Literature & the Environment

Immanence, Occultism, and the Making of the Modern World

Allan Kilner-Johnson Exploring the relationship between occultism and modernist literary experimentation, this book sets the work of leading modernist writers alongside lesser known female writers and writers in languages other than English to more fully portray the aesthetic and philosophical connections between modernism and the occult.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350255302 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350255326 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350255319 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic

Environmental Cultures in Soviet East Europe

Literature, History and Memory

Anna Barcz, University of Bielsko-Biala, Poland This is the first in-depth study of the legacy of the Soviet era on attitudes to the environment in countries such as Poland, Hungary and Ukraine. Exploring responses in literature, culture and film to political projects such as the collectivisation of agricultural land, the expansion of mining and the Chernobyl explosion, Anna Barcz opens up new understandings of how local political traditions might be harnessed in the cause of contemporary environmental activism. The book covers works by writers such as Christa Wolf, the Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich and film-makers such as Béla Tarr, Andrzej Wajda and Wladyslaw Pasikowski.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages • 11 bw illus PB 9781350200647 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350098350 ePub 9781350098374 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350098367 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic

Weathering Shakespeare

Audiences and Open-air Performance

Evelyn O'Malley, University of Exeter, UK Weathering Shakespeare reveals how new insights from the environmental humanities can transform our understanding of the popular tradition of open air Shakespeare, from Victorian times to the present. Drawing on audience accounts of outdoor productions of those plays most commonly chosen for open air performance – including As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest – the book examines how performers and audiences alike have reacted to unpredictable natural environments. Weathering Shakespeare goes on to explore the ways in which contemporary concerns about the environment have informed new and emerging performance practices.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350202443 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350078062 ePub 9781350078086 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350078079 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic

Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty

Narrating Unstable Futures

Marco Caracciolo This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Ghent. This book argues that storytelling is an important resource in coming to terms with the loss of the feeling of living a grounded existence where the future remains relatively stable and predictable. Faced with the specter of climate catastrophe, we lose confidence in the future—a well-documented response in the environmental movement, for example. Yet stories, and in particular sophisticated fictional stories, can help us negotiate that uncertainty: they offer affective and imaginative tools that channel the instability of our climate future and invite audiences to accept its fundamental uncertainty. In all, this book represents a serious contribution to the environmental humanities that brings a flexible formal approach to bear on central questions of our time.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350233898 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350233911 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350233904 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic

Cognitive Ecopoetics

A New Theory of Lyric

Sharon Lattig, University of Connecticut, USA New insights from cognitive theory and literary ecocriticism have the power to transform our understanding of the lyric poem. Sharon Lattig brings these two schools of criticism together for the first time to consider the ways in which lyric forms re-enact cognitive processes of the mind and brain. Along the way the book reads anew the long history of the lyric, from Andrew Marvell, through canonical poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson to contemporary writers such as Susan Howe and Charles Olson.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 248 pages PB 9781350186132 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350069251 ePub 9781350069275 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350069268 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic

Digital Vision and the Ecological Aesthetic (1968 - 2018)

Lisa FitzGerald, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany Digital technology has transformed the way that we visualise the natural world. Exploring contemporary digital art and literature through an ecocritical lens, this book demonstrates the many ways in which critical ideas of the sublime, the pastoral and the picturesque have been renewed and shaped in digital media, from electronic literature to music and the visual arts.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 176 pages • 7 bw illus PB 9781350195370 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350051836 ePub 9781350051850 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350051843 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic