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Literary Studies
New Books Catalogue
July-September 2021
B L O O M S B U RY
ACADEMIC
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with theater departments and libraries
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“Drama Online offers audiences the option
to read Romeo and Juliet, listen to the
audio production, or watch various filmed
performances ... a valuable enhancement
to academic collections serving theater
programs, and school or public libraries.”
—Choice
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plays available online in an environment that will
enhance their use for study and performance.”
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his award-winning digital library has been created
as a response to the need for a high-quality online
research tool for drama and literature students,
professors, and teachers. It is the only resource to
combine exclusively available play text content and
scholarly publications with filmed live performances, film
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Drama Online offers a complete multimedia experience of
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• 2,750 play texts from 1,000 playwrights,
• 400 audio plays, 345 hours of video
• 370 scholarly books from leading theatre publishers and
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Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy on Screen, Stratford Festival
Shakespeare Collection and the National Theater Collection for
live performances, Drama Online is rich in content and quality. In
addition, the newly added Oberon Books Collection includes ground-
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EBooks
The Arden Shakespeare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ePub and ePdf availability is listed under each book entry. See the
website for details of vendors, or to purchase individual ebooks direct.
Publishing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Teaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Review Copies
Email academicreviewus@bloomsbury.com (Americas)
Literary Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
/ academicreviews@bloomsbury.com (UK / Rest of World).
Modernism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
German Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Standing Orders
Many series are available on standing order.
World Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Please contact our trade ordering departments
(see pages 20 and 21).
Comparative Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
British & Irish Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Translation Rights
North American Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Available unless otherwise indicated.
Contemporary Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Key to Symbols
16th-19th Century Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Literature Genres . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Available on inspection / as exam copies: order online at
www.bloomsbury.com. To request any other PB or eBook,
Poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 email askacademic@bloomsbury.com (Americas) /
inspectioncopies@bloomsbury.com (UK / Rest of World).
Translation Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Major Reference Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Companion website or online resources available.
Representatives, Agents & Distributors . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Available for institutions to purchase as Title by Title, discrete discipline
modules, or via Evidence Based Acquisition.
Now available via GOBI.
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L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – The Arden Shakespeare
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The White Devil The Jew of Malta
John Webster Christopher Marlowe
Edited by Lara Bovilsky, University of Oregon, Edited by Chloe Preedy, University of York, UK &
USA William H. Sherman, University of York, UK
This fully modernised play text is accompanied The Jew of Malta was arguably the most popular
by insightful commentary notes, while its lively play of the Elizabethan era. This new annotated
introduction provides an essential contextual edition is freshly revised to incorporate critical
grounding in the court scandals, anti-Catholic interpretations of the play and signature Arden
sentiment and Senecan drama that formed a backdrop to Webster’s on-page annotations.
tragedy. Exploring the challenges of staging this highly melodramatic
play, Lara Bovilsky guides you through the most interesting points UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 376 pages
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of its rich performance history, and analyses the onslaught of recent ePub 9781408140147 • £11.69 / $14.77
productions with race-conscious and regendered casts. ePdf 9781408136492 • £11.69 / $14.77
Series: Arden Early Modern Drama • The Arden Shakespeare
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ePub 9781350059955 • £9.89 / $12.31
ePdf 9781350059962 • £9.89 / $12.31
Series: New Mermaids • Methuen Drama
World English
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L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespearean Tragedy Staging Shakespeare
Kiernan Ryan, Royal Holloway, University of A Director's Guide to Preparing a
London, UK Production
This ground-breaking book reveals the prophetic, Brian Kulick, director, USA
revolutionary vision that drives Shakespeare’s
tragedies, tracing its unbroken development This book tells you everything you and your
from its beginnings in the Henry VI plays and students need to know about preparing to stage
Shakespeare’s first tragedy, Titus Andronicus, a Shakespeare production. From a leading theatre
right through to his last, Coriolanus. The four full-length studies at director, it guides you through the crucial period
the heart of the book focus in depth on Shakespeare’s four greatest of preparation and helps focus on such issues as: what Shakespeare’s
tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. Through life, work, and world can tell us; what patterns to look for in the text;
compelling new readings of the plays, grounded in close analysis and what techniques might help unpack Shakespeare’s verse. It also
of their language and form, Kiernan Ryan shows how Shakespeare includes helpful exercises to engage with the text.
