuzzFeed quiz. In the process, he uncovers surprising connections
between disparate fields (literature and science, psychology and
business, and journalism and surveillance), and asks questions about
the questions we ask ourselves.
UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 160 pages
PB 9781501314773 • £9.99 / $16.95
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Hair
Scott Cutler Shershow, University of California,
Davis, USA
Scott Lowe, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire,
USA
Bread is an object that, throughout the myriad
details of its manufacture and social existence,
is always in process of becoming something else:
flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf
to crumb. Bread is also often a figure or vehicle
of social cohesion: from the homely image of
“breaking bread together” to the mysteries of the Eucharist. But
bread also commonly figures in social conflict — sometimes literally,
in the “bread riots” that punctuate European history, and sometimes
figuratively, in the ways bread operates as ethnic, religious or class
signifier. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from the scriptures to
modern pop culture, Bread tells the story this ancient and everyday
object.
UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 160 pages
PB 9781501307447 • £9.99 / $16.95
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Password
Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck College, University of
London, UK
Passwords are crucial to our lives. They regulate
our finances, protect our communications and prove
who we are to others. They are powerful words. But
from where did this equation of verbal knowledge
with a person's identity emerge? What does it really
mean, in the world of passwords, to say that one's
“identity has been stolen”? What does the future of the password
hold in store? In Password Martin Paul Eve traces the cultural histories
of the password from ancient Rome and the “watchwords” of military
encampments, through cultural representations (from Ali Baba to
Harry Potter) and up to contemporary implementations in the digital
world.
UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 160 pages
PB 9781501314872 • £9.99 / $16.95
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Hair, a primary marker of our mammalian nature,
is a remarkably powerful indicator of economic
status, social standing, political orientation,
religious affiliation, marital state, and cultural
leanings, among other things. Scott Lowe offers
a pithy yet wide-ranging overview of global hair
customs. The rules of hair—head and body, visible and covered—are
deep, powerful, and so profoundly embedded in cultural conditioning
that they are usually held unconsciously (and more strongly for
that). From Hittites to hippies, from Pentecostals to porn stars, hair
is a ubiquitous personal and vibrant object, a charged and carefully
managed dead thing.
UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 160 pages
PB 9781628922868 • £9.99 / $16.95
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Tree
Matthew Battles, Harvard University, USA
Tree explores the forms, uses, and alliances of this
living object's entanglement with humanity, from
antiquity to the Anthropocene. Trees tower over
us and yet fade into background. Their lifespan
outstrips ours, and yet their wisdom remains
inscrutable, treasured up in the heartwood. They
serve us in many ways—as keel, lodgepole, and
execution site—and yet to become human, we had to come down
from their limbs. In this book Matthew Battles follows the tree's
branches across art, poetry, and landscape, marking the edges of
imagination with wildness and shadow.
UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 160 pages
PB 9781628920512 • £9.99 / $16.95
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Dead Theory
Literature and Moral Theory
Derrida, Death and the Afterlife of
Theory
Nora Hämäläinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
What is the legacy of Theory after the deaths of
so many of its leading lights, from Jacques Derrida
to Roland Barthes? Bringing together reflections by
leading contemporary scholars, Dead Theory explores the afterlives
of the work of the great theorists and the current state of Theory
today. Considering the work of thinkers such as Derrida, Deleuze, and
Levinas, the book explores the ways in which Theory has long been
haunted by death and how it might endure for the future.
"Some of the most fundamental challenges
to analytic ethics have come from moral
philosophers who believe literature holds forth
the promise of transforming received views of
what moral thought is like, and of the kinds of
difficulties it presents. Hämäläinen’s Literature
and Moral Theory offers an insightful and
encompassing tour of this ‘turn to literature,’ describing with
particular grace and thoughtfulness the writings of Iris Murdoch
and Martha Nussbaum, two of this movement’s most significant
figures." Alice Crary, Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy,
New School for Social Research, USA
UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 224 pages
HB 9781474274357 • £60.00 / $112.00
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UK November 2015 • US November 2015 • 256 pages
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Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of
Houston-Victoria, USA
L iterary T heory
Bread
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L iterary T heory
Narratives of Nothing in 20thCentury Literature
Women's Experimental Writing
Meghan Vicks, University of Colorado at Boulder,
USA
Ellen E. Berry, Bowling Green State University,
USA
The concept of nothing has been an enduring
concern of 20th-century literature, philosophy,
art, music, physics, and mathematics. As Martin
Heidegger proposed that nothing is essential to
the creation of a knowable being, as Jacques Derrida demonstrated
how all structures are built upon a nothing within the structure, and
as mathematicians argued that zero – the number that is also not a
number – allows for the creation of our modern mathematical system,
Narratives of Nothing in 20th-Century Literature suggests that
nothing itself enables the narrative act, thereby allowing meaning to
come into existence.
UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 208 pages
HB 9781501307218 • £74.00 / $110.00
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Art as the Absolute
Art's Relation to Metaphysics in
Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and
Schopenhauer
Paul Gordon, University of Colorado, Boulder,
USA
Art as the Absolute is a literary and philosophical
investigation into the meaning of art and its claims
to truth. Exploring in particular the writings of Kant and those who
followed after, including Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer,
and Nietzsche, Paul Gordon contends that art solves the problem of
how one can “know” the absolute in non-conceptual, non-discursive
terms.
Art as the Absolute will be of interest to students and scholars
interested in exploring aesthetics from both a literary and a
philosophical perspective.
UK September 2015 • US September 2015 • 216 pages
HB 9781501308017 • £74.00 / $110.00
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Negative Aesthetics and Feminist Critique
Women's Experimental Writing considers six
contemporary authors who use experimental
methods and negative modes of critique in
their fiction and feminism. The authors covered
are Valerie Solanas, Kathy Acker, Theresa Cha, Chantel Chawaf,
Jeanette Winterson, and Lynda Barry. Berry argues that the radical
aesthetic practices they employ are central to the emergence of
contemporary Western feminisms. The volume rectifies a critical
neglect of contemporary experimental writing by women, especially
in politicized forms, within the still-emerging postmodern canon.
UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 224 pages
HB 9781474226400 • £60.00 / $104.00
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What is Art?
Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy is one of the most celebrated novelists
of all time. As well as writing literary classics such
as Anna Karenina and War and Peace he was also
the author of some hugely influential critical and
philosophical works. First published in 1898 his book
length essay What is Art? has lost none of its power
to challenge our perception of art and its function
in society today. In this provocative work Tolstoy famously dismisses
works by Shakespeare, Dante, Wagner and even many of his own
works as 'bad art' based on various criteria including sincerity, ethics,
morality and accessibility.
UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 208 pages
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Aesthetic Sexuality
A Literary History of Sadomasochism
Romana Byrne, Independent Scholar, France
The Aesthetics of Care
On the Literary Treatment of Animals
Josephine Donovan, University of Maine, USA
In this important new book from a pioneering
scholar, Josephine Donovan develops a new
aesthetics of care, which she establishes as the
basis for a critical approach to the representation of
animals in literature. The Aesthetics of Care begins
with a guide to the relationship between ethics and aesthetics,
leading to a reconceptualization of key literary critical terms such
as mimesis and catharsis, before moving on to a practical section,
with interpretations of the specific treatment of animals handled by
a wide range of authors, including Willa Cather, Leo Tolstoy, George
Sand, and J.M. Coetzee. The book closes with three concluding
theoretical chapters.
"Aesthetic Sexuality reads against the grain of
standard readings of the scientia sexualis versus
ars erotica distinction Foucault made famous in
his History of Sexuality. From Sade to Nietzsche
to contemporary fetish fashion, Byrne brilliantly
uses the aesthetics of sadomasochism to reconceptualize sexuality
itself. A tour de force!" Lynne Huffer, Professor of Women's, Gender,
and Sexuality Studies, Emory University, USA
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UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 208 pages
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Literature and the
Science of Mind
Edited by Chris Danta
& Helen Groth, both at
University of New South
Wales, Australia
“Mindful Aesthetics stages an informed
and effective intervention into studies
of literature, cognition, and evolutionary
theory. In its energy, originality, and
breadth of critical interests, this wide
ranging collection speaks to the vitality and
promise of the emerging field of cognitive
literary and cultural criticism.” Alan
Richardson, Boston College, USA
“Even as it charts new directions for the
study of literary (and other) art vis-à-vis
human beings' mental dispositions and
capacities, Mindful Aesthetics stands as
a model for cross-disciplinary scholarship
more generally.” David Herman, Durham
University, UK
UK May 2015 • US May 2015 • 248 pages
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The
Disappearance of
Literature
Ricoeur,
Literature and
Imagination
Blanchot, Agamben,
and the Writers of the
No
Sophie Vlacos, University
of Glasgow, UK
Aaron Hillyer,
Independent Scholar, USA
“The Disappearance of Literature is not
only a thrilling addition to the growing
body of work tracing the emergence of
a literature of disappearance, but it also
signals the birth of an important new
critical voice. In recent years, few people
have spoken about what escapes language
with such extraordinary eloquence.” Times
Literary Supplement
“Aaron Hillyer attends, with sensitivity and
erudition, to the implications of one of the
most startling paradoxes of literature: that
its essence may be disappearance.” Justin
Clemens, University of Melbourne, Australia
UK March 2015 • US March 2015 • 168 pages
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"This work presents a wide
exploration of the social
and intellectual context
of Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutical work.
The author offers an insightful approach
to Ricoeur’s intellectual dialogue with
classical and modern authors, exploring
their diverse relationships." Forum for
Modern Language Studies
L iterary T heory
Mindful
Aesthetics
"Sophie Vlacos steers a deft, judicious and
immensely well-informed course amidst
the numerous schools and movements of
thought that Ricoeur himself managed
to negotiate with such exemplary skill.
Her book shows impressive assurance and
command as it follows his often highly
critical yet always deeply responsive
engagements with hermeneutics,
structuralism, post-structuralism, and
deconstruction." Christopher Norris, Cardiff
University, UK
UK August 2015 • US August 2015 • 248 pages
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C ontemporary L iterature
Crunch Lit
Supplanting the Postmodern
Katy Shaw, Leeds Beckett University, UK
An Anthology of Writings on the Arts and
Culture of the Early 21st Century
"In a brilliant and perceptive analysis, Shaw shows
how, when crisis hit, novelists and dramatists
understood quicker and better than economists
the true depths of it, and its challenge to the way
we tell our own stories." Paul Mason, Economics
Editor, Channel 4 News
The financial crisis of 2008 quickly gave rise to a growing body of
fiction: "Crunch Lit". Examining a range of texts including Sebastian
Faulks' A Week in December, Adam Haslett's Union Atlantic, and John
Lanchester's Capital, this book offers the first wide-ranging guide to
these new millennial writings.
UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 208 pages
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Edited by David Rudrum & Nicholas Stavris, both
at University of Huddersfield, UK
“A fascinating collection of speculations,
arguments, and manifestos that engage in
very different ways with the question of
postmodernism's demise.” Derek Attridge, University of York, UK
“I have difficulty imagining serious aesthetic discussion apart from
the background this book provides.” R. M. Berry, Florida State
University, USA
UK November 2015 • US September 2015 • 400 pages
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The Politics of Jewishness in
Contemporary World Literature
Hanif Kureishi
Contemporary Critical Perspectives
The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism
Edited by Susan Alice Fischer, City University of
New York, USA
Since his astonishing Academy Award-nominated
film, My Beautiful Laundrette (1985), Hanif
Kureishi has been recognized as a major writer who
has both documented and profoundly influenced
contemporary British culture. Hanif Kureishi: Contemporary Critical
Perspectives brings together leading scholars of contemporary British
fiction and culture to reassess the full range of the author's writings,
from novels such as The Black Album, My Son the Fanatic and
Something to Tell You to films such as Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, My
Son the Fanatic and Venus.
UK August 2015 • US August 2015 • 192 pages
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Isabelle Hesse, University of York, UK
Reading a wide range of novels from post-war
Germany to Israeli, Palestinian and postcolonial
writers, this volume is a comprehensive exploration
of changing cultural perceptions of Jewishness
in contemporary writing. Examining how representations of
Jewishness in contemporary fiction have wrestled with such topics
as the Holocaust, Israeli-Palestinian relations and Jewish diaspora
experiences, Isabelle Hesse demonstrates the ‘colonial’ turn taken by
these representations since the founding of the Jewish state. Along
the way, the book demonstrates new ways of questioning received
ideas about victimhood and power in contemporary discussions of
postcolonialism and world literature.
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 224 pages
HB 9781474269339 • £60.00 / $104.00
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Decades of Contemporary British Fiction
The 1970s to the 2000s
Edited by Leigh Wilson, University of Westminster, UK, Nick Hubble, Brunel University, London, UK & Philip
Tew, Brunel University, UK
From the collapse of communism, through the rise of Thatcher to the shifts in global power, each volume evaluates
the impact of social, cultural and political history on the fiction of the respective period. Breaking British fiction
into four decades, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s and the 2000s and using social, cultural and political contexts
to understand its chronology means changing literary themes are properly accounted for and traditional readings
opened up. Approaching the subject from the perspective of its disciplinary formation, The Decades Series is a crucial
reference point for the progressive development of contemporary British fiction.
UK August 2015 • US October 2015 • 4 vols. • 1,175 pages
HB 9781474227742 • £275.00 / $472.00
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Torture, Trauma and Affect in the War on Terror
The Unspeakable Failures of
David Foster Wallace
Michael Richardson, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Language, Identity, and Resistance
Bringing the vibrant field of affect theory to bear on theories of
torture and power, Gestures of Testimony adopts an interdisciplinary
approach to show how testimony founded in affect can bear witness
to torture. Grounded in provocative readings of fiction by George
Orwell, Franz Kafka, Arthur Koestler, Anne Michaels and Janette
Turner Hospital, poems by Guantanamo detainees, memoirs of
interrogators and detainees, contemporary films, and the infamous
Torture Memos of the Bush Administration, Richardson’s analysis
traverses politics, law and cinema to re-think literary testimony.
Clare Hayes-Brady, University College, Dublin,
Ireland
UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 176 pages • 10 bw illus
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The Literature of Reconstruction
Clare Hayes-Brady draws on the evolving discourses
of Wallace Studies to focus on the unifying antiteleology of his writing, arguing that that position
is a fundamentally political response to the condition of neo-liberal
America. She reveals that Wallace’s work is most unified by its
resistance to closure, which pervades the structural, narrative and
stylistic elements of his writing. Taking a broadly thematic approach
to the numerous types of “failure,” or lack of completion, visible
throughout his work, Hayes-Brady offers a framework within which to
read Wallace’s work as a coherent whole.
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 208 pages
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C ontemporary L iterature
Gestures of Testimony
Authentic Fiction in the New Millennium
Wolfgang Funk, Universität Mainz, Germany
"The number of critical studies telling us how
to think about the fiction of the early twentyfirst-century is growing by the day. Amid this
abundance, The Literature of Reconstruction
stands out for its critical breadth and
sophistication, its nuanced and original readings, and its fresh
and accessible style. It is a must for scholars of contemporary
literature, but not only for them: the book should also be read by
anyone interested in the idea of authenticity, as Funk's anatomy
of this concept is nothing short of a revelation." Adam Kelly,
University of York, UK
UK September 2015 • US September 2015 • 232 pages
HB 9781501306167 • £74.00 / $110.00
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Michel Houellebecq and the
Literature of Despair
Carole Sweeney, Goldsmiths University of
London, UK
In this book Carole Sweeney examines the novels
of Michel Houellebecq as a response to the
advance of neoliberalism into all areas of affective
human life. This historicizing study argues that le
monde houellebecquien is an ‘atomised society’ of banal quotidian
alienation populated by quietly resentful men who are the botched
subjects of late-capitalism. Addressing Houellebecq’s handling of
the ‘failure’ of the radical thought of ‘68, Sweeney looks at the
ways in which his fiction treats feminism, the decline of religion and
the family, as well as the obsolescence of French ‘theory’ and the
Sartrean notion of ‘engaged’ literature.
UK May 2015 • US May 2015 • 224 pages
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Life Lines: Writing Transcultural
Adoption
John McLeod, University of Leeds, UK
"Life Lines is a compelling and scholarly analysis
of the literature of adoption, which also takes us
on an evocative, and ultimately moving, journey
of personal discovery." Caryl Phillips
Acknowledging the sobering experiences of
transcultural adoption, John McLeod explores the revisionary and
creative propensity of transcultural adoption to radically call into
question assumptions about cultural attachment, racial genealogy,
and more besides. Exploring the work of such writers as Andrea Levy,
Barbara Kingsolver, Anne Tyler and Caryl Phillips, Life Lines makes
a transformative intervention in the fields of transcultural studies,
postcolonial thought, and adoption theory and practice.
UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 256 pages
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Queer Postcolonial Narratives
and the Ethics of Witnessing
Donna McCormack, University of Bergen, Norway
“A wonderfully nuanced overview of the
intersection of several important critical strands
in contemporary literary-cultural theory: queer,
feminist, affect, postcolonial, diaspora, trauma,
the body, the sensory and more. McCormack
navigates between these diverse strands with elegance and
verve, suggesting even more promiscuous possibilities for critical
intersections while also critiquing the limits and blind spots of
some approaches.” Denise deCaires Narain, University of Sussex, UK
UK July 2015 • US July 2015 • 224 pages
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C ontemporary L iterature
Paul Auster's Writing Machine
A Thing to Write With
Evija Trofimova, Independent Scholar, New
Zealand
Dundee, UK
"Evija Trofimova offers a dazzling critical
reassessment of Auster’s oeuvre, and this book
establishes her as a leading expert in her field.
… A book to cherish." Aliki Varvogli, University of
"A brilliant study of one of America's leading prose-writers." Dennis
Barone, University of Saint Joseph, USA
"Provides a very strong analysis of all published works." Choice
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 240 pages
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The Return of the Storyteller in
Contemporary Fiction
Areti Dragas, University of Durham, UK
The Return of the Storyteller in Contemporary
Fiction closely examines this preoccupation with
story and storytelling through a close reading of six
contemporary international novelists that are either
about actual 'storytellers' or engage with the figure
of the storyteller, revealing how death of the author has given birth
to the storyteller.
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 312 pages
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The Maximalist Novel
From Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow
to Roberto Bolano's 2666
Stefano Ercolino, Yonsei University, Seoul, South
Korea
"Makes a valuable contribution to novel theory
and should be of interest to readers intent on
understanding how the big, ambitious novels of
the late twentieth and early twenty-first century work." Forum for
Modern Language Studies
"Ambitious, systematic, and rigorous, Ercolino excels at close
readings of the novels." Choice
"Offers a thought-provoking overview of its object, and an
excellent spur to further research." Studies in the Novel
UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 208 pages • 3 halftone illus
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Write in Tune: Contemporary
Music in Fiction
Edited by Erich Hertz & Jeffrey Roessner
"Write in Tune sets the stage and offers
compelling evidence as to why the rock novel
and the musical influences it encompasses should
have a place in the literary canon." Choice
"Write in Tune arrives at just the right time—as
the rock novel has attained its maturity, and demands respect on
its own terms—and demands as well its own forms of attention.
The broad spectrum of essays included here, and the wide range
of their approaches, provides a wealth of strategies for those of us
who love this fiction." Kevin J.H. Dettmar, Pomona College, USA
UK November 2015 • US November 2015 • 280 pages
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Wanderwords
Language Migration in American
Literature
Maria Lauret, University of Sussex, UK
"The title already gives away the generous
theme of this book: that literature worth reading
today is restless, non-conformist, adventurous,
and practically impossible to catch up with,
as vocabulary and grammar slip by language border controls
to form neologisms and new paths. Admirably researched and
clearly articulated, Maria Roth-Lauret’s Wanderwords will stretch
academic writing to acknowledge and to participate in the
aesthetic and philosophical bounty of bi- and multi-lingualism."
Doris Sommer, Harvard University, USA
UK March 2016 • US March 2016 • 344 pages
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New Suburban Stories
Edited by Martin Dines, Kingston University, UK
& Timotheus Vermeulen, Radboud University
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Exploring fiction, film and art from across the USA,
South America, Asia, Europe and Australia, New
Suburban Stories brings together new research
from leading international scholars to examine
cultural representations of the suburbs, home to a
rapidly increasing proportion of the world's population. Focussing in
particular on works that challenge conventional attitudes to suburbia,
the book considers how suburban communities have taken control of
their own representation to tell their own stories in contemporary
novels, poetry, autobiography, cinema, social media and public art.
UK March 2015 • US March 2015 • 256 pages
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Informed by archival research, and working beyond the usual European/American avant-garde 1900-1945 parameters Historicizing Modernism
reassesses established images of modernist writers by developing fresh views of intellectual backgrounds and working methods.
Cultures of Irish Catholicism in
James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
Chrissie Van Mierlo, Royal Holloway, University
of London, UK
Drawing on letters, journals and archival materials,
this book works its way through the novel’s major
characters to analyse the ways in which the
historical-religious background of early 20th century
Ireland intrude upon the text. Along the way, the book considers
Joyce’s vexed relationship with the Catholic Church he was brought
up in and the unique forms of Catholic culture that blossomed in
Ireland at the turn of the century.
UK September 2016 • US September 2016 • 224 pages
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Samuel Beckett and Cinema
M odernism
Historicizing Modernism
Anthony Paraskeva, University of Roehampton,
UK
Samuel Beckett and Cinema is the first book
to examine comprehensively the full extent of
Beckett's engagement with cinema and its influence
on his work for stage and screen. Examining his
writing on second wave modernist cinema the
book reveals film art to be central to Beckett's
modernist aesthetic.
UK February 2017 • US February 2017 • 224 pages
HB 9781472524980 • £60.00 / $104.00
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Reframing Yeats
British Literature and Classical
Music
Cultural Contexts 1870-1945
David Deutsch, University of Alabama, USA
Covering authors such T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf,
Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells and D.H. Lawrence, this
book examines literature produced during a period
of widely proliferating musical activity in both
public and private settings. Through the use of archives of concert
programs, cult novels, and letters written during the First and Second
World Wars, the book examines how authors both celebrated and
satirized the musicality of the lower-middle and working classes,
same-sex desiring individuals, and cosmopolitan promoters of a
shared European culture.
UK September 2015 • US September 2015 • 272 pages
HB 9781474235815 • £60.00 / $104.00
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Arun Kolatkar and Literary
Modernism in India
Genre, Allusion and History
Charles I. Armstrong, University of Agder,
Norway
"An intellectually nuanced, theoretically
contextualized study of Yeats’s multifaceted
engagements with literary genres and previous
authors." Review of English Studies
Reframing Yeats focusses on genre and allusion to engage with a
broad range of W. B. Yeats’s writings, examining instances of his
poetry, autobiographical writings, criticism, and drama. Identifying
a schism in recent Yeatsian criticism between biographical and
formalist methodologies, Armstrong’s study combines an historicist
perspective with close attention to literary form.
UK February 2015 • US February 2015 • 224 pages
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Modern Manuscripts
The Extended Mind and Creative Undoing
from Darwin to Beckett and Beyond
Moving Lines
Dirk Van Hulle, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Laetitia Zecchini, Centre National de la
Recherche Scientifique, France
"Dirk van Hulle proves with admirable clarity
that textual genesis has become the new science
of literature." Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of
Pennsylvania, USA
In this first scholarly work on India's great modern
poet Arun Kolatkar, Laetitia Zecchini outlines a
story of literary modernism in India and discusses
the traditions, figures and events that inspired and defined Arun
Kolatkar. Based on an impressive range of archival and unpublished
material, this book uncovers how poets of Kolatkar’s generation
became modern Indian writers while tracing a lineage to medieval
oral traditions.
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 248 pages
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Drawing on the critical tools of French genetic criticism, Modern
Manuscripts explores the development of early 20th century literary
texts, from source texts and early notes, through successive draft
manuscripts to publication and successive editions, contrasting these
twentieth century manuscripts with the development of Charles
Darwin's text for On the Origin of Species.
UK June 2015 • US June 2015 • 240 pages
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M odernism
Broadcasting in the Modernist Era
Virginia Woolf's Late Cultural
Criticism
The Genesis of 'The Years', 'Three Guineas'
and 'Between the Acts'
Alice Wood, De Montfort University, UK
Virginia Woolf became increasingly concerned with
overt social and political commentary in her later
writings. Fusing a feminist-historicist approach with the practices
and principles of genetic criticism, this innovative study scrutinizes
a range of holograph, typescript and proof documents within their
historical context to uncover the writing and thinking processes that
produced Woolf’s cultural analysis during 1931-1941.
UK February 2015 • US February 2015 • 208 pages
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Edited by Matthew Feldman, Teesside University,
UK, Henry Mead, Teesside University, UK & Erik
Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway
The era of literary modernism coincided with a
dramatic expansion of broadcast media throughout
Europe. Historicizing these developments and
drawing on new sources for research – including
the BBC archives and other important collections
- Broadcasting in the Modernist Era explores the ways in which
canonical writers engaged with the new media of radio and
television.
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 296 pages
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Samuel Beckett and The Bible
Ezra Pound's Eriugena
Mark Byron, University of Sydney, Australia
"Deftly orchestrated, rich in archival discoveries,
substantial in its preoccupations (philsophical,
theological and aesthetic), and argued with agility
and nuance." Journal of American Studies
Drawing on unpublished notes, drafts and
manuscripts amongst the Ezra Pound papers held
at Yale University, this is the first book to investigate the pivotal
role of the 9th-century theologian Johannes Scottus Eriugena in
Pound's poetry and thought and in his deployment of non-Western
philosophical traditions.
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 312 pages • 5 halftone illus
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Iain Bailey, University of Manchester, UK
From Waiting for Godot to his later novels such as
Ill Seen, Ill Said, Samuel Beckett's work is filled with
Biblical references. Samuel Beckett and the Bible
re-appraises the relationships between Beckett's
work and the Bible, exploring both as objects of
history, matter and memory. Iain Bailey ranges
across the Beckett oeuvre to examine how the Bible
has come to be regarded as a book of unique significance in his work,
offering innovative readings of both published and archival writings.
UK July 2015 • US July 2015 • 208 pages
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Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism
Series Editors: Paul Ardoin, the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA; S.E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA; Laci Mattison,
Florida State University, USA
The aim of each volume in Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism is to understand a philosophical thinker more fully through literary
and cultural modernism and consequently to understand literary modernism better through a key philosophical figure.
Understanding James,
Understanding Modernism
Edited by David H. Evans, Dalhousie University,
Canada
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Understanding Foucault,
Understanding Modernism
Edited by David Scott, Coppin State University,
USA
The outstanding feature of this volume lies in its
intent to investigate William James’s influence
on both American and International Modernism.
It provides, on the one hand, a multifaceted
introduction to students of history, philosophy, and culture, and on the
other, a compendium of some of the most up-to-date thinking on this
central figure. The contributors explore James’s most essential texts as
well as his influence on contemporary writers, artists, and thinkers.
This volume shows, on the one hand, that literature
and the arts play a fundamental structural role
in Foucault’s works, while, on the other hand, it
shifts to the foreground what it presumes to be
motivating Foucault: the interrogation of the problem of modernism.
It presents as many paths as possible for establishing links between
Foucault’s thought to aesthetic problems related to those specific
works, methods, and styles designated 'modernist.'
UK November 2016 • US November 2016 • 272 pages
HB 9781501302749 • £80.00 / $120.00
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UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 272 pages
HB 9781628927702 • £80.00 / $120.00
Individual eBook 9781628927719 • £62.99 / $107.99
Library eBook 9781628927726
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Series Editors: Gayle Rogers, University of Pittsburgh, USA and Sean Latham, University of Tulsa, USA
New Modernisms introduces, explores and extends the major topics and debates at the forefront of contemporary Modernist Studies. Surveying
new engagements with such topics as race, sexuality, technology and material culture and supported with authoritative further reading guides
to the key works in contemporary scholarship, these books are essential guides for serious students and scholars of modernism.
Modernism in a Global Context
Peter Kalliney, University of Kentucky, USA
Exploring the transnational dimension of literary
modernism and its increasing centrality to our
understanding of 20th-century literary culture,
Modernism in a Global Context surveys the key
issues and debates central to the 'global turn' in
contemporary Modernist Studies. Discussing the
work of writers such as T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf,
Jean Rhys, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie and critics such as Edward
Said, Terry Eagleton and Paul Gilroy amongst many others, the book
also includes a comprehensive annotated guide to further reading and
online resources.
UK December 2015 • US February 2016 • 200 pages
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Modernism: Evolution of an Idea
Sean Latham, University of Tulsa, USA & Gayle
Rogers, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Exploring shifting understandings of modernism
from the beginning of the 20th century to the
present day, this is a concise critical history of
modernist criticism. Modernism: History of An Idea
covers such topics as: Early debates, New Criticism
and the forming of the Modernist canon, the rise of
Theory and New Modernist Studies and contemporary approaches.
With annotated guides to further reading throughout and a
companion website, this is an essential survey for students and
scholars working in Modernist Studies at all levels.
UK October 2015 • US December 2015 • 272 pages • 3 b/w illustrations
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Modernism's Print Cultures
Modernism, War, and Violence
Faye Hammill, University of Strathclyde, UK &
Mark Hussey, Pace University, USA
Marina MacKay, University of Oxford, UK
The print culture of the early twentieth century has
become a major area of interest in contemporary
Modernist Studies. Modernism’s Print Cultures
surveys the explosion of scholarship in this field.
The book explores such topics as:
·Periodical publishing – from ‘little magazines’ to glossy publications
such as Vanity Fair
·Modernist publishing – small presses, typography, illustration and
book design
·Distribution - the book trade, libraries, book clubs and cafes
UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 208 pages
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Woolf: A Guide for the Perplexed
Kathryn Simpson, Cardiff Metropolitan
University, UK
Drawing on some of the main critical debates
and on Woolf's non-fictional writings, this guide
untangles some of the difficulties and perplexities
that can prove a barrier to understanding of Woolf's
writing. These include aspects of the process
of writing (such as narrative techniques, formal
structures, characterisation), as well as the thematic concerns so
central to Woolf's writing, the cultural context in which it emerged
and to recent criticism, including representations of gender and
sexuality, class and race.
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 192 pages
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M odernism
New Modernisms
Covering a wide range of authors from Joseph
Conrad and Thomas Hardy to Elizabeth Bowen and
Samuel Beckett, this book situates modernism’s
literary achievements in their contexts of historical
violence. Ranging from the colonial conflicts of
the late 19th-century to the world wars and the
civil wars in between, and concluding with the
institutionalization of modernism in the Cold War, Modernism, War,
and Violence offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the
field for students and scholars at all levels.
UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 224 pages
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Conrad, Faulkner, and the Problem
of NonSense
Maurice Ebileeni, Arab Academic College for
Education, Israel
“A sophisticated and original analysis of the
ineffable, of what language is incapable of expressing
directly, in several important works by Joseph
Conrad and William Faulkner. Conrad was Faulkner’s
great mentor, and Ebileeni explores the surprising parallels among
their themes and techniques. The theoretical foundations of the
book – primarily Lacanian – are introduced with unusual clarity. Full of
original insights for readers of Conrad and Faulkner, Conrad, Faulkner,
and the Problem of NonSense is an intellectual treat, an appealing
debut for an important young scholar.” Richard Ruppel, Professor of
English, Chapman University, USA
UK September 2015 • US September 2015 • 176 pages
HB 9781501306594 • £66.00 / $100.00
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M odernism
Gertrude Stein in Europe
Conceived in Modernism
Reconfigurations Across Media,
Disciplines, and Traditions
The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth
Control
Sarah Posman, University of Ghent, Belgium &
Laura Luise Schultz, University of Copenhagen,
Denmark
Aimee Armande Wilson, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, USA
Although often hailed as a ‘quintessentially
American’ writer, the modernist poet, novelist
and playwright Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) spent most of her life
in France. With chapters written by leading international scholars,
Gertrude Stein in Europe is the first sustained exploration of the
European artistic and intellectual networks in which Stein’s work was
first developed and circulated. Exploring the European contexts of
and influences on Stein's writing, this book opens up new perspectives
on Stein as a writer and on the centrality of artistic and intellectual
networks to European modernism.
“Conceived in Modernism intervenes forcefully
in debates about modernist sexualities and
the history of birth control and reproduction.
Aimee Armande Wilson’s politically informed and theoretically
sophisticated readings of a range of canonical and lesser-known
literary authors and birth control activists are illuminating and
inspiring. Interdisciplinary in scope, the book makes an important
and timely contribution to the intersecting inquiries of modernist
studies, the history of sexuality, feminist criticism and sexuality
studies.” Jana Funke, Advanced Research Fellow in Medical
Humanities, University of Exeter, UK
UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 312 pages • 5 halftones
HB 9781474242288 • £60.00 / $104.00
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UK December 2015 • US December 2015 • 176 pages • 1 b/w illustration
HB 9781501307133 • £66.00 / $100.00
Individual eBook 9781501307140 • £52.99 / $89.99
Library eBook 9781501307157
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Ezra Pound in the Present
The Astral H.D.
Essays on Pound's Contemporaneity
Occult and Religious Sources and Contexts
for H.D.’s Poetry and Prose
Edited by Paul Stasi, University of Albany,
SUNY, USA & Josephine Park, University of
Pennsylvania, USA
Would Ezra Pound have joined the Tea Party?
Would he have welcomed the 2008 financial crisis?
Would he have been appalled at the rise of the
“digital humanities,” or found it amenable to his own quasi-social
scientific views about the role of literature in society? Ezra Pound in
the Present collects new essays by prominent scholars of modernist
poetics to engage the relevance of Pound’s work for our times,
testing whether his literature was, as he hoped it would be, “news
that stays news.”
UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 224 pages
HB 9781501307713 • £74.00 / $110.00
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Matte Robinson, St. Thomas University,
Fredericton, Canada
“The Astral H.D. will inspire new critical
assessments of H.D.’s great war epic, Trilogy, as
well as some of her lesser known poetry, such
as Vale Ave and the poems of Hermetic Definition. Robinson’s
grasp on the occult literature H.D. was reading in her later years
is impressive, and he illuminates beautifully some of the more
esoteric source material of her extensive library.” Lara Vetter,
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
“An important and useful addition to the scholarship on H.D.'s
involvement in spiritualism and the occult.” Donna K. Hollenberg,
University of Connecticut, USA
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 216 pages
HB 9781628924176 • £74.00 / $110.00
Individual eBook 9781628924183 • £57.99 / $98.99
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T.E. Hulme and Modernism
Oliver Tearle, Loughborough University, UK
T.E. Hulme and Modernism explores Hulme's impact
on key modernist figures, from T.S. Eliot to Ezra
Pound and Wyndham Lewis. Oliver Tearle suggests
that Hulme’s significance goes beyond his influence
on modernism, and that his work provides new ways
of thinking about creative and critical writing in the
21st century. What is poetry? What is the purpose
of literary criticism? And how might the strange phenomenon of the
fragment offer new ways of theorising such issues?
UK February 2015 • US February 2015 • 208 pages
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Dysfluencies
On Speech Disorders in Modern Literature
Chris Eagle, University of Western Sydney,
Australia
“A critical genealogy of modern literature's
struggle to understand the faculty of language,
not what we say or how, but the very fact
that we can say it. Reading for the moments
when that faculty deserts us, Eagle offers a wide-ranging but
tightly focused literary history from a surprising angle, but also
undertakes a thoroughly original reflection on literatures attempt
to grapple with its most basic material.” C. D. Blanton, University
of California, Berkeley, USA
UK May 2015 • US May 2015 • 240 pages
PB 9781501308666 • £19.99 / $29.95
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The Works of Graham Greene,
Volume 2
Guarding the Guardians from 1900 to the
Present
A Guide to the Graham Greene Archives
Sarah Lonsdale, City University, London, UK.
Sarah Lonsdale traces the ways in which journalists
and newspapers have been depicted in fiction,
theatre and film. The book asks how journalists were represented
in various distinct periods of the 20th century and attempts to
explain why these representations vary so widely. This is a history
of the British press, told not by historians and sociologists, but by
writers and directors as well as journalists themselves. Within these
texts and films there is perhaps a clue as to how the best aspects of
‘Fourth estate’ journalism can survive in the digital age.
UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 272 pages
PB 9781474220545 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474220538 • £65.00 / $112.00
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Perspectives on Renaissance
Poetry
Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at
Montgomery, USA
Introducing students to the full range of approaches
to the study of Renaissance Poetry that they are
likely to encounter in their course, Perspectives
on Renaissance Poetry is an authoritative and
accessible guide to the verse of the Early Modern period.
