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 Dalloway in Bond Street in The Dial (1923) Using previously unpublished material and long-buried editorial correspondence, she sheds light on the role that compromise and chance played in the emergence of Modernism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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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• 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 ePdf 9781501398919

• 240 pages

• £90 15 / $108 00

• £90 15 / $108 00

Series: Black Literary and Cultural Expressions Bloomsbury Academic

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

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 208 pages

HB 9798765100967 • £90 00 / $120 00 ePub 9798765100981 • £90 15 / $108 00 ePdf 9798765100998 • £90 15 / $108 00

Series: Cognition, Poetics, and the Arts • Bloomsbury Academic

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

UK December 2023

• US December 2023 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350271357 • £28 99 / $39 95

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• £76 50 / $103 94

• £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Environmental Cultures Bloomsbury Academic

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.

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 232 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350233935 • £28 99 / $39 95

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Series: Environmental Cultures Bloomsbury Academic