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Series Editors: Suzanne Gossett, Loyola University Chicago, Othello: Arden Performance USA; John Jowett, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK & Gordon McMullan, King's College London, Editions UK William Shakespeare Arden Early Modern Drama accompanies and complements the Arden Edited by Paul Prescott, University of Warwick, Shakespeare Third Series, offering editions of non-Shakespearean UK Renaissance and Restoration drama from the period 1500-1700. Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone Modelled on the Third Series in appearance and style, Arden Early engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. Modern Drama editions offer high-quality textual scholarship, With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, easily together with an accessible, student-friendly introduction. accessible information about key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to

open the play’s possibilities and meanings to actors and students. Designed to be used and to be useful, each edition has plenty of The Dutch Courtesan space for personal annotations and the well-spaced text is easy to John Marston read and to navigate. Edited by Karen Britland, University of Wisconsin-

UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 408 pages Madison, USA PB 9781474272346 • £6.99 / $9.95 This riotous tragicomedy explores the delights and Individual eBook 9781474272353 Library eBook 9781474272360 perils afforded by Jacobean London. While Freevill, Series: Arden Performance Editions • The Arden Shakespeare an educated young Englishman and the play's nominal hero, frolics in the city's streets, taverns and brothels, Franceschina, his cast-off mistress and the Dutch courtesan of the play's title, laments his betrayal and plots revenge. Juxtaposing

Franceschina's vulnerable financial position against the unappealing marital prospects available to gentry women, the play undermines All's Well That Ends Well the language of romance, revealing it to be rooted in the commerce Third Series and commodification. Marston's commentary on financial insecurity William Shakespeare and the hypocritical repudiation of foreignness makes the play truly a document for our time. Edited by Suzanne Gossett, Loyola University Chicago, USA & Helen Wilcox, University of UK April 2018 • US April 2018 • 296 pages • 19 bw illus Bangor, UK PB 9781472568960 • £12.99 / $17.95 • HB 9781472568984 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781472568977 The comprehensive introduction to this new, fully- Library eBook 9781472568953 illustrated Arden edition takes a transformative Series: Arden Early Modern Drama • The Arden Shakespeare SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY MODERN DRAMA SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY look at the play’s critical and performance history by offering fresh perspectives on the conundrum of genre, sexuality and the moral

dilemmas, together with masculinity and the structures of family. The authoritative play text is amply annotated to clarify its language and allusions, and two appendices debate the play’s authorship and review The White Devil its casting. Offering students and scholars alike a wealth of insight John Webster and new research, this edition maintains the rigorous standards of the Edited by Benedict S. Robinson, Stony Brook Arden Shakespeare. University, USA A completely new Arden Early Modern Drama UK November 2018 • US November 2018 • 440 pages • 15 bw illus edition of Webster's violent and fascinating PB 9781904271208 • £10.99 / $14.95 • HB 9781904271192 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781408151921 revenge tragedy, featuring a clear and authoritative Library eBook 9781408151914 text, detailed on-page commentary notes, a Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series • The Arden Shakespeare comprehensive, illustrated introduction and a bibliography of references and further reading.

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2 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] New Mermaids SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY MODERN DRAMA

Series Editors: William C. Carroll, Boston University, USA & Tiffany Stern, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Doctor Faustus Birmingham, UK Christopher Marlowe New Mermaids is a series of over 50 modernized and fully annotated Edited by Paul Menzer, Mary Baldwin College, classic plays, with an active programme of new editions. New USA Mermaids are edited and updated by experienced teachers who are This fully re-edited, modernised play text is internationally recognized as authorities in their field. They are ideal accompanied by commentary notes, while its lively for, and accessible to, actors, theatre-goers and students and are introduction will guide you through the fume of fact printed in a clear, easy-to-use format, with annotations below the text and legend that has accompanied the play across and a comprehensive introduction. the centuries, from its premiere in the late 16th century to its most recent incarnation on stage and film.

UK November 2018 • US November 2018 • 160 pages PB 9781474295178 • £9.99 / $14.95 The Man of Mode Individual eBook 9781474295161 Library eBook 9781474295154 George Etherege Series: New Mermaids • Methuen Drama Edited by Michael Neill, University of Kent, UK The most perfectly poised of Restoration comedies, The Man of Mode is a finished exercise in dramatic sprezzatura, matching the beguiling ‘easiness’ and The Changeling ‘complaisance’ of its central character. Its seemingly casual construction and breaches of comic decorum Revised Edition mask an artistic control designed to upset the complacency of our Thomas Middleton & William Rowley moral, social and aesthetic assumptions, luring us into sympathy for a Edited by Michael Neill, University of Kent, UK character whose dangerous ‘wildness’ we should deplore. The Changeling’s vivid tale of sexual appetite, The modernised play text is accompanied by incisive commentary repulsion, betrayal and lunacy remains one of the notes, while the introduction unpacks the complexity of the most compelling tragedies of the 17th century. This Restoration’s political and theatrical context, analyses the play’s newly revised edition, edited by world-class scholar performance history and demonstrates Etherege’s linguistic artistry. Michael Neill, will enable you to appreciate and interpret it afresh for yourself. This edition is supplemented by a plot summary, annotated UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 176 pages bibliography and a companion website providing thought-provoking PB 9781474289535 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781474289528 podcasts, production images, useful web links and sample questions Library eBook 9781474289511 and essay ideas. Series: New Mermaids • Methuen Drama

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Shakespeare in Action The Arden Introduction to 30 Theatre Makers on their Practice Reading Shakespeare Jaq Bessell, Guildford School of Acting, UK Close Reading and Analysis Comprising accounts from 30 actors and creatives Jeremy Lopez, University of Toronto, Canada - including directors, choreographers, musical A close-reading handbook for undergraduates directors and scenic designers - describing their studying Shakespeare: it provides a wide range approach to performing and staging Shakespeare, of vivid and practical examples of both how this is a unique book about how theatre practice Shakespeare’s language works and how literary critics look at impacts and informs productions of Shakespeare's works. Filled Shakespeare’s language. This is an ideal teaching text for introductory with personal insights, anecdotes and practical guidance, this book courses on Shakespeare, offering a welcome return to close textual will give readers a critical toolkit with which to study the plays as analysis and showing students how to read and analyse the plays in performance and one that will inform their own theatre practice. close detail to build sustained critical readings of their own.

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ShakesFear and How to Cure It Shakespeare's Acts of Will The Complete Handbook for Teaching Law, Testament and Properties of Shakespeare Performance Ralph Alan Cohen, Mary Baldwin College, USA Gary Watt, University of Warwick, UK For teachers and lovers of Shakespeare, this Drawing on years of experience delivering rhetoric book provides a comprehensive approach to the workshops for the Royal Shakespeare Company and challenges and rewards of teaching Shakespeare, as a prize-winning teacher of law, Gary Watt shows giving both an overview of each of Shakespeare’s that Shakespeare is playful with legal technicality 38 plays and specific classroom tools for teaching it. Written by a rather than obedient to it. The author demonstrates how Shakespeare celebrated teacher, scholar, and director of Shakespeare, it shows how transformed lawyers’ manual book rhetoric into powerful drama to use the text to make the words and the moments come alive. For through a stirring combination of word, metre, movement and physical the general reader it refutes the idea that Shakespeare’s language is stage material, producing a mode of performance that was truly difficult and provides a survey of the plays by someone who has lived testamentary in its power to engage the witnessing public. intimately with them on the page and on the stage. UK January 2018 • US January 2018 • 304 pages • UK May 2018 • US May 2018 • 400 pages PB 9781350059573 £28.99 / $39.95 PB 9781474228718 • £24.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474228725 • £75.00 / $102.00 Previously published in HB 9781474217859 Individual eBook 9781474228732 Individual eBook 9781474217866 Library eBook 9781474228749 Library eBook 9781474217873 The Arden Shakespeare The Arden Shakespeare

Performing Hamlet Queer Shakespeare Actors in the Modern Age Desire and Sexuality Edited by Goran Stanivukovic, Saint Mary’s Jonathan Croall, Theatre Historian, UK University, Halifax, Canada Some of the finest of modern Hamlets have been Queer Shakespeare draws together 13 essays, which seen on stage during the present century. Acclaimed offer a major reassessment of criticism on desire theatre writer and scholar Jonathan Croall brings and sexuality in Shakespeare. Bringing together together extended essays on seven very different, some of the most prominent critics working at the original and acclaimed performances during these intersection of Shakespeare studies and queer criticism, this collection years, based on interviews with the actors and their directors. The shows that queer Shakespeare studies is an especially vibrant scholarly essays are complemented by a series of pen-portraits of many other field. Taken together, these essays treat Shakespeare as the key

SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY MODERN DRAMA SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY leading actors who have taken on the role during the last 65 years. object of analysis producing concepts and ideas that draw power Key actors covered include David Tennant, Maxine Peake, Simon from a focussed study of language and objects as embodiments of Russell Beale, Mark Rylance, Jude Law and Rory Kinear. queerness.

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Queering the Shakespeare Film Gender Trouble, Gay Spectatorship and Shakespeare and Greece Male Homoeroticism Edited by Alison Findlay, Lancaster University, UK & Vassiliki Markidou, University of Athens, Anthony Guy Patricia, Concord University, West Greece Virginia, USA Inverting Jonson’s claim that Shakespeare had ‘small This study critiques the various representations of Latin and less Greek’, this book argues that there is the queer – broadly understood as that which is at actually more Greek and less Latin in a significant odds with what has been deemed to be the normal, group of Shakespeare’s texts: a group whose generic the legitimate, and the dominant, particularly – but not exclusively hybridity exemplifies the hybridity of Greece in the early modern – as regards sexual matters, in the Shakespeare film. Analysing the imagination. work of directors such as Max Reinhardt, William Dieterle, George Cukor, Franco Zeffirelli, Trevor Nunn, Baz Luhrmann, Michael Hoffman, Focusing on Venus and Adonis, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Michael Radford, Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier and Oliver Parker, the Night’s Dream, Love's Labour’s Lost, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of volume presents an alternative and complementary critical history of Athens, King Lear, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, and The the Shakespeare film genre. Two Noble Kinsmen, the volume considers how Shakespeare’s use of Greek myth intersects with early modern perceptions of the country UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 320 pages and its empire. PB 9781350084469 • £24.99 / $33.95 Previously published in HB 9781474237031 UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 304 pages Individual eBook 9781474237048 PB 9781350079960 • £28.99 / $39.95 Library eBook 9781474237055 Previously published in HB 9781474244251 The Arden Shakespeare Individual eBook 9781474244268 Library eBook 9781474244275 The Arden Shakespeare

4 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] Arden Early Modern Drama Guides SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY MODERN DRAMA

Series Editors: Andrew Hiscock, Bangor University, UK & Lisa Hopkins, University of Sheffield Hallam, UK Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics Reader practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance Edited by Efterpi Mitsi, National and contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader offers an a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for accessible and thought-provoking guide to this study and research. complex problem play, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. Considering its generic ambiguity and experimentalism, it also provides a uniquely

detailed and up-to-date history of the play’s stage performance from King Henry V: A Critical Reader Dryden’s rewriting up to Mark Ravenhill and Elizabeth LeCompte’s Edited by Line Cottegnies, Sorbonne Universite, controversial 2012 production for the Royal Shakespeare Company France & Karen Britland, University of Wisconsin- and the Wooster Group. Madison, USA UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 304 pages • 2 bw illus Moving through to five new critical essays, the HB 9781350014190 • £75.00 / $102.00 guide opens up fresh perspectives on this much Individual eBook 9781350014183 studied work, including a particularly provocative Library eBook 9781350014176 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides • The Arden Shakespeare and timely analysis of the intersection between war and religion, as well as essays on British identity, non-Anglophone responses to King Henry V, and criminality and heroism. The fifth

essay focuses on the history and nature of filmic adaptations of Shakespeare’s King Henry V, including the iconic productions of Olivier The Changeling: A Critical and Branagh, as well as more recent versions, such as that featured in The Hollow Crown series. Reader Edited by Mark Hutchings, University of Reading,

UK October 2018 • US October 2018 • 352 pages UK HB 9781474280105 • £75.00 / $102.00 This volume offers an accessible and thought- Individual eBook 9781474280112 Library eBook 9781474280129 provoking guide to this major Renaissance tragedy, Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides • The Arden Shakespeare surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. It provides a uniquely detailed and up-to-date history of the play’s rich stage performance, while critical essays open up fresh perspectives, including an exploration of the characters’ mechanical psychology, the influence of Spanish literature and its treatment of virginity and rape on the construction of Middleton and Rowley’s plot, and recent theatre-makers’ handling of the play’s dramaturgy. It finishes with a guide to critical, web-based, audio and video resources, discussing the ways in which they can be used in the classroom.

UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 288 pages HB 9781350011403 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350011397 Library eBook 9781350011380 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespearean Character Shakespeare and Domestic Life Language in Performance A Dictionary Jelena Marelj, Sheridan College, Ontario, Canada Sandra Clark, University of London, UK Jelena Marelj's study examines five linguistically self-conscious This dictionary explores the language of domestic characters drawn from the genres of history, tragedy and comedy, life found in Shakespeare’s work and demonstrates which continue to be subjects of extensive critical debate: Falstaff, the meanings he attaches to it through his uses of Cleopatra, Henry V, Katherine from The Taming of the Shrew, and it in particular contexts. "Domestic life" covers a Hamlet. Using theories drawn from linguistic pragmatics, it claims range of topics: the language of the household, that our impression of characters as real people is an effect arising clothing, food, family relationships and duties; household practices, from characters’ pragmatic use of language in combination with the architecture of the home, and all that conditions and governs the the historical and textual meanings that Shakespeare conveys to his life of the home. The dictionary draws on recent cultural materialist audience by dramatic and meta-dramatic means. research to provide in-depth definitions of the domestic language and life in Shakespeare's works, creating a richly rewarding and informative UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 256 pages reference tool for upper level students and scholars. HB 9781350061385 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350061392 Library eBook 9781350061408 UK May 2018 • US May 2018 • 456 pages • 5 bw illus Series: Arden Shakespeare Studies in Language and Digital Methodologies HB 9781472581808 • £130.00 / $176.00 The Arden Shakespeare Individual eBook 9781472581815 Library eBook 9781472581822 Series: Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries • The Arden Shakespeare

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Series Editors: Professor Ann Thompson, King's College London, UK; Professor Lena Orlin, Georgetown University, Early Modern Theatre and the USA Figure of Disability Each volume in the series is an expedition to discover the ‘state of Genevieve Love, Colorado College, USA play’ with respect to Shakespeare’s major plays. Featuring ten or more A critical analysis of key early modern plays including newly commissioned essays written by world-class Shakespeareans, Doctor Faustus and Richard III, revealing how each volume presents a detailed engagement with a single play, physical disability operates as a metaphor for both focusing on current issues in teaching, performance and research. theatrical personation and textual forms. The first

part considers the relationship between actor and character: prosthetic disabled figures with names like Cripple and Titus Andronicus: The State of Stump capture the simultaneous presence of the imaginative world Play of the fiction and the material, embodied world of the theatre. The Edited by Farah Karim-Cooper, Shakespeare's second part considers the relationship between plays in their theatrical Globe, London, UK and in their textual forms, a relationship that has been understood in part through an appeal to disability. Titus Andronicus: The State of Play is a collection of new essays from leading international scholars UK October 2018 • US October 2018 • 232 pages that showcases current critical approaches HB 9781350017207 • £75.00 / $102.00 to Shakespeare’s earliest tragedy. This study Individual eBook 9781350017214 explores how the revitalized critical responses to early modern and Library eBook 9781350017221 Series: Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama • The Arden Shakespeare contemporary performance histories has had a significant impact upon the wider reception of this play.

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"Charles Ney’s book is a revelation—the research Elizabethan Narrative Poems: is impeccable and the anecdotes, directing The State of Play lessons, visions, egos, mistakes and inspiration are Edited by Lynn Enterline, Vanderbilt University, brilliant as tools for seasoned or aspiring Shakespeareans." Dr. Jim USA Volz, Editor, Shakespeare Theatre Association’s Quarto, USA

SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY MODERN DRAMA SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY Shakespeare saw only two poems through to Historical Perspectives reviews key American directors, their publication: Venus and Adonis and The Rape of productions and their approaches to directing Shakespeare, from Lucrece. This volume traces the larger conversation the late 19th to the end of the 20th centuries. Among the directors that took place in the 1590s within the vogue covered are Augustin Daly, David Belasco, Arthur Hopkins, Orson for minor epic narratives as Shakespeare and a coterie of Ovidian Welles, B. Iden Payne, Angus Bowmer, William Ball, Margaret Webster, imitators composed and published erotic epyllia to, for, and against Tyronne Guthrie, Joseph Papp, John Houseman, Gerald Freedman, one another. These poems take place in imagined worlds far removed Michael Kahn, Craig Noel, Tina Packer and Julie Taymor. from urban world of London and these classicizing narratives are deeply engaged in wide-ranging critiques of 16th century norms for UK November 2018 • US November 2018 • 256 pages • 12 bw illus HB 9781474289696 • £75.00 / $102.00 masculine conduct – whether professional, poetic, economic, legal, Individual eBook 9781474289702 emotional, or sexual. Library eBook 9781474289719 The Arden Shakespeare

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Library eBook 9781350073388 Series: Arden Shakespeare: The State of Play • The Arden Shakespeare Performing Shakespeare's Women Playing Dead Paige Martin Reynolds, University of Central Arkansas, USA Shakespeare's female characters die often, both onstage and off. But what does it mean for the actor portraying these roles to to play dead? And what obstacles in playing dead are the same for women actors playing alive? This book addresses both current scholarship and the practical and ethical problems facing the female actor of Shakespeare’s plays today to explore what those deaths signify and suggest about playing female parts on the contemporary stage and in a post-feminist world.

UK December 2018 • US December 2018 • 224 pages HB 9781350002593 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350002616 Library eBook 9781350002609 The Arden Shakespeare

6 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] Shakespeare and Theory SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY MODERN DRAMA Series Editor: Evelyn Gajowski, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA This series provides a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical developments that have dominated Shakespeare studies since the advent of postmodernism, as well as those that are emerging at the moment.

Shakespeare and Posthumanist Shakespeare and Queer Theory Theory Melissa E. Sanchez, University of Pennsylvania, Karen Raber, University of Mississippi, USA USA This provides both an indispensable guide and an Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory charts intervention in the ongoing critical debates about challenges in the field of Shakespeare studies queer method both within and beyond Shakespeare to the assumption that the category “human” is and early modern studies. Clearly elucidating the real, stable, or worthy of privileging in discussions central ideas of the theory and its history, it also of the playwright’s work. Drawing on a variety of illuminates current debates about historicism and embodiment. methodologies - cognitive theory, systems theory, animal studies, ecostudies, the new materialisms - the volume investigates the Through a series of original readings of texts including As You Like world of Shakespeare’s plays and poems in order to represent more It, Othello, Macbeth and Venus and Adonis, as well as recent film thoroughly its variety, its ethics of inclusion, and its resistance to adaptations including Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet and Ralph human triumphalism and exceptionalism. Fiennes’ Coriolanus, it illustrates the value of queer theory to Shakespeare scholarship, and the value of Shakespearean texts to UK April 2018 • US April 2018 • 216 pages • 5 bw illus queer theory. HB 9781474234436 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781474234450 Library eBook 9781474234467 UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 240 pages • Series: Shakespeare and Theory • The Arden Shakespeare HB 9781474256674 £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781474256698 Library eBook 9781474256704 Series: Shakespeare and Theory • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare and Film Theory Scott Hollifield, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

A wide variety of filmmakers including Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard and Akira New Places: Shakespeare and Kurosawa, Julie Taymor and Quentin Tarantino Civic Creativity have tapped into the possibilities Shakespeare's Edited by Paul Edmondson, The Shakespeare work inspires. This study considers Shakespeare’s Birthplace Trust, UK & Ewan Fernie, University of impact on our experience of words and the images they conjure and Birmingham, UK considers how this leads to a greater understanding of Shakespeare New Places documents and analyses a range of and the possibilities of cinema and adaptation. innovative projects which take Shakespeare beyond the worlds of education and even the theatre, in UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 224 pages HB 9781472572493 • £75.00 / $102.00 an attempt to make a difference in the wider world. Mixing critical Individual eBook 9781472572509 reflection on the social value of Shakespeare and creative writing, Library eBook 9781472572516 the volume presents Carol Ann Duffy’s Shakespeare Ode for 2016, Series: Shakespeare and Theory • The Arden Shakespeare the first ever open-air performance of The Merchant of Venice in that city’s original Jewish Ghetto, a new Shakespeare-inspired liturgy, civic-minded opera and ballet, international Shakespeare clubs and societies, and a creative practice of rehabilitating soldiers returned

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Shakespeare: Actors and UK April 2018 • US April 2018 • 320 pages HB 9781474244558 • £75.00 / $102.00 Audiences Individual eBook 9781474244565 Edited by Fiona Banks, Shakespeare's Globe Library eBook 9781474244572 The Arden Shakespeare Theatre, UK 400 years on from Shakespeare’s death, Shakespeare: Actors and Audiences shines a spotlight on the role of the audience at Shakespeare’s plays. Exploring the relationship that has kept Shakespeare’s name and work alive through four centuries, scholars, audiences, actors and directors reflect on the role of the audience and provide fresh insights into the relationship that lies at the heart of Shakespeare in performance.

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www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 7 Shakespeare in the Theatre Series Editors: Bridget Escolme, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, Farah Karim-Cooper, King's College London, UK & Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA Pointing to the range of people, artistic practices and cultural phenomena that make meaning in the theatre, Shakespeare in the Theatre de-centres Shakespeare from within Shakespeare studies, and provides an unrivalled way of perceiving the performance of his work.

Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare in the Theatre: The Peter Sellars National Theatre, 1963–1975 Ayanna Thompson, The George Washington Olivier and Hall University, USA Robert Shaughnessy, University of Surrey, UK The first in-depth look at Peter Sellars, the avant- The National Theatre’s years at the Old Vic were the garde director whose Shakespeare productions most Shakespearean period in its history, one which have polarized communities and critics. Through included Laurence Olivier’s Othello and Shylock, a extensive interviews and archival work, leading radical all-male As You Like It, the Berliner Ensemble’s Coriolanus and Shakespearean Ayanna Thompson takes readers on a journey through Tom Stoppard’s classic offshoot, Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are experimental theatre and the tensions that arise between innovation Dead. Drawing extensively upon the company archives, this book tells and accessibility. An iconoclastic figure who inspires strong reactions the interlinked stories of the National’s relationship with Shakespeare both personally and professionally, Peter Sellars continues to amaze through a series of production case studies. Together, these stories and confound. This book takes readers inside his world for the first illuminate Olivier’s significance as actor and director, the National’s time. pioneering accommodation of European theatre practitioners, and its ways of engaging Shakespeare with the contemporary. UK May 2018 • US May 2018 • 208 pages • 15 bw illus HB 9781350021747 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350021754 UK May 2018 • US May 2018 • 264 pages • 5 bw illus Library eBook 9781350021761 HB 9781474241045 • £75.00 / $102.00 Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare Individual eBook 9781474241052 Library eBook 9781474241069 Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare in the Theatre: Trevor Nunn Russell Jackson, University of Birmingham, UK Peter Hall Stuart Hampton-Reeves, University of Central Trevor Nunn is one of the most significant and

SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY MODERN DRAMA SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY Lancashire, UK influential directors of modern times. This book Peter Hall was one of the most influential directors of provides the first critical overview of his work Shakespeare’s work of modern times. Through both as a director, including detailed discussions of his own work and the management of two national representative productions during his artistic theatre companies, the National Theatre and the directorship of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and the National RSC, Hall promoted Shakespeare as a writer who can comment Theatre. The book explores too the wider context of his productions incisively on the modern world. His best productions exemplified in the sometimes fraught debates on the cultural politics of Britain’s this approach: Coriolanus (1959), The Wars of the Roses (1963) and theatrical institutions in the 20th and 21st centuries. Hamlet (1965) established his reputation as a directorable to bring The book draws on archive material, reviews and other published Shakespeare to the heart of contemporary politics. commentary, including that of actors who have worked with him. UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 224 pages • 6 bw illus UK November 2018 • US November 2018 • 256 pages • 6 bw illus HB 9781472587077 • £75.00 / $102.00 HB 9781474289580 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781472587091 Individual eBook 9781474289597 Library eBook 9781472587107 Library eBook 9781474289603 Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King's Men Shakespeare in the Theatre: Lucy Munro, King's College London, UK Cheek by Jowl The King’s Men reappraises the company as theatre artists, analysing Peter Kirwan, University of Nottingham, UK in detail the performance practices, cultural contexts and political With 17 productions of Shakespeare's plays, pressures that helped to shape and reshape Shakespeare’s plays Cheek by Jowl is one of the world’s most critically between 1603 and 1642. Reconsidering casting and acting styles, acclaimed touring classical theatre companies. staging and playing venues, audience response, influence and Drawing on the company’s work in English, Russian popularity, and local, national and international politics, the book and French, the book uses key productions as presents case-studies of performances of Macbeth, The Tempest, The case studies to interrogate the company’s unique style and build Winter’s Tale, Richard II, Henry VIII, Othello and Pericles alongside a an argument for the distinctive insights offered by Cheek by Jowl’s broader reappraisal of the repertory of the company and the place of approach. Informed by new interviews with creative and administrative Shakespeare’s plays within it. company members from the full span of Cheek by Jowl’s history, as well as a full appraisal of the Cheek by Jowl archives, this book is the UK June 2019 • US August 2019 • 224 pages HB 9781474262613 • £75.00 / $102.00 first scholarly overview of the company’s work. Individual eBook 9781474262620 Library eBook 9781474262637 • UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 224 pages Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre The Arden Shakespeare HB 9781474223294 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781474223300 Library eBook 9781474223317 Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare

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Shakespeare and the 'Live' Shakespeare on the Record Theatre Broadcast Experience Researching an Early Modern Life Edited by Pascale Aebischer, University of Edited by Hannah Leah Crummé, Lewis & Clark Exeter, UK, Susanne Greenhalgh, University College, USA of Roehampton, UK & Laurie Osborne, Colby Shakespeare on the Record is a guide to major College, USA Shakespeare discoveries and the archival insight "This brilliant collection of pieces sets the that made them possible. Compiled by experts parameters for our consideration of the at The National Archives, the Folger Shakespeare phenomenon for years to come, exploring examples of reception Library and leading universities, the volume explores and explains round the world and investigating the technologies that are the bureaucratic processes and governmental practices that shaped creating such exhilarating new ways to watch live and once-live life and records in Renaissance England – making it a key resource theatre by an ever-increasing array of theatre companies." Peter for both Shakespeare scholars and researchers of early modern lives. Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA The National Archives hold a rich collection of over 120 documents relating to Shakespeare’s life – several of which are profiled here for This is the first collection of essays to concentrate exclusively on the first time. the phenomenon of how Shakespeare has, in the 21stC, been experienced as a “live” or “as-live” theatre broadcast by audiences UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 256 pages around the world. HB 9781350003514 • £80.00 / $108.00 Individual eBook 9781350003521 UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 264 pages • 20 bw illus Library eBook 9781350003538 HB 9781350030466 • £75.00 / $102.00 The Arden Shakespeare Individual eBook 9781350030473 Library eBook 9781350030480 The Arden Shakespeare

The Shakespeare Hut A Story of Memory, Performance and Screening the Royal Shakespeare Identity, 1916-1923 Company Ailsa Grant Ferguson, Brighton University, UK A Critical History The story of the Shakespeare Hut, built in John Wyver, Independent Scholar, UK Bloomsbury in 1916, is a unique case study in cultural memory and performance of Shakespeare; No theatre company has been involved in such a one extraordinary building brings together broad range of adaptations for television and film Shakespeare’s place in First World War theatre, in emerging new post- as the Royal Shakespeare Company. Drawing on colonial identities and in the struggle for women’s suffrage. interviews with actors and directors, this is the first book to explore the remarkable history of collaborations between stage and screen UK December 2018 • US December 2018 • 272 pages • 8 bw illus and considers key questions about adaptation that concern all those HB 9781474295840 • £75.00 / $102.00 involved in theatre, film and television. Written by John Wyver, a Individual eBook 9781474295857 Library eBook 9781474295864 broadcasting historian and the television producer of Hamlet as well The Arden Shakespeare as of RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon, the book provides a vivid, detailed and fascinating account of the RSC’s television and film productions.

UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus Shakespeare in the Global South HB 9781350006584 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350006591 Transcolonial Solidarities across Oceans of Difference Library eBook 9781350006607 The Arden Shakespeare Sandra Young, University of Cape Town, South Africa Shakespeare in the Global South proposes the critical frame provided by the idea of a Global South in order to theorize cultural difference.

It looks sideways across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to a variety of non-­traditional centres of Shakespeare theatre-­making to explore Shakespeare and the Gods the solidarities and affinities not as evident in Stratford’s Shakespeare. Virginia Mason Vaughan, Clark University, USA It takes its lead from innovative theatre practice in Mauritius, Cape Shakespeare and the Gods is a major new Verde, north India, and post-apartheid South Africa, to assess the critical work exploring the scope and meaning of value for cultural theory of conceptualising the transformation Shakespeare’s allusions to major Roman deities such of Shakespeare across the world as indigenisation, creolisation, as Jupiter, Venus, Diana and Hercules. Each chapter Africanisation, and localisation of endlessly transforming iterations of surveys early modern mythographic writing on the Shakespeare’s work. god in question, surveys Shakespeare’s references to particular myths in which the god is involved, discusses allusive UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 240 pages HB 9781350035744 • £75.00 / $102.00 patterns that repeat throughout the canon, and concludes with a Individual eBook 9781350035751 focused discussion of one or two plays in which the god becomes Library eBook 9781350035768 much more than an allusion, shaping in powerful ways our response to The Arden Shakespeare the action and characters.

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Not Born Digital Gestures of Testimony Poetics, Print Literacy, New Media Torture, Trauma, and Affect in Literature Daniel Morris, Purdue University, USA Michael Richardson, University of Western "One of the best studies to date of what happens Sydney, Australia to poetry and the poetic in our ‘new media "An insightful, sometimes wrenching analysis age.'"Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University, USA of representations of torture. An important Not Born Digital addresses from multiple contribution to ethics, aesthetics, and human James Dawes, Macalester College, USA perspectives – ethical, historical, psychological, rights." conceptual, aesthetic – the vexing problems and sublime potential of Bringing the vibrant field of affect theory to bear on theories of disseminating lyrics, the ancient form of transmission and preservation torture and power, Gestures of Testimony adopts an interdisciplinary of the human voice, in an environment in which e-poetry and approach to show how testimony founded in affect can bear witness to digitalized poetics pose a crisis (understood as opportunity and threat) torture. Grounded in provocative readings of fiction by George Orwell, to traditional page poetry. Franz Kafka, Arthur Koestler, Anne Michaels and Janette Turner Hospital, poems by Guantanamo detainees, memoirs of interrogators UK January 2018 • US January 2018 • 264 pages • 4 bw illustrations and detainees, contemporary films, and the infamous Torture Memos PB 9781501339417 • £28.99 / $39.95 of the Bush Administration, Richardson’s analysis traverses politics, law Previously published in HB 9781501316708 Individual eBook 9781501316715 and cinema to re-think literary testimony. Library eBook 9781501316722 Bloomsbury Academic UK January 2018 • US January 2018 • 232 pages • 12 bw illustrations PB 9781501339400 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501315800 Individual eBook 9781501315817

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The Art of Editing Raymond Carver and David Foster Wallace London in Contemporary British Tim Groenland, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Fiction Tim Groenland focuses on the activities of the The City Beyond the City editors of Raymond Carver and Davish Foster Edited by Nick Hubble, Brunel University, Wallace - Gordon Lish and Michael Pietsch, London, UK & Philip Tew, Brunel University, UK respectively - whose roles in the authors' major works have historically been under-explored. Groenland draws on Contemporary writers such as Peter Ackroyd, J.G. empirical evidence to show their importance to the authors with whom Ballard, John King, Ian McEwan, Will Self, Iain they worked and uses archival material to illuminate the complex and Sinclair and Zadie Smith have been registering the changes to the often conflicting forms of agency involved in the genesis of several social and cultural London landscape for years. This volume brings influential works. The energies and tensions of the editing process together their vivid representations of the capital. Uniting the readings emerge as essential factors in the meaning and reception of the works are themes such as relationship between the country and the city; the under scrutiny. capacity of satirical forms to encompass the 'real London'; spatio- temporal transformations and emergences; the relationship between

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Jonathan Coe J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Contemporary British Satire Jesus Edited by Philip Tew, Brunel University, UK The Ethics of Ideas and Things In novels such as What A Carve Up! and The Rotters' Edited by Anthony Uhlmann, Western Sydney Club, Jonathan Coe has established himself as one University, Australia & Jennifer Rutherford, of the great satirical writers of our time. Covering University of Adelaide, Australia all of his major novels, including his most recent J. M. Coetzee’s productivity and invention has not book Number 11, Jonathan Coe: Critical Readings slowed with old age. The Childhood of Jesus, published in 2013, features chapters by leading and emerging scholars of contemporary was met with a puzzled reception, as critics struggled to come to British writing. The book includes a preface by Coe himself and covers terms with its odd setting and structure, its seemingly flat tone, and the ways in which his work grapples with such themes as class politics, the strange affectless interactions of its characters. J. M. Coetzee’s popular music, sex, gender and the media. The Childhood of Jesus is at the forefront of an exciting process of critical engagement with this novel, which has begun to uncover its UK March 2018 • US March 2018 • 232 pages HB 9781350027671 • £85.00 / $114.00 rich dialogue with philosophy, theology, mathematics, politics, and Individual eBook 9781350027695 questions of meaning. Library eBook 9781350027688 Bloomsbury Academic UK August 2018 • US August 2018 • 224 pages PB 9781501344688 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501318627 Individual eBook 9781501318634 Library eBook 9781501318641 Bloomsbury Academic

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Series Editors: Gayle Rogers, University of Pittsburgh, USA & Contemporary Fictions of Sean Latham, Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, USA Attention Bloomsbury's New Modernisms series introduces, explores, Reading and Distraction in the Twenty- and extends the major topics and debates at the forefront of First Century contemporary modernist studies. Surveying new engagements with such topics as race, sexuality, technology, and material culture, and Alice Bennett, Liverpool Hope University, UK supported with authoritative further reading guides to the key works With the supposed shortening of our attention in contemporary scholarship, these books are essential guides for spans, what future is there for fiction in the age serious students and scholars of modernism. of the internet? Contemporary Fictions of Attention finds that contemporary writers construct ‘fictions of attention’ that find value in states or moments of inattention. Through discussion of work by writers including Joshua Cohen, Ben Lerner, Tom McCarthy, Ali Smith, Modernism and the Law Zadie Smith, and David Foster Wallace, this book identifies how fiction Robert Spoo, University of Tulsa, USA prompts readers to become peripherally aware of their own attention. Alice Bennett's book connects this interest to debates surrounding Exploring critical legal issues and cases of the period ethics, temporality, the everyday, boredom, work, and self-discipline in – from Oscar Wilde’s prosecution for gross indecency contemporary culture. to legal bans on D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce – this is the first book to survey the legal contexts UK August 2018 • US August 2018 • 224 pages of transatlantic Anglo-American modernist culture. HB 9781474282611 • £85.00 / $114.00 Written by a leading authority on the subject, the Individual eBook 9781474282628 Library eBook 9781474282635 book covers such topics as obscenity laws and censorship; copyrights, Bloomsbury Academic moral rights, and the public domain; patronage and literary piracy; defamation and blackmail. Including a glossary of relevant legal terms, this is an essential read for anyone working in contemporary modernist studies. Prison Writing of Latin America UK August 2018 • US August 2018 • 208 pages • 8 bw illus Joey Whitfield, Cardiff University, UK PB 9781474275804 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474275811 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781474275828 "Offers both a theoretical reflection around Library eBook 9781474275835 notions of penality and a specific study of literary Series: New Modernisms • Bloomsbury Academic and artistic representations of prison culture in a modern Latin-American context. It is very

effective on both levels ... The corpus is varied and helps unfold a broad-ranging and complex set of considerations about state punishment that is sensitive to Modernism, Sex, and Gender ambiguity and contradiction while maintaining a kind of committed Celia Marshik, Stony Brook University, USA & ethical thrust. An extremely valuable book." Philip Swanson, Allison Pease, John Jay College, City University University of Sheffield, UK of New York, USA "A book that must be read by anyone concerned with criticism Modernism, Sex, and Gender is an up-to-date and of the Penal State and alternative paths toward social justice in in-depth review of how theories of gender and the continent." R. Aída Hernández Castillo, Center for Research and sexuality have shaped the way modernism has Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology, Mexico been read and interpreted from its inception to the present day. The book explores four key aspects of modernist UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 216 pages • 2 bw illustrations literature and criticism that have contributed to the new modernist HB 9781501334627 • £88.00 / $110.00 studies: women’s contributions to modernism; masculinities; sexuality; Individual eBook 9781501334610 Library eBook 9781501334603 and sexuality’s intersection with politics and law. Bloomsbury Academic UK October 2018 • US October 2018 • 208 pages • 7 bw illus PB 9781350020443 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350020450 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781350020467

Library eBook 9781350020474 Noir in the North Series: New Modernisms • Bloomsbury Academic Genre, Politics, and Place Edited by Stacy Gillis, Newcastle University, UK & Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir, University of Iceland, Iceland What is often termed ‘Nordic Noir’ has dominated detective fiction, film and television internationally for over two decades now. But what are the parameters of this genre, both historically and geographically? What is noirish and what is northern about Nordic noir? Divided into four sections – Gender and Sexuality, Space and Place, Politics and Crime, and Genre and Genealogy – the essays in this book deepen our critical understanding of noir by demonstrating, for example, Nordic noir’s connection to fin-de-siècle literatures and to mid-century interior design by considering the function of landscape and aesthetics, and by investigating the function of the state in crime fiction.

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www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 15 The Beckett Manuscript Project Series Editors: Dirk Van Hulle, University of Antwerp, Belgium & Mark Nixon, University of Reading, UK The Beckett Manuscript Project traces the complete textual history of the works of Samuel Beckett, from his earliest stories to his major works for the stage and his television and radio work. The Beckett Digital Manuscript Project is a collaboration between the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (University of Antwerp, Belgium), the Beckett International Foundation (University of Reading, UK) and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre (University of Texas at Austin, USA).

MODERNISM The Making of Samuel Beckett's The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Molloy' 'Endgame'/'Fin de partie' Dirk Van Hulle, University of Antwerp, Belgium, Dirk Van Hulle, University of Antwerp, Belgium & Edouard Magessa O'Reilly, Memorial University Shane Weller, University of Kent, UK of Newfoundland, Canada & Pim Verhulst, Originally written in Frenchand first performed at University of Antwerp, Belgium the Royal Court Theatre in 1957, Samuel Beckett's The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Molloy' is a Endgame is widely regarded as one of his most comprehensive reference guide to the history of the important works. The Making of Samuel Beckett's text of the first novel in Beckett's Trilogy. The book includes: 'Endgame'/'Fin de partie' is a comprehensive reference guide to the history of the text. The book includes: - A complete descriptive catalogue of available relevant manuscripts, including French and English texts, alternative drafts and notebook - A complete descriptive catalogue of available relevant manuscripts, pages including French and English texts, alternative drafts and notebook pages - A critical reconstruction of the history of the text, from its genesis through the process of composition to its full publication history - 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 - A detailed guide to exploring the manuscripts online at the Beckett Digital Manuscripts Project at www.beckettarchive.org UK October 2017 • US October 2017 • 416 pages • PB 9781472532565 £31.99 / $43.95 UK March 2018 • US March 2018 • 376 pages • Series: The Beckett Manuscript Project Bloomsbury Academic PB 9781472527486 • £34.99 / $47.95 World English (excluding Benelux) Series: The Beckett Manuscript Project • Bloomsbury Academic World English (excluding Benelux)

The Making of Samuel Beckett's

'Waiting for Godot'/'En attendant Godot' Revisioning Beckett Dirk Van Hulle, University of Antwerp, Belgium & Samuel Beckett’s Decadent Turn Pim Verhulst, University of Antwerp, Belgium S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA The Making of Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot'/'En attendant Godot' is a comprehensive "Gontarski combines thoughtful research with an reference guide to the history of the text and encyclopedic knowledge of Beckett ... Original, includes: provocative and the product of clear and vigorous thinking." Sam Slote, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland - a descriptive catalogue of available relevant manuscripts Revisioning Beckett reassesses Beckett’s career - a critical reconstruction of the history of the text, from its genesis and literary output, particularly his engagement with what might be through to its full publication history called decadent modernism. As Gontarski shows, the aesthetics that - a detailed guide to exploring the manuscripts online at emerges from Beckett's early career encounters and associations www.beckettarchive.org. continues to inform his work and develops into experimental modes that upend literary models and middle class values, an aesthetics UK March 2018 • US March 2018 • 384 pages that, furthermore, has inspired any number of visual artists to re-vision PB 9781472524874 • £34.99 / $47.95 Beckett. Series: The Beckett Manuscript Project • Bloomsbury Academic World English (excluding Benelux) UK May 2018 • US May 2018 • 320 pages • 4 bw illustrations PB 9781501337628 • £23.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501337635 • £96.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501337642 Library eBook 9781501337659 Bloomsbury Academic

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Series Editors: Matthew Feldman, Teesside University, UK & Erik Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway W.B. Yeats's Robartes-Aherne From letters, journals, and notebooks to unpublished or out of print Writings works, unfamiliar but important writings in translation and forgotten Featuring the Making of His "Stories of articles, Bloomsbury's Modernist Archives series makes available Michael Robartes and His Friends" to researchers at all levels historical archival material that casts Modernist literature and culture in often radical new lights. Annotated Wayne K. Chapman, Clemson University, USA throughout and supported by extensive contextual essays by leading The figures of Michael Robartes and Owen Aherne scholars, the Modernist Archives series is an essential resource for appear throughout the writing of the great Irish anyone with a serious interest in 20th-century literature and culture. poet W.B. Yeats. Bringing together into one volume published and unpublished writings featuring these two enigmatic figures, this book traces their history and the development of Yeats’s mystical thought.