Each chapter covers a major figure in Early Modern poetry and
explores two different poems from a full range of theoretical
perspectives, including: Classical; Formalist; Psychoanalytic;
Marxist; Structuralist; Reader-response; New Historicist; Ecocritical;
Multicultural.
UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 240 pages
PB 9781472508676 • £16.99 / $27.95 • HB 9781472505705 • £50.00 / $90.00
Individual eBook 9781472512178 • £16.99 / $26.99
Library eBook 9781472507013
Bloomsbury Academic
Bernard MacLaverty: New Critical
Readings
Edited by Richard Rankin Russell, Baylor
University, USA
The author of such works as Lamb, Cal, and Grace
Notes, Bernard MacLaverty is one of Northern
Ireland’s leading—and most prolific—contemporary
writers. Bringing together leading scholars from a
full range of critical perspectives, this is a comprehensive survey of
contemporary scholarship on MacLaverty. Covering all of his novels
and many of his short stories, the book explores the ways in which
the author has grappled with such themes as The Troubles, the
Holocaust, Catholicism, and music. Bernard MacLaverty: Critical
Readings also includes coverage of the film adaptations of his work.
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 208 pages
PB 9781474275514 • £18.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781441137869
Individual eBook 9781441142689 • £59.99 / $92.99
Library eBook 9781441132963
Bloomsbury Academic
Mike Hill, Editor, Greene Quarterly, UK & Jon
Wise, independent scholar
The second volume of The Works of Graham
Greene is a comprehensive guide to the archives of
Greene's writing. The book details archival holdings
of unpublished novels, short stories, plays, film scripts, journals,
poetry, fragments of writing, and letters, as well as manuscripts
and typescripts of published works. Analysing and contextualising
the unpublished work, the book is fully cross-referenced throughout
and includes a substantial index as well as practical guidance for
students, scholars and researchers on accessing and making the most
of each of the archives.
UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 368 pages
HB 9781472528193 • £75.00 / $128.00
Individual eBook 9781472527783 • £74.99 / $115.99
Library eBook 9781472528612
Bloomsbury Academic
B ritish and I rish L iterature
The Journalist in British Fiction
and Film
Aesthetics and Ethics in TwentyFirst Century British Novels
Zadie Smith, Nadeem Aslam, Hari Kunzru
and David Mitchell
Peter Childs, Newman University, UK & James
Green, Independent Scholar, UK
A fresh set of concerns face the twenty-first
century British novelist. In this study of the four key novelists Zadie
Smith, Nadeem Aslam, Hari Kunzru and David Mitchell, the changes
in narrative approaches and critical directions of a new post-1989
fiction are explored. Close readings of the writers are informed by a
range of contemporary theorists, critics and commentators to reveal
the themes of 21st-century fiction from Terror to consumerism,
corporatism and multinationalism.
UK February 2015 • US February 2015 • 192 pages
PB 9781474222808 • £18.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781441114273
Individual eBook 9781623564698 • £18.99 / $27.99
Library eBook 9781441135568
Bloomsbury Academic
Mary Butts and British NeoRomanticism
The Enchantment of Place
Andrew Radford, University of Glasgow, UK
Mary Butts was an important figure in inter-war
modernist circles and one who reviewed and
associated with some of the major literary figures of
the era, from T.S. Eliot to Gertrude Stein. Despite
her importance and the varied nature of her writing, she has been a
neglected figure in modernist scholarship. Providing a new analysis of
the interwar literary period, Mary Butts and British Neo-Romanticism
revisits her vividly experimental writings spanning memoir, poetry,
polemic and fiction through the lens of mid-20th-century British
neo-Romanticism. The book argues that behind Butts's eco-feminist
writings lies an intricate political and philosophical commentary.
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 272 pages • 7 halftone illus
PB 9781474275743 • £18.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781441138613
Individual eBook 9781441106438 • £59.99 / $92.99
Library eBook 9781441181343
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B ritish and I rish L iterature
Ted Hughes, Class and Violence
John McGahern and Modernism
Paul Bentley, University of St. Mark and St.
John, UK
Richard Robinson, University of Swansea, UK
"A groundbreaking study of a poet whose verse
runs 'deep as England.'" Heather Clark, Marlboro
College, USA
The first full length study of the importance of class
in the work of Ted Hughes, this book presents a
radically new version of the poet that challenges the image of Hughes
as primarily a nature poet. The controversy over ‘natural’ violence
in Hughes’s early poems, Hughes’s relationship with Seamus Heaney,
the Laureateship, and Hughes’s revisiting of his relationship with
Sylvia Plath in Birthday Letters (1998), are reconsidered in terms of
Hughes’s class background.
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 168 pages
PB 9781474275576 • £18.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781441188168
Individual eBook 9781472571717 • £59.99 / $92.99
Library eBook 9781441168078
Bloomsbury Academic
An original contribution to Irish studies, Tradition
and Modernity in the Work of John McGahern
includes close readings of Amongst Women and
Memoir alongside comparative readings of Toibín,
Joyce and Trevor. It surveys existing scholarly
evaluations and sifts through critical assessments
of McGahern's writing, centring him in a theoretical
framework of 'European' thought. Robinson's study tackles the
argument between tradition and modernity in McGahern's work,
freeing the writer from out-dated descriptions of an elegist for a
vanishing way of life and portraying him as dramatic dramatist of the
tension between ritual and change.
UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 192 pages
HB 9781441125781 • £60.00 / $110.00
Individual eBook 9781623562595 • £59.99 / $92.99
Bloomsbury Academic
Modernizing George Eliot
Raising Milton's Ghost
John Milton and the Sublime of Terror in
the Early Romantic Period
Joseph Crawford, University of Cambridge, UK
Why was Milton so important to the Romantics?
How did 'Milton the Regicide', a man often regarded
in his lifetime as a dangerous traitor and heretic,
become 'the Sublime Milton'?
Drawing on the traditions of cultural, intellectual and bibliographic
history as well as recent trends in literary scholarship on the
romantic period, Joseph Crawford explores the dramatic shift in
Milton's cultural status after 1790. He builds on a now significant
literature on Milton's legacy to the Romantic poets, uncovering the
cultural historical background against which the Romantics and their
contemporaries encountered and interacted with Milton's reputation
and works.
UK June 2015 • US June 2015 • 272 pages
PB 9781474245128 • £17.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781849663328
Individual eBook 9781849664196 • £17.99 / $27.99
Library eBook 9781849664219
Bloomsbury Academic
The Writer as Artist, Intellectual, ProtoModernist, Cultural Critic
K.M. Newton, University of Dundee, UK
"With style, wit, insight and forcefulness, Newton
reads an Eliot for our times, as well as for her
own." Julian Wolfreys, Loughborough University, UK
George Eliot's work has been subject to a wide range of critical
questioning, most of which relates her substantially to a Victorian
context and intellectual framework. Modernizing George Eliot
examines the ways in which her work anticipates significant aspects
of writing in the twentieth and indeed twenty-first century in regard
to both art and philosophy.
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 240 pages
PB 9781474275682 • £18.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781849664943
Individual eBook 9781849664981 • £59.99 / $92.99
Library eBook 9781849664998
Bloomsbury Academic
Ethics in British Children's
Literature
Unexamined Life
Christina Rossetti's Gothic
Serena Trowbridge, Birmingham City University,
UK
The poetry of Christina Rossetti is often described
as ‘gothic' and yet this term has rarely been
examined in the specific case of Rossetti's work.
Based on new readings of the full range of her
writings, from ‘Goblin Market' to the devotional
poems and prose works, this book explores Rossetti's
use of Gothic forms and images to consider her as a Gothic writer.
Christina Rossetti's Gothic analyses the poet's use of the grotesque
and the spectral and the Christian roots and Pre-Raphaelite influences
of Rossetti's deployment of Gothic tropes.
UK February 2015 • US February 2015 • 224 pages
PB 9781474222815 • £18.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781441114433
Individual eBook 9781441170446 • £18.99 / $27.99
Library eBook 9781441142238
Series: The WISH List • Bloomsbury Academic
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Lisa Sainsbury, University of Roehampton, UK
"Lisa Sainsbury has written a highly original
study which illustrates brilliantly how children's
literature contributes to children's moral,
ethical and intellectual development." Kimberley
Reynolds, Professor of Children’s Literature, Newcastle University,
UK
Featuring close readings of selected poetry, visual texts, short stories
and novels published for children since 1945 from Naughty Amelia
Jane to Watership Down, this is the first extensive study of the nature
and form of ethical discourse in British children's literature.
UK February 2015 • US February 2015 • 240 pages
PB 9781474222822 • £18.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781441139832
Individual eBook 9781441190772 • £18.99 / $27.99
Library eBook 9781441124951
Bloomsbury Academic
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Alice Munro
Topics in Contemporary North American
Literature
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship,
Loveship, Marriage; Runaway; and Dear
Life
Edited by Catherine Morley, University of
Leicester, UK
The terrorist attacks on the twin towers of the
World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001 have
had a profound impact on contemporary American
literature and culture. 9/11: Topics in Contemporary North American
Literature is a guide to literary responses to the attacks and their
aftermath. The book covers key works by Don Dellilo, Jonathan
Safran Foer, Jonathan Franzen and Art Spiegelman and includes
annotated guides to further reading, making this an essential guide
for students and readers of contemporary American literature.
UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 208 pages
PB 9781472569684 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472569707 • £55.00 / $94.00
Individual eBook 9781472569691 • £17.99 / $27.99
Library eBook 9781472569677
Series: Bloomsbury Topics in Contemporary North American Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Robert Thacker, St. Lawrence University, USA
The award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to the
Canadian writer Alice Munro in 2013 confirmed her
position as a master of the short story form. This
book explores Munro’s work from a full range of critical perspectives,
focusing on three of her most popular published collections:
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001), Runaway
(2004), and Dear Life (2012). With chapters written by leading critics
of Munro’s work, the short story form and contemporary Canadian
writing, this book explores such themes as sex, love and marriage,
gender and humor as well as her approaches to narrative form and
autobiography.
UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 208 pages
PB 9781474230988 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474230995 • £55.00 / $94.00
Individual eBook 9781474231008 • £17.99 / $27.99
Library eBook 9781474231015
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction • Bloomsbury Academic
N orth A merican L iterature
9/11
The American Biographical Novel
Michael Lackey, University of Minnesota, USA
The American Biographical Novel charts the shifts
in intellectual history that made the biographical
novel both acceptable to the literary establishment
and popular with the general reading public. More
specifically, it clarifies the origin and evolution of
this genre of fiction, specifies the kind of “truth” it
communicates, provides a framework for identifying
how this genre uniquely engages the political, and demonstrates how
it gives readers new access to history.
UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 272 pages
PB 9781628926330 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781628926347 • £80.00 / $120.00
Individual eBook 9781628926354 • £14.99 / $25.99
Library eBook 9781628926361
Bloomsbury Academic
Manga in America
Transnational Book Publishing and the
Domestication of Japanese Comics
Casey Brienza, City University London, UK
Manga – the Japanese comic book art form that
'conquered' America – is often held up as a model
example of the globalization of popular culture
today. Manga in America is the first book to explore
the realities of the form’s huge impact in the United States. Based on
extensive research and interviews, Manga in America also considers
the possibilities of new digital publishing models in the genre.
Including a glossary of key terms and written by a leading Manga
critic and commentator this is an essential guide to the global impact
of Japanese Manga.
UK January 2016 • US January 2016 • 232 pages • 26 b/w figures
PB 9781472595874 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472595867 • £55.00 / $94.00
Individual eBook 9781472595881 • £17.99 / $27.99
Library eBook 9781472595898
Bloomsbury Academic
Mark Twain and Youth
His Life and Writings
Edited by Kevin Mac Donnell & R. Kent Rasmussen
Mark Twain's writings about children and the theme of youth are
central to his popularity. This collection makes his work even more
accessible to the modern reader by fully exploring the broader
theme of youth in all his major writings and his life. The contributors
offer new perspectives on key issues in Twain’s work such as his
relationships with his own children, slavery, aging, his siblings,
gender roles, the marketing and reception of his works, the teaching
of Twain’s works in schools and screen adaptations of his works for
children.
UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 304 pages
PB 9781474225380 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474223126 • £65.00 / $112.00
Individual eBook 9781474223119 • £19.99 / $27.99
Library eBook 9781474223133
Bloomsbury Academic
Poe and the Subversion of
American Literature
Satire, Fantasy, Critique
Robert T. Tally, Jr., Texas State University, USA
"A brilliant rethinking of Poe's work that will
influence study of mid-19th century American
literature for some time." Choice (named a Choice
Outstanding Academic Title)
"Robert T. Tally challenges conventional ideas about Poe.
Especially the notion that he is essentially a Gothic writer. Poe and
the Subversion of American Literature is full of fresh insights. The
merits of Tally’s ideas are clear…the claim that satirical fantasy is a
useful term for describing a considerable portion of Poe’s literary
output is food for thought and will surely inspire additional studies
of Poe." The Edgar Allen Poe Review
UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 168 pages
PB 9781501309298 • £19.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781623564278
Individual eBook 9781623569709 • £57.99 / $98.99
Library eBook 9781623569204
Bloomsbury Academic
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N orth A merican L iterature
Excursions with Thoreau
Philosophy, Poetry, Religion
Edward F. Mooney, Syracuse University, USA
“Edward Mooney proves himself a worthy heir
to Thoreau’s legacy by speaking to his readers
as an extracurricular intellectual and spiritual
companion … Excursions with Thoreau is a
powerful illustration of how philosophy can live
up to its name as the love of wisdom, grounded in wonder and
defined by transformative encounters.” Rick Anthony Furtak,
Colorado College, USA
A literary and philosophical exploration of Thoreau as a prosepoet and religious adept who carries us into fresh and unexpected
communion with landscape, seascape, open sky, and what he calls
“the unfathomable.”
UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 296 pages • 2 illustrations
PB 9781501305641 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501305658 • £80.00 / $120.00
Individual eBook 9781501305665 • £14.99 / $25.99
Library eBook 9781501305672
Bloomsbury Academic
Leslie Marmon Silko
Ceremony, Almanac of the Dead, Gardens
in the Dunes
Edited by David L. Moore, University of
Montana, USA
A major American writer at the turn of this
millennium, Leslie Marmon Silko has also been
one of the most powerful voices in the flowering
of Native American literature since the publication of her 1977
novel Ceremony. With chapters written by leading scholars of
Native American literature, this guide explores Silko's major novels
Ceremony, Almanac of the Dead and Gardens in the Dunes as an
entryway into the full body of her work that includes poetry, essays,
short fiction, film, photography, and other visual artwork.
UK September 2016 • US September 2016 • 208 pages
PB 9781472523662 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472524515 • £55.00 / $94.00
Individual eBook 9781472523129 • £17.99 / $27.99
Library eBook 9781472530608
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction • Bloomsbury Academic
Richard Wright in a Post-Racial
Imaginary
Edited by William Dow, Université ParisEst (UPEM), France, Alice Craven, American
University of Paris, France, and Institut
Catholique de Paris, France & Yoko Nakamura,
American University of Paris, France
Rated an “Essential” publication by Choice.
"By placing Richard Wright in the context of twenty-first century
post-racial ideology and theory, Richard Wright in a PostRacial Imaginary raises many highly provocative questions that
should certainly ignite a new dialogue around his intellectual
transformation from Mississippi, Memphis, Chicago, and New York
to a global arena in Mexico, Europe, Africa, and Asia." Joyce A.
Joyce, Temple University, USA
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 296 pages
PB 9781501312694 • £19.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781623562311
Individual eBook 9781623562328 • £14.99 / $25.99
Library eBook 9781623566258
Bloomsbury Academic
Subject of the Event
Reagency in the American Novel after
2000
Sebastian Huber, Ludwig-Maximilians-University,
Munich, Germany
As the first book to comprehensively engage with
Alain Badiou’s writings outside of a philosophical
context, Subject of the Event analyzes five critically
acclaimed novels of the new millennium—Cormac McCarthy’s The
Road (2006), Jess Walter’s The Zero (2006), Mark Z. Danielewski’s Only
Revolutions (2006), Paul Beatty’s Slumberland (2008) and Thomas
Pynchon’s Against the Day (2006)—and argues that they create
different ‘subjects of the event’ that are empowered with ‘reagency’.
The ‘subject of the event’ and its empowerment, what this book calls
‘reagency,’ implies that subjects only evolve out of their confrontation
with the revolutionary impetus that events propel.
UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 304 pages
HB 9781501317125 • £80.00 / $120.00
Individual eBook 9781501317095 • £62.99 / $107.99
Library eBook 9781501317101
Bloomsbury Academic
Not Born Digital
Poetics, Print Literacy, New Media
Daniel Morris, Purdue University, USA
Not Born Digital addresses from multiple perspectives – ethical,
historical, psychological, conceptual, aesthetic – the vexing problems
and sublime potential of disseminating lyrics, the ancient form of
transmission and preservation of the human voice, in an environment
in which e-poetry and digitalized poetics pose a crisis (understood
as opportunity and threat) to traditional page poetry. While other
studies have begun to analyze poetry that appears in New Media
contexts, Not Born Digital concerns the ambivalent ways page poets
(rather than electronica based poets) have grappled with “screen
memory” (that is, electronic and new media sources) through the
repurposing of “found” materials.
UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 192 pages • 5 bw illus
HB 9781501316708 • £74.00 / $110.00
Individual eBook 9781501316715 • £57.99 / $98.99
Library eBook 9781501316722
Bloomsbury Academic
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Toni Morrison and Literary
Tradition
The Invention of an Aesthetic
Justine Baillie, University of Greenwich, UK
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014
Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition provides a
comprehensive analysis of Morrison's entire oeuvre,
from her early interrogation of Black Power to her engagement with
fin de siècle postcolonial critiques of nationalism and twenty-first
century considerations of ecology. Justine Baillie goes on to argue
that Morrison's aesthetic should be understood in relation to the
historical, political and cultural contexts in which it, and the AfricanAmerican and American literary traditions upon which she draws,
have been created and developed.
UK February 2015 • US April 2015 • 240 pages
PB 9781474222914 • £18.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781441183101
Individual eBook 9781441145512 • £18.99 / $27.99
Library eBook 9781441184467
Bloomsbury Academic
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Kerouac
The Web of Experience and the Forms of
Reality
Language, Poetics, and Territory
Hassan Melehy, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, USA
Lynda Zwinger, University of Arizona, USA
“In a series of skillfully rendered, implacably
unruly readings, Lynda Zwinger reads Henry
James as the reader James hoped for: a field
of awareness as finely spun as a spiderweb
suspended without any purpose other than a full openness to
the pervasive presence of what might otherwise be lost beyond
telling.” Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College, USA
“Offering a compellingly rich analysis of James's theory of the
novel, Zwinger reads the writer’s acts of 'telling' in the sharply
focused style that James devoted to jokes, perverse claims, and
'dirt' in general. A remarkable read!” Dale Bauer, University of
Illinois, USA
UK September 2015 • US September 2015 • 152 pages
HB 9781501308987 • £66.00 / $100.00
Individual eBook 9781501308994 • £52.99 / $89.99
Library eBook 9781501309007
Bloomsbury Academic
Of the more than twenty-five biographies of
Kerouac, few have seriously examined his
relationship to the French language and the
reason for his bilingualism, the Québec Diaspora.
Although this background has long been recognized in Frenchlanguage treatments, it is a new dimension in Anglophone studies of
his writing. Hassan Melehy explores how Kerouac’s poetics of exile
involves meditations on moving between territories and languages.
He shows that, far from being a naïve pursuit, Kerouac’s writing
practice not only responded but contributed to some of the major
aesthetic and philosophical currents of the twentieth century in
which notions such as otherness and nomadism took shape.
UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 240 pages
HB 9781501314346 • £80.00 / $120.00
Individual eBook 9781501314353 • £62.99 / $107.99
Library eBook 9781501314360
Bloomsbury Academic
Rocket States: Atomic Weaponry
and the Cultural Imagination
Djuna Barnes's Nightwood
The World and the Politics of Peace
Bonnie Roos, West Texas A&M University, USA
“Roos restores to us the Nightwood that so
entranced and menaced her editor T. S. Eliot,
and in the process, pays tribute to the novel's
ungovernable energies.” Kevin J. H. Dettmar,
Professor of English, Pomona College, USA
Ranging over depression-era politics, the failures of the League of
Nations, popular journalism and the Modernist culture exemplified by
such writers as James Joyce and T.S. Eliot, this is a comprehensive
exploration of the historical contexts of Djuna Barnes's masterpiece,
Nightwood.
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 240 pages
PB 9781474275590 • £18.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781472530660
Individual eBook 9781472529367 • £59.99 / $92.99
Library eBook 9781472533296
Bloomsbury Academic
N orth A merican L iterature
Telling in Henry James
Fabienne Collignon, University of Sheffield, UK
“A fascinating study of how cultural fantasy
shaped the U.S. security state. Collignon reads
the technological infrastructure of the Cold War
as the product of a national dream-work, deeply
influenced by collective desires and anxieties. …
The result is a compelling vision of the bizarre psychodynamics of
a deadly serious episode in U.S. history.” Timothy Melley, Miami
University, USA
“Compellingly written and hauntingly imagined.” Arthur Kroker,
University of Victoria, Canada
UK January 2016 • US January 2016 • 192 pages • 8 bw halftone illus
PB 9781501317651 • £19.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781623560041
Individual eBook 9781623569426 • £57.99 / $98.99
Library eBook 9781623567255
Bloomsbury Academic
Decades of Modern American Drama
Playwriting from the 1930s to 2009
Edited by Brenda Murphy, University of Connecticut, USA and Julia Listengarten, University of Central Florida, USA
In eight volumes, the series provides a comprehensive study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to
2009. Each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged, as well as
a thorough survey of the companies, dramatists, new movements and resulting developments in theatre. The work of
the four most prominent playwrights from each decade receives in-depth analysis, and a final section brings together
original documents.
Volumes Include:
I.Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1930s, Edited by Anne Fletcher (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA)
II. Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1940s, Edited by Felicia Hardison Londré (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)
III. Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1950s, Edited by Susan C. W. Abbotson (Rhode Island College, Providence, USA)
IV. Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1960s, Edited by Garrett Eisler (Ithaca College, New York, USA)
V. Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1970s, Edited by Michael Vanden Heuvel (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
VI. Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1980s, Edited by Sandra G. Shannon (Howard University, Washington, USA)
VII. Modern American Drama: Playwriting in the 1990s, Edited by Cheryl Black (University of Missouri, Coumbia, USA) and Sharon Friedman
(Gallatin School, New York University, USA)
VIII. Modern American Drama: Playwriting 2000-2009, Edited by Julia Listengarten (University of Central Florida, USA) and Cindy Rosenthal
(Hofstra University, New York, USA)
UK January 2017 / US March 2017 • 8 vols • 2,816 pages
HB 9781472572646 • £465.00 / $800.00
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Series Editor: Imke Meyer, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
The series taps into the 'Germanistik' tradition and its growth into German Studies, incorporating interdisciplinary approaches to the analysis of
the rich intellectual and cultural histories of the German-speaking countries.
Thomas Mann in English
Thomas Mann and Shakespeare
A Study in Literary Translation
Something Rich and Strange
David Horton, Saarland University, Germany
Edited by Tobias Döring, LMU München, Germany
& Ewan Fernie, University of Birmingham, UK
“A major contribution to the field. Henceforth
anyone who wants to comment on translation
of Mann must first read and digest this book."
Modern Language Review
UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 264 pages
PB 9781501318702 • £19.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781441167989
Individual eBook 9781441166807 • £57.99 / $98.99
Library eBook 9781441182777
Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
Goethe's Families of the Heart
"When Mann speaks of ‘the most tremendous
case of poetic genius the world has ever seen’,
he is referring not to Homer, nor to Goethe – but
to Shakespeare. It is strange that this important
identification has been so little heeded or seriously examined
for so long. At last the present book makes up for such neglect."
Heinrich Detering, President of the German Academy for Language
and Literature
W orld L iterature
New Directions in German Studies
UK December 2015 • US October 2015 • 280 pages • 4 b/w illustrations
HB 9781628922097 • £80.00 / $120.00
Individual eBook 9781628922103 • £62.99 / $107.99
Library eBook 9781628922110
Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
Susan Gustafson, University of Rochester, USA
The questions Goethe’s plays and novels pose
are often modern and challenging: Do social
conventions, family expectations, and legal
mandates matter? Gustafson’s close analysis of
Goethe’s literary work shows that he rejected
loveless relationships (for example, arranged
marriages) and accepted and promoted all
relationships formed through spontaneous affinities and love
(including heterosexual, same-sex, bisexual, group, parental, and
adoptive).
UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 224 pages
HB 9781501315763 • £80.00 / $120.00
Individual eBook 9781501315770 • £62.99 / $107.99
Library eBook 9781501315787
Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
Roma Voices in the GermanSpeaking World
Lorely French, Pacific University, USA
"Provides a remarkable account of the
transformation in the literature of Germanspeaking Roma that has occurred as a response to
the atrocities of the Holocaust." Paola Toninato,
University of Warwick, UK
UK July 2015 • US May 2015 • 296 pages • 10 halftones
HB 9781501302794 • £80.00 / $120.00
Individual eBook 9781501302800 • £62.99 / $107.99
Library eBook 9781501302817
Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
Literatures, Cultures, Translation
Series Editors: Brian James Baer, Kent State University, USA Michelle Woods, the State University of New York, New Paltz, USA
Literatures, Cultures, Translation presents a new line books that engage central issues in translation studies such as history, politics and gender
in and of literary translation, as well as opening new avenues for study.
Interpreting in Nazi
Concentration Camps
Translation and the Making of
Modern Russian Literature
Edited by Michaela Wolf, University of Graz,
Austria
Brian James Baer, Kent State University, USA
While in the last few decades there has been
extensive research on the language used by
concentration camp inmates, investigation into the
mediating role of interpreters between SS guards
and prisoners on the one hand, and among inmates on the other, has
been almost nonexistent. This book examines the role of interpreting
in the wider context of shaping life in concentration camps while
also looking at how knowledge of languages, and accordingly, certain
communication skills, contributed to the survival of concentration
camp inmates and of the interpreting person.
UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 192 pages
PB 9781501313257 • £23.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781501313264 • £80.00 / $120.00
Individual eBook 9781501313271 • £17.99 / $30.99
Library eBook 9781501313288
Series: Literatures, Cultures, Translation • Bloomsbury Academic
"In an elegant series of micro-narratives, Brian
Baer exposes the flash points of modern Russian
literary history. ... He is an erudite and stylish
guide, with a keen eye for paradox." Sherry
Simon, Concordia University, Canada
This book reveals that the awareness on the part of Russian writers
that their literature, and by extension, their cultural identity, was
“born in translation” produced a sustained critique of Romantic
authorship and national identity that would become a defining theme
of modern Russian literature.
UK November 2015 • US November 2015 • 224 pages
PB 9781628927986 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781628927993 • £80.00 / $120.00
Individual eBook 9781628928013 • £14.99 / $25.99
Library eBook 9781628928020
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W orld L iterature
South African Literature's Russian
Soul
Danish Literature as World
Literature
Narrative Forms of Global Isolation
Edited by Mads Rosendahl Thomsen & Dan
Ringgaard, both at Aarhus University, Denmark
Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Connecticut College,
USA.
"Breaks genuinely new ground in the study of
the postcolonial novel." Katie Trumpener, Yale
University, UK
In this book, Jeanne-Marie Jackson demonstrates how Russian
writing’s “Golden Age” in the troubled nineteenth-century has
served as a model for South African writers both during and after
apartheid. Exploring these two isolated literary cultures alongside
each other, the book challenges the limits of ‘global’ methodologies
in contemporary literary studies and outdated models of centerperiphery relations to argue for a more locally involved scale of
literary enquiry with more truly global horizons.
UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 248 pages
HB 9781472592996 • £60.00 / $104.00
Individual eBook 9781472593009 • £59.99 / $92.99
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Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing • Bloomsbury Academic
Salman Rushdie and Translation
Jenni Ramone, Nottingham Trent University, UK
"An original and important perspective on one
of the most important writers of our age." Dave
Gunning, University of Birmingham, UK
Salman Rushdie's writing is engaged with translation
in many ways: translator-figures tell and retell
stories in his novels, while acts of translation are
catalysts for climactic events. Covering his major novels as well
as his short stories and writing for children, Salman Rushdie and
Translation explores the role of translation in Rushdie's work. Jenni
Ramone draws on contemporary translation theory to analyse the
part translation plays in Rushdie's appropriation of historical and
contemporary Indian narratives of independence and migration.
UK March 2015 • US March 2015 • 224 pages
PB 9781474228060 • £18.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781441144355
Individual eBook 9781441106612 • £18.99 / $27.99
Library eBook 9781441128164
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Late Book Culture in Argentina
Craig Epplin, Portland State University, USA
UK February 2017 • US February 2017 • 224 pages
HB 9781501310010 • £74.00 / $110.00
Individual eBook 9781501310027 • £57.99 / $98.99
Library eBook 9781501310034
Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Brodsky Translating Brodsky:
Poetry in Self-Translation
Alexandra Berlina, University of Duisburg-Essen,
Germany
“The author’s sensitive and insightful readings
of Brodsky’s poems both in the Russian original
and in English translation—to the point where
it becomes unclear which one is the original
and which one the translation in any given case, and whether
the neat distinction between original and translation ought to be
taken for granted more generally—illuminate Brodsky’s poetics
and technique to an unprecedented degree by laying bare their
semantic, grammatical, syntactical, and phonological workings.”
The Russian Review
UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 232 pages
PB 9781501314285 • £19.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781623561734
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Bloomsbury Academic
German Literature as World
Literature
Edited by Thomas Oliver Beebee, Penn State
University, USA
"A subtle exploration of the limits of the literary
practice. Epplin reflects on the intersections
of literature, aesthetics, material production,
and distribution of books, where he finds the
possibilities for contemporary experimentation. In
a brilliant counterpoint, his arguments highlight
local works in a global media context." Graciela
Montaldo, Columbia University, USA
“For far too long, the only role that the German
tradition has played in the flourishing discussions
surrounding ‘world literature’ is to have given the
field its name. The present volume corrects this
deficit and shows how German literature interacts with the world
at large. It should be required reading for anyone interested in the
future of German studies in the twenty-first century!” Tobias Boes,
University of Notre Dame, USA
"Epplin's book opens a new chapter in the historiography of
Argentine literature. Late Book Culture in Argentina will soon be a
must read." Natalia Brizuela, University of California, Berkeley, USA
"An excellent introduction to the debate on (German) world
literature." Choice
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 168 pages • 9 halftone illus
PB 9781501318276 • £19.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781623562700
Individual eBook 9781623560744 • £57.99 / $98.99
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Despite being a minor language, Danish literature is
one of the world’s most active in translating foreign
literature, and the Scandinavian state is the home
of a number of significant writers. Danish Literature
as World Literature introduces key figures from 800 years of Danish
literature and their impact on world literature. Included are chapters
devoted to post-1945 literature on beat and systemic poetry,
literature from and about Greenland, and the Scandinavia noir
vogue that includes both crime fiction and cinema and is enjoying
worldwide popularity.
UK January 2016 • US January 2016 • 232 pages
PB 9781501317712 • £19.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781623563912
Individual eBook 9781623560539 • £57.99 / $98.99
Library eBook 9781623561895
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BLOOMSBURY Cultural History
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E nvironmental L iterature
Environmental Cultures
Series Editors: Greg Garrard, University of British Columbia at Okanagan, Canada; Richard Kerridge, Bath Spa University, UK
Environmental Cultures makes available to students and scholars at all levels the latest cutting-edge research on the diverse ways in which
culture has responded to the age of environmental crisis. Publishing ambitious and innovative literary ecocriticism that crosses disciplines,
national boundaries and media, books in the series explore and test the challenges of ecocriticism to conventional forms of cultural study.
Ecocriticism and Italy
Cities and Wetlands
Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation
The Return of the Repressed in Nature
and Culture
Serenella Iovino, University of Turin, Italy
“Ecocriticism and Italy is a bracing
intervention—a beautiful and sometimes surreal
work of material ecocriticism.” Stacy Alaimo,
University of Texas, USA
Italy's landscapes have inspired many different
works of literature and art. Ecocriticism and Italy is the first
comprehensive eco-critical study of the modern cultural engagement
with that landscape. From Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Tomasi
di Lampedusa’s tales of mermaids in the Mediterranean sea to the
industrial landscapes of film-makers like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Serenella
Iovino explores the ways in which Italian artists have engaged
politically, culturally and socially with the natural world around
them.
UK January 2016 • US January 2016 • 208 pages
12 b/w illustrations
HB 9781472571656 • £60.00 / $104.00
Individual eBook 9781472571670 • £59.99 / $92.99
Library eBook 9781472571663
Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic
Literature as Cultural Ecology
Sustainable Texts
Hubert Zapf, University of Augsburg, Germany
Drawing on the latest debates in ecocritical theory
and sustainability studies, Literature as Cultural
Ecology: Sustainable Texts outlines a new approach
to the reading of literary texts. Hubert Zapf
considers the ways in which literature operates as a
form of cultural ecology, using language, imagination and critique to
challenge and transform cultural narratives of humanity’s relationship
to nature. Applying this approach to works by such writers as Emily
Dickinson, Herman Melville, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner and
Edgar Allen Poe, Literature as Cultural Ecology is an essential
contribution to the contemporary environmental humanities.
UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 288 pages
HB 9781474274654 • £65.00 / $112.00
Individual eBook 9781474274661 • £64.99 / $100.99
Library eBook 9781474274678
Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic
Rod Giblett, Edith Cowan University, Australia
From New Orleans to New York, from London to
Paris to Venice, many of the world’s great cities
were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and
Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary
and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their
environments. Developing a ground-breaking mode of psychoanalytic
ecology and surveying a wide range of cities in North America, Europe
and Australia, ecocritic and activist Rod Giblett shows how the
wetland origins of these cities haunt their later literature and culture
and might prompt us to reconsider the relationship between human
culture and the environment.
UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 288 pages
HB 9781474269827 • £65.00 / $112.00
Individual eBook 9781474269834 • £64.99 / $100.99
Library eBook 9781474269841
Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic
Nerd Ecology: Defending the
Earth with Unpopular Culture
Anthony Lioi, Juilliard School, New York, USA
Drawing on a wide range of examples from
literature, comics, film, television and digital
media, Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth
with Unpopular Culture is the first substantial
ecocritical study of ‘nerd’ culture’s engagement
with environmental issues. Exploring such works as Star Trek,
Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer
and Firefly, Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, the novels of Haruki
Murakami and superhero comics such as Green Lantern and X-Men,
Anthony Lioi maps out the development of nerd culture and its
intersections with the most fundamental ecocritical themes.
UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 224 pages
HB 9781472567635 • £60.00 / $104.00
Individual eBook 9781472567642 • £59.99 / $92.99
Library eBook 9781472567659
Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic
World English
Ecocriticism on the Edge
The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept
Timothy Clark, University of Durham, UK
"After this book, ecocriticism should never be the same again." Richard Kerridge, Bath Spa University, UK
Bringing together two schools of criticism that have previously been remote from each other, Ecocriticism on the Edge
argues for a revised eco-criticism informed by the insights of deconstruction, whilst at the same time challenging Derridean
deconstruction's silence on the subject of ecological catastrophe. Offering radical new readings of texts by such writers
as Raymond Carver, Kim Stanley Robinson and Henry James in light of these concerns, Ecocriticism on the Edge is a major
intervention in contemporary critical theory and eco-criticism.
UK September 2015 • US September 2015 • 232 pages • 7 halftones
PB 9781472505736 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472506481 • £65.00 / $112.00
Individual eBook 9781474246309 • £19.99 / $27.99
Library eBook 9781472506702
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Series Editors: Lawrence Phillips, Regent’s University London, UK; Matthew Beaumont, University College London, UK
Bloomsbury Studies in the City captures the best contemporary criticism on urban literature and culture. Reading literature, film, drama
and poetry in their historical and social context and alongside urban and spatial theory, this series explores the impact of the city on
writers and their work.
London in
Contemporary
British Fiction
Iain Sinclair:
Noise,
Neoliberalism
and the Matter of
London
The City Beyond the
City
Edited by Philip Tew,
Brunel University, UK,
Nick Hubble, Brunel University, London,
UK & Lynn Wells
Contemporary writers such as Peter Ackroyd,
J.G. Ballard, John King, Ian McEwan, Will
Self, Iain Sinclair and Zadie Smith have
been registering the changes to the social
and cultural London landscape for years.
This volume brings together their vivid
representations of the capital. Uniting the
readings are themes such as relationship
between the country and the city; the
capacity of satirical forms to encompass
the 'real London'; spatio-temporal
transformations and emergences; the
relationship between multiculturalism and
universalism; the underground as the spatial
equivalent of London's unconsciousness and
the suburbs as the frontier of the future.
UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 208 pages
HB 9781441190192 • £60.00 / $110.00
Individual eBook 9781623560614 • £59.99 / $92.99
Library eBook 9781441191472
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the City
Bloomsbury Academic
Netherlands
Niall Martin, University
of Amsterdam, The
For more than 40 years London-based writer,
film-maker and ‘psychogeographer’ Iain
Sinclair has proved to be one of the most
incisive commentators on the contemporary
city: tracing the emerging contours of a
metropolis where the meeting of global and
local is never without incident. Iain Sinclair:
Noise, Neoliberalism and the Matter of
London explores Sinclair’s investigations
into the nature of conflicting urban realities
through an examination of the ways in which
the noise of neoliberal excess intersects with
the noise of literary experiment. In this way,
the book casts new light on theorisations of
the city in the contemporary era.
UK September 2015 • US September 2015 • 216 pages • 1 b/w
HB 9781472574848 • £60.00 / $104.00
Individual eBook 9781472574855 • £59.99 / $92.99
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Bloomsbury Academic
reflective teaching
InspIrIng EducatIon through InnovatIon
G.K. Chesterton,
London and
Modernity
Edited by Matthew
Beaumont & Matthew
Ingleby
G. K. Chesterton,
London and Modernity
is the first book to explore the persistent
theme of the city in Chesterton's writing.
Situating him in relation to both Victorian
and Modernist literary paradigms, the
book explores a range of theoretical and
methodological approaches to address the
way his imaginative investments and political
interventions conceive urban modernity
and the central figure of London. While
Chesterton's work has often been valued for
its wit and whimsy, this book argues that
he is also a distinctive urban commentator,
whose sophistication has been under
appreciated in comparison to more canonical
contemporaries.
E nvironmental L iterature
Bloomsbury Studies in the City
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 224 pages
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C omparative L iterature
Language Lost and Found
On Iris Murdoch and the Limits of
Philosophical Discourse
Niklas Forsberg, Uppsala University, Sweden
“One of the most philosophically sophisticated
contributions to these interlinked issues that I
have come across in the last decade; the care,
charity and ease with which Forsberg contests
and dismantles one of the most influential current readings of
Murdoch (that advanced by Nussbaum) is enough on its own to
make it clear that standards in this area have just been raised.”
Stephen Mulhall, New College, University of Oxford, UK
"This book is full of philosophical insight, not only about
contemporary moral thinking but also about the relation of
literature to philosophical thought." Charles Taylor, McGill
University, Canada
UK March 2015 • US March 2015 • 256 pages
PB 9781501306815 • £25.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781623564834
Individual eBook 9781623569730 • £14.99 / $25.99
Library eBook 9781623566593
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Reading and Rhetoric in
Montaigne and Shakespeare
Peter Mack, University of Warwick, UK
Shakespare and Montaigne are the English and
French writers of the sixteenth century who
have the most to say to modern readers. This
book examines the ways in which Montaigne and
Shakespeare used their reading of classical texts
and other early sources and argued with them to create something
new. It is the most sustained account available of the similarities and
differences between these two great writers, casting light on their
ethical and philosophical views and on how these were conveyed to
their audience.
UK June 2015 • US June 2015 • 224 pages • None
PB 9781474245135 • £16.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781849660617
Individual eBook 9781849660600 • £16.99 / $26.99
Library eBook 9781408139042
Series: The WISH List • Bloomsbury Academic
Literary Trials
Exceptio Artis and Theories of Literature
in Court
Edited by Ralf Grüttemeier, Oldenburg
University, Germany
From the 19th century onwards, famous literary
trials have caught the attention of readers,
academics and the public at large. Literary Trials
represents the first step towards a systematic discussion of literary
trials on a global scale. Beginning by first reassessing some of the
most famous of these trials, such as those about Flaubert’s Madame
Bovary, Joyce’s Ulysses and Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, among others,
it also analyses less well-known but significant literary trials. Special
attention is paid to recent developments in the relationship between
literature and judicature, pointing towards an increasing role for libel
and defamation in the societal demarcation of what literature is, and
is not, allowed to do.
Gothic Fiction and the Invention
of Terrorism
The Politics and Aesthetics of Fear in the
Age of the Reign of Terror
Joseph Crawford, University of Exeter, UK
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014
This book examines the connections between
the growth of 'terror fiction' - now known as 'Gothic' - in the late
eighteenth century, alongside the emerging concept of 'terrorism' as a
category of political action. In the 1790s, four interconnected bodies
of writing arose in Britain: the historical mythology of the French
Revolution, the political rhetoric of 'terrorism', the genre of political
conspiracy theory, and the literary genre of Gothic fiction. All four
bodies of writing drew heavily upon one another to articulate a sense
of the radical and monstrous otherness of human evil.
UK March 2015 • US March 2015 • 272 pages
PB 9781474227780 • £18.99 / $29.95 0
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Early Modern Writing and the
Privatization of Experience
Nick Davis, University of Liverpool, UK
Reading a wide range of early modern authors and
exploring their cultural-historical, philosophical and
scientific contexts, Early Modern Writing and the
Privatization of Experience examines the shift in
focus from reliance on shared experience to placing
of trust in individualized experience which occurs in the writing and
culture of the period. Along the way, the book covers key writers of
the period including Shakespeare, Donne, Chaucer, Spenser, Langland,
Hobbes and Bunyan.
UK April 2015 • US April 2015 • 208 pages
PB 9781474232821 • £18.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781441166821
Individual eBook 9781441173591 • £18.99 / $23.99
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A Body of Work: An Anthology of
Poetry and Medicine
Edited by Corinna Wagner, University of Exeter,
UK & Andy Brown, University of Exeter, UK
Including poems by writers from the the Early
Modern period to the 21s-century, A Body of Work:
An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine explores
changing attitudes to medicine, health and the
body. The book is divided into nine thematic sections, including
poetry from all periods as well as historical documents that help
students place the poetry in its cultural contexts and covering
such topics as: The material body; Nerves, nervous disorders and
psychology; Food, drugs and alcohol; Contagion and disease; Doctors,
hospitals and medicine; Treatments and cures; Pleasure and pain;
Evolution, genetics and reproduction; Ageing, dying and death.
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 592 pages
PB 9781472513298 • £24.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781472511812 • £75.00 / $128.00
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UK January 2016 • US January 2016 • 240 pages • 2 b/w illustrations
HB 9781501303173 • £74.00 / $110.00
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Series Editor: Elinor Shaffer, University of London, UK
Our knowledge of British and Irish authors is incomplete and inadequate without an understanding of the perspectives of other nations on
them. Each volume examines the ways authors have been translated, published, distributed, read, reviewed and discussed in Europe.
The Reception of Edmund Burke in Europe
Edited by Peter Jones, University of Edinburgh, UK & Martin
Fitzpatrick, Independent Scholar, UK
Over the last fifty years the life and work of Edmund Burke (17291797) has received sustained scholarly attention and debate.
Attention has focused in particular on locating his ideas in the history
of eighteenth-century theory and practice and the contexts of late
eighteenth-century conservative thought. This book broadens the
focus to examine the many sided interest in Burke's ideas in Europe,
most notably in politics and aesthetics. It draws on the work of
leading international scholars to present new perspectives on the
significance of Burke's ideas in European politics and culture.
UK January 2017 • US January 2017 • 352 pages
HB 9781441196651 • £150.00 / $258.00
Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe • Bloomsbury Academic
The Reception of Oscar Wilde in
Europe
Edited by Stefano Evangelista, Trinity College,
University of Oxford, UK
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) is now widely recognised
not only as one of the most representative figures
of the British fin de siècle, but as one of the most
influential Anglophone authors of the nineteenth
century. In this survey, leading international scholars and translators
trace the cultural impact of Oscar Wilde's work across Europe, from
the earliest translations and performances of his works in the 1890s
to the present day.
UK May 2015 • US May 2015 • 490 pages
PB 9781474245968 • £31.99 / $55.95
Previously published in HB 9781847060051
Library eBook 9781441173683
Bloomsbury Academic
The Reception of S. T. Coleridge
in Europe
Edited by Elinor Shaffer, University of London,
UK & Edoardo Zuccato, IULM University Milan,
Italy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet, philosopher and
critic, a founder of British Romanticism, wrote with
William Wordsworth the Lyrical Ballads (1798). It
was this work which was first to carry his reputation across Europe in
many translations and through the rich illustrations by Gustave Doré.
This collection of essays by an international team of scholars, critics
and translators, records how Coleridge's works have been received,
translated and interpreted across Europe from his own time to today,
and will contribute to the new recognition of one of the greatest of
English poets, critics and cultural thinkers.
UK May 2015 • US May 2015 • 464 pages
PB 9781474245982 • £31.99 / $55.95
Previously published in HB 9780826468451
Individual eBook 9781441120762 • £31.99 / $99.99
Library eBook 9781441194626
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The Reception of Alfred
Tennyson in Europe
Edited by Leonee Ormond, King's College,
London, UK
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) has often been
considered a particularly British writer in part as his
official post as Poet Laureate inevitably committed
him to a certain amount of patriotic writing. This
volume focuses on his impact on the continent, presenting a major
scholarly analysis of Tennyson's wider reception in different areas of
Europe. It considers reader and critical responses and explores the
effect of his poetry upon contemporary and later writers, as well as
his influence upon illustrators, painters and musicians.
C omparative L iterature
The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
UK January 2017 • US January 2017 • 480 pages
HB 9781441114198 • £150.00 / $240.00
Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe • Bloomsbury Academic
The Reception of P. B. Shelley in
Europe
Edited by Susanne Schmid, Johannes Gutenberg
University, Mainz, Germany & Michael
Rossington, Newcastle University, UK
This exciting collection by an international team
of leading scholars considers translations, critical
and biographical reviews, fictionalizations of Percy
Bysshe Shelley's life, and other creative responses. It probes into
transnational cross-currents to demonstrate the depth of Shelley's
impact on European culture since his death in 1822. The Reception
of P.B. Shelley in Europe is an indispensable research resource for
academics, critics, and writers with interests in Romanticism and its
legacies.
UK May 2015 • US May 2015 • 460 pages
PB 9781474245975 • £31.99 / $55.95
Previously published in HB 9780826495877
Library eBook 9781441102232
Bloomsbury Academic
The Fall Out of Redemption
Writing and Thinking Beyond Salvation in
Baudelaire, Cioran, Fondane, Agamben,
and Nancy
Joseph Acquisto, University of Vermont, USA
“Joseph Acquisto is a leader in the new
generation of interpreters for whom poetry and
philosophy, together, provide foundational ethical
and religious insights both beyond and against traditional theology
or faith. … Acquisto provides compelling insights into esthetics and
ethics, despair and transcendence, nihilism and survival. Original
and truly interdisciplinary.” Edward K. Kaplan, Brandeis University,
USA
UK June 2015 • US April 2015 • 232 pages
HB 9781628926521 • £74.00 / $110.00
Individual eBook 9781628926538 • £57.99 / $98.99
Library eBook 9781628926545
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R eligion and L iterature
The Gospel According to David
Foster Wallace
The Gospel According to the
Novelist
Boredom and Addiction in an Age of
Distraction
Religious Scripture and Contemporary
Fiction
Adam S. Miller, Collin College, USA
Magdalena Maczynska, Marymount Manhattan
College, USA
The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace is
the first book to explore of key religious themes
- from boredom to addiction, and distraction – in the work of one
of America’s most celebrated contemporary novelists. In a series
of short, topic-focussed chapters, the book joins a supercut of key
scenes from Wallace’s novels Infinite Jest and The Pale King with
clear explanations of how they contribute to his overall account of
what it means to be a human being in the 21st century.
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 128 pages
PB 9781474236973 • £16.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474236980 • £50.00 / $86.00
Individual eBook 9781474236997 • £16.99 / $26.99
Library eBook 9781474237000
Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
The Gospel According to Flannery
O'Connor
Examining the Role of the Bible in
Flannery O'Connor's Fiction
Jordan Cofer, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural
College
“Skillfully demonstrates how [O’Connor] adapted
scripture to produce some of the greatest fiction of the 20th
century. Far from reductive, Cofer’s approach makes O’Connor’s
fiction seem more subtle and original, more paradoxical, more
upsetting.” Marshall Bruce Gentry, Georgia College, USA
UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 160 pages
PB 9781501314278 • £19.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781623560881
Individual eBook 9781623568047 • £14.99 / $25.99
Library eBook 9781623562274
Bloomsbury Academic
Cormac McCarthy and the Signs
of Sacrament
Literature, Theology, and the Moral of
Stories
Matthew L. Potts, Divinity School, Harvard
University
“Will for a long time remain the best treatment
we have of McCarthy as proto-postmodern theologian.” Richard A.
Rosengarten, University of Chicago Divinity School, USA
Although scholars have widely acknowledged the prevalence of
religious reference in the work of Cormac McCarthy, this is the first
book on the most pervasive religious trope in all his works: the image
of sacrament, and in particular, of eucharist. Informed by postmodern
theories of narrative and Christian theologies of sacrament, Matthew
Potts provides new readings of the major novels of Cormac McCarthy,
arguing that their dark moral significance coheres with the Christian
theological tradition in difficult, demanding ways.
UK September 2015 • US September 2015 • 232 pages
HB 9781501306556 • £74.00 / $110.00
Individual eBook 9781501306563 • £57.99 / $98.99
Library eBook 9781501306570
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Why have so many prominent literary authors—
from Philip Pullman and José Saramago to Michèle Roberts and Colm
Tóibím—recently rewritten the canonical story of Jesus Christ? What
does that say about our supposedly secular age? In this insightful
study, Magdalena Maczynska defines and examines the genre of
scriptural metafiction: novels that not only transform religious
texts but also draw attention to these transformations. In addition
to providing rich examples and close readings, Maczynska positions
literary studies within interdisciplinary debates about religion and
secularity.
UK August 2015 • US August 2015 • 160 pages
HB 9781780936239 • £50.00 / $90.00
Individual eBook 9781780937755 • £49.99 / $77.99
Library eBook 9781780935782
Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Building Jerusalem
Elegies on Parish Churches
Kevin J. Gardner
Kevin J. Gardner has assembled a collection of
poems on English churches by post-war poets
including Sir John Betjeman, C. Day Lewis, U.A.
Fanthorpe, Geoffrey Hill, Philip Larkin, Simon
Armitage and many more. Like his previous
anthology, Poems in the Porch, here Gardner has unearthed a unique
treasure for the modern poetry reader. Introduced by a fascinating
critical introduction, "Anglican Memory and Post-War British Poetry",
Building Jerusalem is a thing of wonder, to be savoured by church
lovers both religious and non-religious alike.
"It will enhance every church visitor's bliss." Sir Simon Jenkins,
author of England’s Thousand Best Churches
UK May 2016 • 224 pages
HB 9781472924353 • £16.99
Individual eBook 9781472924360 • £14.99 / $19.99
Library eBook 9781472924377
Bloomsbury Continuum
The Divine Face in Four Writers
Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Hesse, and C.
S. Lewis
Maurice Hunt, Baylor University, USA
"Maurice Hunt demonstrates that a great many
diverse works of a religious and secular nature
have represented face-to-face encounters
between human beings and gods or between
human beings and their fellow human beings in order to convey
religious or ethical ideas. I came away from this book with a new
recognition of an important motif in Western religious and cultural
history. I also came away with a deeper understanding of the
psychology of religious belief. It is an impressive achievement."
James Hirsh, Professor of English, Georgia State University, USA
UK December 2015 • US December 2015 • 192 pages • 6 b/w illustrations
HB 9781501311024 • £66.00 / $100.00
Individual eBook 9781501311031 • £52.99 / $89.99
Library eBook 9781501311048
Bloomsbury Academic
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Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels
Derek Parker Royal, University of Texas at
Dallas, USA
Examining a wide range of comics and graphic
novels – including works by creators such as Will
Eisner, Leela Corman, Neil Gaiman, Art Spiegelman,
Sarah Glidden and Joe Sacco – this book explores
how comics writers and artists have tackled major issues of Jewish
identity. With chapters written by leading and emerging scholars
in contemporary comic book studies, Visualizing Jewish Narrative
also includes a foreword by Danny Fingeroth (former editor of
the Spiderman line and author of Superman on the Couch) and an
afterword by Arie Kaplan.
UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 288 pages
HB 9781474248792 • £65.00 / $112.00
Individual eBook 9781474248808 • £64.99 / $100.99
Library eBook 9781474248815
Bloomsbury Academic
Encountering Buddhism in
Twentieth-Century British and
American Literature
Edited by Lawrence Normand & Alison Winch,
both at Middlesex University, UK
Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century
British and American Literature explores the
ways in which 20th-century literature has been
influenced by Buddhism, and has been, in turn, a major factor
in bringing about Buddhism's increasing spread and influence in
the West. Focussing on Britain and the United States, Buddhism's
influence on a range of key literary texts are examined in the context
of those societies' evolving modernity. Writers discussed include T. S.
Eliot, Hermann Hesse, Virginia Woolf, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg,
J. D. Salinger, Iris Murdoch, Maxine Hong Kingston.
UK April 2015 • US April 2015 • 224 pages
PB 9781474232852 • £18.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781441184764
Individual eBook 9781441101914 • £18.99 / $27.99
Library eBook 9781441108135
Bloomsbury Academic
H.D. and Modernist Religious
Imagination
Mysticism and Writing
Elizabeth Anderson, University of Glasgow, UK
Examining the intersection of religious sensibility
and creativity in the poetry and prose of the
American modernist writer, H.D., this book
explores the nexus of the religious, the visionary,
the creative and the material in her writing. Drawing on original
archival research and analyses of newly published and unpublished
writings by H.D., as well as the theoretical writings of Helene Cixous,
Elizabeth Anderson shows how the poet's work is informed by a range
of religious traditions, from the complexities and contradictions
of Moravian Christianity to a wide range of esoteric beliefs and
practices.
