2015-16 Literary Studies
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2015-16 Literary Studies
Literary Studies 2015-16 LITERARY STUDIES Bloomsbury Collections delivers instant access to quality research and provides libraries with a flexible way to build eBook collections across the humanities and social sciences. Collections include 30-90 titles per subject, with new collections issued each year. Literary Studies Collections cover a wide range of topics and periods including Literary Theory, Contemporary Literature, Modernism, North and South American Literature, Comparative Literature and Creative Writing. Collections include critical works on writers as diverse as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Toni Morrison and Zadie Smith, overviews such as Steven Moore’s The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800 and Emma Rees’s The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History, as well as monographs on Shakespeare and early modern drama from the Arden Shakespeare imprint. LITERARY STUDIES SUBJECT AREAS: KEY TITLES: African, Asian and Postcolonial Literatures; British and Irish Literature; Children’s Literature; Classical Literature; Comics and Graphic Novels; Comparative Literature; Contemporary Literature; Creative Writing; Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature; European Literature; German Studies; Iberian and Latin American Literature; Literary Biography; Literary Genres; Literary Theory; Medieval Literature; Modernism; North American Literature; Reception Studies; Romanticism; Russian, Central and East European Literature; Shakespeare Studies; Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Literature; Theatre Studies; Translation and Interpretation in Literary Studies; Twentieth-Century Literature Shakespeare’s Demonology; Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature; Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient; Angela Carter: New Critical Readings; Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Shakespeare; The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction; Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism; Black Comics KEY AUTHORS: Adrian Poole; Jenni Adams; Daniel Albright; Mark Taylor-Batty; Peter Holland Bloomsbury Collections offers eBook collections on a perpetual access basis. Free trials are available for your institution: these are typically for 30 days but can be longer as needed Libraries: ask us for a free trial, price quote or more information – use the online form at www.bloomsburycollections.com or email: Americas: [email protected] Outside Americas: [email protected] Australia and New Zealand: [email protected] 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 Bloomsbury Head Offices & Distributors UK, Europe & Rest of World Bloomsbury Publishing 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK Tel: +44 (0)207 631 5600 Fax: +44 (0)207 631 5800 [email protected] UK Trade Orders Macmillan Distribution (MDL) Brunel Road, Houndsmill, Basingstoke, RG21 6XT, UK Tel: +44 (0)1256 302692 Fax: +44 (0)1256 812521 / 812558 [email protected] US, Canada, Latin America Bloomsbury USA 1385 Broadway, 5th Floor New York, NY 10018, USA Tel: +1 212-419-5300 [email protected] US Trade Orders Bloomsbury USA MPS/BUSA Orders 16365 James Madison Highway, Gordonsville, VA 22942, USA Tel: +1 888-330-8477 Fax: +1 800-672-2054 [email protected] [email protected] Representatives, Agents & Distributors......................... 51 EBooks Proposals EBook availability is indicated under each book entry: If you have a book proposal, please contact one of the editors listed on page 2 or submit your proposal using forms available at www.bloomsbury.com/academic/forauthors Individual eBook: available for your e-reader Library eBook: available for institution-wide access See the website for details of vendors, or to purchase individual eBooks direct. 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Imprint is Bloomsbury Academic unless indicated otherwise. Bloomsbury Academic is a division of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Registered in England No. 01984336. www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 1 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). Digital Highlights EBooks are now available direct for your e-reader: purchase from www.bloomsbury.com. 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See page 22 and www.dramaonlinelibrary.com for more information. www.actorsandperformers.com provides advice and contacts for actors and performers at all stages of their careers. And, in collaboration with Faber, The Sonnets by William Shakespeare app (p.37) contains all 154 poems read by an all-star cast including Patrick Stewart and Stephen Fry. Our eBooks platform Bloomsbury Collections delivers instant access to quality research and provides libraries with a flexible way to build their collections across the humanities and social sciences without DRM. More than 4,000 eBook titles are now available on perpetual access, featuring content from Bloomsbury’s latest research publications as well as a 100+ year legacy from Continuum, T&T Clark, Bristol Classical Press, Berg, Hart Publishing and The Arden Shakespeare (excluding the plays, which are available on Drama Online). Sign up for an institutional trial or updates at www.bloomsburycollections.com. 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David Avital Margaret Bartley Haaris Naqvi Publisher, Literary Studies (UK) Publisher, The Arden Shakespeare Publisher, Literary Studies (US) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] bloomsburyliterarystudies.typepad.com @bloomsburylit • @Ardenpublisher • @dramaonlinelib Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com/literarystudies 2 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] 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 Bloomsbury Academic 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 Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 3 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 4 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 Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] 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 www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 5 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 PB 9781501307324 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781501307331 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781501307348 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781501307362 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781501307379 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781501307386 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781628925586 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781628925944 