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Contents
Letter from the Editors�� 2
Literary Theory�� 3
Contemporary Literature�� 7
Modernism �� 12
Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Literature �� 18
British and Irish Literature�� 20
North and South American Literature�� 21
European Literature�� 26
Comparative Literature�� 28
Comics and Graphic Novels / Children's Literature�� 32
Children's Literature�� 33
Writing�� 34
Literary Biography�� 36
Bestsellers �� 37
Index�� 41
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The Power of Comics (p.32) and a new classroom anthology, A Body of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine (p.28). We
also have a fantastic new wave of creative writing books with three new titles in our Writers’ & Artists’ Companions (p.34) series
bringing together advice from bestselling and critically acclaimed writers on the arts of novel writing, writing short stories and
playwriting. We are also very pleased to be launching our fantastic new Modernist Archives series (p.16), making available to
researchers for the first time rare archival material that casts new light on major modernist literary figures and their work.
Our program of critical studies of contemporary writers continues apace with titles such as A Temporary Future: The Fiction
of David Mitchell (p.7) and David Foster Wallace and “The Long Thing” (p.7). New books on literature and culture include
Bambi’s Jewish Roots (p.27), which explores the precarious themes of German-Jewish writing between the two World Wars, while
Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History (p.5) is an ideal read for the worriers among us. In textbook publishing, Ecofeminism:
Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth (p.3) is a path-breaking guide to feminist, eco-critical and animal
studies. Finally, we are delighted to be launching a major new series bringing together critical theory, media studies and material
culture to explore the hidden lives of ordinary things: Object Lessons (p.4).
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Ecofeminism: Feminist
Intersections with Other Animals
and the Earth
Edited by Carol J. Adams & Lori Gruen
Leading feminist scholars and activists as well as
new voices introduce and explore themes central to
contemporary ecofeminism.
Ecofeminism first offers an historical, grounding overview that
situates ecofeminist theory and activism and provides a timeline for
important publications and events. This is followed by contributions
from leading theorists and activists on how our emotions and
embodiment can and must inform our relationships with the more
than human world. In the final section, the contributors explore
the complexities of appreciating difference and the possibilities of
living less violently. Throughout the book, the authors engage with
intersections of gender and gender non-conformity, race, sexuality,
disability, and species.
The result is a new up-to-date resource for students and teachers of
animal studies, environmental studies, feminist/gender studies, and
practical ethics.
Carol J. Adams is the author of many books, most notably the pioneering
The Sexual Politics of Meat. She has published around 100 articles on
vegetarianism, animal rights, domestic violence, and sexual abuse.
Lori Gruen is Professor of Philosophy, Environmental Studies, and
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wesleyan University, USA,
where she also coordinates Wesleyan Animal Studies. She is the author
most recently of Ethics and Animals: An Introduction and the editor of five
books.
UK September 2014 • US July 2014
288 pages • 9 halftones
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The Vagina: A Literary and
Cultural History
Emma L. E. Rees
"The broadest survey yet ....lively, thoughtprovoking,and richly researched."
Naomi Wolf, author of Vagina: A New Biography
From South Park to Kathy Acker, from Lars Von Trier to Sex and the
City, women’s sexual organs are demonized. In The Vagina: A Literary
and Cultural History, Emma L.E. Rees investigates the evolution of
this demonization: she considers how writers, artists and filmmakers
contend with the dilemma of he vagina's puzzling 'covert visibility'
and how the ‘c-word’ is an obscenity that both legitimates and
perpetuates the fractured identities of women globally.
In our postmodern, porn-obsessed culture, vaginas appear to be
everywhere, literally or symbolically but, crucially, they are as
silenced as they are objectified. Even common slang terms for the
vagina can be seen as an attempt to divert attention away from the
reality of women’s lived sexual experiences: slang offers a convenient
distraction from something taboo. The Vagina: A Literary and
Cultural History is an important contribution to the ongoing debate in
understanding the feminine identity.
Emma L.E. Rees is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the
University of Chester, UK.
UK February 2015 • US December 2014
368 pages • 12 illus
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Literary Criticism in the 21st
Century
Critical Practice
Theory Renaissance
Martin McQuillan
Vincent B. Leitch
Literary Criticism in the 21st Century explores the
explosion of new theoretical approaches that has
seen a renaissance in theory and its importance in
the institutional settings of the humanities today.
It covers such issues as: the institutional history of theory in the
academy; the case against theory, from the 1970s to today; critical
reading, theory and the wider world; keystone works in contemporary
theory; new directions and theory’s many futures.
Written with an engagingly personal and accessible approach that
brings theory vividly to life, this is a passionate defence of theory and
its continuing relevance in the 21st century.
Vincent Leitch is George Lynn Cross Research Professor and Paul and Carol
Daube Sutton Chair in English at the University of Oklahoma, USA. He is
the author of American Literary Criticism Since the 1930s (2nd edition,
2010) and co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Literary Criticism and
Theory (2nd edition, 2010).
UK August 2014 • US October 2014
192 pages
PB 9781472527707 • £17.99 / $30.95 • HB 9781472532527 • £55.00 / $94.00
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L I T E R A RY T H E O RY
L I T E R A RY T H E O RY
Theorists and Creativity
Martin McQuillan offers a critical interrogation of
the idea of practice-led research. He goes beyond
the recent vocabulary of research management
to consider the more interesting question of the
emergence of a cultural space in which philosophy,
theory, history and practice are becoming indistinguishable.
McQuillan considers the work of a number of writers and thinkers
whose work crosses the divide between theoretical (academic) and
creative practice and the longer tradition of 'theory-writing'. His aim
is to elucidate the contemporary ramifications of a relationship that
has been contested throughout the long history of philosophy, from
Plato's dialogues to Derrida's 'Envois'.
Martin McQuillan is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis, and
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, UK,
where he is also Co-Director of The London Graduate School. His books
include Roland Barthes (2011), Deconstruction after 9/11 (2008), Paul de
Man (2001), and (as co-author) Deconstructing Disney (1999).
UK June 2015 • US August 2016
160 pages
PB 9781780930343 • £16.99 / $27.95 • HB 9781780930350 • £55.00 / $100.00
Individual eBook 9781780931012 • £16.99 / $26.99
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L I T E R A RY T H E O RY
L I T E R A RY T H E O RY
Object Lessons
Series Editors: Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New Orleans, USA
Object Lessons is a series of concise, affordable, beautifully designed books based around singular objects and the lessons they hold. Published
in association with The Atlantic, each book starts from a speciﬁc prompt: an anthropological query, historical event, literary passage, personal
narrative, philosophical speculation, technological innovation — and develops an investigation or inquiry around the object of the title,
gleaning a singular lesson or multiple lessons along the way. In this way Object Lessons harnesses recent movements in material culture
studies and critical theory — while also forming a collection of volumes that will be of perennial interest, able to adapt and diversify over
time and reﬂect fresh scholarly trends as new objects and lessons appear.
Golf Ball
Driver's License
Harry Brown
Meredith Castile
This book explores the composition, history, kinetic
life, and the long senescence of golf balls, which
may outlive their hitters by a thousand years, in
places far beyond our reach. They embody our
efforts to impose our will on the land, whether
the local golf course or the Moon, but their
unpredictable spin, bounce, and roll often defy our
control. Despite their considerable technical refinements, golf balls
reveal the futility of control. They inevitably disappear in plain sight
and find their way into hazards. Golf balls play with people.
Harry Brown is Associate Professor of English at DePauw University, USA.
He is the author of Injun Joe’s Ghost (University of Missouri, 2004) and
Videogames and Education (M.E. Sharpe, 2008). He has published articles
on American literature and culture in The Journal of American and
Comparative Culture, Studies in Medievalism, and Paradoxa, as well as
original fiction in Blueline and The Mississippi Review.
UK January 2015 • US January 2015
160 pages
PB 9781628921380 • £9.99 / $16.95
Individual eBook 9781628921403 • £8.99 / $14.99
Library eBook 9781628921410 • £34.00 / $51.00
Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic
Meredith Castile is a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University, USA, and
is an ongoing contributor of articles and book reviews for The Vienna
Review.
UK January 2015 • US January 2015
160 pages
PB 9781628929133 • £9.99 / $16.95
Individual eBook 9781628929782 • £7.99 / $12.99
Library eBook 9781628925647 • £29.00 / $44.00
Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic
Drone
Remote Control
Adam Rothstein
Caetlin Benson-Allott
Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV screen,
and swarming through the networks. But what are
drones? The word encompasses everything from toys
to weapons. And yet, as broadly defined as they are,
the word “drone” fills many of us with a sense of
technological dread. This book will cut through the
mystery, the unknown, and the political posturing,
and talk about what drones really are: what technologies are out
there, and what’s coming next; how drones are talked about, and
how they are represented in popular culture. It turns out that drones
are not as scary as they appear—but they are more complicated
than you might expect. In drones, we find strange relationships that
humans are forming with their new technologies.
Adam Rothstein is a freelance writer and researcher based in Portland,
USA.
UK January 2015 • US January 2015
160 pages • 18 b/w
PB 9781628926323 • £9.99 / $16.95
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Library eBook 9781628929676 • £34.00 / $51.00
Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic
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A classic teenage fetish object, the American
driver’s license has long symbolized freedom and
mobility in a nation whose design assumes car
travel and whose vastness rivals continents. It is
youth’s pass to regulated vice—cigarettes, bars,
tattoo parlors, casinos, strip joints, music venues,
guns. In its more recent history, the license has
become increasingly associated with freedom’s ﬂipside: screening.
The airport’s heightened security checkpoint. Controversial ID voting
laws. Federally mandated, anti-terrorist driver’s license re-designs.
The driver’s license encapsulates the contradictory values and
practices of contemporary American culture—freedom and security,
mobility and checkpoints, self-definition and standardization,
democracy and exclusion, superficiality and intimacy, the stable self
and the self in ﬂux.
While we all use remote controls, we understand
little about their history or their impact on our daily
lives. This book offers lively analyses of the remote
control’s material and cultural history to explain
how such an innocuous media accessory can change
the way we occupy our houses, interact with our
families, and experience the world. From the first
wired radio remotes of the 1920s to infrared universal remotes, from
the homemade TV controllers to the Apple Remote, remote controls
shape our media devices and how we live with them.
Caetlin Benson-Allott is Associate Professor of English at Georgetown
University, USA. She is the author of Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens:
Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing (University of California
Press, 2013) and of a column on film and new media in Film Quarterly.
UK January 2015 • US January 2015
160 pages • 25 b/w
PB 9781623563110 • £9.99 / $16.95
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The Tragedy of Fatherhood
Between Levinas and Lacan
King Laius and the Politics of Paternity in
the West
Self, Other, Ethics
Silke-Maria Weineck
Levinas and Lacan, two giants of contemporary
theory, represent schools of thought that seem poles
apart. In this major new work, Mari Ruti charts the
ethical terrain between them.
"A richly nuanced and theoretically sophisticated
assessment of conceptualizations of paternity
throughout the literary and political traditions
of the West." John T. Hamilton, Professor of
Comparative Literature, Harvard University, USA
If tragedy is the violent eruption of a necessary conﬂict between
competing, legitimate claims, The Tragedy of Fatherhood argues that
fatherhood is an essentially tragic structure. Silke-Maria Weineck
traces these the tensions and the various strategies to resolve them
through a series of readings of seminal literary and theoretical texts
in the Western cultural tradition. In doing so, she demonstrates both
the fragility and resilience of fatherhood as the most important
symbol of political power.
A long history of fatherhood in literature, philosophy, and political
thought, The Tragedy of Fatherhood weaves together figures as
seemingly disparate as Aristotle, Freud, Kafka, and Kleist to produce
a stunning reappraisal of the nature of power in the Western
tradition.
Silke-Maria Weineck is Chair of Comparative Literature and Professor of
German Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan,
USA. She is the author of The Abyss Above: Philosophy and Poetic Madness
in Plato, Hölderlin, and Nietzsche (2002).
UK October 2014 • US August 2014
224 pages
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Mari Ruti
In their understanding of the self-other relationship,
both Levinas and Lacan see the subject’s relationship to the other
as primary in the sense that the subject, literally, does not exist
without the other, but they understand the challenge of ethics
quite differently: while Levinas laments our failure to adequately
meet the ethical demand arising from the other, Lacan laments the
consequences of our failure to adequately escape the forms this
demand frequently takes. Even as Ruti outlines the major differences
between Levinas and Lacan, she also proposes that, underneath
these differences, one can discern a shared concern with the
thorny relationship between the singularity of experience and the
universality of ethics.
L I T E R A RY T H E O RY
L I T E R A RY T H E O RY
Mari Ruti (PhD, Harvard University) is Professor of Critical Theory at the
University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of five academic books:
Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life (2006); A
World of Fragile Things: Psychoanalysis and the Art of Living (2009);
The Summons of Love (2011); The Singularity of Being: Lacan and the
Immortal Within (2012); and The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth
Living (2013).
UK August 2015 • US June 2015
208 pages
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World English
Worrying
A Literary and Cultural History
Francis O'Gorman
Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History charts
the emergence of our contemporary conception
of worry, which originated with the Victorians and
became established after the First World War as
a feature of modernity. It was, for some writers
between the Wars, the 'disease of the age.'
Worrying considers the quotidian kind of worry—the fearful, nonpathological, and hidden questioning about uncertain future. Francis
O'Gorman offers both a cultural and a linguistic history of worry,
culminating in an account of worry as the natural bedfellow of a
world in which we try to live by reason and believe we have the right
to choose. It finds in the worrier a peculiar contemporary sufferer,
whose world is not only exceptionally familiar but deeply strange.
Offering an intimately personal account of an all too common human
experience, and of a word that casually slips in and out of ordinary
conversation, Worrying is a book about how everyday sadness has
been shaped by the modern world.
Francis O'Gorman is Professor of Victorian Literature and Head of the
School of English at the University of Leeds, UK. His publications include
Blackwell's Critical Guide to the Victorian Novel (2002), Victorian Poetry:
An Annotated Anthology (2004) and The Cambridge Companion to Victorian
Culture (2010). He is a regular contributor to The Guardian and TLS.
UK July 2015 • US May 2015
160 pages
HB 9781441151292 • £14.00 / $20.00
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The Politics and Pedagogy of
Mourning
On Responsibility in Eulogy
Timothy Secret
Jacques Derrida famously stated in Specters of Marx
that a justice worthy of the name must call us to
render justice not only to the living but also to the
dead. In The Politics and Pedagogy of Mourning,
Timothy Secret argues that offering a persuasive account of such a
duty requires establishing a discussion among the 20th century’s three
key thinkers on death – Heidegger, Levinas and Freud. Despite arguing
that none of these three figures’ discourses offers us a complete
account of our duty to the dead and that it remains impossible to
unify them into a single, consistent and correct approach, Secret
nevertheless offers an account of how Derrida managed to produce
an always singular articulation of these discourses in each of the acts
of eulogy he offered for his philosophical contemporaries.
Timothy Secret is a Junior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the University
of Essex and AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 2012.
UK February 2015 • US April 2015
304 pages
HB 9781472575142 • £70.00 / $112.00
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L I T E R A RY T H E O RY
L I T E R A RY T H E O RY
The Willing Suspension of
Disbelief
The Constitution of English
Literature
Poetic Faith from Coleridge to Tolkien
The State, the Nation and the Canon
Michael Tomko
Michael Gardiner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's conception of "the willing
suspension of disbelief" marks a pivotal moment
in the history of literary theory. Returning to
Coleridge's criticism to reconstruct this idea as a
form of "poetic faith", Michael Tomko here lays the foundations of
a new theologically oriented mode of literary criticism. Bringing
Coleridge into dialogue with other thinkers from Augustine to later
critics such as I.A. Richards and Terry Eagleton as well as writers like
J.R.R. Tolkein, The Willing Suspension of Disbelief offers a method of
reading for post-secular literary criticism that is not only historically
and politically aware but also deeply engaged with aesthetic form.
Michael Tomko is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities
at Villanova University, USA. He is the author of British Romanticism and
the Catholic Question: Religion, History and National Identity, 1778-1829
(2011) and co-editor of Firmly I Believe and Truly: The Spiritual Tradition
of Catholic England, 1483-1999 (2011).
UK August 2015 • US October 2015
192 pages
HB 9781780937304 • £50.00 / $90.00
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In this extended essay, Michael Gardiner examines
the ideology of the discipline of English Literature
in the light of the serious redefining work on
England and Englishness that has been conducted in
Political Studies in the last decade. He argues that English Literature
emerges from the development of the state and that consequently
it has suppressed the idea of the nation. His claim is that English
Literature has lost its form since its methodology and canonicity
depended so heavily on a constitutional form which can no longer be
defended.
He calls upon those working in English Literature to recognise that
they are not really participating in the same discipline, defined
by the Burkean constitutional settlement, even if they think of
themselves as writing 'within the canon'. His view is that a lack of
appreciation of 'hard-edged' political factors have led to a 'continuant'
and regressive form of English Literature which tends to hang on to
stiﬂing methodologies. In its place, he appeals for the creation of
a more open-ended, inclusive, internationalist, and comparative
'literature of England'.
Michael Gardiner is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies
at the University of Warwick, UK. His books include The Cultural Roots
of Devolution (2004), From Trocchi to Trainspotting: Scottish Critical
Theory since 1960 (2007) and At the Edge of Empire: The Life of Thomas
B. Glover (2008).
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The Bloomsbury Introduction to
Popular Fiction
A Temporary Future:
The Fiction of David Mitchell
Edited by Christine Berberich
Patrick O'Donnell
"This cornucopia of exciting essays on popular
fiction from the Victorians to the present, by both
veteran scholars and exciting new voices, boldly
takes popular fiction beyond encrusted cliches and
into the ferment of twenty-first century ideas."
Nicholas Birns, The New School, New York, USA
Having emerged as one the leading contemporary
British writers, David Mitchell is rapidly taking his
place amongst British novelists with the gravitas of
an Ishiguro or a McEwan.
Guiding readers through key writers and genres, historical contexts
and major theoretical approaches, this is a comprehensive
introduction to the study of popular fiction. Charting the rise of
commercial fiction from the 19th century to today,
The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction includes introductory
surveys, written by leading scholars, to a wide range of popular
genres, including: Science Fiction; Crime Writing; Romance and Chick
Lit; Adventure Stories and Lad Lit; Horror; Graphic Novels; Children's
Literature.
Part II of the book also includes case-study readings of key writers
and texts, from the work of HG Wells, Ian Fleming and Raymond
Chandler to more recent books such as Pride and Prejudice and
Zombies. The book also includes a chapter covering "The Writer's
Perspective" on popular publishing.
Christine Berberich is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the
University of Portsmouth, UK. Her previous publications include The Image
of the English Gentleman in Twentieth Century Literature (2007).
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Written for a wide constituency of scholars, students, and readers of
contemporary literature, A Temporary Future: The Fiction of David
Mitchell explores Mitchell’s primary concerns—including those of
identity, history, language, imperialism, childhood, the environment,
and ethnicity—across the six novels published thus far, as well as
his protean ability to write in multiple and diverse genres. It places
Mitchell in the tradition of Murakami, Sebald, Ishiguro, and Rushdie—
writers whose work explore narrative in an age of globalization and
cosmopolitanism.
