Literary Studies Catalogue 2015

Literary Studies

2015

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Contents Letter from the Editors �������������������������������������������������� 2 Literary Theory ������������������������������������������������������������ 3 Contemporary Literature ������������������������������������������������ 7 Modernism ���������������������������������������������������������������� 12 Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Literature ���������������� 18 British and Irish Literature �������������������������������������������� 20 North and South American Literature ������������������������������ 21 European Literature ���������������������������������������������������� 26 Comparative Literature ������������������������������������������������ 28 Comics and Graphic Novels / Children's Literature ������������ 32 Children's Literature ���������������������������������������������������� 33 Writing ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 34 Literary Biography ������������������������������������������������������ 36 Bestsellers ���������������������������������������������������������������� 37 Index ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 41

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Award-winning Publishing from Bloomsbury Literary Studies Welcome to the new Bloomsbury Literary Studies catalogue. As part of the Academic & Professional Division at Bloomsbury, we are proud to have picked up the Bookseller Industry Award for Academic, Educational & Professional publisher of the year for the second year running.

From The Bookseller: From a shortlist displaying an abundance of energy and innovation, the judges’ winner stands apart 'for the scale and range of its ambition’ … By delving deep into its rich archives of content, it has driven the legacy of publishing at its disposal into exciting new realms. The judges said, 'It leads from the front in re-imagining the way content can be used and sold'.

Digital Highlights Since launch, Drama Online has been shortlisted for three industry awards for digital innovation. Featuring 1000+ plays, 100+ scholarly works, and essential tools like character grids, we are continually adding more content: see page 17 and www.dramaonlinelibrary.com for more. And, also in collaboration with Faber, The Sonnets by William Shakespeare app contains all 154 poems read by an all-star cast including Patrick Stewart and Stephen Fry. In 2014 we launched Bloomsbury Collections. This eBooks platform delivers instant access to quality research and provides libraries with a flexible way to build their collections across the humanities and social sciences. 4,000 eBook titles will be on the platform by spring 2015, featuring content from Bloomsbury’s latest research publications as well as a 100+ year legacy including Continuum, T&T Clark, Bristol Classical Press, Berg, Hart Publishing and The Arden Shakespeare (excluding the plays, which are available on Drama Online). Sign up for an institutional trial or updates at www.bloomsburycollections.com.

Book Highlights Among this year’s highlights are a thoroughly revised and updated edition of our bestselling introduction to Comic Book Studies, The Power of Comics (p.32) and a new classroom anthology, A Body of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine (p.28). We also have a fantastic new wave of creative writing books with three new titles in our Writers’ & Artists’ Companions (p.34) series bringing together advice from bestselling and critically acclaimed writers on the arts of novel writing, writing short stories and playwriting. We are also very pleased to be launching our fantastic new Modernist Archives series (p.16), making available to researchers for the first time rare archival material that casts new light on major modernist literary figures and their work.

Our program of critical studies of contemporary writers continues apace with titles such as A Temporary Future: The Fiction of David Mitchell (p.7) and David Foster Wallace and “The Long Thing” (p.7). New books on literature and culture include Bambi’s Jewish Roots (p.27), which explores the precarious themes of German-Jewish writing between the two World Wars, while Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History (p.5) is an ideal read for the worriers among us. In textbook publishing, Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth (p.3) is a path-breaking guide to feminist, eco-critical and animal studies. Finally, we are delighted to be launching a major new series bringing together critical theory, media studies and material culture to explore the hidden lives of ordinary things: Object Lessons (p.4).

Who is Bloomsbury Academic?

Publishing around 1,200 books each year, with a backlist of 20,000 titles, Bloomsbury’s Academic Division has grown through strategic acquisitions as well as establishing a home-grown list. Continuum, Berg and Bristol Classical Press are now part of the Bloomsbury brand, while Methuen Drama, The Arden Shakespeare, T&T Clark and Fairchild Books (including former AVA titles) remain as imprints under the Bloomsbury umbrella. Bloomsbury is committed to academic excellence, peer-review, the quality of our authors, digital publishing, speed to market and innovation.

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Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth Edited by Carol J. Adams & Lori Gruen Leading feminist scholars and activists as well as new voices introduce and explore themes central to contemporary ecofeminism.

Ecofeminism first offers an historical, grounding overview that situates ecofeminist theory and activism and provides a timeline for important publications and events. This is followed by contributions from leading theorists and activists on how our emotions and embodiment can and must inform our relationships with the more than human world. In the final section, the contributors explore the complexities of appreciating difference and the possibilities of living less violently. Throughout the book, the authors engage with intersections of gender and gender non-conformity, race, sexuality, disability, and species.

The result is a new up-to-date resource for students and teachers of animal studies, environmental studies, feminist/gender studies, and practical ethics.

Carol J. Adams is the author of many books, most notably the pioneering The Sexual Politics of Meat. She has published around 100 articles on vegetarianism, animal rights, domestic violence, and sexual abuse.

Lori Gruen is Professor of Philosophy, Environmental Studies, and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University, USA, where she also coordinates Wesleyan Animal Studies. She is the author most recently of Ethics and Animals: An Introduction and the editor of five books.

UK September 2014 • US July 2014 288 pages • 9 halftones PB 9781628928037 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781623565909 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781628926224 • £14.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781628921977 • £58.00 / $89.00 Bloomsbury Academic

The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History Emma L. E. Rees "The broadest survey yet ....lively, thoughtprovoking,and richly researched."

Naomi Wolf, author of Vagina: A New Biography From South Park to Kathy Acker, from Lars Von Trier to Sex and the City, women’s sexual organs are demonized. In The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History, Emma L.E. Rees investigates the evolution of this demonization: she considers how writers, artists and filmmakers contend with the dilemma of he vagina's puzzling 'covert visibility' and how the ‘c-word’ is an obscenity that both legitimates and perpetuates the fractured identities of women globally.

In our postmodern, porn-obsessed culture, vaginas appear to be everywhere, literally or symbolically but, crucially, they are as silenced as they are objectified. Even common slang terms for the vagina can be seen as an attempt to divert attention away from the reality of women’s lived sexual experiences: slang offers a convenient distraction from something taboo. The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History is an important contribution to the ongoing debate in understanding the feminine identity.

Emma L.E. Rees is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Chester, UK. UK February 2015 • US December 2014 368 pages • 12 illus PB 9781628922127 • £13.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781623568719 • £19.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781623560669 • £14.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781623567897 • £58.00 / $89.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Literary Criticism in the 21st Century

Critical Practice

Theory Renaissance

Martin McQuillan

Vincent B. Leitch Literary Criticism in the 21st Century explores the explosion of new theoretical approaches that has seen a renaissance in theory and its importance in the institutional settings of the humanities today.

It covers such issues as: the institutional history of theory in the academy; the case against theory, from the 1970s to today; critical reading, theory and the wider world; keystone works in contemporary theory; new directions and theory’s many futures.

Written with an engagingly personal and accessible approach that brings theory vividly to life, this is a passionate defence of theory and its continuing relevance in the 21st century.

Vincent Leitch is George Lynn Cross Research Professor and Paul and Carol Daube Sutton Chair in English at the University of Oklahoma, USA. He is the author of American Literary Criticism Since the 1930s (2nd edition, 2010) and co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Literary Criticism and Theory (2nd edition, 2010).

UK August 2014 • US October 2014 192 pages PB 9781472527707 • £17.99 / $30.95 • HB 9781472532527 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472531827 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472528315 • £54.00 / $87.00 Bloomsbury Academic

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Theorists and Creativity Martin McQuillan offers a critical interrogation of the idea of practice-led research. He goes beyond the recent vocabulary of research management to consider the more interesting question of the emergence of a cultural space in which philosophy, theory, history and practice are becoming indistinguishable.

McQuillan considers the work of a number of writers and thinkers whose work crosses the divide between theoretical (academic) and creative practice and the longer tradition of 'theory-writing'. His aim is to elucidate the contemporary ramifications of a relationship that has been contested throughout the long history of philosophy, from Plato's dialogues to Derrida's 'Envois'.

Martin McQuillan is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, UK, where he is also Co-Director of The London Graduate School. His books include Roland Barthes (2011), Deconstruction after 9/11 (2008), Paul de Man (2001), and (as co-author) Deconstructing Disney (1999).

UK June 2015 • US August 2016 160 pages PB 9781780930343 • £16.99 / $27.95 • HB 9781780930350 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781780931012 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781780931005 • £51.00 / $82.00 Series: The WISH List • Bloomsbury Academic

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L I T E R A RY T H E O RY Object Lessons Series Editors: Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New Orleans, USA Object Lessons is a series of concise, affordable, beautifully designed books based around singular objects and the lessons they hold. Published in association with The Atlantic, each book starts from a specific prompt: an anthropological query, historical event, literary passage, personal narrative, philosophical speculation, technological innovation — and develops an investigation or inquiry around the object of the title, gleaning a singular lesson or multiple lessons along the way. In this way Object Lessons harnesses recent movements in material culture studies and critical theory — while also forming a collection of volumes that will be of perennial interest, able to adapt and diversify over time and reflect fresh scholarly trends as new objects and lessons appear.

Golf Ball

Driver's License

Harry Brown

Meredith Castile

This book explores the composition, history, kinetic life, and the long senescence of golf balls, which may outlive their hitters by a thousand years, in places far beyond our reach. They embody our efforts to impose our will on the land, whether the local golf course or the Moon, but their unpredictable spin, bounce, and roll often defy our control. Despite their considerable technical refinements, golf balls reveal the futility of control. They inevitably disappear in plain sight and find their way into hazards. Golf balls play with people.

Harry Brown is Associate Professor of English at DePauw University, USA. He is the author of Injun Joe’s Ghost (University of Missouri, 2004) and Videogames and Education (M.E. Sharpe, 2008). He has published articles on American literature and culture in The Journal of American and Comparative Culture, Studies in Medievalism, and Paradoxa, as well as original fiction in Blueline and The Mississippi Review.

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Meredith Castile is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, USA, and is an ongoing contributor of articles and book reviews for The Vienna Review.

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Drone

Remote Control

Adam Rothstein

Caetlin Benson-Allott

Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV screen, and swarming through the networks. But what are drones? The word encompasses everything from toys to weapons. And yet, as broadly defined as they are, the word “drone” fills many of us with a sense of technological dread. This book will cut through the mystery, the unknown, and the political posturing, and talk about what drones really are: what technologies are out there, and what’s coming next; how drones are talked about, and how they are represented in popular culture. It turns out that drones are not as scary as they appear—but they are more complicated than you might expect. In drones, we find strange relationships that humans are forming with their new technologies.

Adam Rothstein is a freelance writer and researcher based in Portland, USA. UK January 2015 • US January 2015 160 pages • 18 b/w PB 9781628926323 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781628925258 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781628929676 • £34.00 / $51.00 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic

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A classic teenage fetish object, the American driver’s license has long symbolized freedom and mobility in a nation whose design assumes car travel and whose vastness rivals continents. It is youth’s pass to regulated vice—cigarettes, bars, tattoo parlors, casinos, strip joints, music venues, guns. In its more recent history, the license has become increasingly associated with freedom’s flipside: screening.

The airport’s heightened security checkpoint. Controversial ID voting laws. Federally mandated, anti-terrorist driver’s license re-designs.

The driver’s license encapsulates the contradictory values and practices of contemporary American culture—freedom and security, mobility and checkpoints, self-definition and standardization, democracy and exclusion, superficiality and intimacy, the stable self and the self in flux.

While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. This book offers lively analyses of the remote control’s material and cultural history to explain how such an innocuous media accessory can change the way we occupy our houses, interact with our families, and experience the world. From the first wired radio remotes of the 1920s to infrared universal remotes, from the homemade TV controllers to the Apple Remote, remote controls shape our media devices and how we live with them.

Caetlin Benson-Allott is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown University, USA. She is the author of Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing (University of California Press, 2013) and of a column on film and new media in Film Quarterly.

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The Tragedy of Fatherhood

Between Levinas and Lacan

King Laius and the Politics of Paternity in the West

Self, Other, Ethics

Silke-Maria Weineck

Levinas and Lacan, two giants of contemporary theory, represent schools of thought that seem poles apart. In this major new work, Mari Ruti charts the ethical terrain between them.

"A richly nuanced and theoretically sophisticated assessment of conceptualizations of paternity throughout the literary and political traditions of the West." John T. Hamilton, Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University, USA If tragedy is the violent eruption of a necessary conflict between competing, legitimate claims, The Tragedy of Fatherhood argues that fatherhood is an essentially tragic structure. Silke-Maria Weineck traces these the tensions and the various strategies to resolve them through a series of readings of seminal literary and theoretical texts in the Western cultural tradition. In doing so, she demonstrates both the fragility and resilience of fatherhood as the most important symbol of political power.

A long history of fatherhood in literature, philosophy, and political thought, The Tragedy of Fatherhood weaves together figures as seemingly disparate as Aristotle, Freud, Kafka, and Kleist to produce a stunning reappraisal of the nature of power in the Western tradition.

Silke-Maria Weineck is Chair of Comparative Literature and Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, USA. She is the author of The Abyss Above: Philosophy and Poetic Madness in Plato, Hölderlin, and Nietzsche (2002).

UK October 2014 • US August 2014 224 pages PB 9781628927894 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781628928181 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781628920789 • £14.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781628928952 • £58.00 / $89.00 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

Mari Ruti

In their understanding of the self-other relationship, both Levinas and Lacan see the subject’s relationship to the other as primary in the sense that the subject, literally, does not exist without the other, but they understand the challenge of ethics quite differently: while Levinas laments our failure to adequately meet the ethical demand arising from the other, Lacan laments the consequences of our failure to adequately escape the forms this demand frequently takes. Even as Ruti outlines the major differences between Levinas and Lacan, she also proposes that, underneath these differences, one can discern a shared concern with the thorny relationship between the singularity of experience and the universality of ethics.

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Mari Ruti (PhD, Harvard University) is Professor of Critical Theory at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of five academic books: Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life (2006); A World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living (2009); The Summons of Love (2011); The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the Immortal Within (2012); and The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living (2013).

UK August 2015 • US June 2015 208 pages PB 9781628926392 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781628926408 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781628926422 • £14.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781628926439 • £58.00 / $89.00 Bloomsbury Academic World English

Worrying A Literary and Cultural History Francis O'Gorman Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History charts the emergence of our contemporary conception of worry, which originated with the Victorians and became established after the First World War as a feature of modernity. It was, for some writers between the Wars, the 'disease of the age.'

Worrying considers the quotidian kind of worry—the fearful, nonpathological, and hidden questioning about uncertain future. Francis O'Gorman offers both a cultural and a linguistic history of worry, culminating in an account of worry as the natural bedfellow of a world in which we try to live by reason and believe we have the right to choose. It finds in the worrier a peculiar contemporary sufferer, whose world is not only exceptionally familiar but deeply strange.

Offering an intimately personal account of an all too common human experience, and of a word that casually slips in and out of ordinary conversation, Worrying is a book about how everyday sadness has been shaped by the modern world.

Francis O'Gorman is Professor of Victorian Literature and Head of the School of English at the University of Leeds, UK. His publications include Blackwell's Critical Guide to the Victorian Novel (2002), Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (2004) and The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture (2010). He is a regular contributor to The Guardian and TLS. UK July 2015 • US May 2015 160 pages HB 9781441151292 • £14.00 / $20.00 Individual eBook 9781441181282 • £9.99 / $17.99 Library eBook 9781441143600 • £40.00 / $62.00 Bloomsbury Academic

The Politics and Pedagogy of Mourning On Responsibility in Eulogy Timothy Secret Jacques Derrida famously stated in Specters of Marx that a justice worthy of the name must call us to render justice not only to the living but also to the dead. In The Politics and Pedagogy of Mourning, Timothy Secret argues that offering a persuasive account of such a duty requires establishing a discussion among the 20th century’s three key thinkers on death – Heidegger, Levinas and Freud. Despite arguing that none of these three figures’ discourses offers us a complete account of our duty to the dead and that it remains impossible to unify them into a single, consistent and correct approach, Secret nevertheless offers an account of how Derrida managed to produce an always singular articulation of these discourses in each of the acts of eulogy he offered for his philosophical contemporaries.

Timothy Secret is a Junior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Essex and AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 2012.

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The Willing Suspension of Disbelief

The Constitution of English Literature

Poetic Faith from Coleridge to Tolkien

The State, the Nation and the Canon

Michael Tomko

Michael Gardiner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's conception of "the willing suspension of disbelief" marks a pivotal moment in the history of literary theory. Returning to Coleridge's criticism to reconstruct this idea as a form of "poetic faith", Michael Tomko here lays the foundations of a new theologically oriented mode of literary criticism. Bringing Coleridge into dialogue with other thinkers from Augustine to later critics such as I.A. Richards and Terry Eagleton as well as writers like J.R.R. Tolkein, The Willing Suspension of Disbelief offers a method of reading for post-secular literary criticism that is not only historically and politically aware but also deeply engaged with aesthetic form.

Michael Tomko is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University, USA. He is the author of British Romanticism and the Catholic Question: Religion, History and National Identity, 1778-1829 (2011) and co-editor of Firmly I Believe and Truly: The Spiritual Tradition of Catholic England, 1483-1999 (2011).

UK August 2015 • US October 2015 192 pages HB 9781780937304 • £50.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781780935928 • £49.99 / $77.99 Library eBook 9781780938363 • £50.00 / $90.00 Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

In this extended essay, Michael Gardiner examines the ideology of the discipline of English Literature in the light of the serious redefining work on England and Englishness that has been conducted in Political Studies in the last decade. He argues that English Literature emerges from the development of the state and that consequently it has suppressed the idea of the nation. His claim is that English Literature has lost its form since its methodology and canonicity depended so heavily on a constitutional form which can no longer be defended.

He calls upon those working in English Literature to recognise that they are not really participating in the same discipline, defined by the Burkean constitutional settlement, even if they think of themselves as writing 'within the canon'. His view is that a lack of appreciation of 'hard-edged' political factors have led to a 'continuant' and regressive form of English Literature which tends to hang on to stifling methodologies. In its place, he appeals for the creation of a more open-ended, inclusive, internationalist, and comparative 'literature of England'.

Michael Gardiner is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. His books include The Cultural Roots of Devolution (2004), From Trocchi to Trainspotting: Scottish Critical Theory since 1960 (2007) and At the Edge of Empire: The Life of Thomas B. Glover (2008).

UK January 2015 • US January 2015 168 pages PB 9781474218191 • £16.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781780930367 • £50.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781780931104 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781780931081 • £51.00 / $82.00 Series: The WISH List • Bloomsbury Academic

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The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction

A Temporary Future: The Fiction of David Mitchell

Edited by Christine Berberich

Patrick O'Donnell

"This cornucopia of exciting essays on popular fiction from the Victorians to the present, by both veteran scholars and exciting new voices, boldly takes popular fiction beyond encrusted cliches and into the ferment of twenty-first century ideas."

Nicholas Birns, The New School, New York, USA

Having emerged as one the leading contemporary British writers, David Mitchell is rapidly taking his place amongst British novelists with the gravitas of an Ishiguro or a McEwan.

Guiding readers through key writers and genres, historical contexts and major theoretical approaches, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of popular fiction. Charting the rise of commercial fiction from the 19th century to today, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction includes introductory surveys, written by leading scholars, to a wide range of popular genres, including: Science Fiction; Crime Writing; Romance and Chick Lit; Adventure Stories and Lad Lit; Horror; Graphic Novels; Children's Literature.

Part II of the book also includes case-study readings of key writers and texts, from the work of HG Wells, Ian Fleming and Raymond Chandler to more recent books such as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. The book also includes a chapter covering "The Writer's Perspective" on popular publishing.

