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Literary Studies New Books Catalogue July-September 2022 B L O O M S B U RY ACADEMIC
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GREAT POE TS SE RI E S Each volume is based on the most authoritative text, and reflects Alma’s commitment to providing affordable ISBN: 9781847496089 ISBN: 9781847497567 William Shakespeare £4.99 • PB • 256 pp £9.99 • PB • 520 pp Complete Poems editions with valuable insights into the great poets’ John Keats Sonnets works. Most titles are enriched by an extensive critical apparatus, notes and extra reading material. Selected Poetical Works ISBN: 9781847498212 The Rime of the Ancient Samuel Taylor Coleridge £7.99 • PB • 288 pp ISBN: 9781847497529 ISBN: 9781847497550 £7.99 • PB • 256 pp William Blake £8.99 • PB • 288 pp Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman Mariner The Prelude and Other Poems ISBN: 9781847497505 William Wordsworth ISBN: 9781847498038 ISBN: 9781847494412 £7.99 • PB • 320 pp £7.99 • PB • 320 pp £8.99 • PB • 160 pp Selected Poems Paradise Lost John Milton SELECTED POETRY W.B. Yeats PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY ISBN: 9781847498670 288 pages • £7.99 Unique selection of Shelley’s poetry Thoroughly annotated and presented in A L M A C L A S S I C S G R E AT P O E T S chronological order www.almabooks.com A LM A CL A SSI CS E V E RG R E E N S • ID E AL F O R ST U D E N TS Alma Classics’ Evergreens list is a series of popular classics, incorporating a wide range of literature from around the globe. Most of the titles are enriched by an extensive critical apparatus, notes and extra reading material, as well as a selection of photographs. The texts are based on the most authoritative edition and ed- ited using a fresh, accessible editorial approach. With an emphasis on production, editorial and typographical values, Alma Classics aspires to revitalize the whole experience of reading classics. Nineteen Eighty-Four Mrs Dalloway The Master and Margarita Silas Marner George Orwell Virginia Woolf Mikhail Bulgakov George Eliot ISBN: 9781847498571 ISBN: 9781847494009 ISBN: 9781847497826 ISBN: 9781847498304 £5.99 • PB • 288 pp THE CANTERBURY TALES ULYSSES £4.99 • PB • 224 pp £5.99 • PB • 400 pp £5.99 • PB • 224 pp GEOFFREY CHAUCER JAMES JOYCE ISBN: 9781847497413 ISBN: 9781847497765 608 pages • £5.99 832 pages • £6.99 Contains 3,000 notes and 30 pages extra Contains over 9,000 notes by Joyce scholars material. Sam Slote, Marc A. Mamigonian and John Turner. Presented in their original Middle-English ‘This is a text of choice for first-time and Contains a wealth of extra material established readers alike. [The] annotation is extensive, diligent and unfussy, and offers a serious rival to Jeri Johnson’s notes in the Oxford edition.’ - James Joyce Quarterly ABOUT 100 TITLES IN THE SERIES Inferno: Dual-Language Ed. The Metamorphosis Sons and Lovers Heart of Darkness and A LL A FFORDA BLY PR ICED Dante Alighieri Franz Kafka D.H. Lawrence The Complete Congo Diary ISBN: 9781847493408 ISBN: 9781847493521 ISBN: 9781847497536 Joseph Conrad £7.99 • PB • 396 pp £5.99 • PB • 256 pp £5.99 • PB • 480 pp ISBN: 9781847494016 ALMA CLASSICS EVERGREENS £4.99 • PB • 192 pp w w w. a l m a b o o k s . c o m
L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – Poetry / Modernism Poetry: A Survivor's Guide, Reading Poetry with College Second Edition and University Students Mark Yakich, Loyola University, New Orleans, Overcoming Barriers and Deepening USA Engagement For its playful sincerity and idiosyncratic humor, Thomas Fink, LaGuardia Community College- Poetry: A Survivor’s Guide has earned praise from CUNY, USA students, teachers and readers around the globe, as it offers an original take on a subject both loved College students don’t need to find poetry and feared. In a time of great change, its unconventional advice alienating. This book aims to help faculty foster students’ and application is crucial to encourage meaningful discussion and engagement with poems while enabling them to sharpen critical personal growth. This updated and expanded edition probes a range and creative thinking. Considering work by such poets as Julia of strategies for inspiring students and aspiring poets on the ways Alvarez, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mahmoud Darwish, John poetry relates to their own lives. These include individual meditation, Donne, W.B. Yeats, Audre Lorde and A.K. Ramanujan, Thomas Fink digital learning, and the uses and utility of poetry as a tool of social zeroes in on how learners can surmount and even enjoy tackling the change. most difficult aspects of poetry. He explores students’ emotional identification with speakers and characters of poems and with poets UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 288 pages • 22 bw illus themselves, showing how an instructor can motivate students to PB 9781501376207 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781501376191 • £60.00 / $80.00 produce effective interpretations. ePub 9781501376214 • £16.74 / $22.45 ePdf 9781501376221 • £16.74 / $22.45 UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 176 pages Bloomsbury Academic PB 9781501389467 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781501389450 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781501389474 • £18.19 / $24.25 ePdf 9781501389481 • £18.19 / $24.25 Bloomsbury Academic Narrating Medicine in Middle Reading the Modernist Long English Poetry Poem Poets, Practitioners, and the Plague John Cage, Charles Olson and the Eve Salisbury Indeterminacy of Longform Poetics Filling a gap in what we know about medical writing in England in the 100+ years after the advent of Brendan C. Gillott, University of Cambridge, UK the “Great Mortality”, this book calls attention to This book argues that indeterminacy is a a discourse that privileges illness narratives, strategies of self-care, fundamental feature of the modernist long and the voices of poets, patients, and practitioners. When read poem. Taking as the form's exemplars the highly influential but in conjunction with medical treatises, plague tractates, and verse critically contentious poetry of John Cage and Charles Olson, this remedies, literary narratives disclose an experience of illness that book considers longform indeterminacy by way of its analogues in other genres of medical writing lack, thus enabling us to see the musicology, mycology, cybernetics and philosophy, while articulating kinship between poetry and the healing arts. how both poets broke with the longform poetic traditions of the early 1900s. Brendan C. Gillott argues for Cage and Olson’s centrality to UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus these traditions – in developing, critiquing and innovating on the HB 9781350249790 • £85.00 / $115.00 longform poetics of the past, their work revolutionized the longform ePub 9781350249813 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350249806 • £76.50 / $105.78 poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries. Bloomsbury Academic UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 240 pages PB 9781501371899 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501363788 ePub 9781501363795 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501363801 • £79.34 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature The Distance of Irish Modernism Immanence, Occultism, and the Making Memory, Narrative, Representation of the Modern World John Greaney, University College Dublin, Ireland Allan Kilner-Johnson Rethinking the relationship between form and Exploring the relationship between occultism history in Irish modernist writing and its aftermath, and modernist literary experimentation, this book this book examines how critics have previously sets the work of leading modernist writers alongside lesser known categorized the Irish modernist novel, as an female writers and writers in languages other than English to more evidentiary form of cultural memory. John Greaney fully portray the aesthetic and philosophical connections between exposes the problems with such a stance, exploring novels by modernism and the occult. Elizabeth Bowen, Kate O’Brien, Samuel Beckett, Flann O’Brien and UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 192 pages John McGahern through new critical paradigms in modernist studies. HB 9781350255302 • £85.00 / $115.00 This approach contrasts the gap between modernist literature and ePub 9781350255326 • £76.50 / $105.78 national history with materialist approaches to modernism, and in ePdf 9781350255319 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic so doing delineates how Irish modernism becomes both a world problematic as well as a container for national history. UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 240 pages HB 9781350125261 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350125285 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350125278 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com 3
L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – Modernism Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism Understanding Marx, Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism Understanding Modernism Edited by Mark Steven, University of Exeter, UK Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of In 1845 Karl Marx wrote: “The philosophers have Houston-Victoria, USA & Zahi Zalloua, Whitman only interpreted the world, in various ways; the College, USA point is to change it.” There is no philosopher for Understanding Barthes, Understanding Modernism whom these words are a more accurate description is an assessment of the modern literary and than Marx, forefather of modern revolution and, as philosophical contributions of Roland Barthes. this volume shows, herald for modernism. Marx’s writing absorbed The volume focuses on work published prior to his death in 1980, the lessons of artistic and cultural modernity as much as his legacy covering the major periods of his development from Writing Degree concretely shaped modernism across multiple media. This volumes Zero (1953) to Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1980), offers a close engagement with Marx’s central philosophical texts in as well as his posthumously published material and the legacies of relation to his literary antecedents; an exploration of the multimedia his work after his death. Culminating with a glossary of terms and afterlife of his writings, including in film, theatre, literature, and art; concepts in Barthes’ writing, the volume is both broad and thorough and a glossary of mini-essays unpicking frequently used and abused in its exploration of Barthes. terms like “capital,” “labor,” and “value.” UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 320 pages • 9 bw illus UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 256 pages HB 9781501367403 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9781501372308 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePub 9781501367410 • £79.34 / $108.00 Previously published in HB 9781501351112 ePdf 9781501367427 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePub 9781501351129 • £79.34 / $108.00 Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic ePdf 9781501351136 • £79.34 / $108.00 Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic James Joyce and Paul L. Léon The Making of Samuel Beckett's The Story of A Friendship Revisited Company/ Compagnie Edited by Luca Crispi, University College Dublin, Georgina Nugent-Folan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Alexis Leopold Léon & Anna Maria Léon Ireland With contextual annotations throughout, this book This book offers a critical analysis of the manuscripts brings together important archival discoveries of Company / Compagnie, taking Beckett’s schema- and historical accounts of Joyce's final decade dependent compositional method as its core focus. struggling to finish his final work, Finnegans It forwards a new hypothesis regarding the genetic Wake, and explores one of the central relationships of Joyce’s final map of both works, and considers the relationship between this years: with his confidant, friend and business adviser Paul L. Leon. uniquely entwined ‘original’ and ‘translation’. The book includes: Unearthing Leon’s letters to his wife in the 1940s, which chronicle his - A complete catalogue of available relevant manuscripts, including desperate attempts to rescue Joyce’s Paris archives from occupying French and English texts, alternative drafts and notebook pages Nazi forces – efforts that would cost Leon his own life in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camps – this is an essential resource for scholars - A critical reconstruction of the history of the text, from its genesis of Joyce and of the literary culture of World War II. through