Patrick O’Donnell traces the through-lines of Mitchell’s work from
ghostwritten to The Bone Clocks and, with a chapter on each of the
six novels, tracks the evolution of Mitchell’s fictional project.
Patrick O'Donnell is Professor of English at Michigan State University,
USA. He is the author or editor of 12 books, including The American
Novel Now: Contemporary American Fiction Since 1980 (2010), Latent
Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative (2000) and
Encyclopedia of 20th Century American Fiction (co-edited with David W.
Madden & Justus Nieland, 2011).
UK March 2015 • US January 2015
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David Foster Wallace and
"The Long Thing"
Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20thCentury Fiction and Film
New Essays on the Novels
Graham Holderness
Edited by Marshall Boswell
"A fascinating journey into the continuing power
of the central figure of the gospels in the culture
of our time." David Jasper, Professor of Literature
and Theology, University of Glasgow, UK
"Edited by one of the premiere critics of David
Foster Wallace's work, this sparkling collection
offers a host of new insights about Wallace's
novels." Patrick O’Donnell, Professor and Chair of
English,Michigan State University, USA
David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" is a state-of-the art guide
through Wallace's three major works, including the generationdefining Inﬁnite Jest. These essays provide new readings of each
of Wallace's novels while also tracing out patterns and connections
across the three works. Most importantly, the collection includes six
chapters on Wallace's unfinished novel, The Pale King, which will
prove foundational for future scholars of this important text.
Marshall Boswell is Professor and Chair of English at Rhodes College,
USA. He is the author of John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony
in Motion and Understanding David Foster Wallace. He is the co-editor,
with Stephen Burn, of A Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies and
served as Guest Editor for a two-part Special Issue of Studies in the Novel
devoted to David Foster Wallace's novels. He is also the the author of two
works of fiction, Trouble with Girls and the novel Alternative Atlanta.
UK September 2014 • US July 2014
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C O N T E M P O R A R Y L I T E R AT U R E
C O N T E M P O R A R Y L I T E R AT U R E
In Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20th Century Fiction and Film Graham
Holderness explores how writers and film-makers have sought to
recreate Christ in work as diverse as Anthony Burgess’s Man of
Nazareth and Jim Crace’s Quarantine, to Martin Scorsese’s The
Last Temptation of Christ and Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ.
These works are set within a longer and broader history of ‘Jesus
novels’ and ‘Jesus films’ and explored both for their reﬂections of
contemporary debates, and their positive contributions to Christian
theology. In its final chapter, the book draws on the insights of this
tradition of Christological representation to creatively construct
a new life of Christ, an original work of theological fiction that
both subsumes the history of the form, and offers a startlingly new
perspective on the biography of Christ.
Graham Holderness is Professor of English at the University of
Hertfordshire, UK, author or editor of numerous studies in early modern
and modern literature and drama, and General Editor of the peerreviewed journal Critical Survey. He is also a creative writer, novelist and
award-winning poet and his previous books include Nine Lives of William
Shakespeare (2010).
UK November 2014 • US January 2015
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C O N T E M P O R A R Y L I T E R AT U R E
Steve Tomasula: The Art and
Science of New Media Fiction
David Banash
Steve Tomasula's work exists at the cutting edges
of scientific knowledge and literary techniques.
As such, it demands consideration from multiple
perspectives and from critics who can guide
the reader through the formal innovations and
multimedia involutions while providing critical scientific, aesthetic,
historical, and technical contexts. This book, the first of its kind,
provides this framework, showing readers the richness and relevance
of the worlds Tomasula constructs.
Steve Tomasula's work is redefining the form of the novel, reinventing
the practice of reading, and wrestling with the most urgent questions
raised by massive transformations of media and biotechnologies.
His work not only charts these changes, it formulates the problems
that we have making meaning in our radically changing technological
contexts. Vast in scope, inventive in form, and intimate in voice, his
novels, short stories, and essays are read and taught by a surprisingly
diverse array of scholars in fields ranging from contemporary
experimental writing and literary criticism to the history of science,
biotechnology and bioart, book studies, and digital humanities.
David Banash is Professor of English at Western Illinois University, USA.
He is the author of Collage Culture: Readymades, Meaning, the Age of
Consumption (2013) and co-editor of Contemporary Collecting: Objects,
Practices, and the Fate of Things (2013).
UK July 2015 • US May 2015
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Steven Moore
In 1989, Steven Moore published the first scholarly
study of William Gaddis's novels and since then it
has been generally regarded as the best book on
this difficult but major writer's work. This revised
and expanded edition includes new chapters on the
novels Gaddis published after 1989, the National
Book Award-winning A Frolic of His Own and the
posthumous novella Agape Agape, along with updated introductory
and concluding chapters.
This introduction offers a clear discussion of all five of Gaddis's
novels, providing essential biographical information, two chapters
each on his most significant novels, The Recognitions and J R, and a
chapter each devoted to his later three novels. A concluding chapter
locates his place in American literature and notes his inﬂuence on
younger writers. Each chapter focuses on the main themes of each
novel and discusses the literary techniques Gaddis deployed to
dramatize those themes. Since Gaddis is an erudite, allusive novelist,
Moore clarifies his references and explains how they enhance his
themes.
Steven Moore (PhD Rutgers, 1988) is the author of several books and
essays on modern literature, including A Reader’s Guide to William
Gaddis’s The Recognitions (1982), as well as the author of The Novel,
An Alternative History (2 vols, 2010, 2013). He is the co-editor of In
Recognition of William Gaddis (1984) and the editor of The Letters of
William Gaddis (2013).
UK August 2015 • US June 2015
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The Vietnam War
Falling After 9/11
Topics in Contemporary North American
Literature
Crisis in American Art and Literature
Edited by Brenda M. Boyle
"Sheds new light on the literature of the Vietnam
War and its ongoing critical debate." Catherine
Calloway, Professor of English, Arkansas State
University, USA
Reverberations of the Vietnam War can still be felt in American
culture. The post-9/11 United States forays into the Middle East,
the invasion and occupation of Iraq especially, have evoked
comparisons to the nearly two decades of American presence in
Viet Nam (1954-1973). That evocation has renewed interest in the
Vietnam War, resulting in the re-printing of older War narratives
and the publication of new ones. This volume tracks those echoes
as they appear in American, Vietnamese American, and Vietnamese
war literature, much of which has joined the American literary
canon. Using a wide range of theoretical approaches, these essays
analyze works by Michael Herr, Bao Ninh, Duong Thu Huong, Bobbie
Ann Mason, le thi diem thuy, Tim O’Brien, Larry Heinemann, and
newcomers Denis Johnson, Karl Marlantes, and Tatjana Solis.
Brenda M. Boyle is an associate professor of English and the Director of
the Writing Center at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.
UK December 2014 • US February 2015
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William Gaddis: Expanded Edition
Aimee Pozorski
"Drawing together key theoretical ideas and
critical analyses to offer a series of shrewd
textual readings, Pozorski offers fresh and
inventive insights. Falling After 9/11 is a
substantial scholarly achievement."
Catherine Morley, University of Leicester, UK
Falling After 9-11 investigates the connections between violence,
trauma, and aesthetics by exploring post 9/11 figures of falling in
art and literature. From the perspective of trauma theory, Aimee
Pozorski provides close readings of figures of falling in such exemplary
American texts as Don DeLillo's novel, Falling Man, Diane Seuss's
poem, "Falling Man," Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and
Incredibly Close, Frédéric Briegbeder's Windows on the World, and
Richard Drew's famous photograph of the man falling from the World
Trade Center.
Aimee Pozorski is Professor of English at Central Connecticut State
University, USA, where she teaches contemporary literature and trauma
theory. She is the current President of The Philip Roth Society.
UK December 2014 • US October 2014
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New Horizons in Contemporary Writing
Series Editors: Peter Boxall, University of Sussex, UK; Stephen J. Burn, University of Glasgow, UK; Bryan Cheyette, University
of Reading, UK
In the wake of unprecedented technological and social change, contemporary literature has evolved a dazzling array of new forms that
traditional modes and terms of literary criticism have struggled to keep up with. New Horizons in Contemporary Writing presents cutting-edge
research scholarship that provides new insights into this unique period of creative and critical transformation.
Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and
the War on Terror
Wanderwords
Images of Insecurity, Narratives of Captivity
Maria Lauret
Susana Araújo
Extending the study of post-9/11 literature to
include transnational perspectives, this book
explores the ways in which contemporary writers
from Europe as well as the USA have responded
to the World Trade Centre attacks and the ensuing 'war on terror.'
Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the ‘War on Terror' demonstrates
the ways in which contemporary fiction has wrestled with anxieties
about national and international security in the 21st century.
Reading a wide range of writers such as Amy Waldman, Michael
Cunningham, Frédéric Beigbeder, Ian McEwan, Joseph O'Neill, Moshin
Hamid, José Saramago, Ricardo Menéndez Salmón, J.M. Coetzee and
Salman Rushdie, Susana Araújo explores how the rhetoric of the 'war
on terror' has shaped recent fiction and how “security” discourses
circulate both transatlantically and transnationally.
Susana Araújo is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Comparative
Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is the
author of the poetry book, Dívida Soberana (Sovereign Debt) (2012) and
co-editor of the book Trans/American, Trans/oceanic, Trans/lation: Issues
in International American Studies (2010).
UK March 2015 • US May 2015
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Language Migration in American Literature
Usually described as "code-switches" by linguists,
fragments of other languages have wandered into
American literature in English from the beginning.
Wanderwords asks what the function and meaning
of such language migration might be. Combining
literary and cultural theory, linguistics, the theory and history of
migration, and psychoanalysis, Wanderwords engages closely with
a variety of writers, both well known and otherwise, such as Mary
Antin and Eva Hoffman, Richard Rodriguez and Junot Díaz, Pietro
DiDonato and Don DeLillo, among others. In so doing, a poetics of
multilingualism unfolds that stretches into the lingual contact zone
of English-with-other-languages that is American literature, belatedly
re-connecting with the world.
Maria Lauret is Reader in American Literature at the University of Sussex,
UK, and has also taught in Spain and the United States. Her previous
books are Liberating Literature: Feminist Fiction in America (1994),
Alice Walker (2000, second edition, 2011) and the co-authored Beginning
Ethnic American Literatures (2001). She is a founding editor of the journal
Atlantic Studies and currently serves on the editorial advisory boards of
The European Journal of American Culture and Textual Practice.
UK November 2014 • US September 2014
344 pages
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Maggie Gee: Writing the
Condition-of-England Novel
Narrative Care: Biopolitics and
the Novel
Mine Özyurt Kiliç
Arne De Boever
In the first critical study of Gee's work, Mine Özyurt
Kiliç identifies the specific social problems her
novels address and explains the social consciousness
similarities Gee shares with the Victorians.
Analyzing how Gee adjusts the condition-of-England
novel to reﬂect contemporary Britain enables Özyurt Kiliç to reveal
the accuracy of Gee's rich portraits of Britain. She focuses on Gee's
ability to cut across the boundaries of race, class and gender, mix
voices from the margin with the majority and challenge and change
the idea of the mainstream. In addition, Gee's critiques of class, race
and the world of publishing, allow Özyurt Kiliç to cover a wide range
of topics and detail how English fiction shapes and inﬂuences, and is
shaped and inﬂuenced by, the contemporary literary market.
Mine Özyurt Kiliç is Assistant Professor in the Department of English
Language and Literature at Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey.
UK May 2014 • US May 2014
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C O N T E M P O R A R Y L I T E R AT U R E
C O N T E M P O R A R Y L I T E R AT U R E
If the September 11 terror attacks opened up an
era of crises and exceptions of which we are yet
to see the end, it is perhaps not surprising that
care has emerged in the early 21st century as a key
political issue. This book approaches contemporary
narratives of care through the lens of a growing body of theoretical
writings on biopolitics. Through close-readings of Coetzee’s Slow
Man, Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Auster’s The Book of Illusions, and
McCarthy’s Remainder, it seeks to reframe debates about realism
as engagements with the novel’s biopolitical origins: its relation to
pastoral care, the camps, and the welfare state.
Arne De Boever is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Director of
the MA Program in Aesthetics and Politics in the School of Critical Studies,
California Institute of the Arts, USA.
UK October 2014 • US October 2014
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C O N T E M P O R A R Y L I T E R AT U R E
Scenes of Intimacy
Reading, Writing and Theorizing
Contemporary Literature
Edited by Jennifer Cooke
Scenes of Intimacy analyzes the representation of
acts and relationships of intimacy in contemporary
literature, the effect this has upon readers, and
the ways these representations resonate with,
complement, and challenge the concerns of contemporary theory.
Opening with an in-depth interview with literary critic, Derridean,
and novelist Professor Nicholas Royle, the volume contains eleven
further essays that move from intimate scenes of familial and
pedagogic legacy, on to representations of love, of sex, and finally to
scenes of death and dying. The essays are textually attentive to how
literary techniques create intimacy, and draw upon new and notable
theoretical positions and critics from queer theory, affect studies,
psychoanalysis, poststructualism and deconstruction to ask difficult
and uncomfortable questions about intimacy and its representation.
Across the genres of poetry, autobiography, journals, love letters,
short stories and novels, Scenes of Intimacy shows that contemporary
literature poses new possibilities and questions about our intimate
relationalities, their failures and their futures.
Jennifer Cooke is Lecturer in English at Loughborough University, UK. She
is the author of Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film (2009).
UK September 2014 • US September 2014
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Reading Theories in
Contemporary Fiction
Contemporary Caribbean Writing
and Deleuze
Literature Between Postcolonialism and
Post-Continental Philosophy
Lorna Burns
"[This book] should be required reading for
students of postcolonial theory ... important,
challenging, and a pleasure to read." Françoise Lionnet, University
of California, USA, H-France Review
Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze maps a new
intellectual and literary history of postcolonial Caribbean writing
and thought spanning from the 1930s surrealist movement to the
present, crossing the region's language blocs, and focused on
the interconnected principles of creativity and commemoration.
Exploring the work of René Ménil, Édouard Glissant, Wilson Harris,
Derek Walcott, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Pauline Melville, Robert Antoni
and Nalo Hopkinson, this study reveals the explicit and implicit
engagement with Deleuzian thought at work in contemporary
Caribbean writing. Uniting for the first time two major schools
of contemporary thought - postcolonialism and post-continental
philosophy - this study establishes a new and innovative critical
discourse for Caribbean studies and postcolonial theory beyond the
oppositional dialectic of colonizer and colonized.
Lorna Burns is Lecturer in Postcolonial Literatures at the University of St
Andrews, UK
UK April 2014 • US April 2014
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Lisa McNally
Even after the upheavals wrought by Theory,
literary criticism has generally ignored the act and
experience of reading itself, proceeding as though
something so fundamental to our experience of
texts could be taken for granted. Reading Theories
in Contemporary Fiction draws on deconstruction and the thought of
Jacques Derrida to explore the ways in which contemporary fiction
engages with reading, its power, the elusive nature of its experience
and the failures of understanding inherent in it. Along the way,
the book proceeds through close readings of such authors as J.M.
Coetzee, David Mitchell, Toni Morrison and Philip Roth.
Lisa McNally teaches at Brighton College, UK.
UK October 2014 • US October 2014
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Literature After Globalization
Paul Auster's Writing Machine
Textuality, Technology and the Nation-State
A Thing to Write With
Philip Leonard
Evija Troﬁmova
"This is a rare achievement in the field of
literature and globalization... Summing Up:
Essential." CHOICE
"A brilliant study of one of America's leading
prose-writers, approaches its subject in a new
and intriguing way." Dennis Barone, Professor of
English and American Studies, University of Saint
Joseph, USA
Literature After Globalization offers a detailed study of recent
literary and theoretical responses to technology, globalization,
and national identity. Focusing on texts of the 1990s and 2000s,
particularly writings by Mark Danielewski, Hari Kunzru, Indra
Sinha, and Neal Stephenson, it charts a departure from narratives
of globalization which declare the collapse of national cultures,
and it considers how national sovereignty has been reinvented
and reasserted in the face of technology's transnational effects.
Drawing upon recent theoretical responses to technology and culture
(including work by Yochai Benkler, Manuel Castells, Gilles Deleuze,
Jacques Derrida, N. Katherine Hayles, Paul Virilio, and McKenzie
Wark) this book explores how, in these novels, the notion of an
inclusive globalization has been replaced by a sense of national
globalism.
Philip Leonard is Reader in Literary Studies and Critical Theory at
Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the author of Nationality between
Poststructuralism and Postcolonial Theory: A New Cosmopolitanism
(2005).
Evija Trofimova offers a radically different approach to Paul Auster,
unpacking the fascinating web of relationships between his texts and
presenting Auster’s canon as a rhizomatic facto-fictional network
produced by a set of writing tools. Exploring Auster’s literal and
figurative use of these tools – the typewriter, the cigarette, the
doppelgänger figure, the city – Trofimova discovers Auster’s “writing
machine,” a device that works both as a means to write and as a
construct that manifests the emblematic writer-figure.
C O N T E M P O R A R Y L I T E R AT U R E
C O N T E M P O R A R Y L I T E R AT U R E
Evija Trofimova (PhD, University of Auckland) is a writer, translator and
critic who divides her time between Latvia and New Zealand.
UK October 2014 • US August 2014
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Political Initiation in the Novels
of Philip Roth
The Testimonies of Russian and
American Postmodern Poetry
Claudia Franziska Brühwiler
Reference, Trauma, and History
"Brühwiler’s work not only serves as a model
for Roth studies, but also as a model for
interdisciplinary research overall."
Aimee Pozorski, Associate Professor of English,
Central Connecticut State University, USA, and
President of the Philip Roth Society
Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva
Political Initiation in the Novels of Philip Roth exemplifies how
literature and, specifically, the work of Philip Roth can help readers
understand the ways in which individuals develop their political
identity, learn to comprehend political ideas, and define their
role in society. Combining political science, literary theory, and
anthropology, this book describes an individual's political coming of
age as a political initiation story, which is crafted as much by the
individual himself as by the circumstances inﬂuencing him, such as
political events or the political attitude of the parents.
Claudia Franziska Brühwiler is Lecturer at the University of St. Gallen,
Switzerland.
UK October 2014 • US October 2014
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"Anglophone readers will be especially fascinated
by Vassileva’s exciting presentation of the New
Russian Poetry from Dimitri Prigov to Elena
Shvarts —a poetry as brilliant as it is germane to an understanding
of our own. A fascinating and genuinely original book!" Marjorie
Perloff, Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature,
Stanford University, USA
Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva argues that contemporary postmodern
poetry is not merely linguistic: it acts also as testimony to deep,
overwhelming trauma. Through a comparative analysis of late
20th-century Russian and American poetry, Lutzkanova-Vassileva
demonstrates that these poetries reﬂect both traumatic cultural
and political upheaval as well as the impact of contemporary media,
which have assailed the mind with far more signals than it can
register, digest and furnish with semantic weight.
Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva is an Assistant Professor of English and
Comparative Literature at Brooklyn College of the City University of New
York, USA.
UK February 2015 • US December 2014
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MODERNISM
MODERNISM
Historicizing Modernism
Series Editors: Matthew Feldman, Teesside University, UK; Erik Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway
Historicizing Modernism challenges traditional literary interpretations by taking an empirical approach to modernist writing: a direct response
to new documentary sources made available over the last decade. Informed by archival research, and working beyond the usual European/
American avant-garde 1900-1945 parameters the series reassesses established images of modernist writers by developing fresh views of
intellectual backgrounds and working methods.