Christine Berberich is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Her previous publications include The Image of the English Gentleman in Twentieth Century Literature (2007).

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Written for a wide constituency of scholars, students, and readers of contemporary literature, A Temporary Future: The Fiction of David Mitchell explores Mitchell’s primary concerns—including those of identity, history, language, imperialism, childhood, the environment, and ethnicity—across the six novels published thus far, as well as his protean ability to write in multiple and diverse genres. It places Mitchell in the tradition of Murakami, Sebald, Ishiguro, and Rushdie— writers whose work explore narrative in an age of globalization and cosmopolitanism.

Patrick O’Donnell traces the through-lines of Mitchell’s work from ghostwritten to The Bone Clocks and, with a chapter on each of the six novels, tracks the evolution of Mitchell’s fictional project.

Patrick O'Donnell is Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA. He is the author or editor of 12 books, including The American Novel Now: Contemporary American Fiction Since 1980 (2010), Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative (2000) and Encyclopedia of 20th Century American Fiction (co-edited with David W. Madden & Justus Nieland, 2011).

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David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing"

Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20thCentury Fiction and Film

New Essays on the Novels

Graham Holderness

Edited by Marshall Boswell

"A fascinating journey into the continuing power of the central figure of the gospels in the culture of our time." David Jasper, Professor of Literature and Theology, University of Glasgow, UK

"Edited by one of the premiere critics of David Foster Wallace's work, this sparkling collection offers a host of new insights about Wallace's novels." Patrick O’Donnell, Professor and Chair of English,Michigan State University, USA David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" is a state-of-the art guide through Wallace's three major works, including the generationdefining Infinite Jest. These essays provide new readings of each of Wallace's novels while also tracing out patterns and connections across the three works. Most importantly, the collection includes six chapters on Wallace's unfinished novel, The Pale King, which will prove foundational for future scholars of this important text.

Marshall Boswell is Professor and Chair of English at Rhodes College, USA. He is the author of John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion and Understanding David Foster Wallace. He is the co-editor, with Stephen Burn, of A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies and served as Guest Editor for a two-part Special Issue of Studies in the Novel devoted to David Foster Wallace's novels. He is also the the author of two works of fiction, Trouble with Girls and the novel Alternative Atlanta.

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In Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20th Century Fiction and Film Graham Holderness explores how writers and film-makers have sought to recreate Christ in work as diverse as Anthony Burgess’s Man of Nazareth and Jim Crace’s Quarantine, to Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ and Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ.

These works are set within a longer and broader history of ‘Jesus novels’ and ‘Jesus films’ and explored both for their reflections of contemporary debates, and their positive contributions to Christian theology. In its final chapter, the book draws on the insights of this tradition of Christological representation to creatively construct a new life of Christ, an original work of theological fiction that both subsumes the history of the form, and offers a startlingly new perspective on the biography of Christ.

Graham Holderness is Professor of English at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, author or editor of numerous studies in early modern and modern literature and drama, and General Editor of the peerreviewed journal Critical Survey. He is also a creative writer, novelist and award-winning poet and his previous books include Nine Lives of William Shakespeare (2010).

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Steve Tomasula: The Art and Science of New Media Fiction David Banash Steve Tomasula's work exists at the cutting edges of scientific knowledge and literary techniques.

As such, it demands consideration from multiple perspectives and from critics who can guide the reader through the formal innovations and multimedia involutions while providing critical scientific, aesthetic, historical, and technical contexts. This book, the first of its kind, provides this framework, showing readers the richness and relevance of the worlds Tomasula constructs.

Steve Tomasula's work is redefining the form of the novel, reinventing the practice of reading, and wrestling with the most urgent questions raised by massive transformations of media and biotechnologies.

His work not only charts these changes, it formulates the problems that we have making meaning in our radically changing technological contexts. Vast in scope, inventive in form, and intimate in voice, his novels, short stories, and essays are read and taught by a surprisingly diverse array of scholars in fields ranging from contemporary experimental writing and literary criticism to the history of science, biotechnology and bioart, book studies, and digital humanities.

David Banash is Professor of English at Western Illinois University, USA. He is the author of Collage Culture: Readymades, Meaning, the Age of Consumption (2013) and co-editor of Contemporary Collecting: Objects, Practices, and the Fate of Things (2013).

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Steven Moore In 1989, Steven Moore published the first scholarly study of William Gaddis's novels and since then it has been generally regarded as the best book on this difficult but major writer's work. This revised and expanded edition includes new chapters on the novels Gaddis published after 1989, the National Book Award-winning A Frolic of His Own and the posthumous novella Agape Agape, along with updated introductory and concluding chapters.

This introduction offers a clear discussion of all five of Gaddis's novels, providing essential biographical information, two chapters each on his most significant novels, The Recognitions and J R, and a chapter each devoted to his later three novels. A concluding chapter locates his place in American literature and notes his influence on younger writers. Each chapter focuses on the main themes of each novel and discusses the literary techniques Gaddis deployed to dramatize those themes. Since Gaddis is an erudite, allusive novelist, Moore clarifies his references and explains how they enhance his themes.

Steven Moore (PhD Rutgers, 1988) is the author of several books and essays on modern literature, including A Reader’s Guide to William Gaddis’s The Recognitions (1982), as well as the author of The Novel, An Alternative History (2 vols, 2010, 2013). He is the co-editor of In Recognition of William Gaddis (1984) and the editor of The Letters of William Gaddis (2013).

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The Vietnam War

Falling After 9/11

Topics in Contemporary North American Literature

Crisis in American Art and Literature

Edited by Brenda M. Boyle "Sheds new light on the literature of the Vietnam War and its ongoing critical debate." Catherine Calloway, Professor of English, Arkansas State University, USA Reverberations of the Vietnam War can still be felt in American culture. The post-9/11 United States forays into the Middle East, the invasion and occupation of Iraq especially, have evoked comparisons to the nearly two decades of American presence in Viet Nam (1954-1973). That evocation has renewed interest in the Vietnam War, resulting in the re-printing of older War narratives and the publication of new ones. This volume tracks those echoes as they appear in American, Vietnamese American, and Vietnamese war literature, much of which has joined the American literary canon. Using a wide range of theoretical approaches, these essays analyze works by Michael Herr, Bao Ninh, Duong Thu Huong, Bobbie Ann Mason, le thi diem thuy, Tim O’Brien, Larry Heinemann, and newcomers Denis Johnson, Karl Marlantes, and Tatjana Solis.

Brenda M. Boyle is an associate professor of English and the Director of the Writing Center at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.

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William Gaddis: Expanded Edition

Aimee Pozorski "Drawing together key theoretical ideas and critical analyses to offer a series of shrewd textual readings, Pozorski offers fresh and inventive insights. Falling After 9/11 is a substantial scholarly achievement."

Catherine Morley, University of Leicester, UK Falling After 9-11 investigates the connections between violence, trauma, and aesthetics by exploring post 9/11 figures of falling in art and literature. From the perspective of trauma theory, Aimee Pozorski provides close readings of figures of falling in such exemplary American texts as Don DeLillo's novel, Falling Man, Diane Seuss's poem, "Falling Man," Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Frédéric Briegbeder's Windows on the World, and Richard Drew's famous photograph of the man falling from the World Trade Center.

Aimee Pozorski is Professor of English at Central Connecticut State University, USA, where she teaches contemporary literature and trauma theory. She is the current President of The Philip Roth Society.

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New Horizons in Contemporary Writing Series Editors: Peter Boxall, University of Sussex, UK; Stephen J. Burn, University of Glasgow, UK; Bryan Cheyette, University of Reading, UK In the wake of unprecedented technological and social change, contemporary literature has evolved a dazzling array of new forms that traditional modes and terms of literary criticism have struggled to keep up with. New Horizons in Contemporary Writing presents cutting-edge research scholarship that provides new insights into this unique period of creative and critical transformation.

Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the War on Terror

Wanderwords

Images of Insecurity, Narratives of Captivity

Maria Lauret

Susana Araújo Extending the study of post-9/11 literature to include transnational perspectives, this book explores the ways in which contemporary writers from Europe as well as the USA have responded to the World Trade Centre attacks and the ensuing 'war on terror.'

Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the ‘War on Terror' demonstrates the ways in which contemporary fiction has wrestled with anxieties about national and international security in the 21st century.

Reading a wide range of writers such as Amy Waldman, Michael Cunningham, Frédéric Beigbeder, Ian McEwan, Joseph O'Neill, Moshin Hamid, José Saramago, Ricardo Menéndez Salmón, J.M. Coetzee and Salman Rushdie, Susana Araújo explores how the rhetoric of the 'war on terror' has shaped recent fiction and how “security” discourses circulate both transatlantically and transnationally.

Susana Araújo is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Comparative Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is the author of the poetry book, Dívida Soberana (Sovereign Debt) (2012) and co-editor of the book Trans/American, Trans/oceanic, Trans/lation: Issues in International American Studies (2010).

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Language Migration in American Literature Usually described as "code-switches" by linguists, fragments of other languages have wandered into American literature in English from the beginning.

Wanderwords asks what the function and meaning of such language migration might be. Combining literary and cultural theory, linguistics, the theory and history of migration, and psychoanalysis, Wanderwords engages closely with a variety of writers, both well known and otherwise, such as Mary Antin and Eva Hoffman, Richard Rodriguez and Junot Díaz, Pietro DiDonato and Don DeLillo, among others. In so doing, a poetics of multilingualism unfolds that stretches into the lingual contact zone of English-with-other-languages that is American literature, belatedly re-connecting with the world.

Maria Lauret is Reader in American Literature at the University of Sussex, UK, and has also taught in Spain and the United States. Her previous books are Liberating Literature: Feminist Fiction in America (1994), Alice Walker (2000, second edition, 2011) and the co-authored Beginning Ethnic American Literatures (2001). She is a founding editor of the journal Atlantic Studies and currently serves on the editorial advisory boards of The European Journal of American Culture and Textual Practice.

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Maggie Gee: Writing the Condition-of-England Novel

Narrative Care: Biopolitics and the Novel

Mine Özyurt Kiliç

Arne De Boever

In the first critical study of Gee's work, Mine Özyurt Kiliç identifies the specific social problems her novels address and explains the social consciousness similarities Gee shares with the Victorians.

Analyzing how Gee adjusts the condition-of-England novel to reflect contemporary Britain enables Özyurt Kiliç to reveal the accuracy of Gee's rich portraits of Britain. She focuses on Gee's ability to cut across the boundaries of race, class and gender, mix voices from the margin with the majority and challenge and change the idea of the mainstream. In addition, Gee's critiques of class, race and the world of publishing, allow Özyurt Kiliç to cover a wide range of topics and detail how English fiction shapes and influences, and is shaped and influenced by, the contemporary literary market.

Mine Özyurt Kiliç is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey.

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If the September 11 terror attacks opened up an era of crises and exceptions of which we are yet to see the end, it is perhaps not surprising that care has emerged in the early 21st century as a key political issue. This book approaches contemporary narratives of care through the lens of a growing body of theoretical writings on biopolitics. Through close-readings of Coetzee’s Slow Man, Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Auster’s The Book of Illusions, and McCarthy’s Remainder, it seeks to reframe debates about realism as engagements with the novel’s biopolitical origins: its relation to pastoral care, the camps, and the welfare state.

Arne De Boever is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Director of the MA Program in Aesthetics and Politics in the School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts, USA. UK October 2014 • US October 2014 192 pages PB 9781628925241 • £19.95 / $29.95 • HB 9781441149992 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441128775 • £17.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781441144720 • £17.99 / $23.99 Bloomsbury Academic

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Scenes of Intimacy Reading, Writing and Theorizing Contemporary Literature Edited by Jennifer Cooke Scenes of Intimacy analyzes the representation of acts and relationships of intimacy in contemporary literature, the effect this has upon readers, and the ways these representations resonate with, complement, and challenge the concerns of contemporary theory.

Opening with an in-depth interview with literary critic, Derridean, and novelist Professor Nicholas Royle, the volume contains eleven further essays that move from intimate scenes of familial and pedagogic legacy, on to representations of love, of sex, and finally to scenes of death and dying. The essays are textually attentive to how literary techniques create intimacy, and draw upon new and notable theoretical positions and critics from queer theory, affect studies, psychoanalysis, poststructualism and deconstruction to ask difficult and uncomfortable questions about intimacy and its representation.

Across the genres of poetry, autobiography, journals, love letters, short stories and novels, Scenes of Intimacy shows that contemporary literature poses new possibilities and questions about our intimate relationalities, their failures and their futures.

Jennifer Cooke is Lecturer in English at Loughborough University, UK. She is the author of Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film (2009).

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Reading Theories in Contemporary Fiction

Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze Literature Between Postcolonialism and Post-Continental Philosophy Lorna Burns "[This book] should be required reading for students of postcolonial theory ... important, challenging, and a pleasure to read." Françoise Lionnet, University of California, USA, H-France Review Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze maps a new intellectual and literary history of postcolonial Caribbean writing and thought spanning from the 1930s surrealist movement to the present, crossing the region's language blocs, and focused on the interconnected principles of creativity and commemoration.

Exploring the work of René Ménil, Édouard Glissant, Wilson Harris, Derek Walcott, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Pauline Melville, Robert Antoni and Nalo Hopkinson, this study reveals the explicit and implicit engagement with Deleuzian thought at work in contemporary Caribbean writing. Uniting for the first time two major schools of contemporary thought - postcolonialism and post-continental philosophy - this study establishes a new and innovative critical discourse for Caribbean studies and postcolonial theory beyond the oppositional dialectic of colonizer and colonized.

Lorna Burns is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures at the University of St Andrews, UK UK April 2014 • US April 2014 224 pages PB 9781472569554 • £18.99 / $32.95 • HB 9781441116437 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441156211 • £19.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781441117465 • £60.00 / $96.00 Bloomsbury Academic

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Lisa McNally Even after the upheavals wrought by Theory, literary criticism has generally ignored the act and experience of reading itself, proceeding as though something so fundamental to our experience of texts could be taken for granted. Reading Theories in Contemporary Fiction draws on deconstruction and the thought of Jacques Derrida to explore the ways in which contemporary fiction engages with reading, its power, the elusive nature of its experience and the failures of understanding inherent in it. Along the way, the book proceeds through close readings of such authors as J.M. Coetzee, David Mitchell, Toni Morrison and Philip Roth.

Lisa McNally teaches at Brighton College, UK. UK October 2014 • US October 2014 224 pages PB 9781472589729 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781441164094 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441190260 • £18.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781441109545 • £57.00 / $92.00 Bloomsbury Academic

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Literature After Globalization

Paul Auster's Writing Machine

Textuality, Technology and the Nation-State

A Thing to Write With

Philip Leonard

Evija Trofimova

"This is a rare achievement in the field of literature and globalization... Summing Up: Essential." CHOICE

"A brilliant study of one of America's leading prose-writers, approaches its subject in a new and intriguing way." Dennis Barone, Professor of English and American Studies, University of Saint Joseph, USA

Literature After Globalization offers a detailed study of recent literary and theoretical responses to technology, globalization, and national identity. Focusing on texts of the 1990s and 2000s, particularly writings by Mark Danielewski, Hari Kunzru, Indra Sinha, and Neal Stephenson, it charts a departure from narratives of globalization which declare the collapse of national cultures, and it considers how national sovereignty has been reinvented and reasserted in the face of technology's transnational effects.

Drawing upon recent theoretical responses to technology and culture (including work by Yochai Benkler, Manuel Castells, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, N. Katherine Hayles, Paul Virilio, and McKenzie Wark) this book explores how, in these novels, the notion of an inclusive globalization has been replaced by a sense of national globalism.

Philip Leonard is Reader in Literary Studies and Critical Theory at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the author of Nationality between Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory: A New Cosmopolitanism (2005).

Evija Trofimova offers a radically different approach to Paul Auster, unpacking the fascinating web of relationships between his texts and presenting Auster’s canon as a rhizomatic facto-fictional network produced by a set of writing tools. Exploring Auster’s literal and figurative use of these tools – the typewriter, the cigarette, the doppelgänger figure, the city – Trofimova discovers Auster’s “writing machine,” a device that works both as a means to write and as a construct that manifests the emblematic writer-figure.

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Evija Trofimova (PhD, University of Auckland) is a writer, translator and critic who divides her time between Latvia and New Zealand.

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Political Initiation in the Novels of Philip Roth

The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry

Claudia Franziska Brühwiler

Reference, Trauma, and History

"Brühwiler’s work not only serves as a model for Roth studies, but also as a model for interdisciplinary research overall."

Aimee Pozorski, Associate Professor of English, Central Connecticut State University, USA, and President of the Philip Roth Society

Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva

Political Initiation in the Novels of Philip Roth exemplifies how literature and, specifically, the work of Philip Roth can help readers understand the ways in which individuals develop their political identity, learn to comprehend political ideas, and define their role in society. Combining political science, literary theory, and anthropology, this book describes an individual's political coming of age as a political initiation story, which is crafted as much by the individual himself as by the circumstances influencing him, such as political events or the political attitude of the parents.

Claudia Franziska Brühwiler is Lecturer at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

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"Anglophone readers will be especially fascinated

by Vassileva’s exciting presentation of the New Russian Poetry from Dimitri Prigov to Elena Shvarts —a poetry as brilliant as it is germane to an understanding of our own. A fascinating and genuinely original book!" Marjorie Perloff, Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University, USA Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva argues that contemporary postmodern poetry is not merely linguistic: it acts also as testimony to deep, overwhelming trauma. Through a comparative analysis of late 20th-century Russian and American poetry, Lutzkanova-Vassileva demonstrates that these poetries reflect both traumatic cultural and political upheaval as well as the impact of contemporary media, which have assailed the mind with far more signals than it can register, digest and furnish with semantic weight.

Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva is an Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, USA. UK February 2015 • US December 2014 224 pages • 46 b&w photos HB 9781628921878 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781628921892 • £57.99 / $98.99 Bloomsbury Academic

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MODERNISM

MODERNISM Historicizing Modernism Series Editors: Matthew Feldman, Teesside University, UK; Erik Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway Historicizing Modernism challenges traditional literary interpretations by taking an empirical approach to modernist writing: a direct response to new documentary sources made available over the last decade. Informed by archival research, and working beyond the usual European/ American avant-garde 1900-1945 parameters the series reassesses established images of modernist writers by developing fresh views of intellectual backgrounds and working methods.

The Life and Work of Thomas MacGreevy A Critical Reappraisal Edited by Susan Schreibman "Susan Schreibman is right to insist that Thomas MacGreevy is more than a footnote to the major poets, playwrights, and novelists —Stevens, Beckett, Joyce—with whom he was associated." Lee M. Jenkins, University College Cork, Ireland, Wallace Stevens Journal As a poet and literary critic, Thomas MacGreevy is a central force in Irish modernism and a crucial facilitator in the lives of key modernist writers and artists.

The extent of his legacy and contribution to modernism is revealed for the first time in The Life and Work of Thomas MacGreevy.

Split into four sections, the volume explains how and where MacGreevy made his impact: in his poetry; his role as a literary and art critic; during his time in Dublin, London and Paris and through his relationships with James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Wallace Stevens, Jack B Yeats and WB Yeats. With access to the Thomas MacGreevy Archive, contributors draw on letters, his early poetry, and contributions to art and literary journals, to better understand the first champion of Jack B. Yeats, and Beckett's chief correspondent and closest friend in the 1930s. This much-needed reappraisal of MacGreevy, the linchpin between the main modernist writers, fills missing gaps, not only in the story of Irish modernism, but in the wider history of the movement.

Susan Schreibman is Long Room Hub Associate Professor in Digital Humanities in the School of English, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Modernism at the Microphone Radio, Propaganda and Literary Aesthetics During World War II Melissa Dinsman As the Second World War raged throughout Europe, modernist writers often became key voices in the propaganda efforts of both sides. Modernism at the Microphone: Radio, Propaganda and Literary Aesthetics During World War II is a comprehensive study of the role of modernist writers’ radio work in the propaganda war and the relationship between modernist literary aesthetics and propaganda. Drawing on new archival research, the book covers the broadcast work of such key figures as Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, Orson Welles, Dorothy L. Sayers, C.S. Lewis, Ernest Hemingway and Robert Frost. As well as the work of AngloAmerican modernists, Melissa Dinsman also explores the radio work of exiled German writers as well as Ezra Pound’s notorious pro-fascist broadcasts. In this way, the book reveals modernism’s engagement with new technologies that opened up transnational boundaries under the pressures of war.

Melissa Dinsman is Lecturer in the Departments of Writing and Rhetoric and Film, Television and Theater at the University of Notre Dame, USA. UK July 2015 • US September 2015 288 pages HB 9781472595072 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472595089 • £59.99 / $92.99 Library eBook 9781472595096 • £180.00 / $289.00 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

Late Modernism and The English Intelligencer Towards a Poetics of Community Alex Latter Over the three years of its life, from 1966 to 1968, The English Intelligencer was one of the most important literary magazines of its time and a major force in the revival of avant-garde poetry in Britain. Drawing on substantial new research into the magazine’s archives, Late Modernism and ‘The English Intelligencer' is the first comprehensive exploration of its influence and place within post-war British poetry.

Examining the poetic, historical and ideological contexts in which the magazine was operating, this book traces the Intelligencer’s roots back to the earlier modernist experiments of poets such as Ezra Pound, as well as considering the transatlantic influence of contemporary American poets such as Charles Olson and Edward Dorn. With a comprehensive reference appendix detailing the contents listing of each published issue of the journal, Late Modernism and 'The English Intelligencer' casts new light on an important period in late-modernist poetics.

Alex Latter is Postdoctoral Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. He is co-editor (with Amy Cutler) of Where Horizons Meet: On the Poetry of Peter Riley (2014).

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John Kasper and Ezra Pound Saving the Republic Alec Marsh John Kasper was a militant far-right activist who first came to prominence with his violent campaigns against desegregation in the Civil Rights era.

Ezra Pound was the seminal figure in AngloAmerican modernist literature and one of the most important poets of the 20th century.

This is the first book to comprehensively explore the extensive correspondence - lasting over a decade and numbering hundreds of letters - between the two men.

John Kasper and Ezra Pound examines the mutual influence the two men exerted on each other in Pound's later life: how John Kasper developed from a devotee of Pound's poetry to an active right-wing agitator; how Pound's own ideas about race and American politics developed in his discussions with Kasper and how this informed his later poetry. Shedding a disturbing new light on Ezra Pound's committed engagement with extreme right-wing politics in Civil Rightsera America, this is an essential read for students of 20th-century literature.

Alec Marsh is Professor of English at Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author of Ezra Pound (2011), and Money & Modernity: Pound, Williams and the Spirit of Jefferson (1998).

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T.E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of Early Modernism Henry Mead Drawing on new archival research - including correspondence with major figures such as Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis and G.K. Chesterton - this book explores the literary career of T.E. Hulme, a key figure in the London avant-garde of Edwardian London.

T.E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of Early Modernism reveals for the first time the full extent of Hulme's relationship with The New Age, the liveliest radical journal of its time and a conduit for the most advanced thinking in philosophy, literature, art and politics.

Through a comprehensive account of Hulme's absorption of cutting-edge continental ideas, and his combative exchanges amongst the bohemian networks of Soho and Fleet Street, Henry Mead shows how 'the strange death of Liberal England' coincided with the equally strange birth of what T.S. Eliot called 'the twentieth century mind'. In this way, the book offers a more nuanced account of Hulme's ideological politics than the crude 'proto-fascism' he has often been associated with.

Henry Mead is a Research Associate at Teesside University, UK, and Bergen University, Norway.

He is the co-editor (with Matthew Feldman and Erik Tonning) of Broadcasting in the Modernist Era (Bloomsbury, 2013).

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Reading Mina Loy’s Autobiographies Myth of the Modern Woman Sandeep Parmar "Parmar’s incisive examination of Loy’s seven unpublished autobiographies both reveals the revival of critical interest in Loy and contributes to the literature on her and to the larger project of redefining modernism ... Summing Up: Recommended.

Graduate students, researchers, faculty."

CHOICE Drawing on substantial new archival research, this book challenges the existing critical myth of Loy as a ‘modern woman' through an analysis of her unpublished autobiographical prose. Reading Mina Loy's Autobiographies explores this major twentieth century writer's ideas about the ‘modern' and how they apply to the ‘modernist' writer—based on her engagement with twentieth-century avant-garde aesthetics—and charts how Loy herself uniquely defined modernity in her essays on literature and art. Sandeep Parmar here shows how, ultimately, Loy's autobiographies extend the modernist project by rejecting earlier impressions of avant-garde futurity and newness in favour of a ‘late modernist' aesthetic, one that is more pessimistic, inward and interested in the fragmentary interplay between the past and present.

Sandeep Parmar is Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is editor of the Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees (2011).

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Sensational Subjects

Sympathetic Sentiments

The Dramatization of Experience in the Modern World

Affect, Emotion and Spectacle in the Modern World

John Jervis

John Jervis

Under what conditions does ‘sensation’ become ‘sensational’?

By the early nineteenth century murder had become the staple of the sensationalizing popular press, and gruesome descriptions were deployed to make a direct impact on the ‘sensations’ of the reader. Later, concern with the thrills, spills, and shocks of modern life was being articulated in the language of sensation, and media sensationalism was already being seen both as contributing to this process and as magnifying its impact, just as sensation was, in turn, taken up by literature, art and film. Finally, it seems as though the dramatization of these experiences in an era of media panics over terrorism, paedophilia, etc, has taken an overtly melodramatic form, in which battles of good and evil play out across the landscapes of our lives.

Sensational Subjects develops an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to exploring these themes, their impact and their implications for understanding the modern world.

John Jervis is Research Fellow in Cultural Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He is the author of Exploring the Modern: Patterns of Western Culture and Civilization (1998) and Transgressing the Modern: Explorations in the Western Experience of Otherness (2000).

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Flann O'Brien and Modernism

Sympathetic Sentiments develops an innovative interdisciplinary framework to explore the implications of living in a ‘culture of feeling’ that seems ill at ease with itself, one in which ‘sentiments’ are frequently denounced for being ‘sentimental’ and self-indulgent.

This is traced back to the inheritance of the eighteenth century, enabling us to identify a distinctive ‘spectacle of sympathy’ in which sympathy seems inherently to entail public forms of expression whereby being ‘on show’ is both a condition of the authenticity of such affects and of their capacity to be masked and simulated – hence stimulating controversy, but also the exploration of the vicarious dimensions of modern experience so central to modern literature, art and culture. The implications of all this are further explored in the context of current debates over the display of trauma as the language of sympathetic engagement, and the alleged prevalence of ‘compassion fatigue’ in the era of media sensationalism.

Overall, the book uncovers the patterns that both reproduce our capacity for ‘sympathetic sentiments’ while revealing the inherent underlying tensions.

John Jervis is Research Fellow in Cultural Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He is the author of Exploring the Modern: Patterns of Western Culture and Civilization (1998) and Transgressing the Modern: Explorations in the Western Experience of Otherness (2000).

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Edited by Julian Murphet, Rónán McDonald & Sascha Morrell "Elegantly introduced and intelligently developed, this study delivers many sharp and timely critical takes on O’Brien’s evolving narrative styles and fixed obsessions." Joe Cleary, Professor of English, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland Flann O'Brien & Modernism brings a muchneeded refreshment to the state of scholarship on this increasingly recognised but still widely misunderstood 'second generation' modernist. Rather than construe him as a postmodernist, it correctly locates O'Brien's work as the product of a late modernist sensibility and cultural context. Similarly, while there should be no doubt of his Irishness, and his profound debts to Irish language, history and culture, this collection seeks to understand O'Brien's nationally sensitive achievement as the work of an internationalist whose preoccupations reflect global modernist trends.

Julian Murphet is Professor of Modern Film and Literature at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Rónán McDonald holds the Australian Ireland Fund Chair in Modern Irish Studies and is Director of the Global Irish Studies Centre at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Sascha Morrell is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of New England, Australia.

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Mary Butts and British NeoRomanticism The Enchantment of Place Andrew Radford Mary Butts was an important figure in inter-war modernist circles and one who reviewed and associated with some of the major literary figures of the era, from T.S. Eliot to Gertrude Stein. Despite her importance and the varied nature of her writing, she has been a neglected figure in modernist scholarship. Providing a new analysis of the interwar literary period, Mary Butts and British Neo-Romanticism revisits her work - vividly experimental writings spanning memoir, poetry, polemic and fiction - through the lens of mid-20th-century British neo-Romanticism. The book argues that behind Butts's eco-feminist writings lies an intricate political and philosophical commentary.

Andrew Radford is a lecturer in the School of Critical Studies, Glasgow University, UK. His publications include Mapping the Wessex Novel: Landscape, History and the Parochial in British Literature, 1870-1940 (Continuum, 2010) and Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time (2003).

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Rebecca West's Subversive Use of Hybrid Genres

Djuna Barnes's Nightwood

1911-1941

Bonnie Roos

Laura Cowan

Ranging over depression-era politics, the failures of the League of Nations, popular journalism and the Modernist culture exemplified by such writers as James Joyce and T.S. Eliot, this is a comprehensive exploration of the historical contexts of Djuna Barnes's masterpiece, Nightwood.

Drawing on contemporary genre theory, this book explores the ways in which Rebecca West's mixing of genres was informed by her subversive feminist political agenda. Cowan explores West's fiction, journalism and criticism from the years 1911-1941, including her early journalism and criticism, such novels as The Return of the Soldier and her controversial multi-genre epic Black Lamb and Grey Falcon.

Laura Cowan is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Maine, USA. She is editor of the Centennial Essay Collection, T. S. Eliot Man and Poet (1988) and a previous Managing Editor and Co-Editor of the National Poetry Foundation journal Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry.

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The World and the Politics of Peace

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In Djuna Barnes's Nightwood: 'The World' and the Politics of Peace, Bonnie Roos reads Barnes's novel against the backdrop of Herbert Bayard Swope's popular New York newspaper The World to demonstrate the ways in which the novel wrestles with a wide range of contemporaneous events. Roos argues that Nightwood allegorizes the role of liberal newspapers - epitomised by the sensationalism of The World - in driving a US policy that hastened the arrival of war.

Bonnie Roos is Associate Professor of English at West Texas A&M University, USA. Her previous publications include (as co-editor) Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics and World Narratives (2010).

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Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism Series Editors: Paul Ardoin, the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA; S.E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA; Laci Mattison, Florida State University, USA The aim of each volume in Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism is to understand a philosophical thinker more fully through literary and cultural modernism and consequently to understand literary modernism better through a key philosophical figure. In this way, the series also rethinks the limits of modernism, calling attention to gaps in modernist studies and sometimes in the philosophical work under examination.

Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism

Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Paul Ardoin, S. E. Gontarski & Laci Mattison

Edited by Paul Ardoin, S. E. Gontarski & Laci Mattison

"A key resource for anyone interested in the literary culture of the modernist period." Ulrika Maude, Lecturer in English, University of Bristol, UK

"[This book] has already become invaluable for me ... The full power of Deleuze’s mind shines here splendidly." Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, The University of Pennsylvania, USA

While books examining the impact of Freud and James on Modernism abound, Henri Bergson's impact, though widely acknowledged, has been closely examined much more rarely. Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism remedies this deficiency in three ways.

First, it offers close readings and critiques of six pivotal texts.

Second, it reassesses Bergson's impact on specific literary texts and authors. Third, it provides an extended glossary of Bergsonian terms, complete with extensive examples and citations of their use across his texts.

Paul Ardoin is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Florida State University, USA. S. E. Gontarski is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University, USA. Laci Mattison is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Florida State University, USA. UK July 2014 • US July 2014 360 pages PB 9781628923476 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781441172211 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441140470 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781441188373 • £60.00 / $110.00 Series: Understanding Philosophy & Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism acknowledges Deleuze's profound impact on a century of art and thought and the origin of that impact in his own understanding of modernism. It offers new readings of Deleuze that illuminate the context of his work, either by reading one of his texts against or in the context of his entire body of work or by challenging Deleuze's readings of other philosophers. A central section on Deleuze and his aesthetics maps the relationships between Deleuze's thought and modernist literature. An extended glossary, with each definition having its own expert contributor, concludes the volume.

Paul Ardoin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA. S. E. Gontarski is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University, USA. Laci Mattison is Visiting Lecturer of English Literature at Florida State University, USA. UK October 2014 • US August 2014 304 pages HB 9781623563493 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781623565305 • £57.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781623560683 • £222.00 / $339.00 Series: Understanding Philosophy & Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

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The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and the Frobenius Institute, 1930-1959

Ezra Pound and 'The Globe' Magazine: The Complete Correspondence

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Edited by Ronald Bush & Erik Tonning

Edited by Michael T. Davis & Cameron McWhirter

Collecting in full for the first time the correspondence between Ezra Pound and members of Leo Frobenius' Forschungsinstitut für Kulturmorphologie in Frankfurt across a 30 year period, this book sheds new light on an important influence on Pound's controversial intellectual development in the Fascist era. These letters reveal the extent of the impact of Frobenius' concept of 'Paideuma' on Pound's poetic and political writings during this period and his growing engagement with the culture of Nazi Germany.

Annotated throughout, the letters are supported by contextualising essays by leading scholars as well as relevant contemporary published articles by Pound himself and his leading correspondent at the Institute, the American Douglas C. Fox. Ronald Bush is Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature at St John's College, University of Oxford, UK. His previous publications include The Genesis of Ezra Pound's Adams Cantos (1992) and, with Elazar Barkan Prehistories of the Future: Primitivist Project and the Culture of Modernism (1996).

Erik Tonning is Research Director of the Modernism and Christianity project at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is co-editor of the Modernist Archives series and the Historicizing Modernism series, both published by Bloomsbury.

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Annotated throughout and supported by substantial explorations of the historical and cultural contexts of the writings, the book also includes a substantial bibliography of related writings and a biographical glossary of the major figures discussed in the correspondence and writing.

Michael T. Davis is Senior Researcher on The Dead Sea Scrolls Project at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA and former Adjunct Professor at New York Theological Seminary and Rider University, USA. Cameron McWhirter is a writer and staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America (2011) and a contributor to The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia (2005).

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The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'The Unnamable'/'L'innommable'

The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape'/'La derniere bande'

Dirk Van Hulle & Shane Weller

Dirk Van Hulle

A comprehensive reference guide to the history of the text of the third and final novel of Beckett's Trilogy. The book includes: A complete descriptive catalogue of available relevant manuscripts, including French and English texts, alternative drafts and notebook pages; A critical reconstruction of the history of the history of the text, from its genesis through the process of composition to its full publication history; A detailed guide to exploring the manuscripts online at the Beckett Digital Manuscripts Project at www.beckettarchive.org Dirk Van Hulle is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Centre for Manuscript Genetics, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Shane Weller is Professor of Comparative Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature at the University of Kent, UK. UK September 2014 • US November 2014 272 pages PB 9781472529510 • £30.00 / $52.00 Series: The Beckett Manuscript Project • Bloomsbury Academic World English (excluding Benelux)

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In the summer of 1936, Ezra Pound agreed to take on the role of European Correspondent for a newly launched travel journal entitled The Globe: The International Magazine. Ezra Pound and 'The Globe' Magazine: The Complete Correspondence collects for the first time time Pound’s writings for the journal and his extensive correspondence with its editor, James Taylor Dunn, and the leading writers who Pound himself attempted to recruit for the magazine.

Numbering nearly 40 letters and nearly 20 published articles, these writings represent a darkly significant time in Pound’s thought as his infatuation with the rise of fascism began to take root.

First performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1958, Krapp's Last Tape has since become widely celebrated as one of Samuel Beckett's most important and powerful plays.

The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape'/'La dernière bande' is a comprehensive reference guide to the history of the text. The book includes a complete descriptive catalogue of available relevant manuscripts; a critical reconstruction of the history of the text, from its genesis through the process of composition to its full publication history; a detailed guide to exploring the manuscripts online at the Beckett Digital Manuscripts Project at www.beckettarchive.org Dirk Van Hulle is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Centre for Manuscript Genetics, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

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E I G H T E E N T H A N D N I N E T E E N T H - C E N T U R Y L I T E R AT U R E New Directions in Religion and Literature Series Editors: Mark Knight, University of Toronto, Canada; Emma Mason, University of Warwick, UK This series showcases new work at the forefront of religion and literature through short studies written by leading and rising scholars in the field. Books pursue a variety of theoretical approaches as they engage with writing from different religious and literary traditions.

Collectively, the series offers a timely critical intervention to the interdisciplinary crossover between religion and literature, speaking to wider contemporary interests and mapping out new directions for the field in the early 21st century.

Forgiveness in Victorian Literature Grammar, Narrative and Community

Difference and Affect in 19th-Century Jewish Women's Writing

Richard Hughes Gibson

Richa Dwor

Forgiveness in Victorian Literature examines how eminent writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Oscar Wilde wrestled with the religious and social meanings of forgiveness in an age of theological controversy and increasing pluralism in ethical matters. In novels, poems, and essays, Richard Gibson here discovers unorthodox uses of the language of forgiveness and delicate negotiations between rival ethical and religious frameworks, which complicated forgiveness's traditional powers to create or restore community and, within narratives, offered resolution and closure.

Richard Hughes Gibson is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Wheaton College, USA. UK January 2015 • US March 2015 192 pages HB 9781780937113 • £50.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781474222204 • £49.99 / $77.99 Library eBook 9781474222198 • £150.00 / $241.00 Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

The Jew was a common figure in Victorian literature and representations of Jews and Jewish belief were often underpinned by contradictory narratives of race, religion and politics. By contrast, Jewish writers in Victorian England had to negotiate an equally complex clash of identities as they sought accommodation with a predominantly Christian culture.

Jewish Feeling explores how Jewish women writers such as Amy Levy and Grace Aguilar developed a distinctive approach to literary form that contrasted with mainstream Victorian literary appeals to feeling by way of sentimentality and psychological manipulation in the work of novelists such as George Eliot. Along the way, Richa Dwor draws on the latest work in affect theory and religious literary criticism to cast new light on an expanded multicultural notion of British identity in the Victorian era.

Richa Dwor is Lecturer in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literature at the University of Leicester, UK. UK May 2015 • US July 2015 208 pages HB 9781472589798 • £50.00 / $86.00 Individual eBook 9781472589804 • £49.99 / $77.99 Library eBook 9781472589811 • £150.00 / $241.00 Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

The Renaissance and Long Eighteenth Century Anita Pacheco & David Johnson The introductory volume in the Reading and Studying Literature series, co-published with the Open University, is designed to introduce students to the Renaissance, and the Eighteenth Century.

Each period is discussed in terms of an overarching theme, providing a clear focus for study and discussion and introducing readers to an important theoretical concept in literary studies.

The Renaissance is discussed in terms of themes of love and death in tragic drama, with particular reference to Shakepseare's Othello and John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. The theme of the section on the long Eighteenth Century is travel, and four travel narratives: two fictional and two non-fictional are discussed: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko, Voltaire's Candide, the autobiography of the ex-slave Ukawsaw Gronniosaw and a fascinating case-study of the Mutiny on the Bounty.

Anita Pacheco is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the Open University and Chair of the undergraduate course Reading and Studying Literature.

David Johnson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the Open University.

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Christina Rossetti and the Bible Waiting with the Saints Elizabeth Ludlow Through theologically-engaged close readings of her poetry and devotional prose, this book explores how Christina Rossetti draws on the Bible and encourages her Victorian readers to respond to its radical message of grace. Structured chronologically, each chapter investigates her participation in the formation of Tractarian theology and details how her interpretative strategies changed over the course of her lifetime. Revealing how her encounter with the biblical text is informed by devotional classics, Christina Rossetti and the Bible highlights the influence of Thomas a’ Kempis, John Bunyan, George Herbert and John Donne and describes how Rossetti adapted the teaching of the Ancient and Patristic Fathers and medieval mystics. It also considers the interfaces that are established between her devotional poems and the anthology and periodical pieces alongside which they were published throughout the second half of the nineteenth-century.

Elizabeth Ludlow completed her PhD in 2009 at the University of Warwick, UK. She has since held teaching fellowships at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and the University of Birmingham, UK. UK October 2014 • US December 2014 272 pages HB 9781472512321 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472510952 • £59.99 / $92.99 Library eBook 9781472514769 • £180.00 / $289.00 Bloomsbury Academic

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The Reception of George Eliot in Europe

Romantics and Victorians

Edited by Elinor Shaffer & Catherine Brown

The second volume in the Reading and Studying Literature series, co-published with the Open University, introduces students to European romanticism and Victorian culture. Each period is discussed in terms of an overarching theme, providing a clear focus for study and discussion and introducing readers to important theoretical concepts in literary studies.

George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880) was one of the most important writers of the Victorian era, as well as an important translator and essayist.

Although such novels as The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch have seen her characterised as a thoroughly English writer, her reception and immersion in the literary, intellectual and political life of Europe was remarkable. Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Reception of George Eliot in Europe is the first comprehensive and systematic survey of Eliot's place in European culture.

Including an historical timeline and a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary work, The Reception of George Eliot in Europe is an essential reference resource for anyone working in the field of Victorian Literature.

Elinor Shaffer, FBA, is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern Languages Research at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Catherine Brown is Senior Lecturer at the New College of the Humanities, London, UK. She is the author of The Art of Comparison: How Novels and Critics Compare (2011).

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Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient Cultural Negotiations Edited by David Vallins, Kaz Oishi & Seamus Perry Bringing together leading international writers, Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient is the first substantial exploration of Coleridge's literary and scholarly representations of the east and the ways in which these were influenced by and went on to influence his own work and the orientalism of the Romanticists more broadly. Bringing together postcolonial, philsophical, historicist and literary-critical perspectives, this groundbreaking book develops a new understanding of 'Orientalism' that recognises the importance of colonial ideologies in Romantic representations of the East as well as appreciating the unique forms of meaning and value which authors such as Coleridge asscoiated with the Orient.

David Vallins is Professor of English at the University of Hiroshima, Japan. His previous publications include Coleridge and the Psychology of Romanticism (Macmillan, 2000).

Nicola J. Watson & Shafquat Towheed

European romanticism is approached through the evolution of the idea of the romantic author and the romantic inner life, using readings from Wordsworth on Grasmere, Shelley's lyric poetry and de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater. The book goes on to explore Victorian culture through a reading of ideas of 'home' and 'abroad', in the work of Emily Bronte, Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Louis Stevenson. The featured theoretical concept of this volume is 'the author'.

Nicola J. Watson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the Open University, UK. Shafquat Towheed is Lecturer in the Department of English at the Open University, UK. UK November 2011 • US April 2014 352 pages PB 9781849666244 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781849666237 • £70.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781849666374 • £21.99 / $32.99 Library eBook 9781849666398 • £66.00 / $106.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Romancing Fascism Modernity and Allegory in Benjamin, de Man, Shelley Kathleen Kerr-Koch "Kathleen Kerr-Koch has here devised an original and highly revealing constellation of three writers – Shelley, Benjamin, and de Man – whose work she shows, through careful and perceptive close-reading, to speak very directly to crucial issues in presentday literary and cultural theory." Christopher Norris, Distinguished Research Professor in Philosophy, Cardiff University, UK Romancing Fascism argues that intellectual responsibility can only be safeguarded if criticism is mobilised both as a poetic and as a critically enlightened endeavour. In this analysis of allegory as a function of modernity, what is made clear is the difficulty, if not impossibility, of definitively determining the genealogical antecedents of intellectual trends, particularly those considered pernicious to clear thinking.

Seamus Perry is Fellow of Balliol College and Lecturer in English, University of Oxford, UK.

Kathleen Kerr-Koch is Senior Lecturer in Literary History and Literary Theory at the University of Sunderland, UK. She has published articles on Paul de Man, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Julia Kristeva, Barbara Herrnstien-Smith, Noam Chomsky, Herbert Marcuse, Christopher Norris, A.J. Greimas, Hans R. Jauss and Barbara Ehrenreich as well as essays on modernity, autobiography and race, nation and ethnicity. She has also been a Visiting Lecturer at Delhi University, India.

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Kaz Oishi is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tokyo, Japan.

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B R I T I S H A N D I R I S H L I T E R AT U R E The Decades series Series Editors: Philip Tew, Brunel University, UK; Nick Hubble, Brunel University, UK; Leigh Wilson, University of Westminster, UK This major series places British fiction among the cultural shifts and headline events of a decade. From the collapse of communism, through the rise of Thatcher to the shifts in global power, each volume evaluates the impact of social, cultural and political history on the fiction of the respective period. Breaking British fiction into its four constituent decades, from the 1970s through to the 2000s and using social, cultural and political contexts to understand its chronology, changing literary themes are properly accounted for and traditional readings opened up.

The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

The 2000s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction

Edited by Nick Hubble, Philip Tew & Leigh Wilson

Edited by Nick Bentley, Nick Hubble & Leigh Wilson

The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction provides a comprehensive guide to, and critical reassessment of, British fiction in the 1990s including aspects of its international reception.

From the release of Nelson Mandela and the collapse of communism through to the campaign against Serbia, the 1990s witnessed a realignment of global politics. In Britain the decade began with the fall of Margaret Thatcher and ended with Tony Blair’s New Labour Government preparing for a triumphant celebration of the new Millennium.

That the context of the decade is more complex than it first appeared informs this volume’s readings of work by authors such as Pat Barker, A.S. Byatt, Jonathan Coe, James Kelman, Hanif Kureishi, Caryl Phillips, Christopher Priest, Andrea Levy, Will Self, Sarah Waters and Irvine Welsh. Through these incisive surveys, the 1990s are shown to be a period when existing assumptions were turned on their head by new literary approaches.

This volume explores how the socio-political and economic turns of the decade, bookended by the beginning of a millennium and an economic crisis, transformed the acts of writing and reading.

Chapters look at the writers tracing and shaping the limits of being human through neurological fiction, the reinvigoration of psychogeography as a genre dealing with the concerns of living in a virtual and globalized world, the effects of reading groups and literary prizes and the rise of historical fiction.

This survey of the fiction of the 2000s covers the work of new voices such as Monica Ali, Mark Haddon, Tom McCarthy and Zadie Smith as well as Salman Rushdie, John Banville and Ian McEwan making it an essential contribution to reading, defining and understanding the decade.

Nick Hubble is Head of English Literature at Brunel University, UK.

Nick Bentley is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Keele University, UK. He is author of Contemporary British Fiction (2008), Radical Fictions: The English Novel in the 1950s (2007) and editor of British Fiction of the 1990s (2005).

Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the Modern and Contemporary Fiction Studies Network.

Nick Hubble is Head of English Literature at Brunel University, UK. He is co-editor of The Science Fiction Handbook (2013) and The 1970s (2014) both published by Bloomsbury.

Leigh Wilson is Principal Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Westminster, UK.

Leigh Wilson is Principal Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Westminster, UK. She is the author of Modernism (2007) and co-editor of The 1980s (2014) and The 1990s (2015) published by Bloomsbury.

UK March 2015 • US May 2015 320 pages HB 9781441172587 • £75.00 / $140.00 Series: The Decades • Bloomsbury Academic

British Fiction in the Sixties The Making of the Swinging Decade

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Sebastian Groes British Fiction in the Sixties focuses on the major socio-political changes that marked the sixties in relationship to the development of literature over the decade.

Groes offers a re-examination of canonical writers such as Iris Murdoch and John Fowles. It also pays critical attention to avantgarde writers including Ann Quinn, Christine Brooke-Rose, and J. G. Ballard, presenting a comprehensive insight into the continuing power the decade exerts on the contemporary imagination.

Sebastian Groes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University, UK.

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Bloomsbury Studies in the City Series Editors: Lawrence Phillips, University of Northampton, UK; Matthew Beaumont, University College London, UK The history of literature is tied to the city. From Aeschylus to Addison, Baudelaire to Balzac, Conrad to Coetzee and Dickens to Dostoevsky, writers make sense of the city and shape modern understandings through their reflections and depictions. Bloomsbury Studies in the City captures the best contemporary criticism on urban literature, exploring the impact of the city on writers and their work.

Irish Writing London: Volume 1 Revival to the Second World War

Irish Writing London: Volume 2

Edited by Tom Herron

Post-War to the Present

"Irish Writing London is, in both of its impressive, high-powered volumes, a tour de force of critical and analytical insight and originality . . . . The reader comes away seeing London from the inside but with different lenses, and so becomes aware of a wholly different vision and understanding of the cityscape. Together, the two volumes of Irish Writing London present an unimpeachable case for being considered the nonpareil of critical intervention on the modern metropolis." Julian Wolfreys, Professor of Modern Literature and Culture, Loughborough University, UK. The presence of Irish writers is almost invisible in literary studies of London. Irish Writing London redresses the critical deficit. A range of experts on particular Irish writers reflect on the diverse experiences and impact this immigrant group has had on the city. Such sustained attention to a location and concern of Irish writing, long passed over, opens up new terrain to not only reveal but create a history of Irish-London writing.

Alongside discussions of Wilde, Shaw, Joyce and Yeats, the writing of the political nationalist Katharine Tynan and work of Irish-Language writer Ó Conaire is considered. Written by an international array of scholars, these new essays on key figures challenge the deep-seated stereotype of what constitutes the proper domain of Irish writing, producing a study that is both culturally and critically alert and a dynamic contribution to literary criticism of the city.

Tom Herron is Senior Lecturer in English and Irish Literature at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. UK June 2014 • US June 2014

UK June 2014 • US June 2014 184 pages PB 9781472576620 • £18.99 / $32.95 • HB 9781441168054 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441139641 • £19.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781441150578 • £60.00 / $96.00 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the City • Bloomsbury Academic

Edited by Tom Herron Alongside discussions of MacNeice, Boland and McGahern, the autobiography of Brendan Behan and identity of Irish-language writers in London is considered. Written by an internal array of scholars, these new essays on key figures challenge the deep-seated stereotype of what constitutes the proper domain of Irish writing, producing a study that is both culturally and critically alert and a dynamic contribution to literary criticism of the city.

Tom Herron is Senior Lecturer in English and Irish Literature at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. UK June 2014 • US June 2014

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American Fiction in Transition Observer-Hero Narrative, the 1990s, and Postmodernism Adam Kelly "American Fiction in Transition is a major contribution to the understanding of a recent period in American literature.

Lucid and engaging, Adam Kelly combines close reading with a deep attention to questions of historical, cultural, and political context. Refuting the opposition between formalism and historicism, Kelly breaks new ground in literary studies, and shows how detailed attention to texts can illuminate seminal philosophical and political questions. This debut by a compelling new voice is an event not to be missed."

Martin Hägglund, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University, USA American Fiction in Transition is a study of the observer-hero narrative, a highly significant but critically neglected genre of the American novel.

Through the lens of this transitional genre, the book explores the 1990s in relation to debates about the end of postmodernism, and connects the decade to other transitional periods in US literature. Novels by four major contemporary writers are examined: Philip Roth, Paul Auster, E. L. Doctorow and Jeffrey Eugenides. Each novel has a similar structure: an observer-narrator tells the story of an important person in his life who has died. But each story is equally about the struggle to tell the story, to find adequate means to narrate the transitional quality of the hero's life. In playing out this narrative struggle, each novel thereby addresses the broader problem of historical transition, a problem that marks the legacy of the postmodern era in American literature and culture.

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Adam Kelly is Lecturer in American Literature at the University of York, UK. He is the author of numerous articles in edited collections and in journals including Twentieth-Century Literature, Studies in the Novel, Critique, and Philip Roth Studies.

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Outside, America The Temporal Turn in Contemporary American Fiction Hikaru Fujii "Not for the first time, it has taken an outsider to show Americans where to look and what to look for in their own imaginative literature.

These novels … will never look the same again."

Brian McHale, Humanities Distinguished Professor, The Ohio State University, USA Outside, America argues that, among contemporary American novelists, "outside" is no longer a only spatial concept but also a temporal one. The quest for the outside now seeks to reach the idea of time as a force of difference, by which the current subjectivity is transformed.

Hikaru Fujii is Assistant Professor of English Department at Doshisha University, Japan.

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Melville: Fashioning in Modernity

Early Visions and Representations of America Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios and William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo "A must read for those interested in colonial history and literature of the United States." José B. Fernández, Dean of the College of Arts & Humanities and Professor of History and Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Central Florida, USA This book examines the preconceptions, prejudices, expectations and hopes conveyed in the the writings of Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and the Pilgrim leader William Bradford. Spanish-language texts such as Cabeza de Vaca's have been marginalized in the narrative of American literary history, on the grounds of a restrictive interpretation of American literature based on linguistic boundaries. In seeking to redress this neglect, Galisteo contributes to scholarship which seeks to analyze Early America as a whole, including both Anglo American as well as Spanish American perspectives of the colonization process, taking each within their respective literary and historical contexts.

M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo teaches English at UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia), Madrid, Spain.

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Stephen Matterson Melville: Fashioning in Modernity considers all of the major fiction with a concentration on lesser-known work, and provides a radically fresh approach to Melville, focusing on: clothing as socially symbolic; dress, power and class; the transgressive nature of dress; inappropriate clothing; the meaning of uniform; the multiplicity of identity that dress may represent; anxiety and modernity. The representation of clothing in the fiction is central to some of Melville's major themes; the relation between private and public identity, social inequality and how this is maintained; the relation between power, justice and authority; the relation between the "civilized" and the "savage."

Frequently clothing represents the malleability of identity (its possibilities as well as its limitations), represents writing itself, as well as becoming indicative of the crisis of modernity. Clothing also becomes a trope for Melville's representations of authorship and of his own scene of writing. Melville: Fashioning in Modernity also encompasses identity in transition, making use of the examination of modernity by theorists such as Anthony Giddens, as well as on theories of figures such as the dandy. In contextualizing Melville's interest in clothing, a variety of other works and writers is considered; works such as Robinson Crusoe and The Scarlet Letter, and novelists such as Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, Jack London, and George Orwell. The book has at its core a consideration of the scene of writing and the publishing history of each text.

Stephen Matterson is Professor of English Studies and a Fellow of the College at Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland.

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Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary Edited by William Dow, Alice Craven & Yoko Nakamura "Makes critically important contributions to a twenty-first century study of Wright by providing a series of fresh perspectives on his published and unpublished work." Robert Butler, Professor of English, Canisius College, USA This volume show how Wright's best work asks central questions about national alienation, international belonging, and the trans-national gaze. Wright's fiction and almost all of his non-fiction lift beyond the mainstays of African-American culture to explore the potentialities and limits of black trans-nationalism. Established and emerging scholars analyze Wright's work in relation to his trans-native status, his perpetual "outsidedness," and the "essential humanness" of his activist and literary efforts.

William Dow is Professor of American Literature at Université Paris-Est (UPEM), France.

Alice Craven is Associate Professor in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature and Film Studies at American University of Paris, France.

Yoko Nakamura is a graduate student at the American University of Paris, France.

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American Tantalus

Succeeding Postmodernism

Horizons, Happiness, and the Impossible Pursuits of US Literature and Culture

Language and Humanism in Contemporary American Literature

Andrew Warnes

Mary K. Holland

American Tantalus argues that tantalization—the unique desire we feel for objects that lie within our reach yet withdraw from our attempts to touch them—dominates much of U.S. fiction. The yearning to touch alienated or virginal objects runs throughout novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Cade Bambara, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton, as unreachable destinations and untouched commodities tantalise, inviting gestures of inquiry from which they then recoil. This focus, while lodging cycles of tantalisation at the very heart of American myth, holds profound implications for our understanding of modernity, and, in particular, of the cultural genesis of the commodity as a form.

Andrew Warnes is Reader in American Studies in the School of English, University of Leeds, UK. UK December 2014 • US October 2014 208 pages • 9 halftones HB 9781623561079 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781628920017 • £57.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781623568108 • £222.00 / $339.00 Bloomsbury Academic

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Seymour Chwast "As a piece of design, this book is as charming and clever as nearly everything else Chwast touches.

The Flash Gordon trappings suit Homer well. In Chwast’s hands, THE ODYSSEY resembles a comic strip etched across the top of a Greek temple."

Noel Murray, A.V. Club on THE ODYSSEY Seymour Chwast, an icon of the graphic design world, has delighted audiences with his adaptations of The Divine Comedy, The Canterbury Tales, and The Odyssey, but it is in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court that he has found his match. Inspired by Twain’s comic irreverence for the Knights of the Round Table, Chwast’s illustrations showcase his humor at its finest.

He brings us a brilliant imagining of the beloved hero, Hank Morgan, as well as the full cast of Camelot characters, from Merlin to Lancelot to the king himself. With a bold and colorful design and no shortage of witty surprises, this is Mark Twain as you’ve never seen him before.

Seymour Chwast is a graduate of the Cooper Union. He is a founding partner of the celebrated Push Pin Studios, whose distinct style has had a worldwide influence on contemporary visual communications. In 1985 the name was changed to the Pushpin Group; Chwast is the studio’s director.

Chwast has illustrated more than thirty books for children and created three previous graphic adaptations of classic works: Dante's Divine Comedy, The Canterbury Tales, and The Odyssey. He lives in New York City.

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While critics collect around the question of what comes "after postmodernism," this book asks something different about recent American fiction: what if we are seeing not the end of postmodernism but its belated success? Succeeding Postmodernism examines how novels by DeLillo, Wallace, Danielewski, Foer and others conceptualize threats to individuals and communities posed by a poststructural culture of mediation and simulation, along with possible ways to resist the disaffected solipsism bred by that culture.

Ultimately it finds that 21st-century American fiction sets aside the postmodern problem of what language does or does not mean in order to raise the reassuringly retro question of what it can and does mean: novels today offer language as solution to the problem of language.

Mary K. Holland is Assistant Professor of contemporary literature at The State University of New York, New Paltz, USA. Her work on irony and narcissism, poststructural realism, and mothering and media in fiction and film has appeared in Critique, The Journal of Popular Culture, and A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies.

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Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth Brett Ashley Kaplan Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth argues that Roth's novels teach us that Jewish anxiety stems not only from fear of victimization but also from fear of perpetration. It is impossible to think about Jewish victimization without thinking about the Holocaust; and it is impossible to think about the taboo question of Jewish perpetration without thinking about Israel. Roth's texts explore the Israel-Palestine question and the Holocaust with varying degrees of intensity but all his novels scrutinize perpetration and victimization through examining racism and sexism in America. Brett Ashley Kaplan uses Roth's novels as springboards to illuminate larger problems of victimization and perpetration; masculinity, femininity, and gender; racism and anti-Semitism. For if, as Kaplan argues, Jewish anxiety is not only about the fear of oppression, and we can begin to see how these anxieties function in terms of fears of perpetration, then perhaps we can begin to unpack the complicated dynamics around the line between the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine.

Brett Ashley Kaplan is Associate Professor and Conrad Humanities Scholar in the Program in Comparative and World Literature and Program in Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign, USA. UK July 2015 • US May 2015 192 pages HB 9781623562946 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781628925036 • £57.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781628925043 • £222.00 / $339.00 Bloomsbury Academic

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States of Trial: Manhood in Philip Roth’s Post-war America Ann Basu This study of five towering Philip Roth novels Operation Shylock, the American Pastoral trilogy, and The Plot Against America - explores his vision of a turbulent post-war America personified in trial-racked Jewish American men. These works collectively register the impact of post-1945 upheavals upon the nation and American trial-based myths about wholesomeness and regeneration. Roth shows how the "stories of old" which moulded American self-making have produced disorderly and disruptive counter-stories, playing themselves out in Jewish men marked by spots and stains where their constitutional integrity has been infringed.

Roth probes the nation's own constitutional testing points as he shatters the identities of characters such as fallen ace athlete Swede Levov and disgraced academic Coleman Silk. His books seek to strip away America's false innocence, demanding that historical accountability should replace myths of new beginnings. Creating arenas of trial for his American men where national discourses and narratives cross and clash, Roth's novels reveal that a culture equals its debates and allow us to see Americans and America as ongoing experiments, always being tested.

Dr. Ann Basu received her PhD on Philip Roth from Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, after retiring from a career as a librarian, most recently at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts, UK. UK January 2015 • US November 2014 208 pages HB 9781623562960 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781623568313 • £57.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781623562434 • £222.00 / $339.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer A Philosophical Analysis of Contemporary American Literature Allard den Dulk The novels of David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers and Jonathan Safran Foer are increasingly regarded as representing a new trend, an ‘aesthetic sea change’ in contemporary American fiction. Den Dulk shows that the connection between these works lies in their shared philosophical dimension. On the one hand, they portray excessive self-reflection and endless irony as the two main problems of contemporary Western life. On the other hand, the novels embody an attempt to overcome these problems: sincerity, reality-commitment and community are portrayed as the virtues needed to achieve a meaningful life. This shared philosophical dimension is analyzed by viewing the novels in light of the existentialist philosophies of Søren Kierkegaard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Albert Camus.

Allard den Dulk is Lecturer in Philosophy, Literature and Film at Amsterdam University College, The Netherlands.

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Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo James Gourley "James Gourley has made an important contribution to our understanding of the work of two of the most important and most demanding of contemporary American novelists…a fresh and illuminating account of their fiction before and after [9/11]."

Derek Attridge, FBA, Professor of English, University of York, USA Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo starts from a simple premise: that the events of the 11th of September 2001 have had a major effect on two New York residents, and two of the seminal authors of American letters, Pynchon and DeLillo. Gourley focuses on the major change identifiable in both authors' post-9/11 work; a change in the perception, and conception, of time. Engaging with several theories of time, and their reiteration and examination in both authors' work, this book contributes both to the understanding of literary time, and to the work of Pynchon and DeLillo.

James Gourley is a Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and member of the Writing and Society Research Centre, University of Western Sydney, Australia.

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Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-1975 Maggie McKinley Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-1975 explores the intersections of violence, masculinity, and racial and ethnic tension in America as it is depicted in the fiction of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, James Baldwin, and Philip Roth. Maggie McKinley reconsiders the longstanding association between masculinity and violence, locating within these works a problematic paradox: as each author figures violence as central to the establishment of a liberated masculine identity, the use of this violence often reaffirms many constricting and emasculating cultural myths and power structures that the authors and their protagonists are seeking to overturn.

Maggie McKinley is Assistant Professor of English at Harper College, USA, where she teaches courses in American Literature.

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Henry Miller

Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist

New Perspectives

A Philosophical Inquiry

Edited by James M. Decker & Indrek Männiste

Indrek Männiste

Academic treatments of Henry Miller’s works have never been numerous and for many years Miller was not a fashionable writer in literary studies. In fact, there exist only three collections of essays concerning Henry Miller’s oeuvre. Since these books appeared, a new generation of international Miller scholars has emerged, one that is re-energizing critical readings of this important American Modernist.

Henry Miller: New Perspectives presents 16 new essays on carefully chosen themes within Miller and his intellectual heritage to form the most authoritative collection of essays ever published on this author.

James M. Decker is Professor of English and Language Studies at Illinois Central College, USA. Author of Henry Miller and Narrative Form: Constructing the Self, Rejecting Modernity (2005) and Ideology (2003), he edits Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal.

Against skeptics, Männiste argues that Henry Miller does indeed have a philosophy of his own, the understanding of which is necessary to adequately explain even some of the most basic of his ideas.

Building upon his notion of the inhuman artist, Miller's philosophical foundation is revealed through his literary attacks against the metaphysical design of the modern age. By repudiating some of the most potent elements of late modernity such as history, modern technology and an aesthetisized view of art, Miller paves the way for overcoming Western metaphysics. Ultimately, Männiste reveals that, philosophically, this aim is governed by Miller's idiosyncratic concept of art, in which one is led towards selfliberation through transcending modern society and its dehumanizing pursuits.

Indrek Männiste is Visiting Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick, UK. He is also a Marie Curie Research Fellow at University of Tartu, Estonia.

Indrek Männiste is Visiting Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick, UK. He also currently works as a Marie Curie Research Fellow at University of Tartu, Estonia. His primary research interest is modernist literature and its philosophical implications.

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UK December 2014 • US December 2014 168 pages PB 9781628928068 • £19.95 / $29.95 • HB 9781623561086 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781623569006 • £14.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781623562083 • £58.00 / $89.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Poe and the Subversion of American Literature

Rocket States: Atomic Weaponry and the Cultural Imagination

Satire, Fantasy, Critique

Fabienne Collignon

Robert T. Tally Jr.

"Rocket States is a fascinating study of how cultural fantasy shaped—and continues to shape— the U.S. security state…a compelling vision of the bizarre psychodynamics of a deadly serious episode in U.S. history." Timothy Melley, Professor of English, Miami University, USA

"No other study has achieved such a depth and scope of critical demonstration with respect to Poe, going back even further, perhaps, for decades. [...] One of the best books I have read in a long time."

Daniel T. O'Hara, Professor of English and Humanities, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University, USA In Poe and the Subversion of American Literature, Robert T. Tally Jr. argues that Edgar Allan Poe undermines the earnest attempts to establish a distinctively national literature in the 19th century.

In retrospect, Poe’s work also subtly subverts the tenets of an institutionalized American Studies in the 20th century. Tally interprets Poe’s life and works in light of his own social milieu and in relation to the disciplinary field of American literary studies, finding Poe to be neither the poète maudit of popular mythology nor the representative American writer revealed by recent scholarship. Rather, Poe’s varied literary and critical writings represent an alternative to American literature. Through his satirical critique of U.S. national culture and his otherworldly projection of a postnational space of the imagination, Poe establishes a subterranean, nomadic, and altogether worldly literary practice.

Robert T. Tally Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Texas State University, USA, where he teaches American and world literature.

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Combining Cold War studies, American literary studies, and cultural studies, Rocket States explores the recurring figures and fantasies of the Cold War: the dome or parabola as sheltering techno-form; the fictions of total security adapting to constantly changing targeting strategies; gadget love; closed, freezing worlds. Fabienne Collignon illuminates a variety of literary texts from key writers and thinkers such as Pynchon, Stephen King, Norman Mailer, and Tom Wolfe, while also invoking figures like Nikola Tesla, James Webb, Batman and Ronald Reagan. Rocket States analyses by what processes the Cold War is frequently literalised in its weapons installations and how these facilities, in turn, shape dreams of containment, survival, escape and techno-supremacy.

Fabienne Collignon is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. She has published articles on American techno-culture and machine aesthetics in journals such as C-Theory, Configurations, and Textual Practice.

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German Literature as World Literature Edited by Thomas Oliver Beebee This new collection investigates German literature in its international dimensions. While no single volume can deal comprehensively with such a vast topic, the nine contributors cover a wide historical range, with a variety of approaches and authors represented. Together, the essays begin to adumbrate the systematic nature of the relations between German national literature and world literature as these have developed through institutions, cultural networks, and individual authors.

Thomas Oliver Beebee is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature and German at Penn State University, USA. He is the author of Millennial Literatures of the Americas, 1492-2002 (Oxford University Press, 2008), Epistolary Fiction in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1999), The Ideology of Genre: A Comparative Study of Generic Instability (Penn State Press, 1994) and Clarissa on the Continent: Translation and Seduction (Penn State Press, 1990).

UK September 2014 • US July 2014 232 pages HB 9781623563912 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781623560539 • £57.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781623561895 • £222.00 / $339.00 Bloomsbury Academic

After the Stasi Collaboration and the Struggle for Sovereign Subjectivity in the Writing of German Unification Annie Ring Reading works of literature since German unification in the light of previously unseen files from the archives of the Stasi secret police force, After the Stasi uncovers how writers to the present day have explored collaboration as a challenge to the sovereignty of subjectivity. Annie Ring here interweaves close analysis of literary fiction and lifewriting by former Stasi spies and victims together with documents from the archive, new readings from literary modernism and cultural theories of the self. In its pursuit of the strange power of the Stasi, the book introduces an archetypal character in the writing of German unification: one who is not sovereign over her or his actions, but instead is compelled by a ubiquitous demand for collaboration – a demand that continues into the post-Cold War age.

Annie Ring is Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK. UK July 2015 • US July 2015 252 pages HB 9781472567604 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472567611 • £59.99 / $92.99 Library eBook 9781472567628 • £180.00 / $289.00 Bloomsbury Academic

New Directions in German Studies Series Editor: Imke Meyer, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA A long and venerable tradition of "Germanistik" has been opened up in exciting ways in the past few decades. The series taps into that tradition and its growth into German Studies, incorporating interdisciplinary approaches to the analysis of the rich intellectual and cultural histories of the German-speaking countries. It showcases projects focusing on hitherto underrepresented authors as well as those that seek to reframe canonical works in light of new perspectives and methodologies.

Vienna's Dreams of Europe

The Poet as Phenomenologist

Culture and Identity beyond the NationState

Rilke and the New Poems

Katherine Arens A sweeping account and re-evaluation of Austrian identity, via literature, culture and history, from the Enlightenment to the present, Vienna's Dreams of Europe argues for a convincing counter-narrative to the prevailing story of Austria's place in Europe.

To challenge standard accounts of 18th- through 20th-century European imperial identity construction, the book introduces a group of Austrian public intellectuals and authors who have since the 18th century construed their own publics as European. Katherine Arens posits a political identity resisting two hundred years of European nationalism, and working in different terms than today's theoristcritics of the hegemonic West.

Katherine Arens is a Professor of Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. UK April 2015 • US February 2015 336 pages PB 9781441170217 • £19.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781441142498 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441118233 • £17.99 / $30.99 Library eBook 9781441175601 • £69.00 / $106.00 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

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Luke Fischer The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New Poems opens up new perspectives on the relation between Rilke’s poetry and phenomenological philosophy, illustrating the ways in which poetry can offer an exceptional response to the philosophical problem of dualism. Drawing on the work of Husserl, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, Luke Fischer makes a new contribution to the tradition of phenomenological poetics and expands the debate among Germanists concerning the phenomenological status of Rilke’s poetry, which has been severely limited to comparisons of Rilke and Husserl.

Luke Fischer (PhD, University of Sydney) is an independent scholar and award-winning poet.

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Bambi's Jewish Roots Essays on German-Jewish Culture

Evil: A History in Modern French Literature and Thought

Paul Reitter

Damian Catani

Paul Reitter’s scholarship on German-Jewish culture has won acclaim in both specialized journals and forums like the New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, Bookforum, and the TLS, which named his study of Karl Kraus, The AntiJournalist, one of the best books of 2008.

Bambi's Jewish Roots brings together the best of Reitter's essayistic work, written for such publications as The Nation, Harper’s Magazine, and the Jewish Review of Books, which take on array of figures and concerns, from the contradictions in Heinrich Heine’s selfunderstanding to the echoes of Zionism in Felix Salten’s novel Bambi.

Witty, erudite, and deeply illuminating, these essays represent public criticism represent at its finest.

Paul Reitter is Associate Professor in German Languages and Literatures at Ohio State University, USA. He is the author of The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe (2008), which was named in The Times Literary Supplement as one of the best books of 2008, and On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred (2012). He has contributed essays and reviews to Harper's Magazine and The Nation, and collaborated with Jonathan Franzen on The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus (2013).

UK July 2015 • US June 2015 208 pages HB 9781441166852 • £18.95 / $27.95 Individual eBook 9781441193346 • £14.99 / $24.99 Library eBook 9781441198068 • £56.00 / $85.00 Bloomsbury Academic

The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard Trevor Cribben Merrill Harold Bloom and others have dismissed Milan Kundera as a maker of "period pieces" that lost currency once the Berlin Wall fell. Building on René Girard’s notion of “triangular desire,” Trevor Cribben Merrill refutes this view, revealing that modern classics such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting display a counterintuitive—and bitterly funny— understanding of human attraction. The Book of Imitation and Desire is at once a comprehensive survey of Kundera’s novels and a witty introduction to Girard’s mimetic theory.

Trevor Cribben Merrill is Lecturer in French at the California Institute of Technology and sits on the Research Committee of Imitatio: Integrating the Human Sciences. He studied literature at Yale University and the Ecole Normale Supérieure and went on to receive his doctorate in French Studies from UCLA, USA, where he was a Chancellor’s Fellow. A two-time fellow of the Association Recherches Mimétiques in Paris, he has co-edited a book of essays by René Girard and collaborated on Psychopolitics (Michigan State University Press, 2012), a dialogue with psychiatrist JeanMichel Oughourlian.

UK October 2014 • US October 2014 208 pages PB 9781628925234 • £19.95 / $29.95 • HB 9781441118653 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441120359 • £18.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781441195463 • £18.99 / $23.99 Bloomsbury Academic

"In this wide-ranging exploration of evil in literature and film, Catani sets changing moral positions in historical context to create a rich survey of responses to this perennial theme.

Seeking a more conceptually rigorous approach to ethical questions than Praz's aestheticisation or Bataille's glamorisation he offers a penetrating and innovative assessment that enhances our understanding of evil." Rosemary Lloyd, Rudy Professor Emerita of French, Indiana University Bloomington, USA

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In this interdisciplinary study of evil in French literature, Damian Catani links literary depictions of evil with cultural events to chart a history of the concept in some of the most important texts in modern literature. Beginning with Balzac and Baudelaire, Catani covers the restoration and Second Empire before interpreting how Catholic stereotypes of the 'evil feminine' and new scientific theories impacted the work of Lautréamont and Zola. Into the twentieth century, evil is explored in terms of the Self, power, knowledge and politics through readings of Proust, Céline, Sartre and Foucault. By seamlessly bringing together aesthetic, philosophical, historical and ideological concerns, this study argues that a broader treatment of literary evils is vital to understanding our contemporary moral and political climate.

Damian Catani is Senior Lecturer in the Department of European Cultures and Languages at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. UK August 2014 • US August 2014 224 pages PB 9781472582515 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781441185563 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441184900 • £19.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781441185075 • £60.00 / $96.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Agamben's Joyful Kafka Finding Freedom Beyond Subordination Anke Snoek "Agamben’s Joyful Kafka is valuable both as a work of Agamben scholarship and as a work of Kafka criticism: understanding just how Agamben understands Kafka is extremely useful for finding and opening the joy in Kafka’s work, and indispensable for coming to grips with the misunderstandings that have marked Agamben’s." German Studies Review Both Giorgio Agamben and Franz Kafka are best known for their gloomy political worldview. A cautious study of Agamben's references on Kafka, however, reveals another dimension right at the intersection of their works: a complex and unorthodox theory of freedom. Snoek shows how Agamben arrives, through Kafka, at different strategies for freedom at the point where this freedom is most blatantly violated.

Anke Snoek is Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University, Australia.

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Russian Irrationalism from Pushkin to Brodsky Seven Essays in Literature and Thought Olga Tabachnikova Russia, once compared to a giant sphinx, is often considered in the Anglophone world an alien culture, often threatening and always enigmatic.

Although recognizably European, Russian culture also has mystical features, including the idiosyncratic phenomenon of Russian irrationalism. Historically, Russian irrationalism has been viewed with caution in the West, where it is often seen as antagonistic to, and subversive of, the rational foundations of Western speculative philosophy. Some of the remarkable achievements of the Russian irrationalist approach, however, especially in the artistic sphere, have been recognized and even admired, though perhaps not thoroughly investigated.

Bridging the gap between intellectual cultures, Olga Tabachnikova discusses such fundamental irrationalist themes as the linguistic underpinning of culture; the power of illusion in national consciousness; the cultural roots of humour; the changing relationship between love and morality, and between creative impulse and religion; as well as the relevance of various individual writers and philosophers from Pushkin to Brodsky to the construction of Russian irrationalism.

Olga Tabachnikova is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Russian Department of the University of Bristol, UK. UK March 2015 • US January 2015 272 pages HB 9781441171207 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441102584 • £62.99 / $107.99 Library eBook 9781441109958 • £242.00 / $369.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Flesh and the Centrality of the Eucharist to The Divine Comedy Sheila J. Nayar Arguing that the consecrated body in the Eucharist is one of the central metaphors structuring The Divine Comedy, this book is the first comprehensive exploration of the theme of transubstantiation across Dante's epic poem. Drawing attention first to the historical and theological tensions inherent in ideas of transubstantiation that rippled through Western culture up to the early fourteenth century, Sheila Nayar engages in a Eucharistic reading of both the "flesh" allusions and "metamorphosis" motifs that thread through the entirety of Dante's poem.

From the cannibalistic resonances of the Ugolino episode in the Inferno to the Corpus Christi-like procession seminal to Purgatory, Nayar demonstrates how these sacrifice- and Host-related metaphors, allusions, and tropes lead directly and intentionally to the Comedy's final vision, that of the Eucharist itself. Arguing that the final revelation in Paradise is analogically "the Bread of Life," Nayar brings to the fore Christ's centrality (as sacrament) to The Divine Comedy—a reading that is certain to alter current-day thinking about Dante's poem.

Sheila J. Nayar is Associate Professor of English and Communication Studies at Greensboro College, North Carolina, USA. UK August 2014 • US October 2014 256 pages HB 9781441129642 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441130839 • £59.99 / $92.99 Library eBook 9781441157478 • £180.00 / $289.00 Bloomsbury Academic

A Body of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine

Surrealist Poetry

Edited by Corinna Wagner & Andy Brown

Edited by Willard Bohn

Including poems by writers from the dawn of the Early Modern period to the 21st Century, A Body of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine explores changing attitudes to medicine, health and the body.

The book is divided into nine thematic sections, including poetry from all periods as well as historical documents that help students place the poetry in its cultural contexts and covering such topics as: The material body; Nerves, nervous disorders and psychology; Consumption: food, drugs and alcohol; Contagion and disease; Doctors, hospitals and the experience of medicine; Treatments and cures; The body in pleasure and pain; Evolution, genetics and reproduction; Ageing, dying and death.