UK February 2015 • US February 2015 • 192 pages
PB 9781474222839 • £18.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781441185976
Individual eBook 9781441190895 • £18.99 / $27.99
Library eBook 9781441139733
Bloomsbury Academic
Emily Bronte and the Religious
Imagination
Simon Marsden, University of Liverpool, UK
"Marsden provides new readings of elements in
Emily Brontë’s work that have baffled scholars
and readers: his readings of “No coward Soul”
and Wuthering Heights... provide a coherent
analysis of seemingly irreconcilable elements
of her work and thought." Michael M. Clarke, Loyola University,
Chicago, USA.
Readers of Emily Brontë's poetry and of Wuthering Heights have seen
in their author, variously, a devout if unorthodox Christian, a heretic,
or a visionary "mystic of the moors". Emily Brontë and the Religious
Imagination suggests that such conflicting readings are the product of
tensions, conflicts and ambiguities within the texts themselves.
UK May 2015 • US May 2015 • 192 pages
PB 9781474239066 • £18.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781441166302
Individual eBook 9781441153500 • £18.99 / $23.99
Library eBook 9781441168139
Bloomsbury Academic
R eligion and L iterature
Visualizing Jewish Narrative
Irigaray, Incarnation and
Contemporary Women's Fiction
Abigail Rine, George Fox University, USA
Drawing on the provocative recent work of feminist
theorist Luce Irigaray, Irigaray, Incarnation and
Contemporary Women’s Fiction illuminates the vital
and subversive role of literature in rewriting notions
of the sacred. Abigail Rine demonstrates through
careful readings how a range of contemporary women writers - from
Margaret Atwood to Michèle Roberts and Alice Walker – think beyond
traditional religious discourse and masculine models of subjectivity
towards a new model of the sacred: one that seeks to reconcile the
schism between the human and the divine, between the body and the
word.
UK February 2015 • US February 2015 • 208 pages
PB 9781474222846 • £18.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781780935980
Individual eBook 9781472508669 • £18.99 / $27.99
Library eBook 9781472514523
Bloomsbury Academic
Dante's Sacred Poem
Flesh and the Centrality of the Eucharist
to The Divine Comedy
Sheila J. Nayar, Greensboro College, North
Carolina, USA
“As with any good study of the Comedy, this
work illuminates more than the poem, offering
new insights on medieval theology, philosophy,
and culture, especially evolving notions of the Eucharist and the
myriad anxieties and cultural stresses such beliefs evoked and
alleviated… Summing Up: Highly Recommended.” Choice
Arguing that the consecrated body in the Eucharist is one of the
central metaphors structuring The Divine Comedy, this book is the
first comprehensive exploration of the theme of transubstantiation
across Dante's epic poem.
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 256 pages
PB 9781474275767 • £18.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781441129642
Individual eBook 9781441130839 • £59.99 / $92.99
Library eBook 9781441157478
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writing
Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' &
Artists' Companion
Power of Reading
Writing About Everything From Travel to
Food to Sex
Frank Furedi
Sally Cline & Midge Gillies
Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' and Artists'
Companion is an essential guide to writing in a wide
range of genres, from travel writing to feminist polemic and writing
on nature, history, death, friendship and sexuality.
Offering practical advice and inspiration, the book includes tips by
such bestselling literary non-fiction writers as: Lisa Appignanesi,
Rosemary Bailey, Gillian Beer, Bidisha, William Dalrymple, Colin
Grant, Rahila Gupta, Philip Hoare, Siri Hustvedt, Alice KesslerHarris, Richard Mabey, Robert Macfarlane, Sara Maitland, Caroline
Moorehead, Susie Orbach, Jennifer Potter, Susan Sellers, Dava Sobel,
Diana Souhami, Dale Spender, Francis Spufford, Daniel Swift, Colin
Thubron, Natasha Walter, and Simon Winchester.
UK November 2015 • US November 2015 • 280 pages
PB 9781474268301 • £14.99 / $24.95
Individual eBook 9781474268318 • £14.99 / $22.99
Library eBook 9781474268325
Series: Writers’ and Artists’ Companions • Bloomsbury Academic
World English
Writing for TV and Radio: A
Writers' and Artists' Companion
Why is reading in the twenty-first century such
a problem? Has digital media reduced attention
spans, leading to the 'end of the book' and the
'death of the reader'?
Power of Reading explores the historical origins
and influences that inform how we think about reading. Frank Furedi
argues that despite advances in technology and the influence of new
media, the humanist paradigm of the discriminating Reader should be
celebrated and serve as the cultural ideal of the present day.
"A barnstorming rebuttal of those who hail the death of reading
and the author." Professor Duncan Wu
UK October 2015 • US December 2015 • 272 pages • No illustrations
HB 9781472914774 • £20.00 / $35.00
Individual eBook 9781472914781 • £17.99 / $23.99
Library eBook 9781472914798
Bloomsbury Continuum
Composition, Creative Writing
Studies and the Digital
Humanities
Adam Koehler, Manhattan College, USA
Writers for TV and Radio regularly reach audiences
of millions of people and the most successful
of them see their work cross the globe. Guiding
budding writers through the basics of successful
writing for broadcasting, Writing for TV and Radio
includes reflections and tips from leading writers from the UK and US,
including well known names behind such hits as The Wire, Peep Show
and Shameless. The book also includes guidance on the broadcasting
industry from Agents to Producers and the use of professional writing
courses.
Composition, Creative Writing Studies and the
Digital Humanities is the first book to bring these
three fields together to open up new opportunities
and directions for creative writing studies. Placing
the rise of Creative Writing Studies alongside the rise of the digital
humanities in Composition/Rhetoric, Adam Koehler shows that the
use of new media and its attendant re-evaluation of fundamental
assumptions in the field stands to guide Creative Writing Studies into
a new era. Covering current developments in composition and the
digital humanities, this book re-examines established assumptions
about process, genre, authority/authorship and pedagogical practice
in the creative writing classroom.
UK November 2015 • US November 2015 • 320 pages
PB 9781441195906 • £14.99 / $24.95
Individual eBook 9781441194886 • £14.99 / $22.99
Library eBook 9781441178343
Series: Writers’ and Artists’ Companions • Bloomsbury Academic
UK September 2016 • US September 2016 • 256 pages
HB 9781472591944 • £60.00 / $104.00
Individual eBook 9781472591951 • £59.99 / $92.99
Library eBook 9781472591968
Bloomsbury Academic
Sue Teddern, Writer & Nick Warburton, Writer
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From Socrates to Twitter
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Maya Angelou
The Comedy of Rage
Adventurous Spirit
Philip Weinstein, Swarthmore College, USA
Linda Wagner-Martin, The University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
“Weinstein’s wise, sensitive, and witty account
of Franzen’s growth and development makes
a compelling argument for Franzen’s place
as America’s preeminent writer … Jonathan
Franzen: The Comedy of Rage is literary and
cultural critique of the highest order.” Robert H. Bell, Williams
College, USA
Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage is the first critical biography
of one of today’s most important novelists. Drawing on unpublished
emails and both published and private interviews, Philip Weinstein
conveys the feel and heft of Franzen’s voice as he ponders the
purposes and problems of his life and art, from his earliest fiction to
his most recent novel, Purity.
UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 248 pages • 9 colour illustrations in plate section:
pp.68-69
HB 9781501307171 • £16.99 / $24.95
Individual eBook 9781501307188 • £12.99 / $21.99
Library eBook 9781501307195
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World English
"A perfectly timed, must-have volume for any
reader interested in the life and work of the
writer, activist, campaigner and performer
Maya Angelou. In a vivacious and accessible
study, eminent scholar Linda Wagner-Martin combines biography
and literary criticism, spanning Angelou's first book to her final
publication in 2014. … In a manner befitting its subject, Maya
Angelou: Adventurous Spirit achieves that rare balance: incisive,
scholarly, well-researched, but also immensely enjoyable to read."
Laura Rattray, University of Glasgow, UK
L iterary B iography
Jonathan Franzen
UK November 2015 • US November 2015 • 264 pages • 12 b/w illustrations
PB 9781501307843 • £16.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781501307850 • £54.00 / $80.00
Individual eBook 9781501307874 • £12.99 / $21.99
Library eBook 9781501307867
Bloomsbury Academic
The Fall of the House of Wilde
The Wildes of Dublin and London
The Adventures of Henry
Thoreau
A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden
Pond
Michael Sims
In his youth, Henry Thoreau wrote the journals
that formed the iconic Walden; he also became
an abolitionist, studied Native American culture, spent the night in
jail, wrote “Civil Disobedience,” and aligned himself with the radical
beliefs of Transcendentalism. In The Adventures of Henry Thoreau,
Michael Sims intimately chronicles Thoreau’s coming-of-age, showing
how his intellectual development resonated throughout his life, and
across American literature and history.
“[A] rich, entertaining testament to the triumph of a young man
who never comfortably fit in.” Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air
UK August 2015 • US June 2015 • 384 pages
PB 9781620401972 • £10.99 / $17.00
Previously published in HB 9781408830499
Individual eBook 9781620401965 • £7.99 / $11.99
Bloomsbury USA
World English
Emer O'Sullivan
Oscar Wilde’s father – scientist, surgeon,
archeologist, writer – was one of the most
eminent men of his generation. His mother – poet,
journalist, translator – hosted an influential salon
at 1 Merrion Square. Together they were one of
Victorian Ireland’s most dazzling and enlightened couples. When in
1864 Sir William Wilde was accused of sexually assaulting a female
patient, it sent shock waves through Dublin society. After his death,
some ten years later, Jane attempted to re-establish the family in
London, where Oscar burst upon the scene and became the first
modern celebrity. His own fall in a trial as public as his father’s
marked the end of fin de siècle decadence.
UK June 2016 • US October 2016 • 416 pages • 2 x 8pp B&W plates
PB 9781408863169 • £9.99 / $20.00 • HB 9781408830116 • £25.00 / $35.00
Individual eBook 9781608199884 • £15.99 / $24.99
Bloomsbury Publishing
Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop
to Arras
A Biography
Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Publishing
A Writer’s Memoir
Gail Godwin
the long haul.
From three-time National Book Award finalist and
bestselling author Gail Godwin, a vibrant portrait
of her writing and publishing life over the course of
five decades—a personal story of a writer’s hunger
to be published, the pursuit of that goal, and then
“You don’t have to be a hungry writer or an aspiring editor to
appreciate Publishing. You don’t have to have followed Godwin’s
career as a reader, either, though the millions who have will be
treated to a look behind the scenes.”New York Times Book Review
This biography of the First World War poet who
wrote "Adlestrop" and "In Memoriam (Easter, 1915)",
the first full-length life for more than thirty years,
goes back to original sources and adds a wealth of
new material, exploding the many myths that have grown up around
the fine poet whom Walter de la Mare called a "mirror of England".
"Timely ... almost a hundred years after his death, Moorcroft
Wilson has exposed a man with a remarkable double life, full of
melancholy secrets" Robert McCrum, Observer
UK May 2015 • US July 2015 • 496 pages
HB 9781408187135 • £25.00 / $42.00
Individual eBook 9781408187159 • £21.99 / $28.99
Library eBook 9781408187142
Bloomsbury Continuum
UK April 2016 • US February 2016 • 224 pages • B&W illustrations throughout.
PB 9781620408254 • £10.99 / $16.00
Previously published in HB 9781620408247
Individual eBook 9781620408261 • £10.99 / $16.99
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World English
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T he A rden S hakespeare
The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
General Editors: Richard Proudfoot; Ann Thompson, King's College London, UK; David Scott Kastan, Yale University, USA;
H.R. Woudhuysen, University of Oxford, UK
Each Arden edition in the Third Series offers a modernized text with comprehensive commentary notes glossing meanings, discussing
staging issues and explaining literary allusions, together with a lengthy, illustrated introduction by a leading scholar exploring the play's
critical, theatrical and historical contexts.
Hamlet: Revised Edition
William Shakespeare
Edited by Ann Thompson, King's College London,
UK & Neil Taylor, Roehampton University, UK
This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably
Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an
authoritative, modernized text based on the Second
Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering
key productions and criticism in the decade since its first publication.
Recent productions discussed include the David Tennant/ Patrick
Stewart RSC production and Shakespeare's Globe's world-touring
production.
UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 688 pages • 21 bw illus
PB 9781472518385 • £8.99 / $17.00 • HB 9781472518392 • £65.00 / $120.00
Individual eBook 9781474273886 • £8.99 / $13.99
Library eBook 9781474273893
Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Othello: Revised Edition
William Shakespeare
Edited by Ayanna Thompson, The George
Washington University, Washington DC, USA &
E.A.J. Honigmann
This revised edition of Othello has a new
introduction by Ayanna Thompson, addressing such
key issues as race, religion and gender, as well as
ways in which the play has been adapted in more recent times. The
new introduction attends to the play’s different meanings throughout
history, while articulating the historical context in which Othello
was created, paying particular attention to Shakespeare’s source
materials and the evidence about early modern constructions of
racial and religious difference.
UK February 2016 • US April 2016 • 440 pages • 20 b/w illus
PB 9781472571762 • £8.99 / $17.00
Individual eBook 9781472571786 • £8.99 / $13.99
Library eBook 9781472571793
Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing:
Revised Edition
William Shakespeare
Edited by Claire McEachern, UCLA, USA
Much Ado About Nothing presents a battle of the
sexes in more ways than one: as both a lightningfast skirmish of wits between two famously
disputatious lovers, and a near-deadly conflict built
on conventions of gender and male rivalry. Claire McEachern's new
introduction brings this best-seller right up-to-date, analysing recent
developments in criticism and the latest productions of this comedy,
including film versions by Kenneth Branagh and Joss Whedon.
UK January 2016 • US January 2016 • 416 pages
PB 9781472520296 • £9.99 / $17.00 • HB 9781472520302 • £65.00 / $120.00
Individual eBook 9781474216098 • £9.99 / $15.99
Library eBook 9781474216104
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Troilus and Cressida:
Revised Edition
William Shakespeare
Edited by David Bevington, University of
Chicago, USA
A revised edition of this intriguing and complex
play, updated to cover recent critical thinking and
stage history. Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy often
labelled a "problem" play because of its apparent blend of genres and
its difficult themes. Set in the Trojan Wars it tells a story of doomed
love and honour, offering a debased view of human nature in wartime and a stage peopled by generally unsympathetic characters. The
revised edition makes an ideal text for study at undergraduate level
and above.
UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 544 pages • 20 bw illus
PB 9781472584748 • £10.99 / $18.00
Individual eBook 9781472584755 • £10.99 / $16.99
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King Henry IV Part 2
William Shakespeare
Edited by James C. Bulman, Allegheny College,
USA
This complex history play is more troubled and
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Though Part 2 echoes the structure of the earlier
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his tavern companions to become King Henry V. Expertly edited with
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Revised Edition
Oscar Wilde
Edited by Francesca Coppa, University of
Muhlenberg, USA
This student edition features a new introduction,
in which Francesca Coppa explores recent critical
approaches to the play, including queer and
postcolonial readings, as well as giving the context in which the
play was written and how it relates to Wilde's personal life and
public persona. The introduction also discusses the play's stage
history, providing students with an ideal overview of the play and its
resonances for contemporary audiences.
UK November 2015 • US November 2015 • 160 pages
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Shakespeare in
Our Time
Shakespeare's
World of Words
A Poets' Celebration
A Shakespeare
Association of America
Collection
Edited by Paul Yachnin,
McGill University, Canada
Edited by Hannah
Crawforth & Elizabeth
Scott-Baumann, both at
King's College London, UK
In the four hundred years since Shakespeare's
death, the Sonnets have invited imitation,
homage, critique, parody and pastiche.
These new poems probe our relationship to
the Sonnets' intricate form and ambitious
scope, their investigation of sexuality, wit,
memory and poetic survival. These sonnets
and longer lyrics explore what it means to
write 'on Shakespeare's Sonnets' in the 21st
century.
Published in association with the Royal
Society of Literature contributing poets
include: Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy,
Gillian Clarke, Paul Muldoon, Ruth Padel,
Simon Armitage, Roger McGough and Jo
Shapcott.
UK February 2016 • US April 2016 • 112 pages
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Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Edited by Dympna
Callaghan, Syracuse
University, USA & Suzanne Gossett, Loyola
University, Chicago, USA
Marking the 400th anniversary of
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unique collection of leading Shakespeare
scholars outlining key developments in
Shakespeare studies over the last two
decades. Their essays are complemented
by responses from younger scholars looking
forward to new fields of study and debate.
A "state of the nation" look at Shakespeare
criticism, covering all the key areas of
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text, performance, the body, history,
religion and biography, this is a must-read,
comprehensive introduction to the critical
ideas surrounding Shakespeare's work and a
stimulating exploration of where we might
go next.
The contributors to this
volume propose that
Shakespeare was not the
poet of nature, but rather
that he was a master of rewriting and recreation. Each chapter in this volume begins
with a key word or phrase from Shakespeare
and builds toward a broader consideration
of the social, poetic, and theatrical
dimensions of his language. The chapters
capture the richness of Shakespeare’s world
of words by including discussions of biblical
language, Latinity, philosophy of language
and subjectivity, languages of commerce,
criminality, history, and education, the
gestural vocabulary of performance, as well
as accounts of verbal modality and metrics.
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Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
Series Editors: Andrew Hiscock, Bangor University, UK and Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance
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Hamlet: A Critical
Reader
Othello: A Critical
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Edited by Ann Thompson,
King's College London, UK
& Neil Taylor, University
of Roehampton, UK
Edited by Robert C.
Evans, Auburn University
at Montgomery, USA
Hamlet remains the
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Shakespeare's great tragedies. This collection
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This guide gives an
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critical and performance
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major areas of current research on the play,
as well as four new critical essays. Finally, a
guide to critical, web-based and productionrelated resources and a bibliography provide
a basis for further research.
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Romeo and
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Edited by Julia Lupton,
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This volume analyses
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Shakespeare and Theory
Series Editor: Evelyn Gajowski, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
This series provides a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical developments that have dominated Shakespeare studies since the advent of
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Shakespeare
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Gabriel Egan,
Loughborough University,
UK
Combining the latest
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late romances, this book is a wide-ranging
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Shakespeare and
Economic Theory
David Hawkes, Arizona
State University, USA
This book shows how
concepts and concerns
that were until recently
considered purely economic
affected the entire range of sixteenth and
seventeenth century life. Shakespeare and
Economic Theory traces economic literary
criticism to its cultural and historical
roots, and discusses its main practitioners.
