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Arden Performance Companions
Abigail Rokison-Woodall, The Shakespeare Institute, UK & Michael Dobson & Simon Russell Beale
Shakespeare and Brecht
A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers
Stephen Unwin, Theatre Director
This practical guide uncovers the roots of Brecht’s lifelong obsession with Shakespeare By connecting these two great playwrights, Stephen Unwin imagines new possibilities for Brechtian productions of Shakespeare Drawing on his directing and performance experience, Unwin’s knowledge of Brecht provides students, teachers, and practitioners with practical exercises for use in the classroom and rehearsal room The book charts a chronology of Brecht’s engagement with Shakespeare and details a Brechtian approach to reading, performing and staging Shakespeare Unwin also provides an in-depth look at five of Shakespeare’s plays through Brecht’s own words and imagines a Brechtian staging for them
Series: Arden Performance Companions • The Arden Shakespeare
Richard III: Arden Performance Edition
William Shakespeare
Edited by Simon Russell Beale & Abigail Rokison-Woodall, The Shakespeare Institute, UK
Richard III is one of Shakespeare's enduring villains as the troubled and troubling figure at the heart of this popular succession drama Traversing the familiar terrain of scheming plots, proposals, betrayals and kingly power, this edition is presented in an easy to read format with notes for performance and rehearsal by directors and actors It is edited by leading Shakespearean actor, Simon Russell Beale, and director, Abigail Rokison-Woodall With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to open the play's possibilities and meanings to actors and students
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 440 pages
PB 9781350445772 £10 99 / $14 95
ePub 9781350445765 £9 89 / $13 49
ePdf 9781350445758 £9 89 / $13 49
Series: Arden Performance Editions • The Arden Shakespeare
Measure for Measure: A Critical Reader
Edited by John Jowett, University of Birmingham, UK & Sarah Olive, Bangor University, UK
This scholarly guide to Measure for Measure highlights its unique position in the Shakespeare canon by covering its nuanced performance history and critical backstory Issues at the heart of the play including gender equality, rape, judicial process, political authority, slander, and equality before the law provide rich material for teaching and studying. Contributors connect the specifics of these themes from the early modern context to the present day and make crucial interventions to contemporary criticism on the play Different interpretations explore how sexual politics, reputation, the reformation, ethics, and law shape Measure for Measure for a 21stcentury audience
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 •
Shakespeare and Stanislavsky A Practical
Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers
Annie Tyson, RADA, UK
Shakespeare and Stanislavsky provides a guide for actors, acting students, directors and teachers who want to apply the work of influential theatre practitioner, Stanislavsky, to the process of rehearsing and workshopping Shakespeare’s play texts Acting tutor and director, Annie Tyson, makes applying Stanislavsky’s methods to Shakespeare simple and accessible Drawing on years of acting, directing and teaching experience at the Drama Centre London and RADA, Tyson’s guide is full of practical tips and humour This guide also includes a series of interviews with actors and directors who explain their approach to applying Stanislavsky to Shakespeare
Series: Arden Performance Companions • The Arden Shakespeare
Essential Shakespeare
The Arden Guide to Text and
Interpretation
Pamela Bickley, The English Association & Jenny Stevens, Open University, UK
Addressing the transition from pre-university to undergraduate Shakespeare studies, this introductory critical guide examines 16 key plays Each chapter focuses on modern theoretical methods, close reading skills, early modern contexts, and productions from stage and screen spanning several decades This new edition features a revised introduction, a preface to the revised edition, two additional plays, As You Like It and Titus Andronicus, updates to each chapter, new links between chapters, an appendix featuring recommended open access online resources, and a glossary of critical terms
Andronicus, Richard III, Hamlet and King Lear –the main classical sources and the drama of his contemporaries , this book argues that Shakespeare’s dramatization of compassion, far from expressing a sense of universal empathy, reveals a complex early modern emotion available to be solicited and manipulated as a discursive vehicle for the exclusion of others It demonstrates how Shakespeare’s engagement with the classical literature enables his dramatization of key questions of race, gender, sexuality and the relationship between human beings and nonhuman animals that are central to the current critical field.
UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 208 pages
HB 9781350497580 • £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781350497597 • £72 00 / $98 54
ePdf 9781350497603 • £72 00 / $98 54
The Arden Shakespeare
Global Shakespeare Inverted
Bi-qi Beatrice Lei & David Schalkwyk & Silvia Bigliazzi, University of Verona, Italy
Dostoevsky's Hamlet in Nineteenth-Century Russia
The Paradox of Subjectivity
Petra Bjelica, University of Verona, Italy
Dostoevsky uses Hamlet to address some of the most important problems in Russian culture in the second half of the 19th century Approaching Dostoevsky’s engagement with Shakespeare through a focus on his novel, Demons, Petra Bjelica considers the figure of Hamlet as it connects to Russian national identity, spirituality and cultural migration Bjelica argues that Russian Hamletism is a perfect example of how a literary phenomenon forms through a specific culture. Rather than just referencing the play, Dostoevsky’s engagement with opposing and contradictory elements of Russian Hamletism dramatize the Hamletian dilemma anew
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 264 pages
HB 9781350450929 • £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781350450936 £72 00 / $98 54
ePdf 9781350450943 £72 00 / $98 54
Series: Global Shakespeare Inverted The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare in the ‘Post’Colonies
Legacies, Cultures and
Social Justice
Edited by Amrita Dhar, University of California San Diego, USA & Amrita Sen, University of Calcutta, India
This collection provides a wide-ranging examination of the presence of Shakespeare in regions that were once under European colonial rule, including continental Africa, Australasia, the Arab world, the Indian subcontinent, East Asia and the Americas Contributors interrogate how Shakespeare intersects with the internal and global power dynamics of post-independence nations The essays cover a rich range of genres ranging from theatrical performances, translations, and cinematic adaptations to classroom strategies They address questions of race, gender, nationality, indigeneity, caste and class, and shed new light on the diverse range of contemporary Shakespeare engagements across global 'Post' Colonies
UK June 2025 US June 2025 280 pages 5 b&w illustrations
HB 9781350344143 • £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781350344150 • £72 00 / $98 54
ePdf 9781350344167 • £72 00 / $98 54
Series: Global Shakespeare Inverted • The Arden Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The State of Play
Edited by Rebecca Bushnell, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Offering new critical and performance approaches to Shakespeare’s most well-known comedy of desire, a play that speaks powerfully to contemporary concerns, this collection includes approaches to the play covering textual studies, literary analysis, performance studies, adaptation studies and pedagogy The chapters all point to the inherent instability or openness of this play and its themes of shifting identity and boundary crossings, bridging nature and culture, the material and ‘airy nothing’, mortal and fairy They make clear that this play speaks to people around the world today, emphasising its wide global reception and adaptability in both theatre and film.
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 272 pages
HB 9781350449534 • £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781350449541 £72 00 / $98 54
ePdf 9781350449558 £72 00 / $98 54
Series: Arden Shakespeare The State of Play • The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Adaptation
Mark Thornton Burnett, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Shakespeare and Seriality
Page, Stage, Screen
Edited by Christina Wald, University of Konstanz, Germany & Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Beginning by investigating Shakespeare as a serial writer, this open access book moves to case studies involving literary and dramatic adaptations, to more modern theatrical serializations of his plays Culminating in analysis of adaptations of Shakespeare in TV series including Succession and Station 11, this book explores Shakespeare’s seriality from the perspective of political theory, phenomenology, psychoanalysis and literary and cultural theory
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Centre of Cultural Inquiry (ZKF) and the Publication Fund of the University of Konstanz.
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 264 pages • 11 illus
HB 9781350437265 • £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781350437272 • £00 00 / $00 00
ePdf 9781350437289 £00 00 / $00 00
Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare in Ireland
Adaptations and Appropriations
Edited by Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Considering the ways in which such Irish writers as Samuel Beckett and W B Yeats drew on Shakespearean material in producing their own work, whilst analysing Shakespearean influence in both Irish society and its theatrical landscape, essays in this collection explore the history of Irish Shakespeare through the numerous ways in which Shakespeare and his work were reconfigured and recycled into various Irish contexts Shakespeare in Ireland shows how Shakespeare has been rendered Irish in a variety of complex ways, and is an exercise in tracking how Shakespeare becomes a fully hibernicised figure.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages • 7 bw illus
HB 9781350458383 • £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781350458390 • £72 00 / $98 54
ePdf 9781350458406 • £72 00 / $98 54
Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen
Edited by Edel Semple, University College Cork, Ireland & Ronan Hatfull, University of Warwick, UK
The first edited collection to explore Shakespeare’s life on modern stage and screen Focusing on the years 1998-2023, it identifies a 25-year trend for depicting Shakespeare and his contemporaries in theatre, film and television Exploring continuities and changes in the form since the release of Shakespeare in Love, it traces these developments through the 21st century With contributions from scholars and practitioners across multiple disciplines, and addressing topics including gender, nation, parody and performance, the collection presents a diverse account of Shakespearean biofiction.
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 208 pages
PB 9781350359246 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350359208
ePub 9781350359215 • £26 09 / $36 44
ePdf 9781350359222 • £26 09 / $36 44
Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation • The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s House A Window onto his Life and Legacy
Richard Schoch, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
'A terrific addition to the Shakespeare library ... eye-opening.' - Michael Billington, Country Life
Richard Schoch explores the appeal of Shakespeare's 'Birthplace' to visitors by examining the history of the house through time and how its changing fortunes reflect the changing attitudes toward Shakespeare himself
Based on original research, this book traces the history of Shakespeare’s birthplace, beginning in the 1560s, when Shakespeare was born there, and ending in the 1890s, when the house was rescued from private purchase and turned into the Shakespeare monument that it remains today
UK March 2025 US March 2025 200 pages 25 bw illus
PB 9781350524699 £16 99 / $22 95
Previously published in HB 9781350409354
ePub 9781350409361 • £15 29 / $21 59
ePdf 9781350409378 • £15 29 / $21 59
The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Disability Theory
Genevieve Love, Colorado College, USA
Literary disability studies intersect with Shakespeare studies in this rich and varied history of performance and criticism Genevieve Love explores the contemporary debates about disability representations on stage through close readings of Shakespeare plays and performances By mapping out the central ideas of disability theory in Shakespeare studies, Love tracks the emergence of disability theory as a field. Characterbased representations of disability act as one layer in an expansive understanding of disability that historicises configurations of disability in the early modern period more generally Such approaches challenge outmoded methods of engaging with disability for Shakespeare students, scholars, and practitioners
UK November 2025 US November 2025 256 pages
HB 9781350424364 £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781350424371 £72 00 / $98 54
ePdf 9781350424388 • £72 00 / $98 54
Series: Shakespeare and Theory • The Arden Shakespeare
On Shakespeare's Sonnets
A Poets' Celebration
Edited by Hannah Crawforth, King's College London, UK & Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, King's College London, UK
In the years since Shakespeare's death, the Sonnets have invited imitation, homage, critique, parody and pastiche These poems probe our relationship to their intricate form and ambitious scope, their investigation of sexuality, wit, memory and poetic survival They explore what it means to write 'on Shakespeare's Sonnets' in the 21st century Published in association with the Royal Society of Literature, contributing poets include: Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke, Paul Muldoon, Ruth Padel, Simon Armitage, Roger McGough, Wendy Cope, Jackie Kay, Mimi Khalvati, Imtiaz Dharker and Jo Shapcott, among others This new paperback edition also includes an updated preface
UK May 2025 • US August 2025 • 120 pages
PB 9781350531505 • £16 99 / $22 95
Previously published in HB 9781474221580
ePub 9781350531512 • £15 29 / $21 59
ePdf 9781350531529 • £15 29 / $21 59
The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Ecology of Natural Resources
Transitions and Transformations
Sophie Chiari, University of Clermont Auvergne, France
Sophie Chiari analyses how Shakespeare’s plays and poems present the transformation of the early modern natural world through environmental shifts and ecological transformation Using a range of examples from the Sonnets, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Tempest, Hamlet and Henry V, Chiari's ecopoetic study of dramatic language explores Shakespeare’s response to the rise of extractive exploitation in Elizabethan and Jacobean England By interweaving ecohistoricism, ecopoetics and material studies, Shakespeare’s Ecology of Natural Resources shows how an ecominded approach, focused on the interweaving of trade, territory and extractivism reveals new layers of meaning in Shakespearean poetics and drama
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 256 pages
HB 9781350559066 £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781350559073 £72 00 / $98 54
ePdf 9781350559080 £72 00 / $98 54
The Arden Shakespeare
Twelfth Night
Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition
Edited by James Schiffer, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA
This volume offers critical opinions about Twelfth Night across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play The volume features criticism from key literary figures such as Thomas De Quincey, Charles Knight, Mary Cowden Clarke, Charles Lamb, George Bernard Shaw and Caroline F E Spurgeon The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods
UK June 2025 US June 2025 408 pages
HB 9781350087057 £130 00 / $175 00
ePub 9781350452145 £117 00 / $159 29
ePdf 9781350452152 • £117 00 / $159 29
Series: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition • The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Tina Packer
Katharine Goodland, College of Staten Island, USA
This is the first comprehensive analysis of the contribution of Tina Packer to Shakespearean theatre in the United States Beginning with her 1st production in 1971, Katharine Goodland covers the 5 decades since the founding of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts in 1978 Drawing on new interviews with the original casts and creative teams as well as Tina Packer herself, and featuring 11 in-depth case studies of productions, it considers all of her professional Shakespeare productions in their cultural and historical context and illuminates the embedded nature of regional Shakespeare in communities across the United States
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 216 pages • 8 bw illus
PB 9781350205802 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350205710
ePub 9781350205727 £67 50 / $91 79
ePdf 9781350205734 • £67 50 / $91 79
Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare
ARDEN PERFORMANCE EDITIONS
Shakespeare’s
Care and Contagion in Shakespeare's Changing World
Edited by Darryl Chalk, University of Southern Queensland, Australia & Rebecca Totaro, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA
Circuits of disease correspond to previously unconsidered practices of caregiving in early modern English drama in this new volume by Darryl Chalk and Rebecca Totaro They explore how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries responded to and intersected with local and international ideas of communal care, health management, quarantine, embodiment, and theatricality Foregrounded by pioneering archival research, contributors explore plague and privilege in Romeo and Juliet, servants and caregiving in King Lear, women and herbal medicine in The Winter’s Tale, astrology in The Duchess of Malfi, and the humour that attaches itself to illness in The Roaring Girl.
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 256 pages • 3 bw illus
HB 9781350425071 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350425095 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350425088 • £76 50 / $103 94
The Arden Shakespeare
Women and Cultures of Portraiture in the British Literary Renaissance
Edited by Yasmin Arshad, Independent Scholar, USA & Chris Laoutaris, University of Birmingham, UK
This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines the representation of women at the intersections between portraiture, literature and drama in Renaissance Britain Bringing together art historians, curators, heritage specialists and scholars of early modern history, drama and literature, the volume situates women both as the subjects and devisers of ‘cultures of portraiture’ The essays in this volume examine how power was negotiated through the royal icon; how self-portraiture became a means of navigating the dangerous worlds of religious and courtly factionalism; how the commissioning, collecting and curating of paintings, relics and life-writings fashioned shared testaments of faith and enabled female networks across political and pedagogical arenas; how drama staged the anxieties surrounding a threatening female agency; and how creativity wielded through narrative prose fiction, illuminated manuscripts and poetry, allowed women to co-opt and subvert prevailing visual tropes and stereotypes
UK November 2025 US November 2025 288 pages 16 colour, 44 bw illus
HB 9781350320703 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350320710 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350320727 • £76 50 / $103 94
Series: Arden Studies in Early Modern Material Culture • The Arden Shakespeare
Early Modern Bonds of Trust
From Shakespeare to Milton
Edited by Alison Findlay, Lancaster University, UK, Helen Wilcox, University of Bangor, UK & Joseph Sterrett, Aarhus University, Denmark
Trust and risk provide important concepts for understanding the social and cultural life of early modern England but remain relatively unexplored in early modern literary studies This collection addresses that gap by exploring a wide range of literary genres and texts including comic drama, lyric verse, emblem books, ledgers, wills, polemical prose and religious epic Contributors explore issues of personal, communal and credit-based trust in texts such as Paradise Lost, The Merchant of Venice, Volpone and The Winter’s Tale. Taken together the mix of texts and genres reveal new insights into early modern English literature and its socio-economic context
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 256 pages
HB 9781350462007 • £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781350462014 • £72 00 / $98 54
ePdf 9781350462021 £72 00 / $98 54
Series: Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama The Arden Shakespeare
Richard Barnfield's Poetics
Early Modern English Poetry Beyond Shakespeare
Edited by Fabio Ciambella, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, Cristiano Ragni, University of Verona, Italy & Camilla Caporicci, University of Perugia, Italy
Richard Barnfield is sometimes considered the rival poet in Shakespeare’s sonnets but has been relatively neglected in studies of early modern English poetry The essays in this volume tackle issues of intertextuality and interdiscursivity through the poet’s use of classical sources and poetic genres such as the sonnet and epyllia Using corpus linguistics tools, the poet’s entire body of work is further elucidated through analysing his sonnets and use of irony Written by an international group of scholars, this collection celebrates the 450th anniversary of Barnfield’s birth and makes his poetry essential to the study of early modern poetry
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 312 pages
HB 9781350456037 • £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781350456044 • £72 00 / $98 54
ePdf 9781350456051 • £72 00 / $98 54
The Arden Shakespeare
Exploring Early Modern Sexualities
The Desires of King James VI & I
Jason O'Toole, University College Dublin, Ireland
Jason O’Toole explores the network of intimacy which structured itself around King James VI and I, his wife Anna of Denmark and James’ prominent as well as ancillary favourites He presents a cultural and literary history of homoerotic desire by analysing the politics and texture of queer culture at the Jacobean court Primary texts including poems, masques, and unpublished manuscripts, recurrent tropes and material culture are analysed to unpack sexual double meanings O’Toole demonstrates how homoerotic and homosocial desire were both interwoven and normative in the courts of King James VI and I
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 256 pages
HB 9781350541672 • £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781350541689 • £72 00 / $98 54
ePdf 9781350541696 • £72 00 / $98 54
The Arden Shakespeare
Angela Carter's Futures Representations, Adaptations and Legacies
Edited by Sarah Gamble, Swansea University, UK & Anna Watz, Uppsala University, Sweden
This book explores Angela Carter’s creative and critical afterlives as well as the multiple ways in which her work is amenable to being read through current critical and cultural theories Examining topics as diverse as theatrical adaptations of Carter’s novels, her ‘posthuman politics’, and the inspiration of her work for contemporary writers, the essays in this collection demonstrate Carter’s continuing relevance into the twentyfirst century.
UK
ePub 9781350343597 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350343580 • £76 50 / $103 94
Bloomsbury Academic
Medicine, Theology and Wellness in Britain from the Enlightenment to Modernity
Lesa Scholl, University of Melbourne, Australia
What is the soul? What is the relationship of the body to the soul? This book focuses on these questions in the context of nineteenth-century Britain, exploring the ways in which medicine and theology co-created modern perceptions of the impact of nutrition on mental health and wellness. It intervenes in the presumed conflict between science and religion in the long nineteenth-century studies by exposing the way medicine and theology worked together to form ideas of health and wellness
UK November 2025 US November 2025 248 pages
HB 9781350410909 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350410923 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350410916 • £76 50 / $103 94
Bloomsbury Academic
Children’s Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies in the Anthropocene
Multidisciplinary
Entanglements
Edited by Terri Doughty, Vancouver Island University, Canada, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, University of Wroclaw, Poland & Janet Grafton, Vancouver Island University, Canada
This open access book explores how children’s literature and cultures allow them to navigate environmental crises. With chapters from global researchers working in literary, cultural, childhood and education studies, it provides multidisciplinary perspectives on, and models for, how children might embrace hope over fear It examines various forms of storytelling, learning, thinking, and teaching, asking what children can learn from each other, from intergenerational and interspecies engagement and from human and more-than-human teachers
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Wroclaw University, Poland
UK
Angela Carter's Pasts Allegories and Intertextualities
Edited by Sarah Gamble, Swansea University, UK & Anna Watz, Uppsala University, Sweden
This book offers a fresh look at Angela Carter’s critical and intertextual engagements with the past Examining a broad range of Carter’s work (novels, short stories, poetry, as well as stage plays), the essays in this collection explore a stimulating selection of topics, including folk song, medieval literature, magic realism, and the occult Frequently drawing on newly available archival material, the volume lays out the ways in which Carter wove allusions into her own narratives, creating a lively and challenging dialogue with the cultural materials of the past and present
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 232 pages • 1 bw illus
HB 9781350343511 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350343535 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350343528 £76 50 / $103 94
Bloomsbury Academic
Framing Ageing
Interdisciplinary
Perspectives for Humanities and Social Sciences Research
Edited by Julia Langbein, Anne Fuchs, University College Dublin, Ireland & Mary Cosgrove, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Bringing together established and emerging scholars of old age from the Humanities and Social Sciences as well as gerontologists and medical practitioners, this open access book both showcases new scholarship and provides new methods and concepts for ongoing conversations about old age as an object of analysis in contemporary culture
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust.
UK November 2025 US November 2025 264 pages 15 bw illus
PB 9781350341456 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350341418
ePub 9781350341432 • £00 00 / $00 00
ePdf 9781350341425 • £00 00 / $00 00
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life • Bloomsbury Academic
British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses
Catherine Butler, Cardiff University, UK.
The first comprehensive study to explore the engagement of the Japanese with British children's literature, this considers its many manifestations in print, on the screen, in tourist locations and throughout Japanese popular culture. Taking stock of influence of literary works such as Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland, Tom's Midnight Garden, the Harry Potter series, the imagery of Thomas the Tank Engine and the characters of Beatrix Potter, this lively account draws on literary criticism, translation, film and tourist studies to explore how British children’s books have been selected, translated, understood, adapted and reworked into Japanese commercial, touristic and imaginative culture
UK January 2025 • US January 2025 • 232 pages • 30 bw illus
PB 9781350511903 • £21 99 / $29 95
Previously published in HB 9781350195479
ePub 9781350195493 • £19 79 / $26 99
ePdf 9781350195486 • £19 79 / $26 99
Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature Bloomsbury Academic
The Cultural Histories Series
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in Antiquity
Edited by Debbie Felton, University of Massachussetts, Amherst, USA
Spanning chronologically from the third millennium BCE through to the seventh century CE and beyond, and geographically from the Mediterranean to the Near East and Asia, this book explores the earliest known evidence of familiar folk tales and fairy tales in the ancient world
An essential resource for scholars and students of ancient literature, history, and cultural studies, this book explores topics including: forms of the marvelous, gender and sexuality, monsters and the monstrous, the significance of spaces, socialization and moral messaging, and the uses and abuses of power
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 256 pages • 20 illus
PB 9781350593862 • £25 99 / $35 95
Previously published in HB 9781350093799
ePub 9781350281196 • £67 50 / $91 79
ePdf 9781350281189 £67 50 / $91 79
Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic World English
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Age of the Marvelous
Edited by Suzanne
Magnanini, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Drawing on the contributions of scholars working on Italian, French, English, Ottoman Turkish, and Japanese tale traditions, this book underscores the striking mobility and malleability of fairy tales written in the years 1450 to 1650 The essays examine how early modern scientific theories, debates on the efficacy of witchcraft, conceptions of race and gender, religious beliefs, the aesthetics of landscape, and censorial practices all shaped the representations of magic and marvels in the tales of this period
An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of literature, history and cultural studies,contributors explore themes including: forms of the marvelous, adaption, gender and sexuality, humans and non-humans, monsters and the monstrous, space, socialization, and power
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 272 pages
PB 9781350594128 • £25 99 / $35 95
Previously published in HB 9781350094659
ePub 9781350285903 • £67 50 / $91 79
ePdf 9781350287525 • £67 50 / $91 79
Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Nineteenth Century
Edited by Naomi J. Wood, Kansas State University, USA
This volume explores the period when the European fairy tales conquered the world and shaped the global imagination in its own image
Examining how collectors, children’s writers, poets, and artists seized the form to challenge convention and normative ideas, this book explores the fantastic imagination that belies the nineteenth century’s materialist and pedestrian reputation
With contributions from international scholars across disciplines, this volume is an essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of literature, history, and cultural studies
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 248 pages • 21 bw illus
PB 9781350594142 • £25 99 / $35 95
Previously published in HB 9781350095366
ePub 9781350287556 • £67 50 / $91 79
ePdf 9781350287563 • £67 50 / $91 79
Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Middle Ages
Edited by Susan Aronstein, University of Wyoming, USA
Spanning the years from 900 to 1500 and traversing geographical borders, from England to France and India to China, this book uniquely examines the tales told, translated, adapted and circulated during the period known as the Middle Ages
An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of literature, history and cultural studies, this volume explores themes including: forms of the marvelous, adaptation, gender and sexuality, humans and non-humans, monsters and the monstrous, spaces, socialization, and power
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 248 pages
PB 9781350593879 • £25 99 / $35 95
Previously published in HB 9781350094482
ePub 9781350287570 • £67 50 / $91 79
ePdf 9781350287587 • £67 50 / $91 79
Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Eighteenth Century
Edited by Anne E. Duggan, Wayne State University, USA
This volume traces the evolution of the genre over the period known as the long eighteenth century It explores key developments including: the French fairy tale vogue of the1690s, dominated by women authors including Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy and Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier, the fashion of the oriental tale in the early eighteenth century, launched by Antoine Galland’s seminal translation of The Thousand and One Nights from Arabic into French, and the birth of European children’s literature in the second half of the eighteenth century
This book explores such themes and topics as: forms of the marvelous, adaptation, gender and sexuality, humans and non-humans, monsters and the monstrous, spaces, socialization, and power
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 256 pages • 27 bw illus
PB 9781350594135 • £25 99 / $35 95
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Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Modern Age
Edited by Andrew Teverson, Kingston University, UK
Drawing together contributions from an international range of scholars in history, literature, and cultural studies, this volume uniquely examines creative applications of fairy tales in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It explores how the fairy tale has become a genre that flourishes on film, on TV, and in digital media, as well as in the older technologies of print, performance, and the visual arts
This book explores such themes and topics as: forms of the marvelous, adaptation, gender and sexuality, humans and non-humans, monsters and the monstrous, spaces, socialization, and power
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 256 pages • 28 bw illus
PB 9781350594159 • £25 99 / $35 95
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Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic
Jane Austen in 50 Words
Maria Frawley, George Washington University, USA.
What does Jane Austen mean when she writes approvingly of a character's 'gentility' and ‘delicacy’, or critically of another's 'indolence' and 'impertinence’? What are her characters doing when they take the measure of a person's 'air' and 'address'? These questions and more are answered in this Janeite treasure trove, which examines the distinctive language woven through Austen’s signature stories.
Literature and Media from Beauty and the Beast to Bridgerton
Edited by Madeleine Pelling, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, UK & Emrys D. Jones, King's College London, UK
Exploring how 18th-century narratives are taken-up, recycled and re-visioned in contemporary media, this book combines scholarly essays with interviews from curators, historians, actors and producers Highlighting how contemporary depictions give marginalized lives visibility, the role of genre in reenacting period culture, and the potential for modern adaptation to transmute historical suffering, this book covers such works from theatre, TV, film and games as The Great, Bright Star, Harlots, Belle, Bridgerton, The Revolutionists, Beauty and the Beast and Black Sails
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 288 pages
HB 9781350528871 £85 00 / $115 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Funny Dostoevsky
New Perspectives on the Dostoevskian Light Side
Edited by Lynn Ellen Patyk, Dartmouth College, USA & Irina Erman, The College of Charleston, USA
Funny Dostoevsky demonstrates how and why Dostoevsky is one of the most humorous 19thcentury authors, even as he plumbs the depths of the human psyche and the darkest facets of European modernity Contributors go beyond traditional categories of humor, such as satire, parody, and the carnivalesque, to apply unique lenses to their readings of Dostoevsky These include cinematic slapstick and the body in Crime and Punishment, the affective turn and hilarious (and deadly) impatience in Demons, ontological jokes in Notes from Underground and The Idiot, and feminist approaches to Dostoevsky's funny and furious women
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 240 pages • 4 b&w illustrations
PB 9798765109793 • £28 99 / $39 95
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Bloomsbury Academic
The Politics of Disinterestedness in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Browning, Eliot, Wilde
Natalie Roxburgh, University of Hamburg, Germany
This book historicizes the concept of disinterestedness by examining discourses on political economy during and before the 19th century It argues that certain literary texts developed to respond to the way all interests are transformed into economic interests in this period, and the implications for aesthetics and aesthetic autonomy Reading canonical authors, Browning, Eliot and Wilde, through disinterestedness sheds new light on literary value and the formal techniques seen as important by the end of the 19th century, just as liberal democracy took hold in Britain
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 192 pages
HB 9798765134986 • £65 00 / $90 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Melancholic Life
Literary Expression and the Experience of History from Burton to Keats
Jonathan C. Williams, Bilkent University, Turkey What binds 18th-century melancholics such as James Thomson, Sarah Fielding’s David Simple, or Henry Mackenzie’s Harley is a belief that critical thought is worth voicing whether or not it contributes to social change That belief converges with 18th-century ideas of sentiment and loneliness, but it also syncs up in surprising ways with theoretical models of political subjectivity that emerge in the 20th century Attention to melancholic expression reveals resonances not only to medical, religious, poetic, and philosophical language, but also between early modern thinkers and those in the 20th century
Staging a vital counter-narrative to global nationalist discourses, this book explores how 20th and 21st-century postcolonial literatures criticize hetero-normative definitions of nationhood, weaving a trans-national and trans-Atlantic network of influences despite the pronounced geopolitical and cultural differences With wide geographical scope and a comparative approach, Szczeszak-Brewer delves into the metaphorical currency of male impotence, sexual aggression and gender-nonconforming characters in nationalist narratives from Ireland, the U S, Poland, France, Britain, South Africa, and Senegal, in the work of writers such as James Joyce, Witold Gombrowicz, Jean Toomer, Bessie Head, Zoë Wicomb, JM Coetzee, Andrea Levy, Patrick McCabe, David Diop
UK June 2025 US June 2025 248 pages
HB 9781350323339 £85 00 / $115 00
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Series: Global Perspectives in Irish Literary Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
Violence and Postcolonial Marginalities in South Asian Literature
Edited by Zakir Hussain, Ghulam Rabani & Rajbir Samal
Postcolonial Marginalities: Violence in South Asian
Literature explores the multifaceted dimensions of violence represented in the literature of South Asia It sheds light on the intricate relationships between colonial legacies, social structures, and violence in the South Asian region In the context of South Asia, a region marked by rich cultural diversity and historical complexities, the intersections of postcolonialism, violence, and literature become particularly salient
UK February 2026
• US December 2025 • 272 pages
HB 9781666973167 £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781978759787 £79 83 / $99 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
World English
Edith Wharton and German Culture
Maria Novella Mercuri
Edith Wharton and German Culture examines the relation between Wharton’s work and life and German culture It assembles the many—some known—connections between them, but it is also breaking new ground by elaborating on the many ways in which one can read Wharton’s work in relation to German literature and philosophy
UK February 2026 • US December 2025 • 288 pages
HB 9781666926330 • £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781978772007 • £79 83 / $99 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
World English
Reading Literature and Chronic Pain
Josie Billington, University of Liverpool, UK
This valuable and insightful study into chronic pain and its treatment advances a striking analysis of the complex phenomenon of chronic pain, also attesting to the importance of the medical humanities in addressing urgent questions that medical science alone cannot resolve
Based on unique empirical research with people who are living with chronic pain, this book is the first of its kind to demonstrate the value of literature and literary reading both as a discourse for understanding pain and as an intervention in its treatment
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation
Edited by Cosima Bruno, SOAS University of London, Lucas Klein, Arizona State University & Chris Song
Providing the first systematic overview of modern and contemporary Chinese literature from a translation studies perspective, this handbook provides students, researchers and teachers with a context in which to read and appreciate the effects of linguistic and cultural transfer in Chinese literary works It provides new tools for reading and appreciating modern and contemporary Chinese literature in the global context of its translation and offers in-depth studies about eminent Chinese authors and their literary masterpieces in translation
Edited by Megan Quigley, Villanova University, USA & David E. Chinitz, Loyola University Chicago, USA
Over a dozen new volumes of T S Eliot’s poetry, prose, and letters have been published in the past decade This collection presents unabashedly fresh approaches to Eliot, while simultaneously guiding readers through the new materials that are available for the first time outside of restricted archives
UK August 2025 US August 2025 288 pages
PB 9781350564169 £18 99 / $25 95
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Bloomsbury Academic
The Post Bildungsroman
Coming of Age at the Margins
Edited by Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo
The Post Bildungsroman reimagines the comingof-age genre, exploring youth, identity, and belonging in narratives at the margins of comics, videogames, and experimental novels The essays in this collection use the theoretical framework of the Bildungsroman to analyze youth development, identity-in-flux, decolonial logic, as well as negotiation of maturity and belonging in contemporary narratives at the margins of literature (sequential art, comics, videogames, experimental novels, etc )
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 256 pages
HB 9781666978988 • £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781978763081 • £79 83 / $99 00
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Bloomsbury Academic World English
Mutant Narratives in Ecological Science Fiction
Thinking with Embodied Estrangement
Kaisa Kortekallio, University of Helsinki, Finland
Using an innovative multidisciplinary approach which is deeply invested in posthumanist thought, this book demonstrates how reading science fiction shapes the way we engage with lived environments In dialogue with works by widely studied science fiction authors Greg Bear, N K Jemisin, Paolo Bacigalupi, and Jeff VanderMeer, it draws out how they function as mutant narratives. The first to systematically integrate three fields - feminist posthumanism, cognitive narratology, and science fiction studies - this book offers a complex and coherent understanding of readerly experience as material, embodied, dynamic, and imaginative
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 232 pages
PB 9781350296800 £28 99 / $39 95
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Series: Posthumanism in Practice • Bloomsbury Academic
Decolonizing Knowledge
Looking Back, Moving Forward
Edited by Radha D'Souza, University of Westminster, UK & Sunera Thobani, The University of British Columbia, Canada
This book reflects on texts from anti-colonial thinkers of the past – J P S Uberoi, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, C L R James and Andaiye, among others – to draw out earlier generations' understandings of decolonization Contributors writing from multiple disciplines provide key insights from their thinking and examine their relevance for contemporary struggles for racial, gender and class justice These essays straddle a range of themes from theory and practice, art and literature, gender and identity, and political economy, to address a subject that is preoccupying academia and activists in the 21st century
On Translation, Samizdat, Censorship, Export, and Dissent
Veronika Tuckerová, Harvard University, USA
The first book on the reception of Kafka in Czechoslovakia offers a contextualized understanding of the writer by focusing on the period from his death through the end of Communism Using a broad comparative framework with a focus on translation and intercultural transmission, as well as archival materials and interviews, this book shows definitively how Kafka shaped the lives and work of his Czech readers, including inner-circle Communists, scholars, artists, and disaffected emigrés Looking at five distinct movements in the reading of Kafka's work in 20th-century Czech lands, this previously unknown story grants 21st-century readers new insights into his oeuvre
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 344 pages • 5 b&w photographs
HB 9798765118375 • £95 00 / $130 00
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Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages (except Czech)
Literature and the Telephone
Conversations on Poetics, Politics and Place
Sarah Jackson
Taking the ‘question of literature’ as its starting point, this open access book addresses the telephone’s propensity to mediate but also to interrupt communication, as well as the ways in which it taps into some of the most urgent concerns of the modern and contemporary age, including surveillance, mobility, globalization and the ethics of answerability In so doing, it provides a fascinating look at how the telephone has been shaping literature and culture from the early twentieth century to the present
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Nottingham Trent University.
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 248 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781350269774 • £28 99 / $39 95
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Bloomsbury Academic
Literature in Late Monolingualism
Literacies for the Linguacene
David Gramling, University of British Columbia, Canada
Monolingualism is bad, literature is good — right? Though an oversimplification, many of us do tend to quickly associate monolingualism with control, nationalism, indifference, and racist violence In contrast, literature stands as a beacon for expansive human expression and experience, across Earth’s thousands of human languages But what if this division of things leads us to underestimate the ongoing historical and aesthetic relationship between monolingualism and literature? What if novels made in a European mould tend to be much more obliged and indebted to monolingual structures than their publishers, and even their critics, acknowledge? Instead of whistling past this inconvenience, Literature in Late Monolingualism recognizes it squarely—and details how many authors of contemporary novels do so too
Bureaucratization and Aesthetics in Britain and France, 1810-1900
Daniel Jenkin-Smith, Aston University, UK
Romantics, satirists, journalists, novelists, feminists, radicals, conservatives, Naturalists and Decadents: a whole slew of French and British writers from across the 19th century were obsessed with offices. A cloistered world of mind-numbing, repetitive labour, the office was also, somehow, a key component of emergent modern society – a contradiction that enthralled and confounded readers, writers and office workers alike. This book explores the changing portrayal of office life as the history of a ‘forgotten genre’, asserting that ‘office literature’ is an essential tool for understanding the interrelation of aesthetic, social, technological, and ideological change across 19th century
UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 288 pages • 4 b&w illustrations
HB 9798765104774 £90 00 / $120 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
When Criticism Goes to War Njegos,
Andric and Their Detractors
Zoran Milutinovic, University College London, UK
A bold intervention into the lingering debates on Serbian writers Petar Petrovic Njegos and Ivo Andric in the late Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav period and the widespread Bosniak nationalist discourse surrounding their works This open access book interrogates the political and moralizing (mis)use of literature and asks difficult questions about the relationship between literature, history, politics and ethics: Does representing something in fiction mean endorsing it? Should fiction be used to rewrite history?
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 168 pages
HB 9798765133811
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Bloomsbury Academic
Bandwidths
Reading Across Media with Garrett Stewart
Edited by David LaRocca, Cornell University, USA
Critical luminaries from the fields of literary and film studies assess the methods and scope of Garrett Stewart’s career-long work across the fields of literary history and poetics, cinema and media studies Essays analyze directly, or extrapolate from, Stewart’s evolving methodology: a “signature” analytic intensity tested in its yield on interpretive challenges from literary prose and art history through cinema theory and screen stardom Bandwidths accompanies a companion volume, Attention Spans—Stewart’s “autobiographical,” or better, autophilosophical chronicle of method and evolution Contributors to Bandwidths either address Stewart’s aims and achievements directly or build implicitly on them in fresh investigations of their own
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 288 pages
HB 9798765112991 • £90 00 / $120 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Global Bunyan and Visual Art
Edited by Angelica Duran & Katherine Calloway
This book advances the conversation about the presence, aesthetic appropriation, and reinterpretation of the foundational English author John Bunyan (1628–1688), whose works and legend have had a vibrant afterlife in visual art Focusing on the global reach of Bunyan’s works and legend through multiple media and cultural adaptations provides a unique opportunity to discover the varied and generative influence of Bunyan on cultures past and present, promoting a more diverse appreciation of Bunyan's unparalleled reach
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 432 pages • 133 bw illus
HB 9781666960792 £95 00 / $130 00
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Bloomsbury Academic World English
Sacred Places in Comparative (Post)-Colonial Writing
From Alexandria to Gondar
Rosanna Masiola & Matteo Baraldo
With a focus on regions neglected in African Anglophone literature (such as Egypt, Libya, and Ethiopia), this book enlightens the reader about the diversity of postcolonial literature, including the role of Afro-Mediterranean cultures and the dynamics of colonization and hegemony
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 192 pages
HB 9781666972238 • £75 00 / $100 00
ePub 9781978764002 • £72 64 / $90 00
ePdf 9798216261117 • £72 64 / $90 00
Bloomsbury Academic World English
Auditory Perception in Twentieth-Century SelfNarratives
Oto-bio-graphical
Subjects
Claudia Cerulo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
This book closely explores connections between poststructuralist interest in auditory perception and the decentered autobiographical subject in 20th-century self-narratives. The first part of the book engages with the interest of 20th-century theorists with sound and perception, examining terms and usage by Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe, Nancy, Irigaray, Kristeva, and Cixous The second part of the book then close-reads three autobiographical works to show how these works artistically anticipate what would be theorized only a few decades later, and create the conditions for a pre-verbal apprehension of the world, raising questions about the ineffable source of writing and the writing process itself
UK December 2025 US December 2025 224 pages
HB 9798765139172 £90 00 / $120 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Poetics of Prophecy and Planetary Hispanic Modernism
The Tragic Aesthetic of the Vates Poets
Matthew Fehskens, East Tennessee State University, USA
This study shows that the prophetic Vates aesthetic is consistent across multiple poets in Europe, Spanish America, and the United States and constitutes a fundamental aspect of the production of literary modernism in Spanish The phenomenon is general, from the movement’s founding authors such as Cuban José Martí and Nicaraguan Rubén Darío, to Uruguayan poets Delmira Agustini and María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira, as well as Spanish authors Antonio Machado, Miguel de Unamuno, and Ramón del Valle Inclán
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 208 pages • 3 b&w illustrations
HB 9798765126783 • £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9798765126790 £79 83 / $99 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Tides of Progress
Anglo-Hispanic Print Culture, 1890–1945
Edited by Peter Hulme, University of Essex, UK & Ana Rodríguez Navas, Loyola University, USA
This volume studies the connections, interactions, and mutual appraisals between the Hispanic and Anglo spheres during a critical period in which print culture evolved from the province of the lettered few into a mass-media phenomenon Print culture is increasingly gaining recognition as a fruitful area for literary study and literary history, and this volume’s comparative approach significantly expands the scope of current scholarship The authors present print culture as becoming one of the most visible ways through which modernity and ideas of progress were encountered, consumed, shared, and assimilated by the public, in both the Anglo and Hispanic spheres
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 256 pages • 15 b&w illustrations
HB 9798765127865 £90 00 / $120 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Wars We Never Fought
Armed Conflict in Speculative Fiction
Edited by Matthew B. Hill, Coppin State University, USA & Leigha H. McReynolds, University of Maryland, USA
Wars We Never Fought offers 16 accessible and wide-ranging critical essays, with insight into how and why creators in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and related genres use war as a device within the diegetic worlds of their stories; what the depictions of war and warriors within these texts suggest regarding notions such as race, class, gender, sexuality, difference, sociopolitical power, and other cultural values; and how the textual dramatization of entirely fictitious wars might reflect, interrogate, and even structure understanding of warfare in the "real world "
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 304 pages • 5 b&w illustrations
HB 9798765121535 • £95 00 / $130 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
European Churches and Chinese Temples as Neuro-Theatrical Sites
Mark Pizzato, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
Integrating research across various cognitive science and humanities disciplines, this book explores how traditional designs and spaces of Chinese temples and European churches – as outer theatrical spaces – have left cultural imprints for how our "inner theatres" are staged Gathering theories and research from theatre, philosophy of mind and emotion, and various cognitive, affective, and social science fields, this book applies them to the art, architecture, and history of religious buildings, from Buddhist, Daoist, Confucian, and Imperial temples, to Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant churches and sites important in Judaism and Islam
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 328 pages • 40 b&w illustrations, 6 diagrams, 9
tables
PB 9798765109106 • £28 99 / $39 95
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Series: Cognition, Poetics, and the Arts • Bloomsbury Academic
Literatures as World Literature
Sofia Ahlberg, Uppsala University, Sweden & Thomas Oliver Beebee, Penn State University, USA
Life Writing as World Literature
Edited by Helga Lenart-Cheng, Saint Mary's College of California, USA & Ioana Luca, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
We live in the age of popular self-representation where most people produce or consume autobiographical material, whether that be as memoirs, selfies, blogs, etc. This book is the first to investigate this global phenomenon in the context of world literature, examining how life writing and world literature converge Experts from around the globe map regional and local autobiographical traditions, exploring the dynamic interplay between local and global aesthetics and sociopolitical concerns Case studies include prison narratives from communist regimes, Japanese diaries, multilingual Caribbean memoirs, Indian auto/biographical comics, and stories by Taiwanese domestic workers
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 328 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9798765107119 • £95 00 / $130 00
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Series: Literatures as World Literature Bloomsbury Academic
Cavafy as World Literature
Edited by Takis Kayalis, Hellenic Open University, Greece & Vicente Fernández González, University of Malaga, Spain
The poetry of C P Cavafy has attracted an international audience for nearly a century and, during the last three decades, has been unequivocally recognized as “world literature ” This unprecedented volume clarifies, enriches and problematizes multiple facets of Cavafy’s presence in the contemporary global literary sphere, while also drawing attention to its historical background through discussion of largely unknown material from the poet’s library, archive and early critical reception With essays from 19 scholars and researchers from 6 countries, this volume offers a collective and multidimensional overview of Cavafy’s presence and function in World Literature
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 304 pages • 10 b&w illustrations
HB 9798765105313 • £95 00 / $130 00
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Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Film as World Literature
Edited by Robin Truth Goodman, Florida State University, USA
How might framing literature as eclipsed by more "advanced" media suppress and obscure minority discourses? How might film's rise as more popular and "globalizable" drive a nation’s "soft power" to dominate political thinking? This volume asks how current divisions between media and scholarly fields reinforces global social inequalities. Chapters discuss film’s relation to world literature by considering not only literary adaptations across nations, regions, languages, ideologies, and contexts, but also by exploring film’s intersections with literary theory, narrative, history, genre, and experimentation Contributors investigate how literature interiorizes film technologies, visual techniques, image formation, frame, indexicality, angle, the gaze and narrative pleasure
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 304 pages • 27 b&w illustrations
HB 9798765113400 • £95 00 / $130 00
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Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
New Directions in German Studies
Imke Meyer, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Ecologies of Writing
Natural, Technical, and Social Conditions of Textual Production in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Edited by Urs Büttner, University of Oxford, UK & Jacob Haubenreich, Johns Hopkins University, USA
This edited collection explores the multiple dimensions of authorship that constitute the "ecology" of writing Examining the early 20th century to the present, Ecologies of Writing expands our understanding of this period of dramatic media-technological transition in which writers become increasingly self-reflexive and responsive to the materials and changing environments of their craft Drawing from works in German literature and theory, contributors expand this framing to encompass the vast array of material, social, environmental, and economic influences that all inform the practice of writing
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 240 pages • 10 b&w illustrations
HB 9798765124451 • £90 00 / $120 00
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Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
The "German Illusion"
Germany and Jewish-German Motifs in Hélène Cixous’s Late Work
Olivier Morel, University of Notre Dame, USA
As of January 2021, Hélène Cixous has published at least 1116 pages of texts related to “Germany ”
These texts are written, in one way or another, under the name, under the signs or influence of “Germany,” “German,” “Osnabrück,” and read together they offer a unique literary meditation on the Holocaust The study of Cixous’s “German trope” helps us refine our understanding of an uncannily original oeuvre that embodies the complexities of modernity’s genocidal history in a new way It sheds light on under-researched dimensions of Cixous’s publications on gender while providing insights into a major creator of our time
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 288 pages • 33 b&w illustrations
PB 9798765107386 • £28 99 / $39 95
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ePub 9798765107393 • £28 73 / $35 95
ePdf 9798765107416 • £28 73 / $35 95
Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
Anglo-German Entanglements in English Fiction
From the Cold War to Brexit
Daniela Keller
This book offers a timely and fresh look at AngloGerman relations in English fiction from the Cold War to Brexit It shows how writers have employed physical phenomena, such as quantum entanglement, to move beyond an alleged fixed binary opposition between the nations.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 288 pages • 7 b/w illus
HB 9781666934885 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781978766860 £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798216201311 £87 01 / $108 00
Series: New Critical Humanities Bloomsbury Academic World English
Intertextual Exoticism
Oceania and Colonial Loss in Early Twentieth-Century German Literature
Richard Sperber, Carthage College, USA
Richard Sperber reads a body of non-canonical German exoticist literature published after imperial Germany's loss of colonial Oceania in 1914, applying theories of "intertextuality" (Kristeva) and recent scholarship on literary exoticism to explore Germany's postwar crises of psychology, masculinity, and national identity mapped onto Oceanic spaces Through analyzing the nuances between narratives that make up these exotic texts, and also by comparing German exotic literatures about Oceania with other canonized adventure texts set in European colonies, such as Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Sperber defines a genre of transnational and intertextual postwar literature that brings new perspectives on the conditions of colonial loss
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 376 pages
HB 9798765135525 • £95 00 / $130 00
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Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
Writing the Mountains
The Alpine Form in German Fiction
Jens Klenner, Bowdoin College, USA
Writing the Mountains reveals how landscape and discourses of environmental formation impress themselves on the literary imagination and argues that mountains serve as dynamic spaces of material change that generate new aesthetic and narrative forms Through close readings of several canonical works by German, Austrian, and Swiss writers in which the mountains are depicted as unknowable, labyrinthine, or mercurial, Klenner uncovers the surprising transformations that landscape and the material environment can enact on the subjects within a story and how that story is told Writing the Mountains claims that the environment’s mutability in fact demands a poetics that can account for shifting forms
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 208 pages
PB 9798765106518 • £28 99 / $39 95
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Series: New Directions in German Studies Bloomsbury Academic
The Health Resort in Modern European Literature Transnational Trajectories
Henrike Schmidt, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany & Astrid Köhler, Queen Mary University of London, UK
This innovative open access book traces a transnational trajectory of the ‘literary spa’ from its rise in the Enlightenment period to the wellness age of the 21st century The Health Resort in Modern European Literature maps spa literature and spa reading across and between several European locations and cultures, highlighting their various intertextual links and references, including hitherto less studied texts in
The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA).
UK February 2025 US February 2025 280 pages 15 bw illus and 15 colour illus
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Love and Russian Literature From Benjamin to Woolf
Ira Nadel, University of British Columbia, Canada
Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century – whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism In this new book, Ira B Nadel, charts the story of that influence through the work of some of the key figures in British literature across the century, including Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Jane Harrison, Virginia Woolf, and H G Wells
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 264 pages
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Bloomsbury Academic
Contemporary Science Fiction and The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Sacrifice and Narrative Coherence
Jonathan
P. Lewis
This book seeks to create a new means of interrogating the direction in which contemporary science fiction is progressing Narratives about the loss of control over time, reality, and human consciousness demonstrate the on-going ideological crises of faith in institutions like religion, capitalism, and education
UK December 2025 US October 2025 176 pages
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The American Sentence From Pulpit to Pulp Fiction
Ira Nadel, University of British Columbia, Canada
A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book uses four stages in the story of American letters - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper and the screen - to ask what in fact is an American sentence and how has it changed?
Fictional Perpetuations of White American Trauma and Islamophobia
Sheheryar Sheikh, Dalhousie University, Canada
Examines four major novels – Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2005), Updike’s Terrorist (2006), DeLillo’s Falling Man (2007), and Waldman’s The Submission (2011) – through the conceptual framework of a “new” so-called Great American Novel oeuvre The author demonstrates a concerted effort by these writers to address the “Muslim Question” in novels that feature and critique traumatized white Americans creating mechanisms with which to mitigate the trauma of 9/11 as it resurges at even the thought of Muslims existing in America after 9/11
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 240 pages
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Pilgrim Myths in American Fiction, 1820-1920
Kari Miller
Pilgrim Myths in American Fiction, 1820-1920 is not about retelling the history to separate the facts from the myths It is about how the myths evolved in the first place. These American legends developed through popular fiction that was widely available and easily shared, written by authors on a mission to define American identity and for whom the story was both personal and local
UK February 2026 • US December 2025 • 240 pages • 4 b/w/ illus
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Fantasy
A Short History
Adam
Roberts, Royal Holloway University, UK
A comprehensive but concise history of fantasy literature, this book traces the central forms and influences on fantasy through the centuries to arrive at our understanding of the genre across literature, art and media today Pinning its evolution on three key moments - the 19th-century resurgence of interest in Arthurian legend, the rise of Christian allegory, and the emergence of a Norse, Germanic and Old English mythic identity – Adam Roberts explores the global dissemination and diversity of 21st-century fantasy in this accessible and dynamic history, covering such phenomena as Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and fantasy videogames
Brian Attebery, Idaho State University, USA & Dimitra Fimi, University of Glasgow, UK & Matthew Sangster, University of Glasgow, UK
Power and Society in Terry
Pratchett’s Discworld
Building a Fantasy Civilization
Edited by Justine Breton, Reims University, France
A critical deep-dive into conceptions of power and society in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, this book brings together experts in fantasy literature, political sciences, economics, philosophy, history, and journalism Surveying the Discworld’s institutionalised power structures, it explores ideas such as language, translation, humour, crowds, community, justice and coercion in novels including Arms, Equal Rites, Carpe Jugulum, Guards! Guards!, Jingo, Night Watch, Wyrd Sisters and Witches Abroad and more
UK April 2025 US April 2025 240 pages 5 bw illus
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Justice in 21st-Century Fairy Tales and the Power of Wonder
Cristina Bacchilega, University of Hawaii-Manoa, USA & Pauline Greenhill, University of Winnipeg, Canada
This open access book explores how and to what extent fairy tales and their modern adaptations from literature, film and television are put to work for justice in the areas ecology, kinship, disability, space and place, and gender. Guided by theorizing across fields from ecology to gender studies, it interrogates a range of international works such The Magic Fish, Paddington, Babine, The Shape of Water and The Dragon Prince The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and The University of Winnipeg, Canada.
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Reading Tolkien in Chinese Religion, Fantasy and Translation
Eric Reinders, Emory University, USA
Approaching translations of Tolkien's works as stories in their own right, this book reads Chinese translations of his Middle-earth writings to uncover new and unique perspectives that enrich the meaning of the original texts Eric Reinders reveals the mechanics of meaning by literally back-translating the Chinese into English, thus digging into conceptual common grounds between religion, fantasy and translation: the suspension of disbelief, and questions of truth - literal, allegorical and existential With coverage of themes including gods and heathens, elves and 'Men', race, mortality and immortality, fate and doom, and language, the book is an ambitious exercises in comparative imagination across cultures
UK October 2025 US October 2025 200 pages
PB 9781350374683 • £28 99 / $39 95
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Series: Perspectives on Fantasy • Bloomsbury Academic
Speculative Mimesis in Fantasy Literature
Rethinking Relations Between Fiction and Reality
Elise Kraatila, Tampere University, Finland
With 21st-century perceptions of reality increasingly a matter of interpretation, this open access book identifies fantasy as a uniquely effective form of storytelling for engaging with contemporary senses of reality. Proposing a new theory of fantasy’s relationship with our reality as a speculative form of mimesis, it demonstrates how fantasy’s “what if?” propositions, grand-scale scenario models, and thought experiments offer more artistic ways of engaging with current notions of reality Discussing works by Kazuo Ishiguro, N K Jemisin and Joe Abercrombie, illuminates how these writers utilized fantasy’s expressive repertoire to explore issues including global inequality, to climate crisis and the 'post-truth' era
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Tampere University, Finland.
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Fantasy and the Politics of Subversion
Speculative Writing in Colonial India
Mayurika Chakravorty, Carleton University, Canada
Focusing colonial Indian Fantasy texts from the late 19th to early 20th century, this book explores the origins, motivations, nature and role of speculative writing around the period of Indian independence It examines the works of authors Sanjibchandra Chattopadhyay, Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay, Rajshekhar Basu and Sukumar Ray to show how their writing offered commentaries on the colonial situation whilst grappling with questions surrounding science, progress, the environment, ethics and morality. Focusing on key works influenced by European, Persian, classical Sanskrit and local folk traditions, we see how speculative writers challenged the dominant literary tropes of both colonial and revivalist classicism
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 272 pages • 11 bw illus
HB 9781350401396 • £85 00 / $115 00
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Series: Perspectives on Fantasy Bloomsbury Academic
Tolkien's Medievalism in Ruins
The Function of Relics and Ruins in
Middle-earth
Edited by Nick Katsiadas & Carl Sell
This collection demonstrates how to achieve more comprehensive scholarship on J R R Tolkien, connecting Tolkien studies with other literary periods and cultural contexts
UK December 2025 • US October 2025 • 288 pages
HB 9781666971484 • £90 00 / $120 00
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Bloomsbury Academic World English
Gothic Celebrity
Fame and Immortality from Lord Byron to Lady Gaga
Harriet Fletcher, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Exploring how the Gothic consistently disrupts the narrative of immortality that modern celebrity culture creates, this book considers how celebrity and the Gothic are effective vehicles for understanding modern society’s responses to death and ageing
Tracing Gothic celebrity through motifs including vampires, decaying portraits, and ageing bodies as they manifest in 19th-century Gothic literature, mid-century Hollywood film, postmodern art and postmillennial television, it offers celebrity case studies of Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis and Lady Gaga Staking a claim for the pertinence of the Gothic to cultural history and media studies, it covers The Picture of Dorian Gray, Sunset Boulevard, What Happened to Baby Jane, Andy Warhol’s Gothic Portraits and FX’s American Horror Story .
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Historicizing Modernism
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
Allen Stroud
Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction covers the history of science fiction literature through a chronology, an introduction, an extensive bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on writers, subgenres, and technical terms
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 352 pages
HB 9781538184806 £160 00 / $210 00
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Erik Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway & Matthew Feldman, University of York, UK
Italian Futurism and the Development of English Literary Modernism
Robyn Jakeman, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Going against most accounts of Futurism in England, this book unpacks the profound influence of Italian Futurism’s role in the development of English literary modernism Beginning with an analysis of Italian Futurism’s transnational affiliations, its position in the European cultural field, and a reassessment of its reception in England, it goes on to re-evaluate three key modernist figures: the Poetry Bookshop proprietor and editor Harold Monro; the Vorticist impresario Wyndham Lewis; and the poet and artist Mina Loy
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 240 pages • 4 bw illus
Edited by Max McGuinness, University College Dublin, Ireland & Michael Cronin, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
This collection of essays is the first book devoted to exploring Marcel Proust’s influence on Irish literature and Irish themes within his work Featuring contributions from eleven scholars of French and Irish studies, The Irish Proust reveals a surprising textual dimension of Proust’s novel and traces the enduring legacy of his work throughout modern Irish letters
James Joyce's Early Works in Ireland's Textual Cultures
Niels Caul, Champlain College, Ireland
Putting Joyce back into dialogue with other Irish writers of his generation, such as George Moore, George Egerton, Hannah Lynch, Shan Bullock, Forrest Reid and Charlotte O’Conor Eccles, this book shows that his experiments with narrative styles and structures were a renegotiation rather than a rejection of earlier Irish conventions
As a genetic study, this book uncovers the creative DNA of James Joyce’s oeuvre by looking at the cultural forces that shaped him and that he in turn shaped in the creation of his books, developing a two-way relationship with history, memory and national identity It examines Joyce's oeuvre, from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, through Ulysses to Finnegans Wake
Based on evidence from his personal library and the extensive archive of reading notes, ideas, sketches and drafts, this book investigates how Joyce used, absorbed and repurposed these materials creatively in his writing
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 248 pages • 4 b/w illus
Laci Mattison, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA & Paul Ardoin, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA & S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA
Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism
Edited by James Martell, Lyon College, USA
From Lacan to Dalí, through Simone de Beauvoir, Beckett, Horkheimer, Burroughs, Pasolini, Foucault, Deleuze, up to Žižek, the Marquis de Sade’s influence and impact in modernism and modern thinking is hard to measure Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism presents its readers with a chance to reflect on the importance of this radical oeuvre from different perspectives Contributors examine Sadean literature and thought through some of its main texts in a series of comparative essays not only examining Sade’s influence in French, European, and American thought, but also criticizing it in the context of some of modern philosophy’s most relevant subjects
Edited by Arka Chattopadhyay, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India & Arthur Rose, University of Durham, UK
In his philosophical project, aesthetic orientation and political leanings, Alain Badiou is a product of, and a leading advocate for, European modernism
From the milieu of May 1968 to the contemporary ‘postmodern’ ethos, Badiou returns, time and again, to avant-garde modernist texts – aesthetic, political, philosophical and scientific – as inspiration for his response to present situations This volume explores Badiou’s readings of aesthetic, political and scientific modernities, connects Badiou’s thought with the various strands of aesthetic, philosophical, amorous and political modernisms, and includes a glossary of Badiou's key concepts and categories
Edited by Thomas Waller, University College Dublin, Ireland & Sinan Richards, King's College London, UK
Despite an affinity with early 20th-century modernism, Lacan’s name is still more routinely associated with the category of so-called "postmodernism," thus rendering the question of style and periodization somewhat out of focus This book asks and responds to a series of questions: Is Lacan a modernist or a postmodernist, and what is the difference? How significant was the influence of modernist literature and art on the development of Lacan’s ideas? Can one approach Lacan’s own texts as modernist works or documents? And how do received definitions of what modernism is/was change when viewed through a Lacanian lens?
Providing one of the first book-length accounts of Samuel Beckett’s poetry, this work illustrates how Beckett's poetry, and its failures, reconfigure the lyric form Reading Beckett alongside nineteenth and twentieth century European poets such as Hölderlin, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Montale, and Apollinaire, the book situates failure in the triangulation of the lyric impulse, subjectivity, and the human voice
UK March 2025 US March 2025 256 pages
HB 9781350464186 • £85 00 / $115 00
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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics • Bloomsbury Academic
David Jones, Disability and Modernist Form
Corporeality, Woundedness and Embodiment in the 'Makings'
Colette Nic Aodha, independent researcher, Ireland
Employing a fresh theoretical approach to David Jones' work, this is the first book to use disability studies as a lens through which to consider his post-war work Unpacking the distinct corporeality in the work of Welsh modernist maker, poet, painter, and engraver, David Jones (1895-1974) that emerges from the trauma of Jones’s participation in the Great War it relates Jones’s pioneering visual art and poetic form to antecedents (William Blake) and modern artists (Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst)
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 232 pages • 9 bw illus and 5 colour illus
Necessary Contradictions and Feminist Reconstructions
Edited by Joel Hawkes, University of Victoria, Canada
Established and new scholars, publishers, printers, and artists enter into conversation exploring the work of British author Mary Butts Taking its cue from Butts’s experimental, rhythmic writing, the collection is a nonlinear exchange of essays and responses Chapters range between Butts’s writing techniques and forms, her position in the modernist canon, contested sites of feminism in her work, and queer and postcritical readings The collection looks to be a feminist engagement, asking questions of what this might look like, why it is needed, and how such an approach offers insight into an erudite, contradictory, and experimental body of work .
UK November 2025 US November 2025 272 pages 21 bw illus
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Environmental Cultures
Greg Garrard, University of British Columbia, Canada & Richard Kerridge, Bath Spa University, UK
Global Fictions and Environmental Disaster
Imagining Survival on Our Changing Planet
Martin Premoli, California State University, San Bernardino, USA.
Examining contemporary literary depictions of environmental disasters through a North–South axis, this book explores the resonances and dissonances between environmentalisms of marginalized communities in the U S and the global South Featuring texts from authors such as Jesmyn Ward, Monique Roffey, Paulo Bacigalupi, Alexis Wright, Linda Hogan, and Henrietta RoseInnes, it models how a comparative (global North-global South) approach to literary studies can help us untangle the complex power dynamics of the Anthropocene
Global Activism, Ecopoetry and the Arts of Environmental Justice
Natalie Pollard, University of Exeter, UK
Arguing that many iconic 21st century metaphors and images used to communicate climate change and ecological crisis actually conceal the destructive foundations of Anthropocene life, this open access book considers five case studies – from Chile, Greenland, the Pacific Islands, the UK, and Canada – to examine a range of activist poetic projects which challenge dominant visual and narrative practices often used to articulate ecosystemic threats
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The University of Exeter.
Plastic and concrete are two of the most important and ubiquitous materials of the modern age This open access book brings these two materials together, using a wide range of sources, including novels, essays, travel and nature writings, films, advertisements, policy documents and (popular) science writing to examine the ways in which we invent, and re-invent, the world and worlds we inhabit
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The University of Rostock.
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 232 pages • 10 bw illus
Using an ecocritical lens to broaden the scope of Hemingway studies, this open access book unpacks Hemingway’s unique perspective on nature, providing fresh insights into the author and his nonhuman characters in the Anthropocene era
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective
Examining a wide variety of poets from the last three decades of the 20th century to the present, from Asian, African, South American and settler colonies such as Canada and Australia, Pramod K Nayar maps a poetry of ecological care, vulnerability and resilience
What do two white men born in the 19th century have to say that could be of any use or value in the current conjuncture of climate collapse and the recent re-rise of reactionary forces against progressive politics? Turns out, a lot, especially on waking up and critiquing anti-woke ideology on the topics of nature, life, social injustice, environmental destruction, and industrial capitalism and its technologies As Giblett shows, Henry David Thoreau – an inspiration for William Melvin Kelley’s writing on ‘staying woke’ – and Walter Benjamin provide tools of critique for waking to sexism, racism and placism
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 232 pages
HB 9798765129289 • £90 00 / $120 00
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Writing Borders and Other Barriers in the Era of Climate Crisis
Communities of Engagement
Edited by Olga Michael, University of Cyprus, Cyprus, Alan Rice, Ludmila Martanovschi, Ovidius University, Romania, Katerina Antoniou, University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus. & Jennifer Marie Bridgett Webster, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Bringing together intersectional perspectives across disciplines such as the humanities, arts, and social sciences, this book explores borders and crossings in relation to environmental damage and injustice in the context of the climate crisis
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 248 pages • 5 bw illus
HB 9781350499195 • £85 00 / $115 00
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New Directions in Life Narrative
Worldly Spirits, Extra-Human Dimensions, and the Global Anglophone Novel
Hilary Thompson, Bowdoin College, USA
Engaging contemporary Anglophone literature from the Asian, Middle Eastern and Caribbean diasporas, this book explores how such works invoke spirit forces, spirit realms and spirit beings such as positive forces that present visions of the Earth as agentive and animate Rejecting notions that these are uncanny hauntings or products of an exotic East or global South, this book builds a critical framework for analysing worldly spirits that draws upon anthropological discussions of animism, the art movement Dimensionism, and multispecies theories of animals’ diverse perceptual worlds
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 240 pages
PB 9781350373853 • £28 99 / $39 95
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Anna Poletti, Utretch University, Netherlands & John David Zuern, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA & Kate Douglas, Flinder's University, Australia
Experimental Life Writing Today
Edited by Vanessa Guignery, PARIS & Wojciech Drag
This comprehensive volume offers critical essays surveying the forms of innovation in contemporary Anglophone life writing. Experimental Life Writing Today provides a historical context for examining avant-garde tendencies in biography and autobiography and outlines the poetics of experimental life writing. It surveys autofiction, biofiction, paramemoir, autotheory, graphic memoir, eco-memoir and the lyric essay as experimental genres of life writing This volume features chapters devoted to themes and concepts such as illness, disability, mourning, relationality and place. The reader can find essays examining formal aspects and devices such as fragmentation, narration and point of view, and catalogue within experimental life writing
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 264 pages • 15 bw illus
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Women (Re)Writing Illness as Her Own
Edited by Rachel N. Spear
Women (Re)Writing Illness as Her Own illuminates ways in which writing processes and products enable women to create spaces of their own— spaces that interrogate illness, challenge restitution (re)constructions, and work within and around various limitations associated with women writing illness This collection streamlines writing studies with its framework and focus on writing process and products and relies heavily on trauma studies as a prominent lens Including scholarly and hybrid pieces, this collection also blends creative writing with literary studies, often stressing how illness itself can weigh on the process of writing
UK March 2026 • US January 2026 • 192 pages • 5 B/W illus
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World English
Life Writing and the End of Empire
Homecoming
in Autobiographical Narratives
Emma Parker, Keele University, UK
Exploring how legacies of British colonialism have shaped modern life narrative, this book compares the autobiographical writings of Penelope Lively, J G Ballard, Doris Lessing and Janet Frame Emma Parker illuminates unrecognized connections between them as they travelled to London from their respective childhood homes in Egypt, Shanghai, Southern Rhodesia, and New Zealand This book asks what it means to be ‘at home’ in the former British Empire; scrutinizes the spaces of habitation through which the authors remember colonialism; coins the term speculative life writing; and examines material possessions that emblematize the legacies of the colonialism
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 208 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781350353831 • £28 99 / $39 95
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Faulkner’s Fashion
Gender, Race, Class, and Clothing
Christopher Rieger, Independent Scholar, USA
Clothing is one of the most important and pervasive material items throughout William Faulkner’s fiction. This book analyzes the writer’s use of clothing from a variety of critical approaches, considering how clothing and dress intersect with race, class, and gender across Faulkner’s novels and short stories It also considers clothes as material objects, using Thing Theory and Object Oriented Ontology to illuminate the role clothing plays as an object in conjunction with its multiple layers of symbolic meaning to both the wearer and the observer
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 184 pages • 15-20 B&W photographs
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Black Surrealist
The Legend of Ted Joans
Steven Belletto, Lafayette College, USA
Black Surrealist Poet Artist Jazz trumpeter
Member of the Beat Generation Life-long wanderer Pan-Africanist Black Power agitator
Author of his own “poem-life ” Ted Joans (19282003) was all of these things, and yet none of these labels adequately capture the beauty and complexity of his life and work In the over 30 books of poetry and prose he published in his lifetime, Joans makes visible links among key artistic and political movements of the 20th century that are seldom discussed together: Surrealism, the Beat movement, Pan-Africanism, and Black Power
Drawing on interviews and deep archival research, this critical literary biography explores Joans’s life as told through these relationships and through his remarkable creative output, which often explored his life and its connections to wider aesthetic and political experiences of the 20th century
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Anglophone Literature and Migration
Critical and Creative Voices (1946-2016)
Edited by Nicoletta Vallorani, University of Milan, Italy, Simona Bertacco, University of Louisville, USA & William Boelhower, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, USA
This Handbook explores tales of migration via a systematic study of a large of corpus of Anglophone literary texts written by migrant authors and/or on the topic of migration from the start of the United Nations International Migration Report to the first year in which the number of displaced people reached the level of the Second World War
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 544 pages • 4 bw illus
Cognitive and Cultural Work from 18thCentury England to Contemporary Global Anglophone Literatures
Alexandra Effe, University of Oslo, Norway
This book maps the history of autofictional literature and its developments against socio-historical changes, cultural trends, and philosophical-psychological discussions around the mind. Tracing autofiction’s emergence in 18th-century England to its grip on present-day authors, it focuses on salient authors and texts from anglophone autofiction around the world and shines spotlights on socio-historical and biographical ideas and foregrounds autofictional elements of works not previously considered within the genre Interdisciplinary and holistic in approach, Alexandra Effe brings research in neuroscience, psychology and philosophy of the mind to bear on this booming writing mode and develops a cognitive-holistic approach to the triad of author, text, and reader
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 392 pages • 4 bw illus
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Psychoanalytic Horizons
Esther Rashkin, University of Utah, USA & Hilary Neroni, University of Vermont, USA & Peter L. Rudnytsky, University of Florida, USA
Film Adaptation and the Real
Subjectivity and Cinematic Mediation
Hee-seung Irene Lee, University of Auckland, New Zealand
What does the striking prevalence of adaptations in cinema lead us to think about adaptation? This open access book answers this question from a psychoanalytic perspective, offering an intriguing window into this mode of filmmaking as a universal, primordial task of every speaking being Using key examples – from Hamlet and Hitchcock to Kubrick’s The Shining and Jones’s Adaptation – the book draws on Freud and Lacan to explain concepts such as desire, the drive, the Oedipus complex, the uncanny, and anxiety
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Psychoanalyst and literary scholar Peter L Rudnytsky trains his critical eye on canonical works from St Augustine’s Confessions to Milton’s major poems
Arguing that the Oedipus complex can be viewed as the “latent content” of the Fall, Rudnytsky at once respects the explanatory power of these master-myths while he interrogates their claims to universality Rudnytsky’s synthesis of psychoanalysis, feminism and literary criticism sheds new light on old masterpieces even as it reveals the contours of an entire corpus, and he demonstrates the potentialities of psychoanalytic approaches to literature
The Ethics of Immediacy recounts the far-reaching consequences of the modern turn towards a new ethics of immediacy. During the first half of the twentieth century, a profound transformation took place in European culture in how human beings conceived of themselves A newfound appreciation for the realm of immediate experience in human life emerged With Freud himself making a signal contribution to this existential revolution, and with Woolf and Merleau-Ponty taking up Freud’s ideas in their own unique ways, all three figures began to regard first-order, spontaneous, direct, unselfconscious, concrete experience of self and world as standing at the heart of what it means to be human
Perhaps the most prolific and exacting reader of his generation, Garrett Stewart offers here a first: a book of essays — on close analysis of novels, literary theory, conceptual art, and cinema — joined by an entirely fresh interview that zooms in and out to account for the range and delicacy of his critical acumen. These fresh reflections immerse our attention in writers from Dickens to Hopkins to Forster to John le Carré, and in image practice from Francis Ford Coppola to recent conceptual art installations across half a dozen countries
Attention and drift are not opposites but interconnected forces that help us engage with life’s fluidity. Attention isn’t fixation, and drift isn’t mere distraction; instead, they create a dynamic tension that fuels creativity and critical thought This book explores these ideas through the works of George Santayana and Stanley Cavell, thinkers who embraced life’s contingencies with insight and appreciation Their perspectives weave together literature, philosophy, art, and religion, celebrating the beauty of wandering thought, deep engagement, and the serendipitous nature of creativity and criticism
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Print and the Novel in 19th Century Kerala
Reconsidering
Colonial Modernity
Ashokan Nambiar C., Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India
The book provides a new historical account for the emergence of the early Malayalam novel—which enables a reconceptualisation of colonial modernity—by placing it in the context of the larger print culture of late nineteenth-century Kerala It offers new ways to understand the widely prevalent notion of ‘Kerala navodhanam’ (Kerala renaissance), understood conceptually as ‘modernity’ It aims to change conceptions about the early novels and the formation of modernity in Kerala and shows new ways to look at contemporary social, political and cultural issues
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Kant, Adorno, and the Forms of History
William S. Allen, University of Southampton, UK
William S Allen sets the works of Theodor Adorno, Immanuel Kant and Peter Weiss in dialogue, revealing how an interrogation of the aesthetics of 'the whole' and the conception of history in Western thought reveals new ways of thinking about history and historically This book traces how Adorno's reconsideration of history through his readings of Kant's Critique of Judgement are distinct from formulations offered by other thinkers More than any of them though, Adorno's aesthetics has introduced an alternative thought, which, Allen shows, has been modified and extended in the work of Peter Weiss and other contemporary thinkers
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Posthumanism and India
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Edited by Debashish Banerji, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA, USA, Md. Monirul Islam, Presidency University, Kolkata & Samrat Sengupta, Sammilani Mahaviyalaya, Kolkata
The editors of this volume opine that the discourse of posthumanism in India warrants urgent consideration, if we are to adequately address both national and global emergencies and look for solutions that India may be in a unique position to offer Essays in the volume are by scholars in the area dealing with representative directions relating to posthumanism in India These are divided into five areas of cultural relevance —internal selves and others; technology, normativity and ethics; human and animal; bodies and their discards; becoming-cosmos Together they form the beginnings of an approach to a critical cartography of posthumanism as it pertains specifically to India.
