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Literary Studies New Books Catalogue January-March 2023
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OBJECT LESSONS Object Lessons
Ian Bogost, Washington University in St. Louis, USA & Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New Orleans, USA
Alarm Mushroom
Alice Bennett, Liverpool Hope University, UK Sara Rich, Coastal Carolina University, USA
From the alarm clock and the air-raid siren to the They are the things we step on without noticing
doorbell and the phone alert, the history of alarms and also the largest organisms on Earth. They are
is also the history of work, security, technology, symbols of inexplicable growth and excruciating
and emotion. Alarm responds to culture’s most misery. They are grouped with plants, but they
urgent calls to attention by offering interpretations behave more like animals. In their inscrutability,
of all kinds of alarms, from the alarm clock in mushrooms are wondrous organisms. Rummaging
modernist art to the siren and the sound of the police in old-school through philosophical, literary, medical, (paleo)ecological, and
hip hop. More than just bells and whistles, alarms are objects that anthropological texts only serves to confirm what the average forager
have defined sleeping and waking, safety and danger, and have already knows: that mushrooms are to be regarded with a reverence
fundamentally shaped our understanding of the mind and its capacity deserving of only the most powerful entities: those who create and
for attention. destroy, and who thrive on both processes.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 160 pages UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 160 pages
PB 9781501375576 • £9.99 / $14.95 PB 9781501386589 • £9.99 / $14.95
ePub 9781501375583 • £10.18 / $13.45 ePub 9781501386596 • £10.18 / $13.45
ePdf 9781501375590 • £10.18 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501386602 • £10.18 / $13.45
Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic
Scream Blue Jeans
Michael J. Seidlinger, Freelance Writer, USA Carolyn Purnell, Independent Scholar, USA
The scream is an instinctive and reflexive action that Few clothing items are as ubiquitous or as casual
carries a bold emotional core. The metal vocalist as blue jeans. Yet, their simplicity is deceptive. Blue
cupping the microphone blares out a deafeningly jeans are nothing if not an exercise in opposites.
harsh scream; the drill instructor screams out Levi Strauss made blue jeans in the 1870s to
commands to their soldiers. And then there’s the withstand the hard work of mining, but today,
blood-curdling scream of characters in the latest jeans are the epitome of leisure. In the 1950s, the
horror film as they are chased by a knife-wielding killer. Be it fear, utilitarian clothing of industrial labor became a glamorous statement
anger, sadness, or happiness, the scream is a declaration of being of youthful rebellion, and now, jeans are on the chicest fashion
alive. Investigating popular and alternative cultures, art and science, runways. Blue Jeans considers the versatility of this iconic garment
Michael J. Seidlinger tracks the resonance of the scream across the and investigates what makes denim a universal signifier, ready to fit
complex and varied corners of the globe. any context, meaning, and body.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 160 pages UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 160 pages
PB 9781501386749 • £9.99 / $14.95 PB 9781501383748 • £9.99 / $14.95
ePub 9781501386756 • £10.18 / $13.45 ePub 9781501383755 • £10.18 / $13.45
ePdf 9781501386763 • £10.18 / $13.45 ePdf 9781501383731 • £10.18 / $13.45
Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic
OK
Michelle McSweeney, Converseon.AI, USA
"OK" as a word accepts proposals, describes
the world as satisfactory (but not good), provides
conversational momentum, or even agrees (or
disagrees). OK as an object, however, tells a story
of how technology writes itself into language,
permanently altering communication. OK is a young
word, less than 200 years old. Today it is spoken and written by nearly
everyone in the world. Drawing on linguistics, history, and new media
studies, Michelle McSweeney traces OK from its birth in the Penny
Presses through telephone lines, grammar books, and television
signals into the digital age.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 160 pages
PB 9781501367182 • £9.99 / $14.95
ePub 9781501367199 • £10.18 / $13.45
ePdf 9781501367205 • £10.18 / $13.45
Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic
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V I RG I N I A
WO O L F
COLLECTION
The Perfect Collection
Twelve works by Virginia
Woolf
Each edition contains extra
material on Virginia
Woolf’s life and works
Each edition includes notes
on the text and a select
bibliography
THE COM PL E T E WO R K S BY ALE X AN D E R P U S H K IN
ISBN: 9781847492968 ISBN: 9781847494788
£9.99 • PB • 240 pp £8.99 • PB • 384 pp
Lyrics Vol I Lyrics Vol II Lyrics Vol III Lyrics Vol IV
(1813–17) (1817–24) (1824–30) ((1829-37))
ISBN: 9781847497314 ISBN: 9781847497321 ISBN: 9781847497338 ISBN: 9781847497345
£9.99 • PB • 448 pp £9.99 • PB • 448 pp £9.99 • PB • 448 pp £9.99 • PB • 448 pp
Nov 2022
T H E C O M P L E T E P O E T I C WO R K S B Y
ALEXANDER PUSHKIN
ISBN: 9781847493514 ISBN: 9781847496911
£7.99 • PB • 192 pp £10.99 • PB • 336 pp
Presented in a verse translation opposite the original Russian text
Translated by a board of acclaimed translators
Enriched with notes, pictures and an appendix on Pushkin’s life and work
DUAL-LANGUAGE EDITIONS
www.almabooks.com ISBN: 9781847494177 ISBN: 9781847492159
£7.99 • PB • 424 pp £8.99 • PB • 384 pp
L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – Literary Biography / Creative Writing / North American Literature
Writers and Their Teachers Bending Genre
Edited by Dale Salwak Essays on Creative Nonfiction
By turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this Edited by Margot Singer, Denison University,
book reveals how some of the most influential USA & Nicole Walker, Northern Arizona
and best loved writers of our time were shaped University, USA
by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate
This expanded second edition does not ask where
J. M. Coetzee, Margaret Drabble, Stephen
the boundaries between genres should be drawn,
Greenblatt, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Andrew Motion,
but what happens when you push that line. Written
Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina and Paul Theroux are among the twenty
for writers and students of creative writing, this collection brings
contributors of original essays to this landmark volume celebrating
together perspectives from leading writers of creative nonfiction,
masters of the teaching profession.
including Michael Martone, Brenda Miller, Ander Monson, David
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 288 pages
Shields – and in the new edition, with 25 new essays – Catina Bacote,
HB 9781350272262 • £19.99 / $26.95 Ira Sukrungruang, Ingrid Horrocks, Elena Passarello, and Aviya
ePdf 9781350272286 • £17.99 / $24.72 Kushner. Each essay probes our notions of genre and investigates
Bloomsbury Academic
World English
how creative nonfiction is shaped, modeling the forms of writing
being discussed.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 400 pages
PB 9781501386060 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781501386077 • £90.00 / $120.00
ePub 9781501386084 • £23.29 / $31.45
ePdf 9781501386091 • £23.29 / $31.45
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The Writer's Hustle Letters and Lives of the
A Professional Guide to the Creativity, Tennyson Women
Discipline, Humility, and Grit Every Writer Marion Sherwood, Member of the Tennyson
Needs to Flourish Society Executive Committee & Rosalind Boyce,
Joey Franklin, Brigham Young University, USA Honorary Secretary of the Tennyson Society
Publications Board
The first guide for developing writers on the
professional practices required by creative writing Contradicting perceptions of women as mere
instruction and careers in the field, The Writer's footnotes in Tennyson's career, this book examines
Hustle offers pragmatic advice on navigating your time as a writer the influence of his strong-minded female forebears on the young
when you are not actually writing. Spread across ten chapters poet, revealing that the women in Tennyson’s family circle were
covering every juncture encountered by a writer, this book examines prolific and engaging correspondents. Focusing on the letters and
mastering the workshop; everyday life; earning a mentor; becoming lives of four women – their letters, preserved in archives in Lincoln
a true literary citizen; attending conferences; routes through further and for the most part unpublished, cast a unique light on the
education; and preparing for a full-blown career. Based on his Tennyson family’s interrelationships and the times in which they lived.
experience and anecdotes from over 50 professionals, Franklin
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 256 pages
provides an orientation for every step of your writing journey. HB 9781350168244 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350168268 • £76.50 / $105.78
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 176 pages ePdf 9781350168251 • £76.50 / $105.78
PB 9781350160750 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350160743 • £45.00 / $61.00 Bloomsbury Academic
ePub 9781350160774 • £13.49 / $19.22
ePdf 9781350160767 • £13.49 / $19.22
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Collected Tales, Poems, and Queer Angels in Post-1945
Other Writings of Edgar Allan American Literature and Culture
Poe Bad Beatitudes
Edgar Allan Poe David Deutsch, University of Alabama, USA
Edited by Carl Ostrowski, Middle Tennessee From Allen Ginsberg’s “angel-headed hipsters”
State University, USA to angelic outlaws in Tony Kushner’s Angels in
A collection of more than 50 of Edgar Allan Poe’s America, angelic imagery has been pervasive in
most important works, which established him as one of the most queer American art and culture. This book examines how authors
distinctive voices in American literature, Collected Tales, Poems and in the post-WWII period expanded a unique mixture of sacred and
Other Writings of Edgar Allan Poe brings together in one volume profane angelic imagery to fashion queer characters, primarily gay
stories such as “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Tell-Tale Heart” men, as embodiments of 'bad beatitudes'.
