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Literary Studies New Books Catalogue April-June 2022 B L O O M S B U RY ACADEMIC
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William Shakespeare
£4.99 • PB • 256 pp
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Complete Poems
with valuable insights into the great poets’ works. Most titles
John Keats
Sonnets
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Selected Poetical Works
ISBN: 9781847498212
The Rime of the Ancient
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
£7.99 • PB • 288 pp
ISBN: 9781847497529
ISBN: 9781847497550
£7.99 • PB • 256 pp
William Blake
£8.99 • PB • 288 pp
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
Mariner
The Prelude and Other Poems
ISBN: 9781847497505
William Wordsworth
ISBN: 9781847498038
ISBN: 9781847494412
£7.99 • PB • 320 pp
£7.99 • PB • 320 pp
£8.99 • PB • 160 pp
Selected Poems
Paradise Lost
John Milton
SELECTED POETRY
W.B. Yeats
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
ISBN: 9781847498670
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Contains 3,000 notes and 30 pages extra Contains over 9,000 notes by Joyce scholars
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OVER 100 TITLES IN THE SERIES
Inferno: Dual-Language Ed. The Metamorphosis Sons and Lovers Heart of Darkness and A LL A FFORDA BLY PR ICED
Dante Alighieri Franz Kafka D.H. Lawrence The Complete Congo Diary
ISBN: 9781847493408 ISBN: 9781847493521 ISBN: 9781847497536 Joseph Conrad
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£4.99 • PB • 192 pp w w w. a l m a b o o k s . c o mL I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S - Skills & Methods / Creative Writing / Religion & Literature
Using Digital Humanities in the Craft Consciousness and Artistic
Classroom Practice in Creative Writing
A Practical Introduction for Teachers, Ben Ristow, Hobart and William Smith Colleges,
Lecturers, and Students USA
Claire Battershill, Simon Fraser University, Craft Consciousness and Artistic Practice in
Creative Writing follows Richard Sennett’s notion of
Canada & Shawna Ross, Texas A&M University,
"making is thinking". Reframing craft as a "material
USA
consciousness" rather than formalistic logics and
Roundly praised for its pragmatic and accessible approach, the techniques taught by makers that teach, this book restores the virtue
first edition of Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom became of craft for artist-teachers. With research drawn from 25 interviews
a go-to guide for experienced digital humanists and novices alike. with artists across material and intellectual boundaries including
Retaining the original's clear, pedagogically grounded approach, architecture, painting, dance, music, writing, pottery, textiles, and
this second edition - updated throughout and with a significant woodworking, Ben Ristow puts these practitioners in conversation
amount of new material - provides readers with an up-to-date set of with each other to suggest that craft consciousness is foundational to
recommendations and further critical commentary on current debates developing an artistic identity and practice.
in DH pedagogy, helping a fresh wave of scholars to use digital tools
and resources in the humanities classroom. UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 232 pages
HB 9781350120686 • £85.00 / $115.00
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 272 pages ePub 9781350120709 • £76.50 / $100.32
PB 9781350180895 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350180901 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePdf 9781350120693 • £76.50 / $100.32
ePub 9781350180918 • £17.99 / $23.44 Series: Research in Creative Writing • Bloomsbury Academic
ePdf 9781350180925 • £17.99 / $23.44
Bloomsbury Academic
New Directions in Religion and Literature
Emma Mason, University of Warwick, UK and Mark Knight,
Reclaiming the Disabled Subject University of Toronto, Canada
Representing Disability in Short Fiction
(Volume 1)
Edited by Someshwar Sati, Delhi University, Food Restraint and Fasting in
India, GJV Prasad, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi, India & Ritwick Bhattacharjee Victorian Religion and Literature
The volume intends to reclaim the representations Lesa Scholl, University of Adelaide, Australia
of disability and present narratives that do not Through an interdisciplinary lens of theology,
just use the figure of the disabled as a means to an end. It includes medicine, and literary criticism, this book examines
translation of 17 disability centric short stories from multiple Indian the complicated intersections of food consumption,
languages into English. Further it uses these stories as illustration to political economy, and religious conviction in
test and develop new theoretical formulations concerning disability nineteenth-century Britain.
and the disabled. What grants the work its uniqueness is not only the
Scholarship on fasting is gendered. This book deliberately faces
translations of the erstwhile lost stories of disability but also the use of
this gendering by looking at the way in which four Victorian women
these stories towards the formation of theoretical paradigms to move
writers - Christina Rossetti, Alice Meynell, Elizabeth Gaskell and
forward the project of Disability Studies.
Josephine Butler - each engage with food restraint from ethical, social
UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 320 pages
and theological perspectives.
HB 9789354353352 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9789354353369 • £76.50 / $100.32 UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 168 pages
ePdf 9789354351297 • £76.50 / $100.32 HB 9781350256514 • £85.00 / $115.00
Bloomsbury Academic India ePub 9781350256538 • £76.50 / $100.32
World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent) ePdf 9781350256521 • £76.50 / $100.32
Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Jesus in the Victorian Novel Marilynne Robinson's Worldly
Reimagining Christ Gospel
Jessica Ann Hughes, George Fox University, USA A Philosophical Account of her Christian
This book tells the story of how nineteenth-century Vision
writers turned to the realist novel in order to
Ryan S. Kemp, Wheaton College, USA & Jordan
reimagine Jesus during a century where traditional
M. Rodgers, King's College, Wilkes-Barre, USA
religious faith appeared increasingly untenable.
Re-workings of the canonical Gospels and other An in-depth philosophical exploration of her
projects to demythologize the story of Jesus are frequently treated as work – from Gilead to her extensive non-fiction writing – Marilynne
projects aiming to secularize and even discredit traditional Christian Robinson’s Worldly Gospel reads the author’s theology as articulating
faith. The novels of Charles Kingsley, George Eliot, Eliza Lynn Linton, a compelling response to the claim that Christianity is an otherworldly
and Mary Augusta Ward, however, demonstrate that the work of religion whose adherents seek through it to escape the misfortunes of
bringing the Christian tradition of prophet, priest, and king into this life. Ryan Kemp and Jordan Rodgers argue that Robinson’s work
conversation with a rapidly changing world can at times be a form challenges the modern atheistic tradition dating back to Friedrich
of authentic faith—even a faith that remains rooted in the Bible and Nietzsche to present a unique form of contemporary faith that seeks
historic Christianity, while simultaneously creating a space that allows to affirm the world rather than deny its claims.
traditional understandings of Jesus’ identity to evolve.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 224 pages
HB 9781350106956 • £85.00 / $115.00
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 200 pages
ePub 9781350106970 • £76.50 / $100.32
HB 9781350278158 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePdf 9781350106963 • £76.50 / $100.32
ePub 9781350278172 • £76.50 / $100.32
Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
ePdf 9781350278165 • £76.50 / $100.32
Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com 3L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S - Literary Theory
The Metanarrative Hall of Realism: Aesthetics,
Mirrors Experiments, Politics
Reflex Action in Fiction and Film Edited by Jens Elze, Georg-August-University
Göttingen, Germany
Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa, USA
This volume brings together for the first time
The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors is the first
three aspects that are pertinent for a proper
sustained comparative study of how images are
understanding of realism: its origins as a radical
created in prose and cinema. In film examples
19th-century aesthetic practice of making reality
ranging from Citizen Kane through Apocalypse Now to Blade Runner
into an object of serious art; the challenges to it taken up in
2049, then on to Christopher Nolan’s 2020 Tenet, Garrett Stewart
20th-century literature; and the politics of contemporary realism.
tracks the shift from celluloid to digital cinema through various
Innovative chapters deal with classically realist authors (George Eliot,
narrative approaches to the image, from freeze-frames to computer-
Émile Zola), experimental engagements with realism (J.M. Coetzee,
generated special effects. By bringing these insights into dialogue
Rachel Cusk) and contemporary global novels (Chimamanda Adichie,
with contemporary literature, Stewart discovers a common tendency
David Mitchell). The readings assembled here are a testament to the
in contemporary storytelling, in both prose and visual narrative,
ongoing controversies surrounding definitions and deployments of
from the ongoing trend of “mind-game” films to the often puzzling
the genre.
narrative eccentricities of such different writers as Richard Powers and
Nicholson Baker.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 288 pages
HB 9781501385483 • £90.00 / $120.00
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 208 pages ePub 9781501385490 • £83.60 / $108.00
PB 9781501388781 • £21.99 / $27.95 • HB 9781501388798 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePdf 9781501385506 • £83.60 / $108.00
ePub 9781501388804 • £19.93 / $25.15 Bloomsbury Academic
ePdf 9781501388811 • £19.93 / $25.15
Bloomsbury Academic
ship’s Wake
Authorship's Wake: Writing
Becoming Utopian After the Death of the Author
The Culture and Politics of Radical Philip Sayers, University of Toronto, Canada
Transformation Through the lens of Roland Barthes’s 1960s essay,
Tom Moylan, University of Limerick, Ireland “The Death of the Author,” this book investigates
This book explores the utopian process in its the enduring legacy of the critique of the author as
individual and collective trajectory from dream to an all-controlling figure determining the meaning
realization. Drawing on theorists such as Fredric of literary texts. Authorship’s Wake examines
Jameson, Donna Haraway and Alain Badiou and texts by writers who either directly participated in this critique, or
science fiction writers such as Kim Stanley Robinson and China whose intellectual formation took place in its aftermath. Using work
Miéville, Becoming Utopian develops its argument for sociopolitical by Judith Butler, Zadie Smith, and David Foster Wallace, Sayers
action through studies that range from liberation theology, ecological argues that these writers are participants in an ongoing conversation
activism, and radical pedagogy to the radical movements of 1968. surrounding authorship.
Throughout, Moylan speaks to the urgent need to confront and
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 224 pages • 1 bw illus
transform the global environmental, economic, political and cultural PB 9781501372186 • £28.99 / $39.95
crises of our time. Previously published in HB 9781501367670
ePub 9781501367687 • £83.60 / $108.00
ePdf 9781501367694 • £83.60 / $108.00
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 312 pages
Bloomsbury Academic
PB 9781350190085 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781350133334
ePub 9781350133358 • £76.50 / $100.32
ePdf 9781350133341 • £76.50 / $100.32
Bloomsbury Academic
World English
Nonmodern Practices
Latour and Literary Studies
Edited by Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield,
Disrupted Intersubjectivity University of Colorado, USA & Claire Chi-ah Lyu,
University of Virginia, USA
Paralysis and Invasion in Ian McEwan’s This collection of essays responds to the urgent call
Works in the humanities to go beyond the act of negative
Andrei Ionescu, Princess Nourah bint critique which, so far, has been the dominant
Abdulrahman University, Saudi Arabia form of intellectual inquiry in academia. The contributors take their
inspiration from Bruno Latour's pragmatic, relational approach and his
Disrupted Intersubjectivity investigates two classes
philosophy of hybrid world where culture is immanent to nature and
of phenomena creating failures of understanding
knowledge is tied to the things it co-creates. In such a world, nature,
in social interaction, referred to as ‘paralysis’
society, and discourse relate to, rather than negate, each other.
and ‘invasion.’ Both can be understood as disrupted forms of
These 11 essays, ranging from early modern humanism and modern
intersubjectivity, the former being characterized by a lack/deficiency
theorization of literature to contemporary political ecology and
of ways of relating to others, and the latter by an unnecessary surplus.
animal studies, propose new productive ways of thinking, reading,
By studying the literary accounts of these phenomena in a selection
and writing with, not against, the world. In carrying out concrete
of Ian McEwan’s literary works (“Homemade,” On Chesil Beach,
practices that are inclusive, rather than exclusive, contributors strive
Enduring Love, and Atonement), Andrei Ionescu sheds light on the
to exemplify a form of scholarship that might be better attuned to the
epistemological potential of literature and the structure of human
concerns of our post-humanist era.
relationships in general.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 272 pages
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 224 pages
PB 9781501369278 • £28.99 / $39.95
PB 9781501391149 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781501354281
Previously published in HB 9781501362460
ePub 9781501354298 • £83.60 / $108.00
ePub 9781501362453 • £83.60 / $108.00
ePdf 9781501354304 • £83.60 / $108.00
ePdf 9781501362446 • £83.60 / $108.00
Bloomsbury Academic
Series: Thinking Media • Bloomsbury Academic
4 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • orders@macmillan.co.ukLiteratures as World Literature
L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S - World Literature / Asian Literature
Thomas Oliver Beebee, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Bulgarian Literature as World
Literature
Graphic Novels and Comics as
Edited by Mihaela P. Harper, Bilkent University,
World Literature Turkey & Dimitar Kambourov, Trinity College
Edited by James Hodapp, Northwestern Dublin, Ireland
University, Qatar This book examines key aspects and manifestations
Building upon the little extant scholarship on of 20th- and 21st-century Bulgarian literature vis-à-
graphic narratives from the Global South, this vis the global literary landscape. The first volume
collection moves beyond a Western approach to bring together in English the perspectives of prominent writers,
to this quickly expanding field. By focussing on translators, and scholars of Bulgarian literature and culture, this
graphic novels and comics from the Middle East, Africa, Latin America long-overdue collection identifies correlations between national and
and Asia, these essays expand the study of graphic narratives to world aesthetic ideologies and literary traditions. Mapping histories,
a global scale. Contributors also explore how these graphic texts geographies, economies, and genetics, the volume’s contributors
engage with, fit in with or complicate notions of World Literature, assess the magnitudes and directions of such forces in order to
such as translation, commodification, circulation and Orientalism. The articulate how a distinctly national, “minor” literature transforms into
larger theoretical framework of World Literature is joined with the world literature today.
postcolonial, decolonial, Global South and similar approaches that
argue explicitly or implicitly for the viability of non-Western graphic UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 304 pages
PB 9781501369780 • £34.99 / $47.95
narratives on their own terms. Previously published in HB 9781501348105
ePub 9781501348112 • £83.60 / $108.00
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 272 pages • 64 bw illus ePdf 9781501348129 • £83.60 / $108.00
HB 9781501373411 • £90.00 / $120.00 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
ePub 9781501373428 • £83.60 / $108.00
ePdf 9781501373435 • £83.60 / $108.00
Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Haruki Murakami and the Search
Philosophy as World Literature for Self-Therapy
Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of
Houston-Victoria, USA Stories from the Second Basement
What does it mean for philosophy to be considered Jonathan Dil, Keio University, Japan
as a species of not just literature but world Haruki Murakami has said that he started writing
literature? The essays in this collection offer a novels as a means of self-therapy; this book
complex and authoritative account of philosophy explores Murakami’s fourteen published novels
as world literature by exploring philosophy through as an evolving therapeutic project. It starts by looking into the
the lens of the "worlding" of literature—that is, considering the biographical factors behind this therapeutic project, beginning with
ways in which philosophy is connected and reconnected through Murakami’s estrangement from his father and the death of a former
global literary networks that cross borders, mix stories, and speak girlfriend. Jonathan Dil argues that these two ‘traumas’ in Murakami’s
in translation and dialect. Philosophy as World Literature offers a life are essential for understanding why he writes, before going on
variety of accounts of the ways in which the "worlding" of literature to successfully reason that Murakami’s fiction has transcended these
problematizes the national categorizing of philosophy and brings proximate motivations to deal with the theme of therapy on a much
new meanings and challenges to the traditional topic of intersections broader, cultural level.
between philosophy and literature.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 272 pages
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 304 pages HB 9781350270541 • £85.00 / $115.00
PB 9781501370717 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePub 9781350270565 • £76.50 / $100.32
Previously published in HB 9781501351877 ePdf 9781350270558 • £76.50 / $100.32
ePub 9781501351884 • £90.50 / $117.00 Series: SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan • Bloomsbury Academic
ePdf 9781501351891 • £90.50 / $117.00
Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Voices of Angel Island
Science Fiction in India Inscriptions and Immigrant Poetry, 1910-
1945
Parallel Worlds and Postcolonial
Charles Egan, San Francisco State University,
Paradigms USA
Edited by Shweta Khilnani, University of Delhi & This anthology of the writings of immigrants
Ritwick Bhattacharjee detained at Angel Island serves as a conduit for
This volume examines the different ways by which readers today to connect with the early-20th-
Indian SF narratives construct possible national century perspectives on the process of “becoming American.” The
futures. It explores how the tensions generated by Angel Island barracks contain an extraordinary archive: hundreds of
the seemingly conflicting forces of tradition and modernity within poems and prose records in half a dozen languages on the walls,
the Indian historical landscape are realized through characteristic inscribed by immigrant detainees between 1910 and 1940, and by
tropes of SF storytelling. It looks at the interplay between the spatio- POWs and “enemy aliens” during World War II. Charles Egan draws
temporal coordinates of the nation and the SF narratives produced on over a decade's work deciphering the wall inscriptions to assemble
within to see how one bears upon the other and how processes of a selection of writings in this book, alongside literary materials from
governance find relational structures with such narratives. Bay Area ethnic newspapers.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 320 pages UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 360 pages • 60 bw illus
HB 9789354353383 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781501371295 • £28.99 / $39.95
ePub 9789354353437 • £76.50 / $100.32 Previously published in HB 9781501360459
ePdf 9789354351693 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePub 9781501360466 • £83.60 / $108.00
Bloomsbury Academic India ePdf 9781501360473 • £83.60 / $108.00
World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent) Bloomsbury Academic
www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com 5L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S - British & Irish Literature / North & South American Literature
The Works of Graham Greene, Writing, Authorship and
Volume 3 Photography in British Literary
Additions & Essays Culture, 1880 - 1920
Edited by Mike Hill, Editor, A Sort of Newsletter, Capturing the Image
UK & Jon Wise, independent scholar Emily Ennis, University of Leeds, UK
Over a 60-year career, Graham Greene was a
At the turn of the 20th century, printing and
prolific and widely read writer. Completing a series
photographic technologies evolved rapidly, leading
of volumes which constitutes the only full bibliographical guide to
to rise of mass media and the amateur photographer. Demonstrating
Greene's published and unpublished writings, this book features
how this development happened symbiotically with great changes
updated listings of the scholarship associated with his work, details of
in the shape of British literature, this book explores this co-evolution,
recent audio and visual presentations and adaptations, as well as nine
showing that as both writing and photography became tools of
essays on lesser-known aspects of Greene's work.
mass dissemination, literary writers were forced to re-evaluate their
professional and personal identities. Focusing on Thomas Hardy,
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 224 pages
HB 9781350285736 • £90.00 / $120.00 Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf—each of which had
ePub 9781350285750 • £81.00 / $106.83 their own private and professional connections to photographs—
ePdf 9781350285743 • £81.00 / $106.83 Emily Ennis offers valuable historical contexts for contemporary
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cultural developments and anxieties.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 240 pages • 7 bw illus
HB 9781350196186 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350196209 • £76.50 / $100.32
ePdf 9781350196193 • £76.50 / $100.32
Bloomsbury Academic
Form, Affect and Debt in Post-
Celtic Tiger Irish Fiction The Reception of Joseph Conrad
in Europe
Ireland in Crisis
Edited by Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway,
Eoin Flannery, University of Limerick, Ireland University of London, UK & Veronique Pauly,
Based on readings of the most provocative and University of Versailles, France
original voices in contemporary Irish writing, this
With chapters written by leading international
book explores how these authors have engaged
scholars, this book is a comprehensive survey
with the events of Ireland’s recent economic ‘boom’ and the
of the reception, translation and publication
demise of the Celtic Tiger period, and how they have portrayed the
history of Conrad’s works throughout Europe. Covering reviews,
widespread and variated aftermaths. Drawing upon economic literary
critical discussion and adaptations across media, the book includes
criticism, affect theory, and the philosophy of debt, this book probes
bibliographies of key translations in each of the European countries
issues such as: indebtedness; temporality and narrative form; the
covered and a timeline of Conrad’s reception throughout the
relevance of affect theory to understanding Irish culture and society
continent.
during austerity; ecocriticism and late capitalism; and the relationship
between literary fiction and the mechanics of high finance. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 448 pages
HB 9781474241083 • £150.00 / $200.00
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 256 pages ePub 9781474241090 • £135.00 / $177.19
HB 9781350166745 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9781474241106 • £135.00 / $177.19
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The American Novel After
The Politics of Literary Prestige Ideology, 1961–2000
Prizes and Spanish American Literature Laurie Rodrigues, University of La Verne, USA
Sarah E.L. Bowskill, Queen's University Belfast, Using the intersecting publications of Daniel Bell’s
UK The End of Ideology (1960) and J.D. Salinger’s
Taking into account national and international Franny and Zooey (1961), Laura Rodrigues argues
politics and networks of prestige, this book analyses that American novels distort realism in manners
the relationship between literary prizes, politics and similar to ideology’s distortions of reality, history,
the reception of literature from Spanish America. and belief. This volume reflects the astonishing cultural variety of this
Covering state-sponsored and publisher-run prizes and major awards period, featuring analyses of Carlene Hatcher Polite’s The Flagellants
such as the Biblioteca Breve Prize, the Premio Cervantes and the (1967), Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead (1991), and
Nobel Prize, this book examines how prizes have shaped what we Philip Roth’s The Human Stain (2001), among various discussions
know about Spanish American literature. The author draws on a range around ideology with which they intersect. The American Novel After
of sources – including speeches and interviews by winning authors, Ideology, 1961-2000 discusses how each novel’s plotless narratives,
judges' statements and prize rules and regulations – to reveal the dissoliving subjectivities, and cultural codes suggest an aesthetic
roles prizes have played in Spanish American politics as well as in the return of the repressed.
formation of the Spanish American cultural field.
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6 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • orders@macmillan.co.ukL I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S - German Studies / 20th-Century Literature
Thomas Bernhard's Afterlives International Poetry of the First
Edited by Olaf Berwald, Kennesaw State World War
University, USA, Stephen D. Dowden, Brandeis
University, USA & Gregor Thuswaldner, An Anthology of Lost Voices
Whitworth University, USA Edited by Constance M. Ruzich, Robert Morris
In his prose fiction, memoirs, poetry, and drama, University, USA
Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989)—one of the 20th Ranging beyond the traditional canon, this
century’s most uniquely gifted writers—created anthology casts new light on poetic responses to
a new and radical style, seemingly out of thin air. His furious prose, World War I. Bringing together 140 poems by soldiers and non-
seemingly shapeless but composed with unparalleled musicality, combatants, patriots and dissenters, and from all sides of the conflict,
and taxing by conventional standards, has been powerfully echoed International Poetry of the First World War explores such topics as:
in many writers since Bernhard’s death in 1989. These explorers Life on the Front; Psychological trauma; Noncombatants and the
have found in Bernhard’s singular accomplishment new paths for Home Front; Rationalising war; Remembering the dead; and Peace
the expression of life and truth. Writers in Italian, German, Spanish, and the War's aftermath.
Hungarian, English, and French have succeeded in making Bernhard’s With contextual notes throughout, the book includes poems from:
Austrian vision an international vision. Thomas Bernhard's Afterlives America, Australia, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Canada, France,
tells that story. Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa and Russia.
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The Art of Caregiving in Fiction, Transnational Jean Rhys
Film, and Memoir Lines of Transmission, Lines of Flight
Jeffrey Berman, University of Albany, USA Edited by Juliana Lopoukhine and Frédéric
Regard, University of Paris-Sorbonne, France &
Bringing together the human story of care with Kerry-Jane Wallart, University of Orléans, France
its representation in film, fiction and memoir, this
book combines an analysis of care narratives to This volume investigates the frameworks that can
inform and inspire ideas about this major role in be applied to reading Caribbean author Jean Rhys.
life. Examining texts from a diverse range of authors It argues against the relative isolationism that is
such as Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton and Alice Munro, and filmmakers sometimes associated with her writing by demonstrating both how
such as Ingmar Bergman and Michael Haneke, it explores the she was influenced by a wide range of foreign authors and how
challenges of reading and writing about caregiving while asking why her influence was in turn disseminated in a myriad of directions.
caregiving is dangerous and yet so important. Including an interview with novelist Caryl Phillips, this collection
charts new territories in the influences on/of an author known for her
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 296 pages dislike of literary coteries, but whose literary communality has been
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The Bloomsbury Handbook to
Cold War Literary Cultures The Bloomsbury Handbook to
Edited by Greg Barnhisel
Sylvia Plath
Edited by Anita Helle, Oregon State University,
Adopting a book historical approach to its subject,
this book asks how the Cold War shaped literature
USA, Amanda Golden, New York Institute of
and literary production, and how literature Technology, USA & Maeve O'Brien, Ulster
affected the course of the Cold War. Broad in its University, UK.
geographical range, it looks at works of mainstream With chapters written by more than 25 leading and
British and American literary fiction from writers such as Roth, Updike emerging international scholars this is the most up-
and Bellow, as well as moving beyond the U.K. and U.S. to detail to-date and in-depth reference guide to 21st century scholarship on
how writers and readers from Taiwan, Japan, Uganda, South Africa, the life and work of Sylvia Plath.
India, Cuba, the USSR, and the Czech Republic engaged with and The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath covers the full range of
contributed to Anglo-American literary traditions and texts. contemporary scholarship on Plath’s work, including such topics as:
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· Plath’s poetry, fiction, broadcast work and writing for children
· Plath’s literary contexts, from Ovid and Robert Lowell to Ted
Hughes, Doris Lessing and Stevie Smith
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Creaturely Forms in Queer Traversals
Contemporary Literature Psychoanalytic Queer and Trans Theories
Narrating the War Against Animals Chris Coffman
Dominic O'Key Working at the intersection of psychoanalytic,
queer, and transgender theories, this book argues
Through close readings of works by W. G. Sebald,
for the need to read Lacanian psychoanalysis
J. M. Coetzee and Mahasweta Devi, this book
through a queer and trans-positive framework. In
explores how contemporary authors are rethinking
so doing, challenges the dimensions of fantasy at
the relations between humans and other animals in an age of mass
play in efforts to insist on the continued validity of the binary gender
extinction and mass over-production. In doing so, it shows how
system. Targeting the Lacanian concept of “sexual difference” - that
contemporary literature mediates and contests, but also reimagines,
desire is structured through the difference between masculine and
the relations between humans and other animals.
feminine - it argues that this idea is not transhistorical, as orthodox
Introducing the category of the ‘creaturely’ to denote a shared Lacanians claim, but rather a historically contingent fantasy. As such,
space between the human and the nonhuman, it draws from it argues that psychoanalytic queer theorists need to go beyond this
theoretical work on the human/animal distinction in Posthumanist fantasy to register truly the full range of sexualities and modes of
and Postcolonial Studies to develop an account of how literature embodiment.
thematically and formally dismantles human exceptionalism. It argues
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Neo-Victorianism, Empathy and
Reading
Muren Zhang, East China Normal University,
Rereading Empathy China
Calling upon the writings of Margaret Atwood,
Edited by Emily Johansen, Texas A&M
Julian Barnes, Graeme Macrae Burnet and Sarah
University, USA & Alissa G. Karl, SUNY
Waters this book examines the ethics of the text-
Brockport, USA
reader relationship in neo-Victorian literature,
If we all had more skill with empathy, so the claim focusing upon the role played by empathy in this engagement.
goes, we would all be better citizens. But what Bringing together recent cultural and theoretical research on narrative
does it mean to empathize with others? How do we temporality, empathy and affect, Muren Zhang presents neo-Victorian
develop this skill? And what does it offer that older literature as a genre defined by its experimentation with ‘empathetic
models of solidarity don’t? narrative’.
Rereading Empathy takes up these questions, examining the uses Broken down into themes such as voyeurism, shame, nausea, space
to which calls for empathy are put in the face of ever expanding and place, Zhang argues that such literature pushes the reader to
economic and social precarity. The contributors draw on a variety critically reflect upon their reading expectations, strategies, and their
of historical and contemporary literary and cultural archives to wider ethical responsibilities.
illustrate the work that empathy is supposed to enable—and to query
alternative models of building collective futures. UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 224 pages • 3 bw illus
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Noir in the North
Marilynne Robinson, Theologian
Genre, Politics and Place
of the Ordinary Edited by Stacy Gillis, Newcastle University, UK
Andrew Cunning, Independent Scholar, UK & Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir, University of
This book posits that Robinson’s widely celebrated Iceland, Iceland
novels and essays are best understood as emerging What is often termed 'Nordic Noir' has dominated
from a foundational theology that has ‘the Ordinary’ detective fiction, film and television internationally
as its source. Providing an analysis of Robinson’s for over two decades. But what are the parameters
published output, a synthesis of the unstudied of this genre, both historically and geographically? What is noirish
and unpublished notebooks, letters and drafts from Yale University's and what is northern about Nordic noir? Divided into 4 sections
Robinson archive and an original interview with Robinson, Andrew – Gender and Sexuality, Space and Place, Politics and Crime, and
Cunning constructs an authentically Robinsonian theology that is Genre and Genealogy – the essays in this book deepen our critical
at once distinctly American and conversant with key continental understanding of noir by demonstrating, for example, Nordic noir's
thinkers, including Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud and Levinas. connection to fin-de-siècle literatures and to mid-century interior
Arguing that ‘the Ordinary’ demands an artistic response, this book design by considering the function of landscape and aesthetics, and
reads Robinson’s fiction as her theological response to the surplus of by investigating the function of the state in crime fiction.
meaning in ordinary experience.
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8 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • orders@macmillan.co.ukHistoricizing Modernism
L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S - Modernism
Erik Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway, Matthew Feldman, University of York, UK and David Tucker, The American College of
Greece, Greece
Ezra Pound and his Classical James Joyce and Photography
Sources Georgina Binnie-Wright, Independent Scholar
'The Cantos' and the Primal Matter of James Joyce and Photography is the first book to
explore in-depth James Joyce’s engagement with
Troy the art of photography. Photography is evident
Jonathan Ullyot throughout Joyce’s texts, from his narrator’s furtive
This book looks at how Homer’s Odyssey plays a photographic framing in Silhouettes (c. 1897), to
unique methodological and structural role in The the aggressively-minded snapshots captured by the
Cantos and, more broadly, recalibrates the reader’s sense of Pound’s ‘Tulloch-Turnbull girl with her coldblood kodak’ in Finnegans Wake.
deployment of classical sources in them. Through an exploration of Joyce’s manuscripts and photographic and
newspaper archival material, as well as the full range of Joyce’s major
Pound’s unique understanding of medieval literature and The Cantos
works, this book sheds new light on his relationship with the visual
is, in fact, Pound’s own modernist vision of the Matter of Troy, a term
medium, both in a personal capacity and as a means of professional
used by medieval authors to designate the cycle of texts based on
promotion.
the Trojan war and its aftereffects, including the nostoi (returns) of the
Greek heroes. Specifically, The Cantos presents itself as a modernist UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages
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The Many Drafts of D. H.
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Lawrence
Modernist Authorship and Creative Flux, Genetic Dialogism, and the
Transatlantic Periodical Culture Dilemma of Endings
Elliott Morsia, Independent Scholar, UK
1895–1925
Exploring draft manuscripts, alternative texts and
Amanda Sigler, Baylor University, USA publishers’ typescripts, The Many Drafts of D. H.
This book unearths the forgotten stories behind the Lawrence reveals new insights into the writing practices of one of
texts we think we know well, using new evidence the most important writers of the 20th Century. Focusing on the
to examine the collaborative, consumer-oriented most productive years of Lawrence’s writing life between 1909 and
Modernism that developed out of periodicals. 1926 – a time that saw the writing of major novels such as Women
in Love and the controversial The Plumed Serpent as well as his first
Sigler traces the serialization and advertisement of Henry James’s
major short story collection – this book is the first to apply analytical
The Turn of the Screw in Collier’s (1898), Rudyard Kipling’s Kim in
methods from the field of genetic criticism to the archives of this
McClure’s and Cassell’s (1900-1901), James Joyce’s Ulysses in the
canonical modernist author.
Little Review (1918-1920), and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway in Bond
Street in The Dial (1923). Using previously unpublished material and
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Understanding Adorno,
Samuel Beckett and the Second Understanding Modernism
World War Edited by Robin Truth Goodman, Florida State
Politics, Propaganda and a 'Universe University, USA
Become Provisional' Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism
William Davies, University of Reading, UK traces Adorno’s social and aesthetic ideas as they
appear and reappear in his corpus. As per other
This is the first in-depth historical study to reveal volumes in the series, this book is divided into three
the full extent of the impact of the Second World parts. The first, “Adorno’s Keywords,” is organized by the aesthetic
War on the work of Samuel Beckett. Exploring the full range of terms around which Adorno’s philosophy circulates. The second
Beckett’s writing, from his plays to his fiction and poetry, the book section is devoted to “Adorno and Aesthetics.” While Adorno’s
also draws on a substantial body of archival writing, from the German philosophical viewpoints influenced modernism’s evolution into the
diaries describing his experiences in Nazi Germany, to details of his twenty-first century, the history of modernist aesthetics also shaped
resistance work in occupied France, his attitudes to Irish neutrality his philosophical approaches. The third and final part, “Adorno’s
and his return to France after the liberation. Constellations,” discusses how aesthetic form in Adorno’s thinking
underlies the terms of his social analysis.
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Richard Kerridge, Bath Spa University, UK and Greg Garrard,
The Sacred Life of Modernist University of British Columbia, Canada
Literature
Immanence, Occultism, and the Making
of the Modern World Contemporary Fiction and
Allan Kilner-Johnson Climate Uncertainty
Exploring the relationship between occultism Narrating Unstable Futures
and modernist literary experimentation, this book Marco Caracciolo
sets the work of leading modernist writers alongside lesser known
This book is available as open access through the
female writers and writers in languages other than English to more
Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on
fully portray the aesthetic and philosophical connections between
www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by
modernism and the occult.
the University of Ghent.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus This book argues that storytelling is an important resource in coming
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Bloomsbury Academic with the specter of climate catastrophe, we lose confidence in the
future—a well-documented response in the environmental movement,
for example. Yet stories, and in particular sophisticated fictional
stories, can help us negotiate that uncertainty: they offer affective and
imaginative tools that channel the instability of our climate future and
Environmental Cultures in Soviet invite audiences to accept its fundamental uncertainty.
East Europe In all, this book represents a serious contribution to the environmental
humanities that brings a flexible formal approach to bear on central
Literature, History and Memory
questions of our time.
Anna Barcz, University of Bielsko-Biala, Poland
This is the first in-depth study of the legacy of UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus
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Exploring responses in literature, culture and film to political projects Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic
such as the collectivisation of agricultural land, the expansion of
mining and the Chernobyl explosion, Anna Barcz opens up new
understandings of how local political traditions might be harnessed in
the cause of contemporary environmental activism. The book covers Cognitive Ecopoetics
works by writers such as Christa Wolf, the Nobel Prize winner Svetlana
Alexievich and film-makers such as Béla Tarr, Andrzej Wajda and
A New Theory of Lyric
Wladyslaw Pasikowski. Sharon Lattig, University of Connecticut, USA
New insights from cognitive theory and literary
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages • 11 bw illus ecocriticism have the power to transform our
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Previously published in HB 9781350098350 understanding of the lyric poem. Sharon Lattig
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forms re-enact cognitive processes of the mind and brain. Along the
way the book reads anew the long history of the lyric, from Andrew
Marvell, through canonical poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson to contemporary writers
Weathering Shakespeare such as Susan Howe and Charles Olson.
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our understanding of the popular tradition of
open air Shakespeare, from Victorian times to
the present. Drawing on audience accounts of
outdoor productions of those plays most commonly chosen for open Digital Vision and the Ecological
air performance – including As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s
Dream and The Tempest – the book examines how performers and Aesthetic (1968 - 2018)
audiences alike have reacted to unpredictable natural environments. Lisa FitzGerald, Ludwig-Maximilians University
Weathering Shakespeare goes on to explore the ways in which Munich, Germany
contemporary concerns about the environment have informed new
Digital technology has transformed the way that we
and emerging performance practices.
visualise the natural world. Exploring contemporary
digital art and literature through an ecocritical lens,
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