British, Irish & European Literature

Edited by Charlotte Crofts, University of West England, UK & Marie Mulvey-Roberts, University of West England, UK Representing a shift in Angela Carter studies for the 21st century, this book critically explores her legacy and showcases the current state of Carter scholarship. Focusing on the lesser-known collection Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces, Edmund Gordon’s 2016 biography and Natsumi Ikoma’s translation of Sozo Araki’s Japanese memoirs of Carter, this text offers new insights into the author's pyrotechnic creativity, pays tribute to her incendiary imagination in a reappraisal of her work, and explores the highly constructed artifice present in her writing.

UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 256 pages HB 9781350182721 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350182745 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350182738 • £76.50 / $100.32 Bloomsbury Academic Michael Lackey, University of Minnesota, USA Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, and it has become a dominant literary form over the last 35 years. Not yet scholarly acknowledged is that the Irish played a crucial role in its evolution. Michael Lackey first examines Oscar Wilde and George Moore's groundbreaking biofictions of the late-19th and early-20th centuries and then contemporary authors of biofiction (Sabina Murray, Mario Vargas Llosa, Graham Shelby, and Anne Enright) who use the lives of prominent Irish figures (Roger Casement and Eliza Lynch) to explore the challenges of securing agency within a colonial and patriarchal context.

UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 256 pages HB 9781501378478 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501378485 • £83.60 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501378492 • £83.60 / $108.00 Series: Biofiction Studies • Bloomsbury Academic

War, Nation and Europe in the Novels of Storm Jameson

Katherine Cooper, University of East Anglia, UK The novels of Storm Jameson and their depictions of Britain’s relationship to Europe around the Second World War represent a crucial departure from the work of her contemporaries. Presenting previously unpublished archival material, this book examines Storm Jameson’s work as an ambassador for British writers during a time of national upheaval, revealing how the novelist’s pacifism and evolving attitudes to war and peace were underpinned by her overarching vision for the post-war world. Drawing comparisons to the works of Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene and others, this study shows how Jameson’s novels reshape how we view the literary history of the period.

UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 200 pages PB 9781350243200 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350094437 ePub 9781350094451 • £72.00 / $95.11 ePdf 9781350094444 • £72.00 / $95.11 Bloomsbury Academic

Re-storying Mediterranean Worlds

New Narratives from Italian Cultures to Global Citizenship

Edited by Angela Biancofiore, Paul-Valéry University of Montpellier, France & Clément Barniaudy, University of Montpellier, France This book invites readers to think of Mediterranean cultures as interconnected worlds that disappear, are reborn and perpetually transform. This perspective builds bridges between the Northern and Southern coasts to broaden and deepen our understanding of the region, at the cultural, literary, artistic and geopolitical levels. Authors highlight an intercultural conscience, traversing the Mediterranean – including Italian, French and Tunisian cultures, and migrations from, to and within the region – and express the need to shift the ways we think about migration.

UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 240 pages HB 9781501378935 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781501378942 • £76.69 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501378959 • £76.69 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic

Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond

Flirtation, Passive Aggression, Domestic Violence

Barbara N. Nagel, Princeton University, USA Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond 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. The analyses collected in this book show the deep literary history of our current cultural predicaments and predilections.

UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 176 pages PB 9781501381454 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501352713 ePub 9781501352720 • £27.60 / $35.95 ePdf 9781501352737 • £27.60 / $35.95 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic