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Gender / Children's Literature / Translation
Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture
Edited by Mary K. Holland, The State University of New York, New Paltz, USA & Heather Hewett, The State University of New York, New Paltz, USA This intersectional guide helps readers, students, teachers, and scholars face and challenge our culture of sexual violence by confronting it through the study of literature. Essays on works from Ovid to Carmen Maria Machado offer clear ways of using our reading, teaching, and critical practices to address rape culture, including rereading and revaluing the work of male writers. It also examines the #MeToo itself, and in uniting diverse voices to enable the movement to reshape literary studies, this book is also a commitment to the idea that the way we read and write about literature can change the world.
UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 432 pages PB 9781501372735 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781501372742 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501372759 • £24.54 / $31.45 ePdf 9781501372766 • £24.54 / $31.45 Bloomsbury Academic
Jane Suzanne Carroll, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
The first book-length study to situate children’s literature within the consumer culture of this period, this text explores the intersection of children’s books, their consumerism and the representation of commodities within British children’s literature. Beginning with the Great Exhibition of 1851 and drawing on texts such as Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There and Five Children & It, and historical documents, shop catalogues, lost property records, and advertisements, Carroll provides fresh critical insight into children’s relationships with material culture and reveals that even the most fantastic texts had roots in the ordinary, everyday things.
UK November 2021 • US November 2021 • 208 pages • 18 bw illus PB 9781350201828 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781350201781 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350201804 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350201798 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature • Bloomsbury Academic
The First Naipaul World Epics
From the Mystic Masseur to an Area of Darkness and Beyond
Edited by J Vijay Maharaj, University of West Indies This book seeks to help the new student of Naipaulian through the quagmire of divergent opinions his personality and his writing have generated. It attempts to make navigation easier in relation to Naipaul’s first seven publications. The selection of essays aims to illustrate the range as well as the depth of the critical field temporally as well as geographically. Critics and readers range from Australia to Eastern Europe and back to more familiar territory in the EuroAmerican academic arena.
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 352 pages HB 9789390358427 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9789390358502 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9789354352652 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic India World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent) Beyond the Haunted House
Edited by Jill E. Anderson, Tennessee State University, USA & Melanie R. Anderson, Delta State University, USA Shirley Jackson and Domesticity takes on American horror writer Shirley Jackson's domestic narratives— those fictionalized in her novels and short stories as well as the ones captured in her memoirs—to explore the extraordinary and often supernatural ways domestic practices and the ecology of the home influence Jackson’s storytelling. Examining various areas of homemaking—child-rearing and reproduction, housekeeping, architecture and spatiality, the housewife mythos— through the theoretical frameworks of gothic, queer, gender, supernatural, humor, and architectural studies, this collection contextualizes Jackson’s archive in a Cold War framework and assesses the impact of the work of a writer seeking to question the status quo of her time and culture.
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 272 pages PB 9781501370014 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501356643 ePub 9781501356650 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501356667 • £83.60 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
This is a Classic
Translators on Making Writers Global
Edited by Regina Galasso, University of Massachusetts, Amherst What does it mean to translate an established or future literary classic, and how is it done by some of today’s most celebrated translators? This is a Classic brings together translators who have created English versions of canonical works from a variety of languages, including Spanish, French, Yiddish, Turkish, Catalan, Greek, Serbian, German, Italian, Icelandic, Russian, Romanian, Portuguese, and Ancient Greek. They offer insights into their processes, challenges, and craft, providing readers with an appreciation of how a classic is shaped by translation, and how translation is essential for a classic’s survival and the creation of original literary works.
UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 208 pages PB 9781501376900 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781501376917 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781501376924 • £19.17 / $24.25 ePdf 9781501376931 • £19.17 / $24.25 Series: Literatures, Cultures, Translation • Bloomsbury Academic
