British & Irish Literature / North & South American Literature

Additions & Essays

Edited by Mike Hill, Editor, A Sort of Newsletter, UK & Jon Wise, independent scholar Over a 60-year career, Graham Greene was a prolific and widely read writer. Completing a series of volumes which constitutes the only full bibliographical guide to Greene's published and unpublished writings, this book features updated listings of the scholarship associated with his work, details of recent audio and visual presentations and adaptations, as well as nine essays on lesser-known aspects of Greene's work.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 224 pages HB 9781350285736 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350285750 • £81.00 / $106.83 ePdf 9781350285743 • £81.00 / $106.83 Bloomsbury Academic

Form, Affect and Debt in PostCeltic Tiger Irish Fiction

Ireland in Crisis

Eoin Flannery, University of Limerick, Ireland Based on readings of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary Irish writing, this book explores how these authors have engaged with the events of Ireland’s recent economic ‘boom’ and the demise of the Celtic Tiger period, and how they have portrayed the widespread and variated aftermaths. Drawing upon economic literary criticism, affect theory, and the philosophy of debt, this book probes issues such as: indebtedness; temporality and narrative form; the relevance of affect theory to understanding Irish culture and society during austerity; ecocriticism and late capitalism; and the relationship between literary fiction and the mechanics of high finance.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 256 pages HB 9781350166745 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350166769 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350166752 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic

The Politics of Literary Prestige

Prizes and Spanish American Literature

Sarah E.L. Bowskill, Queen's University Belfast, UK Taking into account national and international politics and networks of prestige, this book analyses the relationship between literary prizes, politics and the reception of literature from Spanish America. Covering state-sponsored and publisher-run prizes and major awards such as the Biblioteca Breve Prize, the Premio Cervantes and the Nobel Prize, this book examines how prizes have shaped what we know about Spanish American literature. The author draws on a range of sources – including speeches and interviews by winning authors, judges' statements and prize rules and regulations – to reveal the roles prizes have played in Spanish American politics as well as in the formation of the Spanish American cultural field.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 240 pages HB 9781501350771 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501350788 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501350795 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Writing, Authorship and Photography in British Literary Culture, 1880 - 1920

Capturing the Image

Emily Ennis, University of Leeds, UK At the turn of the 20th century, printing and photographic technologies evolved rapidly, leading to rise of mass media and the amateur photographer. Demonstrating how this development happened symbiotically with great changes in the shape of British literature, this book explores this co-evolution, showing that as both writing and photography became tools of mass dissemination, literary writers were forced to re-evaluate their professional and personal identities. Focusing on Thomas Hardy, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf—each of which had their own private and professional connections to photographs— Emily Ennis offers valuable historical contexts for contemporary cultural developments and anxieties.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 240 pages • 7 bw illus HB 9781350196186 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350196209 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350196193 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic

The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe

Edited by Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK & Veronique Pauly, University of Versailles, France With chapters written by leading international scholars, this book is a comprehensive survey of the reception, translation and publication history of Conrad’s works throughout Europe. Covering reviews, critical discussion and adaptations across media, the book includes bibliographies of key translations in each of the European countries covered and a timeline of Conrad’s reception throughout the continent.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 448 pages HB 9781474241083 • £150.00 / $200.00 ePub 9781474241090 • £135.00 / $177.19 ePdf 9781474241106 • £135.00 / $177.19 Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe • Bloomsbury Academic

The American Novel After Ideology, 1961–2000

Laurie Rodrigues, University of La Verne, USA Using the intersecting publications of Daniel Bell’s The End of Ideology (1960) and J.D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey (1961), Laura Rodrigues argues that American novels distort realism in manners similar to ideology’s distortions of reality, history, and belief. This volume reflects the astonishing cultural variety of this period, featuring analyses of Carlene Hatcher Polite’s The Flagellants (1967), Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead (1991), and Philip Roth’s The Human Stain (2001), among various discussions around ideology with which they intersect. The American Novel After Ideology, 1961-2000 discusses how each novel’s plotless narratives, dissoliving subjectivities, and cultural codes suggest an aesthetic return of the repressed.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 232 pages PB 9781501371417 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501361869 ePub 9781501361876 • £76.69 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501361883 • £76.69 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic