Literary Studies New Books Catalogue
April-December 2019
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Object Lessons............................................................1
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Literary Theory.............................................................2
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Contemporary Literature.............................................7 German Studies.........................................................10 North and South American Literature.......................11 Harry Ransom Center................................................12 Literature and the Environment.................................13 Digital Literature........................................................13
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Series Editors: Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA and Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New Orleans, USA Explore the hidden lives of ordinary things “Beautiful: elegant paperbacks, the quality kind, with front and back flaps, not quite pocket-sized but easily transportable, each coming in at under 200 pages, each inspired by an object.” Los Angeles Review of Books www.bloomsbury.com/objectlessons
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Train
Hashtag
A. N. Devers, Freelance writer, UK
Elizabeth Losh, William and Mary, USA
In 2005, after quitting not only a successful museum job, but a profession, writer A. N. Devers bought a 30-day rail pass and circumnavigated the United States (and a bit of Canada), finding that the passenger car was at once an adventure and a nightmare – the promise of self-discovery and renewal via train trip was only a daydream. She emerged from her 8,111-mile journey with a close view of America’s crumbling infrastructure and the decaying communities alongside the tracks. The train, it turns out, is a portal to what might have existed if America’s rails hadn’t been sold off and bought out. UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 160 pages PB 9781501333408 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781501333415 Library eBook 9781501333422 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic
Hashtags silence as well as shout. They originate in the quiet of the archive and the breathless suspense of the control room, as well as in the roar of rallies in the streets. The #hashtag is a composite creation, with two separate design histories: one involving the crosshatch symbol and one about the choice of letters after it. Although hashtags tend to be associated with Silicon Valley invention myths or celebrity power users, the story of the hashtag is much more interesting and surprising, speaking to how we think about naming, identity, and ownership. UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 160 pages PB 9781501344275 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781501344282 Library eBook 9781501344299 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic
Magnet
Randy Malamud, Georgia State University, USA Sometime in the mid-1990s, we began, often with some trepidation, to enroll for a service that promised to connect us—electronically and efficiently—to our friends and lovers, our bosses and merchants. If it seemed at first like simply a change in scale (our mail would be faster, cheaper, more easily distributed to large groups), we now realize that email entails a more fundamental alteration in our communicative consciousness. Despite its fading relevance in the lives of the younger generation in the face of an ever-changing array of apps and media, email is probably here to stay, for better or worse. UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 160 pages PB 9781501341908 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781501341915 Library eBook 9781501341922 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic
L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – Obj ec t Lessons
Object Lessons
Eva Barbarossa, Independent Scholar, USA The magnet has been in existence for more than 13 billion years, born just after the big bang. Magnets were used by ancient cultures for architecture, alignment and art. They are in MRIs, maglev trains, tape recorders, and other technologies. From the physical to the metaphorical, our language is littered with magnetic allusions: magnetic personalities, animal magnetism, Mesmerism. Since humans began to write about it two thousand years ago, the magnet has inspired tales of myth, magic, exploration, science, and art. Eva Barbarossa weaves together these stories of ancient and modern wonders, of discovery and creation, of madness and desire, of beauty and awe, taking us from the spectacle of the aurora borealis to the disastrous searches for magnetic north. UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 160 pages PB 9781501348754 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781501348761 Library eBook 9781501348778 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic
OBJECTLESSONS Explore the hidden lives of ordinary things O B J E C T L E S S O N S
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L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – L i tera ry Theory
Writing a Watertight Thesis
A Guide to Successful Structure and Defence Mike Bottery, University of Hull, UK & Nigel Wright, University of Hull, UK Writing a Watertight Thesis provides students with a framework for developing a sound structure for their thesis, which will ultimately make it watertight and defensible. The authors show that the key to making a thesis watertight lies in selecting the central research question and the sub-research questions that together collectively answer this main one. They draw on their extensive experience of supervising research students throughout, and include examples of how successful theses have been made watertight along with questions to enable readers to do the same thing to their own thesis. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 200 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350046948 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350046955 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781350046962 Library eBook 9781350046986 Bloomsbury Academic
The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800
Steven Moore, Independent Scholar, USA Winner of the Christian Gauss Award for excellence in literary scholarship from the Phi Beta Kappa Society In this epic history of novel writing from 1600-1800, Moore examines over 400 novels from around the world in a lively style that is as entertaining as it is informative. The novel experienced an explosive growth spurt during these centuries as writers experimented with different forms and genres: epistolary novels, romances, Gothic thrillers, novels in verse, parodies, science fiction, episodic road trips, and family sagas, along with quirky, unclassifiable experiments in fiction that resemble contemporary, avant-garde works. As in his previous volume, Moore privileges the innovators and outriders, those who kept the novel novel. UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 1024 pages PB 9781628929713 • £19.95 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781441188694 Individual eBook 9781623567408 Library eBook 9781623565190 Bloomsbury Academic
Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists Celia Brayfield
In London in 1958 a play by a 19-year-old redefined women’s writing in Britain. The play was A Taste of Honey and the author, Shelagh Delaney, was the first of a succession of very young women who wrote about their lives with an honesty that dazzled the world. They rebelled against sexism, inequality and prejudice and in doing so rejected masculine definitions of what writing and a writer should be. After Delaney came Edna O’Brien, Lynne Reid Banks, Virginia Ironside, Charlotte Bingham, Margaret Forster and Nell Dunn, each challenging traditional concepts of womanhood in novels, films, television, essays and journalism. Acclaimed author, Celia Brayfield, tells their exceptional story here, for the first time.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature
Edited by Joseph Tabbi, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Bringing together leading scholars and artists from across the world, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature is an authoritative handbook to the field, from hyperfiction to multi-media poetry and narrative-driven games. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, this book explores the foundational theories of the field, contemporary artistic practices, debates and controversies surrounding such key concepts as canonicity, world systems, narrative and the digital humanities, and new media contexts of contemporary electronic literature. UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 464 pages PB 9781350126756 • £29.99 / $40.95 Previously published in HB 9781474230254 Individual eBook 9781474230261 Library eBook 9781474230278 Bloomsbury Academic
Liberalism and Education The Monopoly of an Idea
Francis O'Gorman, University of Edinburgh, UK Francis O’Gorman examines the damaging consequences of a liberalism that seems almost obligatory within modern western universities and in literature and art. In the 20th century what had been open-minded inquiry gradually gathered an assumption that judgment, particularly moral judgment, had no part in a university education. Liberal values became the norm but the costs were not considered, including the rise of populism and nationalism. Because liberals have insisted that intolerance is morally unacceptable, the only forms of intolerance that we can now perceive are extreme. Liberalism has handed to the extremists the only realistic option for taking a different view. UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 192 pages HB 9781501336799 • £20.00 / $19.95 Individual eBook 9781501336805 Library eBook 9781501336812 Bloomsbury Academic World English
The Critic as Amateur
Edited by Saikat Majumdar, Ashoka University, India & Aarthi Vadde, Duke University, USA Can the criticism of literature and culture really be professionalized? Does criticism retain an amateur impulse even as it evolves into a highly specialized activity enshrined in the university? While the "amateur impulse" has always been in play in the literary arena beyond the academy – in the journalistic world of magazines, reviewing, radio and TV discussions of literature – the nature and meaning of that impulse remain to be explained. This volume, the first on the critic as amateur, weds currents of thought in heretofore distinct conversations about the future of literary studies, the public humanities, university labor, and new media. UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 288 pages PB 9781501341410 • £23.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501341403 • £96.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501341427 Library eBook 9781501341434 Bloomsbury Academic
UK July 2019 • US September 2019 • 320 pages • c. 16 in plate section HB 9781448217496 • £19.99 / $28.00 Individual eBook 9781448217519 Bloomsbury Caravel World English
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Political English
Mikko Tuhkanen, Texas A&M University, USA
Thomas Docherty, University of Warwick, UK
A Speculative Introduction For the past sixty years, Leo Bersani has inspired, resisted, guided, and challenged scholarly work in the fields of literary criticism, queer theory, cultural studies, psychoanalytic theory, and film and visual studies. Leo Bersani: A Speculative Introduction guides the reader through this extensive oeuvre. The chapters explore Bersani’s engagement with psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Laplanche, Kein, Lacan), French and American modernist fiction (Proust, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, James, Beckett), poststructuralist theory (Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, Blanchot), queer theory (Butler, Edelman), and the visual arts (Caravaggio, Almodóvar, Pasolini, Malick, Dumont). Moving across an impressive range of sources, Mikko Tuhkanen seeks out the "fundamental notes" — the questions that we find and re-find — in Bersani’s work across the decades. UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 176 pages PB 9781623563592 • £18.99 / $27.95 • HB 9781623564117 • £60.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781623560690 Library eBook 9781623563554 Bloomsbury Academic
Life Itself Is an Art
The Life and Work of Erich Fromm Rainer Funk, Director of the Erich Fromm Institute Tuebingen, Germany Erich Fromm (1900-1980) is known to most readers as the author of the international bestseller The Art of Loving (1956). Rainer Funk was Erich Fromm’s last assistant, was designated by Fromm's last will to be his sole literary executor, and is the editor of Fromm's writings. From his very intimate knowledge of Fromm's life and ideas, and his access to an archive that includes 6,000 letters, Funk introduces Fromm's central concepts and examines them in relation to Fromm's lived experiences and to his idea that life itself is an art. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 192 pages PB 9781501351440 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781501351457 • £60.00 / $80.00 Individual eBook 9781501351464 Library eBook 9781501351471 Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons • Bloomsbury Academic World English
Language and the Decay of Politics From "post-truth" to "no-platforming", the English language has been both a potent weapon and a crucial battlefield for our divided politics. In this important new intervention, Thomas Docherty explores the politics of the English language, its implication in the dynamics of political power and the spaces it offers for resistance. Taking examples from the US, UK and beyond - from gun rights and free-speech on campus, to the Iraq War and the Grenfell Tower fire - this book is a powerful and polemical return to Orwell’s observation that a degraded political language is symptomatic of a degraded political culture. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 224 pages PB 9781350101388 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350101395 • £65.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781350101401 Library eBook 9781350101418 Bloomsbury Academic
In Conversation with Bessie Head
Mary S. Lederer, Independent Scholar, Botswana
L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – L i tera ry Theory
Leo Bersani
In Conversation with Bessie Head shows how reading the novels and letters of Botswana's most influential writer, Bessie Head, fosters an ongoing conversation between reader and writer and is in fact a very personal undertaking. Each chapter tackles two parallel threads, the first regarding Mary S. Lederer's own history of reading Head—from her first purchase of Maru, through completing a Ph.D. on Head's trilogy, through living in Botswana and connecting with various aspects of Head's life, to examining how reading Head has affected her own development as a human being. This history then ties each chapter into discussion of how Head develops her own vision of the "brotherhood of man." UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 176 pages HB 9781501351402 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781501351419 Library eBook 9781501351426 Bloomsbury Academic
The Winnowing Fan What’s Wrong with Antitheory?
Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USA Antitheory has long been a venerable brand of theory and – although seemingly opposite – the two impulses have long been intertwined. Antitheory is the first book to explore this vexed relationship from the 20th century to the present day, examining antitheory both in its historical context and its current state. The book brings together leading scholars from a wide range of Humanities disciplines to ask such questions as: - What is antitheory? - What does it mean to be against theory in the new millennium? - What is the current state of post-theory, the alleged deaths of theory, and the critique of critique? UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 256 pages HB 9781350096110 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350096134 Library eBook 9781350096127 Bloomsbury Academic
Verse-Essays in Creative Criticism Christopher Norris, University of Cardiff, UK "With extraordinary skill, insight and intellectual dexterity, Christopher Norris has reinvented the poetry of ideas for our time." Terry Eagleton, University of Lancaster, UK This path-breaking book explores different ways in which writing about poetry can deepen and extend our critical engagement by deploying creatively the manifold resources of poetic language and form. Through a series of verse-essays, reflective monologues, and inventive variations on topics in literary theory The Winnowing Fanmakes a strong case for revising received ideas about the scope and limits of criticism. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 336 pages PB 9781350107304 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474236324 Individual eBook 9781474236331 Library eBook 9781474236348 Bloomsbury Academic
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L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – Li terary Theory / Crea ti ve Wri ti ng / Comi c s
Literature, Autonomy and Commitment
Aukje van Rooden, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands One of the central questions occupying contemporary literary debates is whether literary autonomy is essential to modern literature (‘autonomism’) or should be abandoned (‘antiautonomism’). Aukje van Rooden argues that the debate between autonomists and anti-autonomists cannot be anything but a fruitless tug-of-war, because it is based on a distorted historical picture. In order to make sense of the social relevance of contemporary literature, we need a new theoretical paradigm, ‘the relational paradigm’, based on the relational ontologies developed in 20th- and 21st-century philosophy. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 160 pages HB 9781501344732 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781501344749 Library eBook 9781501344756 Bloomsbury Academic World English
Writing Intersectional Identities Keywords for Creative Writers
Janelle Adsit, Humboldt State University, USA & Renée M. Byrd, Humboldt State University, USA Is it okay to write about people of other genders, races and identities? And how do I do this responsibly? Whether you are writing fiction, poetry or creative non-fiction, this is the first practical guide to thinking and writing reflectively about these issues. Organized in an easy-to-use A to Z format for practicing writers, teachers and students Writing Intersectional Identities covers such key terms as: accessibility, appropriation, gender, privilege, queer, stereotype. The book includes writing prompts for for those seeking to develop responsible writing practice and is supported by a companion website at www.criticalcreativewriting.com. UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 192 pages PB 9781350065727 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350065734 • £65.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781350065741 Library eBook 9781350065758 Bloomsbury Academic
Children's and Young Adult Comics Gwen Athene Tarbox, Western Michigan University, USA
A complete critical guide to the genre, Children’s and Young Adult Comics helps readers explore how comics have engaged with one of their most crucial audiences. In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book covers such topics as: the history of comics for children and young adults; cultural contexts; key texts – from familiar favourites like Peanuts and Archie Comics to children’s Manga and YA graphic novels; important theoretical and critical approaches. The book includes a glossary of critical terms, guides to further reading and online resources and discussion questions to help readers explore these genres for themselves. UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 288 pages PB 9781350009196 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350009202 • £65.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781350009219 Library eBook 9781350009226 Series: Bloomsbury Comics Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
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Sade’s Critique of Reason William S. Allen, University of Southampton, UK The reputation of the Marquis de Sade is wellfounded. Violence and sexuality appear on almost every page, and these descriptions are interspersed with extended discourses on materialism, atheism, and crime. William S. Allen sets out the context and the implications of Sade's writings in order to demonstrate their lasting significance. Allen shows that Sade’s interests in philosophy and science lead to a form of writing that seeks to bring about a new kind of individual, the libertine, who is committed to exploring the limits of human experience as a demonstration of materialism. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 224 pages PB 9781501354625 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501337581 Individual eBook 9781501337611 Library eBook 9781501337598 Bloomsbury Academic
Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing
Threshold Concepts to Guide the Literary Writing Curriculum Janelle Adsit, Humboldt State University, USA Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing argues that creative writing stands upon problematic assumptions about what counts as valid artistic production, and these implicit beliefs result in exclusionary pedagogical practices. To counter this tendency of creative writing, this book proposes a revised curriculum that rests upon 12 threshold concepts that can serve to transform the teaching of literary writing craft. The book also has a companion website www.criticalcreativewriting.org offering supplemental materials such as lesson plans and course materials. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 208 pages • 1 bw illustration PB 9781350107229 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350023864 Individual eBook 9781350023871 Library eBook 9781350023888 Bloomsbury Academic
Animal Comics
Multispecies Storyworlds in Graphic Narratives Edited by David Herman, Durham University, UK "With its international and interdisciplinary sweep, this ground-breaking volume examines the ways that comics activate animals as icons and symbols in ways that no other art form possibly can." Bart Beaty, Professor of English, University of Calgary, Canada Animal characters abound in graphic narratives ranging from Krazy Kat and Maus to WE3 and Terra Formars. Exploring these and other multispecies storyworlds, Animal Comics draws together work in comics studies, narrative theory, and cross-disciplinary research on animal environments and human-animal relationships to shed new light on comics and graphic novels in which animal agents play a significant role. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 280 pages • 24 bw illus PB 9781350116955 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350015319 Individual eBook 9781350015333 Library eBook 9781350015326 Bloomsbury Academic
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Cloneliness
Developing a wide-angle approach to environmental studies, and blending personal narrative, cultural criticism, and environmental thought, Searching for the Anthropocene offers fresh ways to ponder literature and the humanities side-by-side with current conditions of ecological urgency, existential crisis, and social unrest.
Michael O'Sullivan, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New Orleans, USA
UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 176 pages PB 9781501351822 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781501351839 • £60.00 / $80.00 Individual eBook 9781501351853 Library eBook 9781501351846 Bloomsbury Academic World English
Literature and the Experience of Globalization Texts Without Borders
Svend Erik Larsen, Aarhus University, Denmark "A must for anyone interested in how literature relates to globalization and for understanding what world literature studies is about." Theo D'haen, Leuven University, The Netherlands Taking literary globalization studies beyond its traditional political focus, Literature and the Experience of Globalization explores how writers from Shakespeare through Goethe to J.M. Coetzee, Amitav Ghosh and Bruce Chatwin engage with the human dimensions of globalization. Through a wide range of insightful close readings, Svend Erik Larsen brings contemporary world literature approaches to bear on cross-cultural experiences of migration and travel, translation, memory, history and embodied knowledge. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 336 pages • 3 bw illus PB 9781350107298 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350007567 Individual eBook 9781350007574 Library eBook 9781350008304 Bloomsbury Academic
On the Reproduction of Loneliness
Cloneliness: The Reproduction of Loneliness takes a cross-cultural approach to loneliness by examining early 20th-century artistic expressions and examinations of loneliness in the context of more recent global expressions grounded in social networks, virtual reality, the biopolitical commons, academic credentialisation and such practices as Hikikomori. It reads many of these newer forms of loneliness through recent artistic explorations of loneliness in literature, photography and visual art, but also looks at classic works such as Frank O’Connor’s The Lonely Voice and Richard Yates’s Eleven Kinds of Loneliness. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 224 pages HB 9781501344824 • £88.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781501344831 Library eBook 9781501344848 Bloomsbury Academic
The French Genealogy of the Beat Generation Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac's Appropriations of Modern Literature, from Rimbaud to Michaux Véronique Lane, Lancaster University, UK
L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – Compa rati ve Li teratu re
Searching for the Anthropocene
"Lane has written a pearl of a book, illuminating a central aspect of Beat literature that's long been obscure." Ann Charters, University of Connecticut, USA While clarifying the extent of Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac's engagements with French literature and culture, in-depth analysis of their textual appropriations emphasises differences in their views of literature, philosophy and politics, which help us understand the early Beat circle was divided from the start. The book's close readings also transform our perception of Burroughs' cut-up practice, Kerouac's spontaneous prose, and Ginsberg's poetics of open secrecy. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 280 pages • 18 bw illus PB 9781501352003 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501325045 Individual eBook 9781501325052 Library eBook 9781501325069 Bloomsbury Academic
Literatures as World Literature Dutch and Flemish Literature as World Literature Edited by Theo D'haen, KU Leuven, Belgium
Dutch Literature as World Literature shows how Dutch-language literature, from its very beginnings in the Middle Ages to the present, has not only always taken its cue from the "major" literary traditions of Europe and beyond, but has also actively contributed to and influenced these traditions. The various essays of the volume focus on key works and authors, providing a concise, yet highly readable, history of Dutch-language literature and demonstrating how this literature is anchored in world literature. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 288 pages HB 9781501340123 • £90.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501340130 Library eBook 9781501340147 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Romanian Literature as World Literature
Edited by Mircea Martin, University of Bucharest, Romania, Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA & Andrei Terian, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania This volume develops a range of geopolitical readings of texts, moments, and trends in the modern history of Romanian literature. The contributors place their object at the crossroads of regions and styles in order to draw conclusions whose relevance extends beyond Romanian, Romance, and East European worlds. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 376 pages PB 9781501354649 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501327919 Individual eBook 9781501327926 Library eBook 9781501327933 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
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Stanley Cavell and the Potencies of the Voice Adam Gonya, Braemar College, Canada
Stanley Cavell was one of the most influential American philosophers of the past several decades. Yet because he is often read in connection with Wittgenstein, there has been little consideration of his work against the background of the larger German philosophical tradition. Stanley Cavell and the Potencies of the Voice brings Cavell into dialogue with Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on the question of how we make ourselves intelligible given that our words are both within and yet also beyond our control. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 224 pages HB 9781501349485 • £96.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501349492 • Library eBook 9781501349508 Bloomsbury Academic
Imagining Solar Energy
Understanding Derrida, Understanding Modernism
Edited by Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania, USA This volume makes a significant contribution to both the study of Derrida and of modernist studies. The contributors argue, first, that deconstruction is not "modern"; neither is it "postmodern" nor simply "modernist." They also posit that deconstruction is intimately connected with literature, not because deconstruction would be a literary way of doing philosophy, but because literature stands out as a "modern" notion. The contributors investigate the nature and depth of Derrida’s affinities with writers such as Joyce, Kafka, Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, Paul Celan, Maurice Blanchot, Theodor Adorno, Samuel Beckett, and Walter Benjamin, among others. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 256 pages HB 9781501331862 • £96.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501331879 Library eBook 9781501331886 Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic
The Power of the Sun in Literature, Science and Culture Gregory Lynall, University of Liverpool, UK For centuries humanity has dreamed of harnessing the power of the sun: Imagining Solar Energy traces the history of these dreams as they have been expressed in literature, art and popular culture from the Renaissance to the present day. From John Milton through the Romantic-period writers such as Shelley and Goethe to the golden age science fiction of Isaac Asimov and contemporary writers such as Ian McEwan, the book shows how the possibilities of solar energy have captured the imagination of writers and artists and in turn shaped developments in science, culture and technology. UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 288 pages HB 9781350010970 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350010987 • Library eBook 9781350010994 Series: Explorations in Science and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Noir in the North
Genre, Politics, and Place Edited by Stacy Gillis, Newcastle University, UK & Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir, University of Iceland, Iceland What is often termed ‘Nordic Noir’ has dominated detective fiction, film and television internationally for over two decades now. But what are the parameters of this genre, both historically and geographically? What is noirish and what is northern about Nordic noir? Divided into four 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 October 2019 • US October 2019 • 224 pages HB 9781501342868 • £96.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501342875 • Library eBook 9781501342882 Bloomsbury Academic
Literary Infinities
Number and Narrative in Modern Fiction Baylee Brits, University of New South Wales, Australia Literary Infinities analyses the connection between the late 19th-century revolution in the mathematics of the infinite and the literature of 20th-century modernism. Baylee Brits considers the role of numbers and the concept of the infinite in key modernists, including James Joyce, Italo Svevo, Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee. This ‘modernist’ infinity is shown to undergird key innovations in narrative form, bridging the mathematical and the literary, presentation and representation, formalism and the tactile imagination. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 224 pages PB 9781501352591 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501331466 Individual eBook 9781501331473 Library eBook 9781501331459 Bloomsbury Academic
Gothic Remixed
Monster Mashups and Frankenfictions in 21st-Century Culture Megen de Bruin-Molé, University of Southampton, UK The bestselling genre of Frankenfiction sees classic literature turned into commercial narratives invaded by zombies, vampires, werewolves, and other fantastical monsters. This book explores the boundaries and connections between contemporary remix and related modes – including adaptation, parody, the Gothic, Romanticism, and postmodernism. Taking a multimedia approach, case studies range from novels such as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies; television series like Penny Dreadful; and the visual arts in the prints of Travis Louie. UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 256 pages • 19 bw illus HB 9781350103054 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350103078 Library eBook 9781350103061 Bloomsbury Academic
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Transferences
The Analyst’s Desire
Maren Scheurer, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Mitchell Wilson, Private Practice in Psychoanalysis, USA
The Aesthetics and Poetics of the Therapeutic Relationship
Why are psychoanalysts fascinated with literature and other arts? And why do so many novels, plays, films, and television series feature therapy sessions? Transferences investigates the interdisciplinary attraction between psychoanalysis and the arts by exploring the therapeutic relationship as a recurring figure in psychoanalytic discourse, literature, theater, and television. In addition to close readings of psychoanalytic and critical texts, the book presents a new approach to examining psychoanalytic themes and formal devices in texts like Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint, J. M. Coetzee’s Life & Times of Michael K, Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, Peter Shaffer’s Equus, and the HBO series In Treatment. UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 224 pages HB 9781501352447 • £90.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501352454 Library eBook 9781501352461 Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons • Bloomsbury Academic
Born After
Reckoning with the German Past Angelika Bammer, Emory University, USA Born After addresses questions of identity by asking readers to think differently about a history they believe they already know. Predicated on T.W. Adorno’s challenge that Germans must engage history "after Auschwitz" subjectively, Born After explores the intergenerational dynamics of a German family before and after the Nazi years. Arguing that what we accept as history is not just what happened, but includes the structures of feeling shaped by the impact of particular events, it inflects questions about history ("what happened?") with questions about ethics: "What could they – and what would we – have done?" UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 304 pages HB 9781501336423 • £90.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501336430 Library eBook 9781501336447 Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons • Bloomsbury Academic
Reading Hilary Mantel Haunted Decades
Lucy Arnold, University of Worcester, UK From the ghosts which reside in Midlands council houses in Every Day is Mother’s Day to the resurrected historical dead of the Booker Prize winning Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, the writings of Hilary Mantel are often haunted by supernatural figures. The first book-length study of her work, Reading Hilary Mantel explores the importance of ghosts in the full range of her fiction and non-fiction writing and their political, social and ethical resonances. Combining material from original interviews with the author herself with psychoanalytic, historicist and deconstructivist perspectives, this is a landmark study of an important contemporary novelist. UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 256 pages HB 9781350072558 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350072572 Library eBook 9781350072565 Bloomsbury Academic
The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice
In The Analyst's Desire, Mitchell Wilson explores the fundamental role that lack and desire play in psychoanalytic interpretation. Throughout this book, Wilson utilizes a comparative method that engages different psychoanalytic traditions—Lacanian, Bionian, Kleinian, Contemporary Freudian—to investigate questions of utmost importance. These questions include: What is the nature of the psychoanalytic process? How are desire and counter-transference linked? What is the relationship between desire, analytic action, and psychoanalytic ethics? UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 224 pages HB 9781501328046 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781501328053 Library eBook 9781501328060 Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons • Bloomsbury Academic
Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan A Dialogue
Mari Ruti, University of Toronto, Canada & Amy Allen, Pennsylvania State University, USA Critical Theory Between Klein and Lacan explores convergences and divergences in the psychoanalytic theories of Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan, with a special focus on the implications of their work for critical theory, broadly construed. The book is co-authored in the form of a dialogue between Amy Allen, a prominent representative of Frankfurt School critical theory with expertise on Klein, and Mari Ruti, a leading Lacanian critical theorist. Allen and Ruti offer distinctive interpretations of Klein and Lacan that not only bring out their complexities but also highlight productive points of convergence where most psychoanalytic and critical theorists see mutual opposition. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 224 pages HB 9781501352263 • £90.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501352270 Library eBook 9781501352287 Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons • Bloomsbury Academic
L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – Compa rati ve Li teratu re / C on te mporary Lite r a tu re
Psychoanalytic Horizons
Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy Vijay Mishra, Murdoch University, Australia
"Students of Rushdie’s remarkable novels will profit from keeping company with Mishra’s prolific insights." Homi K. Bhabha, Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University, USA Salman Rushdie and the Genesis of Secrecy is the first book to draw extensively from material in the Salman Rushdie archive to uncover the makings of the British Indian writer’s modernist poetics. Linking criticism to applied theory throughout and connecting Rushdie with radical non-Western humanism and questions about world literature, this book argues that a true understanding of the writer lies in uncovering his genesis of secrecy through a close reading of his archive. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 304 pages • 13 bw illus HB 9781350094390 • £90.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781350094413 Library eBook 9781350094406 Bloomsbury Academic
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New Horizons in Contemporary Writing Postcolonialism After World Literature Relation, Equality, Dissent
Lorna Burns, University of St Andrews, UK How is postcolonial criticism challenged by contemporary world literature approaches? And how must world literature be rethought in light of the legacies of postcolonialism? Exploring their fault lines and their affinities, Postcolonialism After World Literature brings these two critical schools into conversation to renew our understanding of how contemporary literature responds to the challenges of globalization. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 272 pages HB 9781350053021 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350053045 Library eBook 9781350053038 Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing • Bloomsbury Academic
Jonathan Lethem and the Galaxy of Writing
Joseph Brooker, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Writing at the Iterative Turn Kaja Marczewska, University of Westminster, London, UK Developing the concept of the "iterative turn," This Is Not a Copy identifies and theorizes the turn toward ubiquitous iteration as a condition of text-based creative practices, particularly as they respond to contemporary technologies. Weaving together discussions of literature, experimental and electronic writing, and publishing practices with debates in 20th- and 21st-century art, media culture, developing technologies, and copyright laws, Kaja Marczewska argues we must radically re-think our conceptions of creativity in the digital age. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 320 pages • 21 bw illus PB 9781501357336 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501337833 Individual eBook 9781501337840 Library eBook 9781501337857 Bloomsbury Academic
John Banville and His Precursors Edited by Pietra Palazzolo, Open University, UK, Michael Springer, University of York, UK & Stephen Butler, Ulster University, UK
This comprehensive scholarly study explores the work of Jonathan Lethem, from his bestselling fiction, to his work in comics and his critical and music writing. Jonathan Lethem and the Galaxy of Writing positions Lethem as a central figure in the contemporary literary scene, exploring his influences – from Franz Kafka to Philip K. Dick and Norman Mailer – and the relationship of his work to major contemporary writers such as David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen and Jennifer Egan.
Bringing together leading international scholars, John Banville and His Precursors explores Booker and Franz Kafka prize-winning Irish author John Banville’s most significant intellectual influences. The book examines how Banville’s novels engage deeply with a wide range of sources, from literary figures such as Samuel Beckett, Heinrich von Kleist, Wallace Stevens, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Henry James, to thinkers such as Freud, Heidegger, and Blanchot.
UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 224 pages HB 9781350003767 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350003774 Library eBook 9781350003781 Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing • Bloomsbury Academic
UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 256 pages HB 9781350084520 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350084544 Library eBook 9781350084537 Bloomsbury Academic
The Contemporary PostApocalyptic Novel
Critical Temporalities and the End Times Diletta De Cristofaro The Contemporary Post-Apocalyptic Novel offers an innovative critical model for our cultural obsession with ‘the end’ by focussing on the significance of time in the 21st-century post-apocalyptic novel and challenging traditional apocalyptic logic. Considering novels by Will Self, Cormac McCarthy, David Mitchell, Emily St. John Mandell, Jeanette Winterson and others, Diletta Di Cristofaro frames the contemporary apocalyptic imagination as a critique of modernity’s apocalyptic conception of time and history. Interdisciplinary in scope, the book historicises apocalyptic beliefs by exploring how relentlessly they have shaped the modern world. UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 256 pages HB 9781350085770 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350085794 Library eBook 9781350085787 Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing • Bloomsbury Academic
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This Is Not a Copy
John le Carré and the Cold War Toby Manning, University of Birmingham, UK
"Highly informative and loaded with historical context." - Times Literary Supplement Reading the major Cold War novels, including The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley’s People, this book explores the political and historical contexts and implications of le Carré’s work. John le Carré and the Cold War examines the author’s 1960s and 70s novels in relation to Cold War history, including the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Cambridge Spies, the end of the British Empire, the Vietnam War, détente, the Second Cold War and Thatcherism. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 256 pages PB 9781350122161 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350036390 Individual eBook 9781350036413 Library eBook 9781350036406 Bloomsbury Academic
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David Mitchell
John Burnside
Edited by Wendy Knepper, Brunel University London, UK & Courtney Hopf, New York University, London Campus, UK
Edited by Ben Davies, University of Portsmouth, UK
Contemporary Critical Perspectives
David Mitchell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives brings together leading scholars of contemporary fiction to guide readers through the full range of the author's writings, from his major novels such as Cloud Atlas, Number9dream and The Bone Clocks, to his shorter pieces and libretti. As well as exploring Mitchell’s genre-hopping techniques and his engagement with key contemporary issues such as globalization, the environment and gender, the book also includes coverage of the film adaptation of Cloud Atlas. The volume includes an interview with David Mitchell as well as annotated guides to further reading and online resources. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 208 pages HB 9781474262101 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781474262118 Library eBook 9781474262125 Series: Contemporary Critical Perspectives • Bloomsbury Academic
Jeanette Winterson and Religion Emily McAvan, Monash University, Australia
Jeanette Winterson and Religion is the first in-depth study of the ways in which Jeanette Winterson navigates the sacred and the profane in the full range of her writing, from Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit to Sexing the Cherry. This book reads the author’s work alongside feminist and queer theologians such as Catherine Keller and Marcella Althaus-Reid as well as such theorists as Alain Badiou, John D. Caputo and Julia Kristeva. In this way, Jeanette Winterson and Religion reveals how Jeanette Winterson stakes out a unique and intriguing femalecentred, queer post-secular literary form of the sacred. UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 208 pages HB 9781350096905 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350096929 Library eBook 9781350096912 Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics
Claire O’Callaghan, Brunel University, UK "[O'Callaghan] unpicks the nuances of each novel with sensitive political and literary insight." Times Literary Supplement Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics brings together feminist and queer theoretical perspectives on gender and sexuality through close textual analysis of the novels of Sarah Waters. It explores the ways in which the representation of gender and sexual figures, plots and motifs in her writings play out contemporary feminist and queer-theory debates. This timely study examines topics ranging from heterosexuality, homosexuality, masculinities, femininities, sex, pornography, and the cultural effects of othering and domination across her work. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 232 pages PB 9781350112575 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474271516 Individual eBook 9781474271547 Library eBook 9781474271530 Bloomsbury Academic
Contemporary Critical Perspectives
John Burnside: Contemporary Critical Perspectives brings together leading scholars of contemporary poetry and literature to guide readers through the full range of the writings of the prize-winning author, from his poetry to his autobiographical and nature writing. The book explores the major themes of Burnside's work, including the environment and the natural world, hauntings and his intertextual engagement with philosophy, music and the visual arts. Including a timeline of Burnside’s life and times and an interview with the writer himself, this is the first authoritative guide to this major contemporary writer. UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 208 pages HB 9781350036970 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350036987 Library eBook 9781350036994 Series: Contemporary Critical Perspectives • Bloomsbury Academic
The Post-War Experimental Novel
British and French Fiction, 1945-75 Andrew Hodgson, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, France
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Contemporary Critical Perspectives
The Post-War Experimental Novel constructs a topography of how the traumatic experience of the Second World War formed – or perhaps malformed – the postwar experimental novel. Focusing on British and French fiction and covering the works of B. S. Johnson, Ann Quin, Georges Perec, Roland Topor, Raymond Queneau and others, Andrew Hodgson shows that there is method to the madness of experimental fiction and further legitimises the form as a prominent presence within a wider literary and historical movement in European and American avant-garde literatures. UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 256 pages HB 9781350076846 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350076860 Library eBook 9781350076853 Bloomsbury Academic
The Disabled Detective
Sleuthing Disability in Contemporary Crime Fiction Susannah B. Mintz, Skidmore College, USA The Disabled Detective is the first book to explore representations of disability in crime fiction, from the earliest days of the genre to today. Susannah B. Mintz examines detective heroes struggling with blindness, deafness, Asperger’s, obsessive compulsive disorder, addiction, war trauma and many other impairments. Examining a wide range of texts, from Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie to contemporary novelists like Jeffrey Deaver and television dramas such as Monk, CSI, and Homicide, the book highlights how often characters with disabilities have been the heroes of crime fiction and how rarely contemporary criticism acknowledges this. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 224 pages HB 9781474238229 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781474238236 Library eBook 9781474238243 Bloomsbury Academic
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L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – Ger ma n Studi es
New Directions in German Studies Series Editor(s): Imke Meyer, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA A forum for the publication of new works in all areas of German Studies (German, Austrian, and Swiss literature, culture, and cinema from any period).
The Fontane Workshop
Manufacturing Realism in the Industrial Age of Print Petra S. McGillen, Dartmouth College, USA
Literary Joint Ventures, 1750-1850
Edited by John B. Lyon, University of Pittsburgh, USA & Laura Deiulio, Christopher Newport University
With an innovative approach that combines material media theory, media history, and literary poetics, this book reconstructs the great German writer Theodor Fontane’s creative process. Analyzing a wealth of unexplored archival evidence—which includes a collection of the author’s 67 extant notebooks, along with an array of other "paper tools," such as cardboard boxes, envelopes, and slips—Petra McGillen demonstrates how Fontane compiled his realist prose works. By exploring the far-reaching implications of Fontane’s creative practices for our understanding of his authorship, originality, and poetics, this book opens up a completely new way to think about his works and, by extension, 19th-century literary realism.
Challenges a model of literary production that persists in literary studies: the idea of the solitary male author as genius that emerged around 1800 in German lands. A closer look at creative practices during this time indicates that collaborative creative endeavors, specifically joint ventures between women and men, were an important mode of literary production. This volume surveys a variety of such collaborations and demonstrates that the model of the male genius was not inevitable. Finally, it demands that we rethink definitions of an author and a literary work in ways that account for the complex modes of creation from which they arose.
UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 360 pages • 22 bw illus HB 9781501351587 • £95.00 / $130.00 Individual eBook 9781501351570 Library eBook 9781501351563 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 304 pages HB 9781501351006 • £98.00 / $125.00 Individual eBook 9781501351013 Library eBook 9781501351020 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond
Flirtation, Passive Aggression, Domestic Violence Barbara N. Nagel, Princeton University, USA
The Lever as Instrument of Reason Technological Constructions of Knowledge around 1800
Jocelyn Holland, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Ambiguous Aggression looks at three interlocking forms of social violence – flirtation, passive aggression, and domestic violence. In order to understand their circulation, it traces their literary-historical genealogy in German realism and modernism – in scenes from Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Adalbert Stifter, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Robert Walser, and Franz Kafka, covering a historical period from the middle of the 19th century to the early decades of the 20th century.
In The Lever as Instrument of Reason, readers will discover the remarkable ways in which the lever is used to model the construction of knowledge and to mobilize new ideas among diverse disciplines. These acts of construction are shown to model key aspects of the human, from the more abstract processes of moral decision-making to a quite literal equation of the powerful human ego with the supposed stability and power of the fulcrum point.
UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 160 pages HB 9781501352713 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781501352720 Library eBook 9781501352737 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 224 pages HB 9781501346057 • £96.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501346064 Library eBook 9781501346071 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
Kafka’s Stereoscopes
The Political Function of a Literary Style Isak Winkel Holm, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German Culture
Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler’s Prose
Five Psycho-Sociological Readings Marie Kolkenbrock, University of Cambridge, UK
Isak Winkel Holm argues that Kafka’s stereoscopic style is crucial to an understanding of the relation between literature and politics in Kafka's work. At the level of content, the stereoscopic style offers a representation of the basic order of a specific community. At the level of form, the stereoscopic style is structured as the juxtaposition of two dissimilar images of the same community. At the level of function, finally, the style provokes a reconsideration, and perhaps even a reconfiguration, of the social order itself. With insights from literary studies, philosophical aesthetics and political theory, Kafka’s Stereoscopes offers a detailed but highly readable argument for the relevance of Kafka's literary works in today’s political reality.
A new psycho-sociological perspective on the narrative works of Arthur Schnitzler. While the relationship between the terms "stereotype" and "destiny" is by no means immediately obvious, Kolkenbrock shows how these notions serve as an interrelated coping mechanism for a central psychological conflict of modernity: namely, the paradoxical need to be recognized as both "normal" and "special" at the same time. While Schnitzler’s narrative works address central questions of identity and subjecthood, Kolkenbrock’s close readings also reveal how the texts inscribe themselves aesthetically in the literary tradition of Romanticism.
UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 288 pages HB 9781501347825 • £96.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501347832 Library eBook 9781501347849 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 280 pages PB 9781501357329 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501330964 Individual eBook 9781501330971 Library eBook 9781501330988 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
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Ghostwriting
W. G. Sebald’s Poetics of History Richard T. Gray, University of Washington, USA
University, USA
"Gray is a remarkable reader of Sebald. Meticulous in his attention to detail as well as learned in understanding of the broader contexts, he teaches us new ways to think about this enigmatic writer." Carol Jacobs, Yale
The first comprehensive analysis of the fictional prose narratives of the émigré writer W. G. Sebald. Examining Sebald’s well-known published texts in the context of largely unknown unpublished works, and informed by documents and information from Sebald’s literary estate, this book offers a detailed portrait of his characteristic literary techniques and how they emerged and matured out of the practices and attitudes he represented in his profession as a literary scholar. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 464 pages • 36 bw illus PB 9781501352614 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501329999 Individual eBook 9781501330001 Library eBook 9781501330018 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic
America's Disaster Culture
The Production of Natural Disasters in Literature and Pop Culture Robert C. Bell, Loyola University New Orleans, USA & Robert M. Ficociello, Holy Family University, USA "A much-needed, full-length study of the importance of popular culture in channeling the stories we tell about disasters. From Hurricane Katrina to The Walking Dead, the authors explore the limits and costs of a disaster culture." Ann Larabee, Michigan State University, USA This volume examines the representation of disasters, catastrophes, and apocalypses in American culture. It also observes events, such as the Dust Bowl, Hurricane Katrina, and 9/11, that are re-framed as "natural" disasters by contemporary media and pop culture. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 208 pages PB 9781501351990 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781628924619 Individual eBook 9781628924626 Library eBook 9781628924633 Bloomsbury Academic
The Self-Reflexive Art of Don DeLillo Graley Herren, Xavier University, USA
American Literature as World Literature Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USA
America lives in the age of "worlded" literature, the worlded literature of individuals crossing borders, mixing stories, and speaking in dialect. The worlded literature of the multinational corporate publishing industry where the global market is all. The essays in this collection, from some of the most distinguished figures in American studies and literature, explores what it means to consider American literature as world literature. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 296 pages PB 9781501354601 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501332272 Individual eBook 9781501332289 Library eBook 9781501332302 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
The Bible in the American Short Story
Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg, Colgate University, USA & Peter S. Hawkins, Yale University Divinity School, USA Examines Biblical influences in the post-WWII American short story. Stahlberg and Hawkins pair close-readings of short stories by leading contemporary writers such as Flannery O’Connor, Philip Roth, Tobias Woolf and Kirstin Valdez Quade with examinations of the biblical passages that they reference. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 256 pages PB 9781350111615 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474237161 Individual eBook 9781474237178 Library eBook 9781474237185 Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Don DeLillo has spent his career reflecting upon the creative processes of artists. In recent years he has become increasingly drawn to spectators and how they project and indulge their own private obsessions through art. This is the first book devoted to this dimension of DeLillo’s art. It is also the first book to identify and analyze a signature DeLillo motif: the embedded author. In multiple novels, short stories, and plays, DeLillo inserts a character subtly implied as the creator of the very narrative we are reading or watching. Spanning his entire career but focusing primarily on his work from Underworld (1997) to Zero K (2016), The Self-Reflexive Art of Don DeLillo breaks important new ground in DeLillo studies. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 304 pages HB 9781501345050 • £96.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501345067 Library eBook 9781501345074 Bloomsbury Academic
Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence New Centenary Essays
Edited by Arielle Zibrak, University of Wyoming, USA
L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – Ger ma n Studi es / N orth an d S ou th Ame rican L it er a tu re
New Directions in German Studies continued
To mark 100 years since the novel’s first publication, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence: New Centenary Essays brings together leading scholars to explore cutting-edge critical approaches to Wharton’s most popular novel. Along the way this book revisits the novel through a wide range of contemporary critical perspectives, from ecocritical and digital humanities approaches to book history, media, gender and critical race studies. The book also includes a reflective chapter by awardwinning novelist Bich Minh Nguyen on her first experience reading The Age of Innocence as teenage immigrant, recently arrived in America from Vietnam. UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 256 pages HB 9781350065543 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350065567 Library eBook 9781350065550 Bloomsbury Academic
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Humor in Modern American Poetry
Edited by Rachel Trousdale, Framingham State University, USA "This collection makes a giant leap in the right direction. It analyses humor not as a side-effect from the so-called main business of modernist poetics, but as one of modern poetry's most significant concerns." Jonathan Ellis, University of Sheffield, UK Humor in Modern American Poetry shows that modern poetry is full of humorous moments, from comic verse published in popular magazines to the absurd juxtapositions of The Cantos. Humor is as essential to the serious work of Wallace Stevens as it is to the light verse of Dorothy Parker. It can be used to claim poetic authority, re-define literary tradition, make political attacks, and, surprisingly, promote sympathy among readers. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 240 pages PB 9781501352607 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501334733 Individual eBook 9781628920246 Library eBook 9781628920253 Bloomsbury Academic
Brazilian Literature as World Literature Edited by Eduardo F. Coutinho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Brazilian Literature as World Literature is not simply an introduction to Brazilian literature but also a study of the connections between Brazil's literary production and that of the rest of the world, particularly European and North American literatures. The contributors focus on the most significant moments of Brazilian literature and offer comparative approaches between some of its greatest exponents and canonic authors of world literature. They also highlight the tension that has always existed in Brazilian literature between the imitation of European models and forms and a yearning for a tradition of its own, as well as modernist attempts to overcome this tension. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 376 pages PB 9781501357343 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501323263 Individual eBook 9781501323270 Library eBook 9781501323287 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Mexican Literature in Theory Edited by Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado, Washington University in Saint Louis, USA
Mexican Literature in Theory is the first book to engage post-independence Mexican literature from the perspective of current debates in theory. It brings together scholars whose work is defined both by their innovative standing in Mexican literature studies and by the theoretical sophistication of their scholarship. One of the most complete accounts of Mexican literature available, covering both canonical texts as well as the most important works in contemporary production, this volume provides compelling readings of literature from a theoretical perspective, methodological suggestions as to how to use current theory in the study of literature, and important debates and revisions of major theoretical works through the lens of Mexican literary works. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 320 pages • 1 bw illus PB 9781501355769 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501332517 Individual eBook 9781501332524 Library eBook 9781501332531 Bloomsbury Academic
Queer Troublemakers The Poetics of Flippancy
Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Irreverent and provoking, the figure of the ‘queer troublemaker’ is a disruptive force both poetically and politically. Tracing the genealogy of this figure in modern avant-garde American poetry, Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain develops innovative close readings of the works of Gertrude Stein, Frank O’Hara, Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson. Exploring how these writers play with identity, gender, sexuality and genre, Bussey-Chamberlain constructs a queer poetics of flippancy that can subvert ideas of success and failure, affect and affectation, performance and performativity, poetry and being. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 208 pages • 3 bw illus HB 9781350079359 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350079373 Library eBook 9781350079366 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics • Bloomsbury Academic
Indispensable Reading
1001 Books From The Arabian Nights to Zola Wm Roger Louis, University of Texas at Austin, USA Indispensable Reading is a map to books that can provide a lifetime of reading that is thoughtful, provocative, pleasurable, and, above all, memorableófor at a minimum, a book worth reading should linger in the mind. The range of titles is vast. Almost 50 countries are represented in the literature category, and in history the scope is equally broad. A highlight of the book is the carefully curated section on politics. Extensive chapters cover biographies and memoirs, ancient and modern philosophy, and religion. Smaller groupings take account of the social and natural sciences, ethnic and gender studies, and the arts. UK December 2018 • US December 2018 • 400 pages HB 9781788315333 • £25.00 / $35.00 Individual eBook 9781838601775 • Library eBook 9781838601751 Harry Ransom Center
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Bodies of Water
Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology Astrida Neimanis, University of Sydney, Australia "For the last couple of decades, feminist theory has been immersed in a new materialist wave that has produced among the most innovative and capacious ways to think and to respond critically--ontologically, ethically, and politically-within the depths of the ongoing ecological crises... Astrida Neimanis's Bodies of Water brilliantly synthesizes, illustrates, and continues this feminist ebullition." Hypatia Bodies of Water draws on work by such thinkers as Irigaray, MerleauPonty and Deleuze to develop a new mode of posthuman feminist phenomenology that understands our bodies as being fundamentally part of the natural world and not separate from or privileged to it. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 248 pages PB 9781350112551 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474275385 Individual eBook 9781474275392 Library eBook 9781474275408 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic
Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel
Astrid Bracke, HAN University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands "Bracke's research is a major contribution to cli-fi analyses in ecocriticism." - Heather Sullivan, Trinity University, USA Charting rapidly changing attitudes to climate change, Bracke explores a wide range of texts, from Zadie Smith’s N/W and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas to the work of a new generation of novelists such as Melissa Harrison and Ross Raisin. Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel brings ecocriticism and environmental narratives into dialogue with a new body of contemporary writing which provides an imaginative space to rethink relationships between the human and the natural world. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 192 pages PB 9781350107489 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474271127 Individual eBook 9781474271134 Library eBook 9781474271141 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic
Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895-1941 John Claborn, University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, USA
"Claborn’s book offers an important account of the profound intersection between anti-racist and environmental struggles in the first half of the twentieth century." - Paul Outka, Associate Professor of English, University of Kansas, USA Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature explores the centrality of environmental problems to writing from the civil rights movement. Bringing ecocritical perspectives to bear on the work of such important writers as Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, the writers of the Harlem Renaissance and Depressionera African-American writing, the book brings to light a vital new perspective on ecocriticism and modern American literary history. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 216 pages PB 9781350111622 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350009424 Individual eBook 9781350009431 Library eBook 9781350009448 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic
Digital Vision and the Ecological Aesthetic Lisa FitzGerald, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany
Digital technology has transformed the way that we visualise the natural world, the art we create and the stories we tell about our environments. Exploring contemporary digital art and literature through an ecocritical lens, Digital Vision and the Ecological Aesthetic 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 December 2019 • US December 2019 • 256 pages • 14 illus HB 9781350051836 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350051850 Library eBook 9781350051843 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic
L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – L i tera ture and the En viron me n t / Digital Lite r a tu re
Environmental Cultures
Post-Digital
Critical Debates from electronic book review Edited by Joseph Tabbi, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Bringing together 150 seminal articles from leading scholars, writers and digital artists, Post-Digital charts the history of critical debates on the impact of the digital on art and scholarship today. Collecting over 20 years of major interventions from the pioneering journal Electronic Book Review, this 2-volume set also includes new responses chronicling more recent developments in the field since the original articles, a substantial introduction surveying the long history of thinking about the digital and a comprehensive bibliography of further reading. UK December 2019 • US December 2019 • 7360 pages HB Pack 9781474292504 • £250.00 / $340.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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Historicizing Modernism Christian Modernism in an Age of Totalitarianism T.S. Eliot, Karl Mannheim and the Moot Jonas Kurlberg, University of Edinburgh, UK With fascism on the march in Europe and a second World War looming, a group of Britain’s leading intellectuals – including T.S. Eliot, Karl Mannheim, John Middleton Murry and Michael Polanyi – gathered together to explore ways of revitalising a culture that seemed to have lost its way. The group called themselves ‘The Moot’. Drawing on previously unpublished archival documents, this is the first in-depth study of the group’s work, writings and ideas in the decade of its existence from 1938-1947. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 224 pages HB 9781350090514 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350090538 Library eBook 9781350090521 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic
James Joyce and Absolute Music
Michelle Witen, University of Basel, Switzerland Drawing on draft manuscripts and other archival material, James Joyce and Absolute Music explores Joyce’s deep engagement with musical form. Michelle Witen examines how Joyce draws on the musical figure of the fugue to structure the Sirens episode of his modernist masterpiece Ulysses and earlier examples of this form in such works as Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Informed by a deep understanding of music theory, the book goes on to consider the "pure music" of his final work Finnegans Wake. This groundbreaking study reveals new depths to this enduring body of work. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 320 pages • 9 bw illus PB 9781350125193 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350014220 Individual eBook 9781350014237 Library eBook 9781350014244 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic
Race and New Modernisms
K. Merinda Simmons, University of Alabama, USA & James A. Crank, University of Alabama, USA From the Harlem Renaissance to transnational postcolonial writing, Race and New Modernisms introduces and surveys key issues and debates on race and ethnicity in modernist studies today. Topics covered include: Key terms and concepts; European modernism and cultural appropriation; modernism and empire; civil rights and the American South; race and popular culture. Exploring such writers and artists as James Baldwin, W.E.B. Du Bois, T.S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Édouard Glissant, Ernest Hemingway, Billie Holliday, Zora Neale Hurston and Paul Robeson, the book also considers the legacy of modernist discussions of race in 21st-century movements such as Black Lives Matter. UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 192 pages PB 9781350030398 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350030404 • £65.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781350030411 Library eBook 9781350030428 Series: New Modernisms • Bloomsbury Academic
Modernist Work
Labor, Aesthetics, and the Work of Art Edited by John Attridge, University of New South Wales, Australia & Helen Rydstrand, University of New South Wales, Australia Through a wide-ranging selection of essays representing a variety of different media, national contexts and critical approaches, this volume provides a broad overview of the idea of work in modernism, considered in its historical, political, aesthetic and theoretical dimensions. Several individual chapters discuss canonical figures, including Richard Strauss, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka and Gertrude Stein, but Modernist Work also addresses contexts that are chronologically and geographically foreign to the main stream of modernist studies, such as Swedish proletarian writing, Haitian nationalism and South African inheritors of Dada. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 224 pages HB 9781501344015 • £90.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501344022 Library eBook 9781501344039 Bloomsbury Academic
The Late Cantos of Ezra Pound Composition, Revision, Publication
Michael Kindellan, University of Bayreuth, Germany "With this intelligent, incisive book on the "material history" of these texts, Kindellan restores philology to a central place among the critical methodologies necessary to the reception of Pound’s work." - CHOICE Drawing extensively on material from the archives, The Late Cantos of Ezra Pound explores the textual history of Pound’s later verses Section: Rock-Drill (1955) and Thrones (1959). Drawing on unpublished letters, draft manuscripts and critical essays this book recounts the history of the composition, revision and dissemination of these notoriously difficult verses to shed new light on their significance to Pound’s wider project. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 296 pages • 16 bw illus PB 9781350107236 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474258746 Individual eBook 9781474258753 Library eBook 9781474258760 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic
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Popular Modernism and Its Legacies
From Pop Literature to Video Games Edited by Scott Ortolano, Florida SouthWestern State College, USA Popular Modernism and Its Legacies expands modernist studies to investigate how the concepts, figures, and aesthetics of modernism continue to play essential, often undetected, roles across an array of contemporary works, genres, and media. The established and emerging scholars collected here offer distinct perspectives on popular modernism, ranging across time periods and from literature, film, and television to comics and video games. Concluding with an afterword from noted scholar Faye Hammill, Popular Modernism and Its Legacies reshapes the study of modernism and provides new perspectives on important works that are at the center of our cultural imagination. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 296 pages • 22 bw illus PB 9781501354595 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501325113 Individual eBook 9781501325120 Library eBook 9781501325137 Bloomsbury Academic
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Literary Couples and 20thCentury Life Writing
Global Modernists on Modernism
Janine Utell, Widener University, USA
Alys Moody, University of Waikato, New Zealand & Stephen J. Ross, University of Warwick, UK
Narrative and Intimacy
Literary Couples and 20th-Century Life Writing examines how modernist and late modernist writers have told the stories of their own intimate relationships. Exploring life writing by well-known literary couples such as Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland, Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy and Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, Janine Utell draws on the latest work in narrative theory to shed new light on the importance of ethics and empathy to our understanding of relationships in the modern period. UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 240 pages HB 9781350003453 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350003460 Library eBook 9781350003477 Bloomsbury Academic
Unfit: Jewish Degeneration and Modernism Marilyn Reizbaum, Bowdoin College, USA
An obsession with "degeneration" was a central neurosis of early 20th-century modernist culture. Unfit: Jewish Degeneration and Modernism is the first in-depth study of the Jewish cultural roots of "degeneration theory", its key exponents such as Cesare Lombroso, Max Nordau and Magnus Hirschfeld and its legacies for modern culture. Marilyn Reizbaum explores how literary works from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, through James Joyce’s Ulysses to Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy, the crime movies of Mervyn LeRoy and the photography of Claude Cahun and Adi Nes engage with ideas of degeneration across the arts of the 20th century. UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 224 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781350098947 • £85.00 / $115.00 Individual eBook 9781350098961 Library eBook 9781350098954 Bloomsbury Academic
The Legends of the Modern
A Reappraisal of Modernity from Shakespeare to the Age of Duchamp Didier Maleuvre, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA The Legends of the Modern demystifies the ideas and "legends" behind artistic and cultural modernity, laying bare the principles that have informed our appreciation of modern art and literature. Beginning with an examination of early modern artists Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and Cervantes, Didier Maleuvre demonstrates how many of the seminal works of modern culture were born of a conflict with their own internal modern tendencies and concludes that modern art's uneasiness with modernity itself is in turn a vital facet of modernity. UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 256 pages HB 9781501353840 • £90.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501353857 Library eBook 9781501353864 Bloomsbury Academic
An Anthology
Bringing together works by writers from sub-Saharan Africa, Turkey, central Europe, the Muslim world, Asia, South America and Australia – many translated into English for the first time – this is the first collection of statements on modernism by writers, artists and practitioners from across the world. Annotated throughout, the texts are supported by critical essays from leading modernist scholars exploring major issues in the contemporary study of global modernism. UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 512 pages HB 9781474242325 • £130.00 / $175.00 Individual eBook 9781474242332 Library eBook 9781474242349 Series: Modernist Archives • Bloomsbury Academic World English
Man Into Woman
L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – M oder ni sm
Modernist Archives
A Comparative Scholarly Edition Lili Elbe Edited by Pamela L. Caughie, Loyola University of Chicago, USA & Sabine Meyer, Independent Scholar, Germany First published in Copenhagen in 1931, Lili Elbe’s Man Into Woman is the first autobiographical account of a surgical sex change. In this comparative scholarly edition, Pamela L. Caughie and Sabine Meyer present the full text of the 1933 American edition of Elbe’s work with comprehensive notes on textual and paratextual variants across the four published editions throughout. This edition also includes a substantial scholarly introduction which situates the historical and intellectual context of Elbe’s work, as well as new essays by leading scholars in gender studies, modernism and life writing, and coverage of the 2015 biopic, The Danish Girl. UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 448 pages HB 9781350021495 • £130.00 / $175.00 Individual eBook 9781350021501 Library eBook 9781350021518 Series: Modernist Archives • Bloomsbury Academic World English
Edith Ayrton Zangwill's The Call A New Scholarly Edition Edith Ayrton Zangwill Edited by Stephanie J. Brown, University of Arizona, USA Edith Ayrton Zangwill’s 1924 novel The Call is widely regarded as one of the most important suffrage novels of the early 20th century. Including authoritative notes and commentary throughout, this is the first comprehensive scholarly edition of the novel. The Call tells the story of a young chemist, Ursula Winfield and the conflict between her increasing political commitments to the suffrage movement and her personal life as the Great War approaches. Alongside the definitive text of the novel, this edition also includes contextual historical documents and critical chapters by leading scholars exploring the world of the novel. UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 320 pages • 3 bw illus HB 9781350064775 • £130.00 / $175.00 Individual eBook 9781350064782 Library eBook 9781350064799 Series: Modernist Archives • Bloomsbury Academic
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L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – Poetry / Chi l dren's L i tera ture
Lyric In Its Times
Poetry's Knowing Ignorance
John Wilkinson, University of Chicago, USA
What kind of knowledge, if any, does poetry provide? Poets make poems, but they also make meaning and craft a kind of learned and creative ignorance as they provide infinitely revisable answers to the question of what poetry is.
Temporalities in Verse, Breath, and Stone In this important new intervention, leading poet and critic John Wilkinson explores the material life of the lyric poem. How does the lyric – considered as an object, as an event – grapple with permanence and impermanence, the rhythms of change and the passing of time? Drawing on new insights from contemporary philosophy and object-oriented ontology, psychoanalysis and the visual arts, The Lyric in Its Times includes innovative and insightful new readings of work by a wide range of lyric poets, from Shakespeare, Blake and Shelley to Charles Baudelaire, Frank O’Hara and J.H. Prynne.
To resist concluding is to embrace a kind of productive ignorance, a knowledge that is first and foremost aware of poetic knowledge’s own limits. Poetry's Knowing Ignorance shows how it is this dialogue in response to a constant questioning, to an answer-turned-question, that continues to blur the boundary between poetry and writing about poetry, between poetry and criticism, and between poetry and other kinds of experience.
UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 304 pages • 8 bw illus HB 9781350093911 • £90.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781350093935 Library eBook 9781350093928 Bloomsbury Academic
UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 208 pages HB 9781501355226 • £90.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501355233 Library eBook 9781501355240 Bloomsbury Academic
Faith in Poetry
Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief Michael D. Hurley, St. Catharine's College, University of Cambridge, UK "Insightful, ingenious, and compelling, the book should be a welcome addition to the library of anyone interested in the intersection of religion and aesthetics." - The New Criterion In Faith in Poetry, Michael D. Hurley explores how five great writers – William Blake, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot – engaged their religious faith in poetry. The book sheds new light on the interplay between literature and theology across the long 19th century, at a time when the authority and practice of both was being fiercely reimagined. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 216 pages PB 9781350111639 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474234078 Individual eBook 9781474234085 Library eBook 9781474234092 Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
Harvest Bells
New and Uncollected Poems by John Betjeman John Betjeman Edited by Kevin J. Gardner
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Joseph Acquisto, University of Vermont, USA
Reading Apollinaire's Calligrammes
Willard Bohn, Illinois State University, USA Reading Apollinaire's Calligrammes examines Guillaume Apollinaire’s second major collection of poetry. Composed between 1913 and 1918, the nineteen poems examined here fall into two main groups: the experimental poetry and the war poetry. They also provide glimpses of the poet’s personal history, from his affair with Louise de Coligny-Châtillon to his engagement to Madeleine Pagès and his marriage with Jacqueline Kolb. Each section examines all of the previous scholarship for the work in question, provides a detailed analysis, and, in many cases, offers a new interpretation. Each poem is subjected to a meticulous line-by-line analysis in the light of current knowledge. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 272 pages • 8 bw illus PB 9781501355776 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501338311 Individual eBook 9781501338328 Library eBook 9781501338335 Bloomsbury Academic
The Courage to Imagine
The Child Hero in Children's Literature Roni Natov, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA "A splendid study of the vital role imagination plays in contemporary international children’s literature." Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota, USA
John Betjeman’s unforgettable poems on landscape and suburbia, desire and death, faith and doubt, helped to establish him as the beloved voice of a nation. Yet the ten books of poetry he published individually, later assembled in the Collected Poems, were an incomplete representation of his poetic oeuvre. Kevin Gardner has assembled a new collection of Betjeman’s poems that reveal a young poet experimenting with both Modernism and post-Romanticism. Some are profoundly psychological, personal and deeply affecting to read today; others verge on bawdy. Almost all are typically amusing and witty in the style typical of this much-loved English poet.
Roni Natov focuses on how children’s imaginative engagement with the child hero figure can open them up to other experiences, developing empathy across lines of race, gender and sexuality, as well as helping them to confront traumatic experience. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical approaches from the psychological to the cultural the book covers a multicultural spectrum of authors, including works by Maya Angelou, Louise Erdrich, Neil Gaiman and Lewis Carroll.
UK June 2019 • US September 2019 • 240 pages HB 9781472966384 • £16.99 / $20.00 Individual eBook 9781472966391 Library eBook 9781472966407 Bloomsbury Continuum World English
UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 216 pages PB 9781350111752 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474221221 Individual eBook 9781474221238 Library eBook 9781474221245 Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
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Series Editor: Elinor Shaffer, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, UK Our knowledge of British and Irish authors is incomplete and inadequate without an understanding of the perspectives of other nations on them. Each volume in this series examines the ways authors have been translated, published, distributed, read, reviewed and discussed in Europe. In doing so, it throws light not only on the specific strands of intellectual and cultural history but also on the processes involved in the dissemination of ideas and texts.
The Reception of Isaac Newton in Europe
Three-Volume Set edited by Helmut Pulte, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany & Scott Mandelbrote, Peterhouse, Cambridge, UK The writings and example of Isaac Newton transformed understandings of the practice and meaning of the sciences across Europe in the century or so following the publication of the Principia in 1687. The essays in these volumes consider the impact of Newton's ideas from three distinct but interlocking perspectives: their reception in particular geographical areas and language communities; their importance for particular fields of intellectual and practical endeavour, and their influence on other thinkers who, in turn, shaped Newton's intellectual legacy. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 976 pages HB Pack 9780826479709 • £375.00 / $506.00 Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe • Bloomsbury Academic
Heliogabalus, or The Anarchist Crowned Antonin Artaud
Translated by Victor Corti From his birth in a cradle of sperm to his death on a blood-soaked pillow, Heliogabalus, Emperor from the age of fourteen, embodies the depravity and decay of Rome in the third century. Although steeped in vice and tormented by madness, the deviant tyrant is elevated to a divine status, at the crossroads between the Greco-Latin world and the Orient. Considered one of the most accomplished and accessible of Artaud’s works, while also one of his most imaginative, Heliogabalus, or The Anarchist Crowned is a hallucinatory, surreal depiction of a historical figure, as well as a revolutionary founding text from the father of the Theatre of Cruelty. UK May 2019 • 128 pages PB 9780714548937 • £8.99 Calder Publications World English (excluding USA)
The Holy Man and Other Stories Alexander Trocchi
Above a disused bar, in a dilapidated Parisian hotel that houses an assortment of indigent, marginalized lost souls, one of the inhabitants, a mysterious, reclusive holy man, is the subject of much speculation from some of his fellow occupants and respectful reverence from others. As the tale unfolds, the dynamics of this precarious microcosm are laid bare, in a powerful portrayal of those society has forgotten. Written when the author of Cain’s Book was at the height of his creative powers and enjoying an increasing reputation in avant-garde literary circles, ‘The Holy Man’ is here presented with ‘A Being of Distances’, ‘Peter Pierce’ and ‘A Meeting’, stories which similarly tackle themes of loneliness and disenfranchisement. UK April 2019 • US June 2019 • 128 pages PB 9780714548470 • £8.99 / $13.00 Calder Publications World English
Literature and the Environment
4-Volume Set
Edited by Stephanie LeMenager, University of Oregon, USA and Teresa Shewry, University of California, USA Four volumes and 100 essential critical articles present the most important academic writings on ecocriticism and literature’s engagement with environmental crisis. Texts by key scholars, creative writers and activists follow the development and history of environmental criticism, featuring writers such as: Stacy Alaimo, Jonathan Bate, Rosi Braidotti, Jacques Derrida, Ursula K. Heise, Bruno Latour, Rob Nixon, Arundati Roy, Ken Saro-Wiwa, William Shakespeare, Leslie Marmon Silko, Henry David Thoreau, E.O. Wilson, Cary Wolfe and William Wordsworth.
L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – Rec epti on Studi es / C alde r Pu blication s / M aj or Wor k R eferen ce
The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 4 vols • c. 1,280 pages HB Pack 9781350026315 • £650.00 / $885.00 • Special introductory price of £595.00 / $804.00 Critical and Primary Sources • Bloomsbury Academic
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L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – The Arden Sha kespea re
Measure For Measure Third Series
William Shakespeare Edited by A.R. Braunmuller, UCLA, USA & Robert N. Watson, University of California, Los Angeles, USA The latest Arden edition of Shakespeare's dark comedy of justice, mercy and the governance of sexual desire. As well as detailed on-page commentary notes, this new edition has a long, illustrated introduction exploring the play's performance and critical history. UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 384 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781904271437 • £10.99 / $14.95 • HB 9781904271420 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781408151884 Library eBook 9781408151877 Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series • The Arden Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice: Language and Writing
Macbeth: Arden Performance Editions William Shakespeare
Edited by Katherine Brokaw, University of California, Merced, USA For the first time, the world-renowned Arden Shakespeare is producing Performance Editions, aimed specifically for use in the rehearsal room. Published in association with the Shakespeare Institute, the text features easily accessible facing-page notes – including short definitions of words, key textual variants, and guidance on metre and pronunciation; a larger font size for easier reading; space for writing notes and reduced punctuation aimed at the actor rather than the reader. The Series Editors are distinguished scholars Professor Michael Dobson and Dr Abigail Rokison and leading Shakespearean actor, Simon Russell Beale. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 288 pages PB 9781350046788 • £7.99 / $10.95 Individual eBook 9781350046795 • £8.62 / $9.91 Library eBook 9781350046818 Series: Arden Performance Editions • The Arden Shakespeare
Douglas M. Lanier, University of New Hampshire, USA Shakespeare’s engagement with anti-Semitic tradition is a notoriously disturbing feature of The Merchant of Venice – in this volume, Douglas Lanier carefully shows how students can productively analyse this language for themselves. The guide also shows how to unpick the play’s challenging linguistic nexus of money, so that students can understand how economic ways of speaking and thinking drive the characters' actions and emotions. Each chapter’s "Writing Matters" section gives ideas and guidance for building a critical response to the play, while the final chapter leads students through effective strategies for essay construction. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 224 pages PB 9781472571489 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781472571496 • £50.00 / $68.00 Individual eBook 9781472571502 Library eBook 9781472571519 Series: Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing • The Arden Shakespeare
Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre Thinking with the Body
Evelyn Tribble, University of Otago, New Zealand What skills did Shakespeare’s actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ from those of contemporary actors? This book examines the ‘toolkit’ of the early modern player and suggests new readings of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries through the lens of their expertise. Evelyn Tribble argues that recapturing a positive account of the abilities of the early modern players will result in a more capacious understanding of the nature of theatricality in the period. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781472576026 • £21.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781472576033 Individual eBook 9781472576040 Library eBook 9781472576057 The Arden Shakespeare
Arden Shakespeare The State of Play The Revenger's Tragedy: The State of Play
Edited by Gretchen E. Minton, Montana State University, USA
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Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play
Edited by Lynn Enterline, Vanderbilt University, USA
The Revenger’s Tragedy (1606), now widely attributed to Thomas Middleton, is a play that provides a dark, satirical response to other revenge tragedies such as Hamlet. With its over-the-top and highly theatrical approach to revenge, The Revenger's Tragedy has emerged as one of the most compelling examples of a drama by one of Shakespeare’s contemporaries. This collection of ten newly-commissioned essays situates the play with respect to other Middleton and Shakespeare works as well as repertory, showcasing recent research about the play’s engagement with issues such as religion, genre, race, language and performance.
Shakespeare saw only two poems through to publication: Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. This volume traces the larger conversation that took place in the 1590s within the vogue for minor epic narratives as Shakespeare and a coterie of Ovidian imitators composed and published erotic epyllia to, for, and against one another. These poems take place in imagined worlds far removed from urban world of London and these classicizing narratives are deeply engaged in wide-ranging critiques of 16th century norms for masculine conduct – whether professional, poetic, economic, legal, emotional, or sexual.
UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 296 pages PB 9781350112506 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474280372 Individual eBook 9781474280389 Library eBook 9781474280396 Series: Arden Shakespeare The State of Play • The Arden Shakespeare
UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 272 pages • 2 bw illus HB 9781350073364 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350073371 Library eBook 9781350073388 Series: Arden Shakespeare The State of Play • The Arden Shakespeare
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Performing Gender and Power in Early Modern England Yasmin Arshad, Independent Scholar Shakespeare's characterization of Cleopatra may dominate the collective consciousness, but he was only one of several 16th-century writers fascinated with the former Queen of Egypt. This interdisciplinary study investigates images of Cleopatra in the early modern period and examines how her story was mediated and used. It draws on literary, philosophical, historical, art historical, and biographical resources, and gender, race, and performance studies, to consider what was known and thought about Cleopatra in the period. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 320 pages • 18 bw illus HB 9781350058965 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350058972 Library eBook 9781350058989 Series: Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama • The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Common Language
Alysia Kolentsis, University of Waterloo, Canada What can recent developments in contemporary linguistics and language theory reveal about Shakespeare’s language in the plays? In this book, Alysia Kolentsis offers a finely-grained analysis of Shakespeare's use of language to illuminate how the common words used by characters in the plays contain significant clues about moments of interaction which are pivotal to the plots. With chapters focused on different approaches based in language theory, the author analyzes language change in Coriolanus; employs discourse analysis in her study of Troilus and Cressida; focuses on pragmatics in Richard II, and explores how Shakespeare engaged with various aspects of grammar in As You Like It. UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 240 pages HB 9781350007017 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350007000 Library eBook 9781350006997 Series: Arden Shakespeare Studies in Language and Digital Methodologies • The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Artists
The Painters, Sculptors, Poets and Musicians in his Plays and Poems B. J. Sokol, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK This study of the many poets, musicians and visual artists portrayed or described in Shakespeare’s plays and poems reveals a fascination with art and its makers that continued to influence Shakespeare’s work throughout his career. It also uncovers unexpected aspects of an enthusiastic Elizabethan consumption of artworks, an enthusiasm that had significant bearing on the quite new profession that Shakespeare himself followed. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 344 pages PB 9781350122444 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350021938 Individual eBook 9781350021945 Library eBook 9781350021952 The Arden Shakespeare
Antipodal Shakespeare
Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916 - 2016 Gordon McMullan, King's College London, UK, Philip Mead, University of Western Australia, Australia, Ailsa Grant Ferguson, Brighton University, UK, Mark Houlahan, University of Waikato, New Zealand & Kate Flaherty, Australian National University, Australia Scholars from Britain, Australia and New Zealand reflect on the modes of commemoration of Shakespeare in and after the Tercentenary year, 1916, in two hemispheres, arguing that it was at this moment of remembering that ‘global Shakespeare’ first emerged in recognisable, if embryonic, form. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 240 pages PB 9781350126541 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474271431 Individual eBook 9781474271448 Library eBook 9781474271455 The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare and the 'Live' Theatre Broadcast Experience
Edited by Pascale Aebischer, University of Exeter, UK, Susanne Greenhalgh, University of Roehampton, UK & Laurie Osborne, Colby College, USA This collection concentrates exclusively on the phenomenon of how Shakespeare has, in the twenty-first century, been experienced as a "live" or "as-live" theatre broadcast by audiences around the world. The essays explore some of the precursors of this phenomenon, consider some of the most important companies that have produced such broadcasts since 2009 and examine the impact these broadcasts have had on branding, ideology, style and access to Shakespeare for international audiences. International contributors reflect on changing viewing practices, Shakespearean fan cultures and the use of social media by audience members for whom "liveness" is increasingly tied up in the experience economy.
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Imagining Cleopatra
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Broadcast your Shakespeare
Continuity and Change Across Media Edited by Stephen O'Neill, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland This volume of essays contributes to current debates about Shakespeare in new media. It importantly develops the field by providing a comparativist approach to Shakespeare’s dynamic media history. Contributors to Broadcast Your Shakespeare address the variety of ways Shakespeare texts have been expressed through different media and continue to be. Writing at the intersection of Shakespeare studies and media studies, these international contributors also consider the role of a particular media in producing Shakespeare’s effect on us - as readers, viewers and users. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 336 pages PB 9781350118829 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474295116 Individual eBook 9781474295130 Library eBook 9781474295123 The Arden Shakespeare
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Global Shakespeare Inverted Eating Shakespeare
Shakespeare in the Global South
Edited by Anne Sophie Refskou, University of Surrey, UK, Marcel Alvaro de Amorim & Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho
Sandra Young, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Cultural Anthropophagy as Global Methodology
This collection of essays and interviews by leading international scholars and practitioners introduces the concept of ‘Cultural Anthropophagy’, originating in 20th Century Brazilian Modernism, as an original methodology within the field currently understood as ‘Global Shakespeare’, and demonstrates its value with reference to a broad range of examples in theatre, film and education, including Miguel Del Arco’s Las Furias, Zé Celso's Ham-let (1993) and Clowns de Shakespeare's Sua Incelença, Ricardo III. It also presents a timely and fruitful dialogue between global Shakespearean theory and practice by including a series of interviews and reflections by practitioners with Paul Heritage, Mark Thornton Burnett and Fernando Yamamoto. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 336 pages • 6 bw illus HB 9781350035706 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350035713 Library eBook 9781350035737 Series: Global Shakespeare Inverted • The Arden Shakespeare
Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England Edited by Tiffany Stern, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK
Shakespeare in the Global South proposes the critical frame provided by the idea of a Global South in order to theorize cultural difference. It looks sideways across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to a variety of non-traditional centres of Shakespeare theatre-making to explore the solidarities and affinities not as evident in Stratford’s Shakespeare. It takes its lead from innovative theatre practice in Mauritius, Cape Verde, north India, and post-apartheid South Africa, to assess the value for cultural theory of conceptualising the transformation of Shakespeare across the world as indigenisation, creolisation, Africanisation, and localisation of endlessly transforming iterations of Shakespeare’s work. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 192 pages HB 9781350035744 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350035751 Library eBook 9781350035768 Series: Global Shakespeare Inverted • The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Body Language
Shaming Gestures and Gender Politics on the Renaissance Stage Miranda Fay Thomas, Independent scholar, UK
This collection brings together major scholars to introduce, analyze and theorize the rich variety of entangled documents produced in the playhouse before, during and after performance. As it provides new material and new ways of thinking about that material, it informs and complicates ideas about play-construction, performance, revision and reception, redefining the relationship between play, text and performance.
Reveals the previously unseen history of how social tensions are found within the performance of gestures, and how such gestures are used as a powerful form of control to shame others within the body politic of early modern England. Featuring in-depth analyses of plays across Shakespeare's career, this book explores how the playwright’s understanding of shame and humiliation is rooted in performance anxiety and gender politics.
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UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 256 pages • 16 bw illus HB 9781350035478 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350035485 Library eBook 9781350035492 The Arden Shakespeare
Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre
Edited by Gillian Woods, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK & Sarah Dustagheer, University of Kent, UK Stage Directions and Shakespearean Theatre illustrates the creative possibilities of these understudied but crucial parts of play-texts. It brings together the most recent and innovative research from a range of established and emerging scholars. Essays illuminate the function of stage directions on both the stage and the page, considering issues such as the playwrights’ shaping of space, the actor’s body, the audience’s gaze and the reader’s imagination. In asking how stage directions impact on the dialogue they frame, this collection provides new insights into a range of Renaissance plays. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 368 pages PB 9781350118812 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474257473 Individual eBook 9781474257480 Library eBook 9781474257497 The Arden Shakespeare
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Shakespeare and Fun
The Birth of Entertainment Value Donald Hedrick In this decisively innovative approach to Shakespeare’s plays through their competitive relation to other choices from London’s vast entertainment industry, Donald Hedrick recovers a coherent internal dynamic of theatre’s 'pleasure enclosure' accompanying the revolutionary logic of capital’s new cultural and economic 'extremes'. Applying these relations to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello and The Taming of the Shrew, he draws from cultural studies, contemporary and personal parallels, and wide-ranging historical materials. UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 272 pages HB 9781350002845 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350002852 Library eBook 9781350002869 The Arden Shakespeare
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Series Editors: Bridget Escolme, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, Farah Karim Cooper, Globe Education (Shakespeare's Globe) and Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London, UK, and Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA
Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King's Men Lucy Munro, King's College London, UK
The King’s Men reappraises the company as theatre artists, analysing in detail the performance practices, cultural contexts and political pressures that helped to shape and reshape Shakespeare’s plays between 1603 and 1642. Reconsidering casting and acting styles, staging and playing venues, audience response, influence and popularity, and local, national and international politics, the book presents case-studies of performances of Macbeth, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Richard II, Henry VIII, Othello and Pericles alongside a broader reappraisal of the repertory of the company and the place of Shakespeare’s plays within it. UK November 2019 • US January 2020 • 224 pages HB 9781474262613 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781474262620 Library eBook 9781474262637 Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Feminist Theory
Marianne Novy, University of Pittsburgh, USA Are Shakespeare’s plays dramatizations of patriarchy or representations of assertive and eloquent women? Or are they sometimes both? And is it relevant, and if so how, that his women were first played by boys? This book shows how many kinds of feminist theory help analyze the dynamics of Shakespeare’s plays. This lively exploration of these and related issues is an ideal introduction to the field of feminist readings of Shakespeare. UK April 2019 • US April 2019 • 224 pages PB 9781472567062 • £21.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781472567079 Individual eBook 9781472567086 Library eBook 9781472567093 Series: Shakespeare and Theory • The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare and the Politics of Nostalgia
Negotiating the Memory of Elizabeth I on the Jacobean Stage Yuichi Tsukada, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan The volume reveals the unnoticed richness of Shakespeare’s Jacobean drama by focusing on the growing cultural and political nostalgia for England’s dead queen. Yuichi Tsukada demonstrates that, far from not involving himself in the phenomenon of nostalgia for Elizabeth, Shakespeare interacted closely with retrospective writings on Elizabeth and illuminated the complex politics behind the nostalgia. Based around close readings of Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, and Henry VIII, together with a range of plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries, including Thomas Heywood, Thomas Dekker, George Chapman, John Marston and Thomas Middleton, the study traces the ongoing cultural negotiation of the memory of Elizabeth. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 240 pages HB 9781350067226 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350067233 Library eBook 9781350067240 The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Peter Hall
Stuart Hampton-Reeves, University of Central Lancashire, UK Peter Hall was one of the most influential directors of Shakespeare’s work of modern times. Through both his own work and the management of two national theatre companies, the National Theatre and the RSC, Hall promoted Shakespeare as a writer who can comment incisively on the modern world. His best productions exemplified this approach: Coriolanus (1959), The Wars of the Roses (1963) and Hamlet (1965) established his reputation as a director able to bring Shakespeare to the heart of contemporary politics. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 240 pages • 6 bw illus HB 9781472587077 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781472587091 Library eBook 9781472587107 Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare
Temporality, Genre and Experience in the Age of Shakespeare Forms of Time
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Shakespeare in the Theatre
Edited by Lauren Shohet, Villanova University, USA Focusing on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, these original essays by leading scholars explore how theatrical, aesthetic, and linguistic forms engage early modern experiences of temporality. Encompassing comedy, tragedy, history, and romance, some contributions consider how different models of pastness, presentness, sequentiality, memory, and historical meaning underwrite particular representational practices. Others, conversely, investigate how aesthetic forms afforded diverse ways for early-modern people to understand or experience time - and how this can impact us today. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 344 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781350126558 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350017290 Individual eBook 9781350017313 Library eBook 9781350017306 The Arden Shakespeare
Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company A Critical History
John Wyver, Independent Scholar, UK No theatre company has been involved in such a broad range of adaptations for television and film as the Royal Shakespeare Company. Drawing on interviews with actors and directors, this is the first book to explore the remarkable history of collaborations between stage and screen and considers key questions about adaptation that concern all those involved in theatre, film and television. Written by John Wyver, a broadcasting historian and the television producer of Hamlet as well as of RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon, the book provides a vivid, detailed and fascinating account of the RSC’s television and film productions. UK June 2019 • US June 2019 • 240 pages • 12 bw illus HB 9781350006584 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350006591 Library eBook 9781350006607 The Arden Shakespeare
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Arden Early Modern Drama Guides Series Editors: Andrew Hiscock, Bangor University, UK & Lisa Hopkins, University of Sheffield Hallam, UK
The Changeling: A Critical Reader
Edited by Mark Hutchings, University of Reading, UK This volume offers an accessible and thoughtprovoking guide to this major Renaissance tragedy, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. It provides a uniquely detailed and up-to-date history of the play’s rich stage performance, while critical essays open up fresh perspectives, including an exploration of the characters’ mechanical psychology, the influence of Spanish literature and its treatment of virginity and rape on the construction of Middleton and Rowley’s plot, and recent theatre-makers’ handling of the play’s dramaturgy. It finishes with a guide to critical, web-based, audio and video resources, discussing the ways in which they can be used in the classroom. UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 288 pages HB 9781350011403 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350011397 Library eBook 9781350011380 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides • The Arden Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing: A Critical Reader
Edited by Deborah Cartmell, De Montfort University, UK & Peter J. Smith, Nottingham Trent University, UK This volume offers an accessible and thoughtprovoking guide to this major Shakespearean comedy, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. It also provides a detailed and up-to-date history of the play’s rich stage and screen performance, looking closely at major contemporary performance. Moving through to four new critical essays, the guide opens up fresh perspectives, including contemporary directors’ deployment of older actors within the lead roles, the play’s relationship to Love’s Labour’s Lost, its presence on Youtube and the ways in which tales and ruses in the play belong to a wider concern with varieties of crime. UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 280 pages PB 9781350126534 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474284370 Individual eBook 9781474284394 Library eBook 9781474284387 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides • The Arden Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra: A Critical Reader
Edited by Domenico Lovascio, University of Genoa, Italy Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's most enduringly popular and intellectually as well as emotionally challenging tragedies. This guide offers students and scholars an introduction to its critical and performance history, including notable stage productions and film versions. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays that chart the play’s wrestling with the cultural iconography of three consequential personalities in Roman history and their role in a pivotal moment in Rome’s transition to empire. UK October 2019 • US October 2019 • 256 pages HB 9781350049901 • £75.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781350049918 Library eBook 9781350049925 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides • The Arden Shakespeare
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