The Life and
Work of Thomas
MacGreevy
A Critical Reappraisal
Edited by Susan
Schreibman
"Susan Schreibman is right to insist that
Thomas MacGreevy is more than a footnote
to the major poets, playwrights, and
novelists —Stevens, Beckett, Joyce—with
whom he was associated." Lee M. Jenkins,
University College Cork, Ireland, Wallace
Stevens Journal
As a poet and literary critic, Thomas
MacGreevy is a central force in Irish
modernism and a crucial facilitator in the
lives of key modernist writers and artists.
The extent of his legacy and contribution to
modernism is revealed for the first time in
The Life and Work of Thomas MacGreevy.
Split into four sections, the volume explains
how and where MacGreevy made his impact:
in his poetry; his role as a literary and art
critic; during his time in Dublin, London
and Paris and through his relationships with
James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Wallace
Stevens, Jack B Yeats and WB Yeats. With
access to the Thomas MacGreevy Archive,
contributors draw on letters, his early
poetry, and contributions to art and literary
journals, to better understand the first
champion of Jack B. Yeats, and Beckett's
chief correspondent and closest friend in
the 1930s. This much-needed reappraisal of
MacGreevy, the linchpin between the main
modernist writers, fills missing gaps, not only
in the story of Irish modernism, but in the
wider history of the movement.
Susan Schreibman is Long Room Hub Associate
Professor in Digital Humanities in the School of
English, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Modernism at the
Microphone
Radio, Propaganda and
Literary Aesthetics
During World War II
Melissa Dinsman
As the Second World War raged throughout
Europe, modernist writers often became
key voices in the propaganda efforts of both
sides. Modernism at the Microphone: Radio,
Propaganda and Literary Aesthetics During
World War II is a comprehensive study of
the role of modernist writers’ radio work
in the propaganda war and the relationship
between modernist literary aesthetics
and propaganda. Drawing on new archival
research, the book covers the broadcast
work of such key figures as Bertolt Brecht,
Walter Benjamin, T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf,
George Orwell, Orson Welles, Dorothy L.
Sayers, C.S. Lewis, Ernest Hemingway and
Robert Frost. As well as the work of AngloAmerican modernists, Melissa Dinsman also
explores the radio work of exiled German
writers as well as Ezra Pound’s notorious
pro-fascist broadcasts. In this way, the book
reveals modernism’s engagement with new
technologies that opened up transnational
boundaries under the pressures of war.
Melissa Dinsman is Lecturer in the Departments
of Writing and Rhetoric and Film, Television and
Theater at the University of Notre Dame, USA.
UK July 2015 • US September 2015
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Late Modernism
and The English
Intelligencer
Towards a Poetics of
Community
Alex Latter
Over the three years of its life, from 1966
to 1968, The English Intelligencer was one
of the most important literary magazines of
its time and a major force in the revival of
avant-garde poetry in Britain. Drawing on
substantial new research into the magazine’s
archives, Late Modernism and ‘The English
Intelligencer' is the first comprehensive
exploration of its inﬂuence and place within
post-war British poetry.
Examining the poetic, historical and
ideological contexts in which the magazine
was operating, this book traces the
Intelligencer’s roots back to the earlier
modernist experiments of poets such as
Ezra Pound, as well as considering the
transatlantic inﬂuence of contemporary
American poets such as Charles Olson
and Edward Dorn. With a comprehensive
reference appendix detailing the contents
listing of each published issue of the
journal, Late Modernism and 'The English
Intelligencer' casts new light on an important
period in late-modernist poetics.
Alex Latter is Postdoctoral Fellow at Birkbeck,
University of London, UK. He is co-editor (with
Amy Cutler) of Where Horizons Meet: On the
Poetry of Peter Riley (2014).
UK February 2015 • US April 2015
288 pages
HB 9781472575821 • £60.00 / $104.00
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UK November 2014 • US November 2014
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John Kasper and
Ezra Pound
Saving the Republic
Alec Marsh
John Kasper was a militant
far-right activist who first
came to prominence with
his violent campaigns
against desegregation in the Civil Rights era.
Ezra Pound was the seminal figure in AngloAmerican modernist literature and one of the
most important poets of the 20th century.
This is the first book to comprehensively
explore the extensive correspondence
- lasting over a decade and numbering
hundreds of letters - between the two men.
John Kasper and Ezra Pound examines the
mutual inﬂuence the two men exerted on
each other in Pound's later life: how John
Kasper developed from a devotee of Pound's
poetry to an active right-wing agitator; how
Pound's own ideas about race and American
politics developed in his discussions with
Kasper and how this informed his later
poetry. Shedding a disturbing new light on
Ezra Pound's committed engagement with
extreme right-wing politics in Civil Rightsera America, this is an essential read for
students of 20th-century literature.
Alec Marsh is Professor of English at Muhlenberg
College, Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author
of Ezra Pound (2011), and Money & Modernity:
Pound, Williams and the Spirit of Jefferson
(1998).
UK April 2015 • US June 2015
256 pages
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T.E. Hulme and
the Ideological
Politics of Early
Modernism
Henry Mead
Drawing on new archival
research - including
correspondence with major figures such
as Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis and G.K.
Chesterton - this book explores the literary
career of T.E. Hulme, a key figure in the
London avant-garde of Edwardian London.
T.E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of
Early Modernism reveals for the first time
the full extent of Hulme's relationship with
The New Age, the liveliest radical journal of
its time and a conduit for the most advanced
thinking in philosophy, literature, art and
politics.
Through a comprehensive account of Hulme's
absorption of cutting-edge continental
ideas, and his combative exchanges amongst
the bohemian networks of Soho and Fleet
Street, Henry Mead shows how 'the strange
death of Liberal England' coincided with the
equally strange birth of what T.S. Eliot called
'the twentieth century mind'. In this way,
the book offers a more nuanced account of
Hulme's ideological politics than the crude
'proto-fascism' he has often been associated
with.
Henry Mead is a Research Associate at Teesside
University, UK, and Bergen University, Norway.
He is the co-editor (with Matthew Feldman and
Erik Tonning) of Broadcasting in the Modernist
Era (Bloomsbury, 2013).
UK April 2015 • US June 2015
288 pages
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MODERNISM
MODERNISM
Reading
Mina Loy’s
Autobiographies
Myth of the Modern
Woman
Sandeep Parmar
"Parmar’s incisive examination of Loy’s
seven unpublished autobiographies both
reveals the revival of critical interest in
Loy and contributes to the literature on
her and to the larger project of redefining
modernism ... Summing Up: Recommended.
Graduate students, researchers, faculty."
CHOICE
Drawing on substantial new archival
research, this book challenges the existing
critical myth of Loy as a ‘modern woman'
through an analysis of her unpublished
autobiographical prose. Reading Mina
Loy's Autobiographies explores this major
twentieth century writer's ideas about
the ‘modern' and how they apply to the
‘modernist' writer—based on her engagement
with twentieth-century avant-garde
aesthetics—and charts how Loy herself
uniquely defined modernity in her essays
on literature and art. Sandeep Parmar here
shows how, ultimately, Loy's autobiographies
extend the modernist project by rejecting
earlier impressions of avant-garde futurity
and newness in favour of a ‘late modernist'
aesthetic, one that is more pessimistic,
inward and interested in the fragmentary
interplay between the past and present.
Sandeep Parmar is Lecturer in English at the
University of Liverpool, UK. She is editor of the
Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees (2011).
UK December 2014 • US December 2014
208 pages
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MODERNISM
MODERNISM
Sensational Subjects
Sympathetic Sentiments
The Dramatization of Experience in the
Modern World
Affect, Emotion and Spectacle in the
Modern World
John Jervis
John Jervis
Under what conditions does ‘sensation’ become
‘sensational’?
By the early nineteenth century murder had
become the staple of the sensationalizing popular press, and
gruesome descriptions were deployed to make a direct impact on
the ‘sensations’ of the reader. Later, concern with the thrills, spills,
and shocks of modern life was being articulated in the language of
sensation, and media sensationalism was already being seen both
as contributing to this process and as magnifying its impact, just as
sensation was, in turn, taken up by literature, art and film. Finally, it
seems as though the dramatization of these experiences in an era of
media panics over terrorism, paedophilia, etc, has taken an overtly
melodramatic form, in which battles of good and evil play out across
the landscapes of our lives.
Sensational Subjects develops an innovative, interdisciplinary
approach to exploring these themes, their impact and their
implications for understanding the modern world.
John Jervis is Research Fellow in Cultural Studies at the University
of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He is the author of Exploring the Modern:
Patterns of Western Culture and Civilization (1998) and Transgressing the
Modern: Explorations in the Western Experience of Otherness (2000).
UK January 2015 • US March 2015
224 pages
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Flann O'Brien and Modernism
Sympathetic Sentiments develops an innovative
interdisciplinary framework to explore the
implications of living in a ‘culture of feeling’
that seems ill at ease with itself, one in which
‘sentiments’ are frequently denounced for being ‘sentimental’ and
self-indulgent.
This is traced back to the inheritance of the eighteenth century,
enabling us to identify a distinctive ‘spectacle of sympathy’ in which
sympathy seems inherently to entail public forms of expression
whereby being ‘on show’ is both a condition of the authenticity
of such affects and of their capacity to be masked and simulated
– hence stimulating controversy, but also the exploration of the
vicarious dimensions of modern experience so central to modern
literature, art and culture. The implications of all this are further
explored in the context of current debates over the display of
trauma as the language of sympathetic engagement, and the
alleged prevalence of ‘compassion fatigue’ in the era of media
sensationalism.
Overall, the book uncovers the patterns that both reproduce our
capacity for ‘sympathetic sentiments’ while revealing the inherent
underlying tensions.
John Jervis is Research Fellow in Cultural Studies at the University
of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He is the author of Exploring the Modern:
Patterns of Western Culture and Civilization (1998) and Transgressing the
Modern: Explorations in the Western Experience of Otherness (2000).
UK January 2015 • US March 2015
256 pages
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Edited by Julian Murphet, Rónán McDonald &
Sascha Morrell
"Elegantly introduced and intelligently developed,
this study delivers many sharp and timely critical
takes on O’Brien’s evolving narrative styles and
fixed obsessions." Joe Cleary, Professor of English,
National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
Flann O'Brien & Modernism brings a muchneeded refreshment to the state of scholarship on this increasingly
recognised but still widely misunderstood 'second generation'
modernist. Rather than construe him as a postmodernist, it correctly
locates O'Brien's work as the product of a late modernist sensibility
and cultural context. Similarly, while there should be no doubt of
his Irishness, and his profound debts to Irish language, history and
culture, this collection seeks to understand O'Brien's nationally
sensitive achievement as the work of an internationalist whose
preoccupations reﬂect global modernist trends.
Julian Murphet is Professor of Modern Film and Literature at the
University of New South Wales, Australia.
Rónán McDonald holds the Australian Ireland Fund Chair in Modern Irish
Studies and is Director of the Global Irish Studies Centre at the University
of New South Wales, Australia.
Sascha Morrell is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of New
England, Australia.
UK September 2014 • US July 2014
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Mary Butts and British NeoRomanticism
The Enchantment of Place
Andrew Radford
Mary Butts was an important figure in inter-war
modernist circles and one who reviewed and
associated with some of the major literary figures of
the era, from T.S. Eliot to Gertrude Stein. Despite
her importance and the varied nature of her writing, she has been a
neglected figure in modernist scholarship. Providing a new analysis of
the interwar literary period, Mary Butts and British Neo-Romanticism
revisits her work - vividly experimental writings spanning memoir,
poetry, polemic and fiction - through the lens of mid-20th-century
British neo-Romanticism. The book argues that behind Butts's
eco-feminist writings lies an intricate political and philosophical
commentary.
Andrew Radford is a lecturer in the School of Critical Studies, Glasgow
University, UK. His publications include Mapping the Wessex Novel:
Landscape, History and the Parochial in British Literature, 1870-1940
(Continuum, 2010) and Thomas Hardy and the Survivals of Time (2003).
UK August 2014 • US October 2014
272 pages • 7 halftones
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Rebecca West's Subversive Use of
Hybrid Genres
Djuna Barnes's Nightwood
1911-1941
Bonnie Roos
Laura Cowan
Ranging over depression-era politics, the failures of
the League of Nations, popular journalism and the
Modernist culture exemplified by such writers as
James Joyce and T.S. Eliot, this is a comprehensive
exploration of the historical contexts of Djuna
Barnes's masterpiece, Nightwood.
Drawing on contemporary genre theory, this book
explores the ways in which Rebecca West's mixing
of genres was informed by her subversive feminist
political agenda. Cowan explores West's fiction,
journalism and criticism from the years 1911-1941, including her
early journalism and criticism, such novels as The Return of the
Soldier and her controversial multi-genre epic Black Lamb and Grey
Falcon.
Laura Cowan is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University
of Maine, USA. She is editor of the Centennial Essay Collection, T. S. Eliot
Man and Poet (1988) and a previous Managing Editor and Co-Editor of the
National Poetry Foundation journal Paideuma: Studies in American and
British Modernist Poetry.
UK May 2015 • US July 2015
208 pages
HB 9781441144171 • £60.00 / $110.00
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The World and the Politics of Peace
MODERNISM
MODERNISM
In Djuna Barnes's Nightwood: 'The World' and the Politics of
Peace, Bonnie Roos reads Barnes's novel against the backdrop of
Herbert Bayard Swope's popular New York newspaper The World to
demonstrate the ways in which the novel wrestles with a wide range
of contemporaneous events. Roos argues that Nightwood allegorizes
the role of liberal newspapers - epitomised by the sensationalism of
The World - in driving a US policy that hastened the arrival of war.
Bonnie Roos is Associate Professor of English at West Texas A&M
University, USA. Her previous publications include (as co-editor)
Postcolonial Green: Environmental Politics and World Narratives (2010).
UK June 2014 • US August 2014
232 pages
HB 9781472530660 • £60.00 / $104.00
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Bloomsbury Academic
Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism
Series Editors: Paul Ardoin, the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA; S.E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA; Laci Mattison, Florida
State University, USA
The aim of each volume in Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism is to understand a philosophical thinker more fully through
literary and cultural modernism and consequently to understand literary modernism better through a key philosophical ﬁgure. In this way,
the series also rethinks the limits of modernism, calling attention to gaps in modernist studies and sometimes in the philosophical work under
examination.
Understanding Bergson,
Understanding Modernism
Understanding Deleuze,
Understanding Modernism
Edited by Paul Ardoin, S. E. Gontarski
& Laci Mattison
Edited by Paul Ardoin, S. E. Gontarski
& Laci Mattison
"A key resource for anyone interested in the
literary culture of the modernist period." Ulrika
Maude, Lecturer in English, University of Bristol, UK
"[This book] has already become invaluable for
me ... The full power of Deleuze’s mind shines
here splendidly." Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of
English and Comparative Literature, The University
of Pennsylvania, USA
While books examining the impact of Freud and James on Modernism
abound, Henri Bergson's impact, though widely acknowledged, has
been closely examined much more rarely. Understanding Bergson,
Understanding Modernism remedies this deficiency in three ways.
First, it offers close readings and critiques of six pivotal texts.
Second, it reassesses Bergson's impact on specific literary texts and
authors. Third, it provides an extended glossary of Bergsonian terms,
complete with extensive examples and citations of their use across
his texts.
Paul Ardoin is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Florida State
University, USA. S. E. Gontarski is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished
Professor of English at Florida State University, USA. Laci Mattison is a PhD
candidate in English Literature at Florida State University, USA.
UK July 2014 • US July 2014
360 pages
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Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism acknowledges
Deleuze's profound impact on a century of art and thought and the
origin of that impact in his own understanding of modernism. It
offers new readings of Deleuze that illuminate the context of his
work, either by reading one of his texts against or in the context
of his entire body of work or by challenging Deleuze's readings of
other philosophers. A central section on Deleuze and his aesthetics
maps the relationships between Deleuze's thought and modernist
literature. An extended glossary, with each definition having its own
expert contributor, concludes the volume.
Paul Ardoin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at
San Antonio, USA. S. E. Gontarski is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished
Professor of English at Florida State University, USA. Laci Mattison is
Visiting Lecturer of English Literature at Florida State University, USA.
UK October 2014 • US August 2014
304 pages
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MODERNISM
MODERNISM
The Correspondence of Ezra
Pound and the Frobenius
Institute, 1930-1959
Ezra Pound and 'The Globe'
Magazine: The Complete
Correspondence
Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
Edited by Ronald Bush & Erik Tonning
Edited by Michael T. Davis
& Cameron McWhirter
Collecting in full for the first time the
correspondence between Ezra Pound and members
of Leo Frobenius' Forschungsinstitut für Kulturmorphologie in
Frankfurt across a 30 year period, this book sheds new light on an
important inﬂuence on Pound's controversial intellectual development
in the Fascist era. These letters reveal the extent of the impact
of Frobenius' concept of 'Paideuma' on Pound's poetic and political
writings during this period and his growing engagement with the
culture of Nazi Germany.
Annotated throughout, the letters are supported by contextualising
essays by leading scholars as well as relevant contemporary published
articles by Pound himself and his leading correspondent at the
Institute, the American Douglas C. Fox.
Ronald Bush is Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature at St John's
College, University of Oxford, UK. His previous publications include The
Genesis of Ezra Pound's Adams Cantos (1992) and, with Elazar Barkan
Prehistories of the Future: Primitivist Project and the Culture of
Modernism (1996).
Erik Tonning is Research Director of the Modernism and Christianity
project at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is co-editor of the
Modernist Archives series and the Historicizing Modernism series, both
published by Bloomsbury.
UK December 2015 • US February 2015
480 pages
HB 9781472506511 • £100.00 / $172.00
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World English
Annotated throughout and supported by substantial explorations
of the historical and cultural contexts of the writings, the book
also includes a substantial bibliography of related writings and
a biographical glossary of the major figures discussed in the
correspondence and writing.
Michael T. Davis is Senior Researcher on The Dead Sea Scrolls Project at
Princeton Theological Seminary, USA and former Adjunct Professor at New
York Theological Seminary and Rider University, USA.
Cameron McWhirter is a writer and staff reporter for the Wall Street
Journal. He is the author of Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the
Awakening of Black America (2011) and a contributor to The Ezra Pound
Encyclopedia (2005).
UK April 2015 • US June 2015
400 pages
HB 9781472589590 • £100.00 / $172.00
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World English
The Making of Samuel Beckett's
'The Unnamable'/'L'innommable'
The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Krapp's Last
Tape'/'La derniere bande'
Dirk Van Hulle & Shane Weller
Dirk Van Hulle
A comprehensive reference guide to the history of
the text of the third and final novel of Beckett's
Trilogy. The book includes: A complete descriptive
catalogue of available relevant manuscripts,
including French and English texts, alternative
drafts and notebook pages; A critical reconstruction of the history
of the history of the text, from its genesis through the process
of composition to its full publication history; A detailed guide to
exploring the manuscripts online at the Beckett Digital Manuscripts
Project at www.beckettarchive.org
Dirk Van Hulle is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Centre
for Manuscript Genetics, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Shane Weller is Professor of Comparative Literature and Co-Director of
the Centre for Modern European Literature at the University of Kent, UK.
UK September 2014 • US November 2014
272 pages
PB 9781472529510 • £30.00 / $52.00
Series: The Beckett Manuscript Project • Bloomsbury Academic
World English (excluding Benelux)
16
In the summer of 1936, Ezra Pound agreed to take
on the role of European Correspondent for a newly launched travel
journal entitled The Globe: The International Magazine. Ezra Pound
and 'The Globe' Magazine: The Complete Correspondence collects for
the first time time Pound’s writings for the journal and his extensive
correspondence with its editor, James Taylor Dunn, and the leading
writers who Pound himself attempted to recruit for the magazine.
Numbering nearly 40 letters and nearly 20 published articles, these
writings represent a darkly significant time in Pound’s thought as his
infatuation with the rise of fascism began to take root.
First performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 1958, Krapp's Last Tape
has since become widely celebrated as one of Samuel Beckett's most
important and powerful plays.
The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape'/'La dernière bande'
is a comprehensive reference guide to the history of the text. The
book includes a complete descriptive catalogue of available relevant
manuscripts; a critical reconstruction of the history of the text, from
its genesis through the process of composition to its full publication
history; a detailed guide to exploring the manuscripts online at the
Beckett Digital Manuscripts Project at www.beckettarchive.org
Dirk Van Hulle is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Centre
for Manuscript Genetics, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
UK February 2015 • US April 2015
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New Directions in Religion and Literature
Series Editors: Mark Knight, University of Toronto, Canada; Emma Mason, University of Warwick, UK
This series showcases new work at the forefront of religion and literature through short studies written by leading and rising scholars in
the ﬁeld. Books pursue a variety of theoretical approaches as they engage with writing from different religious and literary traditions.
Collectively, the series offers a timely critical intervention to the interdisciplinary crossover between religion and literature, speaking to
wider contemporary interests and mapping out new directions for the ﬁeld in the early 21st century.
Forgiveness in Victorian
Literature
Grammar, Narrative and Community
Difference and Affect in 19th-Century
Jewish Women's Writing
Richard Hughes Gibson
Richa Dwor
Forgiveness in Victorian Literature examines how
eminent writers such as Charles Dickens, George
Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Oscar Wilde wrestled with
the religious and social meanings of forgiveness
in an age of theological controversy and increasing pluralism in
ethical matters. In novels, poems, and essays, Richard Gibson here
discovers unorthodox uses of the language of forgiveness and delicate
negotiations between rival ethical and religious frameworks, which
complicated forgiveness's traditional powers to create or restore
community and, within narratives, offered resolution and closure.
Richard Hughes Gibson is Assistant Professor of English Literature at
Wheaton College, USA.
UK January 2015 • US March 2015
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The Jew was a common figure in Victorian
literature and representations of Jews and Jewish
belief were often underpinned by contradictory
narratives of race, religion and politics. By contrast,
Jewish writers in Victorian England had to negotiate an equally
complex clash of identities as they sought accommodation with a
predominantly Christian culture.
Jewish Feeling explores how Jewish women writers such as Amy Levy
and Grace Aguilar developed a distinctive approach to literary form
that contrasted with mainstream Victorian literary appeals to feeling
by way of sentimentality and psychological manipulation in the work
of novelists such as George Eliot. Along the way, Richa Dwor draws on
the latest work in affect theory and religious literary criticism to cast
new light on an expanded multicultural notion of British identity in
the Victorian era.
Richa Dwor is Lecturer in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literature
at the University of Leicester, UK.
UK May 2015 • US July 2015
208 pages
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The Renaissance and Long
Eighteenth Century
Anita Pacheco & David Johnson
The introductory volume in the Reading and
Studying Literature series, co-published with the
Open University, is designed to introduce students
to the Renaissance, and the Eighteenth Century.
Each period is discussed in terms of an overarching
theme, providing a clear focus for study and discussion and
introducing readers to an important theoretical concept in literary
studies.
The Renaissance is discussed in terms of themes of love and death in
tragic drama, with particular reference to Shakepseare's Othello and
John Webster's The Duchess of Malﬁ. The theme of the section on
the long Eighteenth Century is travel, and four travel narratives: two
fictional and two non-fictional are discussed: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko,
Voltaire's Candide, the autobiography of the ex-slave Ukawsaw
Gronniosaw and a fascinating case-study of the Mutiny on the Bounty.
Anita Pacheco is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the Open
University and Chair of the undergraduate course Reading and Studying
Literature.
David Johnson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the
Open University.
UK September 2011 • US April 2014
400 pages
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Jewish Feeling
Christina Rossetti and the Bible
Waiting with the Saints
Elizabeth Ludlow
Through theologically-engaged close readings
of her poetry and devotional prose, this book
explores how Christina Rossetti draws on the
Bible and encourages her Victorian readers to
respond to its radical message of grace. Structured
chronologically, each chapter investigates her participation in the
formation of Tractarian theology and details how her interpretative
strategies changed over the course of her lifetime. Revealing how her
encounter with the biblical text is informed by devotional classics,
Christina Rossetti and the Bible highlights the inﬂuence of Thomas a’
Kempis, John Bunyan, George Herbert and John Donne and describes
how Rossetti adapted the teaching of the Ancient and Patristic
Fathers and medieval mystics. It also considers the interfaces that
are established between her devotional poems and the anthology and
periodical pieces alongside which they were published throughout the
second half of the nineteenth-century.
Elizabeth Ludlow completed her PhD in 2009 at the University of
Warwick, UK. She has since held teaching fellowships at the University of
British Columbia, Canada, and the University of Birmingham, UK.
UK October 2014 • US December 2014
272 pages
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The Reception of George Eliot in
Europe
Romantics and Victorians
Edited by Elinor Shaffer & Catherine Brown
The second volume in the Reading and Studying
Literature series, co-published with the Open
University, introduces students to European
romanticism and Victorian culture. Each period
is discussed in terms of an overarching theme,
providing a clear focus for study and discussion
and introducing readers to important theoretical
concepts in literary studies.
George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880) was
one of the most important writers of the Victorian
era, as well as an important translator and essayist.
Although such novels as The Mill on the Floss and
Middlemarch have seen her characterised as a
thoroughly English writer, her reception and immersion in the literary,
intellectual and political life of Europe was remarkable. Written by a
team of leading international scholars, The Reception of George Eliot
in Europe is the first comprehensive and systematic survey of Eliot's
place in European culture.
Including an historical timeline and a comprehensive bibliography of
primary and secondary work, The Reception of George Eliot in Europe
is an essential reference resource for anyone working in the field of
Victorian Literature.
Elinor Shaffer, FBA, is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern
Languages Research at the School of Advanced Study, University of
London.
Catherine Brown is Senior Lecturer at the New College of the Humanities,
London, UK. She is the author of The Art of Comparison: How Novels and
Critics Compare (2011).
UK June 2015 • US August 2015
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Coleridge, Romanticism and the
Orient
Cultural Negotiations
Edited by David Vallins, Kaz Oishi
& Seamus Perry
Bringing together leading international writers,
Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient is the
first substantial exploration of Coleridge's literary and scholarly
representations of the east and the ways in which these were
inﬂuenced by and went on to inﬂuence his own work and the
orientalism of the Romanticists more broadly. Bringing together
postcolonial, philsophical, historicist and literary-critical
perspectives, this groundbreaking book develops a new understanding
of 'Orientalism' that recognises the importance of colonial ideologies
in Romantic representations of the East as well as appreciating the
unique forms of meaning and value which authors such as Coleridge
asscoiated with the Orient.
David Vallins is Professor of English at the University of Hiroshima,
Japan. His previous publications include Coleridge and the Psychology of
Romanticism (Macmillan, 2000).
Nicola J. Watson & Shafquat Towheed
European romanticism is approached through the evolution of the
idea of the romantic author and the romantic inner life, using
readings from Wordsworth on Grasmere, Shelley's lyric poetry and de
Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater. The book goes on
to explore Victorian culture through a reading of ideas of 'home' and
'abroad', in the work of Emily Bronte, Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert
Louis Stevenson. The featured theoretical concept of this volume is
'the author'.
Nicola J. Watson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the
Open University, UK.
Shafquat Towheed is Lecturer in the Department of English at the Open
University, UK.
UK November 2011 • US April 2014
352 pages
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Romancing Fascism
Modernity and Allegory in Benjamin, de
Man, Shelley
Kathleen Kerr-Koch
"Kathleen Kerr-Koch has here devised an original
and highly revealing constellation of three
writers – Shelley, Benjamin, and de Man – whose
work she shows, through careful and perceptive
close-reading, to speak very directly to crucial issues in presentday literary and cultural theory." Christopher Norris, Distinguished
Research Professor in Philosophy, Cardiff University, UK
Romancing Fascism argues that intellectual responsibility can
only be safeguarded if criticism is mobilised both as a poetic and
as a critically enlightened endeavour. In this analysis of allegory
as a function of modernity, what is made clear is the difficulty,
if not impossibility, of definitively determining the genealogical
antecedents of intellectual trends, particularly those considered
pernicious to clear thinking.
Seamus Perry is Fellow of Balliol College and Lecturer in English,
University of Oxford, UK.
Kathleen Kerr-Koch is Senior Lecturer in Literary History and Literary
Theory at the University of Sunderland, UK. She has published articles on
Paul de Man, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Julia Kristeva, Barbara
Herrnstien-Smith, Noam Chomsky, Herbert Marcuse, Christopher Norris,
A.J. Greimas, Hans R. Jauss and Barbara Ehrenreich as well as essays on
modernity, autobiography and race, nation and ethnicity. She has also
been a Visiting Lecturer at Delhi University, India.
UK December 2014 • US December 2014
224 pages
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UK October 2014 • US October 2014
240 pages
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Kaz Oishi is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tokyo,
Japan.
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B R I T I S H A N D I R I S H L I T E R AT U R E
B R I T I S H A N D I R I S H L I T E R AT U R E
The Decades series
Series Editors: Philip Tew, Brunel University, UK; Nick Hubble, Brunel University, UK; Leigh Wilson, University of Westminster, UK
This major series places British ﬁction among the cultural shifts and headline events of a decade. From the collapse of communism, through
the rise of Thatcher to the shifts in global power, each volume evaluates the impact of social, cultural and political history on the ﬁction of
the respective period. Breaking British ﬁction into its four constituent decades, from the 1970s through to the 2000s and using social, cultural
and political contexts to understand its chronology, changing literary themes are properly accounted for and traditional readings opened up.
The 1990s: A Decade of
Contemporary British Fiction
The 2000s: A Decade of
Contemporary British Fiction
Edited by Nick Hubble, Philip Tew
& Leigh Wilson
Edited by Nick Bentley, Nick Hubble
& Leigh Wilson
The 1990s: A Decade of Contemporary British
Fiction provides a comprehensive guide to, and
critical reassessment of, British fiction in the 1990s
including aspects of its international reception.
From the release of Nelson Mandela and the collapse of communism
through to the campaign against Serbia, the 1990s witnessed a
realignment of global politics. In Britain the decade began with the
fall of Margaret Thatcher and ended with Tony Blair’s New Labour
Government preparing for a triumphant celebration of the new
Millennium.
That the context of the decade is more complex than it first
appeared informs this volume’s readings of work by authors such as
Pat Barker, A.S. Byatt, Jonathan Coe, James Kelman, Hanif Kureishi,
Caryl Phillips, Christopher Priest, Andrea Levy, Will Self, Sarah Waters
and Irvine Welsh. Through these incisive surveys, the 1990s are shown
to be a period when existing assumptions were turned on their head
by new literary approaches.
This volume explores how the socio-political and
economic turns of the decade, bookended by the
beginning of a millennium and an economic crisis,
transformed the acts of writing and reading.
Chapters look at the writers tracing and shaping the limits of
being human through neurological fiction, the reinvigoration of
psychogeography as a genre dealing with the concerns of living in
a virtual and globalized world, the effects of reading groups and
literary prizes and the rise of historical fiction.
This survey of the fiction of the 2000s covers the work of new voices
such as Monica Ali, Mark Haddon, Tom McCarthy and Zadie Smith as
well as Salman Rushdie, John Banville and Ian McEwan making it an
essential contribution to reading, defining and understanding the
decade.
Nick Hubble is Head of English Literature at Brunel University, UK.
Nick Bentley is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Keele University,
UK. He is author of Contemporary British Fiction (2008), Radical Fictions:
The English Novel in the 1950s (2007) and editor of British Fiction of the
1990s (2005).
Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel
University, UK, Director of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary Writing and
Director of the Modern and Contemporary Fiction Studies Network.
Nick Hubble is Head of English Literature at Brunel University, UK. He is
co-editor of The Science Fiction Handbook (2013) and The 1970s (2014)
both published by Bloomsbury.
Leigh Wilson is Principal Lecturer in English Literature at the University of
Westminster, UK.
Leigh Wilson is Principal Lecturer in English Literature at the University of
Westminster, UK. She is the author of Modernism (2007) and co-editor of
The 1980s (2014) and The 1990s (2015) published by Bloomsbury.
UK March 2015 • US May 2015
320 pages
HB 9781441172587 • £75.00 / $140.00
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British Fiction in the Sixties
The Making of the Swinging Decade
UK March 2015 • US May 2015
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Sebastian Groes
British Fiction in the Sixties focuses on the major
socio-political changes that marked the sixties in
relationship to the development of literature over
the decade.
Groes offers a re-examination of canonical writers such as Iris
Murdoch and John Fowles. It also pays critical attention to avantgarde writers including Ann Quinn, Christine Brooke-Rose, and J.
G. Ballard, presenting a comprehensive insight into the continuing
power the decade exerts on the contemporary imagination.
Sebastian Groes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton
University, UK.
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Bloomsbury Studies in the City
Series Editors: Lawrence Phillips, University of Northampton, UK; Matthew Beaumont, University College London, UK
The history of literature is tied to the city. From Aeschylus to Addison, Baudelaire to Balzac, Conrad to Coetzee and Dickens to Dostoevsky,
writers make sense of the city and shape modern understandings through their reﬂections and depictions. Bloomsbury Studies in the
City captures the best contemporary criticism on urban literature, exploring the impact of the city on writers and their work.
Irish Writing London: Volume 1
Revival to the Second World War
Irish Writing
London: Volume 2
Edited by Tom Herron
Post-War to the Present
"Irish Writing London is, in both of its impressive, high-powered
volumes, a tour de force of critical and analytical insight and originality
. . . . The reader comes away seeing London from the inside but with
different lenses, and so becomes aware of a wholly different vision and
understanding of the cityscape. Together, the two volumes of Irish Writing
London present an unimpeachable case for being considered the nonpareil of critical
intervention on the modern metropolis." Julian Wolfreys, Professor of Modern Literature and
Culture, Loughborough University, UK.
The presence of Irish writers is almost invisible in literary studies of London. Irish Writing
London redresses the critical deficit. A range of experts on particular Irish writers reﬂect on
the diverse experiences and impact this immigrant group has had on the city. Such sustained
attention to a location and concern of Irish writing, long passed over, opens up new terrain to
not only reveal but create a history of Irish-London writing.
Alongside discussions of Wilde, Shaw, Joyce and Yeats, the writing of the political nationalist
Katharine Tynan and work of Irish-Language writer Ó Conaire is considered. Written by an
international array of scholars, these new essays on key figures challenge the deep-seated
stereotype of what constitutes the proper domain of Irish writing, producing a study that is
both culturally and critically alert and a dynamic contribution to literary criticism of the city.
Tom Herron is Senior Lecturer in English and Irish Literature at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.
UK June 2014 • US June 2014
UK June 2014 • US June 2014
184 pages
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Edited by Tom Herron
Alongside discussions
of MacNeice, Boland
and McGahern, the
autobiography of Brendan
Behan and identity of Irish-language writers
in London is considered. Written by an
internal array of scholars, these new essays
on key figures challenge the deep-seated
stereotype of what constitutes the proper
domain of Irish writing, producing a study
that is both culturally and critically alert and
a dynamic contribution to literary criticism
of the city.
Tom Herron is Senior Lecturer in English and
Irish Literature at Leeds Metropolitan University,
UK.
UK June 2014 • US June 2014
UK June 2014 • US June 2014
184 pages
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American Fiction in Transition
Observer-Hero Narrative, the 1990s, and Postmodernism
Adam Kelly
"American Fiction in Transition is a major contribution to the understanding of a recent period in American literature.
Lucid and engaging, Adam Kelly combines close reading with a deep attention to questions of historical, cultural, and
political context. Refuting the opposition between formalism and historicism, Kelly breaks new ground in literary studies,
and shows how detailed attention to texts can illuminate seminal philosophical and political questions. This debut by a
compelling new voice is an event not to be missed."
Martin Hägglund, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University, USA
American Fiction in Transition is a study of the observer-hero narrative, a highly significant but critically neglected genre of the American novel.
Through the lens of this transitional genre, the book explores the 1990s in relation to debates about the end of postmodernism, and connects
the decade to other transitional periods in US literature. Novels by four major contemporary writers are examined: Philip Roth, Paul Auster, E. L.
Doctorow and Jeffrey Eugenides. Each novel has a similar structure: an observer-narrator tells the story of an important person in his life who has
died. But each story is equally about the struggle to tell the story, to find adequate means to narrate the transitional quality of the hero's life. In
playing out this narrative struggle, each novel thereby addresses the broader problem of historical transition, a problem that marks the legacy of
the postmodern era in American literature and culture.
B R I T I S H A N D I R I S H L I T E R AT U R E / N O R T H A N D S O U T H A M E R I C A N L I T E R AT U R E
BRITISH AND IRISH LITERATURE / NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN LITERATURE
Adam Kelly is Lecturer in American Literature at the University of York, UK. He is the author of numerous articles in edited collections and in journals
including Twentieth-Century Literature, Studies in the Novel, Critique, and Philip Roth Studies.
UK October 2014 • US October 2014
160 pages
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N O R T H A N D S O U T H A M E R I C A N L I T E R AT U R E
N O R T H A N D S O U T H A M E R I C A N L I T E R AT U R E
Outside, America
The Temporal Turn in Contemporary
American Fiction
Hikaru Fujii
"Not for the first time, it has taken an outsider
to show Americans where to look and what to
look for in their own imaginative literature.
These novels … will never look the same again."
Brian McHale, Humanities Distinguished Professor, The Ohio State
University, USA
Outside, America argues that, among contemporary American
novelists, "outside" is no longer a only spatial concept but also a
temporal one. The quest for the outside now seeks to reach the idea
of time as a force of difference, by which the current subjectivity is
transformed.
Hikaru Fujii is Assistant Professor of English Department at Doshisha
University, Japan.
UK October 2014 • US October 2014
160 pages
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Melville: Fashioning in Modernity
Early Visions and Representations
of America
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios
and William Bradford's Of Plymouth
Plantation
M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo
"A must read for those interested in colonial history and literature
of the United States." José B. Fernández, Dean of the College of Arts
& Humanities and Professor of History and Modern Languages and
Literatures, University of Central Florida, USA
This book examines the preconceptions, prejudices, expectations
and hopes conveyed in the the writings of Spanish conquistador
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and the Pilgrim leader William
Bradford. Spanish-language texts such as Cabeza de Vaca's have been
marginalized in the narrative of American literary history, on the
grounds of a restrictive interpretation of American literature based
on linguistic boundaries. In seeking to redress this neglect, Galisteo
contributes to scholarship which seeks to analyze Early America as
a whole, including both Anglo American as well as Spanish American
perspectives of the colonization process, taking each within their
respective literary and historical contexts.
M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo teaches English at UNED (Universidad
Nacional de Educación a Distancia), Madrid, Spain.
UK May 2014 • US May 2014
224 pages
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Stephen Matterson
Melville: Fashioning in Modernity considers all
of the major fiction with a concentration on
lesser-known work, and provides a radically
fresh approach to Melville, focusing on: clothing
as socially symbolic; dress, power and class;
the transgressive nature of dress; inappropriate
clothing; the meaning of uniform; the multiplicity
of identity that dress may represent; anxiety and modernity. The
representation of clothing in the fiction is central to some of
Melville's major themes; the relation between private and public
identity, social inequality and how this is maintained; the relation
between power, justice and authority; the relation between the
"civilized" and the "savage."
Frequently clothing represents the malleability of identity (its
possibilities as well as its limitations), represents writing itself, as
well as becoming indicative of the crisis of modernity. Clothing also
becomes a trope for Melville's representations of authorship and
of his own scene of writing. Melville: Fashioning in Modernity also
encompasses identity in transition, making use of the examination
of modernity by theorists such as Anthony Giddens, as well as on
theories of figures such as the dandy. In contextualizing Melville's
interest in clothing, a variety of other works and writers is
considered; works such as Robinson Crusoe and The Scarlet Letter,
and novelists such as Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry
James, Jack London, and George Orwell. The book has at its core a
consideration of the scene of writing and the publishing history of
each text.
Stephen Matterson is Professor of English Studies and a Fellow of the
College at Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland.
UK September 2014 • US July 2014
240 pages
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Richard Wright in a Post-Racial
Imaginary
Edited by William Dow, Alice Craven
& Yoko Nakamura
"Makes critically important contributions to a
twenty-first century study of Wright by providing
a series of fresh perspectives on his published
and unpublished work." Robert Butler, Professor of
English, Canisius College, USA
This volume show how Wright's best work asks central questions about
national alienation, international belonging, and the trans-national
gaze. Wright's fiction and almost all of his non-fiction lift beyond the
mainstays of African-American culture to explore the potentialities
and limits of black trans-nationalism. Established and emerging
scholars analyze Wright's work in relation to his trans-native status,
his perpetual "outsidedness," and the "essential humanness" of his
activist and literary efforts.
William Dow is Professor of American Literature at Université Paris-Est
(UPEM), France.
Alice Craven is Associate Professor in the Departments of English and
Comparative Literature and Film Studies at American University of Paris,
France.
Yoko Nakamura is a graduate student at the American University of Paris,
France.
UK September 2014 • US July 2014
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American Tantalus
Succeeding Postmodernism
Horizons, Happiness, and the Impossible
Pursuits of US Literature and Culture
Language and Humanism in Contemporary
American Literature
Andrew Warnes
Mary K. Holland
American Tantalus argues that tantalization—the
unique desire we feel for objects that lie within
our reach yet withdraw from our attempts to touch
them—dominates much of U.S. fiction. The yearning
to touch alienated or virginal objects runs throughout novels by F.
Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Cade Bambara, Richard Wright, Toni Morrison,
Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton, as unreachable destinations and
untouched commodities tantalise, inviting gestures of inquiry
from which they then recoil. This focus, while lodging cycles of
tantalisation at the very heart of American myth, holds profound
implications for our understanding of modernity, and, in particular, of
the cultural genesis of the commodity as a form.
Andrew Warnes is Reader in American Studies in the School of English,
University of Leeds, UK.
UK December 2014 • US October 2014
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A Connecticut Yankee in King
Arthur's Court
Seymour Chwast
"As a piece of design, this book is as charming and
clever as nearly everything else Chwast touches.
The Flash Gordon trappings suit Homer well. In
Chwast’s hands, THE ODYSSEY resembles a comic
strip etched across the top of a Greek temple."
Noel Murray, A.V. Club on THE ODYSSEY
Seymour Chwast, an icon of the graphic design world, has
delighted audiences with his adaptations of The Divine Comedy,
The Canterbury Tales, and The Odyssey, but it is in Mark Twain’s
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court that he has found his
match. Inspired by Twain’s comic irreverence for the Knights of the
Round Table, Chwast’s illustrations showcase his humor at its finest.
He brings us a brilliant imagining of the beloved hero, Hank Morgan,
as well as the full cast of Camelot characters, from Merlin to Lancelot
to the king himself. With a bold and colorful design and no shortage
of witty surprises, this is Mark Twain as you’ve never seen him before.
Seymour Chwast is a graduate of the Cooper Union. He is a founding
partner of the celebrated Push Pin Studios, whose distinct style has had a
worldwide inﬂuence on contemporary visual communications. In 1985 the
name was changed to the Pushpin Group; Chwast is the studio’s director.
Chwast has illustrated more than thirty books for children and created
three previous graphic adaptations of classic works: Dante's Divine
Comedy, The Canterbury Tales, and The Odyssey. He lives in New York
City.
UK April 2014 • US February 2014
144 pages • 2/c interior
HB 9781608199617 • £14.99 / $22.00
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While critics collect around the question of
what comes "after postmodernism," this book
asks something different about recent American
fiction: what if we are seeing not the end of
postmodernism but its belated success? Succeeding Postmodernism
examines how novels by DeLillo, Wallace, Danielewski, Foer and
others conceptualize threats to individuals and communities posed
by a poststructural culture of mediation and simulation, along with
possible ways to resist the disaffected solipsism bred by that culture.
Ultimately it finds that 21st-century American fiction sets aside the
postmodern problem of what language does or does not mean in
order to raise the reassuringly retro question of what it can and does
mean: novels today offer language as solution to the problem of
language.
Mary K. Holland is Assistant Professor of contemporary literature at The
State University of New York, New Paltz, USA. Her work on irony and
narcissism, poststructural realism, and mothering and media in fiction
and film has appeared in Critique, The Journal of Popular Culture, and A
Companion to David Foster Wallace Studies.
UK October 2014 • US October 2014
232 pages
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N O R T H A N D S O U T H A M E R I C A N L I T E R AT U R E
N O R T H A N D S O U T H A M E R I C A N L I T E R AT U R E
Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of
Philip Roth
Brett Ashley Kaplan
Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth argues
that Roth's novels teach us that Jewish anxiety
stems not only from fear of victimization but also
from fear of perpetration. It is impossible to think
about Jewish victimization without thinking about
the Holocaust; and it is impossible to think about the taboo question
of Jewish perpetration without thinking about Israel. Roth's texts
explore the Israel-Palestine question and the Holocaust with varying
degrees of intensity but all his novels scrutinize perpetration and
victimization through examining racism and sexism in America. Brett
Ashley Kaplan uses Roth's novels as springboards to illuminate larger
problems of victimization and perpetration; masculinity, femininity,
and gender; racism and anti-Semitism. For if, as Kaplan argues,
Jewish anxiety is not only about the fear of oppression, and we
can begin to see how these anxieties function in terms of fears of
perpetration, then perhaps we can begin to unpack the complicated
dynamics around the line between the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine.
Brett Ashley Kaplan is Associate Professor and Conrad Humanities
Scholar in the Program in Comparative and World Literature and Program
in Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign, USA.
UK July 2015 • US May 2015
192 pages
HB 9781623562946 • £74.00 / $110.00
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N O R T H A N D S O U T H A M E R I C A N L I T E R AT U R E
N O R T H A N D S O U T H A M E R I C A N L I T E R AT U R E
States of Trial: Manhood in Philip
Roth’s Post-war America
Ann Basu
This study of five towering Philip Roth novels Operation Shylock, the American Pastoral trilogy,
and The Plot Against America - explores his vision
of a turbulent post-war America personified in
trial-racked Jewish American men. These works
collectively register the impact of post-1945 upheavals upon the
nation and American trial-based myths about wholesomeness and
regeneration. Roth shows how the "stories of old" which moulded
American self-making have produced disorderly and disruptive
counter-stories, playing themselves out in Jewish men marked
by spots and stains where their constitutional integrity has been
infringed.
Roth probes the nation's own constitutional testing points as he
shatters the identities of characters such as fallen ace athlete
Swede Levov and disgraced academic Coleman Silk. His books seek
to strip away America's false innocence, demanding that historical
accountability should replace myths of new beginnings. Creating
arenas of trial for his American men where national discourses and
narratives cross and clash, Roth's novels reveal that a culture equals
its debates and allow us to see Americans and America as ongoing
experiments, always being tested.
Dr. Ann Basu received her PhD on Philip Roth from Birkbeck College,
University of London, UK, after retiring from a career as a librarian, most
recently at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts,
UK.
UK January 2015 • US November 2014
208 pages
HB 9781623562960 • £74.00 / $110.00
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Existentialist Engagement in
Wallace, Eggers and Foer
A Philosophical Analysis of Contemporary
American Literature
Allard den Dulk
The novels of David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers and
Jonathan Safran Foer are increasingly regarded as
representing a new trend, an ‘aesthetic sea change’ in contemporary
American fiction. Den Dulk shows that the connection between
these works lies in their shared philosophical dimension. On the one
hand, they portray excessive self-reﬂection and endless irony as
the two main problems of contemporary Western life. On the other
hand, the novels embody an attempt to overcome these problems:
sincerity, reality-commitment and community are portrayed as
the virtues needed to achieve a meaningful life. This shared
philosophical dimension is analyzed by viewing the novels in light of
the existentialist philosophies of Søren Kierkegaard, Jean-Paul Sartre,
Ludwig Wittgenstein and Albert Camus.
Allard den Dulk is Lecturer in Philosophy, Literature and Film at
Amsterdam University College, The Netherlands.
UK February 2015 • US December 2014
288 pages
HB 9781628923315 • £80.00 / $120.00
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Terrorism and Temporality in the
Works of Thomas Pynchon and
Don DeLillo
James Gourley
"James Gourley has made an important
contribution to our understanding of the work of
two of the most important and most demanding of
contemporary American novelists…a fresh and illuminating account
of their fiction before and after [9/11]."
Derek Attridge, FBA, Professor of English, University of York, USA
Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don
DeLillo starts from a simple premise: that the events of the 11th of
September 2001 have had a major effect on two New York residents,
and two of the seminal authors of American letters, Pynchon and
DeLillo. Gourley focuses on the major change identifiable in both
authors' post-9/11 work; a change in the perception, and conception,
of time. Engaging with several theories of time, and their reiteration
and examination in both authors' work, this book contributes both to
the understanding of literary time, and to the work of Pynchon and
DeLillo.
James Gourley is a Lecturer in the School of Humanities and
Communication Arts and member of the Writing and Society Research
Centre, University of Western Sydney, Australia.
UK December 2014 • US December 2014
200 pages
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Masculinity and the Paradox of
Violence in American Fiction,
1950-1975
Maggie McKinley
Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in
American Fiction, 1950-1975 explores the
intersections of violence, masculinity, and racial
and ethnic tension in America as it is depicted
in the fiction of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow,
James Baldwin, and Philip Roth. Maggie McKinley reconsiders the
longstanding association between masculinity and violence, locating
within these works a problematic paradox: as each author figures
violence as central to the establishment of a liberated masculine
identity, the use of this violence often reaffirms many constricting
and emasculating cultural myths and power structures that the
authors and their protagonists are seeking to overturn.
Maggie McKinley is Assistant Professor of English at Harper College, USA,
where she teaches courses in American Literature.
UK July 2015 • US May 2015
176 pages
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Henry Miller
Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist
New Perspectives
A Philosophical Inquiry
Edited by James M. Decker & Indrek Männiste
Indrek Männiste
Academic treatments of Henry Miller’s works have
never been numerous and for many years Miller
was not a fashionable writer in literary studies. In
fact, there exist only three collections of essays
concerning Henry Miller’s oeuvre. Since these books
appeared, a new generation of international Miller scholars has
emerged, one that is re-energizing critical readings of this important
American Modernist.
Henry Miller: New Perspectives presents 16 new essays on carefully
chosen themes within Miller and his intellectual heritage to form the
most authoritative collection of essays ever published on this author.
James M. Decker is Professor of English and Language Studies at Illinois
Central College, USA. Author of Henry Miller and Narrative Form:
Constructing the Self, Rejecting Modernity (2005) and Ideology (2003), he
edits Nexus: The International Henry Miller Journal.
Against skeptics, Männiste argues that Henry Miller
does indeed have a philosophy of his own, the
understanding of which is necessary to adequately
explain even some of the most basic of his ideas.
Building upon his notion of the inhuman artist,
Miller's philosophical foundation is revealed through his literary
attacks against the metaphysical design of the modern age. By
repudiating some of the most potent elements of late modernity such
as history, modern technology and an aesthetisized view of art, Miller
paves the way for overcoming Western metaphysics. Ultimately,
Männiste reveals that, philosophically, this aim is governed by Miller's
idiosyncratic concept of art, in which one is led towards selfliberation through transcending modern society and its dehumanizing
pursuits.
Indrek Männiste is Visiting Fellow in the Department of English and
Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick, UK. He is also a
Marie Curie Research Fellow at University of Tartu, Estonia.
Indrek Männiste is Visiting Fellow in the Department of English and
Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick, UK. He also
currently works as a Marie Curie Research Fellow at University of Tartu,
Estonia. His primary research interest is modernist literature and its
philosophical implications.
UK June 2015 • US April 2015
208 pages
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UK December 2014 • US December 2014
168 pages
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Poe and the Subversion of
American Literature
Rocket States: Atomic Weaponry
and the Cultural Imagination
Satire, Fantasy, Critique
Fabienne Collignon
Robert T. Tally Jr.
"Rocket States is a fascinating study of how
cultural fantasy shaped—and continues to shape—
the U.S. security state…a compelling vision of
the bizarre psychodynamics of a deadly serious
episode in U.S. history." Timothy Melley, Professor
of English, Miami University, USA
"No other study has achieved such a depth and
scope of critical demonstration with respect
to Poe, going back even further, perhaps, for
decades. [...] One of the best books I have read in a long time."
Daniel T. O'Hara, Professor of English and Humanities, College of
Liberal Arts, Temple University, USA
In Poe and the Subversion of American Literature, Robert T. Tally
Jr. argues that Edgar Allan Poe undermines the earnest attempts
to establish a distinctively national literature in the 19th century.
In retrospect, Poe’s work also subtly subverts the tenets of an
institutionalized American Studies in the 20th century. Tally
interprets Poe’s life and works in light of his own social milieu and
in relation to the disciplinary field of American literary studies,
finding Poe to be neither the poète maudit of popular mythology
nor the representative American writer revealed by recent
scholarship. Rather, Poe’s varied literary and critical writings
represent an alternative to American literature. Through his satirical
critique of U.S. national culture and his otherworldly projection
of a postnational space of the imagination, Poe establishes a
subterranean, nomadic, and altogether worldly literary practice.
Robert T. Tally Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Texas State
University, USA, where he teaches American and world literature.
UK March 2014 • US January 2014
160 pages
HB 9781623564278 • £74.00 / $110.00
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N O R T H A N D S O U T H A M E R I C A N L I T E R AT U R E
N O R T H A N D S O U T H A M E R I C A N L I T E R AT U R E
Combining Cold War studies, American literary studies, and cultural
studies, Rocket States explores the recurring figures and fantasies of
the Cold War: the dome or parabola as sheltering techno-form; the
fictions of total security adapting to constantly changing targeting
strategies; gadget love; closed, freezing worlds. Fabienne Collignon
illuminates a variety of literary texts from key writers and thinkers
such as Pynchon, Stephen King, Norman Mailer, and Tom Wolfe,
while also invoking figures like Nikola Tesla, James Webb, Batman
and Ronald Reagan. Rocket States analyses by what processes the
Cold War is frequently literalised in its weapons installations and
how these facilities, in turn, shape dreams of containment, survival,
escape and techno-supremacy.
Fabienne Collignon is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the
University of Sheffield, UK. She has published articles on American
techno-culture and machine aesthetics in journals such as C-Theory,
Conﬁgurations, and Textual Practice.
UK September 2014 • US July 2014
192 pages • 8 b/w halftones
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E U R O P E A N L I T E R AT U R E
E U R O P E A N L I T E R AT U R E
German Literature as World
Literature
Edited by Thomas Oliver Beebee
This new collection investigates German literature
in its international dimensions. While no single
volume can deal comprehensively with such a vast
topic, the nine contributors cover a wide historical
range, with a variety of approaches and authors
represented. Together, the essays begin to adumbrate the systematic
nature of the relations between German national literature and world
literature as these have developed through institutions, cultural
networks, and individual authors.
Thomas Oliver Beebee is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative
Literature and German at Penn State University, USA. He is the author
of Millennial Literatures of the Americas, 1492-2002 (Oxford University
Press, 2008), Epistolary Fiction in Europe (Cambridge University Press,
1999), The Ideology of Genre: A Comparative Study of Generic Instability
(Penn State Press, 1994) and Clarissa on the Continent: Translation and
Seduction (Penn State Press, 1990).
UK September 2014 • US July 2014
232 pages
HB 9781623563912 • £60.00 / $110.00
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After the Stasi
Collaboration and the Struggle for Sovereign
Subjectivity in the Writing of German
Unification
Annie Ring
Reading works of literature since German unification
in the light of previously unseen files from the
archives of the Stasi secret police force, After
the Stasi uncovers how writers to the present day have explored
collaboration as a challenge to the sovereignty of subjectivity. Annie
Ring here interweaves close analysis of literary fiction and lifewriting by former Stasi spies and victims together with documents
from the archive, new readings from literary modernism and cultural
theories of the self. In its pursuit of the strange power of the Stasi,
the book introduces an archetypal character in the writing of German
unification: one who is not sovereign over her or his actions, but
instead is compelled by a ubiquitous demand for collaboration – a
demand that continues into the post-Cold War age.
Annie Ring is Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK.
UK July 2015 • US July 2015
252 pages
HB 9781472567604 • £60.00 / $104.00
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New Directions in German Studies
Series Editor: Imke Meyer, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
A long and venerable tradition of "Germanistik" has been opened up in exciting ways in the past few decades. The series taps into that
tradition and its growth into German Studies, incorporating interdisciplinary approaches to the analysis of the rich intellectual and cultural
histories of the German-speaking countries. It showcases projects focusing on hitherto underrepresented authors as well as those that seek to
reframe canonical works in light of new perspectives and methodologies.
Vienna's Dreams of Europe
The Poet as Phenomenologist
Culture and Identity beyond the NationState
Rilke and the New Poems
Katherine Arens
A sweeping account and re-evaluation of Austrian
identity, via literature, culture and history, from the
Enlightenment to the present, Vienna's Dreams of
Europe argues for a convincing counter-narrative to
the prevailing story of Austria's place in Europe.
To challenge standard accounts of 18th- through 20th-century
European imperial identity construction, the book introduces a group
of Austrian public intellectuals and authors who have since the 18th
century construed their own publics as European. Katherine Arens
posits a political identity resisting two hundred years of European
nationalism, and working in different terms than today's theoristcritics of the hegemonic West.
Katherine Arens is a Professor of Germanic Studies and Comparative
Literature at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
UK April 2015 • US February 2015
336 pages
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Luke Fischer
The Poet as Phenomenologist: Rilke and the New
Poems opens up new perspectives on the relation
between Rilke’s poetry and phenomenological
philosophy, illustrating the ways in which poetry can
offer an exceptional response to the philosophical
problem of dualism. Drawing on the work of Husserl, Heidegger
and Merleau-Ponty, Luke Fischer makes a new contribution to the
tradition of phenomenological poetics and expands the debate among
Germanists concerning the phenomenological status of Rilke’s poetry,
which has been severely limited to comparisons of Rilke and Husserl.
Luke Fischer (PhD, University of Sydney) is an independent scholar and
award-winning poet.
UK May 2015 • US March 2015
320 pages
HB 9781628925432 • £80.00 / $120.00
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Bambi's Jewish Roots
Essays on German-Jewish Culture
Evil: A History in Modern French
Literature and Thought
Paul Reitter
Damian Catani
Paul Reitter’s scholarship on German-Jewish culture
has won acclaim in both specialized journals and
forums like the New York Review of Books, the
London Review of Books, Bookforum, and the TLS,
which named his study of Karl Kraus, The AntiJournalist, one of the best books of 2008.
Bambi's Jewish Roots brings together the best of Reitter's essayistic
work, written for such publications as The Nation, Harper’s
Magazine, and the Jewish Review of Books, which take on array of
figures and concerns, from the contradictions in Heinrich Heine’s selfunderstanding to the echoes of Zionism in Felix Salten’s novel Bambi.
Witty, erudite, and deeply illuminating, these essays represent public
criticism represent at its finest.
Paul Reitter is Associate Professor in German Languages and Literatures
at Ohio State University, USA. He is the author of The Anti-Journalist: Karl
Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe (2008), which
was named in The Times Literary Supplement as one of the best books of
2008, and On the Origins of Jewish Self-Hatred (2012). He has contributed
essays and reviews to Harper's Magazine and The Nation, and collaborated
with Jonathan Franzen on The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus (2013).
UK July 2015 • US June 2015
208 pages
HB 9781441166852 • £18.95 / $27.95
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The Book of Imitation and Desire:
Reading Milan Kundera with Rene
Girard
Trevor Cribben Merrill
Harold Bloom and others have dismissed Milan
Kundera as a maker of "period pieces" that lost
currency once the Berlin Wall fell. Building on
René Girard’s notion of “triangular desire,” Trevor
Cribben Merrill refutes this view, revealing that modern classics
such as The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter
and Forgetting display a counterintuitive—and bitterly funny—
understanding of human attraction. The Book of Imitation and Desire
is at once a comprehensive survey of Kundera’s novels and a witty
introduction to Girard’s mimetic theory.
Trevor Cribben Merrill is Lecturer in French at the California Institute of
Technology and sits on the Research Committee of Imitatio: Integrating
the Human Sciences. He studied literature at Yale University and the
Ecole Normale Supérieure and went on to receive his doctorate in French
Studies from UCLA, USA, where he was a Chancellor’s Fellow. A two-time
fellow of the Association Recherches Mimétiques in Paris, he has co-edited
a book of essays by René Girard and collaborated on Psychopolitics
(Michigan State University Press, 2012), a dialogue with psychiatrist JeanMichel Oughourlian.
UK October 2014 • US October 2014
208 pages
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"In this wide-ranging exploration of evil in
literature and film, Catani sets changing moral
positions in historical context to create a rich
survey of responses to this perennial theme.
Seeking a more conceptually rigorous approach
to ethical questions than Praz's aestheticisation or Bataille's
glamorisation he offers a penetrating and innovative assessment
that enhances our understanding of evil." Rosemary Lloyd, Rudy
Professor Emerita of French, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
E U R O P E A N L I T E R AT U R E
E U R O P E A N L I T E R AT U R E
In this interdisciplinary study of evil in French literature, Damian
Catani links literary depictions of evil with cultural events to chart
a history of the concept in some of the most important texts in
modern literature. Beginning with Balzac and Baudelaire, Catani
covers the restoration and Second Empire before interpreting how
Catholic stereotypes of the 'evil feminine' and new scientific theories
impacted the work of Lautréamont and Zola. Into the twentieth
century, evil is explored in terms of the Self, power, knowledge and
politics through readings of Proust, Céline, Sartre and Foucault. By
seamlessly bringing together aesthetic, philosophical, historical and
ideological concerns, this study argues that a broader treatment of
literary evils is vital to understanding our contemporary moral and
political climate.
Damian Catani is Senior Lecturer in the Department of European Cultures
and Languages at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
UK August 2014 • US August 2014
224 pages
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Agamben's Joyful Kafka
Finding Freedom Beyond Subordination
Anke Snoek
"Agamben’s Joyful Kafka is valuable both as a
work of Agamben scholarship and as a work of
Kafka criticism: understanding just how Agamben
understands Kafka is extremely useful for
finding and opening the joy in Kafka’s work, and
indispensable for coming to grips with the misunderstandings that
have marked Agamben’s." German Studies Review
Both Giorgio Agamben and Franz Kafka are best known for
their gloomy political worldview. A cautious study of Agamben's
references on Kafka, however, reveals another dimension right at
the intersection of their works: a complex and unorthodox theory
of freedom. Snoek shows how Agamben arrives, through Kafka, at
different strategies for freedom at the point where this freedom is
most blatantly violated.
Anke Snoek is Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts, Macquarie
University, Australia.
UK April 2014 • US April 2014
160 pages
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E U R O P E A N L I T E R A T U R E / C O M PA R A T I V E L I T E R A T U R E
E U R O P E A N L I T E R A T U R E / C O M PA R A T I V E L I T E R A T U R E
Russian Irrationalism from
Pushkin to Brodsky
Seven Essays in Literature and Thought
Olga Tabachnikova
Russia, once compared to a giant sphinx, is often
considered in the Anglophone world an alien
culture, often threatening and always enigmatic.
Although recognizably European, Russian culture
also has mystical features, including the idiosyncratic phenomenon
of Russian irrationalism. Historically, Russian irrationalism has
been viewed with caution in the West, where it is often seen
as antagonistic to, and subversive of, the rational foundations
of Western speculative philosophy. Some of the remarkable
achievements of the Russian irrationalist approach, however,
especially in the artistic sphere, have been recognized and even
admired, though perhaps not thoroughly investigated.
Bridging the gap between intellectual cultures, Olga Tabachnikova
discusses such fundamental irrationalist themes as the linguistic
underpinning of culture; the power of illusion in national
consciousness; the cultural roots of humour; the changing
relationship between love and morality, and between creative
impulse and religion; as well as the relevance of various individual
writers and philosophers from Pushkin to Brodsky to the construction
of Russian irrationalism.
Olga Tabachnikova is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Russian
Department of the University of Bristol, UK.
UK March 2015 • US January 2015
272 pages
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Flesh and the Centrality of the Eucharist to
The Divine Comedy
Sheila J. Nayar
Arguing that the consecrated body in the Eucharist
is one of the central metaphors structuring The
Divine Comedy, this book is the first comprehensive
exploration of the theme of transubstantiation
across Dante's epic poem. Drawing attention first to the historical
and theological tensions inherent in ideas of transubstantiation that
rippled through Western culture up to the early fourteenth century,
Sheila Nayar engages in a Eucharistic reading of both the "ﬂesh"
allusions and "metamorphosis" motifs that thread through the entirety
of Dante's poem.
From the cannibalistic resonances of the Ugolino episode in the
Inferno to the Corpus Christi-like procession seminal to Purgatory,
Nayar demonstrates how these sacrifice- and Host-related metaphors,
allusions, and tropes lead directly and intentionally to the Comedy's
final vision, that of the Eucharist itself. Arguing that the final
revelation in Paradise is analogically "the Bread of Life," Nayar brings
to the fore Christ's centrality (as sacrament) to The Divine Comedy—a
reading that is certain to alter current-day thinking about Dante's
poem.
Sheila J. Nayar is Associate Professor of English and Communication
Studies at Greensboro College, North Carolina, USA.
UK August 2014 • US October 2014
256 pages
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A Body of Work: An Anthology of
Poetry and Medicine
Surrealist Poetry
Edited by Corinna Wagner & Andy Brown
Edited by Willard Bohn
Including poems by writers from the dawn of the
Early Modern period to the 21st Century, A Body
of Work: An Anthology of Poetry and Medicine
explores changing attitudes to medicine, health and
the body.
The book is divided into nine thematic sections, including poetry
from all periods as well as historical documents that help students
place the poetry in its cultural contexts and covering such topics
as: The material body; Nerves, nervous disorders and psychology;
Consumption: food, drugs and alcohol; Contagion and disease;
Doctors, hospitals and the experience of medicine; Treatments
and cures; The body in pleasure and pain; Evolution, genetics and
reproduction; Ageing, dying and death.
Corinna Wagner is Senior Lecturer in the English Department and codirector of the ‘Art, Aesthetics and Creativity’ strand of the Medical
Humanities at the University of Exeter, UK.
Andy Brown is Senior Lecturer and Director of Creative Writing, and
co-director of the ‘Art, Aesthetics and Creativity’ strand of the Medical
Humanities at the University of Exeter, UK.
UK March 2015 • US May 2015
480 pages
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Dante's Sacred Poem
An Anthology
Founded by André Breton in 1924, Surrealism sought
to examine the unconscious realm by means of the
written and/or spoken word. Seeking to expand
the ability of language to evoke irrational states
and improbable events, it consistently strove to
transcend the linguistic status quo. By stretching language to its
limits and beyond, the Surrealists transformed it into an instrument
for exploring the human psyche. The twenty-four poets in the
present collection come not only from France, where Surrealism was
invented, but also from Spain, Belgium, Egypt, Martinique, Mauritius,
Mexico, Chile, and Peru. Three of them were eventually awarded
the Nobel Prize for Literature (Vicente Aleixandre, Pablo Neruda,
and Octavio Paz). Equipped with a critical introduction and a brief
bibliography, this anthology will appeal to anyone interested in
modern poetry.
Willard Bohn is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of French and
Comparative Literature at Illinois State University, USA.
UK March 2015 • US January 2015
288 pages
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Nabokov's Shakespeare
Approaching Silence
Samuel Schuman
New Perspectives on Endo Shusaku's
Classic Novel
"Shakespeare and Nabokov are literary giants
in their respective cultural traditions. In his
spectacular Nabokov's Shakespeare, Samuel
Schuman presents a remarkable face-off and
solves several of the remaining riddles about the
writers' literary enigmas." Yuri Leving, Professor
of Russian Literature, Dalhousie University, Canada, and Editor of the
Nabokov Online Journal
Nabokov's Shakespeare is a comprehensive study of an important and
interesting literary relationship. It explores the many and deep ways
in which the works of Shakespeare penetrate the novels of Vladimir
Nabokov, the finest English prose stylist of the 20th century. Schuman
provides a taxonomy of Nabokov's Shakespeareanisms; a quantitative
analysis of Shakespeare in Nabokov; an examination of Nabokov's
Russian works, his early English novels, the non-novelistic writings
(poetry, criticism, stories), Nabokov's major works, and his final
novels; and a discussion of the nature of literary relationships and
inﬂuence.
With a Foreword by Brian Boyd.
Samuel Schuman served as the Garrey Carruthers Distinguished Visiting
Professor at the University of New Mexico, and Chancellor Emeritus of
the University of Minnesota, Morris and the University of North Carolina,
Asheville, USA. He is past President of the International Vladimir Nabokov
Society and author of Vladimir Nabokov: A Reference Guide. He has
published extensively on Nabokov as well as on British Renaissance Drama.
UK September 2014 • US July 2014
208 pages
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The Foreign in International
Crime Fiction
Transcultural Representations
Edited by Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda
& Barbara Pezzotti
'The foreigner' is a familiar character in popular
crime fiction, from the foreign detective whose
outsider status provides a unique perspective on a familiar or
exotic location to the xenophobic portrayal of the criminal 'other'.
Exploring popular crime fiction from across the world, The Foreign
in International Crime Fiction examines these popular works as
'transcultural contact zones' in which writers can tackle such
issues as national identity, immigration, globalization and diaspora
communities. Offering readings of 20th and 21st-century crime
writing from Norway, the UK, India, China, Europe and Australasia,
the essays in this book open up new directions for scholarship on
crime writing and transnational literatures.
Jean Anderson is Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington,
New Zealand and Director of the New Zealand Centre for Literary
Translation.
Carolina Miranda is Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, New
Zealand.
Barbara Pezzotti is a journalist and Teaching Fellow in Italian at Victoria
University of Wellington, New Zealand.
UK April 2014 • US April 2014
256 pages
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Edited by Darren J. N. Middleton
& Mark W. Dennis
Endo Shusaku is celebrated as one of Japan's great
modern novelists and is often described as "Japan's
Graham Greene." Silence is considered by many
Japanese and Western literary critics to be his masterpiece.
Approaching Silence is both a celebration of this award-winning
novel as well as a significant contribution to the growing body of
work on literature and religion. It features eminent scholars writing
from Christian, Buddhist, literary, and historical perspectives, taking
up, for example, the uneasy alliance between faith and doubt; the
complexities of discipleship and martyrdom; the face of Christ; and,
the bodhisattva ideal as well as the nature of suffering. It also frames
Silence through a wider lens, comparing it to Endo's other works as
well as to the fiction of other authors. Approaching Silence promises
to deepen academic appreciation for Endo, within and beyond the
West.
C O M PA R A T I V E L I T E R A T U R E
C O M PA R A T I V E L I T E R A T U R E
Darren J. N. Middleton is Professor of Literature and Theology at Texas
Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
Mark W. Dennis is Associate Professor of East Asian Religions at Texas
Christian University, USA.
UK April 2015 • US February 2015
208 pages
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Baudelaire's Media Aesthetics
The Gaze of the Flâneur and
19th-Century Media
Marit Grøtta
Baudelaire’s Media Aesthetics situates Charles
Baudelaire in the midst of 19th-century media
culture. It offers a thorough study of the role
of newspapers, photography, and pre-cinematic
devices in Baudelaire’s writings, while also discussing the cultural
history of these media generally. Whereas Baudelaire is often seen as
an advocate of "art for art’s sake" and an enemy of the mechanical
arts, this book reveals that Baudelaire’s aesthetics was inspired by
19th-century media technology. It argues that Baudelaire played
with the new forms of perception emerging in the media age, using
them as frames of perception and ways of experiencing the world.
Highlighting Baudelaire’s interaction with the media in his age, this
study also addresses the ways in which we respond to new media
technology, drawing on perspectives from Walter Benjamin and
Giorgio Agamben.
Combining detailed research with contemporary theory, it opens up
new perspectives on Baudelaire’s writings, the figure of the ﬂâneur,
and modernist aesthetics.
Marit Grøtta is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of
Oslo, Norway.
UK June 2015 • US April 2015
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C O M PA R A T I V E L I T E R A T U R E
C O M PA R A T I V E L I T E R A T U R E
Weakness: A Literary and
Philosophical History
Late Book Culture in Argentina
Michael O'Sullivan
"Epplin provides a timely and thoroughly
researched critical ethnography of avant-garde
literary practices in Argentina."
Héctor Hoyos, Assistant Professor of Iberian and
Latin American Cultures, Stanford University, USA
Examining the nature of weakness has inspired some
of the most inﬂuential aesthetic and philosophical
portraits of the human condition. Beginning with
Plato and Aristotle, this first book-length study of
the concept explores weakness as it is interpreted
by Lao Tzu, Nietzsche, Derrida, the Romantics, Dickens and the
Modernists. It examines what feminist writers Simone de Beauvoir
and Luce Irigaray have made of the gendered biomythology of the
"weaker vessel" and considers related notions such as im-potentiality
and vulnerability in the work of Agamben, Beckett and Coetzee.
Through analysis of these differing versions of weakness, the book
challenges popular myths that align masculine identity with strength
and presents a humane weakness as a guiding motif for debates in
ethics.
Michael O'Sullivan is Assistant Professor in English at The Chinese
University of Hong Kong. He is author of Michel Henry: Incarnation,
Barbarism and Belief (Peter Lang, 2006).
UK April 2014 • US April 2014
224 pages
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Reading the Abrahamic Faiths
Rethinking Religion and Literature
Edited by Emma Mason
Re-thinking religion and literature in a series of
chapters by leading international scholars, Reading
the Abrahamic Faiths opens up a four-way dialogue
between Jewish, Islamic, Christian and Post-Secular
literary traditions.
The field of literary studies has absorbed religion as another
interdisciplinary mode of inquiry without fully exploring the potential
of their relationship to explore material questions of culture,
politics and globalization as well as immaterial concerns such as
faith, consciousness and affect. In response, Reading the Abrahamic
Faiths addresses religion and literature from a number of global
perspectives equip to reﬂect on the material and immaterial through
contemporary theory and world politics. Each section – Judaism,
Christianity, Islam and Post-Secularism – is introduced by specialist
to help anchor the reader unfamiliar with these debates in the close
readings of the literary texts and traditions that follow.
Emma Mason is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies
at the University of Warwick, UK, and an editor of Bloombury's New
Directions in Religion and Literature series.
Craig Epplin
Modern literary culture depended on the medium of the print book.
Today, with the advent of digital technologies, it is far from apparent
that print is, or should be, the vehicle of choice for contemporary
writers. Among Latin American countries, none has been as crucial
player in the world of print as Argentina. Argentine presses were the
channel for many of the great modern literary experiments in Latin
America. As such, it comes as no surprise that today Argentine writers
are attentive to the shifting media of literature. Late Book Culture
in Argentina chronicles that shift. Epplin offers readings of some
of the most innovative Argentine writers and collective projects of
recent years. These experiments take on a number of forms—digital,
artisanal, and collective—and they provide the ferment for some of
Argentina’s most audacious contemporary literature.
Craig Epplin is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Portland State University,
USA. He has published articles on Latin American literature, film, and
media culture.
UK October 2014 • US August 2014
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English as a Literature in
Translation
Censorship and the Limits of the
Literary
Fiona J. Doloughan
A Global View
For many writers writing in English today, English is
but one of a number of languages, and by extension
cultures, to which they have access. The question
arises of the impact of this sometimes latent,
sometimes explicit, multilingualism on generic
and other literary forms and conventions. To what extent is English
literature today a literature in translation in the sense that it is
formed at the conﬂuence of different literary and cultural traditions
and is mediated or brokered by multilingual individuals? And to what
extent might literary creativity today be premised on access to more
than one language and/or set of cultural and literary traditions?
English as a Literature in Translation examines the complexities of
writing in English and assesses the extent to which language practices
in English have been localized and/or culturally inﬂected, even as
English has become a global medium of communication.
Fiona J. Doloughan is Lecturer in English at The Open University, UK.
UK June 2015 • US April 2015
176 pages
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The Bloomsbury Companion to
Holocaust Literature
Edited by Jenni Adams
"This is a superb, well-thought out and brilliantly
constructed companion to this growing field: it
will both stimulate further research and support
the teaching of Holocaust Literature."
Robert Eaglestone, Professor of Contemporary
Literature and Thought, Department of English,
Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
The Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature is a
comprehensive reference resource including a wealth of critical
material on a diverse range of topics within the literary study of
Holocaust writing. At its centre is a series of specially commissioned
essays by leading scholars within the field: these address genrespecific issues such as the question of biographical and historical
truth in Holocaust testimony, as well as broader topics including the
politics of Holocaust representation and the validity of comparative
approaches to the Holocaust in literature and criticism. The volume
includes a substantial section detailing new and emergent trends
within the literary study of the Holocaust, a concise glossary of
major critical terminology, and an annotated bibliography of relevant
research material.
Featuring original essays by: Victoria Aarons, Jenni Adams, Michael
Bernard-Donals, Matthew Boswell, Stef Craps, Richard Crownshaw,
Brett Ashley Kaplan and Fernando Herrero-Matoses, Adrienne Kertzer,
Erin McGlothlin, David Miller, and Sue Vice.
Jenni Adams is Lecturer in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature
at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her previous publications include Magic
Realism in Holocaust Literature: Troping the Traumatic Real (2011).
UK October 2014 • US December 2014
352 pages • 2 halftones
HB 9781441129086 • £100.00 / $172.00
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Nicole Moore
Though literature and censorship have been
conceived as long-time adversaries, this collection
seeks to understand, rather, the degree to which
they have been dialectical terms, each producing
the other, coeval and mutually constitutive.
After the opening of the USSR’s spekstrahn, the enormous collections
of literature forbidden under the Soviets, containing more than
one million items, the push to redefine censorship so expansively
has encountered cogent criticism. German scholars describing the
centralised control of East German print publication, for example,
have wanted to insist on the substantive difference of pre-publication
state censorship from more mundane forms of speech regulation in
democracies. Work on South African apartheid censorship and the
operations of censorship in colonial countries is also demonstrating
its formative role in the institutional structures of literature beyond
the metropole. In light of these and other developments, Censorship
and the Limits of the Literary examines a number of critical issues. Is
literature ever without censorship? Does censorship need the literary?
In a globalizing era for culture, does censorship represent the final
(failed) version of national control?
C O M PA R A T I V E L I T E R A T U R E
C O M PA R A T I V E L I T E R A T U R E
Nicole Moore is Associate Professor in English at the University of New
South Wales, Canberra, Australia. She is the author of The Censor’s
Library: Uncovering the Lost History of Australia’s Banned Books, which
was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Australian History Prize 2013, and
co-editor of The Literature of Australia (2009).
UK April 2015 • US February 2015
176 pages
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Medieval Afterlives in
Contemporary Culture
Edited by Gail Ashton
With contributions from over 25 leading
international scholars, this is the first authoritative
single-volume reference guide to the appropriation
of medieval texts in contemporary culture.
Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture covers a comprehensive
range of media, including: Literature, from Young Adult fiction
to contemporary poetry ‘translations'; Film, TV and comic book
adaptations, from Beowulf to Merlin; Electronic media, from online
blogs to computer games; Performances, from the RSC Canterbury
Tales to Spamalot; Commercial Merchandise and tourism.
In addition to this wide-ranging coverage, the book also includes a
companion website with a number of essential reference features to
aid researchers working in the burgeoning field of Medieval afterlives.
Gail Ashton is an academic, writer and poet with research and publishing
interests in medieval literature, popular culture, and poetry. Recent books
include Medieval Afterlives in Popular Culture (2012), co-edited with
Daniel T. Kline, 2012; Geoffrey Chaucer: a life (2011); Medieval Romance
in Context (2010); and Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (2007).
UK March 2015 • US May 2015
448 pages
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COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS
COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS
The Power of Comics
History, Form, and Culture
Randy Duncan, Matthew J. Smith
& Paul Levitz
"At a time when there are an expanding number
of college classes focused on comics and graphic
storytelling, The Power of Comics, newly updated
and enhanced, remains a core textbook, one
which deals with comics as an industrial product, as an aesthetic
form, as a system of genres, and as a cultural phenomenon,
one which is equally encompassing in terms of the range of
different kinds of comics discussed, equally at home dealing
with superhero sagas, underground comics, and manga (not to
mention examples from across comic's history and around the
world.) This is one of the rare textbooks which also makes original
scholarly contributions, providing rich insider insights into how
comics publishing works, and refining our vocabulary for visual
and narrative analysis." Henry Jenkins, author of The Wow Climax:
Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture
Fully revised and updated for its second edition, The Power of Comics
remains the most authoritative introduction to comic books and
graphic novels. The new edition includes:
Transnational Perspectives on
Graphic Narratives
Comics at the Crossroads
Edited by Daniel Stein, Shane Denson
& Christina Meyer
"Transnational Perspectives on Graphic
Narratives offers a wealth of concepts and
perspectives for the study of the transnational in comics research
… [and] signals the arrival of the ‘transnational turn’ in comics
studies." Ralf Kauranen, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (2013)
This book brings together an international group of scholars who
chart and analyzes the ways in which comic book history and new
forms of graphic narrative have negotiated the aesthetic, social,
political, economic, and cultural interactions that reach across
national borders in an increasingly interconnected and globalizing
world. Exploring the tendencies of graphic narratives - from popular
comic book serials and graphic novels to manga - to cross national
and cultural boundaries, Transnational Perspectives on Graphic
Narratives investigates controversial representations of transnational
politics, examines transnational adaptations of superhero characters,
and maps many of the translations and transformations that have
come to shape contemporary comics culture on a global scale.
• Expanded historical section covering the rise of the graphic novel
and the advent of digital comics
Shane Denson is Assistant Professor/Post-Doc Research Associate in
American Studies at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany.
• A new chapter on memoir and an updated chapter on the
superhero genre
Christina Meyer is Assistant Professor/Post-Doc Research Associate in
American Studies at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany.
• "Exploring Meanings in Comic Book Texts" chapter introduces
students to the theoretical tools they need to read comics
critically
Daniel Stein is Assistant Professor/Post-Doc Research Associate at the
John-F.-Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität
Berlin, Germany.
• Study objectives, discussion points, activities and annotated
further reading guides in each chapter
Randy Duncan is Professor of Communication at Henderson State
University, USA, and co-founder the Comic Arts Conference, the nation's
first annual academic conference devoted solely to the study of comics.
He is also the co-editor of Icons of the American Comic Book: From
Captain America to Wonder Woman.
Matthew J. Smith is professor of Communication at Wittenberg University,
USA, where he teaches comics arts courses. He is co-editor of the Eisnernominated Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods.
Paul Levitz is a former President and Publisher of DC Comics and teaches
a course in the American Graphic Novel at Columbia University, USA.
He has written for many of DC's major comic books series, including
Superman and Batman, and is the only writer to have appeared on the
New York Times Graphic Books Best Seller list for both his fiction and nonfiction work.
UK December 2014 • US February 2015
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Adapting Canonical Texts in
Children's Literature
Literature's Children: The Critical
Child and the Art of Idealisation
Edited by Anja Müller
Louise Joy
"By introducing a wide-ranging set of case
studies, from multi-media versions of plays by
Shakespeare to cross-cultural reinterpretations
of classic tales, this volume places a welcome
emphasis on international research into
adaptations for children…Anja Müller has succeeded in drawing
together a lively and informative series of insights into the
transcultural reach of adaptation strategies for the child reader or
viewer." Gillian Lathey, Reader in Children's Literature, Roehampton
University, UK
Adaptations of canonical texts have played an important role
throughout the history of children's literature and have been seen
as an active and vital contributing force in establishing a common
ground for intercultural communication across generations and
borders. This collection analyses different examples of adapting
canonical texts in or for children's literature encompassing
adaptations of English classics for children and young adult readers
and intercultural adaptations of children's classics across Europe. The
international contributors assess both historical and transcultural
adaptation in relation to historically and regionally contingent
concepts of childhood. By assessing how texts move across agespecific or national borders, they examine the traces of a common
literary and cultural heritage in European children's literature.
Anja Müller is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the University
of Siegen, Germany.
Literature’s Children offers a new way of thinking
about how literature for children functions
didactically. It analyses the nature of the practical
critical activity which the child reader carries out,
emphasising what the child does to the text rather
than what he or she receives from it. Through close readings of a
range of socalled ‘Golden Age’ novels for children which continue
to shape our understanding of what children’s literature entails,
including The Railway Children, The Wind in the Willows, The
Hobbit, and mid-twentieth-century series fiction, it demonstrates
how the child critic resists the processes of idealisation at work in
such texts. By bringing together ideas from literary theory and the
philosophy of education, drawing in particular on the work of the
philosopher John Dewey, it provides a compelling new account of
the complex relationships between literary aesthetics and literary
didacticism.
C H I L D R E N ' S L I T E R AT U R E
C H I L D R E N ' S L I T E R AT U R E
Louise Joy is Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Homerton
College, University of Cambridge, UK. She is co-editor of The Aesthetics of
Children's Poetry (2015) and Poetry and Childhood (2010).
UK May 2015 • US July 2015
224 pages
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256 pages
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J.K. Rowling: A Bibliography
Philip W. Errington
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The first, and the definitive bibliography of the
writings of J. K. Rowling.
This is the definitive bibliography of the writings of
J.K. Rowling. In addition to complete bibliographic
details of each edition of all her books, pamphlets
and original contributions to published works,
there is detailed information on the publishing history of her work,
including fascinating extracts from correspondence, and information
on Rowling at auction. This will be the first source on Rowling
consulted by textual scholars, book dealers and collectors, auction
houses, critics and researchers. The aim of the book is to record fact
and dispel rumour on the fascinating publishing history of the Harry
Potter series.
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Philip Errington is Director for Children's Books within the Department
of Printed Books and Manuscripts at Sotheby's. He is the author of John
Maseﬁeld : The 'Great Auk' of English Literature: A Bibliography (2004),
and the editor of several new editions of Masefield's work.
UK February 2015 • US April 2015
400 pages
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WRITING
WRITING
The Bloomsbury Introduction to
Creative Writing
Novel Writing
Tara Mokhtari
Romesh Gunesekera & A.L. Kennedy
Covering a wide range of forms and genres, The
Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing is
a complete introductory manual for students
of creative writing. Through a structured series
of practical writing exercises – perfect for the
classroom, the writer’s workshop or as a starting point for a
portfolio of work – the book builds the student writer from the first
explorations of their own voice, through to mastery of a wide range
of genres and forms.
The Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing covers such genres
as: autobiographical writing, short fiction, poetry, screenwriting,
writing for performance and writing for digital media.
With practical guidance on writing scholarly critiques of your own
work and a glossary of terms for ease of reference, this book is an
essential manual for any introductory creative writing course and a
practical companion for more advanced writers.
Tara Mokhtari is the author of Anxiety Soup (2013) and an adjunct
lecturer in Creative Writing, Literature and Communications at
universities in Australia and the USA.
UK January 2015 • US March 2015
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A Writers' and Artists' Companion
Packed with tips from bestselling and prize-winning
authors, Novel Writing: A Writers' and Artists'
Companion will give you all the practical advice you
need to write and publish your novel.
PART 1 provides an introduction to the history of
the novel and helps you plan and research your masterpiece, develop
characters and compelling narratives and your own authorial voice.
PART 2 contains guest contributions from leading writers such as
Philip Hensher, Doris Lessing, Anita Desai, Glenn Patterson, Philip
Pullman, Elif Shawak, Ali Smith, and Anne Enright, as well as a
number of the 2013 list of the Best of Young British Novelists.
PART 3 offers practical advice on collaborative writing, overcoming
writer's block, editing and rewriting and finding an agent and a
publisher for your work.
Romesh Gunesekera's first novel Reef was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker
Prize. He is the author of six novels including The Sandglass, (winner of
the inaugural BBC Asia Award) and Heaven's Edge, which was a New York
Times Notable Book of the Year.
A L Kennedy is a prize winning novelist and author of short stories and
non-fiction and Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University
of Warwick, UK. Her novels include Everything You Need (1999), The Blue
Book (2011) and Day (2007) which won the Costa and Saltire Book of the
Year.
UK January 2015 • US March 2015
256 pages
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Writing Short Stories
Playwriting
A Writers' and Artists' Companion
A Writers' and Artists' Companion
Courttia Newland & Tania Hershman
Fraser Grace & Clare Bayley
Writing Short Stories: A Writers' and Artists'
Companion is an essential guide to writing short
fiction successfully. PART 1 explores the nature
and history of the form, personal reﬂections by
the editors, and help getting started with ideas,
planning and research. PART 2 includes tips by leading short story
writers, including: Alison Moore, Jane Rogers, Edith Pearlman, David
Vann, Anthony Doerr, Vanessa Gebbie, Alexander MacLeod, Adam
Thorpe and Elspeth Sandys. PART 3 contains practical advice - from
shaping plots and exploring your characters to beating writers' block,
rewriting and publishing your stories.
Playwriting: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is a
comprehensive companion to writing for the stage.
PART 1 includes reﬂections on the art and craft of
playwriting, guidance on writing for a full range of
genres and spaces and a brief history of theatre.
PART 2 contains inspiring advice from leading dramatists such as
Michael Frayn, David Hare, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Rona Munro, Lucy
Prebble, Mark Ranvenhill, Tom Stoppard and Timberlake Wertenbaker.
PART 3 offers practical exercises and advice on conducting research,
developing plots and characters, mastering dialogue, navigating the
industry and the rehearsal and production process.
Courttia Newland is a critically acclaimed novelist and short story writer.
His works include A Book of Blues (2011) and, as co-editor, The Global
Village (2009).
Fraser Grace is a playwright and prior to that worked both as an actor
and performance poet. His first play, Perpetua, was winner of the Verity
Bargate Award and was produced by Soho Theatre/Birmingham REP. He
has written for theatres all over the UK, including the Royal Shakespeare
Company and, since 2011, has convened the Master's Playwriting Course at
the University of Birmingham, UK.
Tania Hershman is an award-winning writer of short and very short stories
which have been widely published in print and online and broadcast on
BBC Radio 3 and 4.
UK December 2014 • US February 2015
352 pages
PB 9781408130803 • £14.99 / $19.95
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Clare Bayley is an award-winning playwright and short story writer. Her
plays include Blue Sky and The Container, which won a Fringe First and the
Amnesty International Award (Udderbelly, Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2007).
She is a former theatre editor of The Independent and currently teaches
creative writing at London South Bank University, UK.
UK October 2015 • US December 2015
288 pages
PB 9781472529329 • £14.99 / $25.95
Individual eBook 9781472526670 • £14.99 / $22.99
Library eBook 9781472524386 • £45.00 / $72.00
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Creative Writing in the Digital
Age
The Write Crowd
Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy
Lori A. May
Edited by Michael Dean Clark,
Trent Hergenrader & Joseph Rein
"This book should have great value for teachers of
creative writing seeking to connect with games,
social media, and other digital developments. It also demonstrates
how creative practice can animate and inform the Digital
Humanities, and makes compelling reading for anyone interested
in the present and future of writing." Stuart Moutlhrop, Professor of
English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Creative Writing in the Digital Age explores the vast array of
opportunities that technology provides the Creative Writing teacher,
ranging from effective online workshop models to advances that blur
the boundaries of genre. From social media tools such as Twitter
and Facebook to more advanced software like Inform 7, the book
investigates the benefits and potential challenges these technologies
present instructors in the classroom. Written with the everyday
instructor in mind, the book includes practical classroom lessons that
can be easily adapted to creative writing courses regardless of the
instructor’s technical expertise.
Michael Dean Clark is Associate Professor of Writing at Azusa Pacific
University, USA. Formerly an award-winning journalist, he is an author of
fiction and nonfiction focused on loss, grace, and uncommon redemption.
His fiction and nonfiction work has appeared in Fast Forward, Relief,
Coach’s Midnight Diner, and elsewhere.
Trent Hergenrader is Assistant Professor at the Rochester Institute of
Technology, USA. His academic research connects game-based learning
and writing instruction, and his short fiction has appeared in such places
as Fantasy & Science Fiction and Best Horror of the Year #1.
Joseph Rein is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of
Wisconsin–River Falls, USA. His creative and critical work has appeared in
such publications as The Pinch Literary Journal, Laurel Review and New
Writing, and he is co-editor of the book Dispatches from the Classroom:
Graduate Students on Creative Writing (2011).
UK January 2015 • US March 2015
208 pages
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Library eBook 9781472574107 • £66.00 / $106.00
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Writing for Radio
Christopher William Hill
Writing for Radio is an entertaining, accessible and
informative book, providing a step-by-step guide to
writing for this specific dramatic medium. It offers
a detailed approach to the process of writing a
successful radio play from first draft to production
draft and on into the recording studio - with helpful
'tricks-of-the-trade' and informative 'vox pops' from
leading radio producers and sound engineers.
Literary Citizenship and the Writing Life
WRITING
WRITING
Writing may be a solitary profession, but it is also
one that relies on a strong sense of community.
The Write Crowd offers practical tips and examples
of how writers of all genres and experience levels
contribute to the sustainability of the literary
community, the success of others, and to their own well-rounded
writing life. Through interviews and examples of established writers
and community members, readers are encouraged to immerse
themselves fully in the literary world by engaging with literary
journals, reading series and public workshops, advocacy and
education programs, and more. The Write Crowd demonstrates how
writers may engage with peers and readers, and have a positive
effect on the greater community, without sacrificing writing time.
Lori A. May is the author of The Low-Residency MFA Handbook: A Guide
for Prospective Creative Writing Students (2011) and Square Feet (2014).
May's creative and critical work has appeared in print and online with
publications such as The Atlantic, Brevity, Colorado Review, Passages
North, The Writer, and Writer's Digest. She teaches in the University of
King's College (Halifax) creative nonfiction MFA program and is a frequent
guest speaker at writing conferences and residencies. Visit www.loriamay.
com for more info.
UK February 2015 • US December 2014
144 pages
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Experimental Fiction
An Introduction for Readers and Writers
Julie Armstrong
Ever since Ezra Pound's exhortation to ‘make
it new', experimentation has been a hallmark
of contemporary literature. Ranging from the
modernists, through the Beats to postmodernism
and contemporary ‘hyperfiction', this is a unique
introduction to experimental fiction. Creative exercises throughout
the book help students grapple with the many varieties of
experimental fiction for themselves, deepening their understanding
of these many forms and developing their own writing skills.
In addition, the book examines the historical contexts and major
themes of 20th-century experimental fiction and new directions for
the novel offered by writers such as David Shields and Zadie Smith.
Making often difficult works accessible for the first time reader and
with extensive further reading guides, Experimental Fiction is an
essential practical guidebook for students of creative writing and
contemporary fiction.
Writers covered include: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka,
Marcel Proust, Ralph Ellison, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William
Gibson, Italo Calvino, Jeanette Winterson, Don Delillo, Caitlin Fisher,
Geoff Ryeman, Xiaolu Guo, Tom McCarthy, James Frey and David
Mitchell.
Christopher William Hill is an award winning radio dramatist and
playwright. He has worked on attachment to the National Theatre Studio
and on early development of War Horse. He is currently developing a
screenplay with Dan Patterson, creator of Whose Line Is It Anyway and
Mock The Week.
Julie Armstrong is Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan
University, UK, where she teaches Creative Writing in an interdisciplinary
Contemporary Arts Dept. In addition to her scholarly publishing, she has
also written, poetry, television scripts and two works of experimental
fiction: Mirror (2010) Troubador and Dream Space (2012).
UK April 2015 • US June 2015
224 pages
PB 9781408139837 • £14.99 / $22.95
Individual eBook 9781408143889 • £14.99 / $22.99
Library eBook 9781408143896 • £45.00 / $72.00
Series: Writing Handbooks • Bloomsbury Academic
UK August 2014 • US October 2014
216 pages
PB 9781441130570 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781441189080 • £55.00 / $100.00
Individual eBook 9781441107299 • £17.99 / $27.99
Library eBook 9781441128713 • £54.00 / $87.00
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L I T E R A RY B I O G R A P H Y
L I T E R A RY B I O G R A P H Y
Nabokov in America
A Biography
The Adventures of Henry
Thoreau
Robert Roper
A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
The author of the immortal Lolita and Pale Fire, born to an eminent
Russian family, conjures the apotheosis of the high modernist artist:
cultured, refined—as European as they come. But Vladimir Nabokov,
who came to America ﬂeeing the Nazis, came to think of his time
here as the richest of his life. Indeed, Nabokov was not only happiest
here, but his best work ﬂowed from his response to this exotic land.
Michael Sims
Robert Roper fills out this period in the writer’s life with charm and
insight— covering Nabokov’s critical friendship with Edmund Wilson,
his time at Cornell, his role at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative
Zoology. But Nabokov in America finds its narrative heart in his serial
sojourns into the wilds of the West, undertaken with his wife, Vera,
and their son over more than a decade. Nabokov covered more than
200,000 miles as he indulged his other passion: butterﬂy collecting.
Roper has mined fresh sources to bring detail to these journeys, and
traces their significant inﬂuence in Nabokov’s work: on two-lane
highways and in late-’40s motels and cafés, we feel Lolita draw near,
and understand Nabokov’s seductive familiarity with the American
mundane. Nabokov in America is also a love letter to U.S. literature,
in Nabokov’s broad embrace of it from Melville to the Beats. Reading
Roper, we feel anew the mountain breezes and the miles logged, the
rich learning and the Romantic mind behind some of Nabokov’s most
beloved books.
Robert Roper's journalism appears in the New York Times, Los Angeles
Times, National Geographic, Outside, and other publications. He won the
2002 Boardman-Tasker Prize for his book Fatal Mountaineer, and his most
recent book, Now the Drum of War, was an Editor's Choice pick in the New
York Times Book Review. He has also published several novels. He teaches
at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore and California.
UK August 2015 • US June 2015
320 pages • b&w photos and maps throughout
HB 9780802743633 • £19.99 / $28.00
Individual eBook 9781632860866 • £12.99 / $19.99
Bloomsbury USA
World English
"This appealing story succeeds beautifully in
accomplishing Sims’s goal to 'find Henry' rather
than 'applaud Thoreau' ... With attentive research
that elaborates but never intrudes, Sims invites twenty-first
century readers to discover their own Thoreau among his various
identities." Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, author of To Set This World
Right
Telling the colourful story of a complex man seeking meaning in a
tempestuous era, Michael Sims brings to life the insecure, youthful
Henry, as he embarks on the path to becoming the literary icon
Thoreau. In rich, evocative prose, and using the letters and diaries of
Thoreau’s family, friends and students, Michael Sims charts the great
man’s coming of age in 1830s America. From Thoreau’s skating and
boating with Nathaniel Hawthorne, to his launching of a progressive
school with his brother, Sims paints a vivid portrait of the young
writer struggling to find his voice through communing with nature,
whether mountain climbing in Maine or building his life-changing
cabin at Walden Pond.
Michael Sims is the author of acclaimed non-fiction titles The Story of
Charlotte’s Web, Apollo’s Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination
and Adam’s Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human
Form, as well as the editor of numerous anthologies, including his own
Connoisseur’s Collection series for Bloomsbury, which includes Dracula’s
Guest (vampire stories), The Dead Witness (detective stories) and the
upcoming The Phantom Coach (ghost stories). Michael Sims lives in
western Pennsylvania with his wife and son.
UK July 2014 • US February 2014
384 pages • b&w throughout
PB 9781408843598 • £9.99 / $15.00 • HB 9781408830499 • £18.99 / $27.00
Individual eBook 9781620401965 • £11.99 / $18.99
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World English
Dylan Thomas
A Centenary Celebration
Hannah Ellis
Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration is a
unique collection of specially commissioned
essays celebrating the poet's life and work one
hundred years after his birth in 1914. Edited by
his granddaughter, Hannah Ellis, highlights include
essays from noted biographers Andrew Lycett and David Thomas,
Welsh poet laureate Gillian Clarke on Under Milk Wood, and poetry by
Rowan Williams. The book also includes an essay by poet Owen Sheers
and BBC Radio 6 presenter Cerys Matthews, as well as numerous
testimonies and poems from the likes of former President of the
United States Jimmy Carter, Phillip Pullman and actor Michael Sheen.
Hannah Ellis is Dylan Thomas's granddaughter. She is Patron of the 'Dylan
Thomas 100' centenary celebrations and President of the Dylan Thomas
Society of Great Britain.
UK September 2014 • US November 2014
272 pages
HB 9781472903099 • £20.00 / $33.00
Individual eBook 9781472903105 • £16.99 / $22.99
Library eBook 9781472903112 • £51.00 / $69.00
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LITERARY THEORY
Adaptation Studies, (ed.) Bruhn, Gjelsvik,
Hanssen
PB 9781441192660 2013 £21.99 $29.95
HB 9781441194671 2013 £65.00 $120.00
Aesthetic Sexuality, Byrne
HB 9781441100818 2013 £60.00 $110.00
American Impersonal: Essays with Sharon
Cameron, (ed.) Arsic
PB 9781623564155 2014 £19.99 $29.95
HB 9781623567590 2014 £80.00 $120.00
The Bakhtin Reader, (ed.) Morris
PB 9780340592670 1997 £19.99 $38.00
Benjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of
Photography, Yacavone
PB 9781623566692 2013 £19.99 $34.95
HB 9781441118080 2012 £60.00 $120.00
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Crimes of the Future, Rabate
PB 9781441172877 2014 £17.99 $29.95
HB 9781441146342 2014 £80.00 $120.00
Inspection copy available
Feminist Theory, 4th edition, Donovan
PB 9781441168306 2012 £18.99 $29.95
HB 9781441163653 2012 £60.00 $110.00
Key Terms in Literary Theory, Klages
PB 9780826442673 2012 £13.99 $21.95
HB 9780826491909 2012 £50.00 $80.00
Literary Fiction, Farner
PB 9781623560249 2014 £19.99 $34.95
HB 9781623564841 2014 £65.00 $120.00
Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed,
Klages
PB 9780826490735 2006 £15.99 $22.95
HB 9780826490728 2006 £50.00 $90.00
Maurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing,
Hill
PB 9781441166227 2012 £23.99 $42.95
HB 9781441125279 2012 £75.00 $140.00
Mindful Aesthetics, (ed.) Danta, Groth
HB 9781441102867 2013 £60.00 $110.00
Modern Literary Theory, 4th edition, (ed.)
Waugh, Rice
PB 9780340761915 2001 £21.99 $42.95
On Modern Poetry, Smith
PB 9781441174222 2012 £19.99 $32.95
HB 9781441165725 2012 £65.00 $120.00
Perspectives on World War I Poetry, Evans
PB 9781472513106 2014 £16.99 $27.95
HB 9781472510211 2014 £50.00 $90.00
Reading Theory Now, Dunne
PB 9781441115140 2013 £14.99 $24.95
HB 9781441174581 2013 £45.00 $80.00
Ricoeur, Literature and Imagination, Vlacos
HB 9781441135384 2014 £60.00 $110.00
Romantic Literature in Light of Bakhtin,
Reed
PB 9781623561116 2014 £19.99 $34.95
HB 9781623563462 2014 £65.00 $120.00
Stuff Theory, Boscagli
PB 9781623562250 2014 £16.99 $24.95
HB 9781623562687 2014 £54.00 $80.00
Ten Lessons in Theory, Thomas
PB 9781623564025 2013 £19.99 $29.95
HB 9781623569891 2013 £65.00 $120.00
Why Literature?, Bruns
PB 9781441124654 2011 £15.99 $25.95
HB 9781441125200 2011 £50.00 $90.00
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary
British Fiction,
(ed.) Hubble, McLeod, Tew
HB 9781441133915 2014 £75.00 $140.00
The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary
British Fiction,
(ed.) Tew, Horton, Wilson
HB 9781441126498 2014 £75.00 $140.00
Adaptation in Contemporary Culture, (ed.)
Carroll
PB 9780826424648 2009 £21.99 $39.95
HB 9780826444561 2009 £70.00 $130.00
Angela Carter: New Critical Readings, (ed.)
Andermahr, Phillips
PB 9781472528520 2014 £18.99 $32.95
HB 9781441169280 2012 £65.00 $120.00
Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things,
Mullaney
PB 9780826453273 2002 £10.99 $15.95
Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Wisker
PB 9780826426017 2010 £13.99 $21.95
HB 9780826463623 2010 £55.00 $100.00
Inspection copy available
The Bloomsbury Anthology of
Contemporary Jewish American Poetry,
(ed.) Ager, Silverman
PB 9781441188793 2013 £19.95 $29.95
HB 9781441125576 2013 £80.00 $120.00
Contemporary Narrative, Doloughan
PB 9781441128003 2011 £21.99 $39.95
HB 9781441121998 2011 £70.00 $130.00
The Disappearance of Literature, Hillyer
HB 9781623561710 2013 £60.00 $110.00
The Maximalist Novel, Ercolino
HB 9781623562915 2014 £60.00 $110.00
Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of
Despair, Sweeney
HB 9780826422620 2013 £60.00 $120.00
New Suburban Stories, (ed.) Dines,
Vermeulen
HB 9781472510938 2013 £60.00 $104.00
Political Initiation in the Novels of Philip
Roth, Brühwiler
PB 9781628925357 2014 £19.95 $29.95
HB 9781441153210 2013 £60.00 $110.00
Postcolonialism: A Guide for the Perplexed,
Nayar
PB 9780826400468 2010 £15.99 $25.95
HB 9780826437006 2010 £50.00 $90.00
Pynchon and Relativity, de Bourcier
PB 9781472528308 2013 £19.99 $34.95
HB 9781441130099 2012 £65.00 $120.00
Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the
Ethics of Witnessing, McCormack
HB 9781441111005 2014 £74.00 $110.00
Reading Zadie Smith, (ed.) Tew
BESTSELLERS
BESTSELLERS
PB 9781441186614 2013 £17.99 $29.95
HB 9781441182456 2013 £55.00 $100.00
Salman Rushdie and Translation, Ramone
HB 9781441144355 2013 £60.00 $110.00
Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children,
Schurer
PB 9780826415752 2004 £9.99 $14.95
Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition, Baillie
HB 9781441183101 2013 £60.00 $110.00
Truthful Fictions: Conversations with
American Biographical Novelists, (ed.)
Lackey
PB 9781623568252 2014 £19.99 $29.95
HB 9781623567415 2014 £65.00 $120.00
Women's Fiction, 2nd edition, Philips
PB 9781441104267 2014 £18.99 $32.95
Write in Tune: Contemporary Music in
Fiction, (ed.) Hertz, Roessner
HB 9781623564223 2014 £60.00 $110.00
SERIES: BLOOMSBURY STUDIES
IN CONTEMPORARY NORTH
AMERICAN FICTION
Bret Easton Ellis, (ed.) Mandel
PB 9780826435620 2010 £18.99 $34.95
HB 9780826446480 2010 £60.00 $110.00
Chuck Palahniuk, (ed.) Collado-Rodriguez
PB 9781441174321 2013 £17.99 $29.95
HB 9781441141941 2013 £55.00 $100.00
Cormac McCarthy, (ed.) Spurgeon
PB 9780826438201 2011 £18.99 $34.95
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Margaret Atwood, (ed.) Bouson
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1990s, The: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction . . . 20
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2000s, The: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction . . . 20
Creative Writing in the Digital Age. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Holland, Mary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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Adams, Carol J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
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Holderness, Graham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Hughes Gibson, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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Adams, Jenni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Dante's Sacred Poem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Adapting Canonical Texts in Children's Literature . . . . . . 33
David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing". . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Irish Writing London: Volume 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Adventures of Henry Thoreau, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Davis, Michael Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Irish Writing London: Volume 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
After the Stasi. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
De Boever, Arne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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Agamben's Joyful Kafka. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Decker, James M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
American Fiction in Transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
den Dulk, Allard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
J.K. Rowling: A Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
American Tantalus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Dennis, Mark W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Jervis, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anderson, Jean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Denson, Shane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth . . . . . . . . . 23
Approaching Silence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Dinsman, Melissa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Jewish Feeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Araújo, Susana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Djuna Barnes's Nightwood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
John Kasper and Ezra Pound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Ardoin, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Doloughan, Fiona J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Johnson, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Arens, Katherine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Dow, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Joy, Louise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Armstrong, Julie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Driver's License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Ashton, Gail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Drone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
K
Duncan, Randy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
B
Dwor, Richa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Bambi's Jewish Roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Dylan Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Banash, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Kaplan, Brett Ashley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Kelly, Adam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Kennedy, A.L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Kerr-Koch, Kathleen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
E
Kiliç, Mine Özyurt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Baudelaire's Media Aesthetics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Early Visions and Representations of America. . . . . . . . . 22
Bayley, Clare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Ecofeminism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
L
Beebee, Thomas Oliver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Ellis, Hannah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Benson-Allott, Caetlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
English as a Literature in Translation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Bentley, Nick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Epplin, Craig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Berberich, Christine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Errington, Philip W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Between Levinas and Lacan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Evil: A History in Modern French Literature and Thought . 27
Bloomsbury Companion to Holocaust Literature, The . . . . 31
Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer. . . 24
Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing, The . . . . . 34
Experimental Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction, The . . . . . . . 7
Ezra Pound and 'The Globe' Magazine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Basu, Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Body of Work, A: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Late Book Culture in Argentina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Late Modernism and The English Intelligencer. . . . . . . . . 12
Latter, Alex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Lauret, Maria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Leitch, Vincent B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Leonard, Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Levitz, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Life and Work of Thomas MacGreevy, The. . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Literary Criticism in the 21st Century. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Bohn, Willard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
F
Book of Imitation and Desire, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Falling After 9/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Literature's Children. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Boswell, Marshall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Fischer, Luke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Ludlow, Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Boyle, Brenda M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Flann O'Brien & Modernism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Lutzkanova-Vassileva, Albena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
M
British Fiction in the Sixties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Foreign in International Crime Fiction, The . . . . . . . . . . 29
Brown, Andy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Forgiveness in Victorian Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Brown, Catherine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Fujii, Hikaru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Brown, Harry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
G
Bruhwiler, Claudia Franziska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Burns, Lorna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Literature After Globalization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Maggie Gee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape'/'La derniere
bande', The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Gardiner, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Making of Samuel Beckett's 'The Unnamable'/'L'innommable',
The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
German Literature as World Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Männiste, Indrek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Golf Ball. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Marsh, Alec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Gomez-Galisteo, M. Carmen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Mary Butts and British Neo-Romanticism . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Castile, Meredith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Gontarski, S.E.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Catani, Damian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Gourley, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction,
1950-1975. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Censorship and the Limits of the Literary. . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Grace, Fraser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Christina Rossetti and the Bible. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Groes, Sebastian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Chwast, Seymour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Grøtta, Marit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Clark, Michael Dean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Gruen, Lori . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient. . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Gunesekera, Romesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Collignon, Fabienne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
H
McNally, Lisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Henry Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
McQuillan, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Bush, Ronald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
C
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, A. . . . . . . . . . 23
Constitution of English Literature, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze . . . . . . . . 10
Cooke, Jennifer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Correspondence of Ezra Pound and the Frobenius Institute,
1930-1959, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Cowan, Laura . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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Mason, Emma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Matterson, Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Mattison, Laci . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
May, Lori A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
McDonald, Ronan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
McKinley, Maggie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
McWhirter, Cameron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Hergenrader, Trent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Mead, Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Herron, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture . . . . . . . . . 31
Hershman, Tania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Melville: Fashioning in Modernity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Hill, Christopher William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Merrill, Trevor Cribben . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
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Meyer, Christina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Ring, Annie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Middleton, Darren J.N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Rocket States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Miranda, Carolina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Romancing Fascism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Modernism at the Microphone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Romantics and Victorians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Mokhtari, Tara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Roos, Bonnie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Moore, Nicole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Roper, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Moore, Steven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Rothstein, Adam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Morrell, Sascha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Russian Irrationalism from Pushkin to Brodsky. . . . . . . . . 28
Müller, Anja . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Ruti, Mari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Murphet, Julian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
N
S
Scenes of Intimacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Nabokov in America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Schreibman, Susan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Nabokov's Shakespeare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Schuman, Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Nakamura, Yoko . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Secret, Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Narrative Care. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Sensational Subjects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Nayar, Sheila J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Shaffer, Elinor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Newland, Courttia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Sims, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Novel Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Smith, Matthew J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
W
Wagner, Corinna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Wanderwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Warnes, Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Watson, Nicola J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Weakness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Weineck, Silke-Maria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Weller, Shane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
William Gaddis: Expanded Edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Willing Suspension of Disbelief, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Wilson, Leigh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Worrying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Write Crowd, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Writing for Radio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Writing Short Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Snoek, Anke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
O
States of Trial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
O'Donnell, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Stein, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
O'Gorman, Francis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Steve Tomasula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Oishi, Kaz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Succeeding Postmodernism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
O'Sullivan, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Surrealist Poetry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Outside, America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Sympathetic Sentiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
P
T
Pacheco, Anita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
T.E. Hulme and the Ideological Politics of Early Modernism.13
Parmar, Sandeep . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Tabachnikova, Olga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Paul Auster's Writing Machine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Tally, Jr., Robert T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Perry, Seamus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Temporary Future, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Pezzotti, Barbara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon
and Don DeLillo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Playwriting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Poe and the Subversion of American Literature. . . . . . . . 25
Poet as Phenomenologist, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Political Initiation in the Novels of Philip Roth . . . . . . . . 11
Politics and Pedagogy of Mourning, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Pound, Ezra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Power of Comics, The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Pozorski, Aimee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
R
Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry,
The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Tew, Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Tomko, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Tonning, Erik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Towheed, Shafquat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Tragedy of Fatherhood, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Transatlantic Fictions of 9/11 and the War on Terror . . . . . 9
Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives . . . . . . 32
Radford, Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Reading Mina Loy’s Autobiographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Reading the Abrahamic Faiths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Reading Theories in Contemporary Fiction. . . . . . . . . . . 10
Rebecca West's Subversive Use of Hybrid Genres . . . . . . . 15
Reception of George Eliot in Europe, The . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Rees, Emma L.E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Rein, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Reitter, Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Remote Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Renaissance and Long Eighteenth Century, The . . . . . . . . 18
Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20th-Century Fiction and Film. . 7
Trofimova, Evija . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Twain, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
U
Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism. . . . . . 15
Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism . . . . . 15
V
Vagina, The: A Literary and Cultural History. . . . . . . . . . . 3
Vallins, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Van Hulle, Dirk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Vienna's Dreams of Europe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Vietnam War, The . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary . . . . . . . . . . . 22
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