and “The Purloined Letter” as well as his Gothic narrative poem “The This book looks at how American authors across diverse ethnic and
Raven” and some his most significant critical writings. religious backgrounds, including John Rechy, Richard Bruce Nugent,
Alongside authoritative annotated texts of each work, this book also Allen Ginsberg, and Rabih Alameddine, sought to find the sacred in
includes a complete Reader’s Guide to Poe’s work. the profane and the profane in the sacred.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 416 pages UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 224 pages • 1 bw illus
PB 9781350226456 • £39.99 / $54.95 PB 9781350198999 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781350181250 Previously published in HB 9781350198951
ePub 9781350181267 • £117.00 / $162.12 ePub 9781350198975 • £76.50 / $105.78
ePdf 9781350181281 • £117.00 / $162.12 ePdf 9781350198968 • £76.50 / $105.78
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L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – North American Literature & Black Literature
Love Me Fierce In Danger Flat Aesthetics
The Life of James Ellroy Twenty-First-Century American Fiction
Steven Powell, University of Liverpool, UK and the Making of the Contemporary
Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina,
Ellroy uncovers the life-story of one of the most Greensboro, USA
fascinating authors of contemporary American Flat Aesthetics is a literary and critical study of
literature. This biography is the untold story of how post-1990 American fictional prose that discusses in
Ellroy created a literary persona for himself as the depth a cross-generational spectrum of multiracial
Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction, giving him a celebrity status and multiethnic U.S. authors, including Don DeLillo, Chang-rae Lee,
and notoriety that few authors can match. To his admirers Ellroy is a and Colson Whitehead. Moraru argues that “Après-Garde,” a phrase
literary genius who has reinvented crime fiction. To his detractors he traceable to David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, captures an aesthetic
is a reactionary, overrated figure. Love Me Fierce In Danger examines grounded in the concept of presence: what strikes us as present,
the enigma of an author who has striven for critical acclaim and often true, certain, and undeniable in its raw existence. Moraru calls this
courted controversy with equal zealotry. an aesthetic of presence, and proposes that it undergirds a literary
modality that performs, seeks cultural and political change, and
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 352 pages • 20 bw illus
ultimately breaks fresh ground by paradoxically coming après, “after.”
PB 9781501367311 • £14.99 / $19.95
ePub 9781501367328 • £13.10 / $17.95
ePdf 9781501367335 • £13.10 / $17.95 UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 288 pages
Bloomsbury Academic HB 9781501355271 • £95.00 / $130.00
ePub 9781501355288 • £85.90 / $117.00
ePdf 9781501355264 • £85.90 / $117.00
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The Postapocalyptic Black
Female Imagination
The Bloomsbury Handbook to
Maxine Lavon Montgomery, Florida State
University, USA Edith Wharton
Exploring post-apocalypticism in the Black Edited by Emily J. Orlando, Fairfield University,
literary and cultural tradition, this book extends USA
the scholarly conversation on Afro-futurist canon This book is a new collection of critical essays on
formation through an examination of futuristic the American writer Edith Wharton, focusing on her
imaginaries in works of literature and expressive culture by Black life, copious writings, cultural influences, and lasting
women. Covering a wide range of writers – including Octavia Butler, impact. Its essays are wide-ranging, on topics from
Edwidge Danticat, Nalo Hopkinson, Toni Morrison, Jesmyn Ward Wharton’s relationship to theories of race, whiteness, queerness,
and Beyoncé - Maxine Lavon Montgomery shows how Black women age studies, and disability studies, to comparative studies between
artists attempt to recover a raced, gendered heritage in framing an Wharton and such writers as Christina Rossetti, Henry James, and
evolving social order existing as a part of, yet separate and distinct Willa Cather.
from, the past.
It represents an indispensable and exhaustive resource for 21st-
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 192 pages
century scholars and students interested in Edith Wharton in
PB 9781350248557 • £28.99 / $39.95 particular and 19th- and 20th-century literature and culture in general.
Previously published in HB 9781350124509
ePub 9781350124523 • £76.50 / $105.78
UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 344 pages • 10 b/w illus
ePdf 9781350124516 • £76.50 / $105.78
HB 9781350182936 • £130.00 / $175.00
Bloomsbury Academic
ePub 9781350182950 • £117.00 / $162.12
ePdf 9781350182943 • £117.00 / $162.12
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The Bloomsbury Handbook to
Toni Morrison
Edited by Kelly Reames & Linda Wagner-Martin, The Bloomsbury Handbook to
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
USA
Edwidge Danticat
Edited by Jana Evans Braziel, Miami University,
The first major collection of critical essays to appear
Ohio, USA & Nadège T. Clitandre, University of
since Morrison’s death in mid-2019, this book
California, Santa Barbara, USA
contains peviously unpublished essays which both
acknowledge the universal significance of her writing even as they With chapters by leading international scholars, this
map new directions. Essayists include pre-eminent Morrison scholars, is the most up-to-date reference guide to the work
as well as scholars who work in cultural criticism, African American of the Haitian American writer Edwidge Danticat,
letters, American modernism, and women’s writing. covering such topics as:
The book includes work on Morrison as a public intellectual; The full range of Danticat’s writing: from major novels to essays,
work which places Morrison’s writing within today’s currents of memoir and writing for children; Interdisciplinary perspectives:
contemporary fiction; work which draws together Morrison’s “trilogy” literature, politics, feminist and gender studies, race, and ecocriticism;
of Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise alongside Dos Passos’ USA trilogy; Literary sources from Zora Neale Hurston and Audre Lorde to Paule
work which links Morrison to such Black Atlantic artists as Lubaina Marshall and Key contexts: Caribbean histories, experiences of
Himid and others as well as work which offers a reading of “influence” imperialism, migration and diaspora.
that goes both directions between Morrison and Faulkner. In addition, The book also includes a comprehensive bibliography of Danticat’s
a “Teaching Morrison” section is designed to help teachers and critics work and key secondary criticism.
who teach Morrison in undergraduate classes.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 464 pages
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 432 pages • 10 b/w illus PB 9781350210653 • £39.99 / $54.95
HB 9781350239920 • £130.00 / $175.00 Previously published in HB 9781350123526
ePub 9781350239944 • £117.00 / $162.12 ePub 9781350123533 • £117.00 / $162.12
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L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – North American Literature / Poetry / British & Irish Literature
Marilynne Robinson's Worldly The Bloomsbury Handbook of
Gospel Contemporary American Poetry
A Philosophical Account of Her Christian Edited by Craig Svonkin, Metropolitan State
Vision University of Denver, USA & Steven Gould
Axelrod, University of California, Riverside, USA
Ryan S. Kemp, Wheaton College, USA & Jordan
Rodgers, King's College, Wilkes-Barre, USA Including new interviews with major contemporary
poets such as Rae Armantrout, Charles Bernstein
An in-depth philosophical exploration of Marilynne and Claudia Rankine, this comprehensive Handbook
Robinson’s work – from Gilead to her extensive non-fiction writing explores the full range and diversity of poetry and criticism in 21st-
– this book reads Robinson’s theology as articulating a compelling century America.
response to the claim that Christianity is an otherworldly religion
whose adherents seek through it to escape the misfortunes of this UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 528 pages
life. The authors argue that her work challenges the modern atheistic HB 9781350062504 • £150.00 / $175.00
tradition, dating back to Friedrich Nietzsche, to present a unique form ePub 9781350062511 • £135.00 / $186.85
ePdf 9781350062528 • £135.00 / $186.85
of contemporary faith that seeks to affirm the world rather than deny Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic
its claims.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 240 pages
HB 9781350106956 • £85.00 / $115.00
Early Larkin
ePub 9781350106970 • £76.50 / $105.78
ePdf 9781350106963 • £76.50 / $105.78
Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
James Underwood
Beginning in the late 1930s, this is the first book-
length critical study of Larkin’s early work: his
poetry, novels, short fictions, essays, and letters.
One Hundred Years of Surrealist The book tells the story of Philip Larkin’s early
literary development, starting with Larkin’s earliest
Poetry literary efforts and his remarkable correspondence
with Jim Sutton, and ending at the point Larkin’s maturity begins, with
Theory and Practice
the writing of his first great poems.
Willard Bohn, Illinois State University, USA
In providing a comprehensive and systematic study of this part of
Published in time for the worldwide celebrations
Larkin's life, this book also presents a new and surprising narrative of
of the one hundredth anniversary of the
Larkin’s development. Critics have presented Larkin’s early career as a
1924 Manifeste du surréalisme, Willard Bohn
false start which he overcame by swapping Yeats’s influence for Hardy’s.
demonstrates Surrealism was not just a French phenomenon but
one that eventually encompassed much of the world. Concentrating Central to this book’s controversial counter-narrative is an insistence
on the movement’s theory and practice, this extraordinarily broad- on the significance of Brunette Coleman, the female heteronym
ranging book documents the spread of Surrealism throughout the Larkin invented in 1943. Three years before his re-discovery of Hardy,
western hemisphere and examines keys texts, critical responses, and Larkin wrote a strange and unique series of works for schoolgirls
significant writers. under Coleman’s name. Early Larkin proposes that the writer’s
breakthrough was a result of his burgeoning ‘interest in everything
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 288 pages outside himself’ – itself the consequence of his curious experiment
PB 9781501393730 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781501393723 • £65.00 / $90.00 with Brunette Coleman.
ePub 9781501393747 • £18.19 / $24.25
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Bloomsbury Academic UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 232 pages
PB 9781350197213 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781350197121
ePub 9781350197138 • £76.50 / $105.78
ePdf 9781350201187 • £76.50 / $105.78
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Love, Friendship, and Narrative Migration, Modernity and
Form After Bloomsbury Transnationalism in the Work of
The Progress of Intimacy in History Joseph Conrad
Jesse Wolfe, California State University Edited by Kim Salmons, St Mary’s University,
Stanislaus, USA London, UK & Tania Zulli, University of Chieti-
Exploring how the Bloomsbury Group’s key Pescara, Italy
thinkers—Virginia Woolf, Sigmund Freud, and E.