Corinna Wagner is Senior Lecturer in the English Department and codirector of the ‘Art, Aesthetics and Creativity’ strand of the Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter, UK. Andy Brown is Senior Lecturer and Director of Creative Writing, and co-director of the ‘Art, Aesthetics and Creativity’ strand of the Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter, UK. UK March 2015 • US May 2015 480 pages PB 9781472513298 • £22.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781472511812 • £70.00 / $130.00 Bloomsbury Academic

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Dante's Sacred Poem

An Anthology Founded by André Breton in 1924, Surrealism sought to examine the unconscious realm by means of the written and/or spoken word. Seeking to expand the ability of language to evoke irrational states and improbable events, it consistently strove to transcend the linguistic status quo. By stretching language to its limits and beyond, the Surrealists transformed it into an instrument for exploring the human psyche. The twenty-four poets in the present collection come not only from France, where Surrealism was invented, but also from Spain, Belgium, Egypt, Martinique, Mauritius, Mexico, Chile, and Peru. Three of them were eventually awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (Vicente Aleixandre, Pablo Neruda, and Octavio Paz). Equipped with a critical introduction and a brief bibliography, this anthology will appeal to anyone interested in modern poetry.

Willard Bohn is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature at Illinois State University, USA. UK March 2015 • US January 2015 288 pages PB 9781441153142 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781441199775 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441174550 • £14.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781441113948 • £58.00 / $89.00 Bloomsbury Academic

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Nabokov's Shakespeare

Approaching Silence

Samuel Schuman

New Perspectives on Endo Shusaku's Classic Novel

"Shakespeare and Nabokov are literary giants in their respective cultural traditions. In his spectacular Nabokov's Shakespeare, Samuel Schuman presents a remarkable face-off and solves several of the remaining riddles about the writers' literary enigmas." Yuri Leving, Professor of Russian Literature, Dalhousie University, Canada, and Editor of the Nabokov Online Journal Nabokov's Shakespeare is a comprehensive study of an important and interesting literary relationship. It explores the many and deep ways in which the works of Shakespeare penetrate the novels of Vladimir Nabokov, the finest English prose stylist of the 20th century. Schuman provides a taxonomy of Nabokov's Shakespeareanisms; a quantitative analysis of Shakespeare in Nabokov; an examination of Nabokov's Russian works, his early English novels, the non-novelistic writings (poetry, criticism, stories), Nabokov's major works, and his final novels; and a discussion of the nature of literary relationships and influence.

With a Foreword by Brian Boyd.

Samuel Schuman served as the Garrey Carruthers Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico, and Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Minnesota, Morris and the University of North Carolina, Asheville, USA. He is past President of the International Vladimir Nabokov Society and author of Vladimir Nabokov: A Reference Guide. He has published extensively on Nabokov as well as on British Renaissance Drama.

UK September 2014 • US July 2014 208 pages PB 9781628922714 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781628924268 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781628923773 • £14.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781628921519 • £58.00 / $89.00 Bloomsbury Academic

The Foreign in International Crime Fiction Transcultural Representations Edited by Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda & Barbara Pezzotti 'The foreigner' is a familiar character in popular crime fiction, from the foreign detective whose outsider status provides a unique perspective on a familiar or exotic location to the xenophobic portrayal of the criminal 'other'.

Exploring popular crime fiction from across the world, The Foreign in International Crime Fiction examines these popular works as 'transcultural contact zones' in which writers can tackle such issues as national identity, immigration, globalization and diaspora communities. Offering readings of 20th and 21st-century crime writing from Norway, the UK, India, China, Europe and Australasia, the essays in this book open up new directions for scholarship on crime writing and transnational literatures.

Jean Anderson is Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and Director of the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation.

Carolina Miranda is Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Barbara Pezzotti is a journalist and Teaching Fellow in Italian at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

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Edited by Darren J. N. Middleton & Mark W. Dennis Endo Shusaku is celebrated as one of Japan's great modern novelists and is often described as "Japan's Graham Greene." Silence is considered by many Japanese and Western literary critics to be his masterpiece.

Approaching Silence is both a celebration of this award-winning novel as well as a significant contribution to the growing body of work on literature and religion. It features eminent scholars writing from Christian, Buddhist, literary, and historical perspectives, taking up, for example, the uneasy alliance between faith and doubt; the complexities of discipleship and martyrdom; the face of Christ; and, the bodhisattva ideal as well as the nature of suffering. It also frames Silence through a wider lens, comparing it to Endo's other works as well as to the fiction of other authors. Approaching Silence promises to deepen academic appreciation for Endo, within and beyond the West.

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Darren J. N. Middleton is Professor of Literature and Theology at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Mark W. Dennis is Associate Professor of East Asian Religions at Texas Christian University, USA. UK April 2015 • US February 2015 208 pages PB 9781623569839 • £19.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781623562809 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781623560089 • £17.99 / $30.99 Library eBook 9781623566944 • £69.00 / $106.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Baudelaire's Media Aesthetics The Gaze of the Flâneur and 19th-Century Media Marit Grøtta Baudelaire’s Media Aesthetics situates Charles Baudelaire in the midst of 19th-century media culture. It offers a thorough study of the role of newspapers, photography, and pre-cinematic devices in Baudelaire’s writings, while also discussing the cultural history of these media generally. Whereas Baudelaire is often seen as an advocate of "art for art’s sake" and an enemy of the mechanical arts, this book reveals that Baudelaire’s aesthetics was inspired by 19th-century media technology. It argues that Baudelaire played with the new forms of perception emerging in the media age, using them as frames of perception and ways of experiencing the world.

Highlighting Baudelaire’s interaction with the media in his age, this study also addresses the ways in which we respond to new media technology, drawing on perspectives from Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben.

Combining detailed research with contemporary theory, it opens up new perspectives on Baudelaire’s writings, the figure of the flâneur, and modernist aesthetics.

Marit Grøtta is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo, Norway.

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Weakness: A Literary and Philosophical History

Late Book Culture in Argentina

Michael O'Sullivan

"Epplin provides a timely and thoroughly researched critical ethnography of avant-garde literary practices in Argentina."

Héctor Hoyos, Assistant Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Stanford University, USA

Examining the nature of weakness has inspired some of the most influential aesthetic and philosophical portraits of the human condition. Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, this first book-length study of the concept explores weakness as it is interpreted

by Lao Tzu, Nietzsche, Derrida, the Romantics, Dickens and the Modernists. It examines what feminist writers Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray have made of the gendered biomythology of the "weaker vessel" and considers related notions such as im-potentiality and vulnerability in the work of Agamben, Beckett and Coetzee.

Through analysis of these differing versions of weakness, the book challenges popular myths that align masculine identity with strength and presents a humane weakness as a guiding motif for debates in ethics.

Michael O'Sullivan is Assistant Professor in English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is author of Michel Henry: Incarnation, Barbarism and Belief (Peter Lang, 2006).

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Reading the Abrahamic Faiths Rethinking Religion and Literature Edited by Emma Mason Re-thinking religion and literature in a series of chapters by leading international scholars, Reading the Abrahamic Faiths opens up a four-way dialogue between Jewish, Islamic, Christian and Post-Secular literary traditions.

The field of literary studies has absorbed religion as another interdisciplinary mode of inquiry without fully exploring the potential of their relationship to explore material questions of culture, politics and globalization as well as immaterial concerns such as faith, consciousness and affect. In response, Reading the Abrahamic Faiths addresses religion and literature from a number of global perspectives equip to reflect on the material and immaterial through contemporary theory and world politics. Each section – Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Post-Secularism – is introduced by specialist to help anchor the reader unfamiliar with these debates in the close readings of the literary texts and traditions that follow.

Emma Mason is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK, and an editor of Bloombury's New Directions in Religion and Literature series.

Craig Epplin

Modern literary culture depended on the medium of the print book.

Today, with the advent of digital technologies, it is far from apparent that print is, or should be, the vehicle of choice for contemporary writers. Among Latin American countries, none has been as crucial player in the world of print as Argentina. Argentine presses were the channel for many of the great modern literary experiments in Latin America. As such, it comes as no surprise that today Argentine writers are attentive to the shifting media of literature. Late Book Culture in Argentina chronicles that shift. Epplin offers readings of some of the most innovative Argentine writers and collective projects of recent years. These experiments take on a number of forms—digital, artisanal, and collective—and they provide the ferment for some of Argentina’s most audacious contemporary literature.

Craig Epplin is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Portland State University, USA. He has published articles on Latin American literature, film, and media culture.

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English as a Literature in Translation

Censorship and the Limits of the Literary

Fiona J. Doloughan

A Global View

For many writers writing in English today, English is but one of a number of languages, and by extension cultures, to which they have access. The question arises of the impact of this sometimes latent, sometimes explicit, multilingualism on generic and other literary forms and conventions. To what extent is English literature today a literature in translation in the sense that it is formed at the confluence of different literary and cultural traditions and is mediated or brokered by multilingual individuals? And to what extent might literary creativity today be premised on access to more than one language and/or set of cultural and literary traditions?

English as a Literature in Translation examines the complexities of writing in English and assesses the extent to which language practices in English have been localized and/or culturally inflected, even as English has become a global medium of communication.

Fiona J. Doloughan is Lecturer in English at The Open University, UK. UK June 2015 • US April 2015 176 pages HB 9781628925098 • £66.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781628922226 • £52.99 / $89.99 Library eBook 9781628924275 • £202.00 / $308.00 Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature Edited by Jenni Adams "This is a superb, well-thought out and brilliantly constructed companion to this growing field: it will both stimulate further research and support the teaching of Holocaust Literature."

Robert Eaglestone, Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature is a comprehensive reference resource including a wealth of critical material on a diverse range of topics within the literary study of Holocaust writing. At its centre is a series of specially commissioned essays by leading scholars within the field: these address genrespecific issues such as the question of biographical and historical truth in Holocaust testimony, as well as broader topics including the politics of Holocaust representation and the validity of comparative approaches to the Holocaust in literature and criticism. The volume includes a substantial section detailing new and emergent trends within the literary study of the Holocaust, a concise glossary of major critical terminology, and an annotated bibliography of relevant research material.

Featuring original essays by: Victoria Aarons, Jenni Adams, Michael Bernard-Donals, Matthew Boswell, Stef Craps, Richard Crownshaw, Brett Ashley Kaplan and Fernando Herrero-Matoses, Adrienne Kertzer, Erin McGlothlin, David Miller, and Sue Vice.

Jenni Adams is Lecturer in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her previous publications include Magic Realism in Holocaust Literature: Troping the Traumatic Real (2011).

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Nicole Moore Though literature and censorship have been conceived as long-time adversaries, this collection seeks to understand, rather, the degree to which they have been dialectical terms, each producing the other, coeval and mutually constitutive.

After the opening of the USSR’s spekstrahn, the enormous collections of literature forbidden under the Soviets, containing more than one million items, the push to redefine censorship so expansively has encountered cogent criticism. German scholars describing the centralised control of East German print publication, for example, have wanted to insist on the substantive difference of pre-publication state censorship from more mundane forms of speech regulation in democracies. Work on South African apartheid censorship and the operations of censorship in colonial countries is also demonstrating its formative role in the institutional structures of literature beyond the metropole. In light of these and other developments, Censorship and the Limits of the Literary examines a number of critical issues. Is literature ever without censorship? Does censorship need the literary?

In a globalizing era for culture, does censorship represent the final (failed) version of national control?

C O M PA R A T I V E L I T E R A T U R E

C O M PA R A T I V E L I T E R A T U R E

Nicole Moore is Associate Professor in English at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia. She is the author of The Censor’s Library: Uncovering the Lost History of Australia’s Banned Books, which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Australian History Prize 2013, and co-editor of The Literature of Australia (2009).

UK April 2015 • US February 2015 176 pages HB 9781628920093 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781628920109 • £57.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781628920116 • £222.00 / $339.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture Edited by Gail Ashton With contributions from over 25 leading international scholars, this is the first authoritative single-volume reference guide to the appropriation of medieval texts in contemporary culture.

Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture covers a comprehensive range of media, including: Literature, from Young Adult fiction to contemporary poetry ‘translations'; Film, TV and comic book adaptations, from Beowulf to Merlin; Electronic media, from online blogs to computer games; Performances, from the RSC Canterbury Tales to Spamalot; Commercial Merchandise and tourism.

In addition to this wide-ranging coverage, the book also includes a companion website with a number of essential reference features to aid researchers working in the burgeoning field of Medieval afterlives.

Gail Ashton is an academic, writer and poet with research and publishing interests in medieval literature, popular culture, and poetry. Recent books include Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture (2012), co-edited with Daniel T. Kline, 2012; Geoffrey Chaucer: a life (2011); Medieval Romance in Context (2010); and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (2007).

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COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS

COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS

The Power of Comics History, Form, and Culture Randy Duncan, Matthew J. Smith & Paul Levitz "At a time when there are an expanding number of college classes focused on comics and graphic storytelling, The Power of Comics, newly updated and enhanced, remains a core textbook, one which deals with comics as an industrial product, as an aesthetic form, as a system of genres, and as a cultural phenomenon, one which is equally encompassing in terms of the range of different kinds of comics discussed, equally at home dealing with superhero sagas, underground comics, and manga (not to mention examples from across comic's history and around the world.) This is one of the rare textbooks which also makes original scholarly contributions, providing rich insider insights into how comics publishing works, and refining our vocabulary for visual and narrative analysis." Henry Jenkins, author of The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture Fully revised and updated for its second edition, The Power of Comics remains the most authoritative introduction to comic books and graphic novels. The new edition includes:

Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives Comics at the Crossroads Edited by Daniel Stein, Shane Denson & Christina Meyer "Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives offers a wealth of concepts and perspectives for the study of the transnational in comics research … [and] signals the arrival of the ‘transnational turn’ in comics studies." Ralf Kauranen, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (2013) This book brings together an international group of scholars who chart and analyzes the ways in which comic book history and new forms of graphic narrative have negotiated the aesthetic, social, political, economic, and cultural interactions that reach across national borders in an increasingly interconnected and globalizing world. Exploring the tendencies of graphic narratives - from popular comic book serials and graphic novels to manga - to cross national and cultural boundaries, Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives investigates controversial representations of transnational politics, examines transnational adaptations of superhero characters, and maps many of the translations and transformations that have come to shape contemporary comics culture on a global scale.

• Expanded historical section covering the rise of the graphic novel and the advent of digital comics

Shane Denson is Assistant Professor/Post-Doc Research Associate in American Studies at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany.

• A new chapter on memoir and an updated chapter on the superhero genre

Christina Meyer is Assistant Professor/Post-Doc Research Associate in American Studies at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany.

• "Exploring Meanings in Comic Book Texts" chapter introduces students to the theoretical tools they need to read comics critically

Daniel Stein is Assistant Professor/Post-Doc Research Associate at the John-F.-Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

• Study objectives, discussion points, activities and annotated further reading guides in each chapter Randy Duncan is Professor of Communication at Henderson State University, USA, and co-founder the Comic Arts Conference, the nation's first annual academic conference devoted solely to the study of comics.

He is also the co-editor of Icons of the American Comic Book: From Captain America to Wonder Woman.

Matthew J. Smith is professor of Communication at Wittenberg University, USA, where he teaches comics arts courses. He is co-editor of the Eisnernominated Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods.

Paul Levitz is a former President and Publisher of DC Comics and teaches a course in the American Graphic Novel at Columbia University, USA. He has written for many of DC's major comic books series, including Superman and Batman, and is the only writer to have appeared on the New York Times Graphic Books Best Seller list for both his fiction and nonfiction work.

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Adapting Canonical Texts in Children's Literature

Literature's Children: The Critical Child and the Art of Idealisation

Edited by Anja Müller

Louise Joy

"By introducing a wide-ranging set of case studies, from multi-media versions of plays by Shakespeare to cross-cultural reinterpretations of classic tales, this volume places a welcome emphasis on international research into adaptations for children…Anja Müller has succeeded in drawing together a lively and informative series of insights into the transcultural reach of adaptation strategies for the child reader or viewer." Gillian Lathey, Reader in Children's Literature, Roehampton University, UK Adaptations of canonical texts have played an important role throughout the history of children's literature and have been seen as an active and vital contributing force in establishing a common ground for intercultural communication across generations and borders. This collection analyses different examples of adapting canonical texts in or for children's literature encompassing adaptations of English classics for children and young adult readers and intercultural adaptations of children's classics across Europe. The international contributors assess both historical and transcultural adaptation in relation to historically and regionally contingent concepts of childhood. By assessing how texts move across agespecific or national borders, they examine the traces of a common literary and cultural heritage in European children's literature.

Anja Müller is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Siegen, Germany.

Literature’s Children offers a new way of thinking about how literature for children functions didactically. It analyses the nature of the practical critical activity which the child reader carries out, emphasising what the child does to the text rather than what he or she receives from it. Through close readings of a range of socalled ‘Golden Age’ novels for children which continue to shape our understanding of what children’s literature entails, including The Railway Children, The Wind in the Willows, The Hobbit, and mid-twentieth-century series fiction, it demonstrates how the child critic resists the processes of idealisation at work in such texts. By bringing together ideas from literary theory and the philosophy of education, drawing in particular on the work of the philosopher John Dewey, it provides a compelling new account of the complex relationships between literary aesthetics and literary didacticism.

C H I L D R E N ' S L I T E R AT U R E

C H I L D R E N ' S L I T E R AT U R E

Louise Joy is Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK. She is co-editor of The Aesthetics of Children's Poetry (2015) and Poetry and Childhood (2010).

UK May 2015 • US July 2015 224 pages HB 9781472577191 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472577207 • £59.99 / $92.99 Library eBook 9781472577214 • £180.00 / $289.00 Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

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J.K. Rowling: A Bibliography Philip W. Errington

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The first, and the definitive bibliography of the writings of J. K. Rowling.

This is the definitive bibliography of the writings of J.K. Rowling. In addition to complete bibliographic details of each edition of all her books, pamphlets and original contributions to published works, there is detailed information on the publishing history of her work, including fascinating extracts from correspondence, and information on Rowling at auction. This will be the first source on Rowling consulted by textual scholars, book dealers and collectors, auction houses, critics and researchers. The aim of the book is to record fact and dispel rumour on the fascinating publishing history of the Harry Potter series.

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Philip Errington is Director for Children's Books within the Department of Printed Books and Manuscripts at Sotheby's. He is the author of John Masefield : The 'Great Auk' of English Literature: A Bibliography (2004), and the editor of several new editions of Masefield's work.

UK February 2015 • US April 2015 400 pages HB 9781849669740 • £75.00 / $128.00 Individual eBook 9781849669771 • £64.99 / $100.99 Library eBook 9781849669764 • £195.00 / $313.00 Bloomsbury Academic

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WRITING

WRITING

The Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing

Novel Writing

Tara Mokhtari

Romesh Gunesekera & A.L. Kennedy

Covering a wide range of forms and genres, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing is a complete introductory manual for students of creative writing. Through a structured series of practical writing exercises – perfect for the classroom, the writer’s workshop or as a starting point for a portfolio of work – the book builds the student writer from the first explorations of their own voice, through to mastery of a wide range of genres and forms.

The Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing covers such genres as: autobiographical writing, short fiction, poetry, screenwriting, writing for performance and writing for digital media.

With practical guidance on writing scholarly critiques of your own work and a glossary of terms for ease of reference, this book is an essential manual for any introductory creative writing course and a practical companion for more advanced writers.

Tara Mokhtari is the author of Anxiety Soup (2013) and an adjunct lecturer in Creative Writing, Literature and Communications at universities in Australia and the USA. UK January 2015 • US March 2015 224 pages PB 9781472578433 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472578440 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472578457 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472578464 • £54.00 / $87.00 Bloomsbury Academic

A Writers' and Artists' Companion Packed with tips from bestselling and prize-winning authors, Novel Writing: A Writers' and Artists' Companion will give you all the practical advice you need to write and publish your novel.

PART 1 provides an introduction to the history of the novel and helps you plan and research your masterpiece, develop characters and compelling narratives and your own authorial voice.

PART 2 contains guest contributions from leading writers such as Philip Hensher, Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Glenn Patterson, Philip Pullman, Elif Shawak, Ali Smith, and Anne Enright, as well as a number of the 2013 list of the Best of Young British Novelists.

PART 3 offers practical advice on collaborative writing, overcoming writer's block, editing and rewriting and finding an agent and a publisher for your work.

Romesh Gunesekera's first novel Reef was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. He is the author of six novels including The Sandglass, (winner of the inaugural BBC Asia Award) and Heaven's Edge, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

A L Kennedy is a prize winning novelist and author of short stories and non-fiction and Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Warwick, UK. Her novels include Everything You Need (1999), The Blue Book (2011) and Day (2007) which won the Costa and Saltire Book of the Year.

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Writing Short Stories

Playwriting

A Writers' and Artists' Companion

A Writers' and Artists' Companion

Courttia Newland & Tania Hershman

Fraser Grace & Clare Bayley

Writing Short Stories: A Writers' and Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing short fiction successfully. PART 1 explores the nature and history of the form, personal reflections by the editors, and help getting started with ideas, planning and research. PART 2 includes tips by leading short story writers, including: Alison Moore, Jane Rogers, Edith Pearlman, David Vann, Anthony Doerr, Vanessa Gebbie, Alexander MacLeod, Adam Thorpe and Elspeth Sandys. PART 3 contains practical advice - from shaping plots and exploring your characters to beating writers' block, rewriting and publishing your stories.

Playwriting: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is a comprehensive companion to writing for the stage.

PART 1 includes reflections on the art and craft of playwriting, guidance on writing for a full range of genres and spaces and a brief history of theatre.

PART 2 contains inspiring advice from leading dramatists such as Michael Frayn, David Hare, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Rona Munro, Lucy Prebble, Mark Ranvenhill, Tom Stoppard and Timberlake Wertenbaker.

PART 3 offers practical exercises and advice on conducting research, developing plots and characters, mastering dialogue, navigating the industry and the rehearsal and production process.

Courttia Newland is a critically acclaimed novelist and short story writer.

His works include A Book of Blues (2011) and, as co-editor, The Global Village (2009).

Fraser Grace is a playwright and prior to that worked both as an actor and performance poet. His first play, Perpetua, was winner of the Verity Bargate Award and was produced by Soho Theatre/Birmingham REP. He has written for theatres all over the UK, including the Royal Shakespeare Company and, since 2011, has convened the Master's Playwriting Course at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Tania Hershman is an award-winning writer of short and very short stories which have been widely published in print and online and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4.

UK December 2014 • US February 2015 352 pages PB 9781408130803 • £14.99 / $19.95 Series: Writers’ and Artists’ Companions • Bloomsbury Academic

Clare Bayley is an award-winning playwright and short story writer. Her plays include Blue Sky and The Container, which won a Fringe First and the Amnesty International Award (Udderbelly, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2007).

She is a former theatre editor of The Independent and currently teaches creative writing at London South Bank University, UK. UK October 2015 • US December 2015 288 pages PB 9781472529329 • £14.99 / $25.95 Individual eBook 9781472526670 • £14.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781472524386 • £45.00 / $72.00 Series: Writers’ and Artists’ Companions • Bloomsbury Academic World English

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Creative Writing in the Digital Age

The Write Crowd

Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy

Lori A. May

Edited by Michael Dean Clark, Trent Hergenrader & Joseph Rein "This book should have great value for teachers of creative writing seeking to connect with games, social media, and other digital developments. It also demonstrates how creative practice can animate and inform the Digital Humanities, and makes compelling reading for anyone interested in the present and future of writing." Stuart Moutlhrop, Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Creative Writing in the Digital Age explores the vast array of opportunities that technology provides the Creative Writing teacher, ranging from effective online workshop models to advances that blur the boundaries of genre. From social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to more advanced software like Inform 7, the book investigates the benefits and potential challenges these technologies present instructors in the classroom. Written with the everyday instructor in mind, the book includes practical classroom lessons that can be easily adapted to creative writing courses regardless of the instructor’s technical expertise.

Michael Dean Clark is Associate Professor of Writing at Azusa Pacific University, USA. Formerly an award-winning journalist, he is an author of fiction and nonfiction focused on loss, grace, and uncommon redemption.

His fiction and nonfiction work has appeared in Fast Forward, Relief, Coach’s Midnight Diner, and elsewhere.

Trent Hergenrader is Assistant Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. His academic research connects game-based learning and writing instruction, and his short fiction has appeared in such places as Fantasy & Science Fiction and Best Horror of the Year #1.

Joseph Rein is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls, USA. His creative and critical work has appeared in such publications as The Pinch Literary Journal, Laurel Review and New Writing, and he is co-editor of the book Dispatches from the Classroom: Graduate Students on Creative Writing (2011).

UK January 2015 • US March 2015 208 pages PB 9781472574084 • £21.99 / $37.95 • HB 9781472574077 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781472574091 • £21.99 / $32.99 Library eBook 9781472574107 • £66.00 / $106.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Writing for Radio Christopher William Hill Writing for Radio is an entertaining, accessible and informative book, providing a step-by-step guide to writing for this specific dramatic medium. It offers a detailed approach to the process of writing a successful radio play from first draft to production draft and on into the recording studio - with helpful 'tricks-of-the-trade' and informative 'vox pops' from leading radio producers and sound engineers.

Literary Citizenship and the Writing Life

WRITING

WRITING

Writing may be a solitary profession, but it is also one that relies on a strong sense of community.

The Write Crowd offers practical tips and examples of how writers of all genres and experience levels contribute to the sustainability of the literary community, the success of others, and to their own well-rounded writing life. Through interviews and examples of established writers and community members, readers are encouraged to immerse themselves fully in the literary world by engaging with literary journals, reading series and public workshops, advocacy and education programs, and more. The Write Crowd demonstrates how writers may engage with peers and readers, and have a positive effect on the greater community, without sacrificing writing time.

Lori A. May is the author of The Low-Residency MFA Handbook: A Guide for Prospective Creative Writing Students (2011) and Square Feet (2014).

May's creative and critical work has appeared in print and online with publications such as The Atlantic, Brevity, Colorado Review, Passages North, The Writer, and Writer's Digest. She teaches in the University of King's College (Halifax) creative nonfiction MFA program and is a frequent guest speaker at writing conferences and residencies. Visit www.loriamay. com for more info.

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Experimental Fiction An Introduction for Readers and Writers Julie Armstrong Ever since Ezra Pound's exhortation to ‘make it new', experimentation has been a hallmark of contemporary literature. Ranging from the modernists, through the Beats to postmodernism and contemporary ‘hyperfiction', this is a unique introduction to experimental fiction. Creative exercises throughout the book help students grapple with the many varieties of experimental fiction for themselves, deepening their understanding of these many forms and developing their own writing skills.

In addition, the book examines the historical contexts and major themes of 20th-century experimental fiction and new directions for the novel offered by writers such as David Shields and Zadie Smith.

Making often difficult works accessible for the first time reader and with extensive further reading guides, Experimental Fiction is an essential practical guidebook for students of creative writing and contemporary fiction.

Writers covered include: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Ralph Ellison, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Gibson, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, Don Delillo, Caitlin Fisher, Geoff Ryeman, Xiaolu Guo, Tom McCarthy, James Frey and David Mitchell.

Christopher William Hill is an award winning radio dramatist and playwright. He has worked on attachment to the National Theatre Studio and on early development of War Horse. He is currently developing a screenplay with Dan Patterson, creator of Whose Line Is It Anyway and Mock The Week.

Julie Armstrong is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, where she teaches Creative Writing in an interdisciplinary Contemporary Arts Dept. In addition to her scholarly publishing, she has also written, poetry, television scripts and two works of experimental fiction: Mirror (2010) Troubador and Dream Space (2012).

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L I T E R A RY B I O G R A P H Y

L I T E R A RY B I O G R A P H Y

Nabokov in America A Biography

The Adventures of Henry Thoreau

Robert Roper

A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond

The author of the immortal Lolita and Pale Fire, born to an eminent Russian family, conjures the apotheosis of the high modernist artist: cultured, refined—as European as they come. But Vladimir Nabokov, who came to America fleeing the Nazis, came to think of his time here as the richest of his life. Indeed, Nabokov was not only happiest here, but his best work flowed from his response to this exotic land.

Michael Sims

Robert Roper fills out this period in the writer’s life with charm and insight— covering Nabokov’s critical friendship with Edmund Wilson, his time at Cornell, his role at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. But Nabokov in America finds its narrative heart in his serial sojourns into the wilds of the West, undertaken with his wife, Vera, and their son over more than a decade. Nabokov covered more than 200,000 miles as he indulged his other passion: butterfly collecting.

Roper has mined fresh sources to bring detail to these journeys, and traces their significant influence in Nabokov’s work: on two-lane highways and in late-’40s motels and cafés, we feel Lolita draw near, and understand Nabokov’s seductive familiarity with the American mundane. Nabokov in America is also a love letter to U.S. literature, in Nabokov’s broad embrace of it from Melville to the Beats. Reading Roper, we feel anew the mountain breezes and the miles logged, the rich learning and the Romantic mind behind some of Nabokov’s most beloved books.

Robert Roper's journalism appears in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, National Geographic, Outside, and other publications. He won the 2002 Boardman-Tasker Prize for his book Fatal Mountaineer, and his most recent book, Now the Drum of War, was an Editor's Choice pick in the New York Times Book Review. He has also published several novels. He teaches at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore and California.

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"This appealing story succeeds beautifully in accomplishing Sims’s goal to 'find Henry' rather than 'applaud Thoreau' ... With attentive research that elaborates but never intrudes, Sims invites twenty-first century readers to discover their own Thoreau among his various identities." Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, author of To Set This World Right Telling the colourful story of a complex man seeking meaning in a tempestuous era, Michael Sims brings to life the insecure, youthful Henry, as he embarks on the path to becoming the literary icon Thoreau. In rich, evocative prose, and using the letters and diaries of Thoreau’s family, friends and students, Michael Sims charts the great man’s coming of age in 1830s America. From Thoreau’s skating and boating with Nathaniel Hawthorne, to his launching of a progressive school with his brother, Sims paints a vivid portrait of the young writer struggling to find his voice through communing with nature, whether mountain climbing in Maine or building his life-changing cabin at Walden Pond.

Michael Sims is the author of acclaimed non-fiction titles The Story of Charlotte’s Web, Apollo’s Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination and Adam’s Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form, as well as the editor of numerous anthologies, including his own Connoisseur’s Collection series for Bloomsbury, which includes Dracula’s Guest (vampire stories), The Dead Witness (detective stories) and the upcoming The Phantom Coach (ghost stories). Michael Sims lives in western Pennsylvania with his wife and son.

UK July 2014 • US February 2014 384 pages • b&w throughout PB 9781408843598 • £9.99 / $15.00 • HB 9781408830499 • £18.99 / $27.00 Individual eBook 9781620401965 • £11.99 / $18.99 Bloomsbury Publishing World English

Dylan Thomas A Centenary Celebration Hannah Ellis Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration is a unique collection of specially commissioned essays celebrating the poet's life and work one hundred years after his birth in 1914. Edited by his granddaughter, Hannah Ellis, highlights include essays from noted biographers Andrew Lycett and David Thomas, Welsh poet laureate Gillian Clarke on Under Milk Wood, and poetry by Rowan Williams. The book also includes an essay by poet Owen Sheers and BBC Radio 6 presenter Cerys Matthews, as well as numerous testimonies and poems from the likes of former President of the United States Jimmy Carter, Phillip Pullman and actor Michael Sheen.

Hannah Ellis is Dylan Thomas's granddaughter. She is Patron of the 'Dylan Thomas 100' centenary celebrations and President of the Dylan Thomas Society of Great Britain.

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LITERARY THEORY Adaptation Studies, (ed.) Bruhn, Gjelsvik, Hanssen PB 9781441192660 2013 £21.99 $29.95 HB 9781441194671 2013 £65.00 $120.00

Aesthetic Sexuality, Byrne HB 9781441100818 2013 £60.00 $110.00

American Impersonal: Essays with Sharon Cameron, (ed.) Arsic PB 9781623564155 2014 £19.99 $29.95 HB 9781623567590 2014 £80.00 $120.00

The Bakhtin Reader, (ed.) Morris PB 9780340592670 1997 £19.99 $38.00

Benjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of Photography, Yacavone PB 9781623566692 2013 £19.99 $34.95 HB 9781441118080 2012 £60.00 $120.00 Inspection copy available

Crimes of the Future, Rabate PB 9781441172877 2014 £17.99 $29.95 HB 9781441146342 2014 £80.00 $120.00 Inspection copy available

Feminist Theory, 4th edition, Donovan PB 9781441168306 2012 £18.99 $29.95 HB 9781441163653 2012 £60.00 $110.00

Key Terms in Literary Theory, Klages PB 9780826442673 2012 £13.99 $21.95 HB 9780826491909 2012 £50.00 $80.00

Literary Fiction, Farner PB 9781623560249 2014 £19.99 $34.95 HB 9781623564841 2014 £65.00 $120.00

Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed, Klages PB 9780826490735 2006 £15.99 $22.95 HB 9780826490728 2006 £50.00 $90.00

Maurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing, Hill PB 9781441166227 2012 £23.99 $42.95 HB 9781441125279 2012 £75.00 $140.00

Mindful Aesthetics, (ed.) Danta, Groth HB 9781441102867 2013 £60.00 $110.00

Modern Literary Theory, 4th edition, (ed.)

Waugh, Rice PB 9780340761915 2001 £21.99 $42.95

On Modern Poetry, Smith PB 9781441174222 2012 £19.99 $32.95 HB 9781441165725 2012 £65.00 $120.00

Perspectives on World War I Poetry, Evans PB 9781472513106 2014 £16.99 $27.95 HB 9781472510211 2014 £50.00 $90.00

Reading Theory Now, Dunne PB 9781441115140 2013 £14.99 $24.95 HB 9781441174581 2013 £45.00 $80.00

Ricoeur, Literature and Imagination, Vlacos HB 9781441135384 2014 £60.00 $110.00

Romantic Literature in Light of Bakhtin, Reed PB 9781623561116 2014 £19.99 $34.95 HB 9781623563462 2014 £65.00 $120.00

Stuff Theory, Boscagli PB 9781623562250 2014 £16.99 $24.95 HB 9781623562687 2014 £54.00 $80.00

Ten Lessons in Theory, Thomas PB 9781623564025 2013 £19.99 $29.95 HB 9781623569891 2013 £65.00 $120.00

Why Literature?, Bruns PB 9781441124654 2011 £15.99 $25.95 HB 9781441125200 2011 £50.00 $90.00

CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction, (ed.) Hubble, McLeod, Tew HB 9781441133915 2014 £75.00 $140.00

The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction, (ed.) Tew, Horton, Wilson HB 9781441126498 2014 £75.00 $140.00

Adaptation in Contemporary Culture, (ed.)

Carroll PB 9780826424648 2009 £21.99 $39.95 HB 9780826444561 2009 £70.00 $130.00

Angela Carter: New Critical Readings, (ed.)

Andermahr, Phillips PB 9781472528520 2014 £18.99 $32.95 HB 9781441169280 2012 £65.00 $120.00

Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Mullaney PB 9780826453273 2002 £10.99 $15.95

Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Wisker PB 9780826426017 2010 £13.99 $21.95 HB 9780826463623 2010 £55.00 $100.00 Inspection copy available

The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry, (ed.) Ager, Silverman PB 9781441188793 2013 £19.95 $29.95 HB 9781441125576 2013 £80.00 $120.00

Contemporary Narrative, Doloughan PB 9781441128003 2011 £21.99 $39.95 HB 9781441121998 2011 £70.00 $130.00

The Disappearance of Literature, Hillyer HB 9781623561710 2013 £60.00 $110.00

The Maximalist Novel, Ercolino HB 9781623562915 2014 £60.00 $110.00

Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair, Sweeney HB 9780826422620 2013 £60.00 $120.00

New Suburban Stories, (ed.) Dines, Vermeulen HB 9781472510938 2013 £60.00 $104.00

Political Initiation in the Novels of Philip Roth, Brühwiler PB 9781628925357 2014 £19.95 $29.95 HB 9781441153210 2013 £60.00 $110.00

Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Nayar PB 9780826400468 2010 £15.99 $25.95 HB 9780826437006 2010 £50.00 $90.00

Pynchon and Relativity, de Bourcier PB 9781472528308 2013 £19.99 $34.95 HB 9781441130099 2012 £65.00 $120.00

Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the Ethics of Witnessing, McCormack HB 9781441111005 2014 £74.00 $110.00

Reading Zadie Smith, (ed.) Tew

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Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition, Baillie HB 9781441183101 2013 £60.00 $110.00

Truthful Fictions: Conversations with American Biographical Novelists, (ed.)

Lackey PB 9781623568252 2014 £19.99 $29.95 HB 9781623567415 2014 £65.00 $120.00

Women's Fiction, 2nd edition, Philips PB 9781441104267 2014 £18.99 $32.95

Write in Tune: Contemporary Music in Fiction, (ed.) Hertz, Roessner HB 9781623564223 2014 £60.00 $110.00

SERIES: BLOOMSBURY STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY NORTH AMERICAN FICTION Bret Easton Ellis, (ed.) Mandel PB 9780826435620 2010 £18.99 $34.95 HB 9780826446480 2010 £60.00 $110.00

Chuck Palahniuk, (ed.) Collado-Rodriguez PB 9781441174321 2013 £17.99 $29.95 HB 9781441141941 2013 £55.00 $100.00

Cormac McCarthy, (ed.) Spurgeon PB 9780826438201 2011 £18.99 $34.95 HB 9780826432216 2011 £60.00 $110.00

Margaret Atwood, (ed.) Bouson PB 9780826430625 2010 £18.99 $34.95 HB 9780826424372 2010 £60.00 $110.00

Toni Morrison, (ed.) Fultz PB 9781441119681 2012 £18.99 $34.95 HB 9781441130136 2012 £60.00 $110.00

SERIES: CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES Ali Smith, (ed.) Germana, Horton PB 9781441105189 2013 £17.99 $29.95 HB 9781441157607 2013 £55.00 $100.00

Andrea Levy, (ed.) Baxter, James PB 9781441113603 2014 £17.99 $29.95 HB 9781441160454 2014 £55.00 $100.00

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Salman Rushdie, (ed.) Eaglestone, McQuillan PB 9781441173454 2013 £16.99 $27.95 HB 9781441135018 2013 £50.00 $90.00

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MODERNISM Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' and Contemporary Thought, (ed.) Lawtoo PB 9781441101006 2012 £19.99 $32.95 HB 9781441124616 2012 £65.00 $120.00

The Culture of Yellow, Doran PB 9781441185877 2013 £21.99 $32.95 HB 9781441184443 2013 £65.00 $120.00

The Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett, Carpenter HB 9781441184214 2011 £225.00 $400.00

Dysfluencies, Eagle HB 9781623563325 2013 £60.00 $110.00

H.D. and Modernist Religious Imagination, Anderson HB 9781441185976 2013 £60.00 $110.00

The New Human in Literature, Thomsen HB 9781441183194 2013 £60.00 $110.00

T.E. Hulme and Modernism, Tearle HB 9781441156655 2013 £60.00 $110.00

SERIES: HISTORICIZING MODERNISM Broadcasting in the Modernist Era, (ed.)

