Literary Studies New Books Oct-Dec 2023

Literary Studies New Books

October-December 2023

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The Power of Comics and Graphic Novels Culture, Form, and Context

Randy Duncan, Henderson State University, USA, Matthew J. Smith, Wittenberg University, USA & Paul Levitz

The most authoritative introduction to studying comic books available, covering the evolution of the medium, its forms and manifestations, its place in contemporary culture and context and analysis This edition has been restructured around four parts, and includes new content on the role of women, LGBTQ+ and BIPOC creators and scholars, as well as emerging genres and writing about comics Online resources, discussion points, activities and a glossary support students’ learning

UK October 2023 • US October 2023

PB 9781350253902

• £24 99 / $34 95

ePub 9781350253926

ePdf 9781350253919

Bloomsbury Academic

World English

• 384 pages • 150 bw illus

• HB 9781350253896 • £75 00 / $100 00

• £22 49 / $31 04

• £22 49 / $31 04

The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature

Paul Tenngart, Lund University, Sweden

Few would deny that the Nobel Prize is the most prestigious literary award in the world But what mechanisms made it possible for 18 Swedish intellectuals to become the world’s most influential literary critics? This book argues that the prize sometimes reinforces the hierarchical relations between literary languages and cultures and sometimes disturbs the established pattern of dominance Exploring the history and impact of the prize in literature from the first award through recent controversies – Bob Dylan and #MeToo – it shows that the Nobel Prize is a performative act central in our continual and collective construction of world literature

UK November 2023 US November 2023 256 pages

HB 9781501382123 £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781501382130

ePdf 9781501382147

Bloomsbury Academic

Literatures as World Literature

Thomas Oliver Beebee, Penn State University, USA

Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature

Edited by James Hodapp, Northwestern University, Qatar

Building upon the little extant scholarship on graphic narratives from the Global South, this collection moves beyond a Western approach to this quickly expanding field. By focussing on graphic novels and comics from the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia, these essays expand the study of graphic narratives to a global scale Contributors also explore how these graphic texts engage with, fit in with or complicate notions of World Literature, such as translation, commodification, circulation and Orientalism. The larger theoretical framework of World Literature is joined with the postcolonial, decolonial, Global South and similar approaches that argue explicitly or implicitly for the viability of non-Western graphic narratives on their own terms

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 304 pages • 68 bw illus

PB 9781501373404 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501373411

ePub 9781501373428 £97 59 / $117 00

ePdf 9781501373435 • £97 59 / $117 00

Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Central American Literatures as World Literature

Edited by Sophie Esch, Rice University, USA

• £90 15 / $108 00

• £90 15 / $108 00

Mahakavi K. V. Simon

The Milton of the East Varghese Mathai, Judson University, USA

When South Indian poet laureate (or mahakavi) K V Simon's 12,000-line epic Vedaviharam, a poetic rendition of The Book of Genesis, appeared in the Malayalam language of the Malabar coast in 1934, reviews in The Guardian hailed the 34-year old Simon as “India’s Milton ” Like Milton, Simon was a polymath, a poet, a theologian, and an educator Like Milton, he also wrote prose and verse with equal ease, swiftness, and gravity . This book offers a critical biography, study, and sample translations of the epic, along with Simon's hymns, didactic verse, narratives, and other writings

UK October 2023

• US October 2023

HB 9781501388491

• £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781501388507

ePdf 9781501388514

Bloomsbury Academic

• 256 pages

• £90 15 / $108 00

• £90 15 / $108 00

• 10 bw illus

Both within Latin American literary and world literary production, Central American literature is often perceived as a marginal space This collection seeks to challenge this notion and to position and discuss Central American literature within the recently revived debates on world literature Its authors discuss poems, testimonios, novels, and short stories in relation to center-periphery, cosmopolitan, and Internationalist paradigms They explore the multiple ways in which Central American literature goes beyond or against the confines of the nation-state, especially through the indigenous, Black, and migrant voices

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 288 pages

HB 9781501391873 • £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781501391880 • £90 15 / $108 00

ePdf 9781501391897 • £90 15 / $108 00

Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Modern Chinese Literature in Translation

Edited by Cosima Bruno, Lucas Klein & Chris Song

Providing the first systematic overview of modern and contemporary Chinese literature from a translation studies perspective, this handbook provides students, researchers and teachers with a context in which to read and appreciate the effects of linguistic and cultural transfer in Chinese literary works It provides new tools for reading and appreciating modern and contemporary Chinese literature in the global context of its translation and offers in-depth studies about eminent Chinese authors and their literary masterpieces in translation

UK

Chekhov’s Sakhalin Journey Doctor, Humanitarian, Author

Jonathan Cole, Bournemouth University, UK

Chekhov often said that ‘I am a doctor by trade and sometimes I do literary work in my free time ’ This literary-biographical study uses Chekhov's trip to Sakhalin Island in the harsh wastes of Siberia to uncover new sides to him, as both a medical professional and humanitarian

Chekhov's life was dominated by humanitarian action, and his medical outlook informed his philosophical and literary development

By foregrounding these hitherto overlooked aspects of his life, Chekhov's Sakhalin Journey suggests that to understand the man we need his medicine as well as his literature, and to assess his life from his perspective as well as ours

UK December 2023 US December 2023 256 pages

PB 9781350367517 £19 99 / $26 95 HB 9781350367500 £65 00 / $90 00

ePdf 9781350367487 • £17 99 / $24 29

Bloomsbury Academic

Form, Affect and Debt in PostCeltic Tiger Irish Fiction

Ireland in Crisis

Eoin Flannery, University of Limerick, Ireland

Based on readings of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary Irish writing, this book explores how these authors have engaged with the events of Ireland’s recent economic ‘boom’ and the demise of the Celtic Tiger period, and how they have portrayed the widespread and variated aftermaths Drawing upon economic literary criticism, affect theory, and the philosophy of debt, this book probes issues such as: indebtedness; temporality and narrative form; the relevance of affect theory to understanding Irish culture and society during austerity; ecocriticism and late capitalism; and the relationship between literary fiction and the mechanics of high finance.

UK November 2023 US November 2023 256 pages

PB 9781350302204 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350166745

ePub 9781350166769 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350166752 • £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic

Representing Social Precarity in German Literature and Film

Edited by Sophie Duvernoy, Yale University, USA, Karsten Olson, North Carolina Asheville, USA & Ulrich Plass, Wesleyan University, USA

Since 2000, much attention has been paid to the increase in social precarity in Europe and the US Phenomena of precarization (underemployment, indebtedness, deaths of despair) tend to be causally linked to the rise of neoliberalism as a strategy of governance that redistributes risk to the already vulnerable This volume broadens the scope beyond this narrow definition of precarity, using Germany as a national case study, to examine the historical genesis of precarity, its evolution from 19th-century industrial modernity to the present, and its reflections and reconfigurations in artistic production, in particular with relation to work, gender, and sexuality

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 304 pages • 49 b&w images

HB 9781501391477 • £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781501391484 • £90 15 / $108 00

ePdf 9781501391491 • £90 15 / $108 00

Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

Writing, Authorship and Photography in British Literary Culture, 1880 - 1920

Capturing the Image

Emily Ennis, University of Leeds, UK

At the turn of the 20th century, printing and photographic technologies evolved rapidly, leading to rise of mass media and the amateur photographer Demonstrating how this development happened symbiotically with great changes in the shape of British literature, this book explores this co-evolution, showing that as both writing and photography became tools of mass dissemination, literary writers were forced to re-evaluate their professional and personal identities Focusing on Thomas Hardy, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad, and Virginia Woolf—each of which had their own private and professional connections to photographs— Emily Ennis offers valuable historical contexts for contemporary cultural developments and anxieties

UK October 2023 US October 2023 232 pages 7 bw illus

PB 9781350196254 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350196186

ePub 9781350196209 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350196193 • £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic

The Works of Graham Greene, Volume 3

Additions & Essays

Edited by Mike Hill, Editor, A Sort of Newsletter, UK & Jon Wise, independent scholar

Over a 60-year career, Graham Greene was a prolific and widely read writer. Completing a series of volumes which constitutes the only full bibliographical guide to Greene's published and unpublished writings, this book features updated listings of the scholarship associated with his work, details of recent audio and visual presentations and adaptations, as well as nine essays on lesser-known aspects of Greene's work

UK November 2023 US November 2023 188 pages

PB 9781350285774 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350285736

ePub 9781350285750

ePdf 9781350285743

Bloomsbury Academic

• £81 00 / $110 69

• £81 00 / $110 69

Alice Munro's Late Style 'Writing is the Final Thing'

Robert Thacker, St. Lawrence University, USA

Alice Munro has effectively reshaped the short story as a form This book focuses on Munro’s art - an art that Robert McGill has called “one of return and revision " Such an approach has been evident throughout her career but reached an apogee in her last three books, The View from Castle Rock (2006), Too Much Happiness (2009) and, especially, Dear Life (2012) These three last books serve as a coda to both Munro’s late style and to her entire career as arguably one of the finest short story writers.

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 232 pages

HB 9781350270381 • £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781350270404 • £81 00 / $110 69

ePdf 9781350270398 £81 00 / $110 69 Bloomsbury Academic

The Economy of Religion in American Literature Culture and the Politics of Redemption

Andrew Ball

This book offers a thoroughgoing reassessment of the relationship of religion and economics in American culture Its guiding questions include: Are we truly living in a secular age? How did a Christian nation come to embrace capitalism? What role did religion play in the conflict of capital and labor in fin de siècle America? How are we to understand the status of religion in contemporary American culture? What light can the literary archive shed on the relationship of religion and economics?

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 272 pages

PB 9781350231702 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350231672

ePub 9781350231689 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350233997 £76 50 / $103 94

Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature

Bloomsbury Academic

The Politics of Literary Prestige Prizes and Spanish American Literature

Sarah E.L. Bowskill, Queen's University Belfast, UK

Taking into account national and international politics and networks of prestige, this book analyses the relationship between literary prizes, politics and the reception of literature from Spanish America Covering state-sponsored and publisher-run prizes and major awards such as the Biblioteca Breve Prize, the Premio Cervantes and the Nobel Prize, this book examines how prizes have shaped what we know about Spanish American literature The author draws on a range of sources – including speeches and interviews by winning authors, judges' statements and prize rules and regulations – to reveal the roles prizes have played in Spanish American politics as well as in the formation of the Spanish American cultural field.

UK November 2023

PB 9781501376030

• US November 2023

• £28 99 / $39 95

• 224 pages

Previously published in HB 9781501350771

ePub 9781501350788

ePdf 9781501350795

Bloomsbury Academic

• £90 15 / $108 00

• £90 15 / $108 00

Hyperbolic Realism

A Wild Reading of Pynchon's and Bolaño's Late Maximalist Fiction

Samir Sellami, Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Germany

What comes after postmodernism in literature?

Hyperbolic Realism engages the contradiction that while it remains impossible to present a full picture of the world, assessing reality from a planetary perspective seems now more than ever an ethical obligation for contemporary literature It examines the hyperbolic forms and features of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Roberto Bolaño's 2666 – their discursive and material abundance, excessive fictionality, close intertwining of fantastic and historical genres, narrative doubt and spiraling uncertainty – which are deployed not as an escape from, but a plunge into reality

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 240 pages

HB 9781501360497

• £80 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781501360503 £90 15 / $108 00

ePdf 9781501360510 £90 15 / $108 00

Bloomsbury Academic

Antisemitism and Racism Ethical Challenges for Psychoanalysis

Stephen Frosh, Department of Psychosocial Studies, London

Antisemitism and Racism provides both an introduction to the study of racism in the history of psychoanalysis as well as a psychoanalyticallyinformed examination of the relations between antisemitism and antiblack racism Frosh's starting point is a claim that the Jewish origins and implications of psychoanalysis fuel its capacity to interrogate racism of all kinds Indeed, the shared experience of exposure to different kinds of racism raises prospects for renewed alliances between Jewish and Black communities At a time when division and prejudice are on the rise to an alarming degree, it is imperative that we examine, understand, and discuss the psychological roots of racism

UK August 2023 US August 2023 208 pages

PB 9798765104705 £17 99 / $24 95 HB 9798765104712 £60 00 / $80 00

ePub 9798765104729 £19 02 / $22 45

ePdf 9798765104736 • £19 02 / $22 45

Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons • Bloomsbury Academic

The Origins of Nostalgia Memories and Reflections

Svetlana Boym, Harvard University, USA

Edited by Ron Roberts, Kingston University, London, UK

This collection of previously unpublished autobiographical and semi-autobiographical “snippets of experience” written by Svetlana Boym in the final period of her life capture her penchant for seamlessly melding, poetically and dream-like, the intensively personal with the everyday and the world-historical They illuminate the formative conditions for the thinking which she was to develop into her majestic work on nostalgia. Importantly, these pieces fill in gaps in understanding the genesis and outlook of her take on the world

UK November 2023

• US November 2023 • 168 pages

PB 9781501389979 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501389931

ePub 9781501389948 £75 26 / $90 00

ePdf 9781501389955 £75 26 / $90 00

Bloomsbury Academic

Alchemies of Blood and AfroDiasporic Fiction

Race, Kinship, and the Passion for Ontology

Nicole Simek, Whitman College, USA

Alchemies of Blood and Afro-Diasporic Fiction focuses on the resurgence of biological racism in 21st-century public discourse, the ontological and material turns in the academy that have occurred over the same time period, and how Afro-diasporic fiction has responded to both with alternative visions of bloodlines, kinship, and community In thinking through conceptions of race, ethnicity, and materiality at work within both humanities research and popular culture, Nicole Simek asks how the figure of alchemy can help scholars address the epistemological and affective investments in blood, bloodlines, and genetics marking both academic and mainstream discourses

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 208 pages

HB 9781501377655 • £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781501377662 • £90 15 / $108 00

ePdf 9781501377679 • £90 15 / $108 00

Bloomsbury Academic

The Ego Made Manifest

Max Stirner, Egoism, and the

Modern Manifesto

Wayne Bradshaw, Research Associate, James Cook University, Australia,

Though long regarded as an unimportant figure from the fringes of 19th-century German idealism, this book argues that many of the accepted truisms about Max Stirner and his reception are false, and that his contribution to modernist and avant-garde manifesto-writing traditions has been all but ignored It documents the trajectory of Stirner’s reception from the mid-19th century to his rediscovery by readers almost 50 years later, from his popularity among manifesto writers in fin de siècle France to the birth of Italian Futurism and how, in an age of extremism, Stirner’s ideas continue to haunt the modern mind

UK October 2023 US October 2023 224 pages

HB 9798765102565 • £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9798765102589 • £90 15 / $108 00

ePdf 9798765102596 • £90 15 / $108 00

Bloomsbury Academic

Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism

Paul Ardoin, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA, S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA & Laci Mattison, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA

Understanding Bakhtin, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Philippe Birgy,

Jean Jaurès, France

Université de Toulouse

This edited volume explores the subject of modernism as seen through the lens of Bakhtinian criticism, and in doing so offers a rounded and up-to-date example of the application of Bakhtinian theory to a field of research. The contributors consider the global spread of modernism and the variety of its manifestations as well as modernism’s relationship to popular culture and its collective elaboration, which are dominant concerns in Bakhtin’s thinking

UK November 2023

HB 9781501381645

• US November 2023

• £95 00 / $130 00

ePub 9781501381652

ePdf 9781501381669

• £97 59 / $117 00

• £97 59 / $117 00

• 304 pages

Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism

• Bloomsbury Academic

Understanding Cavell, Understanding Modernism

Edited by Paola Marrati, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Stanley Cavell has written extensively on modernist art However, Cavell’s importance for understanding modernism is not exhausted by his interest in modernist art and literature. Equally significant, and perhaps even more original, is his understanding of ordinary language philosophy as a modernist enterprise in its own terms This volume features introductory essays on Cavell’s most important works, delves into more specific aspects and problems pertaining to Cavell’s aesthetics and its moral and political implications, and includes an extended glossary of Cavell’s key words and concepts

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 272 pages

HB 9781501313639

• £80 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781501313646

ePdf 9781501313653

• £90 15 / $108 00

• £90 15 / $108 00

Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

Historicizing Modernism

Modernist Authorship and Transatlantic Periodical Culture

1895–1925

Amanda Sigler, Baylor University, USA

This book unearths the forgotten stories behind the texts we think we know well, using new evidence to examine the collaborative, consumer-oriented Modernism that developed out of periodicals

Sigler traces the serialization and advertisement of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw in Collier’s (1898), Rudyard Kipling’s Kim in McClure’s and Cassell’s (1900-1901), James Joyce’s Ulysses in the Little Review (1918-1920), and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street in The Dial (1923) Using previously unpublished material and long-buried editorial correspondence, she sheds light on the role that compromise and chance played in the emergence of Modernism

• US October 2023

UK October 2023

PB 9781350235441 • £28 99 / $39 95

• 280 pages • 20 bw illus

Previously published in HB 9781350235403

ePub 9781350235427 £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350235410 £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds

Edited

by Simon Bacon

Examining fictional purgatorial worlds in contemporary literature, film and video games, this book examines the way in which the female characters trapped within them construct identity positions of resistance and change

Featuring essays from a broad range of international contributors on topics as wide-ranging as mental health in the Silent Hill franchise and liminal spaces in the work of David Mitchell, this book is an original, timely and hope-filled analysis about overcoming the confines of a patriarchal, fundamentalist world where the female imaginative might just be the last, best hope

UK September 2023

• US September 2023

HB 9781350227033 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350227057

• £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350227040 • £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic

James Joyce and Photography

Georgina Binnie-Wright, Independent Scholar

James Joyce and Photography is the first book to explore in-depth James Joyce’s engagement with the art of photography Photography is evident throughout Joyce’s texts, from his narrator’s furtive photographic framing in Silhouettes (c. 1897), to the aggressively-minded snapshots captured by the ‘Tulloch-Turnbull girl with her coldblood kodak’ in Finnegans Wake Through an exploration of Joyce’s manuscripts and photographic and newspaper archival material, as well as the full range of Joyce’s major works, this book sheds new light on his relationship with the visual medium, both in a personal capacity and as a means of professional promotion

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 224 pages

PB 9781350328709 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350136960

ePub 9781350136984 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350136977 £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Historicizing Modernism Bloomsbury Academic

Victorian Dress in Contemporary Historical Fiction Materiality, Agency and Narrative

Danielle Mariann Dove, University of Surrey, UK

The first full-length study of neo-Victorian fiction through the lens of dress, fashion, and im/materiality, this book traces the imaginative and narrative extensions of Victorian women’s clothing in contemporary historical fiction. Interrogating how and why material forms of dress manifest themselves through tropes of immateriality, of haunting and spectrality, Danielle Dove explores the way in which fictional renderings of 19th-century clothes permit modern-day readers a way of accessing past bodies The book demonstrates that the uncanny agency that exudes from these articles of dress testifies to the contemporary desire to reconnect with the Victorian past

UK October 2023 US October 2023 240 pages 8 bw illus

• 256 pages

Neo-Victorianism, Empathy and Reading

Muren Zhang, East China Normal University, China

Calling upon the writings of Margaret Atwood, Julian Barnes, Graeme Macrae Burnet and Sarah Waters this book examines the ethics of the text-reader relationship in neo-Victorian literature, focusing upon the role played by empathy in this engagement Bringing together recent cultural and theoretical research on narrative temporality, empathy and affect, Muren Zhang presents neo-Victorian literature as a genre defined by its experimentation with ‘empathetic narrative’. Zhang argues that such literature pushes the reader to critically reflect upon their reading expectations, strategies, and their wider ethical responsibilities

UK October 2023

• US October 2023

PB 9781350297203

• £28 99 / $39 95

• 216 pages • 3 bw illus

Previously published in HB 9781350135598

ePub 9781350135611

ePdf 9781350135604

Bloomsbury Academic

• £76 50 / $103 94

• £76 50 / $103 94

HB 9781350294684 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350294707 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350294691 • £76 50 / $103 94

Bloomsbury Academic

David Tucker, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, Matthew Feldman, University of York, UK & Erik Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway

Contemporary Literature and the Body A Critical Introduction

Edited by Alice Hall

Surveying the history of criticism about literature and the body, this introduction also charts trends and examines new theoretical developments in literary criticism and provides an entry point into the medical humanities, studies of affect, ageing, ecocriticism, and digital humanities The book offers an intersectional approach to understanding identity and bodily experience and draws on a range of forms of writing from different geographical areas and disciplines, including poetry, novels, blogs, memoirs, political activism and scientific case studies.

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 256 pages

PB 9781350180154 • £19 99 / $26 95 • HB 9781350180161 • £65 00 / $90 00

ePub 9781350180178 • £17 99 / $24 29

ePdf 9781350180222 £17 99 / $24 29

Bloomsbury Academic

Twins and Recursion in Digital, Literary and Visual Cultures

Edward King, University of Bristol, UK

In this study, Edward King demonstrates how twins are a means of exploring the social implications of hyper-connectivity and the compromising relationship between humans and digital information, their environment and their genetics

Drawing upon the literary and filmic works of Ken Follet, Edgar Allan Poe, H P Lovecraft, Brian de Palma, David Cronenberg, and science fiction literature and television series Orphan Black, King illuminates how twins are employed across a range of disciplines to envision a critical re-conception of the human in times of digital integration and ecological crisis

UK December 2023 US December 2023 232 pages

PB 9781350323070 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350169159

ePub 9781350169173 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350169166 • £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Explorations in Science and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics

Daniel Katz, University of Warwick, UK

Literature and Race in the Democracy of Goods

Reading Contemporary Black and Asian North American Poetry

Christopher Chen, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA

Providing a comparative study of post-1960 Asian American, Asian Canadian and black experimental poetry, this book examines the intersection between race and capitalism through the works of poets including: Myung Mi Kim, Nathaniel Macket, Larissa Lai and Erica Hunt

Challenging conventional understandings of North American racial formation, it explores experimental poetry's understanding of race as a range of relational configurations of subjects within racial groups and across racial divisions

• US October 2023

UK October 2023

PB 9781350278806

• £28 99 / $39 95

Medical Humanities and Disability Studies

In/Disciplines

Stuart Murray

Medical humanities and disability studies are disciplines at the cutting edge of innovative critical work in the study of health and disability, but to date there has been no book-length examination of the relationship between the two Aimed at a wide audience in both Medical Humanities and Disability Studies, and across new humanities more widely, this book presents a series of provocations about how they interact, the forms their practice take, and their strengths and weaknesses as working methods

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 144 pages

PB 9781350172173 • £14 99 / $19 95 • HB 9781350172180 • £45 00 / $61 00

ePub 9781350172197 • £13 49 / $18 89

ePdf 9781350172166 • £13 49 / $18 89

Series: Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities Bloomsbury Academic

Rereading Empathy

Edited by Emily Johansen, Texas A&M University, USA & Alissa G. Karl, SUNY Brockport, USA

If we all had more skill with empathy, so the claim goes, we would all be better citizens But what does it mean to empathize with others? How do we develop this skill? And what does it offer that older models of solidarity don’t?