Examining migration and transnationalism within
M. Forster—understood the intimacies of friends, lovers, spouses,
the life and work of Joseph Conrad, this book
and families as historically unfolding phenomena, this book offers
situates the multicultural characters that comprise his fiction while
a compelling account of modernism’s legacies in contemporary
locating Conrad as a subject of the Russian state whose provenance
fiction. Exploring how many of today’s major novelists, such as
is Polish, but whose identity is that of a merchant sailor and English
Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan and Rachel Cusk, look to
country gentleman. Collectively, these essays explore the experience
Bloomsbury’s thematic and formal examples when exploring intimacy,
of the migrant as exile, the inescapable inter-meshing of migration,
this book demonstrates the many ways in which intimacy was a
modernity and transnationalism, as well as Conrad’s own global and
guiding and persistent idea explored by writers across the 20th-
multicultural outlook.
century and up to the present day.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus
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The Intersection of Class and Rethinking Contemporary
Space in British Post-War British Women’s Writing
Writing Realism, Feminism, Materialism
Kitchen Sink Aesthetics Emilie Walezak, Université Lumière Lyon 2,
Simon Lee France
This book addresses the reception of realist texts
Centering on the British kitchen sink realism
by contemporary women writers inherited from
movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s,
theories of social constructionism. Offering close readings of well-
specifically its documentation of the built environment’s influence
known British realist writers such as Pat Barker, A. S. Byatt, and Rose
on class consciousness, this book highlights the settings of a variety
Tremain as well as of emerging millennial writers such as Sarah Hall
of novels, plays, and films, offering new ways of thinking about how
and Zadie Smith, it redresses negative assumptions about realism’s
spatial representation in cultural production sustains or intervenes in
alleged conservatism and normativity and uses the new directions of
the process of social stratification.
material and posthuman feminism to demonstrate the resurgence of
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Brexlit Hyperbolic Realism
British Literature and the European A Wild Reading of Pynchon's and
Project Bolaño's Late Maximalist Fiction
Kristian Shaw, University of Lincoln, UK Samir Sellami, Hamburg Institute for Social
Reading the tensions of the 2016 Brexit referendum Research, Germany
- tensions over English, immigration and devolution What comes after postmodernism in literature?
- back into 21st-century British writing, BrexLit is the Hyperbolic Realism engages the contradiction that
first in-depth study of how writers engaged with the while it remains impossible to present a full picture
issues and fractures that emerged in British culture before and after of the world, assessing reality from a planetary perspective seems
the referendum result. Examining a wide-range of authors, including now more than ever an ethical obligation for contemporary literature.
Ali Smith, Julian Barnes, China Mieville, Sanjeev Sahota, Nicola It examines the hyperbolic forms and features of Thomas Pynchon's
Barker and Zadie Smith as well as popular fiction by Andrew Marr and Against the Day and Roberto Bolaño's 2666 – their discursive
Stanley Johnson, Kristian Shaw explores how a new and urgent genre and material abundance, excessive fictionality, close intertwining
of post-Brexit fiction is beginning to emerge. of fantastic and historical genres, narrative doubt and spiraling
uncertainty – which are deployed not as an escape from, but a plunge
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Bryan Cheyette, University of Reading, UK & Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Northern Irish Writing After the Thomas Pynchon and the Digital
Troubles Humanities
Intimacies, Affects, Pleasures
Computational Approaches to Style
Caroline Magennis, University of Salford, UK
Erik Ketzan
Since the Good Friday Agreement brought an end
Providing an in-depth analysis of Pynchon’s style
to the Troubles, Northern Ireland has undergone
using methodologies from the digital humanities,
a literary renaissance, with a new generation of
including computational analysis, this book reveals
writers exploring innovative new literary forms. In this book, Caroline
new stylistic trends in Pynchon’s oeuvre.
Magennis explores this new generation of writers and how the post-
conflict period has lead them to a new engagement with intimacy It challenges critical assumptions regarding supposedly
and intimate life. The book draws on new insights from Affect Studies “Pynchonesque” stylistic features and presents the most extensive
to analyse the innovative forms that have accompanied this turn and description thus far of Pynchon’s “late style”. Examining a range of
includes interviews with some of the most compelling contemporary texts including Gravity's Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49 and Mason &
Northern Irish writers, including Lucy Caldwell, Jan Carson, Bernie Dixon, this book also contextualises his work alongside the works of
McGill and Tara West. Toni Morrison, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo and Stephen King.
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Anthony Mandal & Jenny Kidd, Cardiff University, UK
Ambient Stories in Practice and
Research
Digital Writing in Place
Investigating Google’s Search Edited by Amy Spencer
Engine From a range of academic and practice-led
Ethics, Algorithms, and the Machines perspectives, this book explores how a combination
Built to Read Us of place-based writing and location-based
technologies are producing new kinds of experimental ambient
Rosie Graham literary experience. In so doing, it unpacks how situated literary
What do search engines do? And what should they experiences delivered through text, audio and sensor-based delivery
do? These questions seem relatively simple but are offer distinctive new forms of reading and listening and lay the
actually urgent social and ethical issues. The influence of Google’s ground for a new poetics of situated writing practices.
search engine is enormous. It does not only shape how Internet users
Exploring an experimental, practice-based approach to digital literary
find pages on the World Wide Web, but how we think as individuals,
forms and its emerging poetics, this book critically examines the
how we collectively remember the past, and how we communicate
ecology of ambient literature from a range of perspectives, including
with one another. This book explores the impact of search engines
researchers and practitioners working in the fields of digital writing,
within contemporary digital culture, focusing on the social, cultural,
sonics, visual art, performance, literary studies, creative writing and
and philosophical influence of Google.
computer science.
