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Literary Studies
Edited by Dale Salwak By turns reflective, entertaining and moving, this book reveals how some of the most influential and best loved writers of our time were shaped by their inspirational teachers. Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee, Margaret Drabble, Stephen Greenblatt, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Andrew Motion, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina and Paul Theroux are among the twenty contributors of original essays to this landmark volume celebrating masters of the teaching profession.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 264 pages HB 9781350272262 • £20.00 / $26.95 ePdf 9781350272286 • £18.00 / $26.09 Bloomsbury Academic World English
Writing the Radical Memoir
A Theoretical and Craft-based Approach
Paul Williams, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia & Shelley Davidow, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia For those who have mastered the basics and wish to probe memoir writing further, this book introduces key ideas at play in memoir, providing a deeper understanding of the genre that unlock new ideas and possibilities to apply to one's own work. Innovative and accessible, each chapter maps out the key principles of writers like Barthes, Lacan, Derrida, Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Philippe Le Jeune and Joseph Campbell and invokes literary examples to show how other writers have mastered the idea before reflecting on how they can be practically applied to the theory of writing. Includes original exercises and further reading.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 192 pages PB 9781350272217 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781350272200 • £55.00 / $75.00 ePub 9781350272231 • £16.19 / $23.34 ePdf 9781350272224 • £16.19 / $23.34 Bloomsbury Academic
The Art of Revising Poetry
21 US Poets on their Drafts, Craft, and Process
Edited by Charles Finn, High Desert Journal & Kim Stafford, Lewis and Clark Graduate School, USA With creative writing instruction focused upon starting, this book delves into the revision process, examining the first, in-between and final drafts of poems by 21 eminent US poets. Illuminating their creative process and decision making, each poem is accompanied by an essay from the poet that sheds light on the intimate process of writing, drafting and revising that particular poem. Offering their perspectives on why the poems changed, the choices they made about themes, meter, rhyme, language, their missteps and false starts, this book presents a range of different modes of practice and critical reflection that can be emulated.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 192 pages PB 9781350289260 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350289253 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350289284 • £19.79 / $27.47 ePdf 9781350289277 • £19.79 / $27.47 Bloomsbury Academic
A to Z of Creative Writing Methods
Edited by Deborah Wardle, Julienne van Loon, RMIT University, Australia, Stayci Taylor, RMIT University, Australia, Francesca Rendle-Short, RMIT UNiversity, Australia, Peta Murray, RMIT University, Australia & David Carlin, RMIT University, Australia This glossary collates and summarizes over 50 new research methods within the discipline of creative writing, enabling readers to understand the different methodologies available before inviting them to implement them in their own practices. It also offers a selection and treatment of topics and subject matter, authorship and references, that emphasize and celebrate diversity and intersectionality, as well as the exploring the present-day concerns, preoccupations, limits, and possibilities of different approaches.
UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 216 pages PB 9781350184213 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350184206 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350184237 • £22.49 / $31.59 ePdf 9781350184220 • £22.49 / $31.59 Series: Research in Creative Writing • Bloomsbury Academic
Digital Voices
Podcasting in the Creative Writing Classroom
Saul Lemerond, Hanover College, USA & Leigh Camacho Rourks, Beacon College, USA Exploring the benefits of podcasting as both a pedagogical resource and as an important medium of expression for young writers, Digital Voices illuminates how podcasts can help every student forge personal connections to the content of their creative work and their instruction. The book examines how podcasts can aid new metacognitive and introspective learning strategies; enhance inclusive access for an intersectional classroom; the technical aspects of creating narrative fiction, poetry and nonfiction podcasts; and the ways of using author podcasts to demystify the writerly mystique. All chapters feature a section on practical application in the classroom and suggested student assignments.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 192 pages PB 9781350253360 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350253322 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350253346 • £17.99 / $24.72 ePdf 9781350253339 • £17.99 / $24.72 Series: Research in Creative Writing • Bloomsbury Academic
Teaching Cultural Dexterity in Creative Writing
Micah McCrary, Syracuse University, USA Blending resources from creative writing studies, sociolinguistics, and composition studies, this series of essays offers a formula for important changes within creative writing instruction, probing how it might be more inclusive for marginalized students. Aimed at graduate student instructors and other practitioners, this book uses anticolonial, feminist, and antiracist methodologies to explore professional, institutional, and theoretical concerns surrounding creative writing practices in American higher education. Exploring the ways creative writing pedagogy and theory can be adapted for BIPOC and non-native English student-authors, this essential text provides all the tools necessary to take positive action including readings and sample course materials.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 208 pages HB 9781350237131 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350237155 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350237148 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Research in Creative Writing • Bloomsbury Academic
The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
Jeff Jarvis, City University of New York, USA To help us understand our transition out of the Gutenberg age, Jeff Jarvis presents a history of print and its technologies – of its spread, of print inventions such as the modern novel, the essay, the newspaper, and of attempts to control speech through censorship and copyright. He draws upon the work of scores of scholars in book history, technology, sociology, religion, literature, law, media, and design to examine print’s age on a grand scale and to challenge readers to learn its lessons as we design the internet and society of our future.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 288 pages HB 9781501394829 • £20.00 / $27.00 ePub 9781501394843 • £18.19 / $24.30 ePdf 9781501394850 • £18.19 / $24.30 Bloomsbury Academic
Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition
Alan G. Smith, Independent Scholar, UK, Robert Edgar, York St John University, UK & John Marland, York St. John University, UK This book takes Thomas Hardy's uncanny and unsettling fiction as foundational in a lineage of folk horror. Hardy’s work delves into a world of folklore and plays out tensions between the rational and irrational, the pagan and the Christian, the past and the future, the basis for this exploration of the themes that develop in the latter half of the 20th century into the first wave of folk horror. The world Hardy evoked in Wessex is being recreated by contemporary writers as a result of shared socio-political and philosophical concerns. This study analyses the establishment of a ‘Hardyan Folk Horror’ as a manifestation of perpetual philosophical conflict.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 192 pages HB 9781501383991 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781501384004 • £66.24 / $90.00 ePdf 9781501384011 • £66.24 / $90.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Jeanette Winterson’s Narratives of Desire
Rethinking Fetishism
Shareena Z. Hamzah-Osbourne, University of Swansea, UK Putting forward a new theory of fetishism - alternative fetishism - this book provides an up-todate examination of the work of Jeanette Winterson, offering fresh perspectives and new insights on the topics of gender, sexuality, and identity in her writing. Containing a Q&A with Winterson and covering the majority of her oeuvre, the book combines contemporary theories in psychoanalytical and cultural studies to propose a theoretical framework that can be applied to other authors and disciplines in the Arts and Humanities. In so doing, it offers new ways of thinking about topics such as fetishism, feminism, psychoanalytical theory, and postmodernism.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 224 pages PB 9781350229006 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350178038 ePub 9781350178052 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350178045 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing • Bloomsbury Academic
George Orwell's Perverse Humanity
Socialism and Free Speech
Glenn Burgess, University of Hull, UK The first book to focus primarily on George Orwell’s ideas about free speech – freedom of the press, the writer’s freedom of expression, honesty and truthfulness – and, in particular, the ways in which they are linked to his political vision of socialism. This is a portrait of Orwell that provides a new understanding of Orwell as a political thinker and activist. Based on archival research and new materials that affirm his work as an activist for freedom, it also uncovers a socialist ideology that has been obscured in just the way that Orwell feared it would be.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 272 pages PB 9781501394652 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501394669 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501394676 • £19.65 / $26.95 ePdf 9781501394683 • £19.65 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic
The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida
The Last Sentence of the Law
Jeremy Tambling, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong Adopting a comparative approach, this book examines how Dickens (as a voice of literature) and Derrida (as a philosopher) have approached the question of the death penalty. It makes a case for Dickens as an abolitionist, reading the five open letters and applying them to the novels, particularly Barnaby Rudge and A Tale of Two Cities as well as discussing Derrida's abolitionist arguments.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 224 pages HB 9781350354555 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9781350354586 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Commodities and Consumption 18501914
Jane Suzanne Carroll, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
The first book-length study to situate children’s literature within the consumer culture of this period, this text explores the intersection of children’s books, their consumerism and the representation of commodities within British children’s literature. Beginning with the Great Exhibition of 1851 and drawing on texts such as Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There and Five Children & It, and historical documents, shop catalogues, lost property records, and advertisements, Carroll provides fresh critical insight into children’s relationships with material culture and reveals that even the most fantastic texts had roots in the ordinary, everyday things.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 208 pages • 18 bw illus PB 9781350201828 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350201781 ePub 9781350201804 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350201798 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
From Ancient Times to the Twenty-First Century
Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, USA A survey, within one volume, of the history of critical responses to LGBTQ literature from the beginning to the present day, this book explores changes in attitudes, literature and criticism over a period of two and a half thousand years. It offers a roadmap to much of the excellent scholarship concerning LGBTQ literature that has arisen in the last half-century – an era that has moved the topic from the distant sidelines of literary study to a place ever closer to the center of things.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 240 pages HB 9781350371828 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350371842 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350371835 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Ireland, the Irish, and the Rise of Biofiction
Michael Lackey, University of Minnesota, USA Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, and it has become a dominant literary form over the last 35 years. Not yet scholarly acknowledged is that the Irish played a crucial role in its evolution. Michael Lackey first examines Oscar Wilde and George Moore's groundbreaking biofictions of the late-19th and early-20th centuries and then contemporary authors of biofiction (Sabina Murray, Mario Vargas Llosa, Graham Shelby, and Anne Enright) who use the lives of prominent Irish figures (Roger Casement and Eliza Lynch) to explore the challenges of securing agency within a colonial and patriarchal context.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 288 pages PB 9781501378515 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501378478 ePub 9781501378485 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501378492 • £79.34 / $108.00 Series: Biofiction Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
Reading Baudelaire with Adorno
Dissonance, Subjectivity, Transcendence
Joseph Acquisto, University of Vermont, USA This book reads Charles Baudelaire’s oeuvre – including verse poems, prose poems, and critical writings – in dialogue with the esthetic theory of Theodor Adorno, for whom the autonomy of the artwork critically resists any attempt to view it merely as a product of its socio-historic context. It argues that the figure of the subject as a “dissonant chord” provides a gateway to Baudelaire’s reconfiguration of subjectivity and objectivity in both esthetic and epistemological terms. Dissonant subjectivity in Baudelaire points to a different way forward that depends on a new and dialectical relation of subject and object.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 208 pages HB 9798765103005 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9798765103029 • £72.79 / $99.00 ePdf 9798765103036 • £72.79 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Imagining the Celtic Past in Modern Fantasy
Edited by Dimitra Fimi, University of Glasgow, UK & Alistair J. P. Sims, Independent scholar Focusing on representations of Celtic motifs and traditions in post-1980s adult fantasy literature, this book brings together explorations of popular and lesser-known works of fantasy literature such as works by Susanna Clarke, Alan Garner, Jodi McIsaac, David Gemmel, Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, Kate Moss and Neil Gaiman as well as Gaelic and French-language wrters Iain F. MacLeòid and Léa Silhol. Lively and covering new ground, the collection examines topics including fairy magic, place and person, family and heroes, classical ethnography and genre tropes alongside analyses of the Celtic tarot in speculative fiction and Celtic appropriation in fan culture.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 232 pages • 1 bw illus HB 9781350349995 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350350014 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350350007 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Perspectives on Fantasy • Bloomsbury Academic
France/Kafka
An Author in Theory
John T. Hamilton, Harvard University, USA While his memory languished under Nazi censorship, Franz Kafka covertly circulated through occupied France and soon emerged as a cultural icon, read by the most influential intellectuals of the time as a prophet of the rampant bureaucracy, totalitarian oppression, and absurdity that branded the twentieth century. In tracing the history of Kafka’s reception in postwar France, John T. Hamilton explores how the work of a German-Jewish writer from Prague became a modern classic capable of addressing universal themes of the human condition.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 176 pages PB 9798765100370 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9798765100363 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9798765100387 • £18.19 / $24.25 ePdf 9798765100394 • £18.19 / $24.25 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
Re-storying Mediterranean Worlds
New Narratives from Italian Cultures to Global Citizenship
Edited by Angela Biancofiore, Paul-Valéry University of Montpellier, France & Clément Barniaudy, University of Montpellier, France This book invites readers to think of Mediterranean cultures as interconnected worlds that disappear, are reborn and perpetually transform. This perspective builds bridges between the Northern and Southern coasts to broaden and deepen our understanding of the region, at the cultural, literary, artistic and geopolitical levels. Authors highlight an intercultural conscience, traversing the Mediterranean – including Italian, French and Tunisian cultures, and migrations from, to and within the region – and express the need to shift the ways we think about migration.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 232 pages PB 9781501378973 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501378935 ePub 9781501378942 • £72.79 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501378959 • £72.79 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
A Cognitive Reading
Margaret H. Freeman Critical interpretations of Emily Dickinson's poems tend to focus on what they mean rather than on what kind of experience they create. A cognitive approach to literary criticism, based on recent cognitive research, helps readers experience and understand the hows and whys of what a poem is saying and doing. By experiencing Dickinson’s poetry from a cognitive perspective, readers are able to better understand why we feel so close to the poet and why her poetry endures. Emily Dickinson's Poetic Art is an important contribution to the study of a major American poet as well as to the growing field of cognitive literary studies.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 256 pages PB 9781501398186 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781501398193 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501398209 • £23.29 / $31.45 ePdf 9781501398216 • £23.29 / $31.45 Series: Cognition, Poetics, and the Arts • Bloomsbury Academic
Science and Literature in Cormac McCarthy’s Expanding Worlds
Bryan Giemza This timely and innovative volume places Cormac McCarthy’s work within contemporary scientific discourse and literary criticism, including a biographical examination of the writer's love of science and the path that led him to the Santa Fe Institute. The book probes the STEM subjects – with chapters focused on science and math, technology, and engineering – in McCarthy’s fictional universe and biography. Finally, it considers the art in the science by exploring McCarthy’s interest in creating a unified aesthetic theory alongside his essays on the origins of science and language and his most recent literary project, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 176 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781501383779 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781501383786 • £66.24 / $90.00 ePdf 9781501383793 • £66.24 / $90.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Time-Saving Appliances and Domesticity in American Literature, 1945–2020
Rachele Dini, University of Roehampton, UK The literary depiction of appliances is examined across a range of literary genres and forms published between the early 1910s, as Fordism and Taylorism entered the home, and the 2010s, as contemporary writers consider the enduring material and spiritual effects of these objects into the 21st century. She demonstrates the extent to which American writers have enlisted appliances to raise questions about gender norms and sexuality, racial exclusion and erasure, class anxieties, mechanisation, conformity, patriotism, and the inevitable fallacy of utopian thinking—while both shaping and radically disrupting the literary forms in which they operated.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 376 pages • 35 bw illus PB 9781501383939 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501367359 ePub 9781501367366 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501367373 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Lost in the New West
Reading Williams, McCarthy, Proulx and McGuane
Mark Asquith, Independent Scholar, UK Lost in the New West investigates a group of writers who have sought to explore the tensions inherent to the Western, where distinctions between old and new, myth and reality, authenticity and sentimentality are often blurred. Mark Asquith draws attention to the idealistic young men at the center of such works as John Williams's Butcher's Crossing (1960), Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (1985), Annie Proulx's Wyoming stories and Thomas McGuane's Deadrock novels. For each writer, these characters struggle to come to terms with the difference between the suspect mythology of the American West that shapes their identity and the reality that surrounds them.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 256 pages PB 9781501372230 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501349522 ePub 9781501349539 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501349546 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Latin American Documentary Narratives
The Intersections of Storytelling and Journalism in Contemporary Literature
Liliana Chávez Díaz, Freie Universtät Berlin, Germany
Winner of the Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book Award – English, from the 2022
International Latino Book Awards, this book unpacks the precarious testimonial relationship between author and subject. It covers a variety of nonfiction genres from the 1950s to the 2000s that address topics including social protests, dictatorships, natural disasters, crime and migration in Latin America. This book analyzes – and includes an appendix of interviews with – authors who have not previously been critically read together, from Gabriel García Márquez and Elena Poniatowska to Leila Guerriero and Juan Villoro.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 312 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781501376061 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501366017 ePub 9781501366024 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501366031 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Time Regained
World Literature and Cinema
Delia Ungureanu, Harvard University, USA Over the past 30 years, the fields of world literature and world cinema have developed on parallel but largely separate tracks, with little recognition of their underlying similarities and the ways that each can learn from the other. Time Regained does not move from literature to cinema but exists simultaneously in both fields. The 7 filmmakers selected here are themselves also writers or people with literary training, and therefore produce a new type of world cinema. Their films produce new readings of literary texts that world literature studies wouldn’t have been able to achieve with its own instruments.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 312 pages • 8 page color plate section39 b&w images PB 9798765103494 • £24.99 / $34.95 Previously published in HB 9781501355790 ePub 9781501355806 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501355813 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Pacific Literatures as World Literature