Providing new readings of plays including
Timon of Athens, King Lear, The Winter’s
Tale, and The Tempest, David Hawkes shows
how it can reveal previously unappreciated
qualities of Shakespeare’s work.
UK September 2015 • US September 2015 • 240 pages
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Shakespeare and
Psychoanalytic
Theory
Carolyn Brown, University
of San Francisco, USA
This book surveys the
psychoanalytic theorists
who have had the most
impact on Shakespeare studies, clearly
explaining the fundamental concepts
of their theories, providing concise
definitions of key terminology, describing
the inception and evolution of different
schools of psychoanalysis, and discussing
the relationship of psychoanalytic theory
(especially in Shakespeare) to other critical
theories.
UK September 2015 • US September 2015 • 240 pages
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The Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries provide authoritative guides to major subject-areas covered by the poetry and plays. The dictionaries
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significance in Shakespeare's works. Comprehensive bibliographies accompany many of the items. Entries range from a few lines in length to
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Shakespeare's Insults
Shakespeare and Visual Culture
A Pragmatic Dictionary
Armelle Sabatier, Paris II University, France
Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin, University of
Montpellier III Paul Valery, France
Why are certain words used as insults in
Shakespeare’s world and what do these words do
and say? Shakespeare’s plays abound with insults
which are more often merely cited than thoroughly
studied, quotation prevailing over exploration. The purpose of this
richly detailed dictionary is to go beyond the surface of these words
and to analyse why and how words become insults in Shakespeare’s
world. It's an invaluable resource and reference guide for anyone
grappling with the complexities and rewards of Shakespeare's
inventive use of language in the realm of insult and verbal sparring.
UK January 2016 • US January 2016 • 512 pages
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Shakespeare's Books
A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources
Stuart Gillespie, University of Glasgow, UK
Shakespeare’s Books contains nearly 200 entries
covering the full range of literature Shakespeare
was acquainted with, including classical, historical,
religious and contemporary works. Covering works
whose importance to Shakespeare has emerged
more clearly in recent years due to new research, it also explains
current thinking on long-recognized sources such as Ovid, Holinshed,
Ariosto and Montaigne. Entries for all major sources include surveys
of the writer's place in Shakespeare's time, detailed discussion of
their relation to his work, and full bibliography. These are enhanced
by sample passages from early modern England writers, together with
reproductions of pages from the original texts.
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 544 pages
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Statues coming to life and lively portraits ready
to breathe in Shakespeare? This new volume reassesses the key role played by visual culture in
his drama and poetry by providing readers with
an up-to-date guide to the main publications on
the subject as well as offering a synthesis on the
main literary and historical sources for inspiration.
While scrutinising the complex issue of image on an Elizabethan stage
and exploring the codification of colours in Shakespeare’s poetry,
this dictionary highlights the fierce rivalry between the poet, the
dramatist and the visual artist.
T he A rden S hakespeare
Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries
UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 264 pages • 10 bw illus
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Shakespeare's Plants and
Gardens: A Dictionary
Vivian Thomas & Nicki Faircloth
"This latest work in the Arden Shakespeare
Dictionaries series offers a fascinating and
comprehensive resource for students and the
interested general reader... An impressive work
of scholarship and research." Around the Globe
This dictionary offers a complete companion to Shakespeare's
references to landscape, plants and gardens, including both formal
and rural settings. Each alphabetical entry offers a definition and
overview of the term discussed in its historical context, followed by a
guided tour of its use in Shakespeare's works and finally an extensive
bibliography, including primary and secondary sources, books and
articles.
UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 432 pages
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Shakespeare Now!
Series Editors: Ewan Fernie, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK and Simon Palfrey, University of Oxford, UK
Shakespeare Now! is a series of short books that engage imaginatively and often provocatively with the possibilities of Shakespeare's plays. It
goes back to the source — the most living language imaginable — and recaptures the excitement, audacity and surprise of Shakespeare. It will
return you to the plays with opened eyes.
Tragic Cognition in Shakespeare's
Othello
Othello's Secret
Beyond the Neural Sublime
R M Christofides
Paul Cefalu, Lafayette College, Easton,
Pennsylvania, USA
How can recent theories of cognition inform our
understanding of Shakespeare’s characters?
Tragic Cognition in Shakespeare’s Othello looks at how such theories
can enhance our perception of Iago and Othello, as well as enriching
the play’s complex accounts of empathy, intentionality, and tragedy.
Paul Cefalu argues that Shakespearean characters raise timely
questions about the relationship between cognition and consciousness
and often defy our assumptions about “normal” cognition. The book
will appeal to scholars and students interested in both the virtues and
limitations of cognitive literary criticism.
UK May 2015 • US July 2015 • 136 pages
PB 9781472523464 • £12.99 / $22.95
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The Cyprus Problem
Othello's Secret uncovers the relationship between
the play and the conflicts that have torn apart its
Cypriot setting, providing a new and powerfully
political reading. Exploring the domestic and
military anxieties connected by Shakespeare,
Christofides highlights the ways in which these issues resonate with
current ideological and geographical divisions in Cyprus, divisions
rooted in the 16th century struggles to control the island. Challenging
the conventional view of Othello as a Venetian play, this book offers
a fierce and personal example of how early modern literature can
purposefully contribute to even the most complex geopolitical
debates.
UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 176 pages
PB 9781474212977 • £12.99 / $22.95
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Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing
Series Editor: Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University, USA
Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing offer a new type of study aid which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance
on the critical writing skills you need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare's texts. Each edition includes an introduction
considering when and how the play was written; a detailed examination and analysis of the individual text; discussion of performance
history and the critical reception of the work and a ‘Writing matters’ section in every chapter, clearly linking the analysis of Shakespeare’s
language to your own writing strategies in coursework and examinations.
Antony and Cleopatra: Language and Writing
Virginia Mason Vaughan, Clark University, Massachusetts, USA
Reading Antony and Cleopatra is particularly challenging because of Shakespeare's masterful embodiment of Rome and
Egypt's contrasting worlds in language, structure, and characterization.This book encourages students to think outside the
binary box, to understand, and to celebrate, Shakespeare's exploitation of the multivalent nature of language.
UK November 2015 • US November 2015 • 184 pages
PB 9781472504999 • £10.99 / $14.95
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Shakespeare and the Stuff of Life
Remembering and Forgetting in Britain,
Australia and New Zealand, 1916 - 2016
Treasures from the Shakespeare
Birthplace Trust
Edited by Gordon McMullan, King's College
London, UK & Philip Mead, University of Western
Australia, Australia
Edited by Delia Garratt, Director of Cultural
Engagement, Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust &
Tara Hamling, University of Birmingham, UK
Scholars from Britain, Australia and New Zealand
reflect on the modes of commemoration of
Shakespeare in and after the Tercentenary year, 1916, in two
hemispheres, arguing that it was at this moment of remembering
that ‘global Shakespeare’ first emerged in recognisable, if embryonic,
form. A great deal has been forgotten about this key moment in the
history of the place of Shakespeare in national and global culture.
In addressing this, the book offers new materials and discoveries
about, and new interpretations of, those Tercentenary celebrations,
reflecting also on the long legacy of those celebrations.
This unique book brings together, for the first time,
a selection of 50 objects from the Shakespeare
Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon. Accessible and lavishly
illustrated, the volume provides an object-based exploration of
the role and significance of notable paintings, furniture, ceramics,
textiles and metal wares in the everyday experience of people living
in Shakespearean England. Published to mark the 400th anniversary
of Shakespeare's death in 2016, it brings Shakespeare's times to life
for readers of all ages.
UK February 2016 • US April 2016 • 136 pages • 50 colour illus
Flexiback 9781474222266 • £9.99 / $17.95
Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 240 pages
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T he A rden S hakespeare
Antipodal Shakespeare
English Renaissance Tragedy
Ideas of Freedom
Peter Holbrook, University of Queensland,
Australia
1616: Shakespeare and Tang
Xianzu's China
Edited by Tian Yuan Tan, SOAS, University of
London, UK, Paul Edmondson, The Shakespeare
Birthplace Trust, UK & Shih-pe Wang, National
Taiwan University, Taiwan
The year is 1616. William Shakespeare has died,
and the world of the London theatres is mourning
his loss. But 1616 is also to see the death of the famous Chinese
playwright Tang Xianzu. Four hundred years on, and Shakespeare is
now an important meeting place for Anglo-Chinese cultural dialogue
in the field of drama and literary studies. SOAS, The Shakespeare
Birthplace Trust and National Chung Cheng University of Taiwan
have gathered together 11 Shakespearians and 11 Chinese literature
experts to reflect on the theatrical climate in England and China in
this significant year.
This book's underlying claim is that English
Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the
experience of readers and spectators today: it
is not a genre to be studied only for aesthetic or
“heritage” reasons. It considers the way in which tragedy in general,
and English Renaissance tragedy in particular, addresses ideas
of liberty and tyranny, understood both from an individual and a
sociopolitical perspective.
UK September 2015 • US September 2015 • 256 pages
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Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
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Shakespeare's Acts of Will
Shakespeare and YouTube
Law, Testament and Properties of
Performance
New Media Forms of the Bard
Gary Watt, University of Warwick, UK
Drawing on years of experience delivering rhetoric
workshops for the Royal Shakespeare Company
and as a prize-winning teacher of law, Gary Watt
demonstrates how Shakespeare transformed
lawyers’ manual book rhetoric into powerful drama through a stirring
combination of word, metre, movement and physical stage material,
producing a mode of performance that was truly testamentary in its
power to engage the witnessing public.
Published in the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare’s last
will and testament, this is a major contribution to the growing
interdisciplinary field of law and humanities.
UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 256 pages
HB 9781474217859 • £55.00 / $94.00
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Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
This book identifies the genres of YouTube
Shakespeare, interpreting them through theories
of remediation and media convergence and as
indices of Shakespeare’s shifting cultural meanings.
Exploring the intersection of YouTube’s participatory culture – its
invitation to ‘Broadcast Yourself’ – with its corporate logic, the book
argues that YouTube Shakespeare is a site of productive tension
between new forms of self-expression and the homogenizing effects
of mass culture. Shakespeare and YouTube will be of interest
to students and scholars of Shakespearean drama, poetry and
adaptations, as well as to new media studies.
UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 344 pages
PB 9781474263177 • £18.99 / $29.95
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Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Pictures
Shakespeare's Creative Legacies
Visual Culture in Drama
Artists, Writers, Performers and Critics
Keir Elam, University of Bologna, Italy
Edited by Peter Holbrook, University of
Queensland, Australia
This is the first full-length study of the role of
graphic and iconographic images in Shakespeare
referencing performance history throughout.
Chapters examine plays in which pictures are
brought on stage as part of the dramatic action
(Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth
Night, among others); the embedding of images from the popular
imagination in the action and discourse of the plays; the dialectic
between optical and auditory illusion in the romance or late plays,
or "how" the visual is "heard" in the theatre, and the question of
perspective in the comedies, especially in Twelfth Night.
UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 256 pages
HB 9781408179758 • £65.00 / $112.00
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Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
The Politics of Performing
Shakespeare for Young People
Standing up to Shakespeare
Jan Wozniak, University of Leeds, UK
This book examines performance projects of
Shakespeare’s plays for young people in terms
of their value for their young audiences. Using
interviews with theatre workers and workshops with
young people, the book argues that it is by trusting young people’s
experience of performances, rather than promoting a range of predetermined textual understandings of the plays, that they might gain
most benefit. It argues that by privileging the meanings young people
make of Shakespeare, new and exciting interpretations of his work
might be found.
UK March 2016 • US March 2017 • 336 pages
HB 9781474234849 • £65.00 / $112.00
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Stephen O'Neill, National University of Ireland
Maynooth
We justly celebrate Shakespeare as a creator of
plays and poems, characters and ideas, words
and worlds. But so too, in the four centuries since
his death in 1616, have thinkers, writers, artists,
and performers recreated him. Readers are invited to explore
Shakespeare’s afterlife on stage and screen, in poetry, fiction, music,
dance, and in cultural life and literary criticism. A series of essays
combine with personal reflections from prominent contemporary
practitioners of the arts. Both celebration and reflection, this unique
book explores Shakespeare as a global cultural figure who continues
to inspire artists, audiences and readers around the world.
UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 288 pages • 6 bw illus
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Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
The Hand on the Shakespearean
Stage
Gesture, Touch and the Spectacle of
Dismemberment
Farah Karim-Cooper, Shakespeare's Globe,
London, UK
This ground-breaking book uncovers the way
Shakespeare draws upon the available literature and visual
representations of the hand in his time to inform his work. An
analysis of gesture, touch, skill and dismemberment in a range
of Shakespeare's works, shows how the hand was perceived in
Shakespeare’s time as an indicator of human agency, emotion,
social and personal identity. This book is about how the hand and its
activities are described and embedded in Shakespeare's texts and
about its role on the Shakespearean stage: as part of the actor’s
body, in the language as metaphor and as a morbid stage-prop.
UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 256 pages
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Series Editors: Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA and Adrian Poole, University of Cambridge, UK
Great Shakespeareans cover the contributions made by the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and thinkers from the
seventeenth to the twentieth century. With world class contributors and editors, the series is a unique contribution to Shakespeare Studies,
assessing both the impact of Shakespeare on the figures discussed, and the importance of the figures to our understanding of Shakespeare.
Gielgud, Olivier, Ashcroft, Dench:
Great Shakespeareans
Poel, Granville Barker,
Guthrie, Wanamaker: Great
Shakespeareans
Edited by Russell Jackson, University of
Birmingham, UK
In their own distinctive manner, each of the
four actors discussed in this volume have had a
profound and innovative influence on the methods
of Shakespearean performance, and thus on the
appreciation and interpretation of his plays. Their careers encompass
almost a century of theatrical experience, from John Gielgud’s
childhood before the First World War to Judi Dench’s performances
in the first decades of the new millennium. The volume affords
invaluable insights into changing approaches to the actor’s craft,
the aims and methods of the theatre, the institutions presenting
productions and, above all, to Shakespeare’s plays themselves.
UK September 2015 • US September 2015 • 248 pages
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Edited by Cary M. Mazer, University of
Pennsylvania, USA
All four figures in this volume have been canonized
as central to ‘stage-centred’ Shakespearean
scholarship and stage practice. From William Poel’s
reproductions of early modern stages in the late nineteenth century
to Sam Wanamaker’s reconstruction of the Globe on London’s South
Bank, they all viewed Shakespeare’s plays as being enmeshed in the
social and historical dynamics of theatremaking and theatregoing.
The volume considers how their attempts to recapture early modern
performance conditions can be considered progressive.
UK September 2015 • US September 2015 • 264 pages
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Shakespeare: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
This collection offers a distinguished selection of titles that showcase the breadth of Shakespeare studies,
ranging from Shakespeare’s view on religion, our understanding of him as an author and director, the work
of his contemporaries and how he is taught in the contemporary curriculum. All titles can be acquired either
individually or as set.
Set:
UK December 2015 • US December 2015 • 6 vols • 1,520 pages
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Volume
Author/Editor
Hardback
Library Ebook
Shakespeare's Shakespeare
John Meagher
9781474247443
9781474247450
Two Tragedies
Antoine de Montchrestien
9781474247467
9781474247474
Shakespeare, Catholicism, and Romance
Velma Bourgeois Richmond
9781474247481
9781474247498
9781474247573
Shakespeare In The New Europe
Michael Hattaway, Boika Sokolova & Derek Roper
9781474247566
Strengths of Shakespeare's Shrew
William Empson, Edited by John Haffenden
9781474247580
9781474247597
Shakespeare For All: The Primary School
Maurice Gilmour
9781474247610
9781474247603
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B loomsbury A cademic C ollections
Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English Literary Criticism
56 Volume Set
This carefully chosen selection of 56 classic works of literary criticism comes from the archives of Athlone Press, one of the most
distinguished publishers of English criticism in the period 1950-2000. The volumes in this collection cover all periods and styles of literary
criticism, from Beowulf to Pinter, and includes works of literary theory as well as studies of specific periods, writers or works.
Authors include Herbert Grierson, Barbara Hardy, Christopher Norris, George Kane, E.M.W. Tillyard, Patricia Ball, Geoffrey Tillotson,
David Holbrook, and John Sutherland.
US January 2014
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Available for purchase only in the Americas and Australia.
The volumes are also available to purchase individually or in the following four subsets.
Bloomsbury Academic
Collections: English
Literary Criticism:
General Theory and
History
Bloomsbury Academic
Collections: English
Literary Criticism:
18th-19th Centuries
12 Volume Set
The 21 volumes in this subset
range from a study of Boswell and Johnson through Blake to all the
key figures of the 19th Century, including Dickens, Thackeray, Scott,
Coleridge, George Eliot, Austen, and Hardy. Authors include Patricia
M. Ball, Geoffrey Tillotson and John Sutherland.
The 12 volumes in this subset cover all aspects of general literary
theory and history, and include works by (among others) Herbert
Grierson, Barbara Hardy, Christopher Norris, and John Sutherland.
UK November 2013 / US January 2014
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Bloomsbury Academic
Collections: English
Literary Criticism:
Pre-1700
Bloomsbury Academic
Collections: English Literary
Criticism: 20th Century
14 Volume Set
The 9 volumes in this subset include criticism
of the work of T.S. Eliot (three titles), Aldous
Huxley, Dylan Thomas, Yeats, Beckett,
Ionesco, Genet, Plath and Pinter. Authors include David Holbrook,
Peter Bowering, Donald J. Childs, and Katharine Worth.
The 14 volumes in this subset cover
the work of Beowulf, Piers Plowman,
Chaucer, and of course Shakespeare who is represented with a number
of titles. Authors include George Kane, Derek Pearsall, Joan Rees,
Mary Lascelles, and E.M.W. Tillyard.