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The book looks at the different ways the temporal features in the existential exigencies of the human located within the definitive boundaries of Indianness This has been done through an interrogation of different cultural artefacts that have been produced, across the space and time of the Indian nation, to look not only at representations of Time but how time (as the temporal) actually finds a play in them. The global interaction that India has had to go through, either as a British colony or a world post-colony, has allowed a meshing in of the western philosophical conceptualisations of time with (and within) the Indian ones
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Theory Across Disciplines
Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USA
Surveying the extraordinary scope of contemporary theory, this book brings together contributors from across the world to speak to the ways in which theoretical concerns from a variety of disciplines such as law, journalism, architecture, Black Studies, and digital humanities operate within their respective fields of concern
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Unfaithful A Translator's Memoir
Suzanne Jill Levine, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
In this witty and incisive memoir, Suzanne Jill Levine – winner of the 2024 PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation – establishes a new way of writing about a translator’s life Levine analyses how her openness to new experiences, along with a knack for translating the most difficult Latin American novels and positive interactions with her authors, took her from a modest New York background into a whole new literary and linguistic world. Levine fleshes out the embodied nature of translation in provocative detail, with humor and style
Translators of Russian Literary Fiction, 1863-1984
Muireann Maguire, University of Exeter, UK
This open-access book tells the story of Nicholas Wreden. It also narrates for the first time, using archival sources to rediscover the lives of Wreden and other translators, the history of the translation of Russian literature in America, its critical reception and its assimilation into American novels Using theory and methodology from contemporary sociology and the emerging sub-discipline of translator studies, this book sets Wreden’s exceptional life story within the context of the history of Russian literary influence on the American imagination in the 20th century
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by a European Research Council Horizon 2020 Starting Grant (grant agreement no. 802437)
UK October 2025 US October 2025 192 pages approx 15 b&w
Emma Mason, University of Warwick, UK & Mark Knight
Marian Poem-Prayers in the Modern Age
Real Assent
Jean Ward, Gdansk University, Poland
Exploring a range of twentieth and twenty-first century Marian prayer-poetry - prayer poems directed to or involving Mary – by poets such as T S Eliot, David Jones, Geoffrey Hill, Elizabeth Jennings, Hilary Davies and Rowan Williams, this book traces its resurgence from the late nineteenth-century to the present day
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Borges's Creative Infidelities
Translating Joyce, Woolf and Faulkner
Leah Leone Anderson, University of WisconsinMilwaukee, USA
This study offers new perspectives on Jorge Luis Borges’s translation theories and his translations from English into Spanish, including of Faulkner’s The Wild Palms (1939), Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1929), and Joyce's Ulysses (1922) Borges is famous for his celebration of "creative infidelity" and ability to faithfully recreate other authors’ styles in Spanish However, by studying sources and translations side by side, Leone Anderson reveals transformations in these texts, showing how translation practice can stem from a translator's understanding of literature She thus makes a strong case for the study of translated literature and its impact
Biblical Presence in Contemporary AngloAmerican Poetry
Philipp Reisner, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Examining the profound influence of biblical themes on contemporary poetry written in English, this book explores the work of Brooks Haxton, Suji Kwock Kim, Kevin Hart, and Li-Young Lee Going beyond a mere examination of literary works, it considers how the presence of biblical references shapes and transforms contemporary Anglo-American poetry in unique and compelling ways
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Modern European Borders in Fiction
The Divided Continent
Andrew Hammond, University of Sussex, UK
There are few features of the contemporary world more significant than national and regional borders. In modern Europe, the practices of human division have defined the continent from the early years of the Cold War to the present barriers of Fortress Europe, whose exposure of irregular migrants to trafficking, discrimination and deportation is rarely absent from the daily news Modern European Borders in Fiction references over 600 novels and short stories analysing engagement of post-1945 novelists
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The Crossroads of Music and Literature
New Essays on the Muse of Song
Edited by Kelly Baron & Andrew DuBois
This book brings together fourteen original essays from an international, intergenerational cohort of scholars, each taking a fresh approach to the manner in which music plays a crucial role in literary texts and to the ways in which music is itself a work of literature The relationship of song lyrics to lyric poetry is taken up in work on artists as diverse as Bob Dylan, Motörhead, Nas, and Townes Van Zandt, while the centrality of music and sound in the midst of prose is probed in novels by Ralph Ellison, Valeria Luiselli, and Ann Petry
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Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities
Woods, Durham Univeristy, UK & Corinne Saunders, Durham University, UK & Sowon Park, UC Santa Barbara, USA & Stuart Murray
A Cultural History of Vertigo
Unbalanced
Anindya Raychaudhuri, University of St Andrews, UK
The first interdisciplinary history of vertigo, this book covers medical accounts from antiquity to the present, testimonies of lived experience, and literary and cultural representations of vertigo from writers and filmmakers such as Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bishop and Alfred Hitchcock
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Edited by Fiona Johnstone, Durham University, UK, Allison Morehead, Queen’s University, Canada & Imogen Wiltshire, University of Lincoln, UK
With 27 essays by more than 40 contributors from a range of countries including Australia, Spain, and Germany, this agenda-setting Open Access volume addresses artworks from the sixteenth century to the present day It presents contributions that art histories and practices can make to debates and developments in the critical medical humanities, serving as a key reference point for those working in medical humanities and artaligned fields.
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Object Lessons
Christopher Schaberg, Washington University in St. Louis, USA & Ian Bogost, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Cat
Rebecca van Laer, Freelance Writer, USA
Moving between memoir, philosophy, and pop culture, Cat is a playful and tender meditation on cats and their people Van Laer considers cats’ role in her personal narrative, where they are mascots of laziness and lawlessness, and in cultural narratives, where they appear as feminine, anarchic, and maladapted, especially in comparison to dogs From the stereotype of the ‘crazy cat lady’ to the joy of cat memes to the grief of pet loss, van Laer demonstrates that the cat-person relationship is free of the discipline and dependence required by parenting (and dogparenting), creating a less hierarchical intimacy that offers a different model for love
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Restaurant
Brian Duff, University of New England, USA
In the last twenty years restaurants and food culture have achieved extraordinary cultural purchase But in recent years the restaurant has faced crisis upon crisis: revelations of sexism and harassment, racism and low pay, unsafe and unfair conditions of labor, and covid Having taken a pandemic era break from our habits of eating out, how do we return the table? Restaurant explores how and why we have burdened restaurant dining with both acknowledged and unacknowledged drives, desires, and anxieties It suggests that we might discover new rewards at the restaurant if we examine these forces, and reconfigure their ties to our meals.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 184 pages • 1 b&w illustration
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Metronome
Matthew H. Birkhold
When the metronome was invented in 1815, it transformed the music world Composers could now guide—and constrain—players of their works Musicians ostensibly gained a tool to guide them to perfection Giants of classical music like Beethoven embraced the metronome early on (its steady tick can even be heard in the eighth symphony), but fights soon erupted that have persisted today Some consider the metronome an essential part of music instruction, others believe it creates mindless players and inhibits art While weaving together examples from music, literature, and psychology, as well as the philosophical musings of scientists and artists, Metronome uncovers the surprising and fraught history of a timeless object
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Taco
Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA
Taco speaks about the nature of the most iconic Mexican food from the perspective of a Mexico City native In a narrative that moves from Mexico to the United States and back, the book discusses the definition of the taco, the question of the tortilla and the taco shell, and the existence of the taco as a modern social object Challenging the idea of centrality and authenticity, Sánchez Prado proposes instead to think the taco as a contemporary, transcultural food that is always subject to movement and transformation
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Talking to Writers
The Craft of Fiction
Dean Nelson
Great writing can seem to be an act of mystery, a gift given to just a few, but these renowned writers pull back the curtain to show you how it’s done and how you can do it, too. The volume on fiction (including poetry) includes interviews with Ray Bradbury, Alice Walker, Nick Hornby, Anthony Doerr, Amy Tan, and more
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Dean Nelson
Great writing can seem to be an act of mystery, a gift given to just a few, but these renowned writers pull back the curtain to show you how it’s done and how you can do it, too. The volume on nonfiction (including journalism and memoir writing) includes interviews with Anne Lamont, David Brooks, Tracy Kidder, and Elizabeth Gilbert, and more
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A Fiction Writer’s Guide to Peace
Crafting Nonviolent Heroism
Gabriel Ertsgaard, Kean University, USA
A practical guide to incorporating principles of peace-building and non-violence into compelling fiction, this book shows writers how they can enact non-violent heroism in their characters, model civil resistance in their stories and create worlds around mythos that champion redemptive nonviolence. With concepts applicable to writing fiction, drama, screenplays and poetry, it deconstructs the necessity for violence in popular works, explores ideas in peace studies and helps writers establish their own peace poetics Featuring creative writing prompts and examples from film and literature including Trading Places, Selma, Frozen, A Christmas Carol, Asphalt Jungle and Julia Quinn's Bridgerton novels, this is an important expansion to any writer’s toolkit when approaching storytelling
Sam Meekings, Northwestern University in Qatar, Qatar
A braided memoir interweaving the author’s personal journey through grief with a guide on how to write about it, this is both Sam Meeking’s raw account of the death of his younger brother and a step-by-step breakdown of the memoir writing process Focusing on how to heal and preserve memories alongside the mechanics of writing about the self, it uses personal story, writing theories and prompts and research from writing studies and psychology to invite the reader to write alongside Sam on a path that is both painful and profound
Translingual Creative Writing Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy
Daoism and Decentering Monolingual Workshops
Jennifer Quist, University of Alberta, Canada
Challenging Anglophone-dominated creative writing workshops, this book explores why and how students’ multilingual backgrounds are assets rather than impediments to creativity Taking a translingual approach to writing, it is grounded in discursive Daoism and utilizes readings of the Zhuangzi as analytical frameworks to re-imagine creative writing education and de-naturalize the authority of Euro-American literary traditions Through translations of Chinese educators’ accounts of the history and theory of 21st-century postsecondary Creative Writing education in China, Jennifer Quist develops a methodology for examining the practices of translingual writers from China, Japan, and their diasporas Featuring translingual writing prompts and practices for instructors and students
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Writing and Health Care
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Janelle Adsit, Humboldt State University, USA
A practical introduction for creative writers on the uses of the arts in healthcare, this book teaches artists, patients, and health practitioners how to exercise the benefits of aesthetic thinking. Combining theoretical concepts with practical application, it explores health humanities, narrative medicine, creative therapies and transformative language arts, graphic medicine, illness narratives, “sick lit” and more to reflect on the role of creative expression in bettering the well-being of oneself and others Foregrounding health justice and informed intersectional understandings, it enables readers to write in ways that contribute to the transformation of healthcare and generate works with positive therapeutic effects
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Writing the Hard Stuff
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Nicole
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A reflective and practical guide to navigating trauma and crafting compelling, accessible prose about tough topics, this book demonstrates how writers can tackle thorny, emotional, or potentially objectionable subject matter Using craft techniques that provide distance, context, and entry points for writers to shape difficult content, it employs strategies such as rest, metaphor, detachment, detour, distraction, point-of-view shift and braided essaying to enable writers to tell their story whilst connecting with larger issues attendant to their writing Utilising writing prompts and examples from a wideranging texts, it promises to connect the interiority of the personal story with the exterior world
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