Edited by Hsinya Huang, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan & Chia-hua Yvonne Lin, University of Hawai‘I at Manoa, USA This volume is a conjuration of trans-Pacific poets and writers whose work enacts forces of “becoming oceanic” and suggests a different mode of understanding, viewing, and belonging to the world. With ground-breaking writings from authors based in North America, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Hawaii, and Guam and new modes of research – multispecies ethnography and practice, ecopoetics, and indigenous cosmopolitics – authors explore the sociopolitical significance of the Pacific. This volume aims to decenter continental/land poetics as such via long-standing transnational Pacific ties, re-worlding Pacific literature as world literature.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781501389320 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501389337 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501389344 • £79.34 / $108.00 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Beyond English
World Literature and India
Bhavya Tiwari, University of Houston, USA This book maps modern Indian literature, emphasizing its position as a spatial and temporal translation that raises questions of politics, language, gender, aesthetics and myths in local and world literatures. Beyond English: World Literature and India investigates five main areas to demonstrate these processes: Rabindranath Tagore’s work and his Nobel Prize; the production and translation of the lyric poetry of Mahadevi Varma; the reception and linguistic play of the modern Indian novel in the global Anglophone world; the translation of a gendered subaltern in Mahasweta Devi’s work; and the theme of frustrated love in cinema and literature in narratives such as “Lihaaf,” Chemmeen and The God of Small Things.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 208 pages PB 9781501386879 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501334641 ePub 9781501334658 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501334665 • £79.34 / $108.00 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Mexican Literature as World Literature
Edited by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA This is a landmark collection that studies the major interventions of Mexican literature of all genres in world literary circuits from the 16th century forward. It features a wide range of essays in dialogue with theorists and critics of the concept of world literature. Authors show how the arrival of Spanish conquerors and priests, the work of enlightenment naturalists, the rise of Mexican academies, the culture of the Mexican Revolution and Mexican neoliberalism have played major roles in the formation of world literary structures.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 280 pages • 2 bw illus PB 9781501374821 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501374784 ePub 9781501374807 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501374791 • £79.34 / $108.00 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Claiming Space
Locations and Orientations in World Literatures
Edited by Bo G. Ekelund, Adnan Mahmutovic & Helena Wulff, Stockholm University, Sweden This open access book explores literary works and practices in the dynamic relation between locations and orientations. Case studies demonstrate that 4 key concepts (cosmopolitan, vernacular, location, orientation) can frame analyses of different types of contemporary literary texts, allowing for distinctions not captured by other conceptual pairs like centre-periphery, local-global and North-South. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 288 pages PB 9781501374142 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501374104 ePub 9781501374111 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePdf 9781501374128 • £0.00 / $0.00 Series: Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures • Bloomsbury Academic
Literature and the Making of the World
Cosmopolitan Texts, Vernacular Practices
Edited by Stefan Helgesson & Helena Bodin, Stockholm University, Sweden & Annika Mörte Alling, Østfold University College, Norway This open access book positions itself at the intersection of world literature studies, literary anthropology and philosophical critiques of 'world' and 'globe' concepts, investigating how literature imagines and shapes worlds for its readers through linguistically specific cosmopolitan-vernacular dynamics. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 352 pages • 6 bw illus PB 9781501374197 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501374159 ePub 9781501374166 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePdf 9781501374173 • £0.00 / $0.00 Series: Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Dynamics in World Literatures • Bloomsbury Academic
Beyond Safety
Risk, Cosmopolitanism, and Neoliberal Contemporary Life
Emily Johansen, Texas A&M University, USA Emily Johansen investigates depictions of global danger and safety in contemporary transnational fictional and popular texts—those characterized by a narrative or representational emphasis on border crossing and global interdependences. She demonstrates how these texts use risk to question and re-imagine the norms and practices of contemporary global citizenship. Beyond Safety thus brings together three of the central keywords of contemporary literary criticism of the last ten years (cosmopolitanism, precarity, neoliberalism) and shows how their intersection allows for a fuller conception of contemporary life and imagines a new global future.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 192 pages PB 9781501377051 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501377013 ePub 9781501377020 • £72.79 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501377037 • £72.79 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Tapan Basu, University of Delhi, India This volume focuses upon the growth of a Hindi Dalit literary culture at its formative stage in the 1920s and the 1930s, and the significant role played by Swami Acchutanand and Chandrikaprasad Jigyasu. It introduces the Dalit public sphere in the United Provinces in the early decades of the 20th century. The book rescues Swami Acchutanand and Chandrikaprasad Jigyasu from undeserved obscurity and accords to them the importance that they merit in any chronicle of the Dalit cultural movement in North India.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 256 pages HB 9789388630412 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9789388630429 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9789389867077 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic India World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)