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781628923308 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic 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 Individual eBook 9781501307416 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781501307423 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic 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 Library eBook 9781501303166 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic 6 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 Individual eBook 9781501314797 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781501314780 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] 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 Individual eBook 9781501307454 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781501307461 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic 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 Individual eBook 9781501314889 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781501314896 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic 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 Individual eBook 9781628928570 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781628922219 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic 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 Individual eBook 9781628920536 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781628920543 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic 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 Individual eBook 9781474274364 • £59.99 / $92.99 Library eBook 9781474274371 Bloomsbury Academic UK November 2015 • US November 2015 • 256 pages HB 9781501305368 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781501305375 • £57.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781501305382 Bloomsbury Academic Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USA L iterary T heory Bread www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 7 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 Individual eBook 9781501307225 • £57.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781501307232 Bloomsbury Academic 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 Individual eBook 9781501308024 • £57.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781501308031 Bloomsbury Academic 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 Individual eBook 9781474226417 • £59.99 / $92.99 Library eBook 9781474226424 Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781474265096 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781474265102 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781474265119 Series: Bloomsbury Revelations • Bloomsbury Academic 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 UK May 2015 • US May 2015 • 200 pages PB 9781501308697 • £19.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781441100818 Individual eBook 9781441158796 • £14.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781441183583 Bloomsbury Academic UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 208 pages PB 9781501317200 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501317194 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501317217 • £14.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781501317224 Bloomsbury Academic 8 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] 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 PB 9781501308673 • £19.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781441102867 Individual eBook 9781441162526 • £14.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781441181916 Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781501306808 • £19.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781623561710 Individual eBook 9781623565121 • £14.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781623562717 Bloomsbury Academic "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 PB 9781501312243 • £19.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781441135384 Individual eBook 9781441142948 • £14.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781441119551 Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Revelations BLOO MSBU L AT I REVE RY ONS CHANGE THE WAY Y O U V I E W THE WORLD Now in its third year of publishing the best of Bloomsbury’s original non-fiction, there are even more books available in the B l oom s b u r y R e v e l a t i o n s 9781474244213 £16.99/$29.95 9781472528018 £18.99/$32.95 9781472512055 £14.99* 9781501312830 £14.99/$25.95 9781780936246 £16.99/$29.95 9781780936802 £12.99/$19.95 9781780937816 £12.99/$19.95 9781474234887 £14.99* series. In 2015-2016 we’ll add over 30 titles from across our academic subjects, offering more of the essential works of thinkers who have opened up startling new ways of looking at the world. BLOOMSBURY.COM/REVELATIONS *Not available in North America www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 9 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 PB 9781472510068 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472506306 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781472512123 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472513304 Series: 21st Century Genre Fiction • Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781501306860 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501306877 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501306884 • £14.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781501306891 Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781472509154 • £17.99 / $30.95 • HB 9781472513342 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472511683 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472514912 Series: Contemporary Critical Perspectives • Bloomsbury Academic 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 Individual eBook 9781474269346 • £59.99 / $92.99 Library eBook 9781474269353 Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing • Bloomsbury Academic 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 Bloomsbury Academic 10 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] 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 HB 9781501315800 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781501315817 • £57.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781501315824 Bloomsbury Academic 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 HB 9781501313523 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781501313530 • £57.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781501313547 Bloomsbury Academic 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 Individual eBook 9781501306174 • £57.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781501306181 Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781474239134 • £18.