Rereading Empathy takes up these questions, examining the uses to which calls for empathy are put in the face of ever expanding economic and social precarity The contributors draw on a variety of historical and contemporary literary and cultural archives to illustrate the work that empathy is supposed to enable—and to query alternative models of building collective futures

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 192 pages

PB 9781501376894 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501376856

ePub 9781501376863 £90 15 / $108 00

ePdf 9781501376870 £90 15 / $108 00

Bloomsbury Academic

Radical Elegies

White Violence, Patriarchy, and Necropoetics

Eleanor Perry

Through in-depth close readings of elegies by Black women, trans* women, and non-binary writers, this book foregrounds forms of poetic knowledge and poetic practices that trouble - or work against - the ideals, values, standards and forms of knowledge embodied by the ‘English’ elegy so often privileged within canonical tradition In doing so, it offers a challenge to the ways in which we currently read elegy, unearthing possibilities for revising our understanding of the elegiac tradition

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 208 pages

PB 9781350236103 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350236066

ePub 9781350236080 £76 50 / $103 94

• 232 pages

Previously published in HB 9781350164000

ePub 9781350164024

• £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350164017 £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics Bloomsbury Academic

ePdf 9781350236073 • £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics • Bloomsbury Academic

The Epic Poetry of Mazisi Kunene

African Literature, Aesthetic, and Transatlantic Formulation

Dike Okoro, Harris Stowe State University, USA

Dike Okoro illuminates the penetrating insights found in Africa’s foremost epic poet, Mazisi Kunene's poetry and the reasons why his art has been considered as masterpieces grounded in geography, history, and culture He situates Kunene as a theorist who embraces African tradition – including his use of Zulu praise poetry – and the role of the artist as a chronicler of his people’s history, committed to art as a catalyst for change These essays and interviews address the post-apartheid reality of South Africa, demonstrate Kunene’s profound influence on and in world literature, and argue that Kunene's poetry is important as a form of activism and a political tool to the African creative writer

• US December 2023

UK December 2023

HB 9781501398896

• £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781501398902

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Environmental Cultures

Rhythm in Modern Poetry An Essay in Cognitive Versification Studies

Eva Lilja, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (emerita)

Investigating a previously neglected area of study, Rhythm in Modern Poetry establishes a foundation for cognitive versification studies with a focus on modern free verse Following in the tradition of cognitive poetics by Reuven Tsur, Richard Cureton and Derek Attridge, every chapter investigates the rhythms of one modern poem, by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Sylvia Plath and others, and engages each element in the broader interpretation of the poem in question

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Richard Kerridge, Bath Spa University, UK & Greg Garrard, University of British Columbia, Canada

New Forms of Environmental Writing

Gleaning and Fragmentation

Timothy C. Baker, University of Aberdeen, UK

Exploring a variety of environmental concerns and surveying a wide range of contemporary poetry, fiction, and memoir by women writers, this book argues for the centrality of individual encounter and fragmentary form in twenty-first-century literature.

Proposing an exciting new theoretical model of 'gleaning' and including analyses of works by both familiar and emerging writers such as Sara Baume, Ali Smith, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Bhanu Kapil, Kathleen Jamie, and many others, this book also draws on theoretical perspectives such as ecofeminism, new materialism, posthumanism, and affect theory

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Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty Narrating Unstable Futures

Marco Caracciolo

In all, this book represents a serious contribution to the environmental humanities that brings a flexible formal approach to bear on central questions of our time Its commentary on contemporary works of prose and digital narrative is an aid for navigating climate uncertainty and appreciating the more-than-human scale—but also the tragic ramifications—of the ecological crisis

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The European Research Council and the University of Ghent.

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Cultures

Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature

Lisa Sainsbury, University of Roehampton, UK

The Dark Matter of Children’s 'Fantastika' Literature

Speculative Entanglements

Chloe Germaine, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Following the ‘material turn’ in the humanities, this book brings perspectives from science and ecology into dialogue with children’s fiction written and published in the UK and the USA in the twenty-first century. It develops the concept of ‘entanglement’, which originated in twentieth-century quantum physics but has been applied to cultural critique, through a reading of Fantastika literature In doing so, it helps us to imagine an as-yetunrealised future that addresses the problems of our present

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Sexuality and Gender in Fictions of Espionage

Spying Undercover(s)

Edited by Ann Rea, University of Pittsburg at Johnstown, USA

A re-evaluation of spy fiction that sheds light on how espionage narratives give access to cultural conceptions of gender and sexuality in the period preceding and following WWII, this book moves away from masculinist assumptions of the genre, offering an integrative survey of the sexualities on display from important characters across the canon Taking stock of spy fiction written by women, female protagonists written by men, and probing the representations of masculinity generated by male authors, this book analyses novels by Ian Fleming, John Le Carré, Helen MacInnes, Nancy Mitford, Christopher Isherwood and Mick Herron

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British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses

Catherine Butler, Cardiff University, UK

The first comprehensive study to explore the engagement of the Japanese with British children's literature, this considers its many manifestations in print, on the screen, in tourist locations and throughout Japanese popular culture. Taking stock of influence of literary works such as Gulliver's Travels, Alice in Wonderland, Tom's Midnight Garden, the Harry Potter series, the imagery of Thomas the Tank Engine and the characters of Beatrix Potter, this lively account draws on literary criticism, translation, film and tourist studies to explore how British children’s books have been selected, translated, understood, adapted and reworked into Japanese commercial, touristic and imaginative culture

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 224 pages • 30 bw illus

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Redemptive Hybridism in PostPostmodern Writing

Tasha Haines, Independent Scholar, New Zealand

Tasha Haines investigates and defines Redemptive Hybridism in post-postmodern writing – a paradigmatic shift characterized by possibility In textual production of the 21st century, Haines argues, postmodern elitism gives way to the reparative blending of high-low forms and genre collaborations Combining an innovative investigation with auto-theoretical strategies, Haines offers new interpretations of texts belonging to ‘the modernisms continuum’ – from Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace and beyond She responds to the hybrid-and-creative theories of Deleuze and Guattari, Hassan and others, arriving at a new way of viewing works that exemplify the liminal space of possibility, self-expression and genre blending

UK October 2023 US October 2023 192 pages

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Realism: Aesthetics, Experiments, Politics

Edited by Jens Elze, Georg-August-University

Göttingen, Germany

This volume brings together for the first time three aspects that are pertinent for a proper understanding of realism: its 19th-century aesthetic practice of making reality into an object of serious art; the experiments with and against realism by 20th-century modernist, postmodernist, or magical realist writing; and the politics of contemporary realism Innovative chapters deal with classically realist authors (George Eliot, Émile Zola), experimental engagements with realism (J M Coetzee, Rachel Cusk) and contemporary global novels (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Rohinton Mistry) The readings assembled here are a testament to the ongoing controversies surrounding definitions and deployments of the genre.

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Shakespeare on Prejudice 'Scorns and Mislike' in Shakespeare's Plays

B. J. Sokol, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

How are various forms of prejudice portrayed in the works of Shakespeare and to what extent does Shakespeare differ from his contemporaries in their portrayal? What can we learn about Shakespeare's times and our own through a close reading of prejudice depicted in his plays? Through detailed analysis of his plays, comparison with the works of other Elizabethan writers and a consideration of Shakespeare's social environment, the study provides an appreciation of how Shakespeare represents prejudice against education, the arts, peace, ‘strangers’ or outsiders, and sexual love

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The Arden Shakespeare

The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare’s World Nathalie

Vienne-Guerrin, University of Montpellier III Paul Valery, France

Exploring the complexity of Shakespearean insult, this book offers a rich analysis that shows how the playwright set abusive words at the heart of many of his plays Focusing on the most memorable scenes of insult, abusive characters and insulting effects in the plays, this volume shifts how readers understand and read Shakespeare’s insults Offering a theoretical panorama that allows the reader to grasp insult as a specific speech act, the volume explores the issues of verbal violence and verbal shields, and the importance of reception and interpretation in matters of insult

UK December 2023 • US December 2023 • 336 pages

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The Bible and Literature

Edited by Stephen Prickett, Duke University, USA and Elisabeth Jay, Oxford Brookes University, UK

This 1 5 million word resource in 5 volumes provides researchers with an authoritative survey of the impact and influence of the bible upon the development of literature, charting this relationship from the classical period to the modern day

Each volume is edited by a leading specialist in the period, and begins with a set of introductory materials including a chapter on how the biblical text is mediated in the given period Ten thematic essays then introduce the key thinkers, works, events and themes of the period Extracts from primary materials are then presented with specialist commentary showing how these texts interact with the bible itself

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