BSLS 2020

SCIENCE & LITERATURE 30% discount code: CSF20BSL Order online at combinedacademic.co.uk Against Sustainability

Reading Nineteenth-Century America in the Age of Climate Crisis MICHELLE NEELY

Against Sustainability responds to twenty-first century environmental crisis by unearthing the nineteenthcentury U.S. literary, cultural, and scientific contexts that gave rise to sustainability, recycling, and preservation.

Through novel pairings of antebellum and contemporary writers, this book demonstrates that some of our most vaunted strategies to address ecological crisis in fact perpetuate environmental degradation.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS June 2020 224pp 9780823288205 £22.99 PB now £16.09

Sacred Seeds

New World Plants in Early Modern English Literature EDWARD MCLEAN TEST

Examines New World plants— tobacco, amaranth, guaiacum, and the prickly pear cactus—and their associated Native myths as they moved across the Atlantic and into English literature. Test reinstates the contributions of indigenous peoples to European society, charting an alternative history that explores the associations and assemblages of transatlantic multiplicity rather than Eurocentric homogeny.

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies January 2019 1 photograph, 23 illustrations,1 map, index 246pp 9781496207883 £45.00 HB now £31.50

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Radical Botany

Plants and Speculative Fiction NATANIA MEEKER & ANTÓNIA SZABARI

Radical Botany uncovers a speculative tradition that conjures new languages to grasp the life of plants in all its specificity and vigor. Plants complement and challenge notions of human life. This book traces the implications of the speculative mobilization of plants within literature and art for feminism, queer studies, and posthumanist thought.

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS December 2019 304pp 9780823286621 £24.99 PB now £17.49

Symptomatic Subjects

Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England JULIE ORLEMANSKI

Examining both the writings of late medieval England, the period prior to medicine’s modernity, and the narrative and poetic works that responded to them, Symptomatic Subjects illuminates the period’s conflicts over who had the authority to construe bodily signs and what embodiment could be made to mean.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS Series: Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science May 2019 4 illus. 344pp 9780812250909 £56.00 HB now £39.20

Empire of Guns

The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution PRIYA SATIA

This book reframes the Industrial Revolution and the British empire by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade. Satia illuminates Britain’s emergence as a global superpower, the roots of the government’s role in economic development, and the origins of our own era’s debates over gun control and military contracting.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS October 2019 544pp 9781503610484 £16.99 PB now £11.89

Fiction Without Humanity

Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture LYNN FESTA

Festa offers a literary history of late seventeenth- and early eighteenthcentury efforts to define the human.

Festa argues that writers and artists treated humanity as an indefinite class, which needed to be called into being through literature and the arts.

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS June 2019 4 color, 11 b/w illus. 364pp 9780812251319 £56.00 HB now £39.20

Lingua Cosmica

Science Fiction from around the World EDITED BY DALE KNICKERBOCKER

11 contributors invite readers to ponder the themes, formal elements,

and unique cultural characteristics within the works of important but toolittle-known figures in the vanguard of international science fiction. Examines works pushing SF along new evolutionary paths even as they draw on the traditions of their own literary cultures.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS May 2018 262pp 9780252083372 £22.99 PB now £16.09

Old Futures

Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility ALEXIS LOTHIAN

Explores the social, political, and cultural forces feminists, queer people, and people of color invoke when they dream up alternative futures as a way to imagine transforming the present. Lothian shows how queer possibilities emerge when we practice the art of speculation: of imagining things otherwise than they are and creating stories from that impulse.

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Postmillennial Pop September 2018 40 black and white illustrations 352pp 9781479825851 £23.99 PB now £16.79

Scribes of Space

Place in Middle English Literature and Late Medieval Science MATTHEW BOYD GOLDIE

Examining how natural philosophers, theologians, and other thinkers in late medeival Britain altered the ideas about geographical space they inherited from the ancient world,

Scribes of Space posits that the conception of space underwent critical transformations between the 13th and 15th centuries.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS March 2019 11 b&w halftones 312pp 9781501734045 £45.00 HB now £31.50

From the University of Illinois Press Modern Masters of Science Fiction Series:

Arthur C. Clarke GARY WESTFAHL

Examines Arthur C. Clarke’s remarkable career, ranging from his forgotten juvenilia to the passage he completed for a final novel.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS June 2018 224pp 9780252083594 £18.99 PB now £13.29

Joanna Russ GWYNETH JONES

Critic Gwyneth Jones offers a new appraisal of Joanna Russ’s work and ideas.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS August 2019 224pp 9780252084478 £16.99 PB now £11.89

Kim Stanley Robinson ROBERT MARKLEY

Robert Markley examines the works of an author engaged with the fundamental question of how we—as individuals, as a civilization, and as a species—might go forward.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS October 2019 248pp 9780252084584 £18.99 PB now £13.29

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