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9780826422620 Individual eBook 9781623569181 • £18.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781623562984 Bloomsbury Academic 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 HB 9781472590381 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472590398 • £59.99 / $92.99 Library eBook 9781472590404 Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing • Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781501310898 • £19.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781441111005 Individual eBook 9781441113788 • £57.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781441163103 Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 11 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 PB 9781501318252 • £19.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781623569860 Individual eBook 9781623568542 • £57.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781623560812 Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781474275675 • £18.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9780826439901 Individual eBook 9781623561949 • £59.99 / $92.99 Library eBook 9781441143549 Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781501314292 • £19.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781623562915 Individual eBook 9781623561901 • £14.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781623564964 Bloomsbury Academic 12 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 PB 9781501315756 • £19.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781623564223 Individual eBook 9781623561451 • £14.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781623565060 Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781501318979 • £19.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781628921632 Individual eBook 9781628921649 • £57.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781628921656 Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing • Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781474228374 • £18.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781472510938 Individual eBook 9781472514882 • £18.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472510327 Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] Series Editors: Matthew Feldman, Teesside University, UK and Erik Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway 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 HB 9781472585943 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472585950 • £59.99 / $92.99 Library eBook 9781472585967 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic 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 Individual eBook 9781472533234 • £59.99 / $92.99 Library eBook 9781472527370 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic 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 Individual eBook 9781474235822 • £59.99 / $92.99 Library eBook 9781474235839 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781474222853 • £18.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781441183163 Individual eBook 9781623563530 • £18.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781441139719 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781474275668 • £18.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781441167507 Individual eBook 9781623565589 • £59.99 / $92.99 Library eBook 9781472578327 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781474245418 • £18.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781441133168 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 13 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 PB 9781474222921 • £18.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781441102850 Individual eBook 9781441107411 • £18.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781441148728 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781474275583 • £18.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781472512482 Individual eBook 9781472513595 • £59.99 / $92.99 Library eBook 9781472505309 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781474275644 • £18.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781441139542 Individual eBook 9781441179272 • £59.99 / $92.99 Library eBook 9781441112620 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781474250252 • £18.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781780936888 Individual eBook 9781780937168 • £18.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781780936499 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic 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 14 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 Individual eBook 9781501302756 • £62.99 / $107.99 Library eBook 9781501302763 Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic UK August 2016 • US August 2016 • 272 pages HB 9781628927702 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781628927719 • £62.99 / $107.99 Library eBook 9781628927726 Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] 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 PB 9781472569653 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472569646 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472569639 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472569660 Series: New Modernisms • Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781472523778 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472531247 • £60.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472529152 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472525321 Series: New Modernisms • Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781472573254 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472573261 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472573278 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472573285 Series: New Modernisms • Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781441191229 • £14.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781441169020 • £45.00 / $80.00 Individual eBook 9781472590688 • £14.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781472590671 Series: Guides for the Perplexed • Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781472590077 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472590060 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472590084 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472590091 Series: New Modernisms • Bloomsbury Academic 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 Individual eBook 9781501306600 • £52.99 / $89.99 Library eBook 9781501306617 Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 15 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 Individual eBook 9781474242295 • £59.99 / $92.99 Library eBook 9781474242301 Bloomsbury Academic 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 Bloomsbury Academic 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 Individual eBook 9781501307720 • £57.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781501307737 Bloomsbury Academic 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 Library eBook 9781628924190 Bloomsbury Academic 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 PB 9781474222907 • £18.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781441156655 Individual eBook 9781441184986 • £18.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781441187123 Bloomsbury Academic 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 Previously published in HB 9781623563325 Individual eBook 9781623564629 • £14.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781623566227 Bloomsbury Academic 16 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] 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 Individual eBook 9781474220552 • £19.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781474220569 Bloomsbury Academic 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 Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 17 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 18 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 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] 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 www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 19 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 20 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 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] 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 www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 21 Best Interface The Charle ston Advisor Discover. Read. Listen. Watch. A new way to engage with plays Drama Online provides easy access to over 1,500 plays, 350 audio plays and over 80 hours of video from leading theatre publishers and companies including Bloomsbury’s Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare, as well as Faber and Faber, L.A. Theatre Works, Nick Hern Books and Shakespeare’s Globe. NEW VIDEO COLLECTIONS Users are able to view films of critically acclaimed theatrical performances as well as an acting masterclass from the comfort of their own classroom, lecture hall, library or mobile device. • Shakespeare’s Globe is a collection of over twenty stunning stage productions recorded live on stage, representing over 55 hours of viewing. Featured performances from leading actors including Mark Rylance’s Tony Award-winning role as Olivia in Twelfth Night and Roger Allam’s Olivier Award-winning role as Falstaff in Henry IV. • Stage on Screen includes films of four early modern plays: Doctor Faustus, School for Scandal, The Duchess of Malfi and Volpone. • Shakespeare in the Present is a six hour acting masterclass with international coach Patsy Rodenburg. • Hamlet the Film is an extraordinarily powerful re-invention of Shakespeare’s Hamlet starring Maxine Peake in the title role. NEW COLLECTION: Audio plays from L.A. Theatre Works KEY TOOLS AND FEATURES: 350 audio recordings from one of the most important audio theatre companies in America today. LATW carefully records stage productions for listeners producing thought-provoking and compelling audio versions of the highest quality, with leading actors such as Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Martin Sheen, Helen Hunt, John Goodman and hundreds of others. Study guides, images and background materials are also provided. • An intuitive e-reader featuring scholarly editions, in-text annotations, as well as page and line numbers corresponding with the print edition Highlights include iconic modern works from the oeuvre of leading American playwrights such as Arthur Miller, David Mamet and Eugene O’Neill. NEW COLLECTION: Nick Hern Books Collection A collection of almost 400 titles from specialist theatre publisher Nick Hern Books. Since its founding in 1988, Nick Hern Books has cultivated a list of plays that includes work by many of the UK and Ireland’s pre-eminent playwrights, as well as some of the most exciting emerging writers. Highlights include modern classics from Howard Brenton, Jez Butterworth, Caryl Churchill, David Edgar, Helen Edmundson, Liz Lochhead, Conor McPherson, Enda Walsh and Nicholas Wright. • Advanced and full text search capabilities. Filter results by playwright, genre, period, theme, cast size, gendered roles, word-length, and more • Visual aids for study and rehearsal, including a Words and Speeches Graph and a Character Grid for each play • Part books: character lines and stage directions readily available for each individual role • Play Finder: search for a play via cast size, genre, period, playwright and more • Personalized experience: citation tool, bookmark, highlight, annotate texts, save searches, and view search history HOW TO ORDER: Drama Online offers collections on a subscription or perpetual access basis. Free institutional trials are available Libraries: ask us for a free trial, price quote or more information: Americas: [email protected] Outside Americas: [email protected] Australia and New Zealand: [email protected] Lecturers: recommend to your library and sign up for news @dramaonlinelib For a full list of titles available visit www.dramaonlinelibrary.com 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 Series: Literatures, Cultures, Translation • Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 23 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 Library eBook 9781472593016 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 Bloomsbury Academic 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 Individual eBook 9781623566968 • £14.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781623566586 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 Library eBook 9781623566166 Bloomsbury Academic 24 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 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] BLOOMSBURY Cultural History Launching 2017 Available via Subscription or Perpetual Access Authoritative Digital Reference Tool Explore a diverse range of key themes in cultural history from antiquity to the present day. About the resource Bloomsbury Cultural History is an interactive online resource comprising Bloomsbury’s ground-breaking Cultural Histories series. An authoritative digital reference tool, it provides students and researchers with a set of curated, comprehensive and illustrated reference works within a single platform. 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It allows users to: • Explore a diverse range of key themes in cultural history from antiquity to the present day • Search across the entire dataset at the thematic level • Browse content using an interactive timeline *Topic available post launch. To register your interest for a free 30-day trial**, or for further information as it becomes available, email: Americas: [email protected] Outside Americas: [email protected] Australia and New Zealand: [email protected] www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com **Free trials available to institutions only 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 Bloomsbury Academic 26 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] 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 Library eBook 9781472574862 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the City 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 PB 9781474275651 • £18.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781780937069 Individual eBook 9781780935805 • £59.99 / $92.99 Library eBook 9781780936833 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the City Bloomsbury Academic OuT nOw! Outstanding advice on how to teach well, within “highly complex organisations known as universities ... This collection is a real tour de force ” TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION 9781441197559 | £24.99/$39.95 www.reflectiveteaching.co.uk www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 27 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 Bloomsbury Academic 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 Previously published in HB 9781472505286 Individual eBook 9781472509123 • £18.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472509956 Bloomsbury Academic 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 Library eBook 9781441134387 Bloomsbury Academic 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 Individual eBook 9781474269568 • £24.99 / $36.99 Library eBook 9781474269551 Bloomsbury Academic UK January 2016 • US January 2016 • 240 pages • 2 b/w illustrations HB 9781501303173 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781501303180 • £57.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781501303197 Bloomsbury Academic 28 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] 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 Bloomsbury Academic 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 Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 29 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 Bloomsbury Academic 30 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 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] 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 Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 31 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 32 From Socrates to Twitter www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] 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 Bloomsbury Academic 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 Bloomsbury USA World English www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 33 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 Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare 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 Library eBook 9781472584762 Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare King Henry IV Part 2 William Shakespeare Edited by James C. Bulman, Allegheny College, USA This complex history play is more troubled and troubling than King Henry IV Part 1, as it continues the story of King Henry’s decline and Hal’s reform. Though Part 2 echoes the structure of the earlier play, it is a darker and more unsettling world, in which even Falstaff’s revelry is more tired and cynical, and the once-merry Hal sloughs off his tavern companions to become King Henry V. Expertly edited with on-page notes and a lengthy critical introduction, this is an invaluable and authoritative edition. UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 512 pages PB 9781904271376 • £9.99 / $17.00 Individual eBook 9781408151846 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408151839 Series: Arden Shakespeare • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare 34 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 PB 9781472585202 • £8.99 / $15.95 Individual eBook 9781472585219 • £8.99 / $13.99 Library eBook 9781472585226 Series: New Mermaids • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] Title EDITOR ISBN UK Price US Price All's Well That Ends Well * G. K. Hunter 9781903436233 £9.99 $18.00 Antony and Cleopatra John Wilders 9781904271017 £8.99 $17.00 As You Like It Juliet Dusinberre 9781904271222 £8.99 $17.00 The Comedy of Errors * R.A. Foakes 9781903436011 £9.99 $18.00 Coriolanus Peter Holland 9781904271284 £9.99 $17.00 Cymbeline * J. M. Nosworthy 9781903436028 £9.99 $18.00 Double Falsehood Brean Hammond 9781903436776 £16.99 $19.95 Hamlet: Revised Edition Ann Thompson & Neil Taylor 9781472518385 £8.99 $17.00 Hamlet: The Texts Of 1603 And 1623 Ann Thompson & Neil Taylor 9781904271802 £12.99 $22.00 Julius Caesar David Daniell 9781903436219 £8.99 $17.00 King Henry IV Part 1 David Scott Kastan 9781904271352 £9.99 $18.00 King Henry IV Part 2 * A. R. Humphreys 9781904271062 £8.99 $17.00 King Henry V T.W. Craik 9781904271086 £8.99 $17.00 King Henry VI Part 1 Edward Burns 9781903436431 £12.99 $18.00 King Henry VI Part 2 Ronald Knowles 9781903436639 £9.99 $18.00 King Henry VI Part 3 Eric Rasmussen & John D. Cox 9781903436318 £9.99 $18.00 King Henry VIII Gordon McMullan 9781903436257 £11.99 $18.00 King John * E.A.J. Honigmann 9781903436097 £10.99 $18.00 King Lear R.A. Foakes 9781903436592 £8.99 $17.00 King Richard II Charles R. Forker 9781903436332 £8.99 $17.00 King Richard III James R. 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Kinney 9780713642537 £9.99 $16.99 A Woman Killed With Kindness Thomas Heywood Fran Dolan 9780713677775 £9.99 $14.99 A Woman of No Importance Oscar Wilde Ian Small 9780713673517 £7.99 $14.99 Women Beware Women Thomas Middleton William C. Carroll 9780713666632 £8.99 $14.99 Emma Smith 9781408182314 14.99 $15.95 Women on the Early Modern Stage * Not Available in North America 36 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] 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 HB 9781474221580 • £12.99 / $19.95 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare Edited by Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University, USA & Suzanne Gossett, Loyola University, Chicago, USA Marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death this volume offers a 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 research and study including gender, 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. NEW MERMAIDS On Shakespeare's Sonnets UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 304 pages HB 9781472515292 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781474252904 • £59.99 / $92.99 Library eBook 9781474252911 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 376 pages PB 9781472520418 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9781472520425 • £50.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781472520432 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781472520449 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare Shakespeare’s Sonnets for iPad Enjoy, explore and understand these immortal works of literature as never before • All 154 poems performed to camera by an all-star cast including Sir Patrick Stewart, Kim Cattrall, Stephen Fry and David Tennant • Full text and complete scholarly notes from the Arden Shakespeare • Share the performance of your favourite sonnet via Facebook, Twitter or email • Includes complete facsimile of the 1609 Quarto edition “Clean and intuitive” – New York Times “This is Shakespeare reinvented for the modern age and the sign of literature apps to come.” – Telegraph, 100 Essential Apps “A dazzling app… this isn’t like buying a book, it’s like buying a whole university department.” – Sunday Times “An ambitiously conceived, superbly executed app.” – The Literary Platform “Has the power to awaken passions you never knew you had.” – Observer £9.99 / $13.99 Produced in partnership by www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 37 T he A rden S hakespeare 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 contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research. Hamlet: A Critical Reader Othello: A Critical Reader 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 most-studied of all Shakespeare's great tragedies. This collection of newly-commissioned essays gives readers an overview of past critical views of the play as well as new writing about the play from today's leading scholars. The final chapter on learning and teaching resources is particularly useful as a guide for further study. UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 240 pages PB 9781472571373 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781472571380 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472571397 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472571403 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare This guide gives an overview of the play's critical and performance history, (including notable stage productions and film versions) a keynote chapter outlining 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. UK August 2015 • US August 2015 • 296 pages PB 9781472520364 • £17.99 / $30.95 HB 9781472520371 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472520388 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472520395 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet: A Critical Reader Edited by Julia Lupton, University of California, Irvine, USA This volume analyses the play’s critical and performance history and recent criticism, and assembles a thoughtful group of essays that unpick the play’s key dilemmas, exploring its ongoing centrality to Shakespearean performance and criticism across the world. The guide also contains a chapter on the key resources available, and discusses the ways in which they can be used in the classroom. UK January 2016 • US January 2016 • 296 pages PB 9781472589262 • £18.99 / $29.95 HB 9781474216364 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781474216388 • £18.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781474216371 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare 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 postmodernism, as well as those that are emerging at the present moment. “The series promises to be wonderfully useful not only as a glimpse back at what has already been done but also as an inspiration for new work.” Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University, USA Shakespeare and Ecocritical Theory Gabriel Egan, Loughborough University, UK Combining the latest scientific and philosophical understanding of humankind's place in the world with interpretative methods derived from other politically inflected literary criticism, ecocriticism is providing new insights into literary works both ancient and modern. With case-study analyses of the tragedies, comedies, histories and the late romances, this book is a wide-ranging introduction to reading Shakespeare in light of contemporary ecocritical theory. UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 208 pages PB 9781441199300 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441145529 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441178244 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781441142528 Series: Shakespeare and Theory Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare 38 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 PB 9781472576972 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781472576989 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472576996 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472577009 Series: Shakespeare and Theory Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare 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 PB 9781472503237 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781472503244 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781474216128 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781474216135 Series: Shakespeare and Theory Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] Series Editor: Sandra Clark, University of London, UK The Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries provide authoritative guides to major subject-areas covered by the poetry and plays. The dictionaries provide readers with a comprehensive guide to the topic under discussion, especially its contemporary meanings, and to its occurrence and significance in Shakespeare's works. Comprehensive bibliographies accompany many of the items. Entries range from a few lines in length to mini-essays, providing the opportunity to explore an important literary or historical concept or idea in depth. “A valuable tool for the study of Shakespeare… the Arden Dictionaries have made an enormous contribution… each volume impresses the reader with Shakespeare’s grasp of a particular topic… Those who consult these dictionaries will be heartily nourished by Shakespeare’s richly varied lexical menu.” Shakespeare Quarterly 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 HB 9780826498335 • £100.00 / $200.00 Individual eBook 9781474252683 • £99.99 / $154.99 Library eBook 9781474252676 Series: Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare 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 PB 9781472572929 • £29.99 / $44.95 Previously Published in HB 9780485115604 Individual eBook 9781474216067 • £25.99 / $40.99 Library eBook 9781441194534 Series: Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare 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 HB 9781472568052 • £100.00 / $172.00 Library eBook 9781472568069 Series: Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare 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 PB 9781474273879 • £25.99 / $44.95 Previously published in HB 9781441143709 Individual eBook 9781472558572 • £25.99 / $40.99 Library eBook 9781472558589 Series: Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 39 T he A rden S hakespeare 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 Individual eBook 9781472521927 • £12.99 / $20.99 Library eBook 9781472533180 Series: Shakespeare Now! • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare 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 Individual eBook 9781474212984 • £12.99 / $20.99 Library eBook 9781474212991 Series: Shakespeare Now! • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare 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 HB 9781408184516 • £40.00 / $45.00 Individual eBook 9781408185711 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408184806 Series: Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare 40 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] 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 HB 9781474271431 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474271448 • £64.99 / $100.99 Library eBook 9781474271455 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare 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 PB 9781472572806 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781472572813 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472572820 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472572837 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 352 pages 10 b/w illus PB 9781472583413 • £22.99 / $29.95 HB 9781472583420 • £70.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781472583437 • £19.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472583444 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare Sign up for News, Competitions and Offers www.bloomsbury.com/newsletter www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 41 T he A rden S hakespeare 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 Individual eBook 9781474217866 • £54.99 / $84.99 Library eBook 9781474217873 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 Previously published in HB 9781441120922 Individual eBook 9781472500281 • £18.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781441153982 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 Individual eBook 9781408179772 • £64.00 Library eBook 9781408179765 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 Individual eBook 9781474234856 • £64.99 / $100.99 Library eBook 9781474234863 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare 42 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 PB 9781474234481 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474234498 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781474234504 • £18.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781474234511 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 PB 9781474234269 • £19.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781474234276 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474234283 • £19.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781474234290 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] 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 PB 9781474253390 • £24.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781441185259 Individual eBook 9781472539465 • £74.99 / $115.99 Library eBook 9781472515445 Series: Great Shakespeareans • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare 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 PB 9781474253840 • £24.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781441133724 Individual eBook 9781472539496 • £74.99 / $115.99 Library eBook 9781472539502 Series: Great Shakespeareans • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare World English 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 HB Set 9781474247627 • £450.00 / $770.00 All Individual Volumes: £75.00 / $128.00 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 www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] T he A rden S hakespeare / B L O O M S B U R Y A C A D E M I C C O L L E C T I O N S Great Shakespeareans 43 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 HB Set 9781472535412 • $6,445.00 Series: Bloomsbury Academic Collections 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 HB Set 9781472536129 • £810.00 / $1,385.00 Series: Bloomsbury Academic Collections UK November 2013 / US January 2014 HB Set 9781472536143 • £1,420.00 / $2,420.00 Series: Bloomsbury Academic Collections 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 HB Set 9781472536136 • £945.00 / $1,615.00 Series: Bloomsbury Academic Collections 44 21 Volume Set 9 Volume Set UK November 2013 / US January 2014 HB Set 9781472536150 • £610.00 / $1,040.00 Series: Bloomsbury Academic Collections www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] Adaptation Studies: New Challenges, New Directions, (ed.) Bruhn, Gjelsvik, Hanssen PB 9781441192660 2013 £21.99 $29.95 HB 9781441194671 2013 £65.00 $120.00 Inspection copy available Feminist Theory, 3rd edition, Donovan PB 9781441168306 2012 £18.99 $29.95 HB 9781441163653 2012 £60.00 $110.00 The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History, Rees PB 9781628922127 2014 £13.99 $19.95 HB 9781623568719 2013 £19.99 $29.95 Why Literature?, Bruns PB 9781441124654 2011 £15.99 $25.95 HB 9781441125200 2011 £50.00 $90.00 Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History, O'Gorman HB 9781441151292 2015 £14.00 $20.00 Inspection copy available Literary Criticism in the 21st Century, Leitch PB 9781472527707 2014 £17.99 $30.95 HB 9781472532527 2014 £55.00 $94.00 Literary Fiction, Farner PB 9781623560249 2014 £19.99 $34.95 HB 9781623564841 2014 £65.00 $120.00 Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed, Klages PB 9780826490735 2006 £15.99 $22.95 HB 9780826490728 2006 £50.00 $90.00 Maurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing, Hill PB 9781441166227 2012 £23.99 $42.95 HB 9781441125279 2012 £75.00 $140.00 Inspection copy available Modern Literary Theory: A Reader, 4th edition, (ed.) 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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 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] 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 www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 49 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 S Thompson, Ann .................................. 34, 38 Y 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 Z 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 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