dramatizes the tragic realities of his world from the standpoint of the
UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 256 pages • 18 bw illus
transfigured future that our world still awaits. PB 9781350201026 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350201033 • £75.00 / $100.00
ePub 9781350201057 • £22.49 / $28.32
UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 336 pages ePdf 9781350201040 • £22.49 / $28.32
PB 9781472586988 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781472586995 • £65.00 / $90.00 Methuen Drama
ePub 9781472587015 • £17.99 / $22.16
ePdf 9781472587008 • £17.99 / $22.16
The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Digital Shakespeare / Text
Pedagogy Contemporary Readings in Textual
Case Studies and Strategies Studies, Editing and Performance
Edited by Diana Henderson, Massachusetts Edited by Claire M. L. Bourne, Pennsylvania
Institute of Technology, USA & Kyle Sebastian State University, USA
Vitale, Temple University, USA Shakespeare / Text sets new agendas for the study
How can digital resources and tools be used and use of the Shakespearean text. Written by 20
to improve student engagement and learning in their study of leading experts on textual matters, each essay
Shakespeare? What solutions can digital approaches offer to some challenges a single entrenched binary—such as book/theater, source/
of the key changes and challenges for higher education today? This adaptation, text/paratext, canon/apocrypha, sense/nonsense, extant/
international collection describes 16 methodologies, resources and ephemeral, material/digital, and original/copy—that has come to
tools recently developed and used by a diverse range of contributors both define and limit the way we read, analyze, teach, perform, and
in Great Britain, Asia and the United States. Chapters describe each edit Shakespeare today. The chapters in Shakespeare / Text make
case study in depth, recounting needs, collaborations and challenges strong cases for challenging received wisdom and offer new, portable
during design, as well as sharing effective classroom uses and offering methods of treating 'the text' (in its myriad instantiations) that will
accessible, usable content for both teachers and learners. be useful to scholars, editors, theatre practitioners, teachers and
librarians.
UK December 2021 • US December 2021 • 272 pages • 20 bw illus
PB 9781350109711 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350109728 • £65.00 / $100.00 UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 464 pages • 20 bw illus
ePub 9781350109742 • £19.79 / $24.63 HB 9781350128149 • £120.00 / $160.00
ePdf 9781350109735 • £19.79 / $24.63 ePub 9781350128156 • £108.00 / $134.28
The Arden Shakespeare ePdf 9781350128163 • £108.00 / $134.28
World English Series: Arden Shakespeare Intersections • The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Others in 21st- Rethinking Theatrical
century European Performance Documents in Shakespeare’s
The Merchant of Venice and Othello England
Edited by Boika Sokolova, University of Notre Edited by Tiffany Stern, The Shakespeare
Dame in London, UK & Janice Valls-Russell, Institute, University of Birmingham, UK
University Paul Valéry, Montpellier, France This collection brings together major scholars to
The Merchant of Venice and Othello are the two introduce, analyze and theorize the rich variety of
Shakespeare plays which serve as touchstones for contemporary entangled documents produced in the playhouse
understandings and responses to notions of 'the stranger' and 'the before, during and after performance. As it provides new material and
other'. This groundbreaking collection explores the dissemination new ways of thinking about that material, it informs and complicates
of the two plays through Europe during the 20th and 21st centuries, ideas about play-construction, performance, revision and reception,
tracing how productions and interpretations have reflected the redefining the relationship between play, text and performance.
changing conditions and attitudes locally and nationally. Packed This book is open access and available on www.
with case studies of productions of each play in different countries, bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched.
and featuring contributions from stage directors, the volume opens
vistas on the continent’s turbulent history marked by the instability of UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 304 pages • 11 bw illus
allegiances and boundaries, and shifting senses of identity. PB 9781350248854 • £21.99 / $29.95
Previously published in HB 9781350051348
ePub 9781350051355 • £67.50 / $83.76
UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 288 pages
ePdf 9781350051362 • £67.50 / $83.76
HB 9781350125957 • £75.00 / $100.00
The Arden Shakespeare
ePub 9781350125964 • £67.50 / $83.76
ePdf 9781350125971 • £67.50 / $83.76
Series: Global Shakespeare Inverted • The Arden Shakespeare
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L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Forgetting Shakespeare’s Body Language
Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA Shaming Gestures and Gender Politics on
This is the first book devoted to a consideration the Renaissance Stage
of how Shakespeare explores the concept of Miranda Fay Thomas, Trinity College Dublin,
forgetting and how forgetting functions in
Ireland
performance. A wide-ranging study of how
Shakespeare dramatizes forgetting, it offers close Shakespeare's Body Language is a groundbreaking
readings of Shakespeare's plays and considers new study of Shakespearean drama, revealing the
too what we forget while watching the plays in performance, what previously unseen history of how social tensions
Shakespeare forgot and what we forget about Shakespeare. The book are found within the performance of gestures, and how such gestures
touches on an equally broad range of forgetting theory from antiquity are used as a powerful form of control to shame others within the
through to the present day, of forgetting in recent novels and films, body politic of early modern England. It offers new insights into the
and on dozens of productions across the history of Shakespeare on motivations behind gesticular performance and the effects of their
stage and film. staging. Featuring in-depth analyses of plays across Shakespeare's
career, this book explores how the playwright’s understanding of
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 272 pages shame and humiliation is rooted in performance anxiety and gender
HB 9781350211490 • £75.00 / $100.00 politics, explaining how theatrical gestures can create dramatic
ePub 9781350211506 • £67.50 / $83.76
tension in a way that words alone cannot.
ePdf 9781350211513 • £67.50 / $83.76
The Arden Shakespeare
UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 272 pages • 16 bw illus
PB 9781350228146 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781350035478
ePub 9781350035485 • £67.50 / $83.76
ePdf 9781350035492 • £67.50 / $83.76
The Arden Shakespeare
Imagining Cleopatra Antony and Cleopatra: A Critical
Performing Gender and Power in Early Reader
Modern England Edited by Domenico Lovascio, University of
Yasmin Arshad, Independent Scholar, USA Genoa, Italy
Shakespeare's characterization of Cleopatra Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's most
may dominate the collective consciousness, but enduringly popular and intellectually as well as
he was only one of several 16th-century writers emotionally challenging tragedies. This guide offers
fascinated with the former Queen of Egypt. This students and scholars an introduction to its critical
interdisciplinary study investigates images of Cleopatra in the early and performance history, including notable stage productions and
modern period and examines how her story was mediated and film versions. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of
used. It draws on literary, philosophical, historical, art historical, and current research on the play and four new critical essays that chart the
biographical resources, and gender, race, and performance studies, play’s wrestling with the cultural iconography of three consequential
to consider what was known and thought about Cleopatra in the personalities in Roman history and their role in a pivotal moment in
period. Rome’s transition to empire.
UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 360 pages • 18 bw illus UK April 2021 • US April 2021 • 328 pages
PB 9781350248878 • £21.99 / $29.95 PB 9781350215528 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781350058965 Previously published in HB 9781350049901
ePub 9781350058972 • £72.00 / $89.92 ePub 9781350049918 • £67.50 / $83.76
ePdf 9781350058989 • £72.00 / $89.92 ePdf 9781350049925 • £67.50 / $83.76
Series: Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama • The Arden Shakespeare Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides • The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Common Shakespeare in the Theatre:
Language Yukio Ninagawa
Alysia Kolentsis, University of Waterloo, Canada Conor Hanratty, Independent Scholar, Japan
What can recent developments in contemporary Yukio Ninagawa (1935-2016) was Japan's foremost
linguistics and language theory reveal about director of Shakespeare whose productions
Shakespeare’s language in the plays? In this book, achieved acclaim around the world. He directed
Alysia Kolentsis offers a finely-grained analysis of 31 productions of Shakespeare's plays, some,
Shakespeare's use of language to illuminate how including Hamlet, on multiple occasions. This is
the common words used by characters in the plays contain significant the first English-language book dedicated to his work. It includes an
clues about moments of interaction which are pivotal to the plots. overview of the Shakespeare plays he directed, and considers both
With chapters focused on different approaches based in language his Shakespearean work and his productions of Euripides, including
theory, the author analyzes language change in Coriolanus; employs Oedipus The King and his production of Medea from 1978. Written
discourse analysis in her study of Troilus and Cressida; focuses on by Conor Hanratty, who studied with Ninagawa for over a year, it
pragmatics in Richard II, and explores how Shakespeare engaged with offers a unique glimpse into the work of one of the world’s great
various aspects of grammar in As You Like It. theatre directors.
UK June 2021 • US June 2021 • 208 pages UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 248 pages • 5 bw illus
PB 9781350235977 • £28.99 / $39.95 PB 9781350239463 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781350007017 Previously published in HB 9781350087354
ePub 9781350007000 • £67.50 / $83.76 ePub 9781350087361 • £67.50 / $83.76
ePdf 9781350006997 • £67.50 / $83.76 ePdf 9781350087378 • £67.50 / $83.76
Series: Arden Shakespeare Studies in Language and Digital Methodologies • The Arden Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare
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L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – Publishing / Teaching / Literary Theory
Publishing for Libraries Teaching Literature in the Real
At the Dawn of the Digital Age World
Charles Chadwyck-Healey A Practical Guide
Since the 1960s, Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey has Patrick Collier
been at the forefront of library publishing. In this
Offering guidance and inspiration to English
wide ranging book, Chadwyck-Healey charts his
literature instructors, this book faces the challenges
personal history of this constantly changing field,
of real-life teaching and the contemporary higher
from the earliest days of reprint publishing, through
education classroom head on. Whether you're teaching in a community
microfilm, microfiche and CD-ROM publishing to the current digital
college, a state school, a liberal arts college, or an Ivy League
age. Taking in leading publishing endeavours around the world – in
institution, this book offers valuable advice and insights which will help
the USA, UK, Europe and post-Soviet Russia – the book includes
you to motivate, incentivize and inspire your students.