India and the Traveller
Aspects of Travelling Identity
Rita Banerjee, CSSSC, Kolkata This is an edited collection of essays on travel writings related to India, which focus on the evolving traveling persona. It engages with important issues related to travelling identity, like the need for cultural accommodation by African and European travelers to India, the discovery of affinity of self by Asian travelers rather than opposition, the instability of postcolonial European selves, the evolution of the traveler-figure over the years, and historical and temporal travel as a means of negotiating complex issues of identity in literary works.
UK September 2022 • US January 2023 • 282 pages HB 9789354356995 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9789354355158 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9789354359484 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic India World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)
Edited by Toral Jatin Gajarawala, Neelam Srivastava, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan & Jack Webb Reflecting the diversity of postcolonial print cultures, this book covers local, national, and transnational cultures from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, examining published and unpublished writing, magazines, pamphlets, paratexts, advertisements, cartoons, radio, and street art that serve as the intellectual forces behind opposition to colonial orders, as meditations on the futures of embryonic nation states, and as visions of new forms of equality. Its wide-ranging essays offer a nuanced study of a global phenomenon: postcolonial print cultures as a distinct literary field. The chapters recover the efforts of writers, readers and publishers to produce a postcolonialism ‘from below’, and thereby offer a range of fresh perspectives on the meaning and history of postcolonialism.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 480 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781350261754 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781350261778 • £117.00 / $162.12 ePdf 9781350261761 • £117.00 / $162.12 Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic Romanticism and the Unthinkable Revolution
Edited by Kir Kuiken, SUNY Albany, USA & Deborah Elise White, Emory University, USA Haiti’s Literary Legacies unpacks the theoretical, historical and political resonance of the Haitian revolution across a multiplicity of European and American Romanticisms, including Haitian, British, French and German traditions. This volume works at the intersection of Romantic and Caribbean studies to outline the myriad ways that the politicized literature of Romantic period engages the revolution in Haiti. Demonstrating the centrality of the Haitian revolution to the larger configuration of transnational Romantic writing, this collection articulates a literary legacy that speaks to our contemporary moment.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 224 pages PB 9781501376047 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501366352 ePub 9781501366338 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501366345 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Freedom Inc.: Gendered Capitalism in New Indian Literature and Culture
Mukti Lakhi Mangharam, Rutgers University, USA This book explores the contraction of what it means to be free in post-liberalization India. Reading texts as diverse as Thrity Umrigar's The Space Between Us, Chetan Bhagat's One Night in a Call Center, Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, and Arvind Adiga's The White Tiger, it fleshes out how notions like 'free trade' and 'market value' are experienced, embodied, and challenged by those who occupy the bottom of the socio-economic ladder, how they are experienced by women differently than by men, as well as the great promise that storytellers hold out in opening up new spaces of freedom and horizons for the self.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 256 pages • 8 bw illus HB 9781350200814 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350200838 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350200821 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages (except Hindi)
Historical Modernisms
Time, History and Modernist Aesthetics
Edited by Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania, USA & Angeliki Spiropoulou Examining the ways in which modernism is created within specific historical contexts, and how it redefines the concept of history itself, this book sheds new light on the historical-mindedness of high modernism and the artistic avant-gardes cutting across Anglophone and less explored European traditions. It features contributions from some of the best known modernist critics working today, and deals with issues as diverse as modernist new media and remediation, modernist print culture, autobiography as history writing, and modernism's futurity.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 296 pages • 25 b/w illus PB 9781350203006 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350202962 ePub 9781350202986 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9781350202979 • £81.00 / $112.65 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic
Quantum Modernisms and Modernist Relativities
Rachel Fountain Eames, independent scholar Developing a reading of modernist poetics centred on the three-way relationship between literature, modern physics, and avant-garde art movements, this book focuses on four key poets - William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, and Wallace Stevens - whose lives crossed paths in 20th century New York. From Einstein’s visit to New York City in 1921 to the impact of the atomic bomb, it traces the flow of ideas about physics through culture, linking the new physics with modern approaches to art found in Cubism, Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism.
UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 272 pages • 5 bw illus HB 9781350299825 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350299849 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9781350299832 • £81.00 / $112.65 Series: Explorations in Science and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Selected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
A Manuscript Critical Edition
Katherine Mansfield Edited by Todd Martin, Huntington University, USA & Jeff Keuss, Huntington University, USA Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was one of the leading figures in the development of the modernist short story. Presenting for the first time draft manuscripts of some of her most important stories, this book gives scholars and students alike vivid new insight into Mansfield’s creative process. With manuscripts for each text presented in facsimile and transcript, detailed notes throughout compare early drafts with later revisions and the final published work. In the final section of the book leading scholars offer new critical readings exploring the history of these stories. A detailed descriptive listing of the major Mansfield archives is also included. Shadows of Futurity in Yeats and Auden
Stewart Cole, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, USA Focusing on the work of 2 of the 20th-century’s most politically engaged poets - W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden - this book examines how they directly confront the concept of “utopia”. Through an examination of these 2 great writers' poems, essays, reviews, and other writings, with a focus on many of their best-known poems, it unpacks how they engage with utopia as a literary genre, and how their work conceives of poetry as a utopian artform capable of uniquely embodying our social aspirations.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 288 pages • 6 bw illus HB 9781350293854 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350293878 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350293861 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
The Making of Samuel Beckett's Not I / Pas moi, That Time / Cette fois and Footfalls / Pas
James Little, Masaryk University, Czech Republic This volume of the BDMP series charts the genesis of three iconic Beckett plays: Not I (1973), That Time (1976) and Footfalls (1976), all translated into French by their author. Including analyses of abandoned archival precursors – the ‘Kilcool’ drafts (1963) and the ‘Petit Odéon’ Fragments (1967–1968) – the book covers a crucial period in Beckett’s playwriting career and offers a comprehensive guide to the history of the three plays, tracking their development from compositional manuscripts through to publication and performance.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 520 pages PB 9781350269057 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350269040 Series: The Beckett Manuscript Project • Bloomsbury Academic World English (excluding Belgium/Luxembourg/Netherlands)
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 424 pages HB 9781350096653 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781350096660 • £117.00 / $162.12 ePdf 9781350096677 • £117.00 / $162.12 Series: Modernist Archives • Bloomsbury Academic World English
Irish Modernisms
Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities
Edited by Paul Fagan, University of Vienna, Austria, John Greaney, Goethe University, Germany & Tamara Radak, University of Vienna, Austria Focusing on previously unexplored lacunae of Irish modernism, this book interrogates neglected figures and genres to develop a more attentive and fluid theoretical space in which to reflect upon the field. Probing Irish modernism’s responsiveness to contemporary theory beyond postcolonial and Irish studies, it uses diverse paradigms including weak theory, queer theory, gender and canonicity, biopolitics, posthumanism, and the nonhuman turn to rethink Irish modernism’s organizing themes: nationalism, martyrdom, war, state violence, prostitution, temporality, death and mourning.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 280 pages PB 9781350267282 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350177369 ePub 9781350177383 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350177376 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Hope, Form, and Future in the Work of James Joyce
David P. Rando Hope, Form, and Future in the Work of James Joyce argues that hope is an overlooked yet central term for understanding Joyce. Joyce has often been read in terms of individual and collective political paralysis and hopelessness. At times, he has also been described as endorsing certain political visions or programs. But a full consideration of the concept of hope helps to complicate these views and to present a Joyce who thinks more agilely about the future, possibility, and politics than has been sufficiently recognized. It argues that Joyce’s texts, as early as Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, are not directed toward specific political goals, but are rather extraordinarily open to political futures that cannot necessarily be named or known in advance; indeed, these texts are of value in part because they encourage and can help readers to imagine such unimaginable futures.In addition to this, it also charts the ways in which Ulysses and Finnegans Wake develop a formal technique of spatializing hope.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 184 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350236561 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350236523 ePub 9781350236547 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350236530 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic
Outcomes and Endpoints Across the Arts and Sciences
Edited by Rachael Scarborough King & Seth Rudy This book brings together short contributions from knowledge workers in a wide variety of disciplines, both inside and outside the academy, to revisit a foundational question of the Enlightenment: what is “the last or furthest end of knowledge”? As such, this book is about why we do what we do, and how we might know when we are done.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 272 pages PB 9781350242289 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350242296 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350242319 • £19.79 / $27.47 ePdf 9781350242302 • £19.79 / $27.47 Bloomsbury Academic
Critical Memory Studies
New Approaches
Edited by Brett Ashley Kaplan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Bringing together a diverse array of new and established scholars in the rapidly expanding field of memory studies with creative writers, this collection delves into multiple aspects of memory: race-ing memory, environmental studies and memory, digital memory, monuments, memorials, and museums, memory and trauma, and other aspects of this important, wide-ranging field. Organised around seven sections, this book examines memory in a global context, from Kashmir and Africa to the US and UK. Featuring contributions on topics as wide-ranging as the Black Lives Matter movement; the AIDS crisis; and memory and the anthropocene, this book not only charts and consolidates the field but also looks at some of the most cutting-edge work being done in it at present, as well as looking at new directions being taken.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 464 pages • 60 bw illus HB 9781350230118 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781350230132 • £117.00 / $162.12 ePdf 9781350230125 • £117.00 / $162.12 Bloomsbury Academic Thomas Docherty, University of Warwick, UK Exploring the controversial history of an aesthetic – Realism – this book dissects the corruptions of the aesthetic under the force of the politics of identity in the contemporary sphere. Doherty examines how Realism engages with capital, social decorum, the law, politicisation and modern science as a determining factor concerning truth. The author explores art, film and literary works from French, English, Italian and Russian writers from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, including work by Flaubert, Baudelaire, Zola, Henry James, Dickens and Orwell. He proposes a new philosophical conception of the politics of Realism in an age when politics is increasingly driven by fantasists.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 288 pages • 5 bw illus PB 9781350228573 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350228535 ePub 9781350228559 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9781350228542 • £81.00 / $112.65 Bloomsbury Academic
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory
An Overview
Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USA The most exhaustive mapping of contemporary literary theory to date, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the current state of the field of contemporary literary theory. Examining 75 key topics across 15 chapters, it provides an approachable and encyclopedic introduction to the most important areas of contemporary theory today.
UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 416 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350366169 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781350366145 • £117.00 / $162.12 ePdf 9781350366138 • £117.00 / $162.12 Bloomsbury Academic
Doing Animal Studies with Androids, Aliens, and Ghosts
Defamiliarizing Human-Nonhuman Animal Relationships in Fiction
David P. Rando Through readings of texts by authors such as Octavia Butler, Philip K. Dick, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jeanette Winterson and J. M. Coetzee, this book uses creatures such as androids, aliens and ghosts to explore both the boundaries of humanness. In doing so, it also enables the reader to see nonhuman animals afresh and to reimagine the terms of our relationships with them.
UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 224 pages HB 9781350356122 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350356146 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350356139 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Jeremy Tambling, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong Providing the most comprehensive examination of the two-way traffic between literature and psychoanalysis to date, this handbook looks at how each defines the other as well as addressing the key thinkers in psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Klein, Lacan, and the schools of thought each of these have generated). It examines the debts that these psychoanalytic traditions have to literature, and offers plentiful case-studies of literature’s influence from psychoanalysis.
UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 584 pages • 9 bw illus HB 9781350184152 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781350184176 • £117.00 / $162.12 ePdf 9781350184169 • £117.00 / $162.12 Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic
