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

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 240 pages

HB 9781350167018 • £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9781350167032 £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350167025 £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

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

UK December 2023 US December 2023 256 pages

HB 9781350271364 • £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9781350271388 • £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350271371 • £76 50 / $103 94

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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

HB 9781350195479 • £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9781350195493 • £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350195486 • £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

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

HB 9781501394508 £75 00 / $100 00 ePub 9781501394515 • £75 26 / $90 00 ePdf 9781501394522 • £75 26 / $90 00

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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.

• US November 2023

UK November 2023

PB 9781501385520

• £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781501385483 ePub 9781501385490 ePdf 9781501385506

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• £90 15 / $108 00

• £90 15 / $108 00

• 296 pages

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

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 320 pages • 3 bw illus

PB 9781350296145 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350168398 ePub 9781350168404 • £72 00 / $98 54 ePdf 9781350168411 • £72 00 / $98 54

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

PB 9781350328617 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350055490 ePub 9781350055506 • £72 00 / $98 54 ePdf 9781350055513 • £72 00 / $98 54

The Arden Shakespeare

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

Special introductory price (valid up to 3 months after publication): £675 / $909

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