vivid and informative first-hand accounts of such landmark publishing
projects as the US National Security Archives, the manuscript index of Addressing questions such as: 'how do you articulate the value of
the British Library and Literature Online (LION). literary education to students (and administrators, and parents)?',
'how can a class session with a fatigued and underprepared group
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 416 pages • 18 bw illus of students be made productive?', and 'how do you incentivize
PB 9781350235960 • £28.99 / $39.95 overscheduled students to read energetically in preparation for class?',
Previously published in HB 9781350120945
ePub 9781350120969 • £72.00 / $89.92 this book answers these universal quandaries and more, providing a
ePdf 9781350120952 • £72.00 / $89.92 usable philosophy of the value of literary education, articulating a set of
Bloomsbury Academic learning goals for students of literature, and offering plenty of practical
advice on pedagogical strategies, day-to-day coping, and more.
In its sum, Teaching Literature in the Real World constitutes an
experience-based philosophy of teaching literature that is practical and
Theory in the "Post" Era realistic, oriented towards helping students develop intellectual skills,
and committed to pedagogy built on explicit, detailed, and observable
A Vocabulary for the Twenty-First-Century learning objectives.
Conceptual Commons
Edited by Christian Moraru, University of North UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 184 pages
PB 9781350195066 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781350195059 • £55.00 / $75.00
Carolina, Greensboro, USA, Andrei Terian, ePub 9781350195073 • £16.19 / $20.93
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania ePdf 9781350195080 • £16.19 / $20.93
Bloomsbury Academic
& Alexandru Matei, University “Ovidius”
Constanta, Romania
Since the Cold War’s end and especially in the third millennium,
theorists have been exploring the aftermath—and sometimes
Secret Selves
the “after,” pure and simple—of whole paradigms, the crisis or A History of Our Inner Space
“passing” of anthropocentrism, of an entire ontological and cultural Stephen Prickett, University of Glasgow, UK
“condition,” and the corresponding rise of an antagonist model. It
is no coincidence, the contributors to this volume argue, that this Our secret, inner, sense of self – what we feel
“post” moment is also a time when theory is practiced as a world makes us distinctively ‘us’ – seems a natural and
genre. Perhaps more than other humanist constituencies, today’s permanent part of being human, yet in fact it is
theorists work and belong in a theory commons that is transnational if surprisingly new. Over the last 2,000 years we have
still “uneven” economically, politically, and otherwise. increasingly felt old sources of identity, such as
family, tribe, or social status, as intensely personal, even unique to
UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 320 pages us. In the last few centuries our inner space has expanded far beyond
HB 9781501358951 • £90.00 / $120.00 any possible personal experience. Yet our secret selves can also be
ePub 9781501358968 • £88.50 / $108.00 a source of terror, with fringes that are often porous, ill-defined, and,
ePdf 9781501358975 • £88.50 / $108.00
Bloomsbury Academic possibly, open to frightening forms of external control.
UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 264 pages • 25 color and 30 b/w illus
HB 9781501372469 • £20.00 / $29.95
ePub 9781501372476 • £21.92 / $26.95
Critical Theory Between Klein ePdf 9781501372483 • £21.92 / $26.95
Bloomsbury Academic
and Lacan
A Dialogue
Mari Ruti, University of Toronto, Canada & Amy
What’s Wrong with Antitheory?
Allen, Pennsylvania State University, USA Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of
Houston-Victoria, USA
Klein and Lacan are among the two most important
and influential psychoanalytic theorists. Their Antitheory has long been a venerable brand of
work has profound implications for how we understand subjectivity, theory and – although seemingly opposite – the two
intersubjectivity, autonomy, agency, desire, affect, trauma, history, impulses have long been intertwined. What's Wrong
and the potential for individual and social change. Allen and Ruti with Antitheory? is the first book to explore this vexed
offer distinctive interpretations of Klein and Lacan that not only relationship from the 20th century to the present day,
bring out their complexities but also highlight productive points of examining antitheory both in its historical context and current state. The
convergence where most psychoanalytic and critical theorists see book brings together leading scholars from a wide range of Humanities
irreconcilable differences. The book’s key themes cut across and disciplines to ask such questions as what does it mean to be against
through the work of Klein and Lacan, culminating in an assessment of theory in the new millennium and what is the current state of post-theory,
the implications of their theories for thinking about politics. alleged deaths of theory, and the critique of critique?
UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 272 pages UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 304 pages
PB 9781501378324 • £28.99 / $39.95 PB 9781350234475 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781501352263 Previously published in HB 9781350096110
ePub 9781501352270 • £29.22 / $35.95 ePub 9781350096134 • £76.50 / $94.85
ePdf 9781501352287 • £29.22 / $35.95 ePdf 9781350096127 • £76.50 / $94.85
Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons • Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic
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L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – Modernism
Modernism, Theory and Irish Modernisms
Responsible Reading Gaps, Conjectures, Possibilities
A Critical Conversation Edited by Paul Fagan, University of Vienna,
Edited by Stephen Ross, University of Victoria, Austria, John Greaney, University College
Canada Dublin, Ireland & Tamara Radak, University of
Vienna, Austria
Introducing readers to a new theory of 'responsible
Focusing on previously unexplored lacunae of
reading', this book presents a range of perspectives
Irish modernism, this book interrogates neglected
on the contemporary relationship between modernism and theory.
figures and genres to develop a more attentive and fluid theoretical
Using an innovative format of essay and response, it promotes
space in which to reflect upon the field. Probing Irish modernism’s
conversation among disparate views under a shared commitment to
responsiveness to contemporary theory beyond postcolonial and
'responsible reading' practices.
Irish studies, this book uses diverse paradigms including weak theory,
Touching on areas as diverse as the recent surge in post-critique and/ queer theory, gender and canonicity, biopolitics, posthumanism, and
or affect studies; longer histories of theory, modernism, and critique; the nonhuman turn to rethink Irish modernism’s organizing themes:
new ways of understanding the interplay between modernism and nationalism, martyrdom, war, state violence, prostitution, temporality,
theory, the book draws out links to emerging concerns such as the death, mourning.
Anthropocene, the post-human, and eco-theory. Above all, these
essays articulate and model a method of “responsible reading”: a UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 240 pages • 2 bw illus
practice that reads generously and engages constructively, even HB 9781350177369 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350177383 • £76.50 / $94.85
where disagreement is inevitable, articulating a mode of ethical ePdf 9781350177376 • £76.50 / $94.85
reading that is fundamental to ongoing debates about strength and Bloomsbury Academic
weakness, paranoia and reparation, critique and affect.
UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 256 pages
HB 9781350185814 • £85.00 / $115.00
Historicizing Modernists
ePub 9781350185838 • £76.50 / $94.85
ePdf 9781350185821 • £76.50 / $94.85
Bloomsbury Academic
Approaches to ‘Archivalism’
Edited by Matthew Feldman, University of York,
The Fictional Minds of UK, Anna Svendsen & Erik Tonning, University of
Bergen, Norway
Modernism Focussing upon both canonical figures such as
Narrative Cognition from Henry James to Woolf, Eliot, Pound, and Stein and emergent
Christopher Isherwood themes such as Christian modernism, intermedial
modernism and queer Harlem Renaissance, this volume brings
Edited by Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso, University of
together previously unseen materials, from various archives, to bear
Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
upon cutting-edge interpretations of modernism. It provides an
Challenging the notion that modernism is marked by overview of approaches to modernism via the employment of various
an “inward turn,” this collection delineates the relationship between types of primary source material: correspondence, manuscripts and
the mind and material and social systems, refreshing our understanding drafts, memoirs and production notes, reading notes and marginalia,
of modernism’s representation of cognitive and affective processes. and all manner of useful contextualising sources like news reports or
Through analysis of a variety of international novels, short stories, and judicial records.
films—all published roughly between 1890 and 1945—the contributors
to this collection demonstrate how modernist narratives offer insights UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 256 pages • 8 bw illus
into the real, historical world not as a mere object of contemplation but HB 9781350215047 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350215061 • £76.50 / $94.85
as an object of knowledge, thus bridging the gap between classical
ePdf 9781350215054 • £76.50 / $94.85
narratology and modernist experimentation. Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic
UK August 2021 • US August 2021 • 256 pages
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Samuel Beckett and
Experimental Psychology
Perception, Attention, Imagery
Christian Modernism in an Age Joshua Powell, Cardiff University, UK
of Totalitarianism Samuel Beckett and Experimental Psychology is an
T.S. Eliot, Karl Mannheim and the Moot innovative study of the author’s engagement with
key concepts in early experimental psychology and
Jonas Kurlberg, University of Edinburgh, UK
rapidly developing scientific ideas about perception, attention and
With fascism on the march in Europe and a second mental imagery. Through innovative new readings of Beckett’s later
World War looming, a group of Britain’s leading dramatic and prose works, the book reveals the links between his
intellectuals – including T.S. Eliot, Karl Mannheim, John aesthetic method and the methodologies of experimental psychology
Middleton Murry and Michael Polanyi – gathered together to explore through the 20th century. Covering important later works including
ways of revitalising a culture that seemed to have lost its way. The group Happy Days, Not I and Footfalls, Samuel Beckett and Experimental
called themselves ‘The Moot’. Drawing on previously unpublished archival Psychology sheds important new light on Beckett’s depictions of the
documents, this is the first in-depth study of the group’s work, writings and workings of the embodied mind.
ideas in the decade of its existence from 1938-1947.
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L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – Modernism
W.B. Yeats's Robartes-Aherne Modernist Crisis and the
Writings Pedagogy of Form
Featuring the Making of His "Stories of Woolf, Delany, and Coetzee at the Limits
Michael Robartes and His Friends" of Fiction
Wayne K. Chapman, Clemson University, USA Matthew Cheney, Plymouth State University,
The figures of Michael Robartes and Owen Aherne USA
appear throughout the writing of the great Irish What is the role of the author in times of crisis?
poet W.B. Yeats. Bringing together into one volume published and Modernist Crisis and the Pedagogy of Form examines how
unpublished writings featuring these two enigmatic figures, this book Virginia Woolf, Samuel R. Delany, and J. M. Coetzee developed
traces their history and the development of Yeats’s mystical thought. literary strategies in common to cope with crisis periods they were
anticipating, living through, or looking back on. Matthew Cheney
Including reproductions of manuscript and notebook pages as well
outlines how the three writers shaped their art to create an author/
as transcriptions and extracts from a wide range of Yeats’s mystical
audience relationship congruent with the goals of critical pedagogy
writings and substantial commentary and annotation throughout, this
espoused by such thinkers as Paulo Freire and bell hooks. Seeking to
book is an essential resource for scholars of Yeats’s thought and the
stimulate ethical thought, Woolf, Delany, and Coetzee required their
esoteric influences on modernist writing in the early 20th century.
readers to be active interpreters of their texts’ forms, contents, and
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Material Spirituality in
Modernist Women’s Writing Unfit: Jewish Degeneration and
Elizabeth Anderson, University of Glasgow, UK Modernism
For Virginia Woolf, H.D., Mary Butts and Gwendolyn Marilyn Reizbaum, Bowdoin College, USA
Brooks, things mobilise creativity; traverse An obsession with “degeneration” was a central
domestic, public and rural spaces; and stage the neurosis of early 20th-century modernist culture.
interaction between the sublime and the mundane. Unfit: Jewish Degeneration and Modernism is the
Ordinary things are rendered extraordinary by first in-depth study of the Jewish cultural roots of
their spiritual or emotional significance. This book addresses the “degeneration theory”, its key exponents such
intersection of spirituality, things and places – both natural and built as Cesare Lombroso, Max Nordau and Magnus Hirschfeld and its
environments – in the work of these four women modernists. legacies for modern culture. Marilyn Reizbaum explores how literary
works from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, through James Joyce’s Ulysses to
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Modernist Work
Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of
Labor, Aesthetics, and the Work of Art
Intimacy
Edited by John Attridge, University of New
Elsa Högberg, University of Uppsala, Sweden South Wales, Australia & Helen Rydstrand,
Virginia Woolf and the Ethics of Intimacy explores University of New South Wales, Australia
the politics and ethics of Woolf's psychologically Modernist Work studies Richard Strauss, Joseph
intimate literary method. The book reveals how Conrad, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka and Gertrude
the notions of intimacy central to Woolf's inter- Stein but also addresses contexts that are
war novels - Jacob's Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the chronologically and geographically foreign to the main stream of
Lighthouse and The Waves - inform her political and ethical stances modernist studies, such as Swedish proletarian writing, Haitian
against violence, patriotism and war. Drawing on contemporary nationalism and South African inheritors of Dada. Prominent historical
theory, including the works of Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray and Julia themes include the ideas of class, revolution and the changing nature
Kristeva, Elsa Högberg casts new light on the politics of modernism's of women's work, while more conceptual chapters explore topics
aesthetic commitments. including autonomy, inheritance, intention, failure and intimacy.
Modernist Work demonstrates the central relevance of the concept
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L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – Modernism / German Studies
Literary Couples and 20th- Understanding Flusser,
Century Life Writing Understanding Modernism
Narrative and Intimacy Edited by Aaron Jaffe, Michael F. Miller &
Rodrigo Martini
Janine Utell, Widener University, USA
Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser’s form of
Literary Couples and 20th-Century Life Writing
experimental theory-fiction pits philosophy against
examines how modernist and late modernist
cybernetics as it forces the category of “the human”
writers have told the stories of their own intimate
to confront the inhuman world of animals and
relationships. Exploring life writing by well-known literary couples
machines in today’s increasingly technological world. The contributors
such as Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Leonard and Virginia
to Understanding Flusser, Understandng Modernism engage with the
Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland, Christopher
multiplicity of Flusser’s thought as they provide a general analysis of
Isherwood and Don Bachardy and Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath,
his work, engage in comparative readings with other philosophers,
Janine Utell draws on the latest work in narrative theory to shed new
and offer expanded conceptualizations of modernism.
light on the importance of ethics and empathy to our understanding
of relationships in the modern period.
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Theodor Fontane Gender, Collaboration, and
Irony and Avowal in a Post-Truth Age Authorship in German Culture
Brian Tucker, Wabash College, USA Literary Joint Ventures, 1750-1850
Contemporary alarm over unreliability, falsehood, Edited by John B. Lyon, University of Pittsburgh,
and indifference to truth has made it easier to USA & Laura Deiulio, Christopher Newport
perceive in Fontane’s novels a profound concern University
about language that is not sincere and not meant
Gender, Collaboration, and Authorship in German
to be taken literally. For Fontane, irony exemplifies
Culture challenges a model of literary production that persists in
a discrepancy between language and meaning, a loosening of the
literary studies: the so-called Geniekult or the idea of the solitary
ethical bond between words and the things to which they refer.
male author as genius that emerged around 1800 in German lands.
Tucker’s analyses reveal a critical distance between his works and the
A closer look at creative practices during this time indicates that
prospect of irony as a dominant idiom. Revisiting Fontane’s novels
collaborative creative endeavors, specifically joint ventures between
in a post-truth age brings the conflict between irony and avowal into
women and men, were an important mode of literary production
sharper relief and makes legible the stakes and contours of our own
during this era. This volume surveys a variety of such collaborations
post-truth condition.
and proves that male and female spheres of creation were not as
distinct as has been previously thought.
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Kafka’s Stereoscopes The Fontane Workshop
The Political Function of a Literary Style Manufacturing Realism in the Industrial
Isak Winkel Holm, University of Copenhagen, Age of Print
Denmark Petra S. McGillen, Dartmouth College, USA
In 1911, Franz Kafka encountered the Kaiser Combining material media history, media theory,
Panorama: a stereoscopic peep show offering and literary poetics, this book reconstructs the
an illusion of three-dimensional depth. After the great German writer Theodor Fontane's creative
experience, he began to emulate the apparatus in process. Analyzing a wealth of unexplored archival
his literary sketches, developing a style we might call "stereoscopic," evidence—including a collection of the author's 67 extant notebooks
juxtaposing, like the optical stereoscope, two images of the same and an array of other "paper tools,"—McGillen demonstrates how
object seen from slightly different perspectives. Isak Winkel Holm Fontane compiled his realist prose works. That is, he assembled
argues that Kafka’s stereoscopic style is crucial to an understanding them from premediated sources, literally with scissors and glue, in an
of the relation between literature and politics in Kafka's work. Kafka’s extraordinarily inorganic and radically intertextual manner that turned
Stereoscopes offers a detailed but highly readable argument for the "writing" into an ongoing remix. This book opens up a completely
relevance of Kafka's literary works in today’s political reality. new way to think about Fontane’s works and, by extension, 19th-
century literary realism.
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L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – World Literature / Comparative Literature
Persian Literature as World Afropolitan Literature as World
Literature Literature
Edited by James Hodapp, Northwestern
Edited by Mostafa Abedinifard, University of
University, Qatar
British Columbia, Canada, Omid Azadibougar,
Hunan Normal University, China & Amirhossein What is the new, Afropolitan vision of Africa’s place
Vafa, Shiraz University, Iran in the world offered by African writers of the 21st
century? How does it differ from that of previous
Confronting nationalistic and nativist interpretations generations? Why do some dissent? Afropolitanism
in Persianate literary scholarship, this volume refuses to reinforce images of Africa in world media as merely poor,
makes a case for reading these literatures as world literature—as war-torn, diseased, and constantly falling into chaos. Complicating
transnational texts that expand beyond local and national penchants. the image of Africa as a hapless victim, Afropolitanism focuses on the
Working through an idea of world literature that is both cosmopolitan wide-ranging influence Africa has on the world. However, some have
and critical of any monologic view on globalization, contributors characterized this kind of writing as light, populist fare that panders
revisit the early and contemporary circulation of Persianate literatures to Western audiences. Afropolitan Literature as World Literature
across neighboring and distant cultures, and seek to engage in examines this controversy in light of the unprecedented circulation of
constructive dialogues with the global forces surrounding, and culture made possible by globalization.
shaping, Persianate societies and cultures.
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Literature and Film from East Cloneliness
Europe’s Forgotten "Second On the Reproduction of Loneliness
World" Michael O'Sullivan, Chinese University of Hong
Kong
Essays of Invitation
Recent posthuman philosophies, human-
Gordana P. Crnkovic, University of Washington, computer interface studies, and technology-
USA inspired biopolitical discourses and practices are
Eastern Europe of the socialist era may seem reinventing and reimagining loneliness in different
distant and unreal, almost mythical, with some of its countries— communities. Newer forms of loneliness, pushed by the algorithms
Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia—no longer on the map. This largely of biopolitical capitalism, result in what this books calls "cloneliness."
forgotten “Second World” may appear no more than a historical Michael O'Sullivan plots the transformation in loneliness in literature
oddity. The masterpieces of literature and cinema of this era, as well and philosophy in readings that take us from Henry James and such
as by the authors formed in it and working in its aftermath, however, classic works as Frank O’Connor’s The Lonely Voice and Richard
surprise with their contemporary resonance and relevance, their Yates’s Eleven Kinds of Loneliness to more recent expressions in such
distinctiveness and freshness. In lively and jargon free prose, Gordana writers as David Foster Wallace, Yiyun Li, and Sayaka Murata.
P. Crnkovic creates a path to a number of these works and shows how
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Antonin Artaud and the Healing Dispersion
Practices of Language Thoreau and Vegetal Thought
How Life Matters in Artaud’s Later Edited by Branka Arsic, Columbia University,
Writings USA
Joeri Visser, Helinium School, Rotterdam, Plants are silent, still, or move slowly; we do not
Netherlands have the sense that they accompany us, or even
perceive us. But is there something that plants are
The life of Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) was telling us? Is there something about how they live
tormented by physical and mental illnesses. In his earlier writings, and connect, how they relate to the world and other plants that can
Artaud tried to express his physical and mental suffering, but teach us about ecological thinking, about ethics and politics?
perceived, in describing his feelings, the obstructive and illness-
inducing role of language. In the first English-language book on Grounded in Thoreau’s ecology and in contemporary plant studies,
Artaud’s “healing language,” Joeri Visser guides us through the years Thoreau and Vegetal Thought offers answers to those questions by
in which Artaud suffered more and more from mental instability and pondering such concepts as co-dependence, the continuity of life
considered the act of writing his only means of survival. In doing so, forms, relationality, cohabitation, porousness, fragility, the openness
Visser unfolds a literary and a philosophical analysis on language and of beings to incessant modification by other beings and phenomena,
life, joy and anguish. patience, waiting, slowness and receptivity.
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Illegibility Habermas and Literature
Blanchot and Hegel The Public Sphere and the Social
William S. Allen, University of Southampton, UK Imaginary
The philosophical significance of Maurice Blanchot’s Geoff Boucher, Deakin University, Australia
writings has rarely been in doubt. Specifying Although Habermas has written about the cultural
the nature and implications of his thinking has role of literature and about literary works, he has
proved more difficult, particularly in reference to not systematically articulated a literary-critical
the key figure of G. W. F. Hegel. William S. Allen method as a component of either communicative
demonstrates aspects of Hegelian thought that permeate Blanchot’s reason or post-metaphysical thinking. Habermas and Literature brings
writings and, in turn, develops a detailed 3-way analysis of Derrida, Habermasian concepts and categories into contact with aesthetic and
Hegel, and Blanchot and the relationships between thought and cultural theories in and around the Frankfurt School, and beyond. Its
language concerning finitude and infinitude. Illegibility introduces a central claim is that Habermas’ contribution to literary and cultural
new, substantially philosophical account of Blanchot’s importance, criticism is the concept of literary rationality and the notion that
situating Derrida within a history of discussions of Hegel and enabling literature performs a key role in the formation of the modern social
a more critical response to Hegel’s works. imaginary.
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The European Roman d’Analyse The Post-War Experimental
Unconsummated Love Stories from Novel
Boccaccio to Stendhal British and French Fiction, 1945-75
Adele Kudish, Borough of Manhattan Andrew Hodgson, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Community College, USA Paris 3, France
"Weaving together texts not commonly The Post-War Experimental Novel constructs a
discussed within a single project, Adele Kudish topography of how the traumatic experience of
provides us, by comparison and some beautiful the Second World War formed – or perhaps malformed – the post-
close readings, new insights into each of the texts she addresses." war experimental novel. Focusing on British and French fiction and
Tony Brown, University of Minnesota, USA covering the works of B. S. Johnson, Ann Quin, Georges Perec,
This study of "analytical fiction" examines how unconsummated Roland Topor, Raymond Queneau and others, Andrew Hodgson
love stories probe the frailty of self-knowledge. Tracing elements shows that there is method to the madness of experimental fiction
of the roman d'analyse in the works of Boccaccio, Marguerite de and further legitimises the form as a prominent presence within a
Navarre, Cervantes, Marie de Lafayette, Samuel Richardson, Jane wider literary and historical movement in European and American
Austen, and Stendhal, Adele Kudish discusses how the metaphor of avant-garde literatures.
unconsummated love is deployed to represent a fundamental lack of
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Utopia and Its Discontents
Plato to Atwood
Sebastian Mitchell, University of Birmingham, UK
Utopia and its Discontents traces literary
representations of ideal communities from Plato
to the 21st century. Each chapter offers close
readings of key utopian and anti-utopian texts to
demonstrate how they construct, challenge and
explore the ideas and forms of earlier utopian writings and the social
and political ideals of their own historical times. The book explores
how literary utopias are often as much about the past as they are
about the present and the future. With annotated chapter by chapter
guides to further reading, this is an essential study for students and
scholars of Utopian literature.
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