Feldman, Mead, Tonning HB 9781472512482 2014 £60.00 $104.00

Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism, (ed.) Wilson, Kimber, Reid PB 9781472524973 2014 £18.99 $32.95 HB 9781441111302 2011 £65.00 $120.00

Modern Manuscripts, Van Hulle HB 9781441133168 2013 £60.00 $110.00

Reading Mina Loy’s Autobiographies, Parmar PB 9781472596505 2014 £18.99 $29.95 HB 9781441176400 2013 £60.00 $110.00

Reframing Yeats, Armstrong HB 9781441183163 2013 £60.00 $110.00

Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx, Tucker PB 9781472524072 2014 £18.99 $32.95 HB 9781441139351 2012 £65.00 $120.00

Samuel Beckett and The Bible, Bailey HB 9781780936888 2014 £60.00 $110.00

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Virginia Woolf's Late Cultural Criticism, Wood

EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE Christina Rossetti's Gothic, Trowbridge HB 9781441114433 2013 £60.00 $110.00

Coleridge and Kantian Ideas in England, 1796-1817, Class PB 9781472532398 2014 £18.99 $32.95 HB 9781441180759 2012 £65.00 $120.00

Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient, (ed.) Vallins, Oishi, Perry PB 9781472596512 2014 £18.99 $29.95 HB 9781441149879 2013 £60.00 $110.00

Emily Bronte and the Religious Imagination, Marsden HB 9781441166302 2013 £60.00 $110.00

Everybody's Jane, Wells PB 9781441145543 2012 £18.99 $34.95 HB 9781441176547 2012 £60.00 $110.00

Gothic Fiction and the Invention of Terrorism, Crawford HB 9781472505286 2013 £60.00 $95.00

James's The Turn of the Screw, Orr PB 9780826424327 2009 £13.99 $21.95 HB 9780826430199 2009 £60.00 $95.00

Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire, Ho PB 9781472525529 2013 £22.99 $39.95 HB 9781441161550 2012 £65.00 $120.00 Inspection copy available

Pushkin: Bronze Horseman, Pushkin, (ed.) Basker PB 9781853995750 2000 £13.99 $21.95

The South Pacific Narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London, Phillips PB 9781472522559 2014 £18.99 $32.95 HB 9781441199560 2012 £65.00 $120.00

Victorian Literature and Culture, Moran PB 9780826488848 2006 £14.99 $21.95 HB 9780826488831 2006 £65.00 $95.00

Victorian Poetry in Context, Miles PB 9780826437679 2013 £16.99 $27.95 HB 9780826430557 2013 £50.00 $90.00

BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE Aesthetics and Ethics in Twenty-First Century British Novels, Childs, Green HB 9781441114273 2013 £60.00 $110.00

Assembling Flann O'Brien, Long PB 9781441190208 2014 £18.99 $32.95 HB 9781441187055 2014 £60.00 $110.00

Bernard MacLaverty: New Critical Readings, (ed.) Rankin Russell HB 9781441137869 2014 £60.00 $110.00

Dickens and the City, Schwarzbach HB 9781472508980 2013 £75.00 $128.00

Early Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience, Davis HB 9781441166821 2013 £60.00 $110.00

G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity, (ed.) Beaumont, Ingleby HB 9781780937069 2013 £60.00 $110.00 Inspection copy available

Studying English Literature, (ed.) Chantler, Higgins PB 9780826497505 2010 £19.99 $32.95 HB 9780826497499 2010 £65.00 $120.00

Ted Hughes, Class and Violence, Bentley HB 9781441188168 2014 £60.00 $110.00

The Comic Mode in English Literature, Roston PB 9781441112316 2011 £19.99 $32.95 HB 9781441195883 2011 £65.00 $120.00

The Duchess of Malfi, Luckyj PB 9780826441249 2011 £17.99 $34.95 HB 9780826443274 2011 £55.00 $100.00

Volpone, (ed.) Steggle PB 9780826411532 2011 £17.99 $34.95 HB 9780826424952 2011 £55.00 $100.00

The Works of Graham Greene, Hill, Wise HB 9781441199959 2012 £80.00 $150.00

SERIES: THE RECEPTION OF BRITISH AND IRISH AUTHORS IN EUROPE The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe, (ed.) Glick, Shaffer HB 9781780937465 2014 £200.00 $305.00

The Reception of Byron in Europe, 2nd edition, (ed.) Cardwell PB 9781472535900 2014 £35.00 $60.95 HB 9780826468444 2005 £225.00 $450.00

The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe, (ed.) Engels, Glick HB 9780826458339 2008 £225.00 $395.00

The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe, (ed.) Hollington HB 9781847060969 2013 £200.00 $300.00

The Reception of D. H. Lawrence in Europe, (ed.) Mehl, Jansohn PB 9781472535924 2014 £29.99 $51.95 HB 9780826468253 2007 £160.00 $350.00

The Reception of Henry James in Europe, (ed.) Duperray PB 9781472535931 2014 £29.99 $51.95 HB 9780826458803 2006 £160.00 $250.00

The Reception of Jane Austen in Europe, (ed.) Mandal, Southam PB 9781472535917 2014 £29.99 $51.95 HB 9780826469328 2007 £170.00 $350.00

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The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe, (ed.) Evangelista HB 9781847060051 2010 £160.00 $295.00

The Reception of P. B. Shelley in Europe, (ed.) Schmid, Rossington HB 9780826495877 2008 £160.00 $275.00

The Reception of Robert Burns in Europe, (ed.) Pittock HB 9781441170316 2014 £175.00 $270.00

The Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe, (ed.) Pittock PB 9781472535474 2014 £29.99 $51.95 HB 9780826474100 2007 £170.00 $350.00

NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN LITERATURE American Gothic Fiction, Lloyd-Smith PB 9780826415950 2004 £15.99 $34.95 HB 9780826415943 2004 £70.00 $130.00

Barbara Kingsolver's World, Wagner-Martin PB 9781623564469 2014 £19.99 $29.95 HB 9781623566289 2014 £66.00 $100.00

Borges' Short Stories, Butler PB 9780826452139 2010 £15.99 $25.95 HB 9780826442987 2010 £55.00 $100.00

Borges, between History and Eternity, Diaz PB 9781441197795 2012 £17.99 $29.95 HB 9781441188113 2012 £55.00 $100.00 Inspection copy available

The Contemporary Spanish-American Novel, (ed.) Corral, De Castro, Birns PB 9781441142597 2013 £22.99 $39.95 HB 9781441140395 2013 £65.00 $120.00

David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, 2nd edition, Burn PB 9781441157072 2012 £13.99 $19.95

Emerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor, LaRocca PB 9781441161406 2013 £17.99 $34.95 HB 9781441193179 2013 £55.00 $120.00

Estimating Emerson, (ed.) LaRocca PB 9781441164865 2013 £23.99 $42.95 HB 9781441199386 2013 £70.00 $130.00

Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Tredell PB 9780826490117 2007 £14.99 $21.95 HB 9780826490100 2007 £65.00 $120.00

Gielgud, Olivier, Ashcroft, Dench, (ed.)

Jackson HB 9781441185259 2013 £75.00 $140.00

The Gospel According to Flannery O'Connor, Cofer HB 9781623560881 2014 £60.00 $110.00

Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist, Manniste PB 9781628928068 2014 £19.95 $29.95 HB 9781623561086 2013 £60.00 $110.00

Poe and the Subversion of American Literature, Tally, Jr. HB 9781623564278 2014 £74.00 $110.00

Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Graham PB 9780826491329 2007 £13.99 $21.95 HB 9780826491312 2007 £65.00 $110.00

Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy's The Road, (ed.) Murphet, Steven PB 9781441185051 2012 £18.99 $34.95 HB 9781441169341 2012 £60.00 $110.00

Sylvia Plath, Holbrook HB 9781472505897 2013 £75.00 $128.00

Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo, Gourley PB 9781628928051 2014 £19.95 $29.95 HB 9781441166890 2013 £60.00 $110.00

Toward a Modernist Style: John Dos Passos, Pizer PB 9781623561185 2013 £19.99 $34.95 HB 9781623564438 2013 £65.00 $120.00

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Silence of the Sea / Le Silence de la Mer, (ed.) Brown, Stokes PB 9780854963782 2002 £10.99 $15.95

Thomas Mann in English, Horton HB 9781441167989 2013 £60.00 $110.00

Tolstoy: What is Art?, Tolstoy, (ed.) Jones

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE Confessions, Docherty PB 9781472557452 2014 £16.99 $29.95 HB 9781849666596 2012 £55.00 $89.95

Encountering Buddhism in TwentiethCentury British and American Literature, (ed.) Normand, Winch HB 9781441184764 2013 £60.00 $110.00

EUROPEAN LITERATURE Brodsky Translating Brodsky: Poetry in SelfTranslation, Berlina HB 9781623561734 2014 £60.00 $110.00 Inspection copy available

Bulgakov: Heart of a Dog, Bulgakov, Pyman PB 9781853993404 1998 £13.99 $21.95

Essays: Friedrich Schiller, (ed.) Hinderer, Dahlstrom PB 9780826407139 1993 £19.99 $32.95 HB 9780826407122 1993 £60.00 $115.00

European Romanticism, (ed.) Prickett PB 9781472535443 2014 £40.00 $68.00 HB 9781441117649 2010 £200.00 $400.00

Hyperion and Selected Poems: Friedrich Höderlin, (ed.) Santner PB 9780826403346 1990 £21.99 $39.95 HB 9780826403339 1990 £70.00 $130.00

Irigaray, Incarnation and Contemporary Women's Fiction, Rine HB 9781780935980 2013 £60.00 $110.00

Kafka Translated, Woods PB 9781441197719 2014 £19.99 $29.95 HB 9781441149916 2014 £66.00 $100.00

Masculinity in Fiction and Film, Baker PB 9781847062628 2008 £28.99 $55.00 HB 9780826486523 2006 £65.00 $120.00

Nathan the Wise, Minna von Barnhelm, and Other Plays and Writings: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, (ed.) Demetz PB 9780826407078 1991 £33.99 $42.95 HB 9780826407061 1991 £110.00 $180.00

The Politics of Literature in Nazi Germany, Barbian PB 9781441107343 2013 £22.99 $39.95 HB 9781441120335 2013 £70.00 $130.00 Inspection copy available

Pushkin: Eugene Onegin, Pushkin, (ed.)

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The Foreign in International Crime Fiction, (ed.) Anderson, Miranda, Pezzotti PB 9781472569547 2014 £18.99 $32.95 HB 9781441128171 2012 £65.00 $120.00

The Glyph and the Gramophone, Ferretter PB 9781441122957 2013 £17.99 $29.95 HB 9781441132581 2013 £55.00 $100.00

Hurt and Pain, Mintz HB 9781441174482 2013 £60.00 $110.00

John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics, Jaeger PB 9781441117526 2013 £17.99 $29.95 HB 9781441104663 2013 £55.00 $100.00

Language Lost and Found, Forsberg HB 9781623564834 2013 £60.00 $110.00

Literature After Globalization, Leonard PB 9781472579799 2014 £18.99 $32.95 HB 9781441190710 2013 £65.00 $120.00

Philosophy and Literature in Times of Crisis, Mack PB 9781623566494 2014 £17.99 $29.95 HB 9781623560461 2014 £65.00 $120.00

The Translator as Writer, (ed.) Bassnett, Bush PB 9780826499943 2007 £31.99 $55.00 HB 9780826485755 2006 £75.00 $140.00

COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS Batman Unmasked, Brooker PB 9780826413437 2001 £36.99 $65.00 HB 9780826449498 2001 £20.00 $27.95

Black Comics, (ed.) Howard, Jackson II PB 9781441135285 2013 £18.99 $29.95 HB 9781441172761 2013 £60.00 $110.00

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Do The Gods Wear Capes?, Saunders PB 9780826441980 2011 £17.99 $25.95 HB 9780826435569 2011 £55.00 $100.00

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CHILDREN'S LITERATURE Alternative Worlds in Fantasy Fiction, Hunt, Lenz PB 9780826477606 2004 £23.99 $42.95

Ethics in British Children's Literature, Sainsbury HB 9781441139832 2013 £60.00 $110.00

WRITING The Calling Card Script, Ashton PB 9781408110171 2011 £15.99 $22.95

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How NOT to Write a Sitcom, Blake PB 9781408130858 2011 £15.99 $22.95

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The Writer's Workbook, 2nd edition, (ed.)

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LITERARY BIOGRAPHY The Critic in the Modern World, Ley PB 9781623569310 2014 £19.99 $29.95 HB 9781623563738 2014 £65.00 $120.00

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GENRE STUDIES Bending Genre, (ed.) Singer, Walker PB 9781441123299 2013 £17.99 $29.95 HB 9781441180650 2013 £55.00 $100.00

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Gothic Histories, Bloom PB 9781847060518 2010 £15.99 $25.95 HB 9781847060501 2010 £50.00 $90.00

The Novel: An Alternative History, Moore PB 9781441145475 2011 £19.99 $34.95

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Creative Writing in the Digital Age. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Holland, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Critical Practice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Hubble, Nick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

A Adams, Carol J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3

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Holderness, Graham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Hughes Gibson, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

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Adams, Jenni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Dante's Sacred Poem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Adapting Canonical Texts in Children's Literature . . . . . . 33

David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing". . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Irish Writing London: Volume 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Adventures of Henry Thoreau, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Davis, Michael Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Irish Writing London: Volume 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

After the Stasi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

De Boever, Arne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

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Agamben's Joyful Kafka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Decker, James M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

American Fiction in Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

den Dulk, Allard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

J.K. Rowling: A Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

American Tantalus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Dennis, Mark W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Jervis, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Anderson, Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Denson, Shane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth . . . . . . . . . 23

Approaching Silence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Dinsman, Melissa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Jewish Feeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Araújo, Susana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Djuna Barnes's Nightwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

John Kasper and Ezra Pound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Ardoin, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Doloughan, Fiona J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Johnson, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Arens, Katherine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Dow, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Joy, Louise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Armstrong, Julie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Driver's License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Ashton, Gail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Drone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

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Duncan, Randy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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Dwor, Richa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Bambi's Jewish Roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Dylan Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Banash, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Kaplan, Brett Ashley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Kelly, Adam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Kennedy, A.L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Kerr-Koch, Kathleen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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Kiliç, Mine Özyurt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Baudelaire's Media Aesthetics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Early Visions and Representations of America. . . . . . . . . 22

Bayley, Clare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Ecofeminism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

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Beebee, Thomas Oliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Ellis, Hannah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Benson-Allott, Caetlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

English as a Literature in Translation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Bentley, Nick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Epplin, Craig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Berberich, Christine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Errington, Philip W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Between Levinas and Lacan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Evil: A History in Modern French Literature and Thought . 27

Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature, The . . . . 31

Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer. . . 24

Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing, The . . . . . 34

Experimental Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction, The . . . . . . . 7

Ezra Pound and 'The Globe' Magazine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Basu, Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Body of Work, A: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Late Book Culture in Argentina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Late Modernism and The English Intelligencer. . . . . . . . . 12 Latter, Alex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Lauret, Maria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Leitch, Vincent B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Leonard, Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Levitz, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Life and Work of Thomas MacGreevy, The. . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Literary Criticism in the 21st Century. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Bohn, Willard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

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Book of Imitation and Desire, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Falling After 9/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Literature's Children. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Boswell, Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Fischer, Luke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Ludlow, Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Boyle, Brenda M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Flann O'Brien & Modernism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Lutzkanova-Vassileva, Albena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

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British Fiction in the Sixties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Foreign in International Crime Fiction, The . . . . . . . . . . 29

Brown, Andy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Forgiveness in Victorian Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Brown, Catherine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Fujii, Hikaru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Brown, Harry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

G

Bruhwiler, Claudia Franziska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Burns, Lorna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Literature After Globalization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Maggie Gee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape'/'La derniere bande', The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Gardiner, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Making of Samuel Beckett's 'The Unnamable'/'L'innommable', The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

German Literature as World Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Männiste, Indrek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Golf Ball. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Marsh, Alec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Gomez-Galisteo, M. Carmen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Mary Butts and British Neo-Romanticism . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Castile, Meredith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Gontarski, S.E.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Catani, Damian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Gourley, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-1975. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Censorship and the Limits of the Literary. . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Grace, Fraser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Christina Rossetti and the Bible. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Groes, Sebastian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Chwast, Seymour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Grøtta, Marit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Clark, Michael Dean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Gruen, Lori . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient. . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Gunesekera, Romesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Collignon, Fabienne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

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McNally, Lisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Henry Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

McQuillan, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Bush, Ronald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A. . . . . . . . . . 23 Constitution of English Literature, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze . . . . . . . . 10 Cooke, Jennifer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Correspondence of Ezra Pound and the Frobenius Institute, 1930-1959, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Cowan, Laura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

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Mason, Emma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Matterson, Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Mattison, Laci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 May, Lori A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 McDonald, Ronan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 McKinley, Maggie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

McWhirter, Cameron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Hergenrader, Trent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Mead, Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Herron, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture . . . . . . . . . 31

Hershman, Tania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Melville: Fashioning in Modernity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Hill, Christopher William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Merrill, Trevor Cribben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

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INDEX Meyer, Christina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Ring, Annie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Middleton, Darren J.N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Rocket States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Miranda, Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Romancing Fascism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Modernism at the Microphone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Romantics and Victorians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Mokhtari, Tara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Roos, Bonnie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Moore, Nicole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Roper, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Moore, Steven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Rothstein, Adam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Morrell, Sascha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Russian Irrationalism from Pushkin to Brodsky. . . . . . . . . 28

Müller, Anja . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Ruti, Mari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Murphet, Julian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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S Scenes of Intimacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Nabokov in America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Schreibman, Susan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Nabokov's Shakespeare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Schuman, Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Nakamura, Yoko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Secret, Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Narrative Care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Sensational Subjects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Nayar, Sheila J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Shaffer, Elinor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Newland, Courttia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Sims, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Novel Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Smith, Matthew J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

W Wagner, Corinna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Wanderwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Warnes, Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Watson, Nicola J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Weakness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Weineck, Silke-Maria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Weller, Shane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 William Gaddis: Expanded Edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Willing Suspension of Disbelief, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Wilson, Leigh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Worrying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Write Crowd, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Writing for Radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Writing Short Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Snoek, Anke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

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States of Trial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

O'Donnell, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Stein, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

O'Gorman, Francis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Steve Tomasula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Oishi, Kaz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Succeeding Postmodernism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

O'Sullivan, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Surrealist Poetry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Outside, America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Sympathetic Sentiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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Pacheco, Anita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

T.E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of Early Modernism.13

Parmar, Sandeep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Tabachnikova, Olga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Paul Auster's Writing Machine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Tally, Jr., Robert T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Perry, Seamus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Temporary Future, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Pezzotti, Barbara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Playwriting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Poe and the Subversion of American Literature. . . . . . . . 25 Poet as Phenomenologist, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Political Initiation in the Novels of Philip Roth . . . . . . . . 11 Politics and Pedagogy of Mourning, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Pound, Ezra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Power of Comics, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Pozorski, Aimee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Tew, Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Tomko, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Tonning, Erik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Towheed, Shafquat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Tragedy of Fatherhood, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the War on Terror . . . . . 9 Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives . . . . . . 32

Radford, Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Reading Mina Loy’s Autobiographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Reading the Abrahamic Faiths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Reading Theories in Contemporary Fiction. . . . . . . . . . . 10 Rebecca West's Subversive Use of Hybrid Genres . . . . . . . 15 Reception of George Eliot in Europe, The . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Rees, Emma L.E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Rein, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Reitter, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Remote Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Renaissance and Long Eighteenth Century, The . . . . . . . . 18 Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20th-Century Fiction and Film. . 7

Trofimova, Evija . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Twain, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

U Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism. . . . . . 15 Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism . . . . . 15

V Vagina, The: A Literary and Cultural History. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vallins, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Van Hulle, Dirk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Vienna's Dreams of Europe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Vietnam War, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary . . . . . . . . . . . 22

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