to its full publication history - A guide to the online manuscripts at the Beckett Digital UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 320 pages Manuscripts Project at www.beckettarchive.org HB 9781350133839 • £130.00 / $175.00 ePub 9781350133846 • £117.00 / $162.12 ePdf 9781350133853 • £117.00 / $162.12 UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 432 pages Series: Modernist Archives • Bloomsbury Academic PB 9781350214477 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350214439 Series: The Beckett Manuscript Project • Bloomsbury Academic World English (excluding Belgium/Luxembourg/Netherlands) Modernism in Trieste The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Judith Wright and Emily Carr Literary Invention of Europe, 1870-1945 Gendered Colonial Modernity Salvatore Pappalardo, Towson University, USA Anne Collett & Dorothy Jones, University of When we think about the process of European Wollongong, Australia unification, our conversations inevitably ponder Knitting together two fascinating but entirely questions of economic cooperation and international distinct lives, this ingeniously structured, braided politics. Salvatore Pappalardo offers a new and biography tells the story of the lives and work engaging perspective, arguing that the idea of European unity is also of Australian poet Judith Wright and Canadian the product of a modern literary imagination. This book examines the painter Emily Carr. The two broke new ground for female artists in the idea of Europe in the modernist literature of primarily Robert Musil, British colonies and influenced the political and social debates about Italo Svevo, and James Joyce (but also of Theodore Däubler and environment and indigenous rights that have shaped Australia and Srecko Kosovel), all authors who had a deep connection with the port Canada in the twenty-first century. In telling their story/ies, this book city of Trieste. Modernism in Trieste seeks to fill a critical gap in the charts the battle for recognition of their modernist art and vision, their extant scholarship, securing the literary history of Trieste within the similar experiences of colonial modernity as white settler women, and context of current research on Habsburg and Austrian literature. the transformative power of art. UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 280 pages UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 288 pages • 4 bw illus; 16 colour illus PB 9781501369957 • £28.99 / $39.95 PB 9781350188396 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501369964 Previously published in HB 9781350188204 ePub 9781501369971 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePub 9781350188280 • £81.00 / $112.65 ePdf 9781501369988 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781350188211 • £81.00 / $112.65 Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic 4 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • orders@macmillan.co.uk
L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – British & Irish Literature / European Literature The Adventurous Life of Amelia Community in Contemporary B. Edwards British Fiction Egyptologist, Novelist, Activist From Blair to Brexit Margaret C. Jones Edited by Sara Upstone & Peter Ely In Victorian England, Amelia B. Edwards was an Examining how British writers are addressing the iconic cultural figure, admired by the public for urgent matter of how we form and express group her best-selling fiction and for her witty, thought- belonging in the 21st century, this book examines provoking travel writing. In later life, she became a celebrated the most challenging issues for community in Britain in the past five historian, bringing fresh understanding of Ancient Egypt to a years, notably Brexit and the Covid-19 crisis. Exploring questions fascinated public and founding the Egyptian Exploration Fund of identity and local and national belonging, this book discusses (Society). works from contemporary British writers including Ali Smith, John McGregor, Bernadine Evaristo, Jonathan Coe and Sarah Hall, among Unearthing forgotten sources, this book tells the story of her others, to demonstrate some of the resources that literature can offer unconventional life - her travels, travails and feminist activism. A for a renewed understanding of identity and community. figure ahead of her time, it examines her involvement in suffrage and animal rights and reveals new insights into Edwards’ loving same-sex UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 248 pages • 10 bw illus relationships with Ellen Rice Byrne and Lucy Renshaw. HB 9781350244023 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350244047 • £76.50 / $105.78 UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 240 pages • 22 b/w illus ePdf 9781350244030 • £76.50 / $105.78 PB 9781350293953 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350293960 • £45.00 / $61.00 Bloomsbury Academic ePub 9781350293977 • £13.49 / $19.22 ePdf 9781350293984 • £13.49 / $19.22 Bloomsbury Academic Rethinking the Romantic Era Fairy Tales of London Androgynous Subjectivity and the British Urban Fantasy, 1840 to the Present Recreative in the Writings of Mary Hadas Elber-Aviram, University of Notre Dame, Robinson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and London, UK Mary Shelley From the time of Charles Dickens, the city of Kathryn S. Freeman London has frequently inspired writers to their most creative flights of fantasy. Charting a new history This book crosses the boundary between male and of London fantasy writing from the Victorian era to female writers of the Romantic period by linking representations of the 21st century, Fairy Tales of London explores a powerful tradition gender with late Enlightenment upheavals regarding creativity and of urban fantasy distinct from the rural tales of writers such as J.R.R. subjectivity, arguing that these authors dismantle and reconfigure Tolkien. Hadas Elber-Aviram traces this urban tradition from Dickens, subjectivity as androgynous and amoral, subverting the centrality of through the scientific romances of H.G. Wells, the anti-fantasies of the male gaze associated with canonical Romanticism. In doing so, George Orwell and Mervyn Peake to contemporary science fiction it examines key works from each author's oeuvre, from Coleridge’s and fantasy writers such as Michael Moorcock, Neil Gaiman and “canonical” poems such as Rime of the Ancient