Medicine & Science / Comparative Literature

The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities

Edited by Scott Slovic, Swarnalatha Rangarajan & Vidya Sarveswaran Bringing together two parallel and occasionally intersecting disciplines - the environmental and medical humanities - this book reveals our ecological predicament as a simultaneous threat to human health. Covering global contexts including, but not limited to North America, India, the UK, Africa, Latin America, South Asia, Turkey and East Asia it touches on issues and concepts such as narrative medicine, ecoprecarity, toxicity, mental health, and contaminated environments from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including literary studies, environmental ethics/philosophy, cultural history and sociology.

UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 448 pages HB 9781350197305 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781350197329 • £117.00 / $153.74 ePdf 9781350197312 • £117.00 / $153.74 Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic

Narrating Medicine in Middle English Poetry

Poets, Practitioners, and the Plague

Eve Salisbury Filling a gap in what we know about medical writing in England in the 100+ years after the advent of the “Great Mortality”, this book calls attention to a discourse that privileges illness narratives, strategies of self-care, and the voices of poets, patients, and practitioners. When read in conjunction with medical treatises, plague tractates, and verse remedies, literary narratives disclose an experience of illness that other genres of medical writing lack, thus enabling us to see the kinship between poetry and the healing arts.

UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350249790 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350249813 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350249806 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic

Explorations in Science and Literature

John Holmes, University of Birmingham, UK, Anton Kirchhofer, University of Oldenburg, Germany and Janine Rogers, Mount Allison University, New Brunswick, Canada

Twins and Recursion in Digital, Literary and Visual Cultures

Edward King, University of Bristol, UK In this study, Edward King demonstrates how twins are a means of exploring the social implications of hyper-connectivity and the compromising relationship between humans and digital information, their environment and their genetics. Drawing upon the literary and filmic works of Ken Follet, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Brian de Palma, and David Cronenberg, science fiction literature and television series Orphan Black, King illuminates how twins are employed across a range of disciplines to envision a critical re-conception of the human in times of digital integration and ecological crisis.

Writing Remains

New Intersections of Archaeology, Literature and Science

Edited by Josie Gill, University of Bristol, UK, Catriona McKenzie, University of Exeter, UK & Emma Lightfoot, University of Cambridge, UK Writing Remains brings together a wide range of leading archaeologists and literary scholars to explore emerging intersections in archaeological and literary practice. Drawing upon a wide range of literary texts from the nineteenth century to the present, the book offers new approaches to understanding storytelling and narrative in archaeology, and the role of archaeological methods in literature and literary criticism.

UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 256 pages HB 9781350169159 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350169173 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350169166 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Explorations in Science and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 248 pages • 5 bw illus PB 9781350202511 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350109469 ePub 9781350109483 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350109476 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Explorations in Science and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

The Metaphor of the Monster

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding the Monstrous Other in Literature

Edited by Keith Moser & Karina Zelaya both of Mississippi State University, USA The Metaphor of the Monster offers fresh perspectives and a variety of disciplinary approaches to the ever-broadening field of monster studies. Representing areas of study including world literature, classical studies, philosophy, ecocriticism, animal ethics, and gender studies, this volume recontextualizes the monstrous entities that have always haunted the human imagination in the age of the Anthropocene and invites reflection on new forms of monstrosity in an era of (mis-) information. Uniting researchers from varied academic backgrounds to challenge the monstrous labels that have historically been imposed upon "the Other," this book endeavors to bring the monster out of the shadows and into the light of moral consideration.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 256 pages PB 9781501369292 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501364334 ePub 9781501364341 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501364358 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic

The American Weird

Concept and Medium

Edited by Julius Greve, University of Oldenburg, Germany & Florian Zappe, Georg-AugustUniversity Göttingen, Germany The American Weird brings together perspectives from literary, cultural, media and film studies, and from philosophy, to provide a thorough exploration of the weird mode, its concept and various mediums. Featuring the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, Caitlín Kiernan, Jeff VanderMeer, China Miéville and Cormac McCarthy, the graphic novels of Alan Moore, the music of Captain Beefheart, the television show Twin Peaks and the films of David Lynch, this book provides innovative approaches that theoretically frame the weird based on a broad spectrum of artistic practices.

UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 272 pages • 7 bw illus PB 9781350185388 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350141193 ePub 9781350141216 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350141209 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic