Literary Studies Catalogue 2013

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Letter from the Editors

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Introductory Literary Studies

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Literary Theory

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Contemporary Literature

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Modernism 17 Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Literature

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Classical Literature

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British and Irish Literature

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North and South American Literature

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European Literature

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Comparative Literature

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Genre Studies

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Welcome to Bloomsbury Literary Studies Incorporating Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare Welcome to the new Bloomsbury Literary Studies catalogue, now also including The Arden Shakespeare and Methuen Drama. As you will have noticed, for the first time this catalogue is coming out under the Bloomsbury name instead of the separate Continuum and Bloomsbury Academic imprints. We wanted to give you some background to this rebranding. In 2008, Bloomsbury decided to invest in building a new academic division. Growth since that decision was taken has been very rapid: we now publish around 1,100 titles each year, with a particularly big presence in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and our backlist comprises some 20,000 titles. The purchase of Continuum in 2011 was a key part of this growth.

We believe we are stronger as a group, which is why we have taken the strategic decision to adopt the Bloomsbury name for all academic titles that we publish. With effect from 1st September 2012, all new Continuum titles will be published under the Bloomsbury brand, although we will be retaining the Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare imprints given the rich history of publishing excellence associated with these names. This will make it easier for you to find quality publishing in literary studies, rather than navigating across a number of imprints.

The values of Continuum, Bloomsbury Academic, The Arden Shakespeare and other imprints which you have appreciated over the years are already integral to the larger entity that is Bloomsbury. Much has changed over the past 12 months, but we remain as committed to our authors and to publishing the same high quality textbooks, course books, primary texts, research monographs, reference works, professional and general interest books, journals and online resources.

PUBLISHING IN PRINT AND DIGITAL

Bloomsbury leads the way in digital publishing, for example with the launch of Drama Online in spring 2013 (p.53).

Featuring the pre-eminent drama titles from the Methuen Drama, The Arden Shakespeare and Faber and Faber lists it will form a collection of the most studied, performed and critically acclaimed plays from the last two and half thousand years. In addition, expert student guidance in the form of scholarly notes, annotated texts, critical analysis and contextual information alongside performance and practitioner texts and video and audio material, will make this an essential study tool meeting the full range of drama teaching needs. Visit www.dramaonlinelibrary.com for more information.

HIGHLIGHTS

We are also proud to be presenting a very strong selection of new books for readers at all levels: from a new edition of Peter Barry’s English in Practice (p.3) for students embarking on undergraduate study for the first time, through to cutting edge scholarly research. Other highlights include two new titles in our Arvon series of creative writing guides covering Crime and Thriller Writing and Literary Non-Fiction (p.49), as well as Estimating Emerson (p.29), an anthology of critical responses to the great American writer’s work. Do check out the latest titles in the third series of the prestigious The Arden Shakespeare, too, including new editions of Coriolanus and Romeo and Juliet (p.55).

NEW WEBSITE

Finally we are delighted to announce the launch of a new global Bloomsbury website: www.bloomsbury.com.

This site brings together everything under the Bloomsbury Group, including Continuum, The Arden Shakespeare, Methuen Drama, Berg, T&T Clark, Bristol Classical Press, and A&C Black titles. The site features enhanced academic functionality such as online previews, digital inspection copies, textbook companion sites and online resources. Go to www.bloomsbury.com/academic for more information.

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English in Practice

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In Pursuit of English Studies Peter Barry “I cannot imagine a better way for a student of English to start his or her studies than by reading English in Practice. The best thing about Peter Barry’s book is that issues of fundamental importance are introduced by means of detailed examples, so that the student reader never need feel lost or out of his or her depth. But at the same time it is a book that forces the reader to think rather than merely to absorb facts and opinions.”

Jeremy Hawthorn, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

“Students will find Barry’s style clear, honest and informative” Times Higher Education • A key foundation book for those at the outset of their courses in English • Rooted in the realities of day-to-day practice and engaged with theoretical debates • The author is well known for his immensely successful Beginning Theory, now in its third edition • Aimed at those who are taking or teaching English degrees, this book is a reflective overview of the discipline’s core and why we study it Fully revised and updated, this new edition of English in Practice aims to define or redefine our purposes for studying English. Including five new chapters, English in Practice outlines key topics such as literary criticism and theory, English as language, online resources and advice on writing a dissertation. The book works through a series of fully developed examples rather than abstract exposition, encouraging student readers to think for themselves.

PETER BARRY is Professor of English at Aberystwyth University, UK. His has published on twentieth and twenty-first-century literature (especially modern and contemporary poetry) and literary theory.

How to Read Texts

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A Student Guide to Critical Approaches and Skills Neil McCaw “How to Read Texts is filled with a passion for reading and for authorship. Lively and approachable, this is a great book for anyone interested in how we approach the texts we encounter in our lives.” Graeme Harper, Bangor University, UK • Updated second edition helps students analyse a wide range of multi-media texts beyond the literary • Now includes additional guidance on writing critical essays and tips for independent research • A practical and accessible student guide to critical reading skills, including practice exercises • Now covering multi-media texts and practical advice on essaywriting and independent research, this is an essential guide to critical reading at university level Now in its second edition, How to Read Texts introduces students to key critical approaches to literary texts and offers a practical introduction for students developing their own critical and closereading skills. Written in a lively, jargon-free style, it explains critical concepts, approaches and ideas including:

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• Debates around critical theory • The role of history and context • The links between creativity and criticism • The relationship between author, reader and text.

NEIL MCCAW is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Winchester, UK. UK September 2013 • US November 2013 192 pages PB 9781441190666 • £14.99 / $24.95 HB 9781441174307 • £45.00 / $80.00 Individual eBook 9781441142221 • £14.99 / $19.99

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Studying English Literature

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Ashley Chantler and David Higgins

bestseller

“Studying English Literature contains literary and social history and a glossary of terms, balances thoughtful generalizations with careful case studies, and explains how best to use literary theory and secondary criticism (and how not to use it). This excellent guide will be consulted often by undergraduates studying literature, if they are wise.” Merritt Moseley, Professor of Literature and Language, The University of North Carolina at Asheville, USA • Chronological structure introduces history of English literature from Renaissance to the present, each chapter focusing on a key period and introducing the historical context, key authors and texts, criticism and theory • Practical case studies on major texts commonly studied at level one provide analyses demonstrating the critical techniques, tools and terms introduced

Studying Literary Theory

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An Introduction Roger Webster

“The explanations are lucid, helpfully contrasting the various theories.” CHOICE, of 1st Edition Like its previous edition, this book provides an accessible introductory guide to some of the most important aspects of literary theory, linking them to more traditional terms and approaches. In doing so, it offers a fuller introduction to a wider range of literary theories, including poststructuralism, post-modernism, New Historicism, post-colonial theory, and theories of sexual identity. Additional theories are revised and extended in this edition with additional illustrative material.

ROGER WEBSTER is Professor of Literary Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. UK October 1995 • US October 1995 144 pages PB 9780340584996 • £14.99 / $45.00 Series: Studying...

ASHLEY CHANTER is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Chester, UK. DAVID HIGGINS is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK. UK February 2010 • US April 2010 264 pages PB 9780826497505 • £18.99 / $32.95 HB 9780826497499 • £60.00 / $110.00

Studying the Novel Jeremy Hawthorn

Modern Literary Theory A Reader Edited by Patricia Waugh and Philip Rice

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textbook bestseller

“A model of compact exposition” The Times Educational Supplement • The most established and well-thought-of introduction to the novel, first published in 1985 and updated every four years since • Includes coverage of film adaptation, of fiction and electronic media and of cyberfiction

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• Covering the key theoretical approaches in modern literary theory, this book offers an authoritative selection of essays and documents with helpful introductory commentary • Includes texts which do not deal directly with literature yet have a fundamental importance to the discipline from thinkers including Marx, Freud and de Beauvoir PATRICIA WAUGH is Professor of English Literature at Durham University, UK. PHILIP RICE was formerly Principal Lecturer in Communication Studies at Coventry University, UK. UK May 2001 • US May 2001 512 pages PB 9780340761915 • £19.99 / $39.95

• Sophisticated enough to appeal to Masters students, while lightlywritten and engaging enough to entice reading-group members • Includes topics for discussion and practical tips on writing essays and answering exam questions • The section on the ‘short story’ and the ‘novella’ have been developed into two separate chapters to reflect the increasing popularity of these areas JEREMY HAWTHORN is Professor of British Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

UK July 2010 • US June 2010 288 pages PB 9780340985137 • £14.99 / $22.95 Individual eBook 9781849660464 • £14.99 Series: Studying...

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The Poetry Toolkit

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Literary Theory

bestseller

The Essential Guide to Studying Poetry Rhian Williams

A Guide for the Perplexed Mary Klages

“Whether you’re a new-comer to poetry or a longtime reader, Rhian Williams’ The Poetry Toolkit offers welcomed guidance. The book ranges from the introductory (what does “stress” mean?) to the sophisticated and complex. Throughout, the author provides clear frameworks for interpreting how poetry’s formal structures participate in the work of meaning-making. This book will relieve students’ anxiety and deepen their understanding.” Jason R. Rudy,Assistant Professor of English University of Maryland, College Park, USA

This Guide for the Perplexed provides an advanced introduction to literary theory from basic information and orientation for the uninformed leading on to more sophisticated readings. It engages directly with the difficulty many students find intimidating, asking ‘What is “Literary Theory’’?’ and offering a clear, concise, accessible guide to the major theories and theorists, including: humanism; structuralism; poststructuralism; psychoanalytic approaches; feminist approaches; queer theory; ideology and discourse; new historicism; race and postcolonialism; postmodernism. The final chapter points to new directions in literary and cultural theory.

• Now in its 2nd edition, this guide helps students build the knowledge and tools needed to tackle poetry with confidence • Now includes practice comparative readings and more contemporary examples in the expanded close reading section • Easy to use reference format allows students to find key information quickly • Including exercises and practice readings, this guide helps students master the study of poetry

MARY KLAGES is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. UK November 2006 • US January 2007 192 pages PB 9780826490735 • £14.99 / $22.95 HB 9780826490728 • £45.00 / $80.00 Individual eBook 9781441165404 • £14.99 / $19.99 Library eBook 9781441167811 • £45.00 / $80.00 Series: Guides for the Perplexed

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RHIAN WILLIAMS is Lecturer in Nineteenth-century Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK. UK January 2013 • US March 2013 288 pages PB 9781441182784 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441116215 • £55.00 / $100.00

On Modern Poetry From Theory to Total Criticism Robert Rowland Smith All too often, the history of poetry criticism in the 20th Century is told as a tale of two sides. While ‘Lit crit’ pored over the author’s every line, ‘Theory’ stood on the shoulder of texts to gaze into the metaphysical mists. Drawing on the key insights of both Lit crit and Theory, On Modern Poetry tries to get beyond the opposition between them, proposing instead a ‘total criticism’ that draws on all resources available. It combines ‘analytic irony’ with ‘imaginative empathy’ in order to generate fresh insights. The themes discussed in the first part of the book include tradition, voice, rhyme, rhetoric, and objects, bringing in critics such as Eliot, Heidegger, Empson, Blackmur, and De Man. The second part examines texts by Tennyson, Symons, Hopkins, Larkin and Prynne.

ROBERT ROWLAND SMITH is Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, UK. UK July 2012 • US September 2012 208 pages PB 9781441174222 • £18.99 / $32.95 HB 9781441165725 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441148520 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441149763 • £60.00 / $110.00

From Language to Creative Writing

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An Introduction Philip Seargeant and Bill Greenwell • The only book of its kind to combine the study of English language with practical creative writing exercises • It draws on The Open University’s expertise in creating market-leading textbooks and guides for students, tutors and aspiring writers • Includes practical exercises to develop and refine writing skills • This textbook examines the ways that language is used in different contexts and combines it with the study and practice of creative writing strategies Developed by The Open University, this textbook offers an innovative introduction to the study of the English language and the practices, skills and strategies of creative writing. For anyone studying English Language or Creative Writing at tertiary level or in higher education, or for developing writers and those interested in the nature of linguistic creativity, it offers a uniquely integrated approach. Readers will better understand the structure and uses of language and be able to use a full range of strategies in crafting and developing their own writing.

PHILIP SEARGEANT is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics in the Centre for Language and Communication, The Open University, UK. BILL GREENWELL is Lecturer in Creative Writing at The Open University, UK. He is co-author of A Creative Writing Handbook: Developing Dramatic Technique, Individual Style and Voice (Bloomsbury, 2009).

UK November 2012 • US January 2013 288 pages PB 9781408175217 • £19.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781408175224 • £19.99 / $23.95

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Maurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing A Change of Epoch Leslie Hill “Maurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing is a remarkable study of the most extraordinary and enduring literary figure in twentieth-century France. An acknowledged authority on Blanchot and his peers, Leslie Hill guides the reader through some of the most difficult and exciting writing produced after the Second World War: his remarks on the imbrications of literature and philosophy are never less than illuminating. Any new book by Leslie Hill is an event in French Studies, and this one is no exception.” Kevin Hart, Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies, University of Virginia, USA For the first time in any language, this book explores in detail Blanchot’s own writing in fragments in order to understand the stakes of the fragmentary within philosophical and literary modernity.

Style in Theory

Adaptation Studies

Between Literature and Philosophy Edited by Ivan Callus, James Corby, and Gloria Lauri-Lucente

New Challenges, New Directions Edited by Jorgen Bruhn, Anne Gjelsvik, and Eirik Frisvold Hanssen

“Does style matter? It is a question that goes right to the heart of the traditionally fraught relationship between literature and philosophy.

[This] is an important and timely collection of essays that answers this question with an emphatic and compelling ‘yes’. Offering an impressive range of profound and engaging reflections on the question of style in its various literary and philosophical manifestations, Style in Theory shows us why we ought to be thinking about style differently.” Simon Critchley, Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy, The New School, New York, USA

Extending the boundaries of contemporary adaptation studies, this book brings together leading international scholars to survey new directions in the field. Re-thinking the key questions at the heart of the discipline, Adaptation Studies: New Directions, New Challenges explores a wide range of perspectives and case studies in cross-media transformation.

IVAN CALLUS is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English at the University of Malta.

JAMES CORBY is Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Malta.

LESLIE HILL is Professor of French Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.

GLORIA LAURI-LUCENTE is Director of the Institute of Anglo-Italian Studies, Head of the Department of Italian and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Malta.

UK September 2012 • US July 2012 400 pages PB 9781441166227 • £22.99 / $39.95 HB 9781441125279 • £70.00 / $130.00 Individual eBook 9781441171276 • £22.99 / $24.99 Library eBook 9781441186980 • £70.00 / $110

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JORGEN BRUHN is Associate Professor in the School of Language and Literature at Linneaus University, Sweden.

ANNE GJELSVIK is Professor of Media Studies at the Norwegian Univeristy of Science and Technology.

EIRIK FRISVOLD HANSSEN is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

UK May 2013 • US July 2013 208 pages PB 9781441192660 • £21.99 / $34.95 HB 9781441194671 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441127969 • £21.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441106476 • £65.00 / $120.00

The Transformative Humanities

Filmspeak

A Manifesto

How to Understand Literary Theory by Watching Movies Edward Tomarken

Mikhail Epstien Edited by Igor E. Klyukanov Foreword by Caryl Emerson Mikhail Epstein outlines the ‘desirable’ disciplines and methodologies that may emerge in the humanities in response to the new realities of the twenty-first century. Are the humanities a purely scholarly field, or should they have some active, constructive supplement? We know that technology serves as the practical extension of the natural sciences, and politics as the extension of the social sciences. Both technology and politics are designed to transform what their respective disciplines study objectively. The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto addresses the question: Is there any activity in the humanities that would correspond to the transformative status of technology and politics?

MIKHAIL EPSTEIN is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University, USA, and Professor of Russian and Cultural Theory at Durham University, UK. IGOR E. KLYUKANOV is Professor of Communication Studies at Eastern Washington University, USA. CARYL EMERSON is A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Professor of Comparative Literature, at Princeton University, USA.

Filmspeak is an accessible, innovative book which uses specific examples to show how once arcane literary and cultural theory has infiltrated popular culture. Issues such as the nature of knowledge or truth, the function of personal response in interpretation, the nature of the forces of politics, the female alternative to the male view of the world, are fundamental for all of us. And intelligent analysis of the relationship between literary theory and popular culture can help us to understand our fast-changing world. Here, experienced literary scholar and teacher Edward L. Tomarken explains how it is possible to study the rudiments of literary theory by watching and analyzing contemporary mainstream movies – from The Dark Knight to The Devil Wears Prada.

EDWARD TOMARKEN is an emeritus professor of English at Miami University, Ohio, USA. UK November 2012 • US September 2012 208 pages PB 9780826428936 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9780826428929 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781623562908 • £17.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781623563790 • £55.00 / $100.00

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Contagious Metaphor Peta Mitchell

Mindful Aesthetics Literature and the Science of Mind Edited by Chris Danta and Helen Groth

“Peta Mitchell’s highly readable Contagious Metaphor explores medical and popular beliefs and practices about contagion – and the metaphors that shape them. Reaching back through the nineteenth century and then ranging widely through more recent decades, she shows how ambivalence about figurative language and misunderstanding of metaphor itself has shaped our responses to epidemics both imagined and experienced. From miasma to Dionysian frenzy to memes on the internet, Mitchell challenges our assumptions about both language and contagion, providing engaging and provocative analyses of examples from film, philosophy, linguistics and literature.” Pamela K. Gilbert, Department of English University of Florida, USA

In the last few decades, literary critics have increasingly drawn insights from cognitive neuroscience to deepen and clarify our understanding of literary representations of mind.

While cognitive literary studies has reinforced how central the concept of mind is to aesthetic practice from the classical period to the present, critics have questioned its literalism and selective borrowing of scientific authority. Mindful Aesthetics presents both these perspectives as part of a broader consideration of the ongoing and vital importance of shifting concepts of mind to both literary and critical practice.

In Contagious Metaphor, Peta Mitchell offers an innovative, interdisciplinary study of the metaphor of contagion and its relationship to the workings of language.

HELEN GROTH is an Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

PETA MITCHELL is Senior Lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies in Art History at the University of Queensland, Australia.

UK September 2012 • US November 2012 208 pages HB 9781441132734 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441104212 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441197436 • £60.00 / $110.00

CHRIS DANTA is Senior Lecturer in English in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

UK May 2013 • US March 2013 224 pages HB 9781441102867 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441162526 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441181916 • £60.00 / $110.00

The Constitution of English Literature Ideology, State and Nation Michael Gardiner

In this extended essay, Michael Gardiner argues that English Literature emerges from the development of the state and that consequently it has suppressed the idea of the nation. His claim is that English Literature has lost its form since its methodology and canonicity depended so heavily on a constitutional form which can no longer be defended.

His view is that a lack of appreciation of ‘hard-edged’ political factors have led to a ‘continuant’ and regressive form of English Literature which tends to hang on to stifling methodologies. In its place, he appeals for the creation of a more open-ended, inclusive, internationalist, and comparative ‘literature of England’.

MICHAEL GARDINER is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. UK June 2013 • US August 2013 160 pages HB 9781780930367 • £50.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781780931104 • £16.99 / $22.95 Library eBook 9781780931081 • £60.00 / $90.00 Series: The WISH List

Reading Theory Now

Aesthetic Sexuality

An ABC of Good Reading with J. Hillis Miller Eamonn Dunne Foreword by J. Hillis Miller Afterword by Julian Wolfreys

A Literary History of Sadomasochism Romana Byrne

Reading Theory Now explores movements in critical thinking through a host of radical theorists, and channels those movements through the work of one of the most influential proponents of critical interpretation in the world today, J. Hillis Miller. It enables its readers to see how and why theoretical models of reading are of use only in the practical event of reading literary and philosophical texts, that the politics and poetics of interpretive paradigms are constantly shifting, changing and evolving as present day perspectives transform those traditions unalterably. it seeks to invite its readers to challenge the concept of the paradigm, the school, the movement, even the sequence, by presenting them with a choice to read in their own way, to ‘dip’ in and out of singular events of interpretation from A to Z. EAMONN DUNNE teaches English at Coláiste Chraobh Abhann school in the Republic of Ireland.

J. HILLIS MILLER is currently Distinguished Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California Irvine, USA. UK August 2013 • US June 2013 144 pages PB 9781441115140 • £14.99 / $24.95 HB 9781441174581 • £45.00 / $80.00 Individual eBook 9781441190512 • £14.99 / $19.99 Library eBook 9781441108425 • £45.00 / $65.00

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To understand why the concept of aesthetic sexuality is important, we must consider the influence of the first volume of Foucault’s seminal The History of Sexuality. Arguing against Foucault’s assertions that only scientia sexualis has operated in modern Western culture while ars erotica belongs to Eastern and ancient societies, Byrne suggests that modern Western culture has indeed witnessed a form of ars erotica, encompassed in what she calls ‘aesthetic sexuality’. To argue for the existence of aesthetic sexuality, Byrne examines mainly works of literature to show how, within these texts, sexual practice and pleasure are constructed as having aesthetic value, a quality that marks these experiences as forms of art. In aesthetic sexuality, value and meaning are located within sexual practice and pleasure rather than in their underlying cause; sexuality’s raison d’être is tied to its aesthetic value, at surface level rather than beneath it.

ROMANA BRYNE is Research Fellow at The University of Melbourne, Australia.

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Feminist Theory

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The Seven Basic Plots

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The Intellectual Traditions Josephine Donovan

Why We Tell Stories Christopher Booker

“A masterful survey of the philosophical and intellectual roots of contemporary feminism.

The author provides lucid comprehensive discussions of the main intellectual traditions of feminist theory. Intelligent, balanced, accurate, and informed, Feminist Theory is a major addition to the canon of feminist literature.” CHOICE

“This book ... has mindexpanding properties. Not only for anyone interested in literature, but also for those fascinated by wider questions of how human beings organise their societies and explain the outside world to their inmost selves, it is fascinating.” Financial Times

• Incorporates recent developments, including the renewed interest in feminism following the 2008 US Presidential campaign

Using a wealth of examples, from ancient myths and folk tales via the plays and novels of great literature to the popular movies and TV soap operas of today, this book shows that there are seven archetypal themes which recur throughout every kind of storytelling.

Drawing on a vast array of examples, from Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then leads us through the extraordinary changes in the nature of storytelling over the past 200 years.

JOSEPHINE DONOVAN is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Maine, USA.

CHRISTOPHER BOOKER is a columnist for the Sunday Telegraph in the UK.

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• This first major study of feminist theory, which is revised and completely reset, now takes the reader into the twentieth century • Updated and revised edition of a classic work in feminist theory

The City of Words

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Alberto Manguel In this most original and stimulating study Alberto Manguel, award winning author of A History of Reading, sets out to investigate the ways in which stories can lend an identity to a whole society.

From Gilgamesh to the Bible, from Don Quixote to The Fast Runner, Manguel explores how books can hold the secret to what binds us together. His thesis is argued here in an engrossing and highly personal book that encompasses narratives of autobiography, mythology, history and theology. He also raises concerns that technological developments – the internet, for one – may well fatally undermine the publishing industry and threaten the survival of the individual around whom the entire literary industry was originally constructed: the beleaguered author. Do innovations like CD-Rom replace creative readers with passive viewers? This book is also about the art of reading, at a time when Manguel argues that it is still possible for stories to change us and the world we live in.

ALBERTO MANGUEL was born in Buenos Aires but moved to Toronto early on in his life. He now lives in France. He is the author of some hugely successful books including A Dictionary of Imaginary Places and A History of Reading.

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Geoffrey Hartman Romanticism after the Holocaust Pieter Vermeulen UK February 2012 • US April 2012 192 pages PB 9781441140494 • £17.99 / $29.95

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new Georg Lukacs: in PB The Fundamental Dissonance of Existence

J. Hillis Miller and the Possibilities of Reading

Aesthetics, Politics, Literature

Eamonn Dunne

Timothy Bewes

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Literature After Deconstruction

On Bathos Literature, Art, Music Sara Crangle UK February 2012 • US April 2012 208 pages PB 9781441155207 • £18.99 / $32.95

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The Anatomy of Bloom

Narrative Care

Harold Bloom and the Study of Influence and Anxiety Alistair Heys

Biopolitics and the Novel Arne De Boever

Here at last is a comprehensive introduction to the career of America’s leading intellectual. The Anatomy of Bloom surveys Harold Bloom’s life as a literary critic, exploring all of his books in chronological order, to reveal that his work, and especially his classic The Anxiety of Influence, is best understood as an expression of American Protestantism and yet haunted by a Jewish fascination with the Holocaust.

Heys traces Bloom’s intellectual development from his formative years spent as a poor second-generation immigrant in the Bronx to his later eminence as an international literary phenomenon. He argues that, as the quintessential living embodiment of the American dream, Bloom’s career-path deconstructs the very foundations of American Protestantism.

The twenty-first century has been marked by a series of crises in which life’s vulnerability was brutally exposed. As a result, care has moved to the forefront of ethical and political debates. Narrative Care shows that care is also an aesthetic issue: through close-readings of J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Paul Auster’s The Book of Illusions, and Tom McCarthy’s Remainder, it investigates how literary representations of care are shaped by and have helped shape discussions about the welfare state and pastoral care; about the concentration camps and bare life; about Sadism and the realist aesthetic; and about how the rise of the novel as a genre is related to all of the above.

ALISTAIR HEYS is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Paisii Hilendarski, Bulgaria.

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Reading New India Post-Millennial Indian Fiction in English E. Dawson Varughese Reading New India is an insightful exploration of contemporary Indian writing in English. Exploring the work of such writers as Aravind Adiga (author of the Man-Booker Prize winning White Tiger), Usha K.R. and Taseer, the book looks at how the ‘new’ India has been recreated and defined in an English Language literature that is now reaching a global audience. The book describes how Indian fiction has moved beyond notions of ‘postcolonial’ writing to reflect an increasingly confident and diverse cultures. Reading New India covers such topics as: • Representations of the city — from Mumbai to Calcutta • Young India — from Chick Lit to Blog Novels • Genre fiction — crime novels, science fiction and fantasy • Bollywood adaptations and Graphic Novels.

Including a chronological time-line of major social, cultural and political reforms, biographies of the major authors covered, further reading and a glossary of Hindi terms, this book is an essential guide for students of contemporary world literature and postcolonial writing.

E. DAWSON VARUGHESE is Sessional English Lecturer at Keele University, UK.

ARNE DE BOEVER is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Director of the MA Program in Aesthetics and Politics in the School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts, USA. UK May 2013 • US March 2013 176 pages HB 9781441149992 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441128775 • £17.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441144720 • £55.00 / $100.00

Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair Carole Sweeney The work of French writer and poet (and sometime rapper) Michel Houellebecq has been received as nihilistic and pessimistic and has elicited a diversity of critical, cultural and political responses since the publication of his novel Atomised (2000) and the more incendiary work Platform (2001). Critics speak already of ‘un monde houellbecquien’ (a Houellebecquian world) identifiable by its isolated and abject male characters, sexual despair, insensate consumption and moralistic essayistic asides. This book traces a set of reoccurring concerns in Houellebecq’s work through a series of close textual readings of his four novels to date. Sweeney situates Houellebecq within French literary and philosophical tradition and reads his work alongside comparable American and British writers.

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CAROLE SWEENEY is Lecturer in Modern Literature in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. UK May 2013 • US September 2013 192 pages HB 9780826422620 • £60.00 /$120.00 Individual eBook 9781623569181 • £18.99 /$23.99 Library eBook 9781623562984 • £60.00 / $110.00

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Andrea Levy

Salman Rushdie

Contemporary Critical Perspectives Edited by Jeannette Baxter and David James

Contemporary Critical Perspectives Edited by Robert Eaglestone and Martin McQuillan

Andrea Levy has emerged as one of the most significant and popular voices in contemporary black British writing both in the UK and abroad. Drawing on a familial history of emigration, her criticallyacclaimed novels — including the multiple awardwinning Small Island — attempt to bring a variety of voices and perspectives to the representation of black experience in post-war Britain.

With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. The book also includes a new interview with Levy herself, a timeline of her life, chapter summaries and guides to further reading and online resources, making this an essential guide to the work of one of the most exciting voices in contemporary fiction.

JEANNETTE BAXTER is Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, specializing in modern and contemporary fiction.

This collection brings together leading scholars to provide an up-todate critical guide to Rushdie’s writing from his earliest works up to the most recent, his memoir of the Fatwa Years, Joseph Anton.

Contributors offer new perspectives on key issues, including: Rushdie as a postcolonial writer; Rushdie as a postmodernist; his use and reuse of the canon; the ‘Rushdie Affair’; his responses to 9/11 and to the ‘War on Terror’; and issues of more complex philosophical weight arising from his fiction.

DAVID JAMES is Lecturer in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Nottingham, UK.

ROBERT EAGLESTONE is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. MARTIN MCQUILLAN is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at Kingston University, UK, and Co-Director of the London Graduate School.

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Ian McEwan

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Contemporary Critical Perspectives Edited by Sebastian Groes

Sarah Waters

Ian McEwan is one of the most significant, and controversial, British novelists working today. His books are both critically — and academically — acclaimed and embraced by readers across the world. Although primarily a novelist, he has also written short stories, television plays, a libretto, a children’s book and a film adaptation. Across these many forms his work retains a distinctive character that explores questions of morality, place and history, nationhood, sexuality and gender.

Contemporary Critical Perspectives Edited by Kaye Mitchell

Now fully updated for its second edition, this guide brings together a collection of new critical perspectives on McEwan’s oeuvre, not only covering the early works and his writing for the screen but also incorporating detailed and original analyses of the later work, including a new ecocritical reading of his book, Solar. With an updated and extended guide to further critical reading on McEwan, the book also includes an interview with the author himself and a chronology of his life, work and times.

This critical guide is the first book to offer a wide range of current critical perspectives on Waters’ work. The book explores issues such as gender, sexuality, class, time and space in Waters’ fiction, as well as her appropriation of a range of genres from the historical and neo-victorian novel to the gothic. The book also includes a new interview with Waters herself, a timeline of her life, chapter summaries and guides to further reading, making this an essential guide to the work of one of the most exciting voices in contemporary fiction.

SEBASTIAN GROES is Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University, UK. UK June 2013 • US August 2013 208 pages PB 9781441139221 • £16.99 / $27.95 Individual eBook 9781623561918 • £16.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781623569846 • £50.00 / $90.00 Series: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

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Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnight’s Children, is regularly cited as the ‘Booker of Bookers’ and its impact is still being felt in world literature.

His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, is a very major, possibly epoch-defining work, which led to the ‘Rushdie Affair’, certainly the most significant literary-political event since the Second World War.

A multiple award-winning author, Sarah Waters is one of the most critically and commercially successful novelists writing today. In such novels as Fingersmith, Tipping the Velvet, and The Night Watch, her writing has played compellingly with popular and generic forms and narrative techniques and covered a number of important contemporary themes.

KAYE MITCHELL is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature in the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of Intention and Text (Continuum, 2008).

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Angela Carter: New Critical Readings Edited by Sonya Andermahr and Lawrence Phillips Bringing together leading international scholars of contemporary fiction and modern women writers, this book provides authoritative new critical readings of Angela Carter’s work from a variety of innovative theoretical and disciplinary approaches. Angela Carter: New Critical Readings both evaluates Carter’s legacy as feminist provocateur and postmodern stylist, and broaches new ground in considering Carter as, variously, a poet and a ‘naturalist’. Including coverage of Carter’s earliest writings and her journalism as well as her more widely studied novels, short stories and dramatic works, the book covers such topics as rescripting the canon, surrealism, and Carter’s poetics.

SONYA ANDERMAHR is Reader in English at the University of Northampton, UK. LAWRENCE PHILLIPS is Professor in English and Cultural Criticism at the University of Northampton, UK. UK August 2012 / US October 2012 272 pages HB 9781441169280 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441177766 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441141118 • £60.00 / $110.00

Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze Literature Between Postcolonialism and Post-Continental Philosophy Lorna Burns Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze maps a new intellectual and literary history of postcolonial Caribbean writing and thought spanning from the 1930s surrealist movement to the present, crossing the region’s language blocs, and focused on the interconnected principles of creativity and commemoration. Exploring the work of René Ménil, Édouard Glissant, Wilson Harris, Derek Walcott, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Pauline Melville, Robert Antoni and Nalo Hopkinson, this study reveals the explicit and implicit engagement with Deleuzian thought at work in contemporary Caribbean writing.

Uniting for the first time two major schools of contemporary thought postcolonialism and post-continental philosophy - this study establishes a new and innovative critical discourse for Caribbean studies and postcolonial theory beyond the oppositional dialectic of colonizer and colonized.

Kipling’s Japan Hugh Cortazzi and George Webb Kipling visited Japan in 1889 and 1892. No other leading English literary figure of his day spent so long in that country or wrote so fully about it. Kipling’s newspaper despatches from Japan were described by the great Japanologist Basil Han Chamberlain as ‘the most graphic even penned by a globetrotter’.

Previously published in 2000, these vivid penpictures, together with Kipling’s other writings about Japan, are now collected by Sir Hugh Cortazzi and George Webb, carefully edited with an introduction wand Notes.

HUGH CORTAZZI was British Ambassador to Japan from 1980-1988.

GEORGE WEBB is Editor of the ‘Kipling Journal’.

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Literature After Globalization Textuality, Technology and the Nation-State Philip Leonard Literature after Globalization offers a detailed study of recent literary and theoretical responses to technology, globalization, and national identity.

Focusing on texts of the 1990s and 2000s, particularly novels and other writing by Mark Danielewski, Hari Kunzru, Indra Sinha, and Neal Stephenson, it charts a departure from narratives of globalization which declare the collapse of national cultures, and it considers how national sovereignty has been reinvented and reasserted in the face of technology’s transnational effects. Drawing upon recent theoretical responses to technology and culture (including work by Yochai Benkler, Manuel Castells, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, N. Katherine Hayles, Paul Virilio, and McKenzie Wark) this book will explore how, in these novels, the notion of an inclusive globalization has been replaced by a sense of national globalism.

PHILIP LEONARD is Reader in Literary Studies and Critical Theory at Nottingham Trent University, UK. UK January 2013 • US March 2013 208 pages HB 9781441190710 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441105783 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441155733 • £60.00 / $110.00

LORNA BURNS is a Lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln, UK. UK July 2012 • US September 2012 224 pages HB 9781441116437 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441156211 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441117465 • £60.00 / $110.00

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Ian McEwan’s Atonement Julie Ellam The Continuum Contemporaries series gives readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years. This guide to Atonement features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis of the novel, a summary of the novel’s popular and critical reception, a discussion of the recent film adaptation and a great deal more.

If you are studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you simply want to know more about it, you’ll find this guide informative, intelligent, and helpful.

JULIE ELLAM is a freelance writer. She previously taught at Hull University, UK. UK September 2009 • US November 2009 96 pages PB 9780826445384 • £9.99 /$14.95 Individual eBook 9781441135773 • £9.99 /$11.99 Library eBook 9781441146311 • £30.00 / $45.00 Series: Continuum Contemporaries

J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Andrew van der Vlies

Maggie Gee: Writing the Condition-of-England Novel Mine Özyurt Kιlιç In the first critical study of Gee’s work, Mine Özyurt Kιlιç identifies the specific social problems her novels address and explains the social consciousness similarities Gee shares with the Victorians. Analyzing how Gee adjusts the condition-of-England novel to reflect contemporary Britain enables Özyurt Kιlιç to reveal the accuracy of Gee’s rich portraits of Britain. She focuses on Gee’s ability to cut across the boundaries of race, class and gender, mix voices from the margin with the majority and challenge and change the idea of the mainstream.

Gee paints a panoramic view of society. Her critiques of class, race and the world of publishing, allow Özyurt Kιlιç to cover a wide range of topics and detail how English fiction shapes and influences, and is shaped and influenced by, the contemporary literary market.

MINE ÖZYURT KILIÇ is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey.

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One of the most widely read novels by a South African-born writer or ‘about’ South Africa, Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee’s (second) Booker Prizewinning novel, Disgrace (1999), is a firm favourite with reading groups and a fixture on many universitylevel courses on postcolonial or international literatures in English. Sometimes regarded as offering a bleak picture of post-apartheid South Africa, Disgrace has also been read as an ultimately hopeful novel about renunciation and redemption. This introduction offers an indispensable guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant novels of the last quarter century.

ANDREW VAN DER VLIES was born in South Africa and educated both there and at the University of Oxford, UK. He teaches in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. UK March 2010 • US April 2010 122 pages PB 9780826406613 • £9.99 / $14.95 Library eBook 9781441192905 • £30.00 / $45.00 Series: Continuum Contemporaries

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Salman Rushdie and Translation Jenni Ramone Salman Rushdie’s writing is engaged with translation in many ways: translator-figures tell and retell stories in his novels, while acts of translation are catalysts for climactic events. Covering his major novels as well as his often-neglected short stories and writing for children, Salman Rushdie and Translation explores the role of translation in Rushdie’s work.

In this book, Jenni Ramone draws on contemporary translation theory to analyse the part translation plays in Rushdie’s appropriation of historical and contemporary Indian narratives of independence and migration.

JENNI RAMONE is Senior Lecturer in English at Newman University College, UK. UK September 2013 • US November 2013 208 pages HB 9781441144355 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441106612 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441128164 • £60.00 / $110.00

Scenes of Intimacy Reading, Writing and Theorising Contemporary Literature Edited by Jennifer Cooke Scenes of Intimacy analyzes the representation of acts and relationships of intimacy in contemporary literature, the affect this has upon readers, and the ways these representations resonate with, complement, and challenge the concerns of contemporary theory. Opening with an in-depth interview with literary critic, Derridean, and novelist Nicholas Royle, the volume contains eleven further essays that move from intimate scenes of familial and pedagogic legacy, on to representations of love, of sex, and finally to scenes of death and dying. The essays are textually attentive to how literary techniques create intimacy, and draw upon new and notable theoretical positions and critics from queer theory, affect studies, psychoanalysis, poststructualism and deconstruction to ask difficult and uncomfortable questions about intimacy and its representation.

Across the genres of poetry, autobiography, journals, love letters, short stories and novels, Scenes of Intimacy shows that contemporary literature poses new possibilities and questions about our intimate relationalities, their failures and their futures.

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JENNIFER COOKE is Lecturer in English at Loughborough University, UK. UK March 2013 • US May 2013 224 pages HB 9781441107268 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441101822 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441185440 • £60.00 / $110.00

Succeeding Postmodernism Language and Humanism in Contemporary American Fiction Mary Holland Succeeding Postmodernism examines how novels

by DeLillo, Wallace, Danielewski, Foer and others conceptualize threats to individuals and communities posed by a poststructural culture of mediation and simulation, and possible ways of resisting the disaffected solipsism bred by that culture. Ultimately it finds that twenty-first century American fiction sets aside the postmodern problem of how language does or does not mean in order to raise the reassuringly retro question of what it can and does mean: it finds that novels today offer language as solution to the problem of language. Thus it suggests a new way of reading ‘antihumanist’ late postmodern fiction, and a framework for understanding postmodern and twenty-first century fiction as participating in a long and newly enlivened tradition of humanism and realism in literature.

MARY HOLLAND is Assistant Professor of contemporary literature at The State University of New York, New Paltz, USA. UK June 2013 • US April 2013 240 pages HB 9781441130617 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441121899 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441159342 • £60.00 / $110.00

The Return of the Storyteller in Contemporary Fiction Areti Dragas Focusing on the figure of the storyteller, this study breaks new ground in the approach to reading contemporary literature by identifying a growing interest in storytelling. Only since the rise of postcolonialism have academic critics been overtly interested in stories, where high theory frameworks are less applicable. However, as we move through various contemporary contexts engaging with postcolonial identities and hybridity, to narratives of disability and evolutionary accounts of group and individual survival, a common feature of all is the centrality of story, which posits both the idea of survival and the passing on of traditions. This book closely examines this preoccupation with story and storytelling through a close reading of sixteen contemporary international novels written in English which are about actual ‘storytellers’, revealing how death of the author has given birth to the storyteller.

ARETI DRAGAS works as a visiting lecturer and associate tutor at Durham University and the University of Sunderland, UK. UK April 2013 • US June 2013 240 pages HB 9780826439901 • £60.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781623561949 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441143549 • £60.00 / $110.00

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C O N T E M P O R A R Y L I T E R AT U R E The Decades Series Series Editors: Philip Tew, Professor of English, Brunel University, UK Nick Hubble, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary English Literature, Brunel University, UK Leigh Wilson, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Westminster, UK Moving beyond a survey approach, this major series places British fiction among the cultural shifts and headline events of a decade. From the collapse of communism, through the rise of Thatcher to the shifts in global power, each volume evaluates the impact of social, cultural and political history on the fiction of the respective period. Breaking British fiction into its four constituent decades, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s and the 2000s and using social, cultural and political contexts to understand its chronology means changing literary themes are properly accounted for and traditional readings opened up. Alongside the national reception, the series looks closely at how British fiction has been received internationally. Approaching the subject from the perspective of its disciplinary formation, The Decades Series is a crucial reference point for the progressive development of contemporary British fiction, not only a literary and cultural phenomenon, but as an academic field.

The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction Edited by Nick Hubble, Philip Tew and John McLeod How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1970s shape Contemporary British Fiction?

Exploring the impact of events like the Cold War, miners’ strikes and Winter of Discontent, this volume charts the transition of British fiction from post-war to contemporary. Chapters outline the decade’s diversity of writing, showing how the literature of Ian McEwan and Iain Sinclair interacted with the experimental work of B.S. Johnson. Close contextual readings of Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish and English novels map the steady break-up of Britain. This volume also examines the rising resonance of the marginal voices: the world of 1970s British Feminist fiction and postcolonial and diasporic writers.

NICK HUBBLE is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary English Literature at Brunel University, UK. PHILIP TEW is Professor of English at Brunel University, UK, Director of Brunel’s Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies.

JOHN MCLEOD is Professor of Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures in the School of Englist at the University of Leeds, UK. UK March 2013 • US May 2013 256 pages HB 9781441133915 • £75.00 / $140.00 Individual eBook 9781441156716 • £23.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781623563851 • £75.00 / $140.00 Series: The Decades Series

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The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction Edited by Leigh Wilson, Philip Tew and Emily Horton Setting the fiction squarely within the context of Conservative politics and questions about culture and national identity, this volume reveals how the decade associated with Thatcherism frames the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis, and Graham Swift, of Scottish novelists and new diasporic writers. How and why 1980s fiction is a response to particular psychological, social and economic pressures is explored in detail.

Drawing on the rise of individualism and the birth of neo-liberalism, contributors reflect on the tense relations between 1980s politics and realism, and between elegy and satire. Noting the creation of a ‘heritage industry’ during the decade, the rise of the historical novel is also considered against broader cultural changes.

LEIGH WILSON is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Westminster, UK. PHILIP TEW is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, UK, Director of Brunel’s Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies.

EMILY HORTON is Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at Brunel University, UK and at the University of Westminster, UK. UK March 2013 • US May 2013 256 pages HB 9781441126498 • £75.00 / $140.00 Individual eBook 9781623563509 • £23.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781441168535 • £75.00 / $140.00 Series: The Decades Series

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Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition The Invention of an Aesthetic Justine Jenny Baillie Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition explores Toni Morrison’s construction of alternative and oppositional narratives of history and places her work as central to the imagining and re-imagining of American and diasporic identities. Covering the Nobel Prize-winning author’s novels (up to Home), as well as her essays, dramatic works and short stories, this book situates Morrison’s writings within both African-American and American writing traditions and examines them in terms of her continuous dialogue with the politics, philosophy and literary forms of these traditions. Justine Baillie goes on to argue that Morrison’s aesthetic should be understood in relation to the historical, political and cultural contexts in which it, and the African-American and American literary traditions upon which she draws, have been created and developed.

JUSTINE JENNY BAILLIE is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Greenwich, UK. UK April 2013 • US June 2013 256 pages HB 9781441183101 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441145512 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441184467 • £60.00 / $110.00

Bret Easton Ellis’s Controversial Fiction

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Writing Between High and Low Culture Sonia Baelo-Allué UK January 2013 • US March 2013 240 pages PB 9781623562458 • £19.99 / $34.95 Individual eBook 9781441126481 • £19.99 / $23.99

Contemporary Women Writers Look Back

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From Irony to Nostalgia Alice Ridout UK August 2012 • US November 2012 208 pages PB 9781441130235 • £18.99 / $32.95 Individual eBook 9781441114976 • £18.99 / $23.99

Magical Realism and Deleuze The Indiscernibility of Difference in Postcolonial Literature

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Reading Theories in Contemporary Fiction Lisa McNally Even after the upheavals wrought by Theory, literary criticism has generally ignored the act and experience of reading itself, proceeding as though something so fundamental to our experience of texts could be taken for granted. Reading Theories in Contemporary Fiction draws on deconstruction and the thought of Jacques Derrida to explore the ways in which contemporary fiction engages with reading, its power, the elusive nature of its experience and the failures of understanding inherent in it. Along the way, the book proceeds through close readings of such authors as J.M. Coetzee, David Mitchell, Toni Morrison and Philip Roth.

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Melancholy and the Archive

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Trauma, History and Memory in the Contemporary Novel Jonathan Boulter UK January 2013 • US March 2013 224 pages PB 9781623569921 • £18.99 / $32.95 Individual eBook 9781441185358 • £18.99 / $23.99

LISA MCNALLY teaches at Brighton College, UK. UK March 2013 • US May 2013 224 pages HB 9781441164094 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441190260 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441109545 • £60.00 / $110.00

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Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the Ethics of Witnessing Donna McCormack Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the Ethics of Witnessing is a critically engaged exploration of power and its relation to ethics and bodies. By revisiting and revising Judith Butler’s and Homi Bhabha’s queer and postcolonial theories of literary performance, McCormack expands current understandings of the performative workings of power through an embodied, multisensory ethics.

That remembering is an embodied act which necessitates an undoing of one’s sense of self captures how colonial and familial histories silenced by hegemonic structures may only emerge through opaque bodily sensations. These non-institutionalised forms of witnessing serve both to reconfigure theories of performativity, by re-situating the act of witnessing as integral to the workings of power, and to interrogate the current emphasis on speech in trauma studies, by analysing the multifarious, communal and public ways in which memories emerge.

DONNA MCCORMACK is a Research Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.

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Terrorism, Media, and the Ethics of Fiction

The Secret of Bog Lane Americo Tulipano

Amazonian legend about a river god clothed in pure white...an elegant home with a vast, tropical garden in its basement...an unlikely love affair in the depths of the world’s largest rain-forest...a hideous presence on a dead-end street in an historic American town...and a covert scientific project that could alter the course of human civilization. These are some of the mysteries that set the stage for The Secret of Bog Lane – a story that unfolds in present day Brazil and Massachusetts. In each region, a cast of memorable characters must come to grips with an insidious form of evil. In the balance hang a peaceful and natural way of life, a small American family, and a six year old boy in search of acceptance.

AMERICO TULIPANO, the author of this thriller, is well acquainted with the regions and subjects that form its intersecting story-lines. He masterfully weaves these diverse threads in a suspenseful tale of clashing cultures, predatory minds, and redemptive love.

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Transatlantic Perspectives on Don DeLillo Peter Schneck UK November 2012 • US September 2012 246 pages PB 9781441199362 • £24.99 • $44.95 Individual eBook 9781441133786 •£24.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781441113733 • £75.00 / $140.00

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Anatomy of a Short Story

Polish, Hybrid, and Otherwise

Nabokov’s Puzzles, Codes, ‘Signs and Symbols’ Edited by Yuri Leving Afterword by John Banville

George Z. Gasyna

Since its first publication in 1948, one of Vladimir Nabokov’s shortest short stories, ‘Signs and Symbols’, has generated perhaps more interpretations and critical appraisal than any other that he wrote.

Anatomy of a Short Story contains: • The full text of ‘Signs and Symbols’, line numbered and referenced throughout the book • Correspondence about the story, most of it never before published, between Nabokov and the editor of The New Yorker, where the story was first published • 33 essays of literary criticism on the story, bringing together classic essays and new interpretations • A round-table discussion in which a screenwriter, a theater scholar, a mathematician, a psychiatrist, and a literary scholar bring their perspectives to bear on ‘Signs and Symbols’. Anatomy of a Short Story illuminates the ways in which we interpret fiction, and the short story in particular.

YURI LEVING is Professor and Chair in the Department of Russian Studies, Dalhousie University, Canada.

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Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ and Contemporary Thought Revisiting the Horror with Lacoue-Labarthe Edited by Nidesh Lawtoo With its innovative narrative structure and its controversial explorations of race, gender and empire, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a landmark of 20th-century literature that continues to resonate to this day. This book brings together leading scholars to explore the full range of contemporary philosophical and critical responses to the text. Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Contemporary Thought includes the first publication in English of philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s essay, ‘The Horror of the West’. In the company of Lacoue-Labarthe, leading scholars explore new readings of Conrad’s text from a full range of theoretical perspectives, including deconstructive, psychoanalytic, narratological and postcolonial approaches. Drawing on the very latest insights of contemporary thought, this is an essential study of one of the most important literary texts of the 20th century.

NIDESH LAWTOO is Lecturer in English at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Exilic Discourse in Joseph Conrad and Witold Gombrowicz

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The Culture of Yellow Or, The Visual Politics of Late Modernity Sabine Doran This is the first book to explore the cultural significance of the colour yellow, showing how its psychological value marked and shaped many of the intellectual, political, and artistic currents of late modernity. It contends that yellow functions during the period 1890-1990 primarily as a colour of stigma and scandal. Yellow stigmatization has had a long history. Though scholars have commented on these associations in particular contexts, Doran offers the first overarching account of how yellow connects disparate cultural phenomena, such as turn-of-the-century decadence (the ‘yellow nineties’), mass immigration from Asia (‘yellow peril’), and mass stigmatization (the yellow stars of Nazi Germany). The Culture of Yellow combines cultural history with innovative readings of literature, providing a multilayered account of the unique role played by the colour yellow in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century European culture.

SABINE DORAN is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature and Director of the German Program at the University of California, Riverside, USA. UK June 2013 • US April 2013 192 pages • 8 bw illus PB 9781441185877 • £21.99 / $32.95 HB 9781441184443 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441196903 • £21.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441169495 • £65.00 / $120.00

Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism Edited by Paul Ardoin, S.E. Gontarski, and Laci Mattison Despite renewed interest in Bergson, his influence remains understudied and consequently undervalued.

While books examining the impact of Freud and James on Modernism abound, Bergson’s impact, though widely acknowledged, has been closely examined much more rarely. Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism remedies this deficiency in three ways. First, it offers close readings and critiques of six pivotal texts. Second, it reassesses Bergson’s impact on Modernism while also tracing his continuing importance to literature, media, and philosophy throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. In its final section it provides an extended glossary of Bergsonian terms, complete with extensive examples and citations of their use across his texts.

PAUL ARDOIN is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Florida State University, USA. S. E. GONTARSKI is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University, USA. LACI MATTISON is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Florida State University, USA. UK February 2013 • US January 2013 208 pages HB 9781441172211 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441140470 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441188373 • £60.00 / $110.00

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MODERNISM Historicizing Modernism Series Editors: Matthew Feldman, Teeside University, UK Erik Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway Historicizing Modernism challenges traditional literary interpretations by taking an empirical approach to modernist writing: a direct response to new documentary sources made available over the last decade. Informed by archival research, and working beyond the usual European/ American avant-garde 1900-1945 parameters the series reassesses established images of modernist writers by developing fresh views of intellectual backgrounds and working methods.

Ezra Pound’s Adams Cantos David Ten Eyck Ezra Pound transformed his style of poetry when he wrote The Adams Cantos in the 1920s. But what caused him to rethink his earlier writing techniques?

Grounded in archival material, this study explores the extent to which Pound’s poetry changed in response to his reading of seventeenth-century American history and the social climate of the prewar period. Drawing on the Ezra Pound papers, David Ten Eyck documents the changes to Pound’s documentary techniques, establishing a chronology of the composition of The Cantos. His close readings of specific passages, set against the interwar years, allow Ten Eyck to gain insights into Pound’s 1930s political and social criticism.

Through references to the annotated copy of The Works of John Adams, he explores Pound’s engagement with Adams at the expense of Thomas Jefferson: a figure formally at the heart of his previous work.

DAVID TEN EYCK teaches Modernism and poetry at the University of Lorraine, France.

UK September 2012 • US November 2012 208 pages HB 9781441100498 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual 9781623566128 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441188410 • £60.00 / $110.00 Series: Historicizing Modernism

Great War Modernisms and ‘The New Age’ Magazine Paul Jackson “This is an intelligent and thought-provoking study which encourages us to rethink the meaning of ‘modernism’. After reading Paul Jackson’s book, historians and literary scholars will have to question the utility of a narrow, aesthetic definition of modernism … Great War Modernisms is an important contribution to twentieth-century intellectual history.” — Dan Stone, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK The literary magazine The New Age brought together a diverse set of intellectuals. Against the backdrop of the First World War, they chose to write about more than modernist art and aesthetics. By closely reading and contextualizing their contributions, Paul Jackson’s study engages with the political and philosophical responses of literary artists to modernity. Jackson demonstrates the need to interpret modernism not merely as an aesthetic phenomenon, but inherently linked to politics and philosophy.

PAUL JACKSON is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Northampton, UK. UK July 2012 • US September 2012 224 pages HB 9781441180087 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441138026 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441127815 • £60.00 / $110.00 Series: Historicizing Modernism

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Modern Manuscripts Aspects of Genetic Criticism Dirk Van Hulle The twentieth century has been called ‘the golden age of the modern manuscript’, a time when the historical value of early manuscripts as a record of a writer’s thought processes came to be fully recognized. Drawing on the critical tools of French genetic criticism, Modern Manuscripts explores the development of early 20th-century literary texts, from source texts and early notes, through successive draft manuscripts to publication and successive editions.

Historicizing these modernist processes of writing, Dirk Van Hulle contrasts these twentieth-century manuscripts with the development of Charles Darwin’s text for On the Origin of Species, itself a formative intellectual influence on modern writing.

DIRK VAN HULLE is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Centre for Manuscript Genetics, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

UK August 2013 • US October 2013 208 pages HB 9781441133168 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 978162356938 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441129475 • £60.00 / $110.00 Series: Historicizing Modernism

Reframing Yeats Genre and History in the Poems, Prose and Plays Charles Armstrong While existing studies of Yeats’s work choose between a biographical orientation or a formalist approach, Armstrong’s study combines the theory of New Historicism and Hermeneutics: a theoretical approach that takes Yeatsian scholarship one step further.

Grounded in history and informed by recent studies, this innovative approach presents new interpretations and understandings of Yeats’s texts. As well as providing a fresh reading of ‘Among School Children’ and situating his autobiographical writings in relation to preceding Victorian practices and contemporary experimentation, this groundbreaking work documents some of the most important existing readings of Yeats’s relationship to history, Modernism and the literary genres.

CHARLES IVAN ARMSTRONG is Professor of British Literature at the University of Bergen, Norway.

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Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx Tracing ‘a Literary Fantasia’ David Tucker “Every now and again, rarely, a book comes along that offers a definitive account of a particularly vexing critical question - this study is one of them. Drawing on a range of published and unpublished materials, David Tucker offers a comprehensive and sensitive examination of the role Geulincx plays in Beckett’s writing and aesthetics, and in doing so makes us think differently about Beckett’s work.”

Marx Nixon, Beckett International Foundation and Lecturer, University of Reading, UK Samuel Beckett once wrote that were he in the ‘unfortunate position’ of a critic studying his work, one of his points of departure would be the ideas of the seventeenth-century philosopher, Arnold Geulincx. This is the first full-length study to document the extent of the influence Geulincx’s philosophy had on Beckett’s prose and late drama. David Tucker’s study presents a clear, chronological exploration of Beckett’s engagement with Geulincx, and of how this engagement marks, and is marked by, broader changes in Beckett’s aesthetic thinking.

DAVID TUCKER is a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex and currently teaches at the University of Oxford, UK.

Samuel Beckett and The Bible Iain Bailey From Waiting for Godot to his later novels, the work of Samuel Beckett is filled with Biblical references. Samuel Beckett and the Bible reappraises the relationships between Beckett’s work and the Bible, exploring both as objects of history, matter and memory.

Iain Bailey ranges across the Beckett oeuvre to examine how the Bible has come to be regarded as a book of unique significance in his work, offering innovative readings of intertextuality and influence in both published and archival writings. Beckett’s Bibles, the book demonstrates, are thoroughly material, as significant for their involvement in histories of education, the family, common knowledge and canon-formation as for what they have to say about God, hope and salvation. The book explores Beckett’s uneasy forms of memory, materiality, language and history to assess how far and in what ways the Bible matters in his work, and why Beckett’s voice ‘harps, but no worse than Holy Writ’.

IAIN BAILEY is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK. UK June 2013 • US August 2013 224 pages HB 9781780936888 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781780937168 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781780936499 • £60.00 / $110.00 Series: Historicizing Modernism

The Autobiographies of Mina Loy Myth of the Modern Woman Sandeep Parmar

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Drawing on substantial new archival research, this book challenges the existing critical myth of Loy as a ‘modern woman’ through an analysis of her unpublished autobiographical prose. The Autobiographies of Mina Loy explores this major twentieth century writer’s ideas about the ‘modern’ and how they apply to the ‘modernist’ writer – based on her engagement with twentieth-century avantgarde aesthetics – and charts how Loy herself uniquely defined modernity in her essays on literature and art. Sandeep Parmar here shows how, ultimately, Loy’s autobiographies extend the modernist project by rejecting earlier impressions of avant-garde futurity and newness in favour of a ‘late modernist’ aesthetic, one that is more pessimistic, inward and interested in the fragmentary interplay between the past and present.

SANDEEP PARMAR is Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, UK. UK June 2013 • US August 2013 224 pages • 4 bw illus HB 9781441176400 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441173201 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441134592 • £60.00 / $110.00 Series: Historicizing Modernism

UK May 2012 • US July 2012 240 pages HB 9781441139351 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441106568 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441108173 • £60.00 / $110.00 Series: Historicizing Modernism

The Life and Work of Thomas MacGreevy A Critical Reappraisal Edited by Susan Schreibman As a poet and literary critic, Thomas MacGreevy is a central force in Irish modernism and a crucial facilitator in the lives of key modernist writers and artists. Split into four sections, the volume explains how and where MacGreevy made his impact: in his poetry; his role as a literary and art critic; during his time in Dublin, London and Paris and through his relationships with James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Wallace Stevens, Jack B. Yeats and W.B. Yeats. With access to the Thomas MacGreevy Archive, contributors draw on letters, his early poetry, and contributions to art and literary journals, to better understand the first champion of Jack B. Yeats, and Beckett’s chief correspondent and closest friend in the 1930s.

SUSAN SCHREIBMAN is the Long Room Hub Associate Professor in Digital Humanities in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

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Virginia Woolf’s Late Cultural Criticism The Genesis of ‘The Years’, ‘Three Guineas’ and ‘Between the Acts’ Alice Wood After the Modernist literary experiments of her earlier work, Virginia Woolf became increasingly concerned with overt social and political commentary in her later writings, which are preoccupied with dissecting the links between patriarchy, patriotism, imperialism and war. This book unravels the complex textual histories of The Years (1937), Three Guineas (1938) and Between the Acts (1941) to expose the genesis and evolution of Virginia Woolf’s late cultural criticism. By demonstrating that Woolf’s late cultural criticism developed through her literary experimentalism as well as in response to contemporary social, political and economic upheavals, this book offers a fresh perspective on her emergence as a cultural commentator in her final decade and paves the way for further genetic enquiries in the field.

ALICE WOOD is Lecturer in English Literature at De Montfort University, UK. UK May 2013 • US July 2013 208 pages HB 9781441102850 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441107411 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441148728 • £60.00 / $110.00 Series: Historicizing Modernism

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Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov Julian W. Connolly Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov is unquestionably one of the greatest works of world literature. The novel has had a major impact on writers and thinkers across a broad range of disciplines, from psychology to religious and political philosophy. This guide helps the reader understand the place of Dostoevsky’s novel in Russian and world literature, and illuminates the writer’s compelling and complex artistic vision. Haunted by the question of God’s existence, Dostoevsky uses the character of Ivan Karamazov to ask what kind of God would create a world in which innocent children have to suffer, and he hoped that his entire novel would provide the answer. The design of Dostoevsky’s work, in which one character poses questions that other characters must try to answer, provides a stimulating basis for reader engagement.

JULIAN W. CONNOLLY is Professor and Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia, USA. UK April 2013 • US February 2013 160 pages PB 9781441135315 • £12.99 / $19.95 HB 9781441108470 • £45.00 / $75.00 Series: Reader’s Guides

Emily Brontë and the Religious Imagination Simon Marsden Readers of Emily Brontë’s poetry and of Wuthering Heights have seen in their author, variously, a devout if somewhat unorthodox Christian, a heretic, or a visionary ‘mystic of the moors’. Emily Brontë and the Religious Imagination suggests that such conflicting readings are the product of tensions, conflicts and ambiguities within the texts themselves. The book argues that Wuthering Heights and the poems dramatise individual experiences of faith in the context of a world in which such faith is always conflicted, always threatened. Her characters cling to visionary faith in the face of death and mortality, awaiting and anticipating a final vindication, an eschatological fulfilment that always lies in a future beyond the scope of the text.

SIMON MARSDEN is Senior Teaching Associate in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK. UK January 2013 • US February 2013 192 pages HB 9781441166302 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441153500 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441168139 • £60.00 / $110.00

Secular Mysteries: Stanley Cavell and English Romanticism Edward T. Duffy Secular Mysteries: Stanley Cavell and English Romanticism serves as both introduction to Cavell for Romanticists, and to the larger question of what philosophy means for the reading of literature, as well as to the importance and relevance of Romantic literature to Cavell’s thought. Illustrated through close readings of Wordsworth and Shelley, and extended discussions of Emerson and Thoreau as well as Cavell, Duffy proposes a Romanticism of persisting cultural relevance and truly trans-Atlantic scope. The turn to romanticism of America’s most distinguished ‘ordinary-language’ philosopher is shown to be tied to the neo-Romantic claim that far from being merely an illustrator of the truths discovered by philosophy, poetry is its equal partner in the instituting of knowledge.

EDWARD T. DUFFY is Associate Professor of English (Emeritus) at Marquette University, USA. UK May 2013 • US March 2013 304 pages PB 9781441126788 • £19.99 / $34.95 HB 9781441117182 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441195364 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441186478 • £65.00 / $120.00

Texts and Contexts Series Editors: Gail Ashton, an academic, writer and poet with research and publishing interests in medieval and women’s literature, poetry and contemporary literary theory based in the UK. Fiona McCulloch, Head of English at the University of Bradford, UK. Texts and Contexts is a series of clear, concise and accessible introductions to key literary fields and concepts. The series provides the literary, critical, historical context for texts and authors in a specific literary area in a way that introduces a range of work in the field and enables further independent study and reading.

Victorian Poetry in Context Rosie Miles Victorian Poetry in Context offers a lively and accessible introduction to the diverse range of poetry written in the Victorian period. Considering such issues as reform and protest, gender, science and belief this book sets out the social and cultural contexts for the poetry of a fast-changing era.

Sections on Victorian poetics, form and Victorian voices introduce the key literary contexts of poetry’s production, and poetic innovations of the period such as the dramatic monologue are highlighted. At the heart of the book is a focus on the importance of attentive close reading, with original readings offered of well-known texts alongside those that have recently received renewed attention within scholarship.

ROSIE MILES is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. UK February 2013 • US April 2013 176 pages PB 9780826437679 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9780826430557 • £50.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781441188519 • £16.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781441182463 • £50.00 / $90.00 Series: Texts and Contexts

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Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory Evan Gottlieb Over the last two decades, scholars have come to see Sir Walter Scott as an important figure in Romantic-period literature, Scottish literature and the development of the historical novel. Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory builds on this renewed appreciation of Scott’s importance by viewing his most significant novels - from Waverley and Rob Roy to Ivanhoe and beyond - through the lens of contemporary critical theory. By juxtaposing pairings of Scott’s early and later novels with major contemporary theoretical concepts and the work of such thinkers as Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Žižek, this book uses theory to illuminate the complexities of Scott’s fictions, while simultaneously using Scott’s fictions to explain and explore the state of contemporary theory.

EVAN GOTTLIEB is Associate Professor of English at Oregon State University, USA. UK February 2013 • US April 2013 208 pages PB 9781441120229 • £19.99 / $34.95 HB 9781441182531 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441133540 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441128744 • £65.00 / $120.00

Coleridge and Kantian Ideas in England, 17961817 Coleridge’s Responses to German Philosophy Monika Class The advent of Immanuel Kant in Coleridge’s thought is traditionally seen as the start of the poet’s turn towards an internalized Romanticism. Demonstrating that Coleridge’s discovery of Kant came at an earlier point than has been previously recognized, this book examines the historical roots of Coleridge’s life-long preoccupation with Kant over a period of twenty years from the first extant Kant entry until the publication of his autobiography. Drawing on previously unpublished contemporary reviews of Kant and seeking socio-political meaning outside the literary canon in the English radical circles of the 1790s, Monika Class here establishes conceptual affinities between Coleridge’s writings and that of Kant’s earliest English mediators and in doing so revises Coleridge’s allegedly non-political response to Kant.

Cultural Negotiations Edited by David Vallins, Kazuyoshi Oishi and Seamus Perry Bringing together leading international writers, Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient is the first substantial exploration of Coleridge’s literary and scholarly representations of the east and the ways in which these were influenced by and went on to influence his own work and the orientalism of the Romanticists more broadly.

Bringing together postcolonial, philsophical, historicist and literary-critical perspectives, this groundbreaking book develops a new understanding of ‘Orientalism’ that recognises the importance of colonial ideologies in Romantic representations of the East as well as appreciating the unique forms of meaning and value which authors such as Coleridge associated with the Orient.

DAVID VALLINS is Professor of English at the University of Hiroshima, Japan.

KAZUYOSHI OISHI is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tokyo, Japan.

MONIKA CLASS is Marie Curie Research Fellow at King’s College London, UK.

SEAMUS PERRY is Fellow of Balliol College and Lecturer in English, University of Oxford, UK.

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Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire Elizabeth Ho “By demonstrating that recovery from Victoria’s empire is a global cultural enterprise and by insisting on neo-Victorianism’s import in a postcolonial present – where empire is a thing to be dealt with and not just a thing to be missed Elizabeth Ho’s work refreshes our account of the field. Serious, engaged, and always smart, NeoVictorianism and the Memory of Empire identifies what’s consequential in those of our contemporary pleasures that circulate around a particularized past.” Mary Ann O’Farrell, Department of English, Texas A&M University, USA By reading a range of popular and literary Anglophone neo-Victorian texts. Elizabeth Ho explores how constructions of popular memory and fictionalisations of the past reflect political and psychological engagements with our contemporary post-Imperial circumstances.

ELIZABETH HO is Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College, USA. UK April 2012 • US June 2012 256 pages HB 9781441161550 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441187703 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441197788 • £60.00 / $110.00

Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient

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Romancing Fascism Modernity and Allegory in Benjamin, de Man, Shelley Kathleen Kerr-Koch Romancing Fascism argues that intellectual responsibility can only be safeguarded if criticism is mobilised both as a poetic and as a critically enlightened endeavour. In this analysis of allegory as a function of modernity, what is made clear is the difficulty, if not impossibility, of definitively determining the genealogical antecedents of intellectual trends, particularly those considered pernicious to clear thinking. Thus Kerr-Koch takes a wide-ranging approach to the analysis of allegory as it is treated by three controversial writers whose works flank the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the middle and late periods of what we call modernity – Walter Benjamin, Paul de Man and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

KATHLEEN KERR-KOCH is Senior Lecturer in Literary History and Literary Theory at the University of Sunderland, UK. UK June 2013 • US April 2013 240 pages HB 9781441104939 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441166685 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441111807 • £60.00 / $110.00

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The South Pacific Narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London Race, Class, Imperialism Lawrence Phillips From 1888 to 1915 Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London were uniquely placed to witness and record the imperial struggle for the South Pacific. Exploring a unique moment in South Pacific and Western history through the work of Stevenson and London, this study assesses the impact of their national identities on works like The Amateur Emigrant and Adventure; discusses their attitudes towards colonialism, race and class; shows how they negotiated different cultures and peoples in their writing and considers where both writers are placed in the Western tradition of writing about the Pacific. By contextualizing Stevenson’s and London’s South Pacific work, this study reveals two critical voices of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century colonialism that deserve to stand beside their contemporary Joseph Conrad in shaping contemporary attitudes towards imperialism, race, and class.

LAWRENCE PHILLIPS is Professor in English and Cultural Criticism at the University of Northampton, UK. UK July 2012 • US September 2012 224 pages HB 9781441199560 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441173386 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441199287 • £60.00 / $110.00

What Matters in Jane Austen?

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Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved John Mullan Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters call each other, and why? What are the right and wrong ways to propose marriage? In What Matters in Jane Austen, John Mullan shows that you can best appreciate Jane Austen’s brilliance by looking at the intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction.

In twenty-one short chapters Mullan illuminates the themes that matter most to the workings of the fiction. So the reader will discover when people had their meals and what shops they went to, how they addressed each other, who owned coaches or pianos, how vicars got good livings and how wealth was inherited. What Matters in Jane Austen explores the rituals and conventions of her fictional world in order to reveal her technical virtuosity and sheer daring as a novelist.

Inspired by an enthusiastic reader’s curiosity, written with flair and based on a lifetime’s study, What Matters in Jane Austen will appeal to all those who love and enjoy Jane Austen’s work.

JOHN MULLAN is a professor in the English department at University College London, UK. UK January 2013 • US January 2013 352 pages UK Edition: PB 9781408831694 • £8.99 Individual eBook 9781408828731 • £14.99 (£8.99 starting January 2013) US Edition: HB 9781620400418 • $30.00 Individual eBook 9781620400449 • $23.99

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Dickens’s Women

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His Great Expectations Anne Isba On the bicentenary of his birth, this short account of the emotional life of Charles Dickens examines his relationships with some of the women to whom he was closest. They include the mother who failed to recognise his early promise; the young woman who spurned him before he was famous; the wife he cast aside in middle age; the benefactress for whom he managed a house for ‘fallen women’; and the actress, less than half his age, with whom he spent his final years.

Each woman casts light on a different aspect of Dickens’s personality.

ANNE ISBA read Modern Languages at Oxford University, UK. UK October 2011 • US December 2011 184 pages HB 9781441107206 • £14.99 / $19.95 Individual eBook 9781441193278 • £14.99 / $19.99

Dostoevsky

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Language, Faith and Fiction Rowan Williams “The Archbishop of Canterbury has written a book on Dostoevsky which illuminates the real operations of religion in human minds... We need a guide who combines the gifts of a literary critic and a trained theologian to work out how far the novels of Dostoevsky can be used as vehicles for such explorations. We also need a guide who is deeply versed in the ethos and spiritual traditions of the Russian Orthodox Church to place Dostoevsky, and the tormented exchanges of his characters, within some intelligible historical framework. Luckily the Archbishop of Canterbury combines all these qualities, and more” A. N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement ROWAN WILLIAMS is Archbishop of Canterbury, UK. UK October 2009 268 pages PB 9781441183880 • £14.99 Individual eBook 9781441118523 • £14.99 World All Languages excluding USA/Canada

Victorians in Japan In and around the Treaty Ports Hugh Cortazzi An anthology of impressions, ‘snapshots’ and anecdotes – vignettes conveying vividly what it was like to be a foreigner in Japan in Victorian times.

The focus is upon Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, Nagasaki and the other Treaty Ports and their vicinity.

This amusing and evocative book throws a revealing light both upon the Victorian experience of Japan and upon Japan itself.

HUGH CORTAZZI was British Ambassador to Japan from 1980-1984.

UK December 2012 • US February 2013 386 pages HB 9781780939759 • £75.00 / $140.00 Individual eBook 9781780939766 • £23.99/ $34.99 Library eBook 9781780939773 • £75.00 / $140.00

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Epic, Novel and the Progress of Antiquity Ahuvia Kahane This book rethinks the characterization of two highly contrastive forms of ancient literary tradition — epic and novel — and re-frames their function as dynamic points of reference in the history of ideas and in our understanding of the interface between antiquity and the modern.

Epic and novel have often been construed in terms of sharp contrasts: temporally, hierarchically, and in terms of specific highly contrasting attributes: ‘sublime’ vs. ‘subversive’; an aspiration to ‘oral’ song vs. an intimate association with book culture; heroic vs. ‘anti-heroic’ or ‘mock-heroic’.

Ahuvia Kahane here argues for the fallibility of each of several major differential attributes, to the point of generic disintegration. He then sets out to construct a new understanding of epic and novel in antiquity as part of a more fragile, dynamic framework.

AHUVIA KAHANE is Professor of Greek, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. UK October 2013 • US November 2013 160 pages PB 9780715636770 • £14.99 /$27.00 Series : Classical Inter/Faces Bristol Classical Press

Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles Edited by Luke Houghton and Gesine Manuwald Investigation of the Latin poetry produced by British poets from the sixteenth century onwards affords an indispensable insight into a dominant strand in the intellectual, cultural and educational life of the British Isles during this period. At this time, the composition of Latin poetry was a regular feature of school curricula and a popular leisure-time activity of the educated elite. Such examination also sheds light on the poetic principles and practice of major British poets (such as Campion, Cowley, Herbert and Milton) who penned a large quantity of neo-Latin verse in addition to their better-known vernacular works.

Contributors: Ceri Davies, Swansea University; Roger P.H. Green, University of Glasgow; Philip Hardie, University of Cambridge; Jason Harris, University College Cork; Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford; L.B.T. Houghton, University of Glasgow; Sarah Knight, University of Leicester; Gesine Manuwald, University College London; David Money, University of Cambridge; Victoria Moul, King’s College London; Niall Rudd, University of Liverpool; Keith Sidwell, University of Calgary; Andrew Taylor, University of Cambridge; Angus Vine, University of Stirling.

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Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed Ahuvia Kahane Homer’s poetry is widely recognized as the beginning of the literary tradition of the West and among its most influential canonical texts. Outlining a series of key themes, ideas, and values associated with Homer and Homeric poetry, Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed explores the question of the formation of the Iliad and the Odyssey – the so-called ‘Homeric Problem’. Among the main Homeric themes which the book considers are origin and form, orality and composition, heroic values, social structure, and social bias, gender roles and gendered interpretation, ethnicity, representations of religion, mortality, and the divine, memory, poetry, and poetics, and canonicity and tradition, and the history of Homeric receptions.

AHUVIA KAHANE is Professor of Greek, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. UK October 2012 • US December 2012 208 pages PB 9781441100108 • £14.99 / $24.95 HB 9781441179463 • £45.00 / $80.00 Individual eBook 9781441173065 • £12.99 / $19.99 Library eBook 9781441189264 • £45.00 / $80.00 Series: Guides for the Perplexed

GESINE MANUWALD is Professor of Latin at University College London, UK. UK July 2012 / US September 2012 288 pages PB 9781780930145 • £25.00 / $40.00 Bristol Classical Press Sold by IPM in the US

No Laughing Matter Studies in Athenian Comedy Edited by C.W. Marshall and George Kovacs No Laughing Matter is a wide-ranging collection of new studies of the comic theatre of Athens, from its origins until the 340s BCE. Fifteen international scholars employ an array of approaches and methodologies that will appeal to Classics and Theatre scholars while still remaining accessible to students. By including discussions of fragmentary authors alongside Aristophanes, the collection provides a broad understanding of the richness of Athenian comedy.

The collection showcases the best of the new scholarship on Old and Middle Comedy.

No Laughing Matter has been prepared in tribute to Professor Ian Storey of Trent University whose work on Athenian comedy will continue to shape scholarship for many years to come.

C.W. MARSHALL is Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Theatre at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

GEORGE KOVACS is Assistant Professor of Ancient History and Classics at Trent University, Canada.

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Prescribing Ovid

The Roman Poetry of Love

The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens Yasmin Haskell

Elegy and Politics in a Time of Revolution Efi Spentzou

Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens was a cosmopolitan Dutch physician and Latin poet of the eighteenth century. A Catholic, he was in many ways an outsider on his own turf, the peat country of Protestant Groningen, and looked to Voltaire’s Paris, as much as Ovid, in exile, had looked to Rome. An indefatigable traveller and networker, Heerkens mixed freely with philosophers, physicians, churchmen, and antiquarians. This book reconstructs his Latin works and networks, and reveals in the process a virtually unexplored corner of eighteenth-century culture, the ‘Latin Enlightenment’.

YASMIN HASKELL is Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism at the University of Western Australia and is a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council’s new Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions 11001800.

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Euripides: Alcestis Niall W. Slater Alcestis is Euripides’s earliest complete work and his only surviving play from the period preceding the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. Currently dominant post-structuralist models of Greek tragedy focus on its ‘oppositional’ role in the discourse of war and public values. This study challenges not only this politicised model of tragic discourse but also both traditional masculinist and more recent feminist readings of the discourse and performance of gender in this remarkable play.

The play survived in the performance repertoire of antiquity into the Roman period. Euripides’ version strongly influenced the reception of the myth through the middles ages into the Renaissance, and the story enjoyed a lively afterlife through opera. Alcestis’ contested reception in the last two centuries charts our changing understanding of tragedy.

Niall Slater’s study explores the reception and afterlife of the play, as well as its main themes, the myth before the play, the play’s historical and social context and the central developments in modern criticism.

NIALL W. SLATER’S research interests are in ancient Theatre, the archaeology of the theatre and ancient novel gender studies.

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• Highlights themes and contextual references between poems and poets • Explores the idea of creativity as subversion in Augustan Rome • Summarises the scholarship and debates surrounding Latin love elegy • A concise introduction to the politics of love, artistic subversion and creativity in Latin love elegy in Augustan Rome The Roman Poetry of Love: Elegy and Politics in a Time of Revolution offers a fresh and accessible look at the gendered power play at work in Latin love elegy, for the undergraduate student and any newcomer to the field. It reviews the elegiac corpus as a whole, presenting the most enduring debates in the scholarship of the last 30 years.

A series of chapters focusing on particular poems illuminates the development of this short-lived genre in the context of Augustus’ ascent to power by following recognizable threads through the texts to build an understanding of the relationship between this poetry and the increasingly totalising regime.

EFI SPENTZOU is Senior Lecturer in Latin Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. UK February 2013 • US May 2013 128 pages PB 9781780932040 • £12.99 / $19.95 Series: Classical World Bristol Classical Press Sold by IPM in the US

Homer: The Iliad William Allan This book offers a clear and stimulating introduction to Homer’s Iliad, the greatest poem of Western culture. It discusses central aspects of the work (including the tradition of oral poetry, the style and structure of the epic, and its depiction of the gods, heroism, war, and gender roles) and guides the reader in understanding the skill and profundity of Homer’s achievement. This introduction is ideal for undergraduates and students in the upper forms of schools, but it requires no knowledge of ancient Greek and is intended for all readers interested in Homer.

WILLIAM ALLAN is the McConnell Laing Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature at University College, Oxford, UK, and Lecturer at the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, UK. UK July 2012 • US September 2012 128 pages PB 9781849668897 • £12.99 / $19.95 Series: Classical World Bristol Classical Press Sold by IPM in the US

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Statius, Poet Between Rome and Naples

Women in Ancient Greece A SourceBook Edited by Bonnie MacLachlan

Carole E. Newlands This book examines the poetry of Statius (c. 40-96 AD), in relation to significant social and cultural issues of his day, in particular shifting attitudes to Hellenism, gender and Roman imperialism. It also discusses the reception of Statius’ poetry in the Middle Ages, when his reputation was its zenith.

Medieval interpretations of Statius’ epics suggest that their popularity rested in part on the prominence they give to female action and the female voice, thus suggesting new expressive and generic possibilities.

CAROLE E. NEWLANDS is Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA.

BONNIE MACLACHLAN is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Western Ontario.

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The Lives of the Greek Poets

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Mary R. Lefkowitz Mary R. Lefkowitz has extensively revised and rewritten her classic study to introduce a new generation of students to the lives of the Greek poets. Thoroughly updated with references to the most recent scholarship, this second edition includes new material and fresh analysis of the ancient biographies of Greece’s most famous poets.

With little or no independent historical information to draw on, ancient writers searched for biographical data in the poets’ own works and in comic poetry about them. Lefkowitz describes how biographical mythology was created and offers a sympathetic account of how individual biographers reconstructed the poets’ lives.

She argues that the life stories of Greek poets, even though primarily fictional, still merit close consideration, as they provide modern readers with insight into ancient notions about the creative process and the purpose of poetic composition.

MARY R. LEFKOWITZ is Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA. UK May 2012 240 pages PB 9781780930893 • £18.99 World All Languages excluding USA/Canada Bristol Classical Press

The study of women in the ancient Mediterranean world is a topic of growing interest among classicists and ancient historians, and also students of history, sociology and women’s studies. This volume is an essential resource supplying a compilation of source material in translation, with suggestions for further reading, a general bibliography, and an index of ancient authors and works. Texts come from literary, rhetorical, philosophical and legal sources, as well as papyri and inscription. The volume follows a clear chronological structure – beginning in the eighth century BCE the coverage continues through Archaic and Classical Athens concluding with the Hellenistic era.

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Seduction and Power Antiquity in the Visual and Performing Arts Edited by Silke Knippschild and Marta Garcia Morcillo This volume focuses on the reception of antiquity in the performing and visual arts from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. It explores the tensions and relations of gender, sexuality, eroticism and power in reception. Such universal themes dictated plots and characters of myth and drama, but also served to portray historical figures, events and places from Classical history. Their changing reception and reinterpretation across time has created stereotypes, models of virtue or immoral conduct, that blend the original features from the ancient world with a diverse range of visual and performing arts of the modern era. The volume deconstructs these traditions and shows how arts of different periods interlink to form and transmit these images to modern audiences and viewers.

SILKE KNIPPSCHILD is a lecturer in ancient history at the University of Bristol, UK. MARTA GARCIA MORCILLO is a lecturer in ancient history at the University of Wales, Lampeter, UK. UK February 2013 • US March 2013 312 pages HB 9781441177469 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441154200 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441190659 • £65.00 / $120.00

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B R I T I S H A N D I R I S H L I T E R AT U R E Bloomsbury Studies in the City Series Editors: Lawrence Phillips, Professor in English at University of Northampton, UK Matthew Beaumont, Senior Lecturer in English, University College London, UK The history of literature is tied to the city. From Aeschylus to Addison, Baudelaire to Balzac, Conrad to Coetzee and Dickens to Dostoevsky, writers make sense of the city and shape modern understandings through their reflections and depictions. The urban is a fundamental aspect of a substantial part of the literary canon that is frequently not considered in and of it self because it is so prevalent. Bloomsbury Studies in the City captures the best contemporary criticism on urban literature. Reading literature, drama and poetry in their historical and social context and alongside urban and spatial theory, this series explores the impact of the city on writers and their work.

Irish Writing London: Volume 1 Revival to the Second World War Edited by Tom Herron

G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity Edited by Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby

The presence of Irish writers is almost invisible in literary studies of London. Irish Writing London redresses the critical deficit. A range of experts on particular Irish writers reflect on the diverse experiences and impact this immigrant group has had on the city. Such sustained attention to a location and concern of Irish writing, long passed over, opens up new terrain to not only reveal but create a history of Irish-London writing. Alongside discussions of Wilde, Shaw, Joyce and Yeats, the writing of the political nationalist Katharine Tynan and work of Irish-Language writer Ó Conaire is considered. Written by an international array of scholars, these new essays on key figures challenge the deep-seated stereotype of what constitutes the proper domain of Irish writing, producing a study that is both culturally and critically alert and a dynamic contribution to literary criticism of the city.

G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first book to explore the persistent theme of the city in Chesterton’s writing. Situating him in relation to both Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book explores a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to address the way his imaginative investments and political interventions conceive urban modernity and the central figure of London. With chapters written by leading scholars in the field of 20th century literature, the book also provides fresh readings and suggests new contexts for central texts such as The Man Who Was Thursday, The Napoleon of Notting Hill and the Father Brown stories. It also discusses lesserknown works, such as Manalive and The Resurrection of Rome, drawing out their significance for scholars interested in urban representation and practice in the first three decades of the twentieth century.

TOM HERRON is Senior Lecturer in English and Irish Literature at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.

MATTHEW INGLEBY is a Teaching Fellow at University College London, UK.

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Irish Writing London: Volume 2 Post-War to the Present Edited by Tom Herron Alongside discussions of MacNeice, Boland and McGahern, the autobiography of Brendan Behan and identity of Irish-language writers in London is considered. Written by an internal array of scholars, these new essays on key figures challenge the deepseated stereotype of what constitutes the proper domain of Irish writing, producing a study that is both culturally and critically alert and a dynamic contribution to literary criticism of the city.

TOM HERRON is Senior Lecturer in English and Irish Literature at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. UK November 2012 • US January 2013 184 pages HB 9781441172488 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441124289 • £18.99 /$23.99 Library eBook 9781441105547 • £60.00 /$110.00 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the City

MATTHEW BEAUMONT is Senior Lecturer in English, University College London, UK.

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London in Contemporary British Fiction The City Beyond the City Edited by Nick Hubble, Lynn Wells and Philip Tew Contemporary writers such as J.G. Ballard and Zadie Smith have been registering the changes to the social and cultural London landscape for years. This volume brings together their vivid representations of the capital. Uniting the readings are themes such as relationship between the country and the city; the capacity of satirical forms to encompass the ‘real London’; spatio-temporal transformations and emergences; the relationship between multiculturalism and universalism; the underground as the spatial equivalent of London’s unconsciousness and the suburbs as the frontier of the future.

NICK HUBBLE is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary English Literature at Brunel University, UK. LYNN WELLS is Associate Professor of English and Associate Vice-President (Academic) at the University of Regina in Canada.

PHILIP TEW is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University, UK, Director of Brunel’s Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies.

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Evelyn Waugh

Poems in the Porch

Fictions, Faith and Family Michael G. Brennan

The Radio Poems of John Betjeman Kevin Gardner

Evelyn Waugh: Fictions, Faith and Family is a wide-ranging survey of the prolific literary career of one of the most popular English writers of the 20th century. Michael G. Brennan here identifies three major themes as central to any understanding of Waugh’s work: Catholicism, society and the concept of family.

From Decline and Fall (published in 1928) to his final writings, this book draws not only on the major novels and short stories but also Waugh’s substantial journalistic output, his private journals and correspondences and unpublished draft manuscripts. Through this comprehensive and systematic exploration, Brennan demonstrates the sustained creative importance of Catholicism to Waugh’s literary work.

Between 1953-57, John Betjeman read a series of poems on ‘The Faith in the West’ program airing on the BBC’s West of England Home Service. What few people now realize is that Betjeman read at least 20 original poems on the radio in this series, perhaps even more, and Kevin Gardner has been able to identify and collect 26 of these poems and has written a fascinating introductory essay recounting the story of Betjeman as a radio poet and discussing the artistry of these poems.

Julia Jordan

KEVIN GARDNER is Professor of English Literature at Baylor University, USA.

From the early years of the nineteenth century, cultural pessimists imagined in fiction the political forces that might bring about the destruction of London.

There has been a tendency to dismiss such writings as the lurid imaginings of pulp novelists but this book re-evaluates the contribution of popular fiction to the construction of the terrorist threat. From the 1840s, when a fear of Chartist insurgency was paramount in the minds of authors, it moves through the anarchist thrillers of the 1890s, considers writers’ fears about Bolshevik revolution in the East End of the 1920s and 1930s, explores fears of Fascism in the inter-war years, and assesses the concerns with underground counter-culture that feature in the thriller literature of the 1970s.

MICHAEL G. BRENNAN is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of Graham Greene: Fiction, Faith and Authorship (Continuum, 2010).

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The Wit and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton

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Bevis Hillier

Reading Authority and Representing Rule in Early Modern England Kevin Sharpe Reading Authority and Representing Rule in Early Modern England explores the publication and reception of authority in early modern England. The chapters in this volume look at a broad range of historical materials, enabling a rich historicization of a variety of texts and presenting the history of society and state as a cultural as well as an institutional or political history.

Kevin Sharpe was a leading scholar in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of early modern Britain. He pioneered the application of other disciplines, such as literary criticism, reception studies and studies in visual culture, to the study of the English Renaissance state.

KEVIN SHARPE was Professor of Renaissance Studies and Director of the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. UK June 2013 • US August 2013 352 pages PB 9781441195012 • £19.99 / $34.95 HB 9781441149442 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441145581 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441156754 • £65.00 / $120.00

In this collection, Bevis Hillier draws on Chesterton’s most humorous epigrams and more serious extracts not only from his most popular works, the Father Brown stories, but also his contributions to the Illustrated London News and GK’s Weekly, as well as his numerous novels, poems, essays and tracts on a vast array of subjects.

These pieces shine a light into the margins of Chesterton’s work and give a sense of the distinctive flavour of his mind. Some of Chesterton’s remarkable drawings (he trained as an artist at the Slade) are included, among them a hitherto unpublished caricature of Winston Churchill, c. 1919.

BEVIS HILLIER is an author, journalist and critic, and a former editor of The Connoisseur magazine and of The Times Saturday Review in the UK. UK April 2010 • US June 2011 312 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781441179586 • £14.99 / $24.95 Individual eBook 9781441187017 • £14.99 / $19.99

Chance and the Modern British Novel From Henry Green to Iris Murdoch UK December 2011 • US February 2012 192 pages PB 9781441110145 • £17.99 / $29.95 Library eBook 9781441109712 • £55.00 / $100.00 Series: Continuum Literary Studies

London’s Burning Pulp Fiction, the Politics of Terrorism and the Destruction of the Capital in British Popular Culture, 1840 - 2005 Antony Taylor

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ANTONY TAYLOR is Senior Lecturer in History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. UK January 2012 • US March 2012 272 pages • 16 bw illus HB 9781441118875 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441121851 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441171566 • £65.00 / $120.00

London Gothic Place, Space and the Gothic Imagination

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Lawrence Phillips May 2012 • July 2012 208 • 7 bw illus PB 9781441185129 • £18.99 / $32.95 Library eBook 9781441159977 • £60.00 / $110.00

Mapping the Wessex Novel Landscape, History and the Parochial in British Literature, 1870-1940 Andrew Radford UK April 2012 • US June 2012 192 pages PB 9781441131591 • £24.99 / $44.95 Individual eBook 9781441100931 • £24.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781441148339 • £75.00 / $140.00

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Narcoepics A Global Aesthetics of Sobriety Hermann Herlinghaus Narcoepics foregrounds the controversial yet mostly untheorized phenomenon of contemporary Latin American ‘narcoepics’. Foregrounding the art that has arisen from or seeks to describe drug culture, Herlinghaus’s comparative study looks at writers such as Gutiérrez, J. J. Rodríguez, Reverte, films such as City of God, and the narratives surrounding cultural villains/heroes such as Pablo Escobar.

Narcoepics shows that that in order to grasp the aesthetic and ethical core of these narratives it is pivotal, first, to develop an ‘aesthetics of sobriety’. The aim is to establish a criteria for a new kind of literary studies, in which cultural hermeneutics plays as much a part as political philosophy, analysis of religion, and neurophysiological inquiry.

HERMANN HERLINGHAUS is Professor of Latin American Literatures in the Institute of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and International Adjunct Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. UK March 2013 • US January 2013 224 pages PB 9781441107787 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441121981 • £55.00 / $100.00

Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers From Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code Edited by Sarah Churchwell and Thomas Ruys Smith “Although the past two decades have seen a sizeable increase in scholarly interest in bestsellers in the American context, there remains a great deal of unexplored territory when it comes to such literature. Must Read goes a long way in addressing this deficiency by examining a tremendous range of such literature with great critical care, insight, and theoretical sophistication. Must Read is a must read for anyone interested in American bestsellers.” Paul Gutjahr, Professor of English, American Studies, and Religious Studies, Indiana University, USA What is it about certain books that makes them bestsellers? Why do some of these books remain popular for centuries, and others fade gently into obscurity? Addressing those and other equally pressing questions about popular literature, Must Read is the first scholarly collection to offer both a survey of the evolution of American bestsellers as well as critical readings of some of the key texts that have shaped the American imagination since the nation’s founding.

SARAH CHURCHWELL is Professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities at the University of East Anglia, UK. THOMAS RUYS SMITH is a Lecturer in American Literature and Culture in the School of American Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. UK October 2012 • US August 2012 384 pages PB 9781441162168 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441150684 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441195135 • £17.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441145888 • £55.00 / $100.00

Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction Series Editor: Sarah Graham, Lecturer in American Literature, University of Leicester, UK This series offers up-to-date guides to the recent work of major contemporary North American authors. Written by leading scholars in the field, each book presents a range of original interpretations of three key texts published since 1990, showing how the same novel may be interpreted in a number of different ways. These informative, accessible volumes will appeal to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, facilitating discussion and supporting close analysis of the most important contemporary American and Canadian fiction.

Chuck Palahniuk

Toni Morrison

Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Choke Edited by Francisco Collado-Rodrίguez

Paradise, Love, A Mercy Edited by Lucille P. Fultz

Offering a distinctive world full of traumatized characters trapped in a consumerist society where men, women, sex and gender have become unstable commodities, Chuck Palahniuk has become one of the most controversial of contemporary novelists.

This book is the first guide to bring together scholars from a full range of critical perspectives to explore three of Palahniuk’s most widely-studied novels: Fight Club, Invisible Monsters and Choke. Examining these works in light of such key critical themes as violence, masculinity, postmodern aesthetics and trauma, the book also explores the ethical dimension of Palahniuk’s work that is often lost in the heat of the controversies surrounding his books.

Toni Morrison features a collection of ten new essays by noted Morrison scholars, including recipients of the Toni Morrison Society Book Award. Focusing upon Morrison’s most recently published novels (Paradise, Love, A Mercy) the contributors to this volume revisit issues that continue to engage Morrison and are part of the currency of contemporary American literary and cultural history. These selections examine Morrison’s ongoing ‘romance’ with African Americans as they continue to battle the demons of race, gender, class, and poverty, to name a few. Together, these essays offer comprehensive and nuanced discussions of Morrison’s latest novels and provide new directions for Morrison scholarship in the twenty-first century.

FRANCISCO COLLADO-RODRÍGUEZ is Professor of English at the University of Zaragoza, Spain.

LUCILLE P. FULTZ is Associate Professor Emerita in English at Rice University, USA.

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UK October 2012 • US December 2012 208 pages PB 9781441119681 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441130136 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441167910 • £17.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441125392 • £55.00 / $100.00 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction

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Lyric Encounters

Estimating Emerson

Essays on American Poetry from Lazarus and Frost to Cofer and Alexie Daniel Morris

An Anthology of Criticism from Carlyle to Cavell Edited by David LaRocca

A new survey of twentieth-century U.S. poetry that places a special emphasis on poets who have put lyric poetry in dialogue with other forms of creative expression, including modern art, the novel, jazz, memoir, and letters. Contesting readings of twentieth-century American poetry as hermetic and narcissistic, Morris interprets the lyric as a scene of instruction and thus as a public-oriented genre. American poets from Robert Frost to Sherman Alexie bring aesthetics to bear on an exchange that asks readers to think carefully about the ethical demands of reading texts as a reflection of how we metaphorically ‘read’ the world around us and the persons, places, and things in it.

DANIEL MORRIS is Professor of English at Purdue University, USA. UK June 2013 • US April 2013 208 pages PB 9781441151568 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441194428 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441110176 • £17.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441159946 • £55.00 / $100.00

Borges, between History and Eternity Hernán Díaz “A splendid book. Intelligent, illuminating, original, worthy of its ambitious subject. I have read it with increasing pleasure, and finished it feeling I now had a better understanding of Borges’s seemingly simple and apparent but in fact deeply mysterious intelligence.” Alberto Manguel That Borges is one of the key figures in twentiethcentury literature is beyond debate. The reasons behind this claim, however, are a matter of contention. In Latin America he is read as someone who reorganized the canon, questioned literary hierarchies, and redefined the role of marginal literatures.

On the other hand, in the rest of the world, most readers (and dictionaries) tend to identify the adjective ‘Borgesian’ with intricate metaphysical puzzles and labyrinthine speculations of universal reach, completely detached from particular traditions. One reading is context-saturated, while the other is context-deprived. Oddly enough, these ‘institutional’ and ‘transcendental’ approaches have not been pitched against each other in a critical way. Borges, between History and Eternity brings these perspectives together by considering key aspects of Borges’s work – the reciprocal determinations of politics, philosophy and literature; the simultaneously confining and emancipating nature of language; and the incipient program for a literature of the Americas.

“This is the definitive anthology on America’s premier man of letters—Ralph Waldo Emerson.”

Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor Professor, Princeton University, USA “Quite apart from the usefulness of having all these important essays handy, readers may also toy with this simple question: when writing about a writer’s work, over the years, have critics gotten better or have they gotten worse?” William H. Gass, David May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities, Washington University in St Louis, USA “David LaRocca’s Estimating Emerson is an essential anthology of criticism. Every lover of Emerson will be tempted to read deeply in this volume, which offers a rich spectrum of reactions to the Emersonian genius, from Emerson’s own day to the present. It’s not just a delightful book, but a necessary one.” David Mikics, John and Rebecca Moores Professor of English, University of Houston, USA, and Editor of The Annotated Emerson “Estimating Emerson looks to be an anthology that easily will find a place in the classroom for courses in American literature, American studies, and American philosophy.” William Day, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Le Moyne College, USA As ‘America’s Plato’, it is perhaps not surprising that Emerson has drawn a great deal of critical (in both senses of the word) attention.

What is surprising, however, is the fact that so much of the attention was given by writers and thinkers as varied as Thomas Carlyle, Matthew Arnold, the James brothers, Walt Whitman, D. H. Lawrence, George Santayana, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, John Updike, and William Gass. Estimating Emerson collects for the first time the writing of these and many other notable writers as they consider the impact of Emerson on their life and work.

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DAVID LAROCCA is Writer-in-Residence in the Frederick Lewis Allen Room at the New York Public Library, USA, and Coordinating Producer and Consulting Editor for the ongoing documentary film project The Intellectual Portrait Series.

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HERNÁN DÍAZ is Associate Director of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University, USA. UK October 2012 • US August 2012 208 pages PB 9781441197795 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9781441188113 • £50.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781441152923 • £16.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781441169099 • £50.00 / $90.00

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American Fiction in Transition

One Man Zeitgeist: Dave Eggers, Publishing and Publicity

Observer-Hero Narrative, the 1990s, and Postmodernism Adam Kelly

ADAM KELLY is IRCHSS CARA Postdoctoral Mobility Fellow at Harvard University, USA, and University College Dublin, Ireland.

UK June 2013 • US April 2013 176 pages HB 9781441112859 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441135933 • £17.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441173744 • £55.00 / $100.00

Early Visions and Representations of America

When the Europeans first arrived in America, they had a number of preconceptions, prejudices, expectations and hopes about what life in the New World would be like. This book examines the different visions and representations of America conveyed in the writings of Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and the Pilgrim leader William Bradford, taking both writers within their respective literary and historical contexts. Anthologies of American literature have consistently ignored Spanish-language achievements on the grounds of a restrictive interpretation of American literature based on linguistic boundaries. In seeking to redress this neglect, Galisteo contributes to scholarship which seeks to analyze Early America as a whole, including not only Anglo American perspectives but also the Spanish American aspect of the colonization process.

M. CARMEN GOMEZ-GALISTEO is Associate Professor in the English Department at ESNE - Universidad Camilo José Cela, Madrid, Spain.

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Outside, America The Temporal Turn in Contemporary American Fiction Hikaru Fujii The idea of the ‘outside’ as a space of freedom has always been central in the literature of the United States. This concept still remains active in contemporary American fiction; however, its function is being significantly changed. Outside, America argues that, among contemporary American novelists, a shift of focus to the temporal dimension is taking place. No longer a spatial movement, the quest for the outside now seeks to reach the idea of time as a force of difference, a la Deleuze, by which the current subjectivity is transformed. In other words, the concept is taking a ‘temporal turn’.

Discussing eight novelists, including Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, Paul Theroux, and Annie Proulx, each of whose works describe forces of given identities – masculine identity, historical temporality, and power, etc. – which block quests for the outside, Fujii shows how the outside in these texts ceases to be a spatial idea.

HIKARU FUJII is Assistant Professor of English Department at Doshisha University, Japan.

Álvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios and William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo

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American Fiction in Transition is a significant and highly readable study of a key but hitherto neglected genre of American literary fiction. It examines the 1990s in relation to debates on the end of postmodernism and to earlier periods of transition in US literature. The book reads individual novels by four major American contemporary writers Philip Roth, Paul Auster, E. L. Doctorow and Jeffrey Eugenides. Each novel has a similar structure: an observer-narrator tells the story of a significant person in their lives who has died. But in their struggle to tell the story, to find adequate means to narrate the life and death of the hero figure of their tale, and to decide on motivation and define character, each narrator offers a window onto problems of ethics, representation and understanding that mark the legacy of the postmodern era in literature and culture.

Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism

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Political Initiation in the Novels of Philip Roth Claudia Franziska Bruhwiler Political Initiation in the Novels of Philip Roth exemplifies how literature and, specifically, the work of Philip Roth can help readers understand the ways in which individuals develop their political identity, learn to comprehend political ideas, and define their role in society. Combining political science, literary theory, and anthropology, the book describes an individual’s political coming of age as a political initiation story, which is crafted as much by the individual himself as by the circumstances influencing him, such as political events or the political attitude of the parents. Philip Roth’s characters constantly re-write their own stories and experiment with their identities.

Accordingly, Philip Roth’s works enable the reader to explore, for instance, how individuals construct their identity against the backdrop of political transformations or contested territories, and thereby become initiands – or fail to do so.

CLAUDIA FRANZISKA BRUHWILER is Lecturer at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

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The Contemporary Spanish American Novel

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Edited by Will H. Corral, Nicholas Birns, and Juan E. DeCastro

Edited by Deborah Ager and M.E. Silverman

• Comprehensive survey of the development of the contemporary Spanish-American novel

• Contains 212 poems on a variety of Jewish themes, cultural and religious

• Covers Central America, the greater Andean region, the Caribbean, the Southern Cone and the US

• Collects the work of 110 poets, ranging from established writers to new voices

• Each geographical section has contextual introduction, indicating major trends as well as the sociocultural factors

• The most comprehensive and up-to-date anthology of contemporary Jewish American poetry available

• Includes detailed discussion of over 60 novelists, both well-known and important but neglected writers The Contemporary Spanish American Novel offers an authoritative guide to a rich and varied novelistic tradition. It covers all demographic areas, including United States Latino authors, in exploring the diversity of this literature and its major themes, such as exile, migration, and gender representation.

WILFRIDO (WILL) H. CORRAL has taught at Stanford University, the University of Massachussets and Amherst College, USA. NICHOLAS BIRNS is Associate Teaching Professor at Eugene Lang College, the New School, New York, USA. JUAN E. DE CASTRO is an Associate Professor in Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Studies, New York, USA.

• The first anthology of its kind

In bringing together poets whose writings explore cultural Jewish topics with those who directly address Jewish religious themes as well as those who only indirectly touch on their Jewishness, this anthology offers a fascinating insight into what it is to be a Jewish poet. Established poets are included, such as David Lehman, who also provides the Foreword to the anthology, as well as representatives of the next generation of Jewish voices, such as Melissa Stein.

DEBORAH AGER is the author of the poetry collection Midnight Voices and founder of 32 Poems Magazine.

M. E. SILVERMAN teaches at Gordon College in Georgia, USA. UK November 2013 • US September 2013 272 pages PB 9781441188793 • £18.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441125576 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441136022 • £18.99 / $23.99

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Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo James Gourley This book starts from a simple premise: that the events of the 11th of September 2001 must have had a major effect on two New York residents, and two of the seminal authors of American letters, Pynchon and DeLillo. By examining implicit and explicit allusion to these events in their work, it becomes apparent that both consider 9/11 a crucial event, and that it has profoundly impacted their work. From this important point, the volume focuses on the major change identifiable in both author’s work; a change in the perception, and conception, of time. This is not, however, a simple change after 2001. It allows, at the same time, a re-examination of both author’s work, and the acknowledgment of time as a crucial concept to both authors throughout their careers.

JAMES GOURLEY is a Member of the Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

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Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist Indrek Männiste Against skeptics, Männiste argues that Miller does indeed have a philosophy of his own, which underpins most of his texts. It is demonstrated that this philosophy, as a metaphysical sense of life, forms a system the understanding of which is necessary to adequately explain even some of the most basic of Miller’s ideas. Building upon his notion of the inhuman artist, Miller’s philosophical foundation is revealed through his literary attacks against the metaphysical design of the modern age. It is argued that, by repudiating some of the most potent elements of late modernity such as history, modern technology and an aesthetisized view of art, Miller paves the way for overcoming Western metaphysics. Finally it is showed that, philosophically, this aim is governed by Miller’s idiosyncratic concept of art, in which one is led towards self-liberation through transcending the modern society and its dehumanizing pursuits.

INDREK MÄNNISTE is Visiting Fellow in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick, UK. UK August 2013 • US June 2013 192 pages HB 9781623561086 •£60.00 /$110.00 Individual eBook 9781623569006 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781623562083 • £60.00 / $110.00

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Emerson and the Natural History of the Metaphor English Traits and the Varieties of Transcendental Biology David LaRocca Using English Traits as his point of departure, LaRocca explores the presence and significance of metaphors in Emerson. In doing so, he shows their centrality to Emerson’s thinking, but also reminds us of their centrality to all thinking.

For example, purity metaphors abounded in nineteenth-century discourse in science, literature, and philosophy. Emerson picks up on this phenomenon, both to examine and undermine it. Purity is merely one of a host of metaphors that reveal problematical implications. Others include: blood, race, family, nation, genealogy, anatomy, and melancholy. By throwing light on Emerson’s scrutiny of the great metaphors of his age, LaRocca lays bare the allusive and anecdotal aspects of Emerson’s prose—the way it makes possible thinking on certain topics, and renews thinking of other issues.

DAVID LAROCCA is Writer-in-Residence in the Frederick Lewis Allen Room at the New York Public Library, USA. UK September 2013 • US July 2013 176 pages PB 9781441161406 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441193179 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441137029 • £17.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441175618 • £55.00 / $100.00

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Evil: A History in Modern French Literature and Thought Damian Catani In this original, interdisciplinary approach to evil in French literature, Damian Catani links literary depictions of evil with cultural events to chart a history of the concept in some of the most important texts in modern literature.

Beginning with Balzac and Baudelaire, Catani covers the restoration and the Second Empire before interpreting how Catholic stereotypes of the ‘evil feminine’ and new scientific theories impacted the work of Lautréamont and Zola. Moving into the twentieth century, evil is then explored in terms of the Self, power, knowledge and politics through readings of Proust, Céline, Sartre and Foucault.

DAMIAN CATANI is Lecturer in the Department of European Cultures and Languages at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. UK February 2013 • US April 2013 240 pages HB 9781441185563 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441184900 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441185075 • £60.00 / $110.00

The Politics of Literature in Nazi Germany

The Book of Imitation and Desire Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard Trevor Cribben Merrill Foreword by Andrew J. McKenna Trevor Merrill offers a new interpretation of Milan Kundera’s work that seeks to reinsert him in the contemporary conversation and the post-Iron Curtain context. Harold Bloom and others have dismissed Kundera as a maker of ‘period pieces’ that lost currency once the Berlin Wall fell. Merrill refutes this view and, in doing so, marshals a critical approach introduced by René Girard in his 1961 book Deceit, Desire, and the Novel desire springs neither from individual tastes nor inherent physical attractiveness but hinges on imitation or, more precisely, on imitative desire. Merrill seeks to overturn our understanding of Kundera by showing how Kundera overturns our understanding of love and desire.

TREVOR CRIBBEN MERRILL sits on the Research Committee of Imitatio: Integrating the Human Sciences.

ANDREW J. MCKENNA is Professor of French Language and Literature at Loyola University Chicago, USA. UK May 2013 • US February 2013 208 pages HB 9781441118653 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441120559 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441195463 • £60.00 / $110.00

The Book and the Media Dictatorship Jan-Pieter Barbian Translated by Kate Sturge This is the most comprehensive account to date of literary politics in Nazi Germany and of the institutions, organizations and people who controlled German literature during the Third Reich. Barbian details a media dictatorship that began almost immediately under the National Socialists, leading to authors’ forced declarations of loyalty, literary propaganda, censorship, and book burnings. Special attention is given to Nazi regulation of the publishing industry and command over all forms of publication and dissemination. Barbian describes a society in which everybody who was not openly opposed to it, participated in the system, whether as a writer, an editor, or even as an ordinary visitor to a library.

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KATE STURGE holds a Chartered Institute of Linguists’ Diploma in Translation (German-English) and a PhD in Comparative Literature. She is co-editor of the Routledge journal Translation Studies.

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New Directions in German Studies Series Editor: Imke Meyer, Helen Herrmann Chair and Professor of German, Bryn Mawr College, USA A long and venerable tradition of ‘Germanistik’ has been opened up in exciting ways in the past few decades. The series taps into that tradition and its growth into ‘German Studies,’ reframing aspects of the discipline in light of concerns germane to these fields: German, Austrian, or Swiss national identity and aesthetics; historical approaches to German-language literature and cinema; the legacy of the Holocaust and its influence on aesthetics; politics and aesthetics; issues of canonization and periodization; the place of gender, queer, and postcolonial studies within German Studies; the aesthetics of exile; myth and national identity; cross-cultural dialogues and aesthetics; material culture; Germanlanguage aesthetics and globalization.

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Thomas Mann in English

Reading Lou Andreas-Salomé Gisela Brinker-Gabler

A Study in Literary Translation David Horton

This new study introduces the reader into Lou AndreasSalomé’s critical and creative engagement with modern thought. Through detailed explorations of some of her major texts, Brinker-Gabler examines Andreas-Salomé’s unique perspective within contemporary discourses attentive to meaning, perception, memory and the unconscious. Making use of conceptual frameworks of Irigaray and Benjamin, Freud and Kristeva, among others, Brinker-Gabler argues that Andreas-Salome displaces dominant visions of gender and sexuality, culture, religion, and creativity with multifaceted revisions through the female lens of a creative thinker.

With her aesthetics of the ‘in-visible’, as Brinker-Gabler calls it, AndreasSalomé seeks to retrieve the multilayered past that is embedded in the present and to give positive accounts of sexual and cultural difference, experience, narcissism, and becoming.

Thomas Mann owes his place in world literature to the dissemination of his works through translation.

Indeed, it was the monumental success of the original English translations that earned him the title of ‘the greatest living man of letters’ during his years in American exile (1938-52). This book provides the first systematic exploration of the English versions, illustrating the vicissitudes of literary translation through a principled discussion of a major author.

The study illuminates the contexts in which the translations were produced before exploring the transformations Mann’s work has undergone in the process of transfer. An exemplary analysis of selected textual dimensions demonstrates the multiplicity of factors which impinge upon literary translation, leading far beyond the traditional preoccupation with issues of equivalence. Thomas Mann in English thus fills a gap both in translation studies, where Thomas Mann serves as a constant but ill-defined point of reference, and in literary studies, which has focused increasingly on the author’s wider reception.

GISELA BRINKER-GABLER is Professor of Comparative Literature at The State University of New York at Binghamton, USA. UK October 2012 • US August 2012 160 pages HB 9781441199751 • £55.00 /$100.00 Individual eBook 9781441151957 • £17.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441133380 • £55.00 / $100.00 Series: New Directions in German Studies

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DAVID HORTON is Lecturer in English Translation Studies, Saarland University, Germany.

UK June 2013 • US April 2013 204 pages HB 9781441167989 • £60.00 / $110.00 Library eBook 9781441182777 • £60.00 / $110.00 Series: New Directions in German Studies

Out of Place German Realism, Displacement and Modernity John Lyon In late nineteenth-century Germany, the onset of modernity transformed how people experienced place. In response to increased industrialization and urbanization, the expansion of international capitalism, and the extension of railway and other travel networks, the sense of being connected to a specific place gave way to an unsettling sense of displacement. John Lyon analyzes works of three major representatives of German Realism – Wilhelm Raabe, Theodor Fontane, and Gottfried Keller – within this historical context. It situates the perceived loss of place evident in their texts within the contemporary discourse of housing and urban reform (Huber, Faucher, Engels, Gurlitt, and Simmel), but also views such discourse through the lens of twentienth-century theories of place. Informed by both phenomenological (Heidegger and Casey) as well as Marxist (Deleuze, Guattari, and Benjamin) approaches to place, Lyon highlights the struggle to address issues of place and space that reappear today in debates about environmentalism, transnationalism, globalization, and regionalism.