Mariner, through China Miéville. Robinson’s lyrical poetry and novels such as Walsingham, to Mary Shelley’s fiction, including Frankenstein, Mathilda, and The Last Man. UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 312 pages • 14 bw illus PB 9781350202825 • £28.99 / $39.95 UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 176 pages Previously published in HB 9781350110670 PB 9781350194939 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePub 9781350110694 • £76.50 / $105.78 Previously published in HB 9781350167407 ePdf 9781350110687 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePub 9781350167421 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic ePdf 9781350167438 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic Derivative Lives Circular Narratives in Modern Biofiction, Uncertainty, and Speculative European Literature Risk in Contemporary Spanish Narrative Juan Luis Toribio Vazquez, Sam Sharpe Teacher’s Virginia Newhall Rademacher, Babson College, College, Jamaica USA Breaking with linearity – the previously ruling The title of this book, Derivative Lives, alludes narrative model – many 20th-century European to the challenge of finding one’s way within writers adopted circular narrative forms. This study the contemporary market of virtually limitless shows how this trend – among authors such as information and claims to veracity. It is easy to feel lost in spaces of Strindberg, Stein, Queneau, Nabokov, Joyce, Beckett, Robbe-Grillet, uncertainty where biographical truth teeters between the real and Calvino and Blanchot – was not a unified nor conscious movement, the imaginative. The title points to the prolific market of biographical but rather a series of works arising sporadically, using circular novels that openly and intentionally play in the speculative space structures to express similar ideas. It also shows how the renewed between the real and the fictional. Drawing on theories of risk and understanding of narrative form leading to this circular trend was uncertainty, Derivative Lives considers the surge in biofiction in anticipated by Nietzsche’s critiques of truth, knowledge, language Spain and globally, relating literary expression to circumstantiality, and metaphysics, and his related discussions of nihilism and the derivatives, speculation, and game studies. eternal recurrence. UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 208 pages UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 240 pages HB 9781501386909 • £80.00 / $110.00 HB 9781501384875 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePub 9781501386916 • £72.79 / $99.00 ePub 9781501384882 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501386923 • £72.79 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501384899 • £79.34 / $108.00 Series: Biofiction Studies • Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com 5
L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – World Literature / Asian Literature Literatures as World Literature Thomas Oliver Beebee, Pennsylvania State University, USA African Literatures as World Literature Elena Ferrante as World Edited by Alexander Fyfe, American University Literature of Beirut, Lebanon & Madhu Krishnan, University of Bristol, UK Stiliana Milkova, Oberlin College, USA Focusing on a variety of geographic, historical and The first monograph in English on Elena Ferrante, linguistic contexts, the essays in this volume seek this book analyzes Ferrante's entire textual answers to the following questions about African production and the range of scholarly and popular literatures: What are the topographies of 'the world' in different literary responses it has generated locally and globally. texts and traditions? What are that world’s limits, boundaries and Focusing on Ferrante’s explorations of feminine possibilities? How do questions of literary form – realism, oral epic, lyric identity, subjectivity, and agency within an oppressive patriarchal poetry – affect the presentation of worldliness? What are the material order, Stiliana Milkova argues that Ferrante constructs a theory of networks of circulation that allow African literatures to become world feminine experience which serves as the scaffolding for her own literature? African literatures, it emerges, do important theoretical work literary practice, delineating alternative modes of constituting female that speaks to the very core of world literary studies today. identity not contingent on male-centered ideologies. UK October 2022 • US October 2022 • 256 pages UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 224 pages HB 9781501379956 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9781501371912 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePub 9781501379963 • £79.34 / $108.00 Previously published in HB 9781501357527 ePdf 9781501379970 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePub 9781501357534 • £79.34 / $108.00 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic ePdf 9781501357541 • £79.34 / $108.00 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic Turkish Literature as World World Literature and the Literature Question of Genre in Colonial Edited by Burcu Alkan, University of Manchester, India UK & Çimen Günay-Erkol, Özyegin University, Turkey Poetry, Drama, and Print Culture 1790-1890 Essays covering a broad range of genres and ranging from the late Ottoman era to contemporary Kedar Arun Kulkarni, Flame University, India literature open the debate on the place of The book describes the way Marathi literary culture, Turkish literature in the globalized literary world. Explorations of entrenched in performative modes of production and reception, the multilingual cosmopolitanism of the Ottoman literary scene especially balladry and epic storytelling, saw the germination of a are complemented by examples of cross-generational intertextual robust, script-centric dramatic culture, owing to colonial networks encounters. The renowned poet Nâzim Hikmet is studied from a of literary exchange and the newfound wide availability of print variety of angles, while contemporary and popular writers such as technology. It situates Marathi literature within contemporary Orhan Pamuk and Elif Safak are contextualized. Turkish Literature world literature studies and critiques “eurochronology”— the as World Literature not only fills a significant lacuna in world literary perceived backwardness of colonial and postcolonial locales when studies but also draws a composite historical, political and cultural compared with literatures produced in Euro-American metropoles. portrait of Turkey in its relations with the broader world. It demonstrates that literary cultures in colonized locales converged with and participated fully in key defining moments of world UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 264 pages literature, but also diverged from them to create, simultaneously, a PB 9781501371639 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501358012 unique literary modernity. ePub 9781501358029 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePdf 9781501358036 • £79.34 / $108.00 UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 300 pages Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic HB 9789354356698 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9789354351815 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9789354356827 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic India World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent) Science Fiction in India Parallel Worlds and Postcolonial Paradigms Edited by Shweta Khilnani, University of Delhi & Ezra Pound's Japan Ritwick Bhattacharjee Andrew Houwen, Tokyo Women's Christian This volume examines the different ways by which University, Japan Indian SF narratives construct possible national The first book to deal with the subject of Ezra futures. It explores how the tensions generated by Pound’s relationships with Japanese literature the seemingly conflicting forces of tradition and as a whole, this book provides a wealth of new modernity within the Indian historical landscape are realized through scholarship on this subject, including focus on the characteristic tropes of SF storytelling. It looks at the interplay between 19th-century Japanese contexts that led to Pound’s the spatio-temporal coordinates of the nation and the SF narratives interest in ‘hokku’ and Fenollosa’s No translations on which Pound produced within to see how one bears upon the other and how based his own; significant original research on Pound’s Japanese processes of governance find relational structures with such narratives. friendships that enriched his understanding of Japanese literature; It interrogates how postcolonial futures promise to articulate a more and an examination of all the explicit references to No in The Cantos representative and nuanced picture of a contemporary reality that is in unprecedented depth. rooted in a distinct cultural and colonial past. UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 280 pages UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 320 pages PB 9781350216808 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9789354353383 • £85.00 / $115.00 Previously published in HB 9781350174306 ePub 9789354353437 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePub 9781350174320 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9789354351693 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350174313 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic India Bloomsbury Academic World All Languages (excluding India/Indian subcontinent) 6 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • orders@macmillan.co.uk
L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – North & South American Literature / Creative Writing Love Me Fierce In Danger Escape, Escapism, Escapology The Life of James Ellroy American Novels of the Early Twenty-First Steven Powell, University of Liverpool, UK Century Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James John Limon Ellroy uncovers the life-story of one of the most Escape, Escapism, Escapology: American Novels fascinating authors of contemporary American of the Early Twenty-First Century identifies and literature. This biography is the untold story of how explores what is emerging as perhaps the theme of Ellroy created a literary persona for himself as the 21st-century American fiction: escapism in the time Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction, giving him a celebrity status of inescapable globalization. The driving question is how to find an and notoriety that few authors can match. To his admirers Ellroy is a alternative to the world within the world, and at a time when utopian literary genius who has reinvented crime fiction. To his detractors he and messianic ideals have lost their power to compel belief. John is a reactionary, overrated figure. Love Me Fierce In Danger examines Limon traces the American answer to that question in the writings the enigma of an author who has striven for critical acclaim and often of some of the most important authors of the last two decades— courted controversy with equal zealotry. Chabon, Díaz, Foer, Eggers, Donoghue, Groff, Ward, Saunders, and Whitehead, among others—and finds that it always involves the UK November 2022 • US November 2022 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus contemporary utopian freedom or messianic salvation of childhood. PB 9781501367311 • £14.99 / $19.95 ePub 9781501367328 • £13.10 / $17.95 ePdf 9781501367335 • £13.10 / $17.95 UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 256 pages Bloomsbury Academic PB 9781501391101 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501391118 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781501391095 • £19.65 / $26.95 ePdf 9781501391088 • £19.65 / $26.95 New Directions in Print Culture Bloomsbury Academic Studies Archives, Materiality, and Modern Decolonizing the Undead American Culture Rethinking Zombies in World-Literature, Edited by Jesse W. Schwartz, LaGuardia Community College, USA & Daniel Worden, Film, and Media Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Edited by Stephen Shapiro, University of From work in early and 19th-century American literary studies to Warwick, UK, Giulia Champion, University of the revisions of 20th-century literary studies occasioned by the rise Warwick, UK & Roxanne Douglas, University of of periodical studies, ways of conceptualizing American literary Warwick, UK history have recently undergone significant revision. This collection Looking beyond Euro-Anglo-US-centric zombie features new approaches to cultural and literary history that draw narratives, this book reconsiders representations and allegories on periodicals, print culture, and material culture, thus revising what constructed around the undead, probing their cultural and historical we think we know about the aesthetic, cultural, and social history weight across different nations and their significance to postcolonial, of transnational America. These essays focus on the materials and decolonial and Neoliberal discourses. Taking stock of zombies as archives that highlight not a canon of “major” literary works but they appear in literature, film and television from the Caribbean, dialogues and tensions that define print cultures in various moments Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, India, Japan, Iraq and Ireland, it and movements. explores how zombies reflect a plethora of experiences previously obscured by western preoccupations and anxieties. UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 272 pages HB 9781501359736 • £90.00 / $120.00 UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 256 pages ePub 9781501359743 • £79.34 / $108.00 HB 9781350271128 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9781501359750 • £79.34 / $108.00 ePub 9781350271142 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic ePdf 9781350271135 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic Imaginative Teaching through Creative Writing A Guide for Secondary Classrooms Edited by Amy Ash, Indiana State University, USA, Michael Dean Clark, Azusa Pacific University, USA & Chris Drew Growing out of recent pedagogical developments in creative writing studies and perceived barriers to teaching it in secondary education schools, this book creates conversations between secondary and post-secondary teachers aimed at introducing and improving creative writing instruction in teaching curricula for young people. With attention given to creative writing within the current standards- based educational systems, this book confronts and offers solutions to the perceived difficulty of teaching creative writing in such environments. Divided into two sections, section one sees post- secondary instructors address pedagogical techniques such as workshops, revision, and assessment, whilst section two explores activities and practical approaches to instruction. UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 280 pages • 11 bw illus PB 9781350216594 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350152687 ePub 9781350152700 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350152694 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com 7
L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – Gothic & Horror / Religion & Literature Theology, Horror and Fiction Frankenstein in Theory A Reading of the Gothic Nineteenth A Critical Anatomy Century Edited by Orrin N. C. Wang, University of Jonathan Greenaway, Manchester Metropolitan Maryland, College Park, USA University, UK This collection provides new readings of Theology, Horror and Fiction argues that the Frankenstein from a myriad of established and Victorian Gothic is a genre fascinated with the burgeoning theoretical vantages including narrative immaterial. Through close readings of some of the theory, cognitive and affect theory, the new most popular Gothic novels of the 19th century, Jonathan Greenaway materialism, media theory, critical race theory, queer and gender demonstrates that to understand and read Gothic novels is to be studies, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and others. Demonstrating drawn into the discourses of theology, and that this angle has been how the literary power of Frankenstein rests on its ability to theorize largely overlooked in broader scholarly investigations into the questions of mind, self, language, matter, and the socio-historic intersections between literature and religion. Combining historical that also drive these critical approaches, this volume illustrates the theological awareness with interventions into contemporary theology, ongoing intellectual richness found both in Mary Shelley’s work and particularly around imaginative apologetics and theology and the arts contemporary ways of thinking about it. more generally, Theology, Horror and Fiction offers the beginnings of UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 272 pages • 2 bw illus a modern theology of the Gothic. PB 9781501372209 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501360794 UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 200 pages ePub 9781501360800 • £79.34 / $108.00 PB 9781501371356 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePdf 9781501360817 • £79.34 / $108.00 Previously published in HB 9781501351785 Bloomsbury Academic ePub 9781501351792 • £72.79 / $99.00 ePdf 9781501351808 • £72.79 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic New Directions in Religion and Literature Emma Mason, University of Warwick, UK and Mark Knight, University of Toronto, Canada. Marilynne Robinson's Worldly The Economy of Religion in Gospel American Literature A Philosophical Account of her Christian Culture and the Politics of Redemption Vision Andrew Ball Ryan S. Kemp, Wheaton College, USA & Jordan M. Rodgers, King's College, Wilkes-Barre, USA This book offers a thoroughgoing reassessment of the relationship of religion and economics in An in-depth philosophical exploration of Marilynne American culture. Its guiding questions include: Robinson’s work – from Gilead to her extensive non-fiction writing – this Are we truly living in a secular age? How did a Christian nation come book reads Robinson’s theology as articulating a compelling response to embrace capitalism? What role did religion play in the conflict of to the claim that Christianity is an otherworldly religion whose adherents capital and labor in fin de siècle America? How are we to understand seek through it to escape the misfortunes of this life. The authors argue the status of religion in contemporary American culture? What light that her work challenges the modern atheistic tradition, dating back to can the literary archive shed on the relationship of religion and Friedrich Nietzsche, to present a unique form of contemporary faith that economics? seeks to affirm the world rather than deny its claims. UK May 2022 • US May 2022 • 272 pages UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 224 pages HB 9781350231672 • £85.00 / $115.00 HB 9781350106956 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350231689 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePub 9781350106970 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350233997 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350106963 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic Esoteric Islam in Modern French Biblical Sterne Thought Rhetoric and Religion in the Shandyverse Massignon, Corbin, Jambet Ryan J. Stark, Corban University, USA Ziad Elmarsafy, University of York, UK Was Sterne one of the great Christian apologists? Why would a Catholic, a Protestant, and a Maoist This book argues that he was, exploring Sterne’s atheist devote their lives and work to the study of engagement with the Christian religion and offering esoteric aspects of Islam? What are the theoretical a persuasive reading of the biblical rationale and intellectual problems to which they provide solutions? These are informing Sterne’s use of humour and interest in the questions at the heart of this book. The three French specialists of talking and writing about sex. Examining a diverse range of texts, Islam described above form an intellectual and personal genealogy from Tristram Shandy to Sterne's sermons, this book unpacks the that structures the core of the text: Massignon taught Corbin, who role that humour plays in thinking about literature and religion. It taught Jambet in his turn. Each of them found in the esoteric a paints a picture of a parson who errs on the side of risqué mirth, not solution to otherwise insurmountable problems: desire for Massignon, forbidding severity, if he errs at all. certainty for Corbin, and resurrection/immortality for Jambet. 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Environmental Cultures L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – Environment & Literature / Translation New Forms of Environmental Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures Writing of Human Extinction Gleaning and Fragmentation Sarah E. McFarland, Northwestern State University, Louisiana, USA Timothy C. Baker, University of Aberdeen, UK This work analyzes 21st-century realistic Exploring a variety of environmental concerns and speculations of human extinction: fictions that surveying a wide range of contemporary poetry, imagine future worlds without interventions of fiction, and memoir by women writers, this book as-yet un-invented technology, interplanetary argues for the centrality of individual encounter and fragmentary form travel, or other science fiction elements that provide hope for rescue in twenty-first-century literature. or long-term survival. Rather than following the preferences of the Proposing an exciting new theoretical model of 'gleaning' and genre, these fictions manifest apocalypse where the means for a including analyses of works by both familiar and emerging writers happy ending no longer exists, rejecting the impulse of human such as Sara Baume, Ali Smith, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Bhanu Kapil, exceptionalism to demonstrate what it might be like to go extinct. Kathleen Jamie, and many others, this book also draws on theoretical perspectives such as ecofeminism, new materialism, posthumanism, UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 168 pages and affect theory. PB 9781350202900 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350177642 ePub 9781350177666 • £76.50 / $105.78 UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus ePdf 9781350177659 • £76.50 / $105.78 HB 9781350271319 • £85.00 / $115.00 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic ePub 9781350271333 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350271326 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic The Living World Transcultural Ecocriticism Nan Shepherd and Environmental Global, Romantic and Decolonial Thought Perspectives Edited by Stuart Cooke, Griffith University, Samantha Walton, Bath Spa University, UK Australia & Peter Denney, Griffith University, Focusing upon Nan Shepherd's writing, this book Australia asks how literature might help us to reimagine Bringing together Indigenous, Romantic and humanity’s place on earth in the Anthropocene. The global literature perspectives, Transcultural first book to examine Shepherd’s work through an Ecocriticism explores innovative new directions for the field of ecocritical lens, The Living World reveals forgotten details about the environmental literary studies. By examining literatures across a range scientific, political and philosophical climate of the 1920s to 1940s. of geographical locations and historical periods – from Romantic With reference to The Living Mountain, The Weatherhouse, A Pass period travel writing to Chinese Science Fiction and Australian in the Grampians, poetry from In the Cairngorms and Shepherd’s aboriginal writing - the book demonstrates the need for ecocriticism letters to Neil Gunn, Walton explores how Shepherd’s work offers new to competently translate between Indigenous and non-Indigenous, patterns for modern understandings of environmental studies and planetary and local, and contemporary and pre-modern perspectives. how we can relate to human and more-than-human communities. UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 304 pages • 10 bw illus UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 232 pages PB 9781350213821 • £28.99 / $39.95 PB 9781350200197 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350121638 Previously published in HB 9781350153226 ePub 9781350121652 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePub 9781350153387 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350121645 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350153370 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic Literatures, Cultures, Translation The Translator’s Visibility This is a Classic Scenes from Contemporary Latin American Fiction Translators on Making Writers Global Heather Cleary, Sarah Lawrence College, USA Edited by Regina Galasso, University of Massachusetts, Amherst The Translator’s Visibility examines novels by a generation of writers working after and through What does it mean to translate an established or Borges—including prominent figures such as future literary classic, and how is it done by some of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Valeria Luiselli, and Luis today’s most celebrated translators? This is a Classic Fernando Verissimo—who place translation at the center of their brings together translators who have created narratives. Drawing on Latin America’s long tradition of critical and English versions of canonical works from a variety of languages, creative engagement of the practices and philosophies of translation, including Spanish, French, Yiddish, Turkish, Catalan, Greek, Serbian, Heather Cleary shows that translation can not only serve to renew German, Italian, Icelandic, Russian, Romanian, Portuguese, and national literatures through an exchange of ideas and forms, but also, Ancient Greek. They offer insights into their processes, challenges, when rendered visible, can help us reimagine the terms according to and craft, providing readers with an appreciation of how a classic is which those exchanges take place. shaped by translation, and how translation is essential for a classic’s survival and the creation of original literary works. 