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Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers
Modern Friends
Richard Wilson, Kingston University, UK
Edited by Roger Holdsworth, University of Oxford, UK, Robert Stagg, Texas A&M University, USA & David Thacker, University of Bolton, UK
This illuminating book demonstrates how in the 20th century Shakespeare and his plays were misappropriated by the far right to serve the purposes of proto-, present and future fascism Richard Wilson’s extensive and rigorous research encompasses a wide variety of figures, from A. K. Chesterton, who was both editor of fascist newspaper Blackshirt and worked at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, to celebrated Shakespeareans such as G Wilson Knight, to writers and theatre practitioners including W B Yeats, T S Eliot, Edward Gordon Craig and Marshall McLuhan It is a vital and timely contribution to Shakespeare scholarship
UK August 2025 US August 2025 352 pages
HB 9781350433854 £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9781350433861 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781350433878 • £81 00 / $81 00
The Arden Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition
Edited by William Baker, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA & Brian Vickers, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK
The volume documents the full tradition of criticism of The Merchant of Venice, including pieces from 1775-1939 An extensive introduction charts the reactions to the play up to the beginning of the 21st century and reflects changing reactions to prejudice in this period. This revised edition features a supplementary introduction by Gary Watt analyzing trends in criticism since the volume was first published in 2005, including writing that focuses on: anti-Semitism and the character of Shylock; finance, risk, insurance and usury; trial, rhetoric, equity and justice; gender, queer themes, cross-dressing, and the AntonioBassanio relationship; and race and colonialism
UK May 2025 US May 2025 528 pages
HB 9781350398979 • £170 00 / $230 00
ePub 9781350398986 • £153 00 / $207 89
ePdf 9781350398993 • £153 00 / $153 00
Series: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition • The Arden Shakespeare
Richard Burbage and the Shakespearean Stage
A 'Delightful Proteus'
Siobhan Keenan, De Montfort University, UK
This book offers the first in-depth study of Richard Burbage’s theatrical career and his ground-breaking contribution to the development of professional theatre in Shakespearean London Burbage is best known for becoming the leading actor in Shakespeare’s acting company, the Lord Chamberlain’s players Siobhan Keenan begins by tracing Burbage’s early life and the emergent theatrical community of which he was a part, before moving on to a series of chapters which explore his growing reputation as a player and theatre manager Chapters also examine Burbage’s influence on Shakespeare and reflect on Burbage’s cultural legacy and impact on early modern acting traditions
UK August 2025 US August 2025 256 pages 5 bw illus
HB 9781350245969 £75 00 / $100 00
ePub 9781350245976 • £67 50 / $91 79
ePdf 9781350245983 • £67 50 / $67 50
The Arden Shakespeare
Multisensory Shakespeare and Specialized Communities
Sheila T. Cavanagh, Emory University, USA
How can Shakespearean performance be used with different communities to assist personal growth and development, while advancing social justice goals? Employing an integrative approach that draws from science, actor training, therapeutical practices and current research on the senses, this study reveals the work being done by drama practitioners with a range of specialized populations, such as incarcerated people, neurodiverse individuals, those with physical or emotional disabilities, veterans, people experiencing homelessness and many others With insights drawn from visits to numerous international programs, it argues that these endeavors succeed when they engage multiple human senses and incorporate kinesthetic learning
UK September 2025 US September 2025 288 pages
PB 9781350296466 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350296428
ePub 9781350296435 • £67 50 / $91 79
ePdf 9781350296442 • £67 50 / $67 50
Series: Shakespeare and Social Justice • The Arden Shakespeare
Women and Cultures of Portraiture in the British Literary Renaissance
Edited by Yasmin Arshad, Independent Scholar, USA & Chris Laoutaris, University of Birmingham, UK
This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines the representation of women at the intersections between portraiture, literature and drama in Renaissance Britain Bringing together art historians, curators, heritage specialists and scholars of early modern history, drama and literature, the volume situates women both as the subjects and devisers of ‘cultures of portraiture’ The essays in this volume examine how power was negotiated through the royal icon; how self-portraiture became a means of navigating the dangerous worlds of religious and courtly factionalism; how the commissioning, collecting and curating of paintings, relics and life-writings fashioned shared testaments of faith and enabled female networks across political and pedagogical arenas; how drama staged the anxieties surrounding a threatening female agency; and how creativity wielded through narrative prose fiction, illuminated manuscripts and poetry, allowed women to co-opt and subvert prevailing visual tropes and stereotypes
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 288 pages • 16 colour, 44 bw illus
HB 9781350320703 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350320710 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350320727 £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Arden Studies in Early Modern Material Culture The Arden Shakespeare
Closet Drama in Early Modern England
Theatre Without a Stage
Edited by Sophie Lemercier-Goddard, École normale Supérieure, France & Aurélie Griffin, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France
Early modern closet drama was a lively period of performance which took place through private readings and performances away from the public playhouse This volume considers the cultural and historical parameters of those performances from a textual and dramaturgical point of view Scholars highlight the radical choices made by playwrights who were actively seeking to create a new theatre Studying a wide array of plays from 1560 to 1670, the book interrogates the role of women writers in the development of closet drama, early modern racialisation, translation and the circulation of particular motifs across the Channel
UK August 2025 US August 2025 256 pages 10 bw illus
HB 9781350455030 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350455054 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350455047 • £76 50 / $76 50
The Arden Shakespeare
Queering Early Modern Death in England
Figuration, Representation, and Matter
Edited by Lauren Shohet, Villanova University, USA & Christine Varnado, State University of New York Buffalo State University, USA
This collection interrogates the profoundly queer, strange, excessive, camp and uncanny dimensions of death in early modern English literary, theatrical and material archives The essays illuminate early modern experiences before the ascendancy of Cartesian dualism occluded alternative understandings of death Key dramatic texts from the early modern period including The Duchess of Malfi, The Winter’s Tale, The Alchemist and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore provide provoking material with which to consider the expansiveness of death in a queer mode The volume makes clear why readers interested in queerness and death should interest themselves in sixteenth and seventeenth century England
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 256 pages
HB 9781350458642 • £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9781350458659 • £72 00 / $98 54
ePdf 9781350458666 • £72 00 / $72 00
The Arden Shakespeare
New Directions in Religion and Literature
Emma Mason, University of Warwick, UK & Mark Knight
Beckett and Nature
Edited by Charles Clements, Tufts University, USA, Eleanor Green, University of Manchester, UK & James Martell, Lyon College, USA
This volume takes its cue from contemporary developments in Beckett scholarship focused on ecocriticism, posthumanism, and the Anthropocene It offers contextualized readings of the understandings of nature and the natural with which Beckett entered into dialogue throughout his decade-spanning œuvre It shows that part of the radicality of Beckett’s writing is that it questions what appears in our cultures as the most unquestionable and opens up possibilities for thinking not only what is human, literature, and philosophy, but also gender, identity, and any attempt at definitions of ourselves or the world at large
UK
The Decades Series
Nick Hubble, Brunel University, UK & Philip Tew, Brunel University, UK & Leigh Wilson, University of Westminster, UK
The 1920s
A Decade of Modern British Fiction
Edited by Tamás Bényei, University of Debrecen, Hungary, Shene Boskani, Brunel University London, UK & Nick Hubble, Brunel University, London, UK
A wide-ranging critical re-evaluation of British fiction of the 1920s, this book examines both canonical writers such as Virginia Woolf and E M Forster as well as less widely-studied writers such as A A Milne and Naomi Mitchison
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 336 pages • 6 bw illus
HB 9781350433434 • £100 00 / $135 00
ePub 9781350433458 • £90 00 / $122 84
ePdf 9781350433441 • £90 00 / $90 00
Series: The Decades Series • Bloomsbury Academic
The 2010s
A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction
Edited by Emily Horton, Brunel University, UK, Nick Bentley, Keele University, UK, Nick Hubble, Brunel University, London, UK & Philip Tew, Brunel University, UK
Relating the British fiction of the decade to the contexts in which it was written and received, this book covers the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crash to the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020
Balancing critical surveys with in-depth readings of work by authors such as Nicola Barker, Anna Burns, Jonathan Coe, Alys Conran, Bernadine Evaristo, Mohsin Hamid and Zadie Smith, this volume illustrates exactly how their key themes and concerns fit within the social and political circumstances of the decade
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 336 pages
PB 9781350440890 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350268210
ePub 9781350268234 £90 00 / $122 84
ePdf 9781350268227 £90 00 / $90 00
Series: The Decades Series • Bloomsbury Academic
Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth Century
Refashioning the Nation’s Sacred
Imaginary
Keith Hanley, Lancaster University, UK
Using Wordsworth as a focal point, but also examining other Victorian writers such as Ruskin and Newman, this book describes how the historical practice of pilgrimage became internalised figuratively and psychologically so as to represent Christian discourse in nineteenth-century English literature UK
July 2025 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9781350476004 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350476028 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350476011 £76 50 / $76 50
Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature Bloomsbury Academic
The English Modernist Novel as Political Theology
Challenging the Nation
Charles Andrews, Whitworth University, USA
Exploring novels by Virginia Woolf, D H Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Sylvia Townsend Warner as political theology—works that imagine a resistance to the fusion of Christianity and patriotism which fueled and supported the First World War – this book shows how we can gain valuable insights from their works for anti-militarist, anti-statist, and anti-nationalist efforts today Andrews demonstrates the many ways that these novelists issue a challenge to the problems with civil religion and the sacralized nation state and, in so doing, offer alternative visions to coordinate our inner lives with our public and collective actions
UK August 2025 US August 2025 216 pages 20 bw illus
PB 9781350362079 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350362031
ePub 9781350362055 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350362048 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Biblical Wisdom and the Victorian Literary Imagination
Denae Dyck, University of Victoria, Canada
Examining the creative thought that arose in response to nineteenth-century religious controversies, this book also shows that the pressures exerted by historical methods of biblical scholarship prompted a range of writers to undertake an imaginative recovery of wisdom literature Using a series of case studies, it demonstrates that a variety of Victorian intellectuals used wisdom literature to reframe their experiences of doubt and uncertainty, focusing on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George MacDonald, George Eliot, John Ruskin, and Olive Schreiner
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 216 pages
PB 9781350335400 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350335370
ePub 9781350335394 £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350335387 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Language, Translation, and Poetic Realities
The Poetry (Àfàìmò Àti Àwon Àròfò Mìíràn) of Akínwùmí Ìsòlá
Akinloyè Òjó, University of Georgia, USA
Akínwùmí Ìsòlá (1940–2018) contributed to the development of Yorùbá literary traditions by producing most of his literary works in Yorùbá This book considers his language use in the poetry anthology Àfàìmò Àti Àwon Àròfò Mìíràn (1978), composed over a significant period in his life; his contributions to the promotion of Yorùbá and African linguistic and cultural values; and the procedures, benefits, and challenges of translating his poetry into English The author examines the relationship between African oral traditions and contemporary literature, addressing the influence of traditional forms of praise-singing in contemporary Yorùbá poetry
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 304 pages • 12 bw illus
HB 9781501390623 • £95 00 / $130 00
ePub 9781501390630 • £94 20 / $117 00
ePdf 9781501390647 • £94 20 / $94 20 Bloomsbury Academic
Shirley Jackson’s Dark Tales Reconsidering the Short Fiction
Edited by Joan Passey, University of Bristol, UK & Robert Lloyd, Cardiff University, UK
The first exploration of the short fiction of Shirley Jackson, this volume digs into the lasting impact of her work and offers new methodologies to study it Calling upon ideas of intertextuality, ecocriticism and psychoanalysis, it examines a broad range of themes from national identity, race, gender and class to domesticity, the occult, and mental illness With consideration of her blockbuster works such as 'The Lottery' alongside later works that received lesser critical attention, this book promises a rich expansion on previous scholarship of Jackson's oeuvre, bringing her writing into the contemporary conversation, and ensuring her place in Horror fiction.
UK August 2025 US August 2025 248 pages
PB 9781350361157 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350361119
ePub 9781350361133 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350361126 • £76 50 / $76 50
Bloomsbury Academic
Imaginary Worlds and Real Ethics in Japanese Fiction Case Studies in Novel Reflexivity
Christopher Weinberger, San Francisco State University, USA
Can novels contribute to the ethical lives of readers? What responsibilities might they bear in representing others? Are we accountable for how we read fiction? This book takes up modern Japanese fiction and metafiction, subjects often ignored by Anglophone scholarship on novel ethics, to discover answers to these and other questions Offering new readings of works by Mori Ogai and Akutagawa Ryunosuke, Weinberger shows how they address key issues in new ethical theories Finally, the author identifies a continuity between the methods of Japan’s modern novel progenitors and those of novelists at the forefront of global literature today
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 248 pages
PB 9798765105399 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9798765105382
ePub 9798765105412 • £87 01 / $108 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
American Indian Literature
An Encyclopedia for Students
Edited by Kimberly Wieser-Weryackwe, University of Oklahoma, USA
American Indian literature is a varied and vibrant collection of Indigenous artistic expression
This encyclopedia introduces readers to the key historical and contemporary figures in American Indian literature and their defining works. From the fiery sermons of Methodist minister William Apess to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel House Made of Dawn by N Scott Momaday to the critically acclaimed and commercially successful novels of Louise Erdrich, this book illustrates the indelible and influential imprint American Indians have made on the landscape of American letters
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 432 pages
HB 9781440874956 • £75 00 / $100 00
ePub 9798765112717 • £72 64 / $90 00
ePdf 9781440874963 £72 64 / $72 64
Bloomsbury Academic World English
The Hypercontemporary Novel in Portugal
Fictional Aesthetics and Memory after Postmodernism
Edited by Paulo de Medeiros, University of Warwick, UK & Ana Paula Arnaut, University of Coimbra, Portugal
This is the first critical assessment of the contemporary novel in Portugal available in English The works under analysis are varied and representative of the most vibrant work in Portugal since 2000, and the editors’ introductory chapter theorizes the concept of the hypercontemporary as one way of looking at the Novel after its postmodern period – especially in its relation to questions of violence, memory and performativity Readings also discuss new topics and writing strategies as well as the use of innovative graphic forms available from current print technologies and global networks
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 192 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9798765100356 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9798765100318
ePub 9798765100325 • £72 64 / $90 00
ePdf 9798765100332 • £72 64 / $72 64
Bloomsbury Academic
The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age
Ned Curthoys, University of Western Australia, Australia
The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age argues that the humanist ideal of Bildung, the cultivation of the potentialities of the self through selfreflection, travel, and varied social intercourse, has been revitalized in an age of genocidal violence It examines the Bildungsroman as a flourishing intermedial genre encompassing contemporary historical fiction, historical feature films, and children’s and YA literature. Analysing a number of highly influential novels and films about the Holocaust and WWII, the book argues that the narrative strategies of the Bildungsroman, which includes a swerve away from ‘home’ and its parochialism and moral certainties, has contributed to shaping audience perceptions of traumatic histories and their ethical implications in the 21st century
UK August 2025 US August 2025 168 pages
PB 9798765103883 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9798765103890
ePub 9798765103906 • £79 83 / $99 00
ePdf 9798765103913 • £79 83 / $79 83
Bloomsbury Academic
New Directions in German Studies
Imke
Ecologies of Writing Natural, Technical, and Social Conditions
of Textual Production in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Edited by Urs Büttner, University of Oxford, UK & Jacob Haubenreich, Johns Hopkins University, USA
This edited collection explores the multiple dimensions of authorship that constitute the "ecology" of writing Examining the early 20th century to the present, Ecologies of Writing expands our understanding of this period of dramatic media-technological transition in which writers become increasingly self-reflexive and responsive to the materials and changing environments of their craft Drawing from works in German literature and theory, contributors expand this framing to encompass the vast array of material, social, environmental, and economic influences that all inform the practice of writing.
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 224 pages • 10 b&w illustrations
HB 9798765124451 • £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9798765124475 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765124482 • £87 01 / $87 01
Series: New Directions in German Studies Bloomsbury Academic
Thinking Nietzsche with Africana Thought Towards an Alluvial Poetics of Worlding
Michael Stern, University of Oregon, USA Nietzsche's notion of the will to power explains how particular and local interpretations spread and dominate Stern situates Nietzsche's thought alongside those of Africana artists and thinkers who, confronted with the effects of the slave trade and colonial violence, speak to new theoretical paradigms addressing erasure and displacement and its relationship to form making Michael Stern sets Nietzsche in conversation with Africana artists and philosophers to explore the role of aesthetics in decolonial worldmaking
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 176 pages
HB 9798765139639 • £80 00 / $110 00
ePub 9798765139646 • £79 83 / $99 00
ePdf 9798765139653 • £79 83 / $79 83
Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
Interwar Salzburg
Austrian Culture Beyond Vienna
Edited by Robert von Dassanowsky, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA & Katherine Arens, University of Texas at Austin, USA
A long-overdue reassessment of post-1918 Salzburg as a distinct Austrian cultural hub that experimented in moving beyond war and empire into a modern, self-consciously inclusive, and international center for European culture Interwar Salzburg tells the story of a European cultural capital eclipsed in histories enamoured with Austria's imperial past and glittering aristocracy Contributors from all over the globe introduce how the city-state of Salzburg fostered not only new identities in visual and performing arts, film, music, and literature, but also a festival culture aimed at cultivating an inclusive public and civic culture sharing public institutions, sports, tourism, and a diverse spectrum of cultural identities
UK August 2025 US August 2025 360 pages 5 b&w illustrations
PB 9798765112571 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9798765112588
ePub 9798765112595 • £94 20 / $117 00
ePdf 9798765112601 • £94 20 / $94 20
Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
Politics, Literature and Tertium Datur
Socialist Central Europe, 1928–1968
Ivana Perica, Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Germany
This book offers an alternate framing of the literary and political afterlives of revolution between 19281968 in Eastern and Western Europe Examining works by Bertolt Brecht, Ivan Olbracht, and August Cesarec among others, the author excavates a series of problems, optics and styles characteristic of the forgotten episodes of 20th-century literary history She shows that the proverbial Iron Curtain was not impenetrable, and that the walls and borders erected in the post-World War II period could not completely suppress the reverberations and revival of projects that flourished in the political-literary metropolises of the interwar period
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 304 pages • 20 b&w illustrations
HB 9798765123928 • £95 00 / $130 00
ePub 9798765123935 • £94 20 / $117 00
ePdf 9798765123904 • £94 20 / $94 20
Bloomsbury Academic
Song Lyrics and Literary History
The Afterlives of Vårvindar friska Gunilla Hermansson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
The Swedish song 'Vårvindar friska' (Fresh Spring Breezes) started its life in 1828 Since then, it has been reprinted, translated, performed, and used in the most surprising contexts, in different corners of the world This particular case may be rather exceptional, but Gunilla Hermansson argues that the underlying dynamics are not – and yet they have been underexposed in studies of literary history The exploration of 'Vårvindar friska' uncovers new facets of how people have engaged with word art in their everyday lives in the modern era
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 320 pages • 24 bw illus
HB 9798765127353 £95 00 / $130 00
ePub 9798765127360 £94 20 / $117 00
ePdf 9798765127377 £94 20 / $94 20
Bloomsbury Academic
Castration Desire
Less Is More in Global Anglophone Fiction
Robinson Murphy, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA
As the #MeToo movement made clear, we require new tools for imagining alternative masculinities . Enter Castration Desire, which examines an array of contemporary novelists and filmmakers who are emblematic of a transnational phenomenon that Robinson Murphy calls “castration desire ” Figures such as Japanese-British Kazuo Ishiguro, IrishCanadian Emma Donoghue, Sri Lankan-Canadian Michael Ondaatje, South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, and South African-Australian J M Coetzee present privileged characters who nonetheless pursue their own diminishment Castration Desire examines how, in promulgating through their characters a less egocentric mode of thinking and acting, these transnational artists offer a blueprint for engendering a more other-oriented relationality
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 208 pages • 23 bw illustrations
PB 9798765102183 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9798765102176
ePub 9798765102190 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765102206 • £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
Comparative Jewish Literatures
Kitty Millet, San Francisco State University, USA
Kabbalah and Literature
Kitty Millet, San Francisco State University, USA
This study examines the intersection of Kabbalah with secular Jewish literatures to point to how the Jewish mystical tradition contributes to the renewal of literature in a modern, global and increasingly disconnected age Kitty Millet explores Kabbalah’s conceptual underpinnings, aesthetic principles, tenets and signifiers to demonstrate how literature’s absorption of kabbalistic material has altered its ontology, function and the tasks it sets for itself In this way, Kabbalah and Literature proposes a novel, intuitive approach, shifting focus away from the Jewish text’s epistemological elements to embrace its 'secrets'
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages • 1-2 b&w images
PB 9781501379611 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501359682
ePub 9781501359699 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501359705 • £87 01 / $87 01
Series: Comparative Jewish Literatures • Bloomsbury Academic
Certainty and Ambiguity in Global Mystery Fiction
Essays on the Moral Imagination
Edited by John J. Han, C. Clark Triplett & Matthew Bardowell, Missouri Baptist University, USA
In contrast to other studies that examine morality in crime fiction through the lenses of personal guilt and personal justice, this book draws together threads that are often treated separately: personal guilt and social guilt In recent years public awareness has attended to the relationship between social structures and justice, and this collection centers on how personal and social ethics are bound together amidst the shifting moral landscapes of mystery fiction. Featuring essays on Japanese, Filipino, Indian and Colombian mystery fiction as well as American and British fiction, this volume also analyzes social guilt and justice across cultures
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 288 pages
PB 9798765105788 • £28 99 / $39 95
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ePub 9798765105801 £87 01 / $108 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
The Political Uses of Literature Global Perspectives and Theoretical Approaches, 1920-2020
Edited by Benjamin Kohlmann & Ivana Perica, Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Germany
Analysing the rich global histories of 20th- and 21st-century politicized writing, this volume reopens discussion of literature’s political and activist genealogies, drawing attention to the important body of interwar politicized literature and tracing the mobilization of related conversations and artistic practices across subsequent historical moments, most notably the 1960s and our own present – including case studies from the Americas, Europe, Africa, India and Russia In mapping out these diverse traditions, contributors advance critical discussions in the field, but most importantly, this volume insists on the need to think about literature’s political uses today
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 312 pages • 3 bw illus
PB 9781501399299 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501399336
ePub 9781501399329 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501399312 £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
Poesis in Extremis
Literature Witnessing the Holocaust
Daniel Feldman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel & Efraim Sicher, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Reading the work of major figures such as Elie Wiesel, Paul Celan, Avrom Sutzkever, Ida Fink, Wladyslaw Szlengel, Itzhak Katzenelson, and Czeslaw Milosz, Poesis in Extremis poses fundamental questions about how prose and poetry are written under extreme conditions, either in real time or immediately after the Holocaust. Framed by discussion of truth in fiction and fiction as truth, with Wiesel’s Night as an entry point, this innovative book explores the blurred boundary of fact and fiction in Holocaust literature, asking to what extent poetry and fiction can serve as testimony and what might be the criteria for literary witnessing
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages
PB 9798765100226 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9798765100189
ePub 9798765100196 £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765100202 • £87 01 / $87 01
Series: Comparative Jewish Literatures • Bloomsbury Academic
Hope and Kinship in Contemporary Fiction
Moods and Modes of Temporality and Belonging
Gero Bauer, University of Tübingen, Center for Gender and Diversity Research, Germany
This book investigates dimensions of temporality and belonging in contemporary novels, films and television series – including The Road, The Walking Dead, Cloud Atlas, Sense8, The People in the Trees and A Little Life – as they find their expression in the interplay between hope and kinship Taking its cue from an understanding of hope as an organising temporality, often presumed to be in the future, Bauer challenges this understanding, arguing that hope emerges in practices of kingship in the present, disentangling hope from a necessary correlation with futurity
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages
PB 9798765104187 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9798765104194
ePub 9798765104200 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765104217 • £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic
The Many Worlds of Anglophone Literature
Transcultural Engagements, Global Frictions
Edited by Silvia Anastasijevic, Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany, Magdalena Pfalzgraf, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany & Hanna Teichler, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Featuring contributions from a range of internationally renowned scholars, this book explores the globality of Anglophone fiction both as a conceptual framing and as a literary imaginary It highlights the diversity of lives and worlds represented in Anglophone writing, as well as the diverse imaginations of transnational and planetary connections articulated in it
UK August 2025 US August 2025 312 pages
PB 9781350374119 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350374072
ePub 9781350374096 • £81 00 / $110 69
ePdf 9781350374089 • £81 00 / $81 00
Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing • Bloomsbury Academic
Storytelling
around the
World Folktales, Narrative Rituals, and Oral Traditions
Jelena Cvorovic, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Serbia & Kathryn Coe, Indiana University, USA
This book provides students, instructors, and lay-readers with a cross-cultural understanding of storytelling as an art form that has existed for centuries, from the first spoken and sung stories to those that are drawn and performed today By taking an evolutionary approach, this book begins with a discussion of origin stories and continues through history to stories of the 21st century The text not only engages the stories themselves, it also explains how individuals from all disciplines – from doctors and lawyers to priests and journalists – use stories to focus their readers' and listeners' attention and influence them.
UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 304 pages
PB 9798765141090 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781440872945
ePub 9798216149682 • £77 43 / $96 30
ePdf 9781440872952 • £77 43 / $77 43
Bloomsbury Academic World English
Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire in Romantic and Victorian Culture
The Sultan's City, 1800-1876
Piya Pal-Lapinski, Bowling Green State University, USA
From Romantic Byzantium to operatic sultans and vampiric janissaries, the arc of this book takes on a fascinating but often overlooked area of 19th century studies - the encounter with Constantinople/Istanbul, “the diamond between two sapphires” on the Bosphorus and the effect of the city’s complicated history on Romantic /Victorian writers and artists Piya Pal Lapinski explores the transformation of the Ottoman empire (and its Byzantine ghosts) during the period 1800-1876 in terms of its crucial impact on British and European transnational identities
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 280 pages • 15 bw illus
HB 9781350398641 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350398658 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Bloomsbury Academic
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures
Edited
by Toral Jatin Gajarawala, Neelam
Srivastava, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan & Jack Webb
Reflecting the diversity of postcolonial print cultures, this book covers local, national, and transnational cultures from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, examining published and unpublished writing, magazines, pamphlets, paratexts, advertisements, cartoons, radio, and street art that serve as the intellectual forces behind opposition to colonial orders, as meditations on the futures of embryonic nation states, and as visions of new forms of equality
Its wide-ranging essays offer a nuanced study of a global phenomenon: postcolonial print cultures as a distinct literary field. The chapters recover the efforts of writers, readers and publishers to produce a postcolonialism ‘from below’, and provides fresh perspectives on the meaning and history of postcolonialism
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 528 pages • 20 bw illus
PB 9781350261792 • £39 99 / $54 95
Previously published in HB 9781350261754
ePub 9781350261778 • £117 00 / $159 29
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Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic
Divine Cosmos
Humboldt's Ecology in NineteenthCentury American Literature
Lucas Nossaman, North Greenville University, USA
Alexander von Humboldt presented nature as a “cosmos,” an interconnected web that exceeded the scientific world of static taxonomy and individual species that 18th-century science had produced As this study shows, Humboldt’s ecology did more than initiate a change in natural science His writings caused Americans to reconsider how to portray the divine in nature Writers such as Thoreau, Douglass, and Melville utilized their religious contexts and Humboldtian modes of observation to envision nature holistically rather than in terms of singular evidences of “design ” They discovered that natural forms connected across regions, and indeed, across the entire divine creation
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 192 pages
HB 9798765125694 • £75 00 / $100 00
ePub 9798765125687 • £72 64 / $90 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Letters and Lives of the Tennyson Women
Marion Sherwood, Member of the Tennyson Society Executive Committee & Rosalind Boyce, Honorary Secretary of the Tennyson Society Publications Board
Contradicting perceptions of women as mere footnotes in Tennyson's career, this book examines the influence of his strong-minded female forebears on the young poet, revealing that the women in Tennyson’s family circle were prolific and engaging correspondents. Focusing on the letters and lives of four women – their letters, preserved in archives in Lincoln and for the most part unpublished, cast a unique light on the Tennyson family’s interrelationships and the times in which they lived
UK July 2025 US July 2025 240 pages
PB 9781350360563 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350168244
ePub 9781350168268 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350168251 • £76 50 / $76 50
Bloomsbury Academic
21st-Century British Gothic
The Monstrous, Spectral, and Uncanny in Contemporary Fiction
Emily Horton, Brunel University, UK
In this innovative re-casting of the genre and its received canon, Emily Horton explores fictional appropriations of the Gothic within British contemporary literature, revealing how such concepts as the uncanny, spectral, abject and sublime work to illuminate the insecure and precarious experience of 21st-century life Horton illuminates the way the Gothic has been absorbed and repurposed in works like Double Vision, The Accidental, Never Let Me Go, The Wasted Vigil, The City and the City and White is for Witching to address the many cultural anxieties invoked living under neoliberal governance: terrorism, migration, homelessness, racism, and climate change
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 272 pages
PB 9781350286603 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350286566
ePub 9781350286580 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Bloomsbury Academic
Maggie O'Farrell
Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Elaine Canning, Swansea University, UK
Covering all of her 8 novels and her memoir I am, I am, I am, Maggie O’Farrell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives is the first full-length study of O’Farrell’s work, offering a critical guide to her full oeuvre, from her earliest works to the award-winning Hamnet. Covering such topics as narrative, grief and sacrifice, hauntology, marriage, intertextuality and the relation of her work to history and the female domestic gothic, this book also features a new and exclusive interviewer with O’Farrell herself, a timeline of her life and works and suggested further reading
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 176 pages
PB 9781350325043 £28 99 / $39 95
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ePub 9781350325029 £76 50 / $103 94
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Series: Contemporary Critical Perspectives • Bloomsbury Academic
Open Scholarship in the Humanities
Paul Longley Arthur & Lydia Hearn
Offering new insights into promising ways to facilitate the uptake of open scholarship in the humanities, this open access book gives further shape to the digital humanities and the prospects of their future as part of a far more open and public world of scholarship
The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Edith Cowan University.
