Skills & Methods / Creative Writing / Religion & Literature

A Practical Introduction for Teachers, Lecturers, and Students

Claire Battershill, Simon Fraser University, Canada & Shawna Ross, Texas A&M University, USA Roundly praised for its pragmatic and accessible approach, the first edition of Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom became a go-to guide for experienced digital humanists and novices alike. Retaining the original's clear, pedagogically grounded approach, this second edition - updated throughout and with a significant amount of new material - provides readers with an up-to-date set of recommendations and further critical commentary on current debates in DH pedagogy, helping a fresh wave of scholars to use digital tools and resources in the humanities classroom.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 272 pages PB 9781350180895 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350180901 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350180918 • £17.99 / $23.44 ePdf 9781350180925 • £17.99 / $23.44 Bloomsbury Academic

Reclaiming the Disabled Subject

Representing Disability in Short Fiction (Volume 1)

Edited by Someshwar Sati, Delhi University, India, GJV Prasad, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India & Ritwick Bhattacharjee The volume intends to reclaim the representations of disability and present narratives that do not just use the figure of the disabled as a means to an end. It includes translation of 17 disability centric short stories from multiple Indian languages into English. Further it uses these stories as illustration to test and develop new theoretical formulations concerning disability and the disabled. What grants the work its uniqueness is not only the translations of the erstwhile lost stories of disability but also the use of these stories towards the formation of theoretical paradigms to move forward the project of Disability Studies.

UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 320 pages HB 9789354353352 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9789354353369 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9789354351297 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic India World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)

Jesus in the Victorian Novel

Reimagining Christ

Jessica Ann Hughes, George Fox University, USA This book tells the story of how nineteenth-century writers turned to the realist novel in order to reimagine Jesus during a century where traditional religious faith appeared increasingly untenable. Re-workings of the canonical Gospels and other projects to demythologize the story of Jesus are frequently treated as projects aiming to secularize and even discredit traditional Christian faith. The novels of Charles Kingsley, George Eliot, Eliza Lynn Linton, and Mary Augusta Ward, however, demonstrate that the work of bringing the Christian tradition of prophet, priest, and king into conversation with a rapidly changing world can at times be a form of authentic faith—even a faith that remains rooted in the Bible and historic Christianity, while simultaneously creating a space that allows traditional understandings of Jesus’ identity to evolve.

UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 200 pages HB 9781350278158 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350278172 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350278165 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Craft Consciousness and Artistic Practice in Creative Writing

Ben Ristow, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA Craft Consciousness and Artistic Practice in Creative Writing follows Richard Sennett’s notion of "making is thinking". Reframing craft as a "material consciousness" rather than formalistic logics and techniques taught by makers that teach, this book restores the virtue of craft for artist-teachers. With research drawn from 25 interviews with artists across material and intellectual boundaries including architecture, painting, dance, music, writing, pottery, textiles, and woodworking, Ben Ristow puts these practitioners in conversation with each other to suggest that craft consciousness is foundational to developing an artistic identity and practice.

UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 232 pages HB 9781350120686 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350120709 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350120693 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Research in Creative Writing • Bloomsbury Academic

New Directions in Religion and Literature

Emma Mason, University of Warwick, UK and Mark Knight, University of Toronto, Canada

Food Restraint and Fasting in Victorian Religion and Literature

Lesa Scholl, University of Adelaide, Australia Through an interdisciplinary lens of theology, medicine, and literary criticism, this book examines the complicated intersections of food consumption, political economy, and religious conviction in nineteenth-century Britain. Scholarship on fasting is gendered. This book deliberately faces this gendering by looking at the way in which four Victorian women writers - Christina Rossetti, Alice Meynell, Elizabeth Gaskell and Josephine Butler - each engage with food restraint from ethical, social and theological perspectives.

UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 168 pages HB 9781350256514 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350256538 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350256521 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Marilynne Robinson's Worldly Gospel

A Philosophical Account of her Christian Vision

Ryan S. Kemp, Wheaton College, USA & Jordan M. Rodgers, King's College, Wilkes-Barre, USA An in-depth philosophical exploration of her work – from Gilead to her extensive non-fiction writing – Marilynne Robinson’s Worldly Gospel reads the author’s theology as articulating a compelling response to the claim that Christianity is an otherworldly religion whose adherents seek through it to escape the misfortunes of this life. Ryan Kemp and Jordan Rodgers argue that Robinson’s work challenges the modern atheistic tradition dating back to Friedrich Nietzsche to present a unique form of contemporary faith that seeks to affirm the world rather than deny its claims.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 224 pages HB 9781350106956 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350106970 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350106963 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic