Cultural Histories Series

A series of multi-volume sets that survey the social and cultural construction of specific subjects across Antiquity, The Medieval Age, The Renaissance, The Age of Enlightenment, The Age of Empire and The Modern Age.

A Cultural History of Comedy

Volumes 1-6

Edited by Andrew McConnell Stott and Eric Weitz

November 2022 250 mono illus Word count per volume: 95,000 9781350000827 Bloomsbury Academic

Examines 2,500 years of comedy in its physical, social and cultural context.

How has our expression, use and reception of comedy developed from antiquity to the present day? What role has it occupied in Western culture, and what can it tell us about how society has changed? These ambitious questions are addressed by 55 experts across 6 volumes. The themes explored in each volume are: form, theory, praxis, identities, the body, politics and power, laughter, and ethics.

Andrew McConnell Stott is Dean of Undergraduate Education and Professor of English at the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, USA.

Professor Eric Weitz is the School Director for Undergraduate Teaching and Learning, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

A Cultural History of Ideas

Volumes 1-6

Edited by Sophia Rosenfeld and Peter T. Struck

September 2022 240 mono illus Word count per volume: 115,000 9781350007550 Bloomsbury Academic

Examines 2,800 years of ideas from a wide range of perspectives, including philosophy, religion, politics and art.

This work presents historians, as well as students and scholars of related fields, with the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of ideas from ancient times to the present day. Themes covered are: Knowledge; The Human Self; Ethics and Social Relations; Politics and Economies; Nature; Religion and the Divine; Language, Poetry and Rhetoric; The Arts; and History.

Sophia Rosenfeld is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

Peter T. Struck is Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Director of the Benjamin Franklin Scholars at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.

A Cultural History of Memory

Volumes 1-6

Edited by Stefan Berger and Jeffrey K. Olick

September 2022 300 mono illus Word count per volume: 95,000 9781474273848 Bloomsbury Academic

Examines 2,500 years of memory from a variety of perspectives in social and cultural history.

This is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of memory from ancient times to the present day. Each volume adopts the same thematic structure, covering: politics, time and space, media and technology, science and education, philosophy, religion and history, high culture and popular culture, society, and remembering and forgetting. This enables readers to trace one theme throughout history, as well as gaining a thorough overview of each individual period.

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute of Social Movements and the House for the History of the Ruhr at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

Jeffrey K. Olick is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, USA.

A Cultural History of the Home

Volumes 1-6

Edited by Amanda Flather

September 2022 300 mono illus Word count per volume: 90,000 September 2022 9781472584410 Bloomsbury Academic

Examines 2,800 years of the cultural history of the home.

This is the first comprehensive survey of the domestic space from ancient times to the present. The six volumes explore how different cultures and societies have established, developed and used the home. It reveals a great deal about how people have lived day-to-day in a range of regions and epochs by providing a historical focus on the location in which they will have spent much of their time: the domestic space.

Amanda Flather is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Essex, UK.