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L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – Children's Literature / Comics / Digital Humanities Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature Lisa Sainsbury, University of Roehampton, UK. British Activist Authors Space, Place, and Children’s Addressing Children of Colour Reading Development Karen Sands-O'Connor, Newcastle University, UK Mapping the Connections Activist and left-wing politics in Britain have seen Margaret Mackey, University of Alberta, Canada significant numbers of writers address children of This open access book explores how children’s colour about radical ideas. This open access book reading development is affected by their home explores some of the activists producing work setting, and how this sense of place influences from the 1960s onwards, such as Chris Searles, Rosemary Stones, textual interpretation of what they read. Based on qualitative Black Panthers and contemporary advocates for people of colour research, it focuses on digital maps study participants created that including Farrukh Dhondy, Floella Benjamin, Benjamin Zephaniah represent their literate youth, and the discussions that followed and Liv Little. Tracing how these radicals translated their values for and their experience as young readers. Analysing the participant’s children of colour, from the first cultural products for children up to responses, Mackey lays out the insights surrounding readers' the mainstream presses publishing figures like Stormzy, this book behaviours, reading histories and place-based responses to literature. analyses the choices, struggles and successes of writers of activist The open access edition of this book is available on www. literature for children. bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Social The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollection.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched. UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 288 pages • 50 bw illus HB 9781350275959 • £85.00 / $115.00 UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 224 pages • 6 bw illus ePub 9781350275973 • £0.00 / $0.00 HB 9781350196032 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9781350275966 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePub 9781350196056 • £0.00 / $0.00 Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature • Bloomsbury Academic ePdf 9781350196049 • £0.00 / $0.00 Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature • Bloomsbury Academic Children and Biography The Comics Form Reading and Writing Life Stories The Art of Sequenced Images Kate Douglas, Flinder's University, Australia Chris Gavaler, Washington and Lee University, The first study of life narratives produced for, USA about, and written by children. By analyzing works Answering foundational questions like "what is a like Women in Science, Goodnight Stories for comic" and "how do comics work" in original and Rebel Girls and testimonies and diaries written by imaginative ways, this book adapts established, children alongside empirical studies into child- formalist approaches to explaining the experience readers and writers, this book provides new knowledge on how such of reading comics. Taking stock of a multitude of case studies and texts are produced and read. Comprehensive and original, Children examples, The Comics Form demonstrates that any object can be and Biography, presents an ethical methodological framework for read as a comic so long as it displays a set of relevant formal features. scholarly practice when reading, witnessing and analyzing children’s Drawing from the worlds of art criticism and literary studies to put life narratives so that future researchers might place children’s voices forward innovative new ways of thinking and talking about comics, and writing at the centre of future inquiries in ways that facilitate this book also challenges terminology and established theorizing genuine agency for child authors. terms to show how their definitions could be tightened up in the contexts of comics studies. UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 208 pages • 15 bw illus HB 9781350236363 • £85.00 / $115.00 UK July 2022 • US July 2022 • 256 pages • 47 bw illus ePub 9781350236387 • £76.50 / $105.78 HB 9781350245914 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePdf 9781350236370 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePub 9781350245938 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: New Directions in Life Narrative • Bloomsbury Academic ePdf 9781350245921 • £76.50 / $105.78 Bloomsbury Academic Hacking in the Humanities Cybersecurity, Speculative Fiction and Navigating a Digital Future Aaron Mauro, Brock University, Canada What would it take to hack a human? Are we exploitable? Making the case for the importance of a security minded humanities education, this book examines issues as pressing as data security, privacy and social engineering, arguing that it is time for the humanities to offer the critical, technical, and ethical insights necessary to regulate these systems and to resist the normalization of surveillance, disinformation, and coercion. UK June 2022 • US June 2022 • 216 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350231023 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350230989 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350231009 • £19.79 / $27.47 ePdf 9781350230996 • £19.79 / $27.47 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic 10 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • orders@macmillan.co.uk
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