UK November 2013 / US January 2014
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21 Volume Set
9 Volume Set
UK November 2013 / US January 2014
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Adaptation Studies: New Challenges, New
Directions, (ed.) Bruhn, Gjelsvik, Hanssen
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Feminist Theory, 3rd edition, Donovan
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The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History,
Rees
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Why Literature?, Bruns
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Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History,
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Literary Criticism in the 21st Century,
Leitch
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Literary Fiction, Farner
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Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed,
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Maurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing,
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Modern Literary Theory: A Reader, 4th
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Stuff Theory: Everyday Objects, Radical
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Ten Lessons in Theory, Thomas
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The Anatomy of Bloom, Heys
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The Bakhtin Reader, (ed.) Morris
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The Risk of Reading, Waxler
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The Tragedy of Fatherhood, Weineck
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Object Lessons
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Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Ogede, Ode
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Cormac McCarthy, (ed.) Spurgeon
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David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing",
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David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A
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Falling After 9/11, Pozorski
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Gesturing Toward Reality: David Foster
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Patrick Marber's Closer, Saunders
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Paul Auster's Writing Machine, Trofimova
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Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed,
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index
1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu’s China......41
Byrne, Romana ........................................ 8
Edward Thomas: from Adlestrop to Arras........33
9/11.....................................................19
Byron, Mark ..........................................14
Egan, Gabriel .........................................38
A
C
Elam, Keir .............................................42
Acquisto, Joseph .....................................29
Callaghan, Dympna ..................................37
Adventures of Henry Thoreau, The................33
Cefalu, Paul ...........................................40
Aesthetic Sexuality.................................... 8
Childs, Peter ..........................................17
Aesthetics and Ethics in Twenty-First Century
British Novels..........................................17
Christina Rossetti’s Gothic..........................18
Christofides, R M .....................................40
Aesthetics of Care, The............................... 8
Cigarette Lighter...................................... 6
Alice Munro............................................19
Cities and Wetlands..................................26
American Biographical Novel, The.................19
Clark, Timothy ........................................26
Anderson, Elizabeth .................................31
Cline, Sally ...........................................32
Antipodal Shakespeare...............................41
Cofer, Jordan .........................................30
Antony and Cleopatra: Language and Writing...40
Collignon, Fabienne .................................21
Armstrong, Charles I. ................................13
Composition, Creative Writing Studies and
the Digital Humanities...............................32
Art as the Absolute.................................... 8
Arun Kolatkar and Literary Modernism
in India.................................................13
Encountering Buddhism in Twentieth-Century
British and American Literature...................31
End of Airports, The................................... 3
English Renaissance Tragedy........................41
Epplin, Craig ..........................................24
Ercolino, Stefano .....................................12
Ethics in British Children’s Literature............18
Evangelista, Stefano .................................29
Evans, David H. ......................................14
Evans, Robert C. ................................. 17, 38
Eve, Martin Paul ....................................... 7
Excursions with Thoreau.............................20
Ezra Pound in the Present...........................16
Ezra Pound’s Eriugena...............................14
Astral H.D., The......................................16
Conrad, Faulkner, and the Problem of
NonSense...............................................15
Avanessian, Armen ................................... 3
Coppa, Francesca ....................................34
B
Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament...30
Fall of the House of Wilde, The....................33
Craven, Alice ..........................................20
Fall Out of Redemption, The.......................29
Crawford, Joseph ............................... 18, 28
Feldman, Matthew ...................................14
Crawforth, Hannah ..................................37
Fernie, Ewan ...................................... 3, 23
Crunch Lit..............................................10
Fischer, Susan Alice ..................................10
Cultures of Irish Catholicism in James
Joyce’s Finnegans Wake..............................13
Fitzpatrick, Martin ...................................29
Bentley, Paul ..........................................18
D
French, Lorely ........................................23
Berlina, Alexandra ...................................24
Danish Literature as World Literature............24
Funk, Wolfgang .......................................11
Bernard MacLaverty: New Critical Readings.....17
Danta, Chris ........................................... 9
Furedi, Frank .........................................32
Berry, Ellen E. ......................................... 8
Dante’s Sacred Poem.................................31
Bevington, David .....................................34
Davis, Nick ............................................28
G
Biguenet, John ........................................ 5
Dead Theory............................................ 7
Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English
Literary Criticism.....................................44
Decades of Contemporary British Fiction.........10
Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English
Literary Criticism: 18th-19th Centuries..........44
del Valle Alcalá, Roberto ............................. 4
Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English
Literary Criticism: 20th Century...................44
Di Leo, Jeffrey R. ..................................... 7
Baer, Brian James ....................................23
Bailey, Iain ............................................14
Baillie, Justine ........................................20
Battles, Matthew ...................................... 7
Beaumont, Matthew ................................27
Beebee, Thomas Oliver .............................24
Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English
Literary Criticism: General Theory and History.44
Decades of Modern American Drama..............21
Deutsch, David .......................................13
Dines, Martin .........................................12
Disappearance of Literature, The................... 9
F
Faircloth, Nicki .......................................39
Forsberg, Niklas ......................................28
G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity..........27
Gardner, Kevin J. .....................................30
Garratt, Delia .........................................41
Garrison, John ......................................... 5
German Literature as World Literature..........24
Gertrude Stein in Europe............................16
Gestures of Testimony...............................11
Giblett, Rod ...........................................26
Divine Face in Four Writers, The...................30
Gielgud, Olivier, Ashcroft, Dench: Great
Shakespeareans.......................................43
Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood...........................21
Gillespie, Stuart ......................................39
Bloomsbury Introduction to Adaptation
Studies, The............................................ 3
Donnell, Kevin Mac ...................................19
Gillies, Midge .........................................32
Donovan, Josephine .................................. 8
Glass..................................................... 5
Body of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and
Medicine, A............................................28
Döring, Tobias .........................................23
Godwin, Gail ..........................................33
Dow, William ..........................................20
Bookshelf................................................ 6
Goethe’s Families of the Heart.....................23
Dragas, Areti .........................................12
Bread.................................................... 7
Gordon, Paul ........................................... 8
Dust...................................................... 6
Brienza, Casey ........................................19
Gospel According to David Foster Wallace, The..30
Dysfluencies...........................................16
British Literature and Classical Music.............13
Gospel According to Flannery O’Connor, The....30
E
Gospel According to the Novelist, The............30
Eagle, Chris ..........................................16
Gossett, Suzanne .....................................37
Early Modern Writing and the Privatization
of Experience..........................................28
Gothic Fiction and the Invention of Terrorism...28
Ebileeni, Maurice ....................................15
Griggs, Yvonne ......................................... 3
Ecocriticism and Italy................................26
Groth, Helen ........................................... 9
Ecocriticism on the Edge............................26
Grüttemeier, Ralf ....................................28
Edmondson, Paul .....................................41
Gustafson, Susan .....................................23
Bloomsbury Academic Collections: English
Literary Criticism: Pre-1700........................44
British Working-Class Fiction........................ 4
Broadcasting in the Modernist Era.................14
Brodsky Translating Brodsky: Poetry in
Self-Translation.......................................24
Brown, Andy ..........................................28
Brown, Carolyn .......................................38
Building Jerusalem...................................30
Bulman, James C. ....................................34
48
Conceived in Modernism.............................16
Emily Bronte and the Religious Imagination.....31
Green, James .........................................17
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Latham, Sean .........................................15
N
H.D. and Modernist Religious Imagination........31
Lauret, Maria ........................................12
Hair...................................................... 7
Leslie Marmon Silko..................................20
Hämäläinen, Nora ..................................... 7
Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption.......11
Narratives of Nothing in 20th-Century
Literature............................................... 8
Hamlet..................................................34
Lioi, Anthony ..........................................26
Nayar, Sheila J. .......................................31
Hamlet: A Critical Reader...........................38
Listengarten, Julia ...................................21
Hamling, Tara .........................................41
Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers’ & Artists’
Companion.............................................32
Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with
Unpopular Culture....................................26
Hammil, Faye .........................................15
Hand on the Shakespearean Stage, The...........42
Hanif Kureishi.........................................10
Hawkes, David ........................................38
Hayes-Brady, Clare ...................................11
Hennig, Anke ........................................... 3
Hertz, Erich ..........................................12
Hesse, Isabelle ........................................10
Hill, Mike ..............................................17
Hillyer, Aaron .......................................... 9
Nakamura, Yoko ......................................20
New Human in Literature, The...................... 4
Literary Trials.........................................28
New Suburban Stories................................12
Literature and Moral Theory........................ 7
Newton, K.M...........................................18
Literature as Cultural Ecology......................26
Normand, Lawrence ................................31
Literature of Reconstruction, The.................11
Not Born Digital.......................................20
Lodge, David ........................................... 3
O
London in Contemporary British Fiction..........27
Lonsdale, Sarah ......................................17
Lowe, Scott ............................................ 7
Lupton, Julia ..........................................38
O’Neill, Stephen ......................................42
O’Sullivan, Emer .....................................33
On Shakespeare’s Sonnets...........................37
Ormond, Leonee .....................................29
Holbrook, Peter ................................. 41, 42
M
Honigmann, E.A.J. ...................................34
Macbeth, Macbeth..................................... 3
Othello: A Critical Reader...........................38
Hood..................................................... 6
Mack, Peter ...........................................28
Othello’s Secret.......................................40
Horton, David .........................................23
MacKay, Marina .......................................15
Maczynska, Magdalena ..............................30
P
Hotel..................................................... 5
Hubble, Nick ..................................... 10, 27
Manga in America.....................................19
Huber, Sebastian .....................................20
Marder, Michael ....................................... 6
Hunt, Maurice .........................................30
Mark Twain and Youth................................19
Hurt and Pain........................................... 4
Marsden, Simon .......................................31
Hussey, Mark ..........................................15
Martin, Craig ........................................... 6
I
Martin, Niall ...........................................27
Iain Sinclair: Noise, Neoliberalism and the
Matter of London.....................................27
Mary Butts and British Neo-Romanticism.........17
Maximalist Novel, The...............................12
Othello.................................................34
Palfrey, Simon ......................................... 3
Paraskeva, Anthony .................................13
Park, Josephine .......................................16
Password................................................ 7
Pathos of Distance, The.............................. 4
Paul Auster’s Writing Machine......................12
Pendarvis, Jack ........................................ 6
Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry...............17
Phone Booth............................................ 5
Importance of Being Earnest, The.................34
Maya Angelou..........................................33
Ingleby, Matthew .....................................27
Mazer, Cary M. ........................................43
Interpreting in Nazi Concentration Camps.......23
McCormack, Donna ..................................11
Iovino, Serenella .....................................26
McEachern, Claire ....................................34
Poel, Granville Barker, Guthrie, Wanamaker:
Great Shakespeareans...............................43
Irigaray, Incarnation and Contemporary
Women’s Fiction......................................31
McLeod, John .........................................11
Poetry: A Survivor’s Guide........................... 3
McMullan, Gordon ....................................41
Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary
World Literature, The...............................10
J
Jackson, Jeanne-Marie ..............................24
Jackson, Russell ......................................43
John McGahern and Modernism....................18
Jonathan Franzen.....................................33
Jones, Peter ...........................................29
Journalist in British Fiction and Film, The.......17
K
Mead, Henry ..........................................14
Mead, Philip ...........................................41
Melehy, Hassan .......................................21
Michel Houellebecq and the Literature
of Despair..............................................11
Miller, Adam S. ........................................30
Mindful Aesthetics..................................... 9
Mintz, Susannah B. .................................... 4
Modern Manuscripts..................................13
index
H
Poe and the Subversion of American
Literature..............................................19
Politics of Performing Shakespeare for
Young People, The....................................42
Posman, Sarah ........................................16
Potts, Matthew L. ....................................30
Power of Reading.....................................32
Present Tense........................................... 3
Publishing..............................................33
Pyne, Lydia ............................................. 6
Q
Kalliney, Peter ........................................15
Modernism in a Global Context....................15
Karim-Cooper, Farah .................................42
Modernism, War, and Violence......................15
Kelly, Ariana ............................................ 5
Modernism: Evolution of an Idea...................15
Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the Ethics
of Witnessing..........................................11
Kerouac.................................................21
Modernism’s Print Cultures.........................15
Questionnaire.......................................... 6
Kindley, Evan ........................................... 6
Modernizing George Eliot...........................18
King Henry IV Part 2..................................34
R
Modes of Modern Writing, The...................... 3
Rabaté, Jean-Michel .................................. 4
Kinney, Alison .......................................... 6
Mooney, Edward F. ...................................20
Radford, Andrew .....................................17
Koehler, Adam ........................................32
Moore, David L. .......................................20
Raising Milton’s Ghost...............................18
L
Morley, Catherine ....................................19
Ramone, Jenni ........................................24
Lackey, Michael ......................................19
Morris, Daniel .........................................20
Rasmussen, R. Kent ..................................19
Language Lost and Found............................28
Much Ado About Nothing ............................34
Late Book Culture in Argentina....................24
Murphy, Brenda .......................................21
Reading and Rhetoric in Montaigne and
Shakespeare...........................................28
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index
Reception of Alfred Tennyson in Europe, The....29
Shakespeare’s World of Words......................37
Vlacos, Sophie ......................................... 9
Reception of Edmund Burke in Europe, The......29
Shaw, Katy ............................................10
Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe, The.........29
Shershow, Scott Cutler ............................... 7
W
Reception of P. B. Shelley in Europe, The........29
Shipping Container.................................... 6
Reception of S. T. Coleridge in Europe, The.....29
Silence................................................... 5
Rees, Jonathan ........................................ 5
Simpson, Kathryn ....................................15
Reframing Yeats.......................................13
Sims, Michael .........................................33
Refrigerator............................................ 5
Slow Philosophy of J.M. Coetzee, The............. 4
Rethinking Joseph Conrad’s Concepts of
Community.............................................. 4
South African Literature’s Russian Soul...........24
Return of the Storyteller in Contemporary
Fiction, The............................................12
Stavris, Nicholas ......................................10
Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary.......20
Richardson, Michael .................................11
Ricoeur, Literature and Imagination................ 9
Subject of the Event.................................20
Supplanting the Postmodern........................10
Sweeney, Carole .....................................11
Wagner, Corinna ......................................28
Walsh, Joanna ......................................... 5
Wanderwords..........................................12
Wang, Shih-pe ........................................41
Warburton, Nick ......................................32
Waste.................................................... 5
Watt, Gary ............................................42
Weinstein, Philip .....................................33
Wells, Lynn ............................................27
What is Art?............................................. 8
Wilde, Oscar ..........................................34
Rine, Abigail ..........................................31
T
Ringgaard, Dan .......................................24
T.E. Hulme and Modernism..........................16
Wilson, Aimee Armande .............................16
Robinson, Matte ......................................16
Tally, Jr., Robert T. ...................................19
Wilson, Jean Moorcroft ..............................33
Robinson, Richard ....................................18
Tan, Tian Yuan ........................................41
Wilson, Leigh .........................................10
Rocket States: Atomic Weaponry and the
Cultural Imagination.................................21
Taylor, Neil ....................................... 34, 38
Winch, Alison .........................................31
Tearle, Oliver ........................................16
Wise, Jon ..............................................17
Roessner, Jeffrey .....................................12
Ted Hughes, Class and Violence....................18
Wolf, Michaela ........................................23
Rogers, Gayle .........................................15
Teddern, Sue ..........................................32
Women’s Experimental Writing..................... 8
Roma Voices in the German-Speaking World.....23
Telling in Henry James...............................21
Wood, Alice ...........................................14
Romeo and Juliet: A Critical Reader..............38
Tew, Philip ........................................ 10, 27
Woolf: A Guide for the Perplexed.................15
Roos, Bonnie ..........................................21
Thacker, Robert ......................................19
Works of Graham Greene, Volume 2, The........17
Rossington, Michael ..................................29
Thill, Brian ............................................. 5
Wozniak, Jan ..........................................42
Royal, Derek Parker ..................................31
Thomas Mann and Shakespeare.....................23
Write in Tune: Contemporary Music in Fiction....12
Rudrum, David .......................................10
Thomas Mann in English.............................23
Russell, Richard Rankin .............................17
Thomas, Vivian .......................................39
Writing for TV and Radio: A Writers’ and
Artists’ Companion...................................32
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Thompson, Ann .................................. 34, 38
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Thompson, Ayanna ..................................34
Yachnin, Paul .........................................37
Thomsen, Mads Rosendahl ..................... 4, 24
Yakich, Mark ........................................... 3
Tolstoy, Leo ............................................ 8
Yamamoto, Kaoru ..................................... 4
Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition..............20
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Sabatier, Armelle .....................................39
Sainsbury, Lisa .......................................18
Salman Rushdie and Translation....................24
Samuel Beckett and Cinema........................13
Samuel Beckett and The Bible......................14
Schaberg, Christopher ................................ 3
Schmid, Susanne .....................................29
Schultz, Laura Luise .................................16
Scott-Baumann, Elizabeth ..........................37
Scott, David ...........................................14
Shaffer, Elinor ........................................29
Shakespeare and Ecocritical Theory...............38
Shakespeare and Economic Theory................38
Shakespeare and Psychoanalytic Theory..........38
Shakespeare and the Stuff of Life.................41
Shakespeare and Visual Culture....................39
Shakespeare and YouTube...........................42
Shakespeare in Our Time............................37
Shakespeare, William ................................34
Shakespeare: Bloomsbury Academic
Collections ............................................43
Shakespeare’s Acts of Will..........................42
Shakespeare’s Books..................................39
Shakespeare’s Creative Legacies...................42
Shakespeare’s Insults.................................39
Shakespeare’s Pictures...............................42
Shakespeare’s Plants and Gardens:
A Dictionary............................................39
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Stasi, Paul .............................................16
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Tonning, Erik ..........................................14
Tragic Cognition in Shakespeare’s Othello........40
Translation and the Making of Modern
Russian Literature....................................23
Tree...................................................... 7
Wilm, Jan ............................................... 4
Zapf, Hubert ..........................................26
Zecchini, Laetitia ...................................13
Zuccato, Edoardo ....................................29
Zwinger, Lynda ........................................21
Trofimova, Evija ......................................12
Troilus and Cressida..................................34
Trowbridge, Serena .................................18
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Modernism.............................................14
Understanding James, Understanding
Modernism.............................................14
Unspeakable Failures of David Foster
Wallace, The...........................................11
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Van Mierlo, Chrissie .................................13
Vaughan, Virginia Mason ............................40
Vermeulen, Timotheus ..............................12
Vicks, Meghan .......................................... 8
Vienne-Guerrin, Nathalie ...........................39
Virginia Woolf’s Late Cultural Criticism..........14
Visualizing Jewish Narrative........................31
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