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Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities
Stuart Murray, University of Leeds, UK, Corinne Saunders, Durham University, UK, Sowon Park, UC Santa Barbara, USA & Angela
Woods, Durham University, UK
COVID-19 and Shame Relating Suicide
Political Emotions and Public Health in A Personal and Critical Perspective
the UK Anne Whitehead
Fred Cooper, University of Exeter, UK, Luna Writing against the prevailing narrativization of
Dolezal, University of Exeter, UK & Arthur Rose, suicide in terms of why it happened, Whitehead
University of Durham, UK turns instead to the questions of when, how, and
This open access book examines the various ways where, calling attention to suicide’s materiality as
that shame and stigma became an integral part of well as its materialization. By turns provocative and
the United Kingdom’s public health response to COVID-19 during deeply affecting, this book brings suicide into conversation with the
2020, this book argues provocatively that there is an urgent need for critical medical humanities.
public health interventions that are “shame sensitive,” addressing the
experience of shame as a crucial, if often overlooked, consequence UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 128 pages • 5 b/w illus
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Literary Studies and Well-Being
Structures of Experience in the Worldly
Abortion Ecologies in Southern Work of Literature and Healthcare
African Fiction Ronald Schleifer, University of Oklahoma, USA
The literary arts represent and provoke experiences
Transforming Reproductive Agency of understanding and emotion, and this open
Caitlin E. Stobie, University of Leeds, UK access study examines how the practical pursuit
Examining how four writers - Wilma Stockenström of well-being in healthcare reveals purposes at the
(translated by J.M. Coetzee), Zoë Wicomb, Yvonne core of our engagements with and understanding of literature itself.
Vera, and Bessie Head - from Botswana, South In doing so, it examines the intergenerational caretaking of healthcare
Africa, and Zimbabwe address the ethics of abortion and reproductive in a manner which allows us to comprehend the nature and discipline
choice, this book focuses on texts from the late 1970s to the of literary studies in new ways.
1990s which document both changing attitudes to terminations of The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC
pregnancy and dramatic environmental, medical, and socio-political BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access
developments during southern Africa’s liberation struggles. was funded by The University of Oklahoma.
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8 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 – Modernism / Philosophy of Literature
The Poetics of Utopia Modernism, Theory, and
Shadows of Futurity in Yeats and Auden Responsible Reading
Stewart Cole, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, A Critical Conversation
USA Edited by Stephen Ross, University of Victoria, Canada
Focusing on the work of two of the twentieth
Introducing readers to a new theory of 'responsible
century’s most politically engaged poets - W. B.
reading', this book presents a range of perspectives
Yeats and W. H. Auden - this book examines how
on the contemporary relationship between
they directly confront the concept of “utopia”.
modernism and theory. Using an innovative format of essay and
Through an examination of these two great writers' poems, essays,
response, it promotes conversation among disparate views under a
reviews, and other writings, with a focus on many of their best-known
shared commitment to 'responsible reading' practices.
poems, it unpacks how they engage with utopia as a literary genre,
and how their work conceives of poetry as a utopian artform capable Touching on areas as diverse as the recent surge in post-critique and/
of uniquely embodying our social aspirations. or affect studies; longer histories of theory, modernism, and critique;
new ways of understanding the interplay between modernism and
UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus theory, the book draws out links to emerging concerns such as the
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ePdf 9781350293861 • £76.50 / $105.78 essays articulate and model a method of “responsible reading”: a
Bloomsbury Academic practice that reads generously and engages constructively, even
where disagreement is inevitable, articulating a mode of ethical
reading that is fundamental to ongoing debates about strength and
weakness, paranoia and reparation, critique and affect.
Habermas and Literature UK March 2023 • US March 2023 • 256 pages
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Bloomsbury Academic
Geoff Boucher, Deakin University, Australia
Although Habermas has written about the cultural
role of literature and about literary works, he has
not systematically articulated a literary-critical
method as a component of either communicative Understanding Žižek,
reason or post-metaphysical thinking. Habermas and Literature brings
Habermasian concepts and categories into contact with aesthetic and
Understanding Modernism
cultural theories in and around the Frankfurt School, and beyond. Its Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-
central claim is that Habermas’ contribution to literary and cultural Victoria, USA & Zahi Zalloua, Whitman College, USA
criticism is the concept of literary rationality and the notion that Slavoj Žižek is one of today’s leading theorists,
literature performs a key role in the formation of the modern social whose polemical works span topics from German
imaginary. idealism to Lacanian psychoanalysis, from
Shakespeare to Beckett, and from Hitchcock to
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 288 pages Lynch. Critical through and through of both post-modern ideological
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complacencies—e.g., the death of the subject and the return to
ePub 9781501344060 • £79.34 / $108.00 ethics—and pre-modern ones—e.g., the re-enchantment of the
ePdf 9781501344077 • £79.34 / $108.00 world, the embrace of postcritique—Žižek doubles down on the
Bloomsbury Academic
virtues of the modern, on what it means to be modern, and to ask
modern questions (about the subject, nature, and political economy)
Understanding Philosophy, in the age of the Anthropocene.
Understanding Modernism UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 256 pages
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S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA & Laci Mattison, Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic
Florida Gulf Coast University, USA
Understanding Nancy,
Understanding Bakhtin, Understanding Modernism
Understanding Modernism Edited by Cosmin Toma, University of Oxford, UK
Edited by Philippe Birgy, Université de Toulouse Over the past 3 decades, Jean-Luc Nancy has
Jean Jaurès, France become one of the most celebrated contemporary
This edited volume explores the subject of philosophers. His remarkably diverse body of work
modernism as seen through the lens of Bakhtinian is entirely "immersed" in modernity, as he puts it.
criticism, and in doing so offers a rounded and The contributors to this volume fully delve into the
up-to-date example of the application of Bakhtinian heretofore under-acknowledged and under-explored modernism of
theory to a field of research. The contributors consider the global Nancy’s writings on philosophy and the arts through close readings
spread of modernism and the variety of its manifestations as well of his key works and broader essays on the relationship between
as modernism’s relationship to popular culture and its collective his thought and aesthetic modernity. In addition to an interview
elaboration, which are dominant concerns in Bakhtin’s thinking. with Nancy himself, a final section includes an extended glossary of
Nancy’s signature terms.
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Theodor Fontane Cervantes, the Golden Age, and
Irony and Avowal in a Post-Truth Age the Battle for Cultural Identity in
Brian Tucker, Wabash College, USA 20th-Century Spain
Contemporary alarm over unreliability, falsehood, Ana María G. Laguna, Rutgers University-
and indifference to truth has made it easier to Camden, USA
perceive in Fontane’s novels a profound concern
This book recuperates the thriving, humanistic
about language that is not sincere and not meant
vision of the Golden Age celebrated by Spanish
to be taken literally. For Fontane, irony exemplifies
progressive thinkers, writers, and artists in the
a discrepancy between language and meaning, a loosening of the
decades prior to 1939 and the Francoist Regime. The life and literary
ethical bond between words and the things to which they refer.
opus of Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) acquires new significance
Tucker’s analyses reveal a critical distance between his works and the
when exploring the complex understanding of this moment of
prospect of irony as a dominant idiom. Revisiting Fontane’s novels
modernity, given his influence on the poetic and political endeavors
in a post-truth age brings the conflict between irony and avowal into
of Spanish left-wing reformists. By recovering their progressive
sharper relief and makes legible the stakes and contours of our own
dream, buried for almost a century, the author casts doubt on the
post-truth condition.
idea of a persistent conservatism in Golden Age literature.
UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 264 pages
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Literatures as World Literature
Social Ethics and Governance in Thomas Oliver Beebee, Penn State University, USA
Contemporary African Writing
Literature, Philosophy, and the Nigerian
Polish Literature as World Literature
World
Edited by Piotr Florczyk, University of
Nimi Wariboko, Boston University, USA Washington, USA & K. A. Wisniewski, American
The first book to interrogate the ethics of Antiquarian Society, USA
governance and development in postcolonial These 15 chapters by leading scholars from the
Africa through rigorous philosophical, literary and artistic discourse, United States, the Netherlands, Canada, Italy, and
this study takes literature seriously as a context for philosophical Poland offer a panoramic view of Polish authors and
reflection. Anchored in political and social ethics and close readings their contributions to world literature. The volume
of literary and artistic works – such as A. Igoni Barrett’s Blackass and shows how authors, from Jan Kochanowski in the 16th century to
the comedy skits of MC Edo Pikin – this is a landmark contribution to 2018 Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, have engaged with their foreign
Nigerian cultural studies. Wariboko’s practical engagement between counterparts and the global literary network. It also sheds light on the
literature and philosophy also opens up new ways of seeing literary idea of Polishness and global phenomena, like social and economic
analysis as ethical methodology, beyond the specific contexts of advancement and ecological degradation. The picture of Polish
Nigeria or Africa. literature that emerges is that of a cosmopolitan cohort engaged in a
mutually rewarding relationship with the world republic of letters.