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 160 pages • 11 bw illus
PB 9781350237476 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350232273
ePub 9781350232297 • £00 00 / $00 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Teenage Time
Coming of Age Disruptively in Literature, Culture and Film 1945-2024
Pamela Thurschwell, University of Sussex, UK
Reading adolescent time as framing and disrupting developmental narratives of modernity, this book shows how the teenager, as they have been perceived since the 1940s, have shaped the temporal imaginary of the 20th and 21st century literature Thurschwell exposes Anglo-American representations of the adolescent as both destructive and recursive and traces how the teenager is 'out of time' and time-travelling, commodified, anarchic, futureless, precarious with an uneven distribution of time in relation to race. Texts and films examined include American Pastoral, Sula, The Hate U Give, The Fault in Our Stars, Donnie Darko, and Back to the Future amongst others
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 288 pages
HB 9781350318427 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350318441 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350318434 • £76 50 / $76 50 Bloomsbury Academic
Hyperbolic Realism
A Wild Reading of Pynchon's and Bolaño's Late Maximalist Fiction
Samir Sellami, Independent Scholar, Germany What comes after postmodernism in literature? Hyperbolic Realism engages the contradiction that while it remains impossible to present a full picture of the world, assessing reality from a planetary perspective seems now more than ever an ethical obligation for contemporary literature It examines the hyperbolic forms and features of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Roberto Bolaño's 2666 – their discursive and material abundance, excessive fictionality, close intertwining of fantastic and historical genres, narrative doubt and spiraling uncertainty – which are deployed not as an escape from, but a plunge into reality
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 248 pages
PB 9781501374555 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781501360497
ePub 9781501360503 £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9781501360510 £87 01 / $87 01 Bloomsbury Academic
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film
Edited by Sarah Falcus, University of Huddersfield, UK, Heike Hartung, University of Graz, Austria & Raquel Medina
Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavor of Age(ing) studies has shaped contemporary literary and film studies. With original contributions from pioneers in the field, this book examines literary and film genres and how they have been shaped by knowledge about age and ageing, as well as poetry and drama It also includes chapters on key themes and concepts in Ageing Studies with examples from film and literature and brings together case studies focussing on individual artists, national traditions and global ageing
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 480 pages • 40 b/w images
PB 9781350212213 • £39 99 / $54 95
Previously published in HB 9781350204331
ePub 9781350204355 • £117 00 / $159 29
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Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks Bloomsbury Academic
Marketing Chinese Children's Books
Paratext and the Politics of Authorship
Frances Weightman, University of Leeds, UK
Centering the paratextual elements of contemporary Chinese literature written for children, Marketing Chinese Children's Books explores the marketing, presentation and construction of popular Chinese authors for their audience, parents and teachers Taking the publications of Cao Wenxuan, Yang Hongying, Shen Shixi and Gerelchimeg Black Crane as case studies, Frances Weightman considers how the marketing of these authors presents them as academic and political authorities to be emulated and trusted, how they are demonstrative of the commercialism in children's literature and what they expose about the different ways in which popular authors are promoted based on their gender, nationality and ethnicity
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 224 pages • 30 bw illus
HB 9781350273559 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350273573 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures
Anthony Mandal & Jenny Kidd, Cardiff University, UK
Resisting Big Tech
The Personalized is Political
Niels Niessen, Tilburg University, Netherlands
How does Google Maps reorient our city travels? How do matching algorithms affect how we seek love? And how does artificial “intelligence” prompt how we think? Engaging these and similar questions, this open access book critiques Big Tech’s colonization of everyday life
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council.
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 320 pages • 75 colour illus
PB 9781350504097 • £21 99 / $29 95 • HB 9781350504103 • £65 00 / $90 00
ePub 9781350504127 • £00 00 / $00 00
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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures Bloomsbury Academic
Reading Audio Readers
Book Consumption in the Streaming Age
Karl Berglund, Uppsala University, Sweden
The first computational study of readers and reading to focus on audiobooks, this book uses a unique and substantial set of reader consumption data, to show how audiobooks and digital streaming platforms affect our literary culture
Offering an academic perspective on the kind of user data hoard we associate with tech companies, it asks: When it comes to audiobooks, what do people really read, and how and when do they read it?
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 208 pages • 30 bw illus
PB 9781350358409 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350358362
ePub 9781350358386 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic
Transgressing Later Life Sexualities in British Sitcoms
Franziska Röber, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Based on close readings of three major sitcoms, this book unpacks how sitcoms understand later life sexualities and focusses on how they represent sexually active older adults It focuses on three representative sitcoms - Waiting for God, The Old Guys and Vicious - to examine this trend, demonstrating the ways in which sitcoms specifically enable and restrict representations of later life sexualities.
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9781350473508 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350473522 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life • Bloomsbury Academic
Critical
Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities
Corinne Saunders, Durham University, UK, Sowon Park, UC Santa Barbara, USA, Angela Woods, Durham Univeristy, UK & Stuart Murray
Critical Neurodiversity Studies Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture
Edited by Jenny Bergenmar, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Louise Creechan, Durham University, UK & Anna Stenning, University of Leeds, UK
Bringing together cutting-edge research on neurodiversity as an evolving theme in Disability Studies and the wider Medical Humanities, this book Introduces a new, more inclusive field of scholarship for literary and cultural studies that explores the potential of neurodiverse scholarly practice in literary and cultural studies
UK August 2025 US August 2025 240 pages 7 bw illus
HB 9781350421172 £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350421196 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350421189 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities • Bloomsbury Academic
Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930
Douglas RJ. Small, Edge Hill University, UK
The first significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, this open access book offers an important exploration of the drug's symbolic and metaphorical associations in the decades prior to its criminalization Reading texts such as the Sherlock Holmes stories, by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as work by Arthur Machen, W C Morrow and Aleister Crowley, it examines the paradoxical position of cocaine in this period
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust.
UK July 2025 US July 2025 264 pages 11 bw illus
PB 9781350400139 £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350400092
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Series: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities • Bloomsbury Academic
Autism and the Empathy Epidemic
Janet Harbord, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Threading an enquiry through debates in neurodiversity scholarship as well as film theory, this open access book challenges the widespread idea that autism is an epidemic characterised predominantly by a deficit of empathy, arguing that the reverse is true: we are living through an empathy epidemic in which autism is the outcast
The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust.
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 144 pages
PB 9781350345058 • £14 99 / $19 95 • HB 9781350345065 • £45 00 / $61 00
ePub 9781350345089 • £00 00 / $00 00
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Series: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities • Bloomsbury Academic
Understanding Cavell, Understanding Modernism
Edited by Paola Marrati, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Stanley Cavell has written extensively on modernist art – particularly on painting, photography, music, literature, and especially cinema However, Cavell’s importance for understanding modernism is not exhausted by his interest in modernist art and literature Equally significant, and perhaps even more original, is his understanding of ordinary language philosophy as a modernist enterprise in its own terms This volume features introductory essays on Cavell’s most important works, delves into more specific aspects and problems pertaining to Cavell’s aesthetics and its moral and political implications, and includes an extended glossary of Cavell’s key words and concepts
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 304 pages
HB 9781501313639 • £95 00 / $130 00
ePub 9781501313646 • £94 20 / $117 00
ePdf 9781501313653 • £94 20 / $94 20
Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic
Unplanned Cities in Modern American Poetry
Lyrical Challenges to Utopianism
Daniela Kukrechtová, College of Holy Cross, USA
Through an urban ecocritical approach often missing in literary analyses of modern American poetry, Daniela Kukrechtová reveals how five modern American poets – Jean Toomer, William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, Frank O'Hara, and Gwendolyn Brooks – challenged prevailing discourses about urbanization She shows how these writers promoted the radical idea that cities were for people, and their texts both reveal that the extreme dystopian/utopian discourse helped create and maintain disparities between (racialized) affluent and impoverished urban areas, and also imagine and give voice to the people subject to the plans and policies behind the modern American city
UK August 2025 US August 2025 240 pages 15 b&w illustrations
HB 9798765129159 £90 00 / $120 00
ePub 9798765129173 £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765129180 • £87 01 / $87 01 Bloomsbury Academic
Modernist Archives
American Modernism (Re) Considered
Edited by Robert C. Hauhart, Saint Martin’s University, USA & Jeff Birkenstein, Centralia College, USA
What is literary modernism and who are modernist writers? What distinguishes American modernism from its European counterpart? Contributors discuss a wide range of texts – by authors such as Nella Larsen, Willa Cather, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Anne Carson, Wallace Stevens, Américo Paredes, Richard Wright, Ernest Hemingway, and T S Eliot – to challenge the aesthetic, social, and temporal boundaries of modernism in America Through original close readings, this volume subjects modernism to new interrogations and offers new answers to questions that remain contemporary even as they harken back to its height of popularity and interest in the mid-1920s
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 304 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9798765126820 • £95 00 / $130 00
ePub 9798765126844 • £94 20 / $117 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Modernism in Wonderland
Legacies of Lewis Carroll
Edited by John D. Morgenstern & Michelle Witen, University of Basel, Switzerland
Retracing the steps of a surprising array of twentiethcentury writers who ventured into the fantastical, topsy-turvy world of Lewis Carroll’s fictions and discovered there the quintessence of their own modernity, this book demonstrates that Carroll’s influence extended far beyond literary style, pervading all aspects of modern life from commercial culture to politics, from philosophy to the new physics Recovering a common touchstone between the likes of T S Eliot, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf and writers conventionally regarded on the periphery of modernist studies, such as Sylvia Plath, Jorge Luis Borges, and Vladimir Nabokov, this volume ultimately provides a new entry-point into a more broadly conceptualised global modernism
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus
PB 9781350248755 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350248717
ePub 9781350248731 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350248724 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic
Matthew Feldman, University of York, UK, Erik Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway & Natasha Periyan, Falmouth University, UK
Selected Stories of Katherine Mansfield
A Manuscript
Critical Edition
Katherine Mansfield
Edited by Todd Martin, Huntington University, USA
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was one of the leading figures in the development of the modernist short story. Presenting for the first time draft manuscripts of some of her most important stories, this book gives scholars and students alike vivid new insight into Mansfield’s creative process. In the final section of the book leading scholars offer new critical readings exploring the history of these stories
UK July 2025 • US July 2025 • 344 pages
PB 9781350402447 £26 99 / $36 95
Previously published in HB 9781350096653
ePub 9781350096660 £117 00 / $159 29
ePdf 9781350096677 • £117 00 / $117 00
Series: Modernist Archives • Bloomsbury Academic
World English
The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and the Frobenius Institute, 1930-1959
Ezra Pound
Edited by Erik Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway
Collecting in full for the first time the correspondence between Ezra Pound and members of Leo Frobenius' Forschungsinstitut für Kulturmorphologie in Frankfurt across a 30 year period, this book sheds new light on an important influence on Pound's controversial intellectual development in the Fascist era These letters reveal the extent of the impact of Frobenius' concept of 'Paideuma' on Pound's poetic and political writings during this period and his growing engagement with the culture of Nazi Germany
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 392 pages
PB 9781350442863 • £39 99 / $54 95
Previously published in HB 9781472506511
ePub 9781472508485 • £90 00 / $122 84
ePdf 9781472512017 • £90 00 / $90 00
Series: Modernist Archives Bloomsbury Academic
The Ecogothic Werewolf in Literature
Wolves, Woods and Wilderness
Kaja Franck
Using an Ecogothic approach, this book offers a new conceptual framework for the werewolf in literature, categorising it as an emblem for society’s fear of untamed wilderness Exploring Dracula, the works of Anne Rice, Maggie Stiefvater and Annette Curtis Klause alongside natural histories and fairy and folk tales, it undermines notions of the Gothic werewolf Interrogating or stabilizing the canon of lycanthropic literature, Franck considers the changing attitude towards wolves alongside the growing environmentalism movement, and reclaims the wolf from the singularly monstrous figure of the werewolf.
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 240 pages
HB 9781350441125 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350441149 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Bloomsbury Academic
The Afterlives of Frankenstein
Popular and Artistic Adaptations and Reimaginings
Edited by Robert I. Lublin, University of Massachusets, Boston, USA & Elizabeth A. Fay, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
An exploration of adaptations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in film, comics, theatre, art, videogames and more, this book illuminates how the novel's myth has evolved since its publication Divided into four sections, it considers the cultural dialogues the novel has engaged with in specific historical moments; the examples of how Frankenstein has suffused our cultural consciousness; and how the Frankenstein myth has become a locus for reinvention and imaginative interpretation. In the final part, artists respond to the Frankenstein legacy today, reintroducing it into cultural circulation in ways that speak creatively to current anxieties and concerns
UK September 2025
PB 9781350351608 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350351561
ePub 9781350351585 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Bloomsbury Academic
The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry
Politics of Poetic Experimentation
Farshad Sonboldel, University of California, San Diego, USA
This book analyses the aesthetic, cultural and political aspects of alternative poetic movements and individual poets in the Constitutional Revolution (1900–1920), the post-constitutional era (1920–1940) and the ascendency of modernism (1940–1960) in Iran Dominant narratives portray modern Persian poetry as a gradual and moderate change as well as a response to – and reflection of – cultural and socio-political changes within Iranian society Examining formal and thematic aspects of radical experiments by alternative poets, this study reformulates the story of modern Persian poetry and their role in the initiation and progress of the 'literary revolution'
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 232 pages • 1 b&w illustration
PB 9798765103586 • £28 99 / $39 95
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ePub 9798765103593 • £87 01 / $108 00
ePdf 9798765103609 £87 01 / $87 01
Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages (except Persian)
Illustrating The Lord of the Rings in the Soviet Bloc Iconographies of Difference
Joel Merriner, University of Plymouth, UK
A comprehensive history and analysis of the Soviet illustrated editions of The Lord of the Rings published 1981 - 1993, this book explores these works against a backdrop of state censorship, restrictive publishing practices and logistical struggles of translation Employing comparative analysis to reconcile neglected Soviet illustrations with their Western equivalents, it situates both within the wider cultural and political contexts of the period. Reflecting upon their relevance to current debates regarding visual heterogeneity in fantasy, the book examines artistic reception, iconography and the permeability of cultural boundaries during the final years of Communist rule, shedding new light on the role of visual art in shaping cultural content
UK September 2025 US September 2025 256 pages 75 colour illus
HB 9781350442085 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9781350442108 • £76 50 / $103 94
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Series: Perspectives on Fantasy • Bloomsbury Academic
Robert Lowell's Imitations and the Cold War
Containment, Leakage, Anarchy
Simon Van Schalkwyk, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa
Focusing on Lowell’s career-long preoccupation with the liberal mode of translational adaptation known as imitation, this book argues that Lowell’s imitations are symptomatic of and critically responsive to familiar nodes of Cold War ideology, such as containment and contamination, secrecy and security, post-imperial U S expansion and Empire Reading Imitations (1961) with Lowell's other works, Van Schalkwyk suggests that Lowell’s imitations challenge and develop our understanding of confession’s preoccupation with the personal, regional and national frameworks through which Lowell has commonly been understood
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 224 pages • 5 b&w tables
HB 9798765132555 • £90 00 / $120 00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Reading Mediated Life Narratives
Auto/Biographical Agency in the Book, Museum, Social Media, and Archives
Amy Carlson, University of Hawai'i, USA
Calling attention to the unseen mediation of life narratives in online and physical spaces, this book uncovers strategies that authors, artists, publishers, curators, archivists and social media corporations adopt to shape, control or resist the auto/biographical in the material book, the museum gallery and its associated online counterparts and archives Carlson exposes the traces of personal, cultural, technological, and political mediation that must be considered when developing reading strategies for such life narratives Surveying a range of sites where vulnerability can occur, this book explores the auto/biographical sources, and the social media posts of Amalia Ulman and Kim Kardashian
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 248 pages
PB 9781350324701 • £28 99 / $39 95
Previously published in HB 9781350324664
ePub 9781350324688 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9781350324671 • £76 50 / $76 50
Series: New Directions in Life Narrative • Bloomsbury Academic World English
Latin American Literature and Culture in Translation
Contemporary Critical Approaches
Edited by Martín L. Gaspar, Bryn Mawr College, USA & Maria Rossi, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA
Offering a wide-ranging thematic exploration of key debates on contemporary translation in Latin American literature and culture, this book features 32 chapters from a mixture of the field's leading authorities, alongside up-and-coming voices from around the world Sections focus on colonialism, race, gender, the archive, criticism, creation, authenticity, politics, and world literature to offer a broad and ambitious snapshot of where the field is now as well as where it is going
UK February 2026 • US February 2026 • 464 pages
HB 9781350378759 • £130 00 / $175 00
ePub 9781350378773 • £117 00 / $159 29
ePdf 9781350378766 • £117 00 / $117 00
Bloomsbury Academic
A Genre of Her Own
Life Narratives and Feminist Literary Beginnings
in Modern India
Gayathri Prabhu, Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Karnataka, India
This book argues for feminist literary roots in latenineteenth and early-twentieth-century Indian life narratives It explores women’s voices across genres—pamphlets, letters, essays, autobiographies, and novels—highlighting their emotional range: pride, despair, wit, nostalgia, anger, hope, and celebration These writers, actively engaged in print culture, reflect on their dual roles as women and writers, challenging the male-dominated literary landscape Their works tackle themes like marriage, motherhood, labor, sexuality, illness, and intellectual pursuit, offering rich, evolving perspectives on gender and identity within shifting literary contexts
UK August 2025 • US October 2025 • 256 pages
HB 9789356408234 • £85 00 / $115 00
ePub 9789356408395 • £76 50 / $103 94
ePdf 9789356409248 £76 50 / $76 50
Bloomsbury Academic India
World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)
Envisioning Voice and the Aphasic Ears
Of Sanskrit Reflective Traditions Today D Venkat Rao, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India
This book explores using Sanskrit to rethink human thought, challenging the dominance of European intellectual traditions Sanskrit, with its vast historical spread across Asia and Europe, offers a unique reflective idiom that contrasts with European frameworks in language, art, reason, justice, and politics
The book argues that despite shared linguistic roots, European thinkers have followed a different, often violent intellectual path In contrast, Sanskrit’s history of coexistence offers an inclusive model for understanding justice and coexistence, urging a cross-cultural examination to foster new possibilities for intellectual inquiry and global understanding
UK August 2025 • US October 2025 • 328 pages
HB 9789361318405 • £85 00 / $115 00
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Modern European Borders in Fiction
The Divided Continent
Andrew Hammond, University of Sussex, UK
There are few features of the contemporary world more significant than national and regional borders. In modern Europe, the practices of human division have defined the continent from the early years of the Cold War to the present barriers of Fortress Europe, whose exposure of irregular migrants to trafficking, discrimination and deportation is rarely absent from the daily news Modern European Borders in Fiction references over 600 novels and short stories analysing engagement of post-1945 novelists
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Reading and Writing for Change Theories and Tools for Confronting Power
Amelia Walker, University of South Australia, Australia
This book asks how writers and readers can be active agents in fighting social injustices. With many writers oblivious to how their writing upholds the problems they seek to undo, Reading and Writing for Change helps writers identify connections between creative writing and power and enables them to produce works that envision change Exploring how power operates in, through and around the form, structure, narrative order, grammar, style, and figurative language of stories, it offers strategies for analyzing texts that draw on theories from Indigenous, cultural and creative writing studies
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Signature Pedagogies for the Playwriting Classroom
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Playwright
Andrew Black, University of Missouri, USA
Drawing on qualitative research exploring the techniques of playwriting instructors, this book outlines signature pedagogies within playwriting instruction for ‘novice’ writers and how they may be reimagined and reinvigorated Identifying 3 signature pedagogies that are consistently used in the classroom – the writing exercise, the use of mentor texts and the workshopping of student material, this book describes key strategies and practices used by seasoned instructors and offers new teachers starting points for developing their first lesson plans that are inclusive.
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The Scholarship of Creative Writing Practice
Beyond Craft, Pedagogy, and the Academy
Edited by Marshall Moore, Falmouth University, UK & Sam Meekings, Northwestern University in Qatar, Qatar
The first study to explore the complex and multifaceted nature of creative writing practice, this book examines the writing life as it is experienced by a wealth of international writers/academics Moving away from the field's focus on pedagogy, this book brings together essays on studies and methodologies to convey the diverse definitions of creative practice and how writers' can carve out strategies for a viable writing life within and beyond the academy Offering intelligent and actionable methods for robust writing practice from multi-national perspectives, it presents wideranging investigations, generous insight along with imaginative and transdisciplinary approaches to this under-researched area
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