JOHN LYON is Associate Professor in the Department of German at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. UK May 2013 • US February 2013 224 pages HB 9781441133403 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441105967 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441117014 • £60.00 / $110.00 Series: New Directions in German Studies

From Kafka to Sebald Modernism and Narrative Form Edited by Sabine Wilke This volume takes up the question of literary narratives and their encounters with modernism and postmodernism within the German-language milieu. Original essays written by scholars of German and Comparative Literature approach the issue of narrative form anew, analysing the ways in which modernist and postmodernist German-language narratives frame and/or deconstruct historical narratives. The authors (Kafka, Kappacher, Goll, Bernhard, Menasse, and Wolf, among others) and works interpreted in the essays included here span the period from before World War I to the post-Holocaust, post-Wall present.

SABINE WILKE is Professor of German at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, where she is also associated with European Studies, and the Program in Critical Theory.

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The Promise and Premise of Creativity

Transnational Tolstoy

Why Comparative Literature Matters Eugene Eoyang

Between the West and the World John Burt Foster Jr.

“A book that has been crying to be written for the last several decades. It is a superb volume and a significant contribution to the field in terms of its probing insight and critical sophistication.” Steven P. Sondrup, President, International Comparative Literature Association The Promise and Premise of Creativity considers literature in the larger context of globalization and ‘the clash of cultures’. Refuting the view that the study of literature is ‛useless’, Eoyang argues that it expands three distinct intellectual skills: creative imagination, vicarious sympathy, and capacious intuition.

EUGENE EOYANG is Professor Emeritus of English, Humanities, Translation, and General Education at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China, and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, USA. UK September 2012 • US July 2012 208 pages PB 9781441181039 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441108647 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441144706 • £17.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441174840 • £55.00 / $100.00

The Novel: An Alternative History

Transnational Tolstoy renews and enhances our understanding of Tolstoy’s fiction in the context of ‘World Literature’, a term that he himself used in What is Art? (1897). It offers a fresh perspective on Tolstoy’s fiction as it connects with writers and works from outside his Russian context, including Stendhal, Flaubert, Goethe, Proust, Lampedusa and Mahfouz.

Foster provides an interlocking series of crosscultural readings ranging from nineteenth-century Germany, France, and Italy through the rise of modernist fiction and the crisis of World War II, to the growth of a worldwide literary outlook from 1960 onward. He emphasizes Tolstoy’s writings with the most consistent international resonance: War and Peace and Anna Karenina, two of the world’s most compelling novels.

JOHN BURT FOSTER JR. is Professor of World and Comparative Literature at George Mason University, USA. UK August 2013 • US June 2013 208 pages PB 9781441157706 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441153265 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441135681 • £17.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441149374 • £55.00 / $100.00

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Beginnings to 1600 Steven Moore “Everything we know about the origins of the novel is wrong. The novel did not spring from the minds of eighteenth-century English writers, nor did Cervantes invent it. Instead, the novel coalesced in the Mediterranean in the fourteenth century with ‘Greek romances and Latin satires.’

And writers were creating ‘experimental,’ internalized, mischievous, and wildly imaginative novels centuries before James Joyce. In his zestfully encyclopedic, avidly opinionated, and dazzlingly fresh history of the most ‘elastic’ of literary forms, Moore shares his discoveries of ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Hebrew, Greek, Roman, and Christian fiction and analyzes with unflagging enthusiasm the novels of medieval and Renaissance Europe, followed by deep readings of Indian, Tibetan, Arabic, Persian, Japanese, and Chinese fiction. Reveling in the most innovative and daring creations, Moore energetically evaluates tales fantastic, chilling, hilarious, erotic, and tragic, comparing centuries-old novels to those of Barth, Gaddis, Pynchon, and Vollmann. Destined for controversy, Moore’s erudite, gargantuan, kaleidoscopic, and venturesome ‘alternative history’ will leave readers feeling as though they’ve been viewing literature with blinders on.” Booklist Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, The Novel: An Alternative History is the first attempt in over a century to tell the complete story of our most popular literary form.

STEVEN MOORE is the author of several books and essays on modern literature.

From 1988 to 1996 he was managing editor of the Review of Contemporary Fiction/Dalkey Archive Press, and for decades he has reviewed books for a variety of journals and newspapers, principally The Washington Post.

Weakness: A Literary and Philosophical History Michael O’Sullivan “Michael O’Sullivan’s Weakness: A Literary and Philosophical History makes a significant contribution to scholarship by discussing a much neglected theme of the dialectic of weakness and showing its multifaceted complexity in innovative ways. It is a real tour de force in literary theory and criticism that relates to an impressive array of issues, ideas, and arguments, and offers much for students of literature, literary theory, and philosophy to reflect on and think through. An important book, and definitely worth reading.” Zhang Longxi, Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation, City University of Hong Kong Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, this first book-length study of the concept explores weakness as it is interpreted by Lao Tzu, Nietzsche, Derrida, the Romantics, Dickens and the Modernists. It examines what feminist writers Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray have made of the gendered biomythology constructed around the figure of the ‘weaker vessel’ and it considers related notions such as impotentiality, a ‘syntax of weakness’ and human vulnerability in the work of Agamben, Beckett and Coetzee.

MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN is Assistant Professor in English at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Agamben’s Joyful Kafka Finding Freedom Beyond Subordination Anke Snoek Both Giorgio Agamben and Franz Kafka are best known for their gloomy political worldview. A cautious study of Agamben’s references on Kafka, however, reveals another dimension right at the intersection of their works: a complex and unorthodox theory of freedom. The inspiration emerges from Agamben’s claims that ‘it is a very poor reading of Kafka’s works that sees in them only a summation of the anguish of a guilty man before the inscrutable power’. Virtually all of Kafka’s stories leave us puzzled about what really happened. Was Josef K., who is butchered like a dog, defeated?

And what about the meaningless but in his own way complete creature Odradek? Agamben’s work sheds new light on these questions and arrives, through Kafka, at different strategies for freedom at the point where this freedom is most blatantly violated.

ANKE SNOEK is currently completing her PhD thesis on addiction, moral identity and moral agency at Macquarie University, Australia. She has published articles and book chapters on autonomy, freedom, Agamben, Kafka, Foucault and addiction.

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Deconstruction without Derrida Martin McQuillan Deconstruction without Derrida’s principal theme is an attention to instances of deconstruction other than or beyond Derrida and thus imagining a future for deconstruction after Derrida. This future is both the present of deconstruction and its past.

The readings presented in this book address the expanded field of deconstruction in the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, Helene Cixous, Paul de Man, Harold Bloom, J. Hillis Miller, Judith Butler, Gayatri Spivak and Catherine Malabou. They also, necessarily, address Derrida’s own readings of this work. McQuillan accounts for an experience of otherness in deconstruction that is, has been and always will be beyond Derrida, just as deconstruction remains forever tied to Derrida by an invisible, indestructible thread.

In the Beginning, She Was Luce Irigaray In this new book, crucial for understanding her journey, Luce Irigaray goes further than in Speculum and questions the work of the Pre-Socratics at the root of our culture. Reminding us of the story of Ulysses and Antigone, she demonstrates how, from the beginning, Western tradition represents an exile for humanity. Indeed, to emerge from the maternal origin, man elaborated a discourse of mastery and constructed a world of his own that grew away from life and prevented perceiving the real as it is. To recover our natural belonging and learn how to cultivate it humanly is imperative and needs turning back before the golden age of Greek culture. Another language is, then, to discover, capable of expressing living energy and transforming our instincts into shareable desires.

In the Beginning, She Was reworks themes that are central to Irigaray’s thought: the limits of Western logic, the sexuation of discourse, the existence of two different subjects, the necessity of art as mediation towards another culture. These themes are approached with a new level of maturity that reconfirms the place of Irigaray as one of the world’s most important contemporary thinkers.

LUCE IRIGARAY is Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.

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The Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics

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Edited by Joseph J. Tanke and Colin McQuillan • Contains translations that are both scholarly and user-friendly • Provides readers with the essential passages of each text, ones chosen for their historical significance and contemporary relevance • Incorporates important figures, such as Friedrich Schiller, Novalis, Hölderlin, Charles Baudelaire, and Paul Valéry, often neglected by philosophical aesthetics

MARTIN MCQUILLAN is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at Kingston University, UK, and Co-Director of the London Graduate School.

• Introductory essays provide readers with a comprehensive and coherent story about the genesis, development, and transformations of aesthetics, as well as useful introductions to individual texts

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The Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics is a comprehensive survey of the field of aesthetics, with selections drawn from ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern, and contemporary sources. It provides teachers and students with a radically new perspective on the genesis and development of aesthetic theory by including an expanded section on early modern aesthetics and introducing readers to a number of never-anthologized thinkers. It contextualizes these new positions by situating them in terms of the history to which they are responding.

The Anthology pays special attention to the interdisciplinary nature of aesthetics by reconstructing dialogues in literary theory and art criticism that gave rise to philosophy’s more systematic efforts.

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JOSEPH J. TANKE is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii, USA. COLIN MCQUILLAN is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, TX, USA. UK October 2012 • US August 2012 720 pages PB 9781441138262 • £22.99 / $39.95 HB 9781441141101 • £70.00 / $130.00

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Language, Ethics and Animal Life Wittgenstein and Beyond Edited by Niklas Forsberg, Mikel Burley, and Nora Hämäläinen New research into human and animal consciousness, a heightened awareness of the methods and consequences of intensive farming, and modern concerns about animal welfare and ecology are among the factors that have made our relationship to animals an area of burning interest in contemporary philosophy. Utilizing methods inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein, the contributors to this volume explore this area in a variety of ways. Topics discussed include: scientific vs. non-scientific ways of describing human and animal behaviour; the ethics of eating particular animal species; human nature, emotions, and instinctive reactions; the concept of dignity; and the question whether nonhuman animals can use language.

Non-dualism in Eckhart, Julian of Norwich and Traherne A Theopoetic Reflection James Charlton

NIKLAS FORSBERG is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Uppsala University, Sweden.

The words ‘me’, ‘mine’, ‘you’, ‘yours’, can mislead us into feeling separate from other people. This book is an exhilarating contribution to the spirituality of non-duality or non-separation. Meister Eckhart, Mother Julian of Norwich and Thomas Traherne are interpreted as ‘theopoets’ of the body/soul who share a moderate non-dualism. Their work is brought within the ambit of non-dual Hinduism. Specifically, their passion for unitive spiritual experience is linked to construals of both ‘the Self’ and ‘Awakening’, as enunciated by Advaita Vedanta.

Charlton draws on poetry, theology and philosophy to perceive fresh connections. A commonality of interest is proposed between the three Europeans and Ramana Maharshi. This text contributes to a recovery, in the West, of the vital, unifying power of non-dual awareness and connectedness.

MIKEL BURLEY is Lecturer in Religion and Philosophy at the University of Leeds, UK.

JAMES CHARLTON is a poet and theological writer with an interest in transformative spiritual knowledge and experience, across traditions.

NORA HÄMÄLÄINEN is post-doctoral researcher and temporary lecturer in philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and former editor-in-chief of the Helsinki-based cultural weekly Ny Tid. UK December 2012 • US October 2012 240 pages HB 9781441140555 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441155689 • £21.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441164629 • £65.00 / $120.00

Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling Will Buckingham The telling of tales is always a troubling business, and the way in which we tell stories about ourselves and about others always involves a degree of ethical risk.

Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling explores the troubling nature of storytelling through a reading of the work of Emmanuel Levinas.

Levinas is a thinker who has a complex relationship with literature and with storytelling. At times, Levinas is a teller of powerful tales about ethics; at other times, on ethical grounds, he disavows storytelling altogether. Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling explores the tensions between philosophy and storytelling that run throughout Levinas’s work. By asking about how Levinas tells and untells his stories, and by risking the telling of tales that Levinas himself does not dare to tell, this book opens up new ways of thinking about Levinas’s ethics of responsibility.

It may be, as Levinas often insists, that storytelling presents us with ethical dangers, but Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling makes the case that an ethics of responsibility may demand that, whilst mindful of these dangers, we nevertheless continually seek out new stories to tell about ourselves, about others and about the world.

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Performatives After Deconstruction Edited by Mauro Senatore Following Derrida’s appeal to any rigorous deconstruction to reckon with Austin’s theorems and his ever growing commitment to rethink and rewrite the performative and its multiple articulations, it is now urgent that we reflect upon the effects of a theoretical event that has profoundly marked the contemporary scene. The contributors to this book suggest various ways of re-reading the heritage and future of both deconstruction and the performative after their encounter, bringing into focus both the constitutive aporias of the performatives and the role they play within the deconstruction of the metaphysical tradition. Ultimately the book asks whether there is such a thing as a deconstructive performative and to what extent deconstruction can be thought of in terms of a performative.

MAURO SENATORE is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Kingston

University, UK.

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WILL BUCKINGHAM is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. UK February 2013 • US April 2013 176 pages HB 9781441124159 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441134905 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441105394 • £65.00 / $120.00 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy

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Confessions

The Poetics of Sleep

The Philosophy of Transparency Thomas Docherty

From Aristotle to Nancy Simon Morgan Wortham

Thomas Docherty examines confessional writings from Augustine to Montaigne and from Sylvia Plath to Derrida, arguing that through all this work runs a philosophical substratum - the conditions under which it is possible to assert a confessional mode - that needs exploration and explication. In a postmodern ‘transparent society’, the self coincides with its self-representations. Such a position is central to the idea of authenticity and truth-telling in confessional writing. The question is: what other consequences might there be of an assumption of the primacy of transparency? Docherty shows that despite the tendency to regard transparency as a general social and ethical good, our contemporary culture of transparency has engendered a society in which autonomy (or the very authority of the subject that proclaims ‘I confess’) is grounded in guilt, reparation and victimhood.

To what extent does sleep constitute a limit for the philosophical imagination? What is at issue in the repeated relegation of sleep to the realm of physiological study, in favour of promoting the critical investigation of dreams and dreaming as a key indicator of modernity?

Through a series of engagements with key thinkers in modern European philosophy, this book rearticulates a poetics of sleep at the heart of some of its seminal texts. From the problematic yet instructive status of a Kantian discourse on sleep to the conceptual contradictions inherent in psychoanalytic thought and the rich possibilities of thinking ‘sleep’ in the writings of Bergson, Blanchot and Nancy, the book’s aim is to dredge the remains of sleep - not to bring its secrets to the surface of waking life, but instead to draw closer to what falls under or away in thinking and writing ‘sleep’.

THOMAS DOCHERTY is Professor of English at Warwick University, UK.

SIMON MORGAN WORTHAM is Professor of English and co-director of the London Graduate School at Kingston University London, UK.

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The Cognitive Value of Philosophical Fiction Jukka Mikkonen This study addresses the philosophical value of literature by examining how literary works impart philosophy truth and knowledge and to what extent the works should be approached as communications of their authors.

Beginning with theories of fiction, it examines the case against the prevailing ‘pretence’ and ‘makebelieve’ theories of fiction hostile to propositional theories of literary truth. Tackling further arguments against the cognitive function and value of literature, this study illustrates how literary works can contribute to knowledge by making assertions and suggestions and by providing hypotheses for the reader to assess.

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Through clear analysis of the concept of the author, the role of the authorial intention and the different approaches to the ‘meaning’ of a literary work, this study provides an historical survey to the cognitivist-anti-cognitivist dispute, introducing contemporary trends in the discussion before presenting a novel approach to recognizing the cognitive function of literature.

JUKKA MIKKONEN is a postdoctor researcher in the Department of Philosophy at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Tampere, Finland.

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Violence, Desire, and the Sacred

Vasilii Rozanov and the Creation

Girard’s Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines Edited by Scott Cowdell, Chris Fleming, and Joel Hodge Foreword by Wolfgang Palaver

The Edenic Vision and the Rejection of Eschatology Adam Ure

This collection showcases the work of outstanding scholars in mimetic theory and how they are applying and developing Girard’s insights in a variety of fields.

Girard’s mimetic insight has provided a fruitful way for different disciplines, such as literature, anthropology, theology, religion studies, cultural studies, and philosophy, to engage on common anthropological ground, with a shared understanding of the human person. The aim of this edited collection is to present this interdisciplinary work and to illustrate how Girard’s insights provide fertile ground for bringing together disparate disciplines in a shared purpose.

SCOTT COWDELL is Associate Professor and Research Fellow at Charles Sturt University, Australia and Founding President of the Australian Girard Seminar.

CHRIS FLEMING is Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Sydney, Australia and is current Vice-President of the Australian Girard Seminar.

JOEL HODGE is Lecturer in at the Australian Catholic University, Australia and is current Treasurer and Secretary of the Australian Girard Seminar.

“One of early 20th Century Russia’s most important and original thinkers, Vasilii Rozanov has undergone a revival in Russia since the fall of communism and his impact continues to resonate amongst Russian intellectuals of all persuasions.

Adam Ure’s meticulously researched new book is the first substantive work in English on Rozanov.

Its hugely impressive merit is that, unlike previous scholarship which has tended to treat the writer in purely literary mode, or in his philosophical context, it offers a holistic interpretation capable of unifying Rozanov’s philosophical, political, theological and aesthetic activities within a single system: that of his theory of Creation ... Ure’s achievement will be of compelling interest to scholars and students of European literature, religious philosophy and intellectual history alike.” Stephen Hutchings, Professor of Russian Studies, University of Manchester, UK ADAM URE completed his PhD at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, in 2009, on the religious philosophy of Vasilii Rozanov.

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WOLFGANG PALAVER is Professor and Chair of the Institute for Systematic Theology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

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Iris Murdoch: Philosophical Novelist Miles Leeson UK October 2011 • US December 2011 PB 9781441110220 • £19.99 / $34.95 Individual eBook 9781441127631 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441179043 • £65.00 / $120.00

Modern/Postmodern

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Society, Philosophy, Literature Peter V. Zima UK April 2012 • US June 2012 328 pages PB 9781441199010 • £29.99 / $55.00 Library eBook 9781441112897 • £95.00 / $160.00

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The Writing of Violence in the Middle East

The Poetics of Mourning in the Middle East

Divine Providence: A History

Inflictions

Elegies

The Bible, Virgil, Orosius, Augustine, and Dante Brenda Deen Schildgen

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

Alina Gharabegian

From the domains of contemporary Middle Eastern literature, this book stages a powerful conversation on questions of cruelty, evil, rage, vengeance, madness, and deception. Beyond the narrow judgment of violence as a purely tragic reality, these writers (in states of exile, prison, martyrdom, and war) come to wager with the more elusive, inspiring, and even ecstatic dimensions that rest at the heart of a visceral universe of imagination. Covering complex and controversial thematic discussions, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh forms an extreme record of voices, movements, and thoughtexperiments drawn from the inner circles of the Middle Eastern region. By exploring the most abrasive writings of this vast cultural front, the book reveals how such captivating outsider texts could potentially redefine our understanding of violence and its nowunstoppable relationship to a dangerous age.

JASON BAHBAK MOHAGHEGH is Assistant Professor of World Literature at New Jersey City University, USA. UK February 2012 • US April 2012 HB 9781441106308 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441106674 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441150639 • £65.00 / $120.00 Series: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought

Humour and Religion

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Challenges and Ambiguities Hans Geybels UK September 2012 • US November 2012 288 pages PB 9781441139245 • £27.99 / $49.95 Individual eBook 9781441171412 • £27.99 / $38.99 Library eBook 9781441194831 • £85.00 / $150.00

In the birthplace of the Abrahamic religions, the postmodern elegy reads like a forlorn prayer.

The world of formalized grief comes to life in this volume about the ancient ways in which the East sorrows over suffering, over anguish, over death. A collection of Armenian, Iranian, and Arabic poets from the 19th and 20th centuries are gathered to formulate a theory of poeticized affect that stands counter to Western conceptualizations of loss and elegiac mourning. Through a psycho-poetic approach, this book investigates themes such as disaster, exile, pity, humanness, boundlessness, forgetting, condemnation, the unnamable, prophecy, profusion, and cosmic grief. The rhythms of lament that rise and fall so differently in the Islamicate world herald a new way of mourning for our age, by way of one of the most time-honored and distinguished poetic genres in existence.

ALINA GHARABEGIAN is Assistant Professor of English at New Jersey City University, USA. UK June 2013 • US August 2013 224 pages HB 9781441101013 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441157492 • £19.99 /$23.99 Library eBook 9781441109002 • £65.00 / $120.00 Series: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought

“At the heart of Schildgen’s study of the providential ideal is her reading of Dante’s shift from an imperialist theology, in the vein of an Orosius, in Monarchia to the subtle Augustinianism of the Commedia, his poetic masterwork.

Schildgen sets the stage for Dante with the late antique debate within Christianity over the visibility of providence, mainly a story of two different syntheses of two contrasting legacies: one biblical, the other Roman. She has an extraordinary ability to weave a narrative thread through a thicket of conceptual and historical complexity.”

James Wetzel, Augustinian Endowed Chair, Villanova University Holding divine intervention responsible for political and military success and failure has a long history in western thought. This book explores the idea of providential history as an organizing principle for understanding the divine purpose for humans in texts that may be literary, historical, philosophical, and theological.

BRENDA DEEN SCHILDGEN is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis, USA. UK September 2012 • US July 2012 224 pages HB 9781441112705 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441131386 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441131386 • £60.00 / $110.00

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Redcrosse Remaking Religious Poetry for Today’s World Edited by Ewan Fernie “How do we think about identity in ways that don’t reflect anxiety, fear of the other, uncritical adulation of our past and all the other pitfalls that surround this subject? The Redcrosse project manages to negotiate these difficulties with immense imaginative energy and honesty: no sour notes, no attempt to overcompensate by desperately overapologetic rhetoric, simply a recover of deep roots and generous vision. As much as it takes its cue from Spenser, it’s a contemporary working out of some of the great and inexhaustible legacy of Blake, a unique contribution to what is often a pretty sterile discussion of who we are in these islands.” Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, UK This book explores the creation of Redcrosse, a new poetic liturgy for St George’s Day and a unique collaborative work written by the critic Ewan Fernie, the theologian Andrew Shanks and the major contemporary poets Jo Shapcott, Michael Symmons Roberts and Andrew Motion.

EWAN FERNIE is Professor and Chair of Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. UK October 2012 • US December 2012 176 pages PB 9781441138996 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9781441178589 • £50.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781441156914 • £16.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781441157300 • £50.00 / $90.00

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C O M PA R A T I V E L I T E R A T U R E / L I T E R A T U R E A N D R E L I G I O N New Directions in Religion and Literature Series Editors: Mark Knight, University of Toronto, Canada Emma Mason, University of Warwick, UK This series aims to showcase new work at the forefront of religion and literature through short studies written by leading and rising scholars in the field. Books will pursue a variety of theoretical approaches as they engage with writing from different religious and literary traditions.

Collectively, the series will offer a timely critical intervention to the interdisciplinary crossover between religion and literature, speaking to wider contemporary interests and mapping out new directions for the field in the early twenty-first century.

Dante and the Sense of Transgression

Incarnational Poetics

The Trespass of the Sign William Franke

Incarnational Poetics offers a lively engagement with contemporary debates regarding the close reading of poetry. It looks back to the nineteenth century to consider how the establishment of English Literature as an academic discipline related to contemporaneous Higher Criticism of the Bible. Suggesting that this comparison reveals a foundational relationship between interpreting the body of the divine and the body of the poem, the book uses this as a springboard for thinking about what we undertake when we ‘close read’ a poem and how this has shaped poetry reading across the subsequent centuries.

In Dante and the Sense of Transgression, William Franke combines literary-critical analysis with philosophical and theological reflection to cast new light on Dante’s poetic vision. Conversely, Dante’s medieval masterpiece becomes our guide to rethinking some of the most pressing issues of contemporary theory.

WILLIAM FRANKE is Professor of Comparative Literature and Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University, USA. UK October 2012 • US December 2012 192 pages PB 9781441160423 • £18.99 / $32.95 HB 9781441136916 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441185020• £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441150288 • £60.00 / $110.00 Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature

Rhian Williams

RHIAN WILLIAMS is Lecturer in Nineteenth-century Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK. UK May 2013 • US April 2014 176 pages PB 9781441142122 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441163493 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781623562069 • £17.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781623566746 • £55.00 / $100.00 Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature

The Glyph and the Gramophone D.H. Lawrence’s Religion Luke Ferretter Although he had broken with the Congregationalist faith by his early twenties, D.H. Lawrence remained what he called a ‘passionately religious’ thinker and writer. There have been several studies in the last fifteen years of specific aspects of Lawrence’s religious thought - on his use of typology, on his theories of creativity, and on his relationship to the Bible. To date, however, there has been no complete survey of the development of Lawrence’s complex and changing body of religious thinking and writing. The first major study since the Cambridge Edition of Lawrence’s work (begun in 1979), this book will discuss Lawrence’s developing religious thought, as he expresses it both directly in prose and aesthetically in his literary works.

LUKE FERRETTER is Assistant Professor of Twentieth-Century British and American Literature at Baylor University, USA. UK May 2013 • US July 2013 160 pages PB 9781441122957 • £17.99 /$29.95 HB 9781441132581 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441119391 • £17.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441124357 • £55.00 / $100.00 Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature

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Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse Becoming the Chosen People Samantha Zacher In this book, Samantha Zacher explores how the very earliest English Biblical poetry creatively adapted, commented on and spread Biblical narratives and traditions to the wider population. Systematically surveying the manuscripts of surviving poems, the book shows how these vernacular poets commemorated the Hebrews as God’s ‘chosen people’ and claimed the inheritance of that status for Anglo-Saxon England.

The book undertakes close readings of the poems Exodus, Daniel and Judith in order to examine their methods of adaptation for their particular theologico-political circumstances and the way they portray and problematize Judaeo-Christian religious identities.

SAMANTHA ZACHER is Associate Professor of English at Cornell University, USA. UK June 2013 • US August 2013 192 pages PB 9781441185600 • £18.99 / $32.95 HB 9781441134776 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441150936 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441121103 • £60.00 / $110.00 Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature

The Late Walter Benjamin John Schad The Late Walter Benjamin is a documentary novel that juxtaposes the life and death of Walter Benjamin with the days, hours and minutes of a working-class council estate on the edge of London in post-war Austerity England. The novel centres on one particular tenant who claims to be Walter Benjamin, and only ever uses words written by Benjamin, apparently oblivious that the real Benjamin committed suicide 20 years earlier whilst fleeing the Nazis.

Initially set in the sixties, the text slips back to the early years of the estate and to Benjamin’s last days, as he moves across Europe seeking ever-more desperately to escape the Third Reich. Through this fictional narrative, John Schad explores not only the emergence of Benjamin’s thinking from a politicised Jewish theology forced to confront the rise of Nazism but also the implications of his utopian Marxism.

JOHN SCHAD is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Lancaster, UK. UK May 2012 • US July 2012 264 • 12 bw illus PB 9781441177681 • £18.99 / $32.95 HB 9781441171702 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441131584 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441148612 • £60.00 / $110.00 Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature

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Adaptation and the Avant-Garde

The Film Novelist

Alternative Perspectives on Adaptation Theory and Practice William Verrone

Writing a Screenplay and Short Novel in 15 Weeks Dennis J. Packard

“With a certain amount of historical irony, adaptation studies have, in recent years, become a subtle, dynamic, and complex centerpiece in contemporary film and media studies. As the range of this work expands, new areas and issues continue to be explored, and Verrone’s wideranging study of adaptation and the avant-garde is a long needed and exciting contribution to the intellectual energy of the field.” Timothy Corrigan, Professor of Cinema Studies, English, and History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, USA

What is the difference between a screenplay and a film novel? Screenplays indicate solely what the audience is to see or hear on screen. Film novels are short, and take about as long to read as a feature film takes to watch. The description, dialogue, and narration of a film novel can simply be lifted out and used as the description, dialogue, and voiceover narration for a script. The author has devised a fifteen week program starting from a one-sentence pitch to the novel itself. He grounds the discussion of early film novels, like The Maltese Falcon, Of Mice and Men, and The Misfits, to provide historical and theoretical background while detailing the practical, sequential approach for completing a short novel and script.

Adaptation and the Avant-Garde examines films by Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard, Guy Maddin, Jan Svankmajer and many others, offering illuminating insights and making us reconsider the nature of adaptation, appropriation, borrowing, and the re-imagining of previous sources.

WILLIAM VERRONE is Assistant Professor of Film and Literature at the University of North Alabama, USA.

DENNIS J. PACKARD is a professor at Brigham Young University, USA. UK November 2011 • US September 2011 232 pages • 27 bw illus PB 9781441103178 • £13.99 / $19.95 Individual eBook 9781441190680 • £13.99 / $15.99

UK December 2011 • US September 2011 288 pages HB 9781441163523 • £70.00 / $130.00 Individual eBook 9781441133823 • £22.99 / $24.99 Library eBook 9781441134189 • £70.00 / $130.00

The Drift Affect, Adaptation, and New Perspectives on Fidelity John Hodgkins The Drift offers a new perspective on the complex interrelations between literature and cinema. It does so by articulating an ‘affective turn’ for adaptation studies, a field whose traditional focus has been the critical castigation of film adaptations of canonical plays or novels.

What affective work are certain literary and filmic texts performing?

What can this tell us, more broadly, about the underexplored affective dimensions of literature and cinema? The book addresses such questions through close readings which put a variety of realist, modernist, and postmodernist works into conversation with each other, among them the fiction of John Dos Passos, Don DeLillo, and Susanna Moore, the films of Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein, as well as recent cinematic adaptations by Jane Campion and Charles Burnett.

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JOHN HODGKINS currently teaches English and film at York College and Manhattan Marymount College in New York City, USA. UK June 2013 • US April 2013 192 pages HB 9781623560706 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781623568986 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781623562649 • £60.00 / $110.00

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C O M PA R A T I V E L I T E R A T U R E / L I T E R A T U R E A N D M E D I A International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics Series Editor: Francisco J. Ricardo is affiliated with the University Professors of Boston University and is cofounder of the Digital Video Research Archive.

International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics provides a platform for new scholarship in the area of electronic art and literature, to be presented from the perspective of critical aesthetics – philosophical positions dedicated to the problem of how and whether technology as a medium for art and literature simultaneously makes reference to and differs from the use of more traditional media and methods for these expressive practices.

Cybertext Poetics The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory Markku Eskelinen “Markku Eskelinen’s …. deep knowledge of the subjects that are object of his sharp attention, his intelligence and intellectual brightness, his provocative style and the will to understand and explain how textuality works make Eskelinen the foremost scholar in the field. With connections to all literary media and transtextual relations between them, Cybertext Poetics is a major work of cultural criticism that reminds us of the power of literature.”

Laura Borràs, University of Barcelona, Spain; and Director of the Hermeneia Research Group By focusing on a cultural mode of expression that is formally, cognitively, affectively, socially, aesthetically, ethically and rhetorically different from narratives and stories, Cybertext Poetics constructs a ludological basis for comparative game studies, shows the importance of game studies to the understanding of digital media, and argues for a plurality of transmedial ecologies.

MARKKU ESKELINEN is an independent scholar, experimental author based in Finland.

UK May 2012 •US March 2012 472 pages • 25 bw illus PB 9781441107459 • £22.99 / $39.95 HB 9781441124388 • £70.00 / $130.00 Individual eBook 9781441134516 • £22.99 / $24.99 Library eBook 9781441118202 • £70.00 / $130.00 Series: International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics

New Directions in Digital Poetry C.T. Funkhouser “Once again, Funkhouser is way ahead of the rest.

No one else pays such close attention to digital poetry, and no one else attends to the payoff: a deep understanding of the viewing and reading experience, backed by detailed and illuminating research into the technical and compositional process.” Sandy Baldwin, the Center for Literary Computing, West Virginia University As poets continue to use digital media technology, functionalities of computing extend aesthetic possibilities in documents focusing attention on crafting verbal content. Utility of these machines and tools enables multiple types of compounded articulation (combinations of verbal, visual, animated, and interactive elements). New Directions in Digital Poetry aspires to influence the formation of writing with media in literary society of the future, specifically as a record of a particular technological era.

C.T. FUNKHOUSER is an Associate Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA. UK March 2012 • US January 2012 344 pages • 40 bw illus PB 9781441115911 • £19.99 / $34.95 HB 9781441165923 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9780826443618 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441195678 • £65.00 / $120.00 Series: International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics

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New Perspectives on the European Bildungsroman

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The Reception of David Hume In Europe

Giovanna Summerfield

Peter Jones

May 2012 • July 2012 208 pages PB 9781441108531 • £18.99 / $32.95 Individual eBook 9781441167118 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441151186 • £60.00 / $110.00

UK January 2013 • US February 2013 434 pages PB 9781441102423 • £29.99 / $55.00 Individual eBook 9781623567613 • £29.99 / $39.99 Library eBook 9781847142412 • £95.00 / $160.00 Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe

The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe Michael Hollington The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe offers a full historical survey of Dickens’s reception in all the major European countries and many of the smaller ones, filling a major gap in Dickens scholarship, which has by and large neglected Dickens’s fortunes in Europe, and his impact on major European authors and movements. Essays by leading international critics and translators give full attention to cultural changes and fashions, such as the decline of Dickens’s fortunes at the end of the nineteenth century in the period of Naturalism and Aestheticism, and the subsequent upswing in the period of Modernism, in part as a consequence of the rise of film in the era of Chaplin and Eisenstein. It will also offer accounts of Dickens’s reception in periods of political upheaval and revolution such as during the communist era in Eastern Europe or under fascism in Germany and Italy in particular.

MICHAEL HOLLINGTON is Professor of English at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail 2.

UK December 2012 • US February 2013 720 pages HB 9781847060969 • 2 volumes • £200.00 / $395.00 Individual eBook 9781623560355 • £200.00 / $395.00 Library eBook 9781623560768 • £200.00 / $395.00 Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe

The Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe

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Patrick Parrinder UK January 2013 • US February 2013 464 pages PB 9781441112996 • £29.99 / $55.00 Individual eBook 9781623568641 • £29.99 / $39.99 Library eBook 9781847144447 • £95.00 / $160.00 Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe

The Reception of Jonathan Swift in Europe

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Hermann J. Real UK January 2013 • US February 2013 416 pages PB 9781441143945 • £29.99 / $55.00 Individual eBook 9781623561383 • £29.99 / $39.99 Library eBook 9781847143129 • £95.00 / $160.00 Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe

The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Europe

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Klaus Peter Jochum

Existential Utopia New Perspectives on Utopian Thought Edited by Michael Marder and Patricia Vieira These original essays, contributed by key thinkers such as Gianni Vattimo and Jean-Luc Nancy, highlight the connection between utopian theory and practice. The book reassesses the legacy of utopia and conceptualizes alternatives to the neo-liberal, technocratic regimes prevalent in today’s world.

It argues that only utopia in its existential sense, grounded in the lived time and space of politics, can distance itself from mainstream ideology and not be at the service of technocratic regimes, while paying attention to the material conditions of human life. Existential Utopia offers a new and exciting interpretation of utopia in contemporary culture and a much-needed intervention into the philosophical and political discussion of utopian thinking that is both accessible to students and comprehensive.

UK January 2013 • US February 2013 400 pages PB 9781441155986 • £29.99 / $55.00 Individual eBook 9781623569518 • £29.99 / $39.99 Library eBook 9781847143532 • £95.00 / $160.00 Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe

The Reception of Walter Pater in Europe

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Stephen Bann UK January 2013 • US February 2013 328 pages PB 9781441130402 • £29.99 / $55.00 Individual eBook 9781623565862 • £29.99 / $39.99 Library eBook 9781847144331 • £95.00 / $160.00 Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe

MICHAEL MARDER is Ikerbasque Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.

PATRICIA VIEIRA is Researcher of the Center for Comparative Studies, University of Lisbon, Portugal and Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University, USA. UK January 2012 • US November 2011 192 pages PB 9781441169211 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9780826420725 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441115393 • £17.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441100511 • £55.00 / $100.00

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COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS

Black Comics Politics of Race and Representation Edited by Ronald L. Jackson II and Sheena C. Howard Bringing together contributors from a wide-range of critical perspectives, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation is an analytic history of the diverse contributions of Black artists to the medium of comics. Covering comic books, superhero comics, graphic novels and cartoon strips from the early 20th century to the present, the book explores the ways in which Black comic artists have grappled with such themes as the Black experience, gender identity, politics and social media.

Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives Comics at the Crossroads Edited by Daniel Stein, Christina Meyer and Shane Denson Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book charts and analyzes the ways in which comic book history and new forms of graphic narrative have been impacted by aesthetic, social, political, economic, and cultural interactions that reach across national borders in an increasingly interconnected and globalizing world.

This book introduces students to such key texts as: • The work of Jackie Ormes • Black women superheroes from Vixen to Black Panther • Aaron McGruder’s strip The Boondocks RONALD L. JACKSON II is Dean of McMicken College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Cincinnati, USA. SHEENA C. HOWARD is Assistant Professor at Rider University, USA.

SHANE DENSON is Research Associate in American Studies at Gottfried Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.

UK February 2013 • US April 2013 256 pages HB 9781441185754 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441185235 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441161468 • £18.99 /$23.99

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The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his Revolutionary Comic Strip Nevin Martell In Looking for Calvin and Hobbes, Nevin Martell sets out on a very personal odyssey to understand the life and career of the intensely private man behind Calvin and Hobbes. Martell talks to a wide range of artists and writers (including Dave Barry, Harvey Pekar, and Brad Bird) as well as some of Watterson’s closest friends and professional colleagues, and along the way reflects upon the nature of his own fandom and on the extraordinary legacy that Watterson left behind.

NEVIN MARTELL is a Contributing Editor at Filter magazine and his music journalism has appeared in Paste, Giant, Men’s Health, High Times, and Flaunt, as well as online at RollingStone.com. You can find him online at www.nevinmartell.com.

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DANIEL STEIN is Research Associate in American Studies at Georg-AugustUniversity Göttingen, Germany.

CHRISTINA MEYER is Assistant Professor at the University of Osnabrück, Germany.

UK May 2013 • US March 2013 224 pages • 6 bw illus PB 9781441135285 • £18.99 / $32.95 HB 9781441172761 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441138491 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441168474 • £60.00 / $110.00

Looking for Calvin and Hobbes

Exploring the tendencies of graphic narratives - from popular comic book serials and graphic novels to manga - to cross national and cultural boundaries, Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives addresses a previously marginalized area in comics studies.

The Power of Comics

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History, Form and Culture Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith The Power of Comics is the first introductory textbook for comic art studies courses. Lending a broader understanding of the medium and its communication potential, it provides students with a coherent and comprehensive explanation of comic books and graphic novels, including coverage of their history and their communication techniques, research into their meanings and effects and an overview of industry practices and fan culture.

Co-authors Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith draw on their own years of experience teaching comics studies courses and the scholarly literature across several disciplines to create a text with the following features: • Discussion questions for each chapter • Activities to engage readers • Recommended reading suggestions • Over 150 illustrations • Bibliography • Glossary RANDY DUNCAN is a co-founder the Comic Arts Conference. He also wrote the entries on Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Will Eisner and other comics-related topics for the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture.

MATTHEW J. SMITH is Associate Professor and Chair of Communication at Wittenberg University, US, where he regularly teaches comics arts courses.

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The Science Fiction Handbook

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Nick Hubble and Aris Mousoutzanis The Science Fiction Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the genre and how to study it for students new to the field.

Features include an historical timeline, encyclopaedia-style entries on key writers, critics and critical terms, case studies of both literary and critical works, discussion points and study questions. In the later sections of the book, the changing nature of the science fiction canon and its growing role in relation to the wider categories of English Literature are discussed in depth introducing the reader to the latest critical thinking on the field.

NICK HUBBLE is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary English Literature at Brunel University, UK. ARIS MOUSOUTZANIS is a Visiting Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, UK. UK September 2013 • US November 2013 256 pages PB 9781441170965 • £19.99 / $34.95 HB 9781441197696 • £65.00 / $120.00 SERIES: Literature and Culture Handbooks

Bending Genre

Crime Culture

Essays on Creative Nonfiction Edited by Margot Singer and Nicole Walker

Figuring Criminality in Fiction and Film Edited by Bran Nicol

Ever since the term ‘creative nonfiction’ first came into widespread use, memoirists and journalists, essayists and fiction writers have faced off over where the border between fact and fiction lies. This debate over ethics, however, has sidelined important questions of literary form. Bending Genre does not ask where the boundaries between genres should be drawn, but what happens when you push the line. Written for writers and students of creative writing, this collection brings together perspectives from today’s leading writers of creative nonfiction, including Michael Martone, Brenda Miller, Ander Monson, John D’Agata, and David Shields. Each writer’s innovative essay probes our notions of genre and investigates how creative nonfiction is shaped, modeling the forms of writing being discussed.

MARGOT SINGER is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.

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July 2012 • September 2012 256 pages PB 9781441150165 • £24.99 / $44.95 Individual eBook 9781441192974 • £24.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781441140128 • £75.00 / $140.00

Adapting Detective Fiction

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Crime, Englishness and the TV Detectives Neil McCaw UK July 2012 • US September 2012 208 pages PB 9781441186171 • £18.99 / $32.95 Individual eBook 9781441130549 • £18.99 /$23.99 Library eBook 9781441156624 • £60.00 / $110.00

NICOLE WALKER currently teaches at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, USA. UK May 2013 • US February 2013 208 pages PB 9781441123299 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441180650 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441117250 • £17.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441195265 • £55.00 / $100.00

Detecting Detection International Perspectives on the Uses of a Plot Edited by Peter Baker and Deborah Shaller Modern fiction regularly uses elements of a detective narrative to tell another story altogether, to engage characters, narrators, and readers with questions of identity, with examinations of moral and ethical reasoning, with critiques of social and political injustices, and with the metaphysics of meaning itself. Detective plots cross cultural and national boundaries and occur in different ways and different genres. Taken together, they suggest important contemporary understandings of who and what we are, how and what we aspire to become. Detecting Detection gathers writing from the UK, North and South America, Europe, and Asia to draw together instances of the detective plot in contemporary fiction.

PETER BAKER is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Towson University, Baltimore, USA. DEBORAH SHALLER is professor in the English Department at Towson University, Baltimore, USA. UK August 2012 • US June 2012 208 pages PB 9781441100788 • £19.99 / $34.95 HB 9781441149367 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441168344 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441128126 • £65.00 / $120.00

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The Foreign in International Crime Fiction Transcultural Representations Edited by Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda and Barbara Pezzotti “Ranging from early twentieth-century British spy stories to contemporary Scandinavian thrillers and covering settings that include Argentina, the French Pacific, Cuba, Australia, New Zealand, and much of Europe, the sixteen essays in this important collection ask crucial questions about the ways in which the encounter with the foreign has been staged in Western literature ... The Foreign in International Crime Fiction is indispensable reading not only for scholars of the genre but also of ethnography, and of post-colonial and travel literature.” Luca Somigli, University of Toronto, Canada Offering readings of 20th and 21st-century crime writing from Norway, the UK, India, China, Europe and Australasia, the essays in this book open up new directions for scholarship on crime writing and transnational literatures.

JEAN ANDERSON is Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

CAROLINA MIRANDA is Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

BARBARA PEZZOTTI is a journalist and a Teaching Fellow in Italian at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

UK June 2012 • US August 2012 256 pages HB 781441128171 • £60.00 / $110.00 Library eBook 9781441177032 • £18.99 / $23.99 Individual eBook 9781441181985 • £60.00 /$110.00

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Making Poetry Matter

Writing the Self

International Research on Poetry Pedagogy Edited by Sue Dymoke, Andrew Lambirth and Anthony Wilson

Diaries, Memoirs, and the History of the Self Peter Heehs

Making Poetry Matter draws together contributions from leading scholars in the field to offer a variety of perspectives on poetry pedagogy. A wide range of topics are covered and throughout, the internationally recognised contributors draw on case studies to ensure that the theory is clearly linked to practice as they consider teaching and learning poetry to those aged between 5 and 19 from different perspectives, looking at reading, writing, speaking and listening, and transformative poetry cultures.

SUE DYMOKE is Senior Lecturer and PGCE English Course Leader in the School of Education at the University of Leicester, UK. ANDREW LAMBIRTH is Professor of Education at the University of Greenwich, UK. ANTHONY WILSON is a Lecturer at University of Exeter, UK, where he is Subject Leader for Primary English.

UK May 2013 • US July 2013 208 pages HB 9781441101471 • £75.00 / $140.00 Individual eBook 9781441163530 • £23.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781441105684 • £75.00 / $140.00

Ideas of the self have changed markedly since the Romantic period and most scholars today regard it as at best a mental construct.

First-person genres such as diaries and memoirs have provided an outlet for self-expression. Protestant diaries replaced the Catholic confessional, but secular diaries such as Pepys’s may reveal yet more about the self. After Richardson, novels competed with diaries and memoirs as vehicles of self-expression, though memoirs survived and continue to thrive, while the diary has found a new incarnation in the personal blog.

Writing the Self narrates the intertwined histories of the self and of self-expression through first-person literature.

PETER HEEHS is an independent scholar based in India. He has written or edited nine books and published more than fifty articles.

UK March 2013 • US January 2013 288 pages PB 9781441168283 • £19.99 / $34.95 HB 9781441168023 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441153449 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441128157 • £65.00 / $120.00

The Fiction of Autobiography Reading and Writing Identity Macaela Maftei Drawing upon a wide range of late twentieth and early twenty-first-century autobiographical writing, The Fictions of Autobiography examines key aspects of autobiography from the interrelated perspectives of author, reader, critic and scholar, to reconsider how we view this form of writing, and its relationship to the way we understand and construct identity. Maftei considers recent cases and texts such as Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking and Frey’s A Million Little Pieces alongside older texts such as Proust’s In Search of Lost Time¸ Nabokov’s Speak, Memory and Stein’s The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

MACAELA MAFTEI is Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, UK, where she teaches English literature and creative writing.

UK August 2013 • US June 2013 208 pages PB 9781623568016 • £19.99 / $29.95 HB 9781623569020 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781623561758 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781623561819 • £65.00 / $120.00

Graphic Poetics

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Poetry as Visual Art Richard Bradford UK October 2012 • US December 2012 224 pages PB 9781441175175 • £19.99 / $34.95 Individual eBook 9781441182852 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441146656 • £65.00 / $120.00

Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination

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Elana Gomel UK April 2012 • US June 2012 192 pages PB 9781441144027 • £24.99 / $44.95 Individual eBook 9781441146861 • £24.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781441178831 • £75.00 / $140.00 Series: Continuum Literary Studies

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Adapting Canonical Texts in Children’s Literature Edited by Anja Müller This collection analyses different examples of adapting canonical texts in or for children’s literature encompassing adaptations of English classics for children and young adult readers and intercultural adaptations of children’s classics across Europe. The international contributors assess both historical and transcultural adaptation in relation to historically and regionally contingent concepts of childhood. By assessing how texts move across age-specific or national borders, they examine the traces of a common literary and cultural heritage in European children’s literature.

ANJA MÜLLER is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University of Siegen, Germany.

UK January 2013 • US March 2013 224 pages • 8 bw illus HB 9781441178770 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441152817 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441164278 • £60.00 / $110.00

Children’s Literature in Second Language Education

Children’s Literature and Learner Empowerment

Edited by Janice Bland and Christiane Lütge Bringing together leading scholars and teacher educators from across the world, from Europe and the USA to Asia, this book covers such topics as extensive reading, creative writing in the language classroom, the use of picture books and graphic novels in second language teaching and the potential of children’s literature in promoting intercultural education. The focus throughout the book is on creative approaches to language teaching, from early years through to young adult learners, making this book an essential read for those studying or embarking on second language teaching at all levels.

JANICE BLAND is a teacher educator in literature and EFL at Hildesheim University, Germany.

CHRISTIANE LÜTGE is Professor of English at Münster University, Germany.

UK November 2012 • US January 2013 224 pages HB 9781441183521 • £75.00 / $140.00 Individual eBook 9781441182760 • £23.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781441129789 • £75.00 / $140.00

Ethics in British Children’s Literature Unexamined Life Lisa Sainsbury Featuring close readings of selected poetry, visual texts, short stories and novels published for children since 1945, this is the first extensive study of the nature and form of ethical discourse in British children’s literature.

Children and Teenagers in English Language Education Janice Bland This text provides a comprehensive introduction to children’s and young adult literature in EFL teaching. It demonstrates the complexity of children’s literature and how it can encourage an active community of second language readers: with multilayered picture books, fairy tales, graphic novels and radical young adult fiction.

It examines the opportunities of children’s literature in EFL teacher education, including: the intertexuality of children’s literature as a gate-opener for canonised adult literature; the rich patterning of children’s literature supporting creative writing; the potential of interactive drama projects.

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JANICE BLAND is a teacher educator in literature and EFL at Hildesheim University, Germany.

UK May 2013 • US July 2013 224 pages • 45 bw illus HB 9781441144416 • £75.00 / $140.00 Individual eBook 9781441165992 • £23.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781441153395 • £75.00 / $140.00

Resources for Teaching Shakespeare: 11-16 Fred Sedgwick

Ethics in British Children’s Literature explores the extent to which contemporary writing for children might be considered philosophical. Rigorously engaging with influential moral philosophers, from Aristotle through Kant and Hegel, to Arno Leopold, Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley, and Lars Svendsen, this book demonstrates the narrative strategies employed to engage young readers as moral agents.

Shakespeare’s plays and plots are very much alive in the modern curriculum. For many of those required to study him, however, their enthusiasm is dead and buried. Aimed at those teaching Shakespeare to students aged from 11-16, Fred Sedgwick provides tried-and-tested lessons accompanied by photocopiable and downloadable resources to enable teachers to develop their practice and inspire their students. This fantastic resource provides lessons to engage and enlighten students and features activities, teaching strategies and schemes informed by current ideas about teaching and learning and the curriculum.

LISA SAINSBURY is Director of the National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature, University of Roehampton, UK.

FRED SEDGWICK is a poet, former headteacher and author of many books in the areas of literature, expressive arts, education and creativity.

UK May 2013 • US July 2013 224 pages HB 9781441139832 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441190772 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441124951 • £60.00 / $110.00

UK August 2011 • US October 2011 128 pages PB 9780826438591 • £29.99 /$55.00 Library eBook 9781441180773 • £29.99 /$39.99 Series: Resources for Teaching

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Critical-Creative Writing

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Readings and resources Michelene Wandor The rapid expansion of creative writing courses in higher education, from undergraduate to MA/MFA and PhD level, has generated its own literature and pedagogical practices. All students, at all levels, are asked to supply some kind of ‘reflective commentary’ on their creative writing. All students also participate in workshops, where student writing is subject to peer and tutor criticism.

There is no agreed, standardised way in which either of these practices is approached. While this variety of approaches is one of creative writing’s strengths, it is also a serious, and sometimes confusing limitation. Providing a historical, literary and theoretical resource for creative writing students and their teachers, Critical-Creative Writing offers secure grounding for critical commentaries and provides material for workshop use and clarification of the critical process itself. Critical-Creative Writing is the first of its kind to offer a unique support for students dealing with criticism and critical commentary as part of their creative writing practice and assessment.

MICHELENE WANDOR is a playwright, poet, fiction writer and musician and teaches on the Lancaster University, UK, MA in Creative Writing.

UK February 2013 • US April 2013 192 pages PB 9781441199577 • £19.99 / $39.95 HB 9781441127563 • £65.00 / $130.00

Write What You Don’t Know An Accessible Manual for Screenwriters Julian Hoxter Write What You Don’t Know is a friendly manual for aspiring screenwriters. It encourages you to move beyond your comfort zones in search of stories. We all write what we know - how could we not? Writing what you don’t know and doing it in an informed and imaginative way is what makes the process worthwhile. Write What You Don’t Know contains examples and case studies from a wide range of movies, both mainstream and alternative such as The Virgin Spring, Die Hard, The Ipcress File, For The Birds, (500) Days of Summer, Juno, Up In The Air, Knocked Up and Brick.

JULIAN HOXTER is the Screenwriting Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Screenwriting in the Cinema Department of San Francisco State University, USA. UK October 2011 • US August 2011 296 pages PB 9781441102102 • £13.99 / $21.95 Individual eBook 9781441143877 • £13.99 / $15.99

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Writing the Horror Movie Marc Blake By tracing the development of the horror film from the German Expressionism of Nosferatu to the Universal franchises of the 30’s (Frankenstein), to Sci-Fi (Psycho), the Slasher film franchise (Friday 13th), Asian Horror, horror verite (Blair Witch), torture porn (Saw) to current developments in the field, including 3D and remakes, the authors deliver instructions in a readable style that will appeal to anyone with a genuine interest in the form and the mechanics of the genre. It also includes step-by-step writing exercises, annotated extracts from horror screenplays and interviews with seasoned writers/ directors/producers discussing budget restrictions, screenplay form and formulas and how screenplays work during shooting.

MARC BLAKE has written for the Independent on Sunday, the Evening Standard, The Mail, Express and the Scriptwriter as well being a staff writer on Eagle Moss’ ‘The Horror Collection’.

UK May 2013 • US March 2013 224 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781441196187 • £14.99 / $22.95 Individual eBook 9781441193476 • £14.99 / $19.99

The Creative Writing MFA Handbook, Revised and Updated Edition

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A Guide for Prospective Graduate Students Tom Kealey The Creative Writing MFA Handbook guides prospective graduate students through the difficult process of researching, applying to, and choosing graduate schools in creative writing. The handbook includes profiles of fifty creative writing programs, guidance through the application process, advice from current professors and students and the most comprehensive listings of graduate writing programs in and outside the United States. This second edition updates and builds upon the first edition, which was published in 2005 to great acclaim and contains a vastly expanded ranking of current creative writing programs.

TOM KEALEY currently teaches at Stanford University, USA. UK December 2008 • US October 2008 240 pages PB 9780826428868 • £14.99 /$22.95

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The Arvon Book of Crime and Thriller Writing Michelle Spring and Laurie R. King The Arvon Foundation runs professional writing courses by published writers and provides expert tuition and creative support. The Arvon Book of Crime and Thriller Writing captures the essence of Arvon teaching into a practical handbook for writers, packed with tips and advice from leading novelists as well as reflections on the genre itself and practical instruction on great storytelling. Contributors include Lee Child, P. D. James, and Ian Rankin.

The Arvon Book of Crime and Thriller Writing is divided into three sections: Part 1 Essays on critical issues in the genre Part 2 Guest Writers: twenty-five contributors offering advice and tips Part 3 How to Write Crime MICHELLE SPRING, has published six crime novels including In the Midnight Hour and is currently Royal Literary Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK. LAURIE R. KING’S books have won the Edgar, Creasey, Wolfe, Lambda, and Macavity awards. She is currently Royal Literary Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK. UK August 2012 • US October 2012 304 pages PB 9781408131220 • £14.99 / $20.00 Individual eBook 9781408166161 • £14.99/ $19.99 Library eBook 9781408166154 • £45.00 / $80.00

The Psychology of Screenwriting

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Theory and Practice Jason Lee The Psychology of Screenwriting is an innovative book that combines practical elements with theory, to give aspiring screenwriters a well-rounded guide to the craft. Using key in-text features for advanced pedagogy this text guides the student screenwriter through the stages of screenwriting. Chapters focus on core topics such as the purpose of screenwriting, genres, structure, the expression of ideas, character, awareness of the visual, and adaptations. Films analyzed in-depth include Rear Window, Short Cuts, Pulp Fiction, Crash, Moon, and Orlando – with the focus throughout the book being on more contemporary films with which students are likely to be familiar.

JASON LEE is Head of Film, Media and Creative Writing at the University of Derby, UK. UK March 2013 • US January 2013 272 pages • 50 bw illus PB 9781441128478 • £16.99 / $27.95 HB 9781441104984 • £45.00 / $80.00 Individual eBook 9781623564735 • £16.99 / $22.99

Analyze Anything

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A Guide to Critical Reading and Writing Gregory Fraser and Chad Davidson

The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction is an essential guide to writing in a wide range of genres, from travel writing to feminist polemic and writing on nature, history, death, friendship and sexuality.

How well can you decode the signs that permeate our daily lives? All of us, consciously or not, constantly engage in the acts of reading and interpreting the signs in the world around us. But how do we sharpen these skills, deepen our awareness of meaning in a complex world, and ultimately reach our full potential as university writers? This book answers the needs of students of composition, culture studies, and literature, providing a process-orientated guide to analyzing anything.

Part 1 explores the full range of genres and asks the question: what is literary non-fiction?

GREGORY FRASER is Associate Professor of English at the University of West Georgia, USA

Part 2 includes tips by bestselling literary non-fiction writers.

CHAD DAVIDSON is Associate Professor of English at the University of West Georgia, USA.

The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction Sally Cline and Midge Gillies

Part 3 offers practical advice – from planning and researching to writing a proposal and finding an agent or a publisher when your work is complete.

SALLY CLINE, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Advisory Fellow to the Royal Literary Fund, is an award winning biographer and short fiction writer.

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UK April 2012 • US June 2012 224 pages PB 9781441107305 • £19.99 / $34.95 HB 9781441154064 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441191151 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441155580 • £65.00 / $120.00

MIDGE GILLIES has written seven non-fiction books and is a part-time tutor at Cambridge University’s Institute of Continuing Education, UK. UK August 2012 • US October 2012 288 pages PB 9781408131237 • £14.99 / $20.00 Individual eBook 9781408175200 • £14.99 / $19.99

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Censoring Translation

Self-Translation

Censorship, Theatre, and the Politics of Translation Michelle Woods

Brokering Originality in Hybrid Culture Edited by Anthony Cordingley

“This fascinating book traces the complexities of translating and staging the work of one Czech playwright, the late, great Vaclav Havel for English and American audiences. Woods raises important questions about the politics of translation and exposes just how forms of censorship can operate in both totalitarian and commercially-driven environments.” Susan Bassnett is Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK

Self-Translation: Brokering Originality in Hybrid Culture provides critical, historical and interdisciplinary analyses of self-translators and their works. It investigates the challenges which the bilingual oeuvre and the experience of the self-translator pose to conventional definitions of translation and the problematic dichotomies of ‘original’ and ‘translation’, ‘author’ and ‘translator’.

Canonical self-translators, such Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov and Rabindranath Tagore, are here discussed in the context of previously overlooked self-translators, from Japan to South Africa, from the Basque Country to Scotland. This book seeks therefore to offer a portrait of the diverse artistic and political objectives and priorities of self-translators by investigating different cosmopolitan, post-colonial and indigenous practices.

Censoring Translation questions the role of textual translation practices in shaping the circulation and reception of foreign censored theatre. It examines three forms of censorship in relation to translation: ideological censorship; gender censorship; and market censorship.

MICHELLE WOODS is Assistant Professor of English at The State University of New York, New Paltz, USA. UK July 2012 • US May 2012 200 pages PB 9781441100573 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441185853 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441116987 • £17.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441187185 • £55.00 / $100.00

Kafka Translated How Translators have Shaped our Reading of Kafka Michelle Woods Kafka Translated is the first book-length publication to look at the issue of translation and Kafka’s work.

What effect do these translations have on how we read Kafka? Are our interpretations of Kafka influenced by the translators’ interpretations?

Woods focuses on issues central to the burgeoning field of Translation Studies: the notion of cultural untranslatability; the centrality of female translators in literary history; and the under-representation of the influence of the translator as interpreter of literary texts. The book specifically focuses on the role of two of Kafka’s first translators, Milena Jesenská and Willa Muir, both women, and how this might allow us to reassess reading Kafka.

MICHELLE WOODS is Assistant Professor of English at The State University of New York, New Paltz, USA. UK May 2013 • US February 2013 160 pages PB 9781441197719 • £14.99 / $24.95 HB 9781441149916 • £45.00 / $80.00 Individual eBook 9781441131959 • £14.99 / $19.99 Library eBook 9781441133441 • £45.00/ $80.00

ANTHONY CORDINGLEY is Lecturer in Translation at the Université de Paris 8, France.

UK January 2013 • US March 2013 216 pages PB 9781441142894 • £27.99 / $49.95 HB 9781441125415 • £80.00 / $150.00 Individual eBook 9781441175755 • £27.99 / $38.99 Library eBook 9781441147295 • £85.00 / $150.00 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Translation

Translation, Adaptation and Transformation Edited by Laurence Raw “This valuable collection offers a thorough and engaging overview of the intersection between adaptation studies and translation studies.

For too long the two fields have existed at an artificial distance from each other and Laurence Raw’s carefully compiled collection of essays demonstrates the dialogue that is beginning to occur between the two fields. The resulting collection is a refreshing and urgent contribution to scholarship that should be essential reading for those working in the academic areas of adaptation and translation - and beyond.” Richard J. Hand, founding co-editor of the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, and Professor of Theatre and Media Drama, University of Glamorgan, UK This collection furthers the research into exactly what the act of adaptation involves and whether it differs from other acts of textual rewriting.

LAURENCE RAW is teaches Adaptation Studies and Literature in the Department of English, Faculty of Education, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey.

UK January 2012 • US March 2012 240 pages HB 9781441108562 • £75.00 / $140.00 Individual eBook 9781441157843 • £23.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781441143488 • £75.00 / $140.00 Series: Continuum Advances in Translation

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I. A. Richards and the Rise of Cognitive Stylistics David West I. A. Richards is an influential figure in literary criticism but has rarely been thought of as someone who laid the foundations for cognitive stylistics. This book proposes that Richards was a ‘protocognitivist’.

West argues that Richards anticipated many of the discipline’s core aims, methods and assumptions. The book argues that the roots of cognitive psychology lie in early twentieth-century psychology, when there was a focus on cognitive processes such as memory and learning, attention, categorisation, perception and consciousness. It was this cognitive psychology that Richards drew upon to build a theory of literature and interpretation – which in itself prefigured cognitive stylistics.

DAVID WEST is a Lecturer in English Language, Linguistics and Literature at the University of Münster, Germany.

UK November 2012 • US January 2013 176 pages HB 9781441110435 • £75.00 / $150.00 Series: Advances in Stylistics

Style in the Renaissance

The Stylistics of Poetry Context, Cognition, Discourse, History Peter Verdonk This is a collection of Professor Peter Verdonk’s most important work on the stylistics of poetry. It begins with a brand new introduction by the series editor Dan McIntyre retrospectively analysing key themes in the work. Gathering articles published across a wide variety of locations into one complete collection, it arrives at a career-long perspective on the development of the stylistics of poetry. Looking at Auden, Heaney and Larkin amongst others it is framed by an opening introduction to poetic artifice and literary stylistics, and a concluding retrospective of Verdonk’s work.

Underlying all of the chapters is a concern with style and how this is represented in language, and in poetry specifically. It will appeal to all students on stylistics and literary linguistics courses, especially those focussing on poetry and poetic language.

PETER VERDONK is Emeritus Professor of Stylistics, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

UK May 2013 • US July 2013 224 pages PB 9781441167903 • £24.99 / $44.95 HB 9781441158789 • £75.00 / $140.00 Individual eBook 9781441128508 • £24.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781441144805 • £75.00 / $140.00 Series: Advances in Stylistics

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Language and Ideology in Early Modern England Patricia Canning “Patricia Canning’s adventurous interdisciplinary study brings together in new and exciting ways the two fields of linguistics and literary criticism in her examination of selected texts by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The range and detail of her analysis, evident especially in her microscopic examination of linguistic forms, cultural assumptions, and historical contexts in plays by Shakespeare and Middleton, and in the poetry of George Crashaw, is impressive. Here is a rare combination of strenuous scholarly rigour, and uncompromising analysis, replete with a full and clear awareness of what interdisciplinarity involves. A welcome new voice offering unique insights into texts that we thought we knew.”

Professor John Drakakis, University of Stirling, UK PATRICIA CANNING is a Teaching Assistant at the School of English, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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METHUEN DRAMA

METHUEN DRAMA Critical Companions Ranging across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Methuen Drama’s Critical Companions series covers playwrights, theatre makers, movements and periods of international theatre and performance. Drawing on original research each volume provides a critical survey and analysis of a body of work by one author, giving attention to both text and performance. In addition, each book features several complementary scholarly essays and interviews with practitioners to provide alternative perspectives on the subject.

The Theatre of Sean O’Casey Edited by James Moran This Critical Companion to the work of one of Ireland’s most famous and controversial playwrights, Sean O’Casey, is the first major study of the playwright’s work to consider his oeuvre and the archival material that has appeared during the last decade. Published ahead of the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland with which O’Casey’s most famous plays are associated, it provides a clear and detailed study of the work in context and performance.

Moran considers the writer’s plays, autobiographical writings and essays, paying special attention to the Dublin trilogy, The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, and The Plough and the Stars. It considers the work produced in exile, during the war and the late plays. The Companion also features a number of essays by other leading scholars and practitioners providing further critical perspectives on the work.

JAMES MORAN is Head of Drama in the School of English Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. UK May 2013 • US July 2013 272 pages PB 9781408175354 • £14.99 / $24.95 HB 9781408175347 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781408165966 • £14.99 / $19.99 Library eBook 9781408165959 • £45.00 / $80.00 Methuen Drama Series: Critical Companions

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The Theatre of David Greig Clare Wallace Since he began writing for theatre in the early nineties, David Greig’s work has been both copious and remarkably varied, defying neat generalisations or attempts to pigeon-hole his work. This Critical Companion provides an analytical survey of his work, from his early plays such as Europe and The Architect through to more recent works Damascus, Dunsinane and Ramallah.

Clare Wallace provides a detailed analysis of a broad selection of plays and their productions, reviews current discourses about his work and offers a framework for enquiry. The Companion features an interview with David Greig and a further three essays by leading academics offering a variety of critical perspectives.

CLARE WALLACE is Senior Lecturer in Irish and British Literature and Irish and Intercultural Studies at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

UK June 2013 • US August 2013 256 pages 216 x 135mm PB 9781408157398 • £14.99 / $24.95 HB 9781408157329 • £55.00/ $100.00 Individual eBook 9781408159514 • £14.99/ $19.99 Methuen Drama Series: Critical Companions

The Plays of Samuel Beckett

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Katherine Weiss Challenging and at times perplexing, Beckett’s work is represented on almost every literature, theatre and Irish studies curriculum in universities in North America, Europe and Australia. Katherine Weiss’ admirably clear study of his work provides the perfect companion, illuminating each play and Beckett’s vision, and investigating his experiments with the body, voice and technology. It includes in-depth studies of the major works Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Krapp’s Last Tape, and as with other volumes in Methuen Drama’s Critical Companions series it features a series of essays by other scholars and practitioners offering different critical perspectives on Beckett in performance that will inform students’ own critical thinking.

KATHERINE WEISS is an Associate Professor of English and Modern Drama at East Tennessee State University, USA. UK December 2012 • US February 2013 272 pages• 4 bw illus PB 9781408145579 • £14.99 / $24.95 HB 9781408157305 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781408145593 • £14.99 / $19.99 Library eBook 9781408145586 • £45.00 / $80.00 Methuen Drama Series: Critical Companions

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New for Spring 2013, Drama Online is the ultimate online resource for plays, critical analysis and performance for libraries, educators, students and researchers.

Developed in partnership by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc and Faber and Faber Ltd, Drama Online features the pre-eminent drama titles from the Methuen Drama, The Arden Shakespeare and Faber lists, to form a collection of the most studied, performed and critically acclaimed plays from the last two and half thousand years.

In addition, it provides expert student guidance in the form of scholarly notes, annotated texts, critical analysis and contextual information.

Performance and practitioner texts from theory to backstage and acting guides, coupled with audio material, will make this an essential study tool meeting the full range of drama teaching needs.

KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS • Instant access to hundreds of plays and reference works • Regularly updated with contemporary plays and study materials

• View lines for individual characters • Option to turn textual notes on or off • Detailed monologues and audition speech search

• Expert guidance with annotated texts, scholarly editions and critical material

• Comfortable on screen reading experience complete with pagination, stage directions and lineation in place

• Powerful full text searching and advanced search options

• Cross referencing via DOI (Digital Object Identifiers) and OpenURLs

• Filtered browsing across authors, periods, genres and themes • Personalisation features: annotate, save, share, extract, citation options • Simple navigation and intuitive user interface, easily accessible from VLEs • View cast size and the number of lines per character • Rehearsal grids illustrate when characters appear in scenes

• Industry standard access: unlimited concurrent access via IP recognition, ATHENS/Shibboleth, library cards, and username and password for remote users.

• COUNTER compliant usage statistics and library branding • Extensive online help and excellent customer and technical support

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METHUEN DRAMA New Mermaids General Editors: Brian Gibbons, University of Münster; William C. Carroll, Boston University, USA; Tiffany Stern, University College, University of Oxford, UK. New Mermaids is a series of over 50 modernized and fully annotated classic plays, with an active programme of new editions.

New Mermaids are: • Edited and updated by experienced teachers who are internationally recognized as authorities in their field • Ideal for, and accessible to, actors, theatre-goers and students • Printed in a clear, easy-to-use format, with annotations below the text and a comprehensive introduction.

The Rover

A Woman Killed With Kindness

Revised edition Aphra Behn

New edition Thomas Heywood Edited by Fran Dolan

Edited by Robyn Bolam • With its long introduction and on-page commentary notes, this edition offers students the most value • The Rover is the most popular play by the first female professional writer in England, Aphra Behn • Set in Italy during the chaotic misrule of carnival time, the play explores issues of love, deception and the excesses of sexual passion This new edition contains a completely new introduction, and takes into account important criticism from the past decade, as well as a new understanding of the nature of theatre in Behn’s time, and the significance of her contribution to English drama.

ROBYN BOLAM is Professor of Literature at St Mary’s University College, London.

UK October 2012 • US December 2012 176 pages PB 9781408152119 • £8.99 / $14.95 Methuen Drama Series: New Mermaids

Thomas Middleton: Four Plays Women Beware Women, The Changeling, The Roaring Girl and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Thomas Middleton Edited by William C. Carroll This New Mermaids anthology brings together the four most popular and widely studied of Thomas Middleton’s plays - Women Beware Women; The Changeling; The Roaring Girl and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside - with a new introduction by William Carroll, examining the plays in the context of early modern theatre, culture and politics, as well as their language, characters and themes. On-page commentary notes guide students to a better understanding and combine to make this an indispensable student edition.

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In Thomas Heywood’s masterpiece, one woman is almost prostituted by her brother in order to pay off his creditor and another woman begins an affair with her husband’s friend and houseguest, only to be discovered by her husband and sent away from their home. In this edition students will find a wealth of information to support their studies: an extended introduction exploring theatrical and historical context, critical reactions, background on the author and stage history as well as the latest research on Heywood. The play itself contains numerous notes and explanations throughout to aid students’ understanding.

FRANCES E. DOLAN is Professor of English at the University of California at Davis, USA. UK September 2012 • US November 2012 144 pages • Production photographs PB 9780713677775 • £7.99 • $12.95 Methuen Drama Series: New Mermaids

Mrs Warren’s Profession Edited by Brad Kent Shaw’s 1893 play centres on the mother and daughter relationship between Kitty Warren and her Cambridge-educated daughter, Vivie, who is currently enjoying a comfortable and financially untroubled life. Kitty’s own upbringing was far from easy, however, and meant that she eventually had to make money through prostitution and then through the management of several brothels. When Vivie discovers that her mother brought her up and funded Vivie’s Cambridge education on the money made from these pursuits, she is horrified and can barely cope. What’s more, Vivie discovers that her mother’s brothels are still in operation.

Students will find a wealth of information in this text to guide their studies: an extended introduction exploring the theatrical and historical context, critical reactions, background on the author, and stage history. It also includes Shaw’s original Preface, and the play itself contains numerous notes and explanations throughout to aid students’ understanding

WILLIAM C. CARROLL is Professor of English at Boston University, USA. He is a General Editor of the New Mermaids Series.

BRAD KENT is Associate Professor of British and Irish Literatures at Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada.

UK August 2012 • US October 2012 560 pages PB 9781408156582 • £9.99 / $19.95 Methuen Drama Series: New Mermaids

November 2012 • January 2013 224 pages PB 9780713679946 Methuen Drama Series: New Mermaids

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The Arden Shakespeare: Third Series General Editors: Richard Proudfoot, Emeritus Professor, King’s College London, UK; Ann Thompson, King’s College London, UK; David Scott Kastan, Yale University, USA; H.R. Woudhuysen, Lincoln College, University of Oxford, UK. Associate General Editor: George Walton Williams, Emeritus Professor, Duke University, USA. Each Arden edition includes: • A full and concise introduction with illustrations, designed to engage and attract the reader • A modernized, easy-to-read version of the text • Thorough commentary on every page explaining the speech and action taking place • Detailed explanations of unusual words and phrases • Appendices, source notes and extracts giving a fully rounded understanding for students • An index providing a pathway through the material.

Coriolanus

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Romeo and Juliet

New edition

Third Series William Shakespeare Edited by Peter Holland

Third Series William Shakespeare Edited by René Weis

This Roman play is one of Shakespeare’s last tragedies, best known for its political and military themes. Its hero, Coriolanus, is a proud General who does not hesitate to show his arrogant and outspoken contempt of the Roman rabble. The Tribunes banish him and he raises an army to take his revenge on Rome. He finally concedes to the pleas of his mother to spare the city and leaves only to be publicly killed by his former allies.

“Romeo and Juliet continues to be a perennial favourite in the English classroom. As well as offering students a clear and spacious text to read and annotate, the latest Arden edition provides a wealth of critical and contextual material – so crucial to today’s study of Shakespeare. Ideal for teachers looking to refresh and update their reading of the text, René Weis’s introduction combines close attention to dramatic language with a comprehensive overview of the history of the play in performance. However familiar a reader might be with Romeo and Juliet, this new edition will bring a range of fresh perspectives, dispelling some oft-repeated myths along the way.” Jenny Stevens, Teacher and Lecturer in English

Peter Holland’s comprehensive Introduction and commentary notes open up the language, themes and ideas in this complex yet richly rewarding play for the student and teacher.

The play is discussed in its historical and critical contexts and its theatrical history is analysed too.

PETER HOLLAND is the McMeel Family Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. UK November 2012 • US January 2013 400 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781904271284 • £10.99 / $17.00 HB 9781904271277 • £65.00 / $100.00 The Arden Shakespeare Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

RENÉ WEIS is Professor of English at University College London, UK, and a distinguished editor and biographer of Shakespeare.

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The Tempest

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William Shakespeare Edited by Alden T Vaughan & Virginia Mason Vaughan The Tempest is one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, both in the classroom and in the theatre, and this revision brings the Arden 3 edition right up-to-date. A completely new section of the introduction discusses new thinking about Shakespeare’s sources for the play and examines his treatment of colonial themes, as well as covering key productions since this edition was first published in 1999. Alden and Virginia Vaughan’s edition of The Tempest is much valued for its authority and originality and their revision brings it up-to-date, making it even more relevant and useful to students and theatre practitioners.

ALDEN T. VAUGHAN is Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, USA. VIRGINIA MASON VAUGHAN is Profess of English and former Chair of the English Department at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. UK August 2011 • US November 2011 416 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781408133477 • £8.99 / $13.95 HB 9781408133484 • £65.00 / $100.00 The Arden Shakespeare Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS APP NOW AVAILABLE Experience Shakespeare’s Sonnets in a whole new way with the new Sonnets iPad app, developed in partnership by The Arden Shakespeare, Touch Press, Faber and Faber, and Illuminations. Featuring video and audio commentary by leading Shakespeare actors alongside the Arden text on screen, and accompanied by notes and critical interpretations, this exciting new product brings Shakespeare’s Sonnets into the twenty-first century and brings Shakespeare’s rich language vividly to life.

To find out more and view the videos, visit: www.thesonnets.tv

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The Merchant Of Venice

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Third Series William Shakespeare Edited by John Drakakis

Othello

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The Merchant of Venice is perhaps most associated not with its titular hero, Antonio, but with the complex figure of the money lender, Shylock. The play was described as a comedy in the First Folio but its modern audiences find it more problematic to categorise. The vilification of Shylock ‘the Jew’ can be very uncomfortable for a post-holocaust audience and debates continue as to whether Shakespeare’s portrayal of this complex man is sympathetic or anti-semitic.

John Drakakis’ comprehensive introduction traces the stage history of the figure of the Jew and looks boldly at twenty-first-century issues surrounding it. He also explores other themes of the play such as father/daughter relations, the power of money and the forceful character of Portia, to offer readers an energetic, original and revelatory reading of this challenging play.

JOHN DRAKAKIS is Professor of English Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland.

UK February 2011 • US April 2011 480 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781903436813 • £9.99 / $17.00 HB 9781903436806 • £65.00 /$100.00 The Arden Shakespeare Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

“Honigmann’s extensive knowledge illuminates this play at every turn, making this the best edition of Othello now available.” Review of English Studies In a period of ten years, Shakespeare wrote a series of tragedies that established him, by universal consent, in the front rank of the world’s dramatists.

Critics have praised either Hamlet or King Lear as the greatest of these; Ernst Honigmann, in the most significant edition of the play for a generation, asks: why not Othello?

This edition sheds new light on the text of the play as we have come to know it, and on our knowledge of its early history. Honigmann examines the major critical issues, the play in performance and the relationship between reading it and seeing it. He also explores topics such as its date, sources and the conundrum of `double time’.

E.A.J. HONNIGMAN was Professor Emeritus at the University of Newcastle, UK. UK February 1997 • US February 1997 432 pages PB 9781903436455 8 £8.99 / $17.00 HB 9781904271130 • £65.00 / $100.00 The Arden Shakespeare Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

The Winter’s Tale King Lear

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Third Series William Shakespeare Edited by R.A. Foakes

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“By far the best edition of King Lear - in respect of both textual and other matters - that we now have.” English Language Notes “This volume is a treasure-trove of precise information and stimulating comments on practically every aspect of the Lear-universe. I know of no other edition which I would recommend with such confidence: to students, professional colleagues and also the ‘educated public’.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch R.A. FOAKES is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. UK May 1997 • US May 1997 456 pages PB 9781903436592 • £8.99 / $17.00 HB 9781903436585 • £65.00 / $100.00 The Arden Shakespeare Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

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Edited by John Pitcher One of Shakespeare’s later plays, best described as a tragi-comedy, the play falls into two distinct parts.

In the first Leontes is thrown into a jealous rage by his suspicions of his wife Hermione and his bestfriend, and imprisons her and orders that her new born daughter be left to perish. The second half is a pastoral comedy with the ‘lost’ daughter Perdita having been rescued by shepherds and now in love with a young prince. The play ends with former lovers and friends reunited after the apparently miraculous resurrection of Hermione.

John Pitcher’s lively introduction and commentary explores the extraordinary merging of theatrical forms in the play and its success in performance. As the recent Sam Mendes production at the Old Vic shows, this is a play that can work a kind of magic in the theatre.

JOHN PITCHER is Professor of English at St John’s College, Oxford, UK. UK July 2010 US September 2010 496 Pages PB 9781903436356 • £9.99 / $17.00 HB 9781903436349 • £65.00 / $100.00 The Arden Shakespeare Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

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Arden Early Modern Drama Series Editors: Suzanne Gossett, Professor Emertius at Loyola University, Chicago, USA John Jowett, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK Gordon McMullan, Professor of English at King’s College London, UK Arden Early Modern Drama accompanies and complements the Arden Shakespeare Third Series, offering editions of non-Shakespearean Renaissance and Restoration drama from the period 1500-1700. Modelled on the Third Series in appearance and style, Arden Early Modern Drama editions offer high-quality textual scholarship, together with an accessible, student-friendly introduction.

The Island Princess

The Tragedy of Mariam

John Fletcher

Elizabeth Cary Edited by Clare McManus

Edited by Ramona Wray

The Island Princess is a tragicomic romance set in the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Fletcher rewrites Shakespeare’s The Tempest through the encounter of Islam and Christianity and the fierce European competition for wealth at the farthest reaches of empire. The play also stages the degeneration of religious tolerance into fanaticism.

“A path-breaking edition that brings together exemplary scholarship, a comprehensive introduction and pioneering work on dramatic production. Wray’s seminal edition of Elizabeth Cary’s Tragedy of Mariam is now essential for research and teaching, as well as professional performance.” Marion Wynne-Davies, University of Surrey, UK

This ground-breaking edition explores the play in its gendered, political, social and religious contexts whilst also finding its resonances for a twenty-first century audience. The critical introduction and on-page commentary notes create an ideal teaching text giving a comprehensive account of the play from both literary and performance perspectives.

CLARE MCMANUS is Reader in English Literature, Roehampton University, London, UK. UK November 2012 • US January 2013 256 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781904271536 • £12.99 / $19.95 HB 9781408130063 • £65.00 /$100.00 The Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Early Modern Drama

The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Kyd Edited by Clara Calvo and Jésus Tronch This is a major new edition of Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, an outstanding landmark of Elizabethan drama. As a revenge tragedy, it set up the salient features of a dramatic genre that would last decades. Its hero became the standard stage representation of grief, rhetorical passion and madness and its main antagonist is one of the first Machiavellian characters of English drama.

This edition explores the play in relation to its historical context and contemporary Iberian dynastic policy. For the first time, this edition presents an integrated text inviting a reading of the play as it was published both in 1592 and in 1602.

CLARA CALVO teaches at the University of Murcia, Spain.

JÉSUS TRONCH teaches at the University of Valencia, Spain.

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Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean closet drama by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary. First published in 1613, it was the first work by a woman to be published under her real name. The play exposes and explores the themes of sex, divorce, betrayal, murder, and Jewish society under Herod’s tyrannous rule.

The comprehensive, illustrated introduction discusses the play in the context of closet drama, female dramatists and in terms of the religious issues it explores, seeing Mariam as a martyr figure. The onpage commentary notes provide further close analysis and explanation, creating an ideal edition for study and teaching.

RAMONA WRAY is Senior Lecturer in the School of English at Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

UK June 2012 • US September 2012 256 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781904271598 • £12.99 / $19.95 HB 9781408129999 • £65.00 / $100.00 The Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Early Modern Drama

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By John Webster Edited by Leah Marcus Paperback: 9781904271512 • £10.99 / $17.00 Hardback: 9781408119488 • £65.00 / $100.00

Everyman and Mankind

Edited by Douglas Bruster and Eric Rasmussen PB 9781904271628 • £10.99 / $18.00 HB 9781408119464 • £65.00 / $100.00

Philaster

By Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Edited by Suzanne Gossett PB 9781904271734 • £11.99 / $20.00 HB 9781408119471 • £65.00 / $100.00

The Renegado

By Philip Massinger Edited by Michael Neill PB 9781904271611 • £10.99 / $19.95 HB 9781408125182 • £65.00 / $100.00

’Tis Pity She’s A Whore

John Ford Edited by Sonia Massai 288pp • 198mmx129mm PB 9781904271505 • £9.99 / $15.95 HB 97811408129968 • £65.00/$100.00

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Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory New Historicism and Cultural Materialism Neema Parvini In the thirty years since the publication of Stephen Greenblatt’s Renaissance Self-Fashioning overthrew traditional modes of Shakespeare criticism, New Historicism and Cultural Materialism have rapidly become the dominant modes for studying and writing about the Bard. This comprehensive guide introduces students to the key writers, texts and ideas of contemporary Shakespeare criticism and alternatives to new historicist and cultural materialist approaches suggested by a range of dissenters including evolutionary critics, historical formalists and advocates of ‘the new aestheticism’, and the more politically active presentists.

NEEMA PARVINI is Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Richmond, The American International University, UK. UK September 2012 • US November 2012 240 pages PB 9781441193933 • £19.99 / $34.95 HB 9781441111272 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441190871 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441129741 • £65.00 / $120.00

Shakespeare and the Language of Translation Edited by Ton Hoenselaars Shakespeare’s international status as a literary icon is largely based on his masterful use of the English language, yet beyond Britain his plays and poems are read and performed mainly in translation. Shakespeare and the Language of Translation addresses this apparent contradiction and is the first major survey of its kind.

Covering the many ways in which the translation of Shakespeare’s works is practised and studied from Bulgaria to Japan, South Africa to Germany, this book also discusses the translation of Macbeth into Scots and of Romeo and Juliet into British Sign Language. The collection places renderings of Shakespeare’s works aimed at the page and the stage in their multiple cultural contexts, including gender, race and nation, as well as personal and postcolonial politics.

TON HOENSELAARS is Professor of Early Modern English Literature and Culture at the English Department of Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

The Robben Island Shakespeare David Schalkwyk Hamlet’s Dreams uses the circulation of the so-called ‘Robben Island Shakespeare’ to examine the representation and experience of imprisonment in South African prison memoirs and Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It looks at the ways in which oppressive spaces or circumstances restrict the ways in which personal identity can be formed or formulated in relation to others.

The ‘bad dreams’ that keep Hamlet from considering himself the ‘king of infinite space’ are, it argues, the need for other people that becomes especially evident in situations of real or psychological imprisonment.

DAVID SCHALKWYK is Director of Research at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C. and Professor of English at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

UK January 2013 • US March 2013 128 pages PB 9781441129284 • £14.99 / $24.95 HB 9781441140333 • £45.00 / $80.00 Individual eBook 9781441110732 • £14.99 / $19.99 Library eBook 9781441183743 • £45.00 / $80.00 Series: Shakespeare Now!

UK April 2012 • US August 2012 256 pages PB 9781408179741 • £16.99 / $27.95 Individual eBook 9781408179727 •£22.99 Library eBook 9781408179710 • £50.00 / $90.00 The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare and YouTube

Shakespeare Up Close

New Media Uses of the Bard Stephen O’Neill

Reading Early Modern Texts Edited by Russ McDonald, Nicholas D. Nace and Travis D. Williams

YouTube is now one of the key media spaces where Shakespeare’s works are recycled, received and understood. As such, the social networking site offers an exciting new frontier in popular culture Shakespeare. Shakespeare and YouTube explores the forms of Shakespeare content on YouTube, from user uploads featuring performances in existing media (such as film, television and theatre) to user generated or amateur videos. Particular emphasis is placed on the specific nature of the YouTube platform and the extent to which it enables amateur creativity. Opening up the multifaceted subject of YouTube Shakespeare, this book argues that YouTube offers exciting possibilities as well as challenges for the teaching and study of Shakespeare in a global context.

STEPHEN O’NEILL is Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.

UK May 2013 • US July 2013 208 pages HB 9781441120922 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 978147250028 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441153982 • £60.00 / $110.00 Series: Arden Shakespeare Library

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Hamlet’s Dreams

This landmark collection of newly-commissioned essays by leading international scholars, offers expert close readings of Shakespeare and other early modern authors. The book is an intervention into current critical methodology as well as an invaluable tool for all students of the literature of the period, exemplifying the possibilities of close reading in the hands of a range of gifted practitioners. Chapters cover a range of key texts from Shakespeare and other major writers of the period such as Milton, Donne, Jonson and Sidney.

RUSS MCDONALD is Professor of English Literature at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. NICHOLAS D. NACE is Assistant Professor at the State University of New York, Binghamton, USA. TRAVIS D. WILLIAMS is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Rhode Island, USA. UK November 2012 • US January 2013 416 pages PB 9781408158784 • £17.99 / $24.95 Individual eBook 9781408172377 • £17.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781408172384 • £55.00 / $100.00 The Arden Shakespeare

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A Year of Shakespeare Re-living the World Shakespeare Festival Edited by Paul Edmondson, Erin Sullivan and Paul Prescott A Year of Shakespeare gives a uniquely comprehensive, expert and exciting overview of the largest Shakespeare festival the world has ever known: The World Shakespeare Festival, 2012. This is the only book fully to document all 74 productions which formed part of the Festival in 2012 through well-informed, lively and accessible reviews and other short pieces of related interest. From a Lithuanian Hamlet, to an Israeli Merchant of Venice and Jonathan Pryce’s King Lear, this is a rich resource of critical interest to all students and scholars of Shakespeare in performance, global Shakespeare and the adaptation of Shakespeare.

Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage Passion’s Slaves Bridget Escolme Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. It argues that the ways in which today’s popular and theatrical cultures judge how much is too much can distort our understanding of early modern drama and theatre and that permitting the excesses of the early modern drama onto the contemporary stage might free actors and audiences alike from assumptions that in order to engage with the drama of the past, its characters must be just like us.

PAUL EDMONDSON is Head of Research and Knowledge for The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and a priest in The Church of England.

Plays discussed include Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Spanish Tragedy, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, and Coriolanus.

ERIN SULLIVAN is a Lecturer, Fellow, and the Distance Learning Co-ordinator at The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK.

BRIDGET ESCOLME is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Queen Mary College, University of London, UK.

PAUL PRESCOTT is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, a specialist in Shakespeare theatre reviewing, and a teaching associate for The Royal Shakespeare Company.

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UK April 2013 • US June 2013 240 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781408188149 • £14.99 / $24.95 HB 9781408188132 • £45.00 /$80.00 Individual eBook 9781408188156 • £14.99 / $19.99 The Arden Shakespeare

Macbeth The State of Play Edited by Ann Thompson This is a ‘freeze frame’ volume showcasing the range of current debate and ideas surrounding this most familiar of Shakespeare’s tragedies. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to students’ needs. Key themes and topics covered include: The Text, History and Topicality, Current Critical Perspectives, and Adaptation and Afterlife. All the essays offer new views and combine to give readers an up-to-date understanding of what’s exciting and challenging about the play.

ANN THOMPSON is a Professor of English at King’s College London, UK, and Director at the London Shakespeare Centre.

UK June 2013 • US August 2013 224 pages PB 9781408159828 • £14.99 / $24.95 HB 9781472503206 • £45.00 / $80 Individual eBook 9781472503190 / £14.99 / $19.99 Library eBook 9781472503213 • £45.00 / $80.00 The Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Shakespeare The State of Play

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Essential Shakespeare The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation Jenny Stevens and Pamela Bickley An introductory critical study for first year undergraduates which bridges the gap between school and university study. The book offers an accessible overview of key critical perspectives, early modern contexts, and methods of close reading, as well as screen and stage performances spanning several decades. Organised around the discussion of fourteen major plays, it introduces readers to the diverse theoretical approaches typical of today’s English studies. This is a go-to resource that can be consulted thematically or by individual play or genre.

JENNY STEVENS and PAMELA BICKLEY have taught Shakespeare at pre-university and degree level for many years. They lead the English Association’s ongoing involvement with transition issues and lecture and publish on a range of literary topics.

UK April 2013 US June 2013 240 pages PB 9781408158739 • £12.99 / $19.95 Individual eBook 9781408170663 • £12.99 / $15.99 The Arden Shakespeare

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Marlowe’s Literary Scepticism

Shakespeare and the Apocalypse

Politic Religion and Post-Reformation Polemic Chloe Kathleen Preedy

Visions of Doom from Early Modern Tragedy to Popular Culture R.M. Christofides

Marlowe’s Literary Scepticism re-evaluates the representation of religion in Christopher Marlowe’s plays and poems, demonstrating the extent to which his literary engagement with questions of belief was shaped by the virulent polemical debates that raged in post-Reformation Europe. Offering new readings of under-studied works such as the poetic translations and a fresh perspective on well-known plays such as Doctor Faustus, this book focuses on Marlowe’s depiction of the religious frauds denounced by his contemporaries. It identifies Marlowe as one of the earliest writers to acknowledge the practical value of religious hypocrisy, and a pivotal figure in the history of scepticism.

CHLOE KATHLEEN PREEDY is a teaching associate at the University of Cambridge, UK. UK January 2013 • US March 2013 240 pages HB 9781408164884 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781408175798 • £17.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781408181294 • £55.00 / $100.00 The Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Shakespeare Library

Drawing on extant examples of medieval imagery, Roger Christofides uses poststructuralist and psychoanalytic accounts of how language works to shed new light on our understanding of Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear. He then links Shakespeare’s dependence on his audience to appreciate the allusions made to the religious paintings to the present day. For instance, popular television series like Battlestar Galactica, seminal horror movies such as An American Werewolf in London and Carrie and recent novels like Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. All draw on imagery that can be traced directly back to the depictions of the Doom, an indication of the cultural power these vivid imaginings of the end of the world have in Shakespeare’s day and now.

R.M. CHRISTOFIDES is Associate Lecturer at Huddersfield University, UK. UK June 2012 • US August 2012 240 pages HB 9781441179944 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781441101303 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441183224 • £60.00 / $110.00

Arden Student Guides Series Editor: Dympna Callaghan, William Safire Professor of Modern Letters, Syracuse University, USA

Macbeth

The Tempest

Language and Writing Emma Smith

Language and Writing Brinda Charry

Arden Student Guides offer a new type of study aid which combine lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical and writing skills students need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare’s texts. The books’ core focus is on language: both understanding and enjoying Shakespeare’s rich and complex dramatic language and the students’ own critical language and how they can improve and develop this to become a critical writer. This volume on Macbeth discusses the play in its Jacobean context and in relation to Shakespeare’s other tragedies before looking closely at its language and poetry. The third section examines the play’s critical history and how students can use this in forming their own critical responses. A final section looks at the play’s history in performance and its afterlife in film and other media.

This volume on The Tempest discusses the play’s early stage history before going on to examine the complexities and ambiguities of its language through close reading and analysis. Further sections look at the play’s critical history and in particular contemporary critical responses to it, especially those of postcolonial critics. The sections on students’ writing and critical skills focus on helping the student formulate and express a critical response to a play about which so much has been written and which has been staged and adapted in a huge variety of ways.

EMMA SMITH is Fellow in English at Hertford College, Oxford, UK. UK May 2013 • US July 2013 192 pages PB 9781408152904 • £9.99 / $15.95 Individual eBook 9781408156032 •£9.99 / $11.99 The Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Student Guides

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BRINDA CHARRY is Assistant Professor of English at Keene State College in New Hampshire, USA. UK May 2013 • US July 2013 192 pages PB 9781408152898 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781408156025 • £9.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781408190425 • £30.00 / $45.00 The Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Student Guides

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Shakespeare and the Medieval World Helen Cooper “Cooper’s book is a timely one, and deserves to be a significant one, in reorienting perspectives to the important place of the medieval, visible and invisible, direct and intangible, in Shakespeare’s mind . . . It will give Shakespeareans of all shades a fuller understanding of the world in which he lived and thought, and the ones he created.” Joanna Bellis, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Marginalia Helen Cooper’s unique study examines how continuations of medieval culture into the early modern period forged Shakespeare’s development as a dramatist and poet. Medieval culture pervaded his life and work, from his childhood, spent within reach of the last performances of the Coventry Corpus Christi plays, to his dramatisation of Chaucer in The Two Noble Kinsmen three years before his death.

A high proportion of his plays have medieval origins and he kept returning to Chaucer, acknowledged as the greatest poet in the English language. Above all, he grew up with an English tradition of drama developed during the Middle Ages that assumed that it was possible to stage anything - all time, all space.

HELEN COOPER is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge, UK. UK August 2012 • US October 2012 288 pages • 7 bw illus PB 9781408172322 • £18.99 / $29.95 HB 9781904271789 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781408138991 • £54.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781408138984 • £54.99 / $100.00 The Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Critical Companions

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Shakespeare’s Demonology A Dictionary Marion Gibson and Jo Ann Esra • Covers Shakespeare’s use of alchemy, prophecy, astrology and folk-medicine in the plays • Provides an account of how each term is used in the plays • Entries follow an easy-to-use three part structure • A comprehensive overview of how demonology is presented across the entire Shakespearean canon This volume in the long running and acclaimed Shakespeare Dictionary series is a detailed, critical reference work examining all aspects of magic, good and evil, across Shakespeare’s works. Topics covered include the representation of fairies, witches, ghosts, devils and spirits.

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The Alchemist A Critical Reader Edited by Erin Julian and Helen Ostovich Described by Coleridge as having one of the three mostperfectly constructed plots in literary history, The Alchemist is a play that is strikingly modern in its cynicism.This guide,with new essays by leading scholars, provides a comprehensive survey of major issues in the contemporary study of the play and points to new avenues for critical exploration.

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ALISON FINDLAY is Professor of Renaissance Drama at the Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Lancaster, UK. LIZ OAKLEY-BROWN is Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Writing at the Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Lancaster, UK. UK July 2013 • US September 2013 224 pages PB 978142503299 • £17.99 / $23.95 HB 9781441128782 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781472503305 • £17.99 /$22.99 Library eBook 9781472503312 • £60.00 / $110.00 The Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides

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index Adaptation and the Avant-Garde 41 Adaptation Studies 6 Adapting Detective Fiction 45 Adapting Canonical Texts in Children’s Literature 47 Aesthetic Sexuality 7 Agamben’s Joyful Kafka 35 Ager, Deborah 31 Alchemist, The: A Critical Guide 63 Aldea, Eva 15 Allan, William 24 American Fiction in Transition 30 Analyze Anything 49 Anatomy of a Short Story 17 Anatomy of Bloom, The 9 Andermahr, Sonya 11 Anderson, Jean 45 Andrea Levy 10 Angela Carter: New Critical Readings 11 Ardoin, Paul 17 Armstrong, Charles 18 Arvon Book of Crime and Thriller Writing, The 49 Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction, The 49 Autobiographies of Mina Loy, The 19 Baela-Allué, Sonia 15 Bailey, Iain 19 Baillie, Justine Jenny 15 Baker, Peter 45 Banville, John 17 Barbian, Jan-Pieter 32 Barry, Peter 3 Baxter, Jeannette 10 Beaumont, Matthew 26 Behn, Aphra 54 Bending Genre 45 Bewes, Timothy 8 Bickley, Pamela 59 Birns, Nicholas 31 Black Comics 44 Blake, Marc 48 Bland, Janice 47 Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics, The 35 Book of Imitation and Desire, The 32 Booker, Christopher 8 Borges, between History and Eternity 29 Boulter, Jonathan 15 Bradford, Richard 46 Brennan, Michael G. 27 Bret Easton Ellis’s Controversial Fiction 15 Bridges, Elizabeth 42 Brinker-Gabler, Gisela 33 Bruhn, Jorgen 6 Bruhwiler, Claudia Franziska 30 Buckingham, Will 36 Burley, Mikel 36 Burns, Lorna 11 Byrne, Romana 7 Callus, Ivan 6 Calvo, Clara 57 Canning, Patricia 51 Carroll, William C. 54 Cary, Elizabeth 57 Catani, Damian 32 Censoring Translation 50 Chance and the Modern British Novel 27 Chantler, Ashley 4 Charlton, James 36 Charry, Brinda 60 Children’s Literature and Learner Empowerment 47

Children’s Literature in Second Language Education 47 Christofides, R. M. 60 Chuck Palahniuk 28 Churchwell, Sarah 28 City of Words, The 8 Class, Monika 21 Cline, Sally 49 Cognitive Value of Philosophical Fiction, The 37 Coleridge and Kantian Ideas in England, 1796 - 1817 21 Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient 21 Collado-Rodriguez, Francisco 28 Confessions 37 Connolly, Julian W. 20 Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ and Contemporary Thought 17 Constitution of English Literature, The 7 Contagious Metaphor 7 Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze 11 Contemporary Jewish American Poetry: An Anthology 31 Contemporary Spanish American Novel, The 31 Contemporary Women Writers Look Back 15 Cooke, Jennifer 13 Cooper, Farah Karim 61 Cooper, Helen 61 Corby, James 6 Cordingley, Anthony 50 Coriolanus 55 Corral, Will H. 31 Cortazzi, Hugh 11, 22 Cowdell, Scott 38 Crangle, Sara 8 Creative Writing MFA Handbook, Revised and Updated Edition 48 Crime Culture 45 Critical-Creative Writing 48 Crystal, Ben 62 Culture of Yellow, The 17 Cybertext Poetics 42 Danta, Chris 7 Dante and the Sense of Transgression 40 Davidson, Chad 49 De Boever, Arne 9 DeCastro, Juan E. 31 Deconstruction without Derrida 35 Denson, Shane 44 Detecting Detection 45 Diaz, Hernán 29 Dicken’s Women 22 Divine Providence: A History 39 Docherty, Thomas 37 Dolan, Fran 54 Donna McCormack 16 Doran, Sabine 17 Dostoevsky 22 Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov 20 Drakakis, John 56 Drift, The 41 Drogas, Areti 13 Duffy, Edward T. 20 Duncan, Randy 44 Dunne, Eamonn 7, 8 Dymoke, Due 46 Eaglestone, Robert 10 Early Visions and Representations of America 30 Edmondson, Paul 59 Ellam, Julie 12

Emerson and the Natural History of the Metaphor 31 Emerson, Caryl 6 Emily Bronte and the Religious Imagination 20 Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage 59 English in Practice 3 Eoyang, Eugene 34 Epic, Novel and the Progress of Antiquity 23 Escolme, Bridget 59 Eskelinen, Markku 42 Essential Shakespeare 59 Estimating Emerson 29 Ethics in British Children’s Literature 47 Euripedes: Alcestis 24 Evelyn Waugh 27 Evil: A History in Modern French Literature and Thought 32 Existential Utopia 43 Ezra Pound’s Adams Cantos 18 Feminist Theory 8 Fernie, Ewan 39 Ferrettter, Luke 40 Fiction of Autobiography, The 46 Film Novelist, The 41 Filmspeak 6 Findlay, Alison 63 Fleming, Chris 38 Fletcher, John 57 Foakes, R.A. 56 Foreign in International Crime Fiction, The 45 Forsberg, Niklas 36 Foster Jr., John Burt 34 Franke, William 40 Fraser, Gregory 49 From Kafka to Sebold 33 From Language to Creative Writing 5 Fujii, Hikaru 30 Fultz, Lucille P. 28 Funkhouser, C.T. 42 G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity 26 Gardiner, Michael 7 Gardner, Kevin 27 Gasyna, George Z. 17 Geoffrey Hartman 8 Georg Lukacs: The Fundamental Dissonance of Existence 8 Geybels, Hans 39 Gharabegian, Alina 39 Gibson, Marion 61 Gillies, Midge 49 Gjelsvik, Anne 6 Glyph and the Gramophone, The 40 Gomel, Elana 46 Gomez-Gallisteo, M. Carmen 30 Gontarski, S.E. 17 Gottlieb, Evan 21 Gourley, James 31 Graphic Poetics 46 Great War Modernisms and ‘The New Age’ Magazine 18 Greenwell, Bill 5 Groes, Sebastian 10 Groth, Helen 7 Hämäläinen, Nora 36 Hamilton, Caroline D. 30 Hamlet’s Dreams 58 Hanssen, Eirik Frisvold 6 Haskell, Yasmin 24 Hawthorn, Jeremy 4 Haxter, Julian 48

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Heehs, Peter 46 Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist 31 Herlinghaus, Hermann 28 Herron, Tom 26 Heys, Alistair 9 Heywood, Thomas 54 Higgins, David 4 Hill, Leslie 6 Hillier, Bevis 27 Ho, Elizabeth 21 Hodge, Joel 38 Hodgkins, John 41 Hoenselaars, Ton 58 Holland, Mary 13 Holland, Peter 55 Hollington, Michael 43 Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed 23 Homer: The Iliad 24 Honingmann, E.J. 56 Horton, David 33 Horton, Emily 14 Houghton, Luke 23 How to Read Texts 3 Howard, Sheena C. 44 Hubble, Nick 14, 26, 45 Humour and Religion 39 I.A. Richards and the Rise of Cognitive Stylistics 51 Ian McEwan 10 Ian McEwan’s Atonement 12 Image in Outline 33 Improvisation and the Making of American Literary Modernism 30 In the Beginning, She Was 35 Incarnational Poetics 40 Ingleby, Matthew 26 Irigaray, Luce 35 Irish Murdoch: Philosophical Novelist 38 Irish Writing London: Volume 1 26 Irish Writing London: Volume 2 26 Isba, Anne 22 Island Princess, The 57 J. Hillis Miller and the Possibilities of Reading 8 J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace 12 Jackson II, Ronald L. 44 Jackson, Paul 18 James, David 10 Jew of Malta, The: A Critical Guide 63 Jochum, Klaus Peter 43 Jones, Peter 43 Jordan, Julia 27 Josephine Donovan 8 Julian, Erin 63 Kafka Translated 50 Kahane, Ahuvia 23 Kealey, Tom 48 Kelly, Adam 30 Kent, Brad 54 Kerr-Koch, Kathleen 21 Kɪlɪç, Mine Özyurt 12 King Lear 56 King, Laurie R. 49 Kipling’s Japan 11 Klages, Mary 5 Klyukanov, Igor E. 6 Knippschild, Silke 25 Kovacs, George 23 Kyd, Thomas 57 Lambirth, Andrew 46 Language, Ethics and Animal Life 36

LaRocca, David 29, 31 Late Walter Benjamin, The 40 Lauri-Lucente, Gloria 6 Lawtoo, Nidesh 17 Lee, Jason 49 Leeson, Miles 38 Lefkowitz, Mary R. 25 Leonard, Philip 11 Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling 36 Leving, Yuri 17 Life and Work of Thomas MacGreevy, The 19 Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed 5 Literature After Globalization 11 Lives of the Greek Poets, The 25 Logan, Robert A. 63 London Gothic 27 London in Contemporary British Fiction 26 London’s Burning 27 Looking for Calvin and Hobbes 44 Lütge, Christiane 47 Lyon, John 33 Lyric Encounters 29 Macbeth: Language and Writing 60 Macbeth: The State of the Play 59 MacLachlan, Bonnie 25 Maftel, Macaela 46 Maggie Gee: Writing the Condition-of-England Novel 12 Magical Realism and Delueze 15 Making Poetry Matter 46 Manguel, Alberto 8 Männiste, Indrek 31 Manuwald, Gesine 23 Mapping the Wessex Novel 27 Marder, Michael 43 Margilow, Daniel H. 42 Marlowe’s Literary Scepticism 60 Marsden, Simon 20 Marshall, C.W. 23 Martell, Nevin 44 Mason Vaughn, Virginia 55 Mattison, Laci 17 Maurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing 6 McCaw, Neil 3, 45 McDonald, Russ 58 McKenna, Andrew J. 32 McLeod, John 14 McManus, Clare 57 McNally, Lisa 15 McQuillan, Martin 10, 35 Melancholy and the Archive 15 Merchant of Venice, The 56 Merrill, Trevor Cribben 32 Meyer, Christina 44 Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair 9 Middleton, Thomas 54 Mikkanen, Jukka 37 Miles, Rosie 20 Miller, J. Hillis 7 Mindful Aesthetics 7 Miranda, Carolina 45 Mitchell, Kaye 10 Mitchell, Peta 7 Modern Literary Theory 4 Modern Manuscripts 18 Modern/Postmodern 38 Mohaghegh, Jason Bahbak 39 Moore, Steven 34 Moran James 52

Morcillo, Marta Garcia 25 Morris, Daniel 29 Mousoutzanis, Aris 45 Mrs. Warren’s Profession 54 Mullan, John 22 Müller, Anja 47 Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers 28 Nace, Nicholas D. 58 Narcoepics 28 Narrative Care 9 Nazisploitation! 42 Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles 23 Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire 21 New Directions in Digital Poetry 42 New Perspectives on the European Bildungsroman 43 Newlands, Carole E. 25 Nicol, Bran 45 No Laughing Matter 23 Non-dualism in Eckhart, Julian of Norwich and Traherne 36 Novel: An Alternative History, The 34 Oakley-Brown, Liz 63 Oishi, Kazuyoshi 21 On Bathos 8 On Modern Poetry 5 One Man Zeitgeist: Dave Eggers, Publishing and Publicity 30 O’Neill, Stephen 58 Ostovich, Helen 63 O’Sullivan, Michael 34 Othello 56 Out of Place 33 Outside, America 30 Packard, Dennis J. 41 Palaver, Wolfgang 38 Parmar, Sandeep 19 Parrinder, Patrick 43 Parvini, Neema 58 Performatives After Deconstruction 36 Perry, Seamus 21 Pezzotti, Barbara 45 Phillips, Lawrence 11, 22, 27 Pitcher, John 56 Plays of Samuel Beckett, The 52 Poems in the Porch 27 Poetics of Mourning in the Middle East, The 39 Poetics of Sleep, The 37 Poetry Toolkit, The 5 Polish, Hybrid, and Otherwise 17 Political Initiation in the Novels of Philip Roth 30 Politics of Literature in Nazi Germany, The 32 Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination 46 Power of Comics, The 44 Preedy, Chloe Kathleen 60 Prescott, Paul 59 Prescribing Ovid 24 Promise and Premise of Creativity, The 34 Psychology of Screenwriting, The 49 Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the Ethics of Witnessing 16 Radford, Andrew 27 Ramone, Jenni 13 Raw, Laurence 50 Reading Authority and Representing Rule in Early Modern England 27 Reading New India 9 Reading Theories in Contemporary Fiction 15 Reading Theory Now 7

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I ndex Real, Hermann, J. 43 Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe, The 43 Reception of David Hume in Europe, The 43 Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe, The 43 Reception of Jonathan Swift in Europe, The 43 Reception of W.B. Yeats in Europe, The 43 Redcrosse 39 Reframing Yeats 18 Resources for Teaching Shakespeare: 11-16 47 Return of the Storyteller in Contemporary Fiction, The 13 Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse 40 Rice, Philip 4 Ridout, Alice 15 Rokison, Abigail 61 Roman Poetry of Love, The 24 Romancing Fascism 21 Romeo and Juliet 55 Rover, The 54 Ruys Smith, Thomas 28 Sainsbury, Lisa 47 Salman Rushdie 10 Salman Rushdie and Translation 13 Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx 19 Samuel Beckett and The Bible 19 Sarah Waters 10 Scenes of Intimacy 13 Schad, John 40 Schalkwyk, David 58 Schildgen, Brenda Deen 39 Schneck, Peter 16 Schreibman, Susan 19 Science Fiction Handbook, The 45 Seargeant, Philip 5 Secret of Bog Lane, The 16 Secular Mysteries: Stanley Cavell and English Romanticism 20 Sedgwick, Fred 47 Seduction and Power 25 Self-Translation 50 Senatore, Mauro 36 Seven Basic Plots, The 8 Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory 58 Shakespeare and the Apocalypse 60 Shakespeare and the Language of Translation 58 Shakespeare and the Medieval World 61 Shakespeare and YouTube 58 Shakespeare for Young People 61 Shakespeare Up Close 58 Shakespeare, William 55, 56 Shakespeare’s Demenology 61 Shakespeare’s Theatres and the Effects of Performance 61 Shaller, Deborah 45 Sharpe, Kevin 27 Silverman, M.E. 31 Singer, Margot 45

Slater, Niall W. 24 Smith, Emma 60 Smith, Matthew J. 44 Smith, Robert Rowland 5 Snoek, Anke 35 South Pacific Narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London, The 22 Spanish Tragedy, The 57 Spentzou, Efi 24 Spring, Michelle 49 Springboard Shakepeare: King Lear 62 Springboard Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream 62 Springboard Shakespeare: Hamlet 62 Springboard Shakespeare: Macbeth 62 Statius, Poet Between Rome and Naples 25 Stein, Daniel 44 Stern, Tiffany 61 Stevens, Jenny 59 Studying English Literature 4 Studying Literary Theory 4 Studying the Novel 4 Sturge, Kate 32 Style in the Renaissance 51 Style in Theory 6 Stylistics of Poetry, The 51 Succeeding Postmodernism 13 Sullivan, Erin 59 Summerfield, Giovanna 43 Sweeney, Carole 9 Tanke, Joseph J. 35 Taylor, Antony 27 Tempest, The 55 Tempest, The : Language and Writing 60 Ten Eyck, David 18 Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo 31 Terrorism, Media, and the Ethics of Fiction 16 Tew, Philip 14, 26 1970s, The: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction 14 1980s, The: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction 14 Theatre of David Greig, The 52 Theatre of Sean O’Casey, The 52 Thomas Mann in English 33 Thomas Middelton: Four Plays 54 Thompson, Ann 59 Tomarken, Edward 6 Toni Morrison 28 Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition 15 Tragedy of Mariam, The 57 Transformative Humanities, The 6 Translation, Adaptation and Transformation 50 Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives 44 Transnational Tolstoy 34 Tronch, Jesus 57

Tucker, David 19 Tulipano, Americo 16 Twelfth Night: A Critical Guide 63 Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism 17 Ure, Adam 38 Vallins, David 21 van der Vlies, Andrew 12 van Hulle, Dirk 18 Vander Lugt, Kristin 42 Varughese, E. Dawson 9 Vasilii Rozanov and the Creation 38 Vaughan, Aiden T. 55 Verdonk, Peter 51 Vermeulen, Pieter 8 Verrone, William 41 Victorian Poetry in Context 20 Victorians in Japan 22 Vieira, Patricia 43 Violence, Desire, and the Sacred 38 Virginia Woolf’s Late Cultural Criticism 19 Walker, Nicole 45 Wallace, Clare 52 Wallace, Rob 30 Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory 21 Wandor, Michelene 48 Waugh, Patricia 4 Weakness: A Literary and Philosophical History 34 Webb, George 11 Webster, Roger 4 Weis, René 55 Weiss, Katherine 52 Wells, Lynn 26 West, David 51 What Matters in Jane Austen? 22 Wilke, Sabine 33 Williams, Rhian 5, 40 Williams, Rowan 22 Williams, Travis D. 58 Wilson, Anthony 46 Wilson, Leigh 14 Winter’s Tale, A 56 Wit and Wisdom of GK Chesterton, The 27 Wolfreys, Jullian 7 Woman in Ancient Greece 25 Woman Killed With Kindness, A 54 Wood, Alice 19 Woods, Michelle 50 Wortham, Simon Morgan 37 Wray, Ramona 57 Write What You Don’t Know 48 Writing of Violence in the Middle East 39 Writing the Horror Movie 48 Writing the Self 46 Year of Shakespeare, A 59 Zacher, Samantha 40 Zima, Peter V. 38

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