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Taiwanese Literature as World Persian Literature as World
Literature Literature
Edited by Mostafa Abedinifard, University of
Edited by Pei-yin Lin, University of Hong Kong,
British Columbia, Canada, Omid Azadibougar,
Hong Kong & Wen-chi Li, University of Zurich,
Hunan Normal University, China & Amirhossein
Switzerland
Vafa, Shiraz University, Iran
Owing to Taiwan’s multi-ethnic nature and colonial
Confronting nationalistic and nativist interpretations
past, Taiwanese literature is naturally multilingual. It
in Persianate literary scholarship, this volume
can be analyzed in the frameworks of Japanophone
makes a case for reading these literatures as world literature—as
and Chinese literature, but only by viewing Taiwanese literature as
transnational texts that expand beyond local and national penchants.
world literature can we redress limitations of national identity and fully
Working through an idea of world literature that is both cosmopolitan
examine writers’ transculturation practice and their globally minded
and critical of any monologic view on globalization, contributors
vision. Bringing together scholars from Europe, North America,
revisit the early and contemporary circulation of Persianate literatures
and East Asia, the volume stimulates new ways of conceptualizing
across neighboring and distant cultures, and seek to engage in
Taiwanese literature, demonstrating cases of Taiwanese authors’
constructive dialogues with the global forces surrounding, and
co-option of world trends in their Taiwan-concerned writing, and
shaping, Persianate societies and cultures.
exploring its readership and circulation.
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10 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 – Comparative Literature
The Great Dismissal Media Ecologies of Literature
Memoir of the Cultural Demolition Derby, Edited by Susanne Bayerlipp, Goethe-Universität
2015-22 Frankfurt, Germany, Ralf Haekel, Universität
Leipzig, Germany & Johannes Schlegel, Julius-
Henry Sussman, Rutgers University, USA Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
Longtime scholar and critic Henry Sussman deploys This book explores the media ecologies of
anecdote, reportage, memoir, and a pilgrimage literature – how a literary text is interwoven in its
to major intellectual stops in his trajectory of material, technical, performative, praxeological,
marshaling the disbelief and dismay prompted by affective, and discursive network - determining how it is experienced
the rise of anti-intellectualism in recent decades and reflected most and interpreted. Drawing on developments in advanced media
disturbingly in Donald Trump’s ascension to the US presidency. In theory, these essays emphasize the productivity of innovative re-
retracing his own intellectual and experiential steps, Sussman revisits conceptualizations of literature as its own medium. In an intentionally
his personal list of inspirations, including Walter Benjamin, Jacques wide historical scope, the essays engage with literary texts from
Derrida, Douglas R. Hofstadter, and J. Hillis Miller. The result is an the late Victorian to the contemporary, from Virginia Woolf to A. L.
intellectual meditation on ‘the great dismissal,’ in public and political Kennedy and Mark Z. Danielewski, from the print novel to audiobooks
life, of venerable and vital humanistic traditions, ethics, and ways of and reading apps.
thinking.
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Love and the Politics of Intimacy Antonin Artaud and the Healing
Bodies, Boundaries, Liberation Practices of Language
Edited by Stanislava Dikova, University of Essex, How Life Matters in Artaud’s Later
UK, Wendy McMahon, University of East Anglia, Writings
UK & Jordan Savage, University of Essex, UK
Joeri Visser, Helinium School, Rotterdam,
Reflecting on experiences of intimate, romantic and Netherlands
sexual love, and the role of individual identity within
such relationships, these essays look back from The life of Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) was
the present to explore historical trajectories that have culminated tormented by physical and mental illnesses. In his earlier writings,
in particular experiences of intimate love. Incorporating academic Artaud tried to express his physical and mental suffering, but
writing and original creative work from established and emerging perceived, in describing his feelings, the obstructive and illness-
scholars around the globe, these essays approach love through fields inducing role of language. In the first English-language book on
across the humanities and social sciences – including literary studies, Artaud’s “healing language,” Joeri Visser guides us through the years
sociology, psychology, philosophy and gender studies – providing a in which Artaud suffered more and more from mental instability and
renewed investigation of a history of ideas that often encloses itself considered the act of writing his only means of survival. In doing so,
with the confines of Western philosophy. Visser unfolds a literary and a philosophical analysis on language and
life, joy and anguish.
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Dispersion Illegibility
Thoreau and Vegetal Thought Blanchot and Hegel
Edited by Branka Arsic, Columbia University, William S. Allen, University of Southampton, UK
USA The philosophical significance of Maurice Blanchot’s
Plants are silent, still, or move slowly; we do not writings has rarely been in doubt. Specifying
have the sense that they accompany us, or even the nature and implications of his thinking has
perceive us. But is there something that plants are proved more difficult, particularly in reference to
telling us? Is there something about how they live the key figure of G. W. F. Hegel. William S. Allen
and connect, how they relate to the world and other plants that can demonstrates aspects of Hegelian thought that permeate Blanchot’s
teach us about ecological thinking, about ethics and politics? writings and, in turn, develops a detailed 3-way analysis of Derrida,
Hegel, and Blanchot and the relationships between thought and
Grounded in Thoreau’s ecology and in contemporary plant studies,
language concerning finitude and infinitude. Illegibility introduces a
Thoreau and Vegetal Thought offers answers to those questions by
new, substantially philosophical account of Blanchot’s importance,
pondering such concepts as co-dependence, the continuity of life
situating Derrida within a history of discussions of Hegel and enabling
forms, relationality, cohabitation, porousness, fragility, the openness
a more critical response to Hegel’s works.
of beings to incessant modification by other beings and phenomena,
patience, waiting, slowness and receptivity.
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