Ezra Pound's and Olga Rudge's Including reproductions of manuscript and notebook pages as well as transcriptions and extracts from a wide range of Yeats’s mystical The Blue Spill writings and substantial commentary and annotation throughout, this A Manuscript Critical Edition book is an essential resource for scholars of Yeats’s thought and the esoteric influences on modernist writing in the early 20th century. Ezra Pound & Olga Rudge

Edited by Mark Byron, University of Sydney, UK May 2018 • US May 2018 • 424 pages • 40 bw illus Australia & Sophia Barnes, University of Sydney, HB 9781472595133 • £130.00 / $176.00 Individual eBook 9781472595140 Australia Library eBook 9781472595157 Written during the Italian winter of 1930, The Blue Spill is an Series: Modernist Archives • Bloomsbury Academic World English unfinished detective novel by Ezra Pound – the leading figure of modernist poetry in the 20th century – and his long-time companion

Olga Rudge. Published for the first time in this authoritative critical edition, the novel reflects Pound’s voracious reading of popular fiction as it echoes and parodies such writers as Agatha Christie, Dorothy David Jones on Religion, Politics, L. Sayers and P.G. Wodehouse. Based on the original manuscripts, and Culture this critical edition includes annotation and textual commentary Unpublished Prose throughout and supporting chapters from leading Pound scholars on David Jones the contexts of the novel. Edited by Thomas Berenato, University of UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 224 pages • 6 bw illus Virginia, USA, Anne Price-Owen, University HB 9781474281058 • £130.00 / $176.00 of Wales, Trinity St. David, UK & Kathleen Individual eBook 9781474281065 Library eBook 9781474281072 Henderson Staudt, University of Maryland, USA Series: Modernist Archives • Bloomsbury Academic This book makes available for the first time a number of previously World English unpublished writings by the modernist poet and painter David Jones that cast new light not only on Jones’s own writing but on the political, religious and cultural engagements of British modernism. Annotated throughout, with substantial commentaries exploring the historical and David Jones's The Grail Mass critical contexts of each text, the book includes Jones’s controversial writings on Hitler and the rise of fascism in the 1930s, his writings on and Other Works Gerard Manley Hopkins and the transcript of an unpublished interview David Jones with Jones himself. Edited by Thomas Goldpaugh, Marist College, USA & Jamie Callison, Nord University, Norway UK June 2018 • US June 2018 • 368 pages HB 9781474274135 • £130.00 / $176.00 Drawing on new archival discoveries, this book Individual eBook 9781474274142 presents an authoritative reconstruction of Library eBook 9781474274159 David Jones’s The Grail Mass,the unfinished and Series: Modernist Archives • Bloomsbury Academic World English unpublished second part of his masterpiece The Anathemata. With detailed commentary throughout on the text, its development and the process of reconstruction, this edition sheds new light on David

Jones’s increasingly recognized status as a major figure in the first wave of British modernist writers alongside T.S. Eliot and James Joyce. This edition also includes a number of additional unpublished The Handbook to the fragments by Jones that emerged from his larger project, complete Bloomsbury Group with textual commentaries. Edited by Derek Ryan, University of Kent, UK & Stephen Ross, University of Victoria, Canada UK December 2018 • US December 2018 • 400 pages • 30 bw illus HB 9781350052062 • £130.00 / $176.00 "This does everything a handbook ought to do, Individual eBook 9781350052079 and much more." Bryony Randall, University of Library eBook 9781350052086 Glasgow, UK Series: Modernist Archives • Bloomsbury Academic World English The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group is the most comprehensive available survey of contemporary scholarship on the Bloomsbury Group – the influential group of writers and thinkers whose numbers included Virginia and Leonard Woolf, E.M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, Vanessa Bell and Mulk Raj Anand. With chapters written by world leading scholars in the field, the book explores new avenues of scholarship opened up by the new modernist studies.

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www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 17 Historicizing Modernism Series Editors: Matthew Feldman, Teesside University, UK & Erik Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway 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.

Literary Impressionism Charles Henri Ford: Between

MODERNISM Vision and Memory in Dorothy Modernism and Postmodernism Richardson, Ford Madox Ford, H.D. and Alexander Howard, University of New South May Sinclair Wales, Australia Rebecca Bowler, University of Sheffield, UK The first American surrealist poet, a prolific literary editor and a seminal influence on the New York Literary Impressionism charts the modernist crisis of School of poetry, Charles Henri Ford was a key figure vision and the way that literary impressionists such in the transition from late modernist to postmodern as Dorothy Richardson, Ford Madox Ford, H.D., and culture in America. Drawing on new archival research – including May Sinclair used new concepts of memory in order to bridge the gap explorations of Ford’s correspondence with the likes of Ezra Pound, between perception and representation. Exploring the fiction of these Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Djuna Barnes and many four major writers as well as their journalism, manifesto writings, letters others – the book explores the full impact of Ford’s contribution to and diaries from the archives, Rebecca Bowler charts the progression 20th-century American literary culture. of modernism’s literary aesthetics and the changing role of memory within it. UK November 2018 • US November 2018 • 264 pages PB 9781350092211 • £28.99 / $39.95 UK March 2018 • US March 2018 • 256 pages Previously published in HB 9781474278577 PB 9781350063914 • £28.99 / $39.95 Individual eBook 9781474278584 Previously published in HB 9781474269056 Library eBook 9781474278591 Individual eBook 9781474269063 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic Library eBook 9781474269070 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

Samuel Beckett and Cinema James Joyce and Catholicism Anthony Paraskeva, University of Roehampton, The Apostate's Wake UK Chrissie Van Mierlo, Loughborough University, "The most detailed case yet for Beckett the UK serious cineaste." Times Literary Supplement "This is a most engaging and impressive book. In Drawing on substantial archival material, Samuel terms of its critical focus and style, it should serve Beckett and Cinema is the first book to examine as a model for future monographs on the Wake." comprehensively the full extent of Beckett's James Joyce Quarterly engagement with cinema and its influence on his work for stage and screen. Examining his writing on second wave modernist cinema, James Joyce and Catholicism is the first historicist study to explore including the work of directors such as Eisenstein, Godard, Griffith and the religious cultural contexts of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Drawing on Bresson as well as performers such as Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin letters, journals and archival materials, the book works its way through and Greta Garbo, the book reveals film art to be central to Beckett's the novel’s major characters to analyse the ways in which the historical- modernist aesthetic. religious background of early 20th-century Ireland intrude upon the

text. UK August 2018 • US August 2018 • 208 pages PB 9781350081611 • £28.99 / $39.95 UK August 2018 • US August 2018 • 176 pages Previously published in HB 9781472524980 PB 9781350081680 • £28.99 / $39.95 Individual eBook 