European Literature

From Ancient Times to the Twenty-First Century

Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, USA A survey, within one volume, of the history of critical responses to LGBTQ literature from the beginning to the present day, this book explores changes in attitudes, literature and criticism over a period of two and a half thousand years It offers a roadmap to much of the excellent scholarship concerning LGBTQ literature that has arisen in the last half-century – an era that has moved the topic from the distant sidelines of literary study to a place ever closer to the center of things

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 240 pages HB 9781350371828 • £8500 / $11500 ePub 9781350371842 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350371835 • £7650 / $10578 Bloomsbury Academic

Ireland, the Irish, and the Rise of Biofiction

Michael Lackey, University of Minnesota, USA Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, and it has become a dominant literary form over the last 35 years Not yet scholarly acknowledged is that the Irish played a crucial role in its evolution Michael Lackey first examines Oscar Wilde and George Moore's groundbreaking biofictions of the late-19th and early-20th centuries and then contemporary authors of biofiction (Sabina Murray, Mario Vargas Llosa, Graham Shelby, and Anne Enright) who use the lives of prominent Irish figures (Roger Casement and Eliza Lynch) to explore the challenges of securing agency within a colonial and patriarchal context

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 288 pages PB 9781501378515 • £2899 / $3995 Previously published in HB 9781501378478 ePub 9781501378485 • £7934 / $10800 ePdf 9781501378492 • £7934 / $10800 Series: Biofiction Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

Reading Baudelaire with Adorno

Dissonance, Subjectivity, Transcendence

Joseph Acquisto, University of Vermont, USA This book reads Charles Baudelaire’s oeuvre – including verse poems, prose poems, and critical writings – in dialogue with the esthetic theory of Theodor Adorno, for whom the autonomy of the artwork critically resists any attempt to view it merely as a product of its socio-historic context. It argues that the figure of the subject as a “dissonant chord” provides a gateway to Baudelaire’s reconfiguration of subjectivity and objectivity in both esthetic and epistemological terms Dissonant subjectivity in Baudelaire points to a different way forward that depends on a new and dialectical relation of subject and object

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 208 pages HB 9798765103005 • £8000 / $11000 ePub 9798765103029 • £7279 / $9900 ePdf 9798765103036 • £7279 / $9900 Bloomsbury Academic

Imagining the Celtic Past in Modern Fantasy

Edited by Dimitra Fimi, University of Glasgow, UK & Alistair J. P. Sims, Independent scholar Focusing on representations of Celtic motifs and traditions in post-1980s adult fantasy literature, this book brings together explorations of popular and lesser-known works of fantasy literature such as works by Susanna Clarke, Alan Garner, Jodi McIsaac, David Gemmel, Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, Kate Moss and Neil Gaiman as well as Gaelic and French-language wrters Iain F. MacLeòid and Léa Silhol. Lively and covering new ground, the collection examines topics including fairy magic, place and person, family and heroes, classical ethnography and genre tropes alongside analyses of the Celtic tarot in speculative fiction and Celtic appropriation in fan culture.

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 232 pages • 1 bw illus HB 9781350349995 • £8500 / $11500 ePub 9781350350014 • £7650 / $10578 ePdf 9781350350007 • £7650 / $10578 Series: Perspectives on Fantasy • Bloomsbury Academic

France/Kafka

An Author in Theory

John T. Hamilton, Harvard University, USA While his memory languished under Nazi censorship, Franz Kafka covertly circulated through occupied France and soon emerged as a cultural icon, read by the most influential intellectuals of the time as a prophet of the rampant bureaucracy, totalitarian oppression, and absurdity that branded the twentieth century In tracing the history of Kafka’s reception in postwar France, John T Hamilton explores how the work of a German-Jewish writer from Prague became a modern classic capable of addressing universal themes of the human condition

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 176 pages PB 9798765100370 • £1999 / $2695 • HB 9798765100363 • £6500 / $9000 ePub 9798765100387 • £1819 / $2425 ePdf 9798765100394 • £1819 / $2425 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

Re-storying Mediterranean Worlds

New Narratives from Italian Cultures to Global Citizenship

Edited by Angela Biancofiore, Paul-Valéry University of Montpellier, France & Clément Barniaudy, University of Montpellier, France This book invites readers to think of Mediterranean cultures as interconnected worlds that disappear, are reborn and perpetually transform This perspective builds bridges between the Northern and Southern coasts to broaden and deepen our understanding of the region, at the cultural, literary, artistic and geopolitical levels Authors highlight an intercultural conscience, traversing the Mediterranean – including Italian, French and Tunisian cultures, and migrations from, to and within the region – and express the need to shift the ways we think about migration

UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 232 pages PB 9781501378973 • £2899 / $3995 Previously published in HB 9781501378935 ePub 9781501378942 • £7279 / $9900 ePdf 9781501378959 • £7279 / $9900 Bloomsbury Academic