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Literary Studies
A Practical Introduction for Teachers, Lecturers, and Students
Claire Battershill, Simon Fraser University, Canada & Shawna Ross, Texas A&M University, USA Roundly praised for its pragmatic and accessible approach, the first edition of Using Digital Humanities in the Classroom became a go-to guide for experienced digital humanists and novices alike. Retaining the original's clear, pedagogically grounded approach, this second edition - updated throughout and with a significant amount of new material - provides readers with an up-to-date set of recommendations and further critical commentary on current debates in DH pedagogy, helping a fresh wave of scholars to use digital tools and resources in the humanities classroom.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 272 pages PB 9781350180895 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350180901 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350180918 • £17.99 / $23.44 ePdf 9781350180925 • £17.99 / $23.44 Bloomsbury Academic
Reclaiming the Disabled Subject
Representing Disability in Short Fiction (Volume 1)
Edited by Someshwar Sati, Delhi University, India, GJV Prasad, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India & Ritwick Bhattacharjee The volume intends to reclaim the representations of disability and present narratives that do not just use the figure of the disabled as a means to an end. It includes translation of 17 disability centric short stories from multiple Indian languages into English. Further it uses these stories as illustration to test and develop new theoretical formulations concerning disability and the disabled. What grants the work its uniqueness is not only the translations of the erstwhile lost stories of disability but also the use of these stories towards the formation of theoretical paradigms to move forward the project of Disability Studies.
UK March 2022 • US March 2022 • 320 pages HB 9789354353352 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9789354353369 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9789354351297 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic India World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent)
Jesus in the Victorian Novel
Reimagining Christ
Jessica Ann Hughes, George Fox University, USA This book tells the story of how nineteenth-century writers turned to the realist novel in order to reimagine Jesus during a century where traditional religious faith appeared increasingly untenable. Re-workings of the canonical Gospels and other projects to demythologize the story of Jesus are frequently treated as projects aiming to secularize and even discredit traditional Christian faith. The novels of Charles Kingsley, George Eliot, Eliza Lynn Linton, and Mary Augusta Ward, however, demonstrate that the work of bringing the Christian tradition of prophet, priest, and king into conversation with a rapidly changing world can at times be a form of authentic faith—even a faith that remains rooted in the Bible and historic Christianity, while simultaneously creating a space that allows traditional understandings of Jesus’ identity to evolve.
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 200 pages HB 9781350278158 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350278172 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350278165 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Ben Ristow, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA Craft Consciousness and Artistic Practice in Creative Writing follows Richard Sennett’s notion of "making is thinking". Reframing craft as a "material consciousness" rather than formalistic logics and techniques taught by makers that teach, this book restores the virtue of craft for artist-teachers. With research drawn from 25 interviews with artists across material and intellectual boundaries including architecture, painting, dance, music, writing, pottery, textiles, and woodworking, Ben Ristow puts these practitioners in conversation with each other to suggest that craft consciousness is foundational to developing an artistic identity and practice.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 232 pages HB 9781350120686 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350120709 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350120693 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Research in Creative Writing • Bloomsbury Academic
New Directions in Religion and Literature
Emma Mason, University of Warwick, UK and Mark Knight, University of Toronto, Canada
Food Restraint and Fasting in Victorian Religion and Literature
Lesa Scholl, University of Adelaide, Australia Through an interdisciplinary lens of theology, medicine, and literary criticism, this book examines the complicated intersections of food consumption, political economy, and religious conviction in nineteenth-century Britain. Scholarship on fasting is gendered. This book deliberately faces this gendering by looking at the way in which four Victorian women writers - Christina Rossetti, Alice Meynell, Elizabeth Gaskell and Josephine Butler - each engage with food restraint from ethical, social and theological perspectives.
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 168 pages HB 9781350256514 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350256538 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350256521 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Marilynne Robinson's Worldly Gospel
A Philosophical Account of her Christian Vision
Ryan S. Kemp, Wheaton College, USA & Jordan M. Rodgers, King's College, Wilkes-Barre, USA An in-depth philosophical exploration of her work – from Gilead to her extensive non-fiction writing – Marilynne Robinson’s Worldly Gospel reads the author’s theology as articulating a compelling response to the claim that Christianity is an otherworldly religion whose adherents seek through it to escape the misfortunes of this life. Ryan Kemp and Jordan Rodgers argue that Robinson’s work challenges the modern atheistic tradition dating back to Friedrich Nietzsche to present a unique form of contemporary faith that seeks to affirm the world rather than deny its claims.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 224 pages HB 9781350106956 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350106970 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350106963 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Reflex Action in Fiction and Film
Garrett Stewart, University of Iowa, USA The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors is the first sustained comparative study of how images are created in prose and cinema. In film examples ranging from Citizen Kane through Apocalypse Now to Blade Runner 2049, then on to Christopher Nolan’s 2020 Tenet, Garrett Stewart tracks the shift from celluloid to digital cinema through various narrative approaches to the image, from freeze-frames to computergenerated special effects. By bringing these insights into dialogue with contemporary literature, Stewart discovers a common tendency in contemporary storytelling, in both prose and visual narrative, from the ongoing trend of “mind-game” films to the often puzzling narrative eccentricities of such different writers as Richard Powers and Nicholson Baker.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 208 pages PB 9781501388781 • £21.99 / $27.95 • HB 9781501388798 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781501388804 • £19.93 / $25.15 ePdf 9781501388811 • £19.93 / $25.15 Bloomsbury Academic
Becoming Utopian
The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation
Tom Moylan, University of Limerick, Ireland This book explores the utopian process in its individual and collective trajectory from dream to realization. Drawing on theorists such as Fredric Jameson, Donna Haraway and Alain Badiou and science fiction writers such as Kim Stanley Robinson and China Miéville, Becoming Utopian develops its argument for sociopolitical action through studies that range from liberation theology, ecological activism, and radical pedagogy to the radical movements of 1968. Throughout, Moylan speaks to the urgent need to confront and transform the global environmental, economic, political and cultural crises of our time.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 312 pages PB 9781350190085 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350133334 ePub 9781350133358 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350133341 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic World English
Disrupted Intersubjectivity
Paralysis and Invasion in Ian McEwan’s Works
Andrei Ionescu, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Saudi Arabia Disrupted Intersubjectivity investigates two classes of phenomena creating failures of understanding in social interaction, referred to as ‘paralysis’ and ‘invasion.’ Both can be understood as disrupted forms of intersubjectivity, the former being characterized by a lack/deficiency of ways of relating to others, and the latter by an unnecessary surplus. By studying the literary accounts of these phenomena in a selection of Ian McEwan’s literary works (“Homemade,” On Chesil Beach, Enduring Love, and Atonement), Andrei Ionescu sheds light on the epistemological potential of literature and the structure of human relationships in general.
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 224 pages PB 9781501391149 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501362460 ePub 9781501362453 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501362446 • £83.60 / $108.00 Series: Thinking Media • Bloomsbury Academic
Realism: Aesthetics, Experiments, Politics
Edited by Jens Elze, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany This volume brings together for the first time three aspects that are pertinent for a proper understanding of realism: its origins as a radical 19th-century aesthetic practice of making reality into an object of serious art; the challenges to it taken up in 20th-century literature; and the politics of contemporary realism. Innovative chapters deal with classically realist authors (George Eliot, Émile Zola), experimental engagements with realism (J.M. Coetzee, Rachel Cusk) and contemporary global novels (Chimamanda Adichie, David Mitchell). The readings assembled here are a testament to the ongoing controversies surrounding definitions and deployments of the genre.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 288 pages HB 9781501385483 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501385490 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501385506 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
ship’s Wake
Authorship's Wake: Writing After the Death of the Author
Philip Sayers, University of Toronto, Canada Through the lens of Roland Barthes’s 1960s essay, “The Death of the Author,” this book investigates the enduring legacy of the critique of the author as an all-controlling figure determining the meaning of literary texts. Authorship’s Wake examines texts by writers who either directly participated in this critique, or whose intellectual formation took place in its aftermath. Using work by Judith Butler, Zadie Smith, and David Foster Wallace, Sayers argues that these writers are participants in an ongoing conversation surrounding authorship.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 224 pages • 1 bw illus PB 9781501372186 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501367670 ePub 9781501367687 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501367694 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Nonmodern Practices
Latour and Literary Studies
Edited by Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield, University of Colorado, USA & Claire Chi-ah Lyu, University of Virginia, USA This collection of essays responds to the urgent call in the humanities to go beyond the act of negative critique which, so far, has been the dominant form of intellectual inquiry in academia. The contributors take their inspiration from Bruno Latour's pragmatic, relational approach and his philosophy of hybrid world where culture is immanent to nature and knowledge is tied to the things it co-creates. In such a world, nature, society, and discourse relate to, rather than negate, each other. These 11 essays, ranging from early modern humanism and modern theorization of literature to contemporary political ecology and animal studies, propose new productive ways of thinking, reading, and writing with, not against, the world. In carrying out concrete practices that are inclusive, rather than exclusive, contributors strive to exemplify a form of scholarship that might be better attuned to the concerns of our post-humanist era.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 272 pages PB 9781501369278 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501354281 ePub 9781501354298 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501354304 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature
Edited by James Hodapp, Northwestern University, Qatar Building upon the little extant scholarship on graphic narratives from the Global South, this collection moves beyond a Western approach to this quickly expanding field. By focussing on graphic novels and comics from the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia, these essays expand the study of graphic narratives to a global scale. Contributors also explore how these graphic texts engage with, fit in with or complicate notions of World Literature, such as translation, commodification, circulation and Orientalism. The larger theoretical framework of World Literature is joined with the postcolonial, decolonial, Global South and similar approaches that argue explicitly or implicitly for the viability of non-Western graphic narratives on their own terms.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 272 pages • 64 bw illus HB 9781501373411 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501373428 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501373435 • £83.60 / $108.00 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Philosophy as World Literature
Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USA What does it mean for philosophy to be considered as a species of not just literature but world literature? The essays in this collection offer a complex and authoritative account of philosophy as world literature by exploring philosophy through the lens of the "worlding" of literature—that is, considering the ways in which philosophy is connected and reconnected through global literary networks that cross borders, mix stories, and speak in translation and dialect. Philosophy as World Literature offers a variety of accounts of the ways in which the "worlding" of literature problematizes the national categorizing of philosophy and brings new meanings and challenges to the traditional topic of intersections between philosophy and literature.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 304 pages PB 9781501370717 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501351877 ePub 9781501351884 • £90.50 / $117.00 ePdf 9781501351891 • £90.50 / $117.00 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Science Fiction in India
Parallel Worlds and Postcolonial Paradigms
Edited by Shweta Khilnani, University of Delhi & Ritwick Bhattacharjee This volume examines the different ways by which Indian SF narratives construct possible national futures. It explores how the tensions generated by the seemingly conflicting forces of tradition and modernity within the Indian historical landscape are realized through characteristic tropes of SF storytelling. It looks at the interplay between the spatiotemporal coordinates of the nation and the SF narratives produced within to see how one bears upon the other and how processes of governance find relational structures with such narratives.
Bulgarian Literature as World Literature
Edited by Mihaela P. Harper, Bilkent University, Turkey & Dimitar Kambourov, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland This book examines key aspects and manifestations of 20th- and 21st-century Bulgarian literature vis-àvis the global literary landscape. The first volume to bring together in English the perspectives of prominent writers, translators, and scholars of Bulgarian literature and culture, this long-overdue collection identifies correlations between national and world aesthetic ideologies and literary traditions. Mapping histories, geographies, economies, and genetics, the volume’s contributors assess the magnitudes and directions of such forces in order to articulate how a distinctly national, “minor” literature transforms into world literature today.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 304 pages PB 9781501369780 • £34.99 / $47.95 Previously published in HB 9781501348105 ePub 9781501348112 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501348129 • £83.60 / $108.00 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Haruki Murakami and the Search for Self-Therapy
Stories from the Second Basement
Jonathan Dil, Keio University, Japan Haruki Murakami has said that he started writing novels as a means of self-therapy; this book explores Murakami’s fourteen published novels as an evolving therapeutic project. It starts by looking into the biographical factors behind this therapeutic project, beginning with Murakami’s estrangement from his father and the death of a former girlfriend. Jonathan Dil argues that these two ‘traumas’ in Murakami’s life are essential for understanding why he writes, before going on to successfully reason that Murakami’s fiction has transcended these proximate motivations to deal with the theme of therapy on a much broader, cultural level.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 272 pages HB 9781350270541 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350270565 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350270558 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan • Bloomsbury Academic
Voices of Angel Island
Inscriptions and Immigrant Poetry, 19101945
Charles Egan, San Francisco State University, USA This anthology of the writings of immigrants detained at Angel Island serves as a conduit for readers today to connect with the early-20thcentury perspectives on the process of “becoming American.” The Angel Island barracks contain an extraordinary archive: hundreds of poems and prose records in half a dozen languages on the walls, inscribed by immigrant detainees between 1910 and 1940, and by POWs and “enemy aliens” during World War II. Charles Egan draws on over a decade's work deciphering the wall inscriptions to assemble a selection of writings in this book, alongside literary materials from Bay Area ethnic newspapers.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 320 pages HB 9789354353383 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9789354353437 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9789354351693 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic India World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent) UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 360 pages • 60 bw illus PB 9781501371295 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501360459 ePub 9781501360466 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501360473 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Additions & Essays
Edited by Mike Hill, Editor, A Sort of Newsletter, UK & Jon Wise, independent scholar Over a 60-year career, Graham Greene was a prolific and widely read writer. Completing a series of volumes which constitutes the only full bibliographical guide to Greene's published and unpublished writings, this book features updated listings of the scholarship associated with his work, details of recent audio and visual presentations and adaptations, as well as nine essays on lesser-known aspects of Greene's work.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 224 pages HB 9781350285736 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781350285750 • £81.00 / $106.83 ePdf 9781350285743 • £81.00 / $106.83 Bloomsbury Academic
Form, Affect and Debt in PostCeltic Tiger Irish Fiction
Ireland in Crisis
Eoin Flannery, University of Limerick, Ireland Based on readings of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary Irish writing, this book explores how these authors have engaged with the events of Ireland’s recent economic ‘boom’ and the demise of the Celtic Tiger period, and how they have portrayed the widespread and variated aftermaths. Drawing upon economic literary criticism, affect theory, and the philosophy of debt, this book probes issues such as: indebtedness; temporality and narrative form; the relevance of affect theory to understanding Irish culture and society during austerity; ecocriticism and late capitalism; and the relationship between literary fiction and the mechanics of high finance.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 256 pages HB 9781350166745 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350166769 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350166752 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic
The Politics of Literary Prestige
Prizes and Spanish American Literature
Sarah E.L. Bowskill, Queen's University Belfast, UK Taking into account national and international politics and networks of prestige, this book analyses the relationship between literary prizes, politics and the reception of literature from Spanish America. Covering state-sponsored and publisher-run prizes and major awards such as the Biblioteca Breve Prize, the Premio Cervantes and the Nobel Prize, this book examines how prizes have shaped what we know about Spanish American literature. The author draws on a range of sources – including speeches and interviews by winning authors, judges' statements and prize rules and regulations – to reveal the roles prizes have played in Spanish American politics as well as in the formation of the Spanish American cultural field.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 240 pages HB 9781501350771 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501350788 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501350795 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Writing, Authorship and Photography in British Literary Culture, 1880 - 1920
Capturing the Image
Emily Ennis, University of Leeds, UK At the turn of the 20th century, printing and photographic technologies evolved rapidly, leading to rise of mass media and the amateur photographer. Demonstrating how this development happened symbiotically with great changes in the shape of British literature, this book explores this co-evolution, showing that as both writing and photography became tools of mass dissemination, literary writers were forced to re-evaluate their professional and personal identities. Focusing on Thomas Hardy, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf—each of which had their own private and professional connections to photographs— Emily Ennis offers valuable historical contexts for contemporary cultural developments and anxieties.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 240 pages • 7 bw illus HB 9781350196186 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350196209 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350196193 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic
The Reception of Joseph Conrad in Europe
Edited by Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK & Veronique Pauly, University of Versailles, France With chapters written by leading international scholars, this book is a comprehensive survey of the reception, translation and publication history of Conrad’s works throughout Europe. Covering reviews, critical discussion and adaptations across media, the book includes bibliographies of key translations in each of the European countries covered and a timeline of Conrad’s reception throughout the continent.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 448 pages HB 9781474241083 • £150.00 / $200.00 ePub 9781474241090 • £135.00 / $177.19 ePdf 9781474241106 • £135.00 / $177.19 Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe • Bloomsbury Academic
The American Novel After Ideology, 1961–2000
Laurie Rodrigues, University of La Verne, USA Using the intersecting publications of Daniel Bell’s The End of Ideology (1960) and J.D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey (1961), Laura Rodrigues argues that American novels distort realism in manners similar to ideology’s distortions of reality, history, and belief. This volume reflects the astonishing cultural variety of this period, featuring analyses of Carlene Hatcher Polite’s The Flagellants (1967), Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead (1991), and Philip Roth’s The Human Stain (2001), among various discussions around ideology with which they intersect. The American Novel After Ideology, 1961-2000 discusses how each novel’s plotless narratives, dissoliving subjectivities, and cultural codes suggest an aesthetic return of the repressed.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 232 pages PB 9781501371417 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501361869 ePub 9781501361876 • £76.69 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501361883 • £76.69 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Edited by Olaf Berwald, Kennesaw State University, USA, Stephen D. Dowden, Brandeis University, USA & Gregor Thuswaldner, Whitworth University, USA In his prose fiction, memoirs, poetry, and drama, Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989)—one of the 20th century’s most uniquely gifted writers—created a new and radical style, seemingly out of thin air. His furious prose, seemingly shapeless but composed with unparalleled musicality, and taxing by conventional standards, has been powerfully echoed in many writers since Bernhard’s death in 1989. These explorers have found in Bernhard’s singular accomplishment new paths for the expression of life and truth. Writers in Italian, German, Spanish, Hungarian, English, and French have succeeded in making Bernhard’s Austrian vision an international vision. Thomas Bernhard's Afterlives tells that story.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 264 pages PB 9781501369261 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501351518 ePub 9781501351525 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501351532 • £83.60 / $108.00 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
The Art of Caregiving in Fiction, Film, and Memoir
Jeffrey Berman, University of Albany, USA Bringing together the human story of care with its representation in film, fiction and memoir, this book combines an analysis of care narratives to inform and inspire ideas about this major role in life. Examining texts from a diverse range of authors such as Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton and Alice Munro, and filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman and Michael Haneke, it explores the challenges of reading and writing about caregiving while asking why caregiving is dangerous and yet so important.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 296 pages PB 9781350185364 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350166578 ePub 9781350166592 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350166585 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures
Edited by Greg Barnhisel Adopting a book historical approach to its subject, this book asks how the Cold War shaped literature and literary production, and how literature affected the course of the Cold War. Broad in its geographical range, it looks at works of mainstream British and American literary fiction from writers such as Roth, Updike and Bellow, as well as moving beyond the U.K. and U.S. to detail how writers and readers from Taiwan, Japan, Uganda, South Africa, India, Cuba, the USSR, and the Czech Republic engaged with and contributed to Anglo-American literary traditions and texts.
UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 448 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350191716 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781350191730 • £117.00 / $153.74 ePdf 9781350191723 • £117.00 / $153.74 Series: Bloomsbury Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic An Anthology of Lost Voices
Edited by Constance M. Ruzich, Robert Morris University, USA Ranging beyond the traditional canon, this anthology casts new light on poetic responses to World War I. Bringing together 140 poems by soldiers and noncombatants, patriots and dissenters, and from all sides of the conflict, International Poetry of the First World War explores such topics as: Life on the Front; Psychological trauma; Noncombatants and the Home Front; Rationalising war; Remembering the dead; and Peace and the War's aftermath. With contextual notes throughout, the book includes poems from: America, Australia, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, South Africa and Russia.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 416 pages PB 9781350226067 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350106444 ePub 9781350106451 • £126.00 / $165.47 ePdf 9781350106468 • £126.00 / $165.47 Bloomsbury Academic World English
Transnational Jean Rhys
Lines of Transmission, Lines of Flight
Edited by Juliana Lopoukhine and Frédéric Regard, University of Paris-Sorbonne, France & Kerry-Jane Wallart, University of Orléans, France This volume investigates the frameworks that can be applied to reading Caribbean author Jean Rhys. It argues against the relative isolationism that is sometimes associated with her writing by demonstrating both how she was influenced by a wide range of foreign authors and how her influence was in turn disseminated in a myriad of directions. Including an interview with novelist Caryl Phillips, this collection charts new territories in the influences on/of an author known for her dislike of literary coteries, but whose literary communality has been underestimated.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 224 pages PB 9781501371653 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501361296 ePub 9781501361302 • £76.69 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501361319 • £76.69 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath
Edited by Anita Helle, Oregon State University, USA, Amanda Golden, New York Institute of Technology, USA & Maeve O'Brien, Ulster University, UK. With chapters written by more than 25 leading and emerging international scholars this is the most upto-date and in-depth reference guide to 21st century scholarship on the life and work of Sylvia Plath. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath covers the full range of contemporary scholarship on Plath’s work, including such topics as: · New insights from the publication of Plath’s letters · Key critical perspectives: feminist and gender studies, race, medical humanities and ecocriticism
· Plath’s poetry, fiction, broadcast work and writing for children · Plath’s literary contexts, from Ovid and Robert Lowell to Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing and Stevie Smith
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 432 pages HB 9781350119222 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781350119239 • £117.00 / $153.74 ePdf 9781350119246 • £117.00 / $153.74 Bloomsbury Academic
Creaturely Forms in Contemporary Literature
Narrating the War Against Animals
Dominic O'Key Through close readings of works by W. G. Sebald, J. M. Coetzee and Mahasweta Devi, this book explores how contemporary authors are rethinking the relations between humans and other animals in an age of mass extinction and mass over-production. In doing so, it shows how contemporary literature mediates and contests, but also reimagines, the relations between humans and other animals. Introducing the category of the ‘creaturely’ to denote a shared space between the human and the nonhuman, it draws from theoretical work on the human/animal distinction in Posthumanist and Postcolonial Studies to develop an account of how literature thematically and formally dismantles human exceptionalism. It argues that there are literary texts which turn towards animals in order to imagine less violent ways of being human, calling these texts ‘creaturely forms’ and arguing that the authors it examines - Sebald, Coetzee and Mahasweta - develop creaturely forms of storytelling. Psychoanalytic Queer and Trans Theories
Chris Coffman Working at the intersection of psychoanalytic, queer, and transgender theories, this book argues for the need to read Lacanian psychoanalysis through a queer and trans-positive framework. In so doing, challenges the dimensions of fantasy at play in efforts to insist on the continued validity of the binary gender system. Targeting the Lacanian concept of “sexual difference” - that desire is structured through the difference between masculine and feminine - it argues that this idea is not transhistorical, as orthodox Lacanians claim, but rather a historically contingent fantasy. As such, it argues that psychoanalytic queer theorists need to go beyond this fantasy to register truly the full range of sexualities and modes of embodiment.
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 256 pages HB 9781350200005 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350200029 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350200012 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 216 pages • 4 b/w illus HB 9781350189621 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350189645 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350189638 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing • Bloomsbury Academic
Rereading Empathy
Edited by Emily Johansen, Texas A&M University, USA & Alissa G. Karl, SUNY Brockport, USA If we all had more skill with empathy, so the claim goes, we would all be better citizens. But what does it mean to empathize with others? How do we develop this skill? And what does it offer that older models of solidarity don’t? Rereading Empathy takes up these questions, examining the uses to which calls for empathy are put in the face of ever expanding economic and social precarity. The contributors draw on a variety of historical and contemporary literary and cultural archives to illustrate the work that empathy is supposed to enable—and to query alternative models of building collective futures.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages HB 9781501376856 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501376863 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501376870 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Marilynne Robinson, Theologian of the Ordinary
Andrew Cunning, Independent Scholar, UK This book posits that Robinson’s widely celebrated novels and essays are best understood as emerging from a foundational theology that has ‘the Ordinary’ as its source. Providing an analysis of Robinson’s published output, a synthesis of the unstudied and unpublished notebooks, letters and drafts from Yale University's Robinson archive and an original interview with Robinson, Andrew Cunning constructs an authentically Robinsonian theology that is at once distinctly American and conversant with key continental thinkers, including Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud and Levinas. Arguing that ‘the Ordinary’ demands an artistic response, this book reads Robinson’s fiction as her theological response to the surplus of meaning in ordinary experience.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 208 pages PB 9781501371349 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501358999 ePub 9781501359002 • £76.69 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501359019 • £76.69 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Neo-Victorianism, Empathy and Reading
Muren Zhang, East China Normal University, China Calling upon the writings of Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Graeme Macrae Burnet and Sarah Waters this book examines the ethics of the textreader relationship in neo-Victorian literature, focusing upon the role played by empathy in this engagement. Bringing together recent cultural and theoretical research on narrative temporality, empathy and affect, Muren Zhang presents neo-Victorian literature as a genre defined by its experimentation with ‘empathetic narrative’. Broken down into themes such as voyeurism, shame, nausea, space and place, Zhang argues that such literature pushes the reader to critically reflect upon their reading expectations, strategies, and their wider ethical responsibilities.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 224 pages • 3 bw illus HB 9781350135598 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350135611 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350135604 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic
Noir in the North
Genre, Politics and Place
Edited by Stacy Gillis, Newcastle University, UK & Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir, University of Iceland, Iceland What is often termed 'Nordic Noir' has dominated detective fiction, film and television internationally for over two decades. But what are the parameters of this genre, both historically and geographically? What is noirish and what is northern about Nordic noir? Divided into 4 sections – Gender and Sexuality, Space and Place, Politics and Crime, and Genre and Genealogy – the essays in this book deepen our critical understanding of noir by demonstrating, for example, Nordic noir's connection to fin-de-siècle literatures and to mid-century interior design by considering the function of landscape and aesthetics, and by investigating the function of the state in crime fiction.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 280 pages PB 9781501369285 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501342868 ePub 9781501342875 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501342882 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Ezra Pound and his Classical Sources
'The Cantos' and the Primal Matter of Troy
Jonathan Ullyot This book looks at how Homer’s Odyssey plays a unique methodological and structural role in The Cantos and, more broadly, recalibrates the reader’s sense of Pound’s deployment of classical sources in them. Pound’s unique understanding of medieval literature and The Cantos is, in fact, Pound’s own modernist vision of the Matter of Troy, a term used by medieval authors to designate the cycle of texts based on the Trojan war and its aftereffects, including the nostoi (returns) of the Greek heroes. Specifically, The Cantos presents itself as a modernist translatio of Homer’s Odyssey.
UK December 2022 • US December 2022 • 288 pages • 20 bw illus to be reproduced where possible at half page HB 9781350260245 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350260221 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350260238 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic
Modernist Authorship and Transatlantic Periodical Culture
1895–1925
Amanda Sigler, Baylor University, USA This book unearths the forgotten stories behind the texts we think we know well, using new evidence to examine the collaborative, consumer-oriented Modernism that developed out of periodicals. Sigler traces the serialization and advertisement of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw in Collier’s (1898), Rudyard Kipling’s Kim in McClure’s and Cassell’s (1900-1901), James Joyce’s Ulysses in the Little Review (1918-1920), and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street in The Dial (1923). Using previously unpublished material and long-buried editorial correspondence, she sheds light on the role that compromise and chance played in the emergence of Modernism.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 272 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781350235403 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350235427 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350235410 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic
Samuel Beckett and the Second World War
Politics, Propaganda and a 'Universe Become Provisional'
William Davies, University of Reading, UK This is the first in-depth historical study to reveal the full extent of the impact of the Second World War on the work of Samuel Beckett. Exploring the full range of Beckett’s writing, from his plays to his fiction and poetry, the book also draws on a substantial body of archival writing, from the German diaries describing his experiences in Nazi Germany, to details of his resistance work in occupied France, his attitudes to Irish neutrality and his return to France after the liberation.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages • 8 bw illus PB 9781350196575 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350106833 ePub 9781350106857 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350106840 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic World English
James Joyce and Photography
Georgina Binnie-Wright, Independent Scholar James Joyce and Photography is the first book to explore in-depth James Joyce’s engagement with the art of photography. Photography is evident throughout Joyce’s texts, from his narrator’s furtive photographic framing in Silhouettes (c. 1897), to the aggressively-minded snapshots captured by the ‘Tulloch-Turnbull girl with her coldblood kodak’ in Finnegans Wake. Through an exploration of Joyce’s manuscripts and photographic and newspaper archival material, as well as the full range of Joyce’s major works, this book sheds new light on his relationship with the visual medium, both in a personal capacity and as a means of professional promotion.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages HB 9781350136960 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350136984 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350136977 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic
The Many Drafts of D. H. Lawrence
Creative Flux, Genetic Dialogism, and the Dilemma of Endings
Elliott Morsia, Independent Scholar, UK Exploring draft manuscripts, alternative texts and publishers’ typescripts, The Many Drafts of D. H. Lawrence reveals new insights into the writing practices of one of the most important writers of the 20th Century. Focusing on the most productive years of Lawrence’s writing life between 1909 and 1926 – a time that saw the writing of major novels such as Women in Love and the controversial The Plumed Serpent as well as his first major short story collection – this book is the first to apply analytical methods from the field of genetic criticism to the archives of this canonical modernist author.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 256 pages • 14 bw illus PB 9781350185432 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350139688 ePub 9781350139701 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350139695 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic
Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism
Edited by Robin Truth Goodman, Florida State University, USA Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism traces Adorno’s social and aesthetic ideas as they appear and reappear in his corpus. As per other volumes in the series, this book is divided into three parts. The first, “Adorno’s Keywords,” is organized by the aesthetic terms around which Adorno’s philosophy circulates. The second section is devoted to “Adorno and Aesthetics.” While Adorno’s philosophical viewpoints influenced modernism’s evolution into the twenty-first century, the history of modernist aesthetics also shaped his philosophical approaches. The third and final part, “Adorno’s Constellations,” discusses how aesthetic form in Adorno’s thinking underlies the terms of his social analysis.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 296 pages PB 9781501370311 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501342950 ePub 9781501342967 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501342974 • £83.60 / $108.00 Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic
Immanence, Occultism, and the Making of the Modern World
Allan Kilner-Johnson Exploring the relationship between occultism and modernist literary experimentation, this book sets the work of leading modernist writers alongside lesser known female writers and writers in languages other than English to more fully portray the aesthetic and philosophical connections between modernism and the occult.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350255302 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350255326 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350255319 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic
Environmental Cultures in Soviet East Europe
Literature, History and Memory
Anna Barcz, University of Bielsko-Biala, Poland This is the first in-depth study of the legacy of the Soviet era on attitudes to the environment in countries such as Poland, Hungary and Ukraine. Exploring responses in literature, culture and film to political projects such as the collectivisation of agricultural land, the expansion of mining and the Chernobyl explosion, Anna Barcz opens up new understandings of how local political traditions might be harnessed in the cause of contemporary environmental activism. The book covers works by writers such as Christa Wolf, the Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich and film-makers such as Béla Tarr, Andrzej Wajda and Wladyslaw Pasikowski.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages • 11 bw illus PB 9781350200647 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350098350 ePub 9781350098374 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350098367 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic
Weathering Shakespeare
Audiences and Open-air Performance
Evelyn O'Malley, University of Exeter, UK Weathering Shakespeare reveals how new insights from the environmental humanities can transform our understanding of the popular tradition of open air Shakespeare, from Victorian times to the present. Drawing on audience accounts of outdoor productions of those plays most commonly chosen for open air performance – including As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest – the book examines how performers and audiences alike have reacted to unpredictable natural environments. Weathering Shakespeare goes on to explore the ways in which contemporary concerns about the environment have informed new and emerging performance practices.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350202443 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350078062 ePub 9781350078086 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350078079 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic
Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty
Narrating Unstable Futures
Marco Caracciolo This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Ghent. This book argues that storytelling is an important resource in coming to terms with the loss of the feeling of living a grounded existence where the future remains relatively stable and predictable. Faced with the specter of climate catastrophe, we lose confidence in the future—a well-documented response in the environmental movement, for example. Yet stories, and in particular sophisticated fictional stories, can help us negotiate that uncertainty: they offer affective and imaginative tools that channel the instability of our climate future and invite audiences to accept its fundamental uncertainty. In all, this book represents a serious contribution to the environmental humanities that brings a flexible formal approach to bear on central questions of our time.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350233898 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350233911 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350233904 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic
Cognitive Ecopoetics
A New Theory of Lyric
Sharon Lattig, University of Connecticut, USA New insights from cognitive theory and literary ecocriticism have the power to transform our understanding of the lyric poem. Sharon Lattig brings these two schools of criticism together for the first time to consider the ways in which lyric forms re-enact cognitive processes of the mind and brain. Along the way the book reads anew the long history of the lyric, from Andrew Marvell, through canonical poets such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson to contemporary writers such as Susan Howe and Charles Olson.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 248 pages PB 9781350186132 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350069251 ePub 9781350069275 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350069268 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic
Digital Vision and the Ecological Aesthetic (1968 - 2018)
Lisa FitzGerald, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany Digital technology has transformed the way that we visualise the natural world. Exploring contemporary digital art and literature through an ecocritical lens, this book demonstrates the many ways in which critical ideas of the sublime, the pastoral and the picturesque have been renewed and shaped in digital media, from electronic literature to music and the visual arts.
UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 176 pages • 7 bw illus PB 9781350195370 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350051836 ePub 9781350051850 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350051843 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic
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
An Essay on the Burning Desire to Rise
Eckart Goebel, University of Tübingen, Germany Translated by James C. Wagner Why does ambition continue to drive people even after their safety and livelihood are secured? Is it possible to establish a clear distinction between ‘healthy’ and ‘pathological’ ambition? Whilst philosophy has touched only occasionally on the problem of burning ambition, sociology, psychoanalysis, and especially world literature, have provided rich and more revealing descriptions and examples of the role of ambition in human history. Drawing on a long and varied tradition of writing on this topic, from Hesiod to Kafka and from Shakespeare to Freud, Eckart Goebel explores our driving passion for recognition—an insatiable hunter in the mirror—and power.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 192 pages PB 9781501383830 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781501383847 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781501383854 • £19.17 / $24.25 ePdf 9781501383861 • £19.17 / $24.25 Bloomsbury Academic World English
Joseph Brodsky and Collaborative Self-Translation
Natasha Rulyova, University of Birmingham, UK Joseph Brodsky and Collaborative Self-Translation examines how the Nobel Prize winning Russian poet Joseph Brodsky mastered English as his second language and became the fifth Poet Laureate of the United States. Based on the archival study of Brodsky’s manuscripts and correspondence, held at the Brodsky archive in the Beinecke library at Yale University, Rulyova follows Brodsky’s bilingual journey stage by stage. In doing so, she shows how, as a late bilingual, Brodsky’s success was dependent on collaboration with his network of translators, editors and peer poets whose loyal and relentless support helped him to become a recognized American poet, in addition to being, arguably, the most celebrated Russian poet of the 20th century.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 216 pages PB 9781501369797 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501363924 ePub 9781501363931 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501363948 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics
Daniel Katz, Warwick University, UK
Literature and Race in the Democracy of Goods
Reading Contemporary Black and Asian North American Poetry
Christopher Chen, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA Providing a comparative study of post-1960 Asian American, Asian Canadian and black experimental poetry, this book examines the intersection between race and capitalism through the works of poets including: Myung Mi Kim, Nathaniel Macket, Larissa Lai and Erica Hunt. Challenging conventional understandings of North American racial formation, it explores experimental poetry's understanding of race as a range of relational configurations of subjects within racial groups and across racial divisions.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 256 pages HB 9781350164000 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350164024 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350164017 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics • Bloomsbury Academic Svetlana Boym, Harvard University, USA Edited by Ron Roberts This collection of previously unpublished autobiographical and semi-autobiographical “snippets of experience” written by Svetlana Boym in the final period of her life capture her penchant for seamlessly melding, poetically and dream-like, the intensively personal with the everyday and the world-historical. They illuminate the formative conditions for the thinking which she was to develop into her majestic work on nostalgia. Importantly, these pieces fill in gaps in understanding the genesis and outlook of her take on the world. For readers both familiar with her work and for those new to it, The Origins of Nostalgia will enable our own cultural past as well as that of the former Soviet Union to be viewed in a different light.
UK April 2022 • US April 2022 • 192 pages HB 9781501389931 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781501389948 • £69.79 / $90.00 ePdf 9781501389955 • £69.79 / $90.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Gender Commodity
Marketing Feminist Identities and the Promise of Security
Robin Truth Goodman, Florida State University, USA Gender has become a commodity. Today’s economy trades in symbols and narratives as much as in objects. Gender Commodity argues that gender is a social relation made into an alienated object. In an era of radical insecurity, people identify with objects that promise quite falsely that they grant stability, duration, and fulfillment, and gender has been made into one of those. An interdisciplinary study that brings literary studies into dialogue with the surrounding mediascape, Gender Commodity asks how the symbolic production of gender commodity at home informs an imagination of gender policy as it reaches out globally.
UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 192 pages HB 9781501388026 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781501388033 • £76.69 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501388040 • £76.69 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Radical Elegies
White Violence, Patriarchy, and Necropoetics
Eleanor Perry Through in-depth close readings of elegies by Black women, trans* women, and non-binary writers, this book foregrounds forms of poetic knowledge and poetic practices that trouble - or work against - the ideals, values, standards and forms of knowledge embodied by the ‘English’ elegy so often privileged within canonical tradition. In doing so, it offers a challenge to the ways in which we currently read elegy, unearthing possibilities for revising our understanding of the elegiac tradition.
UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 224 pages HB 9781350236066 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350236080 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350236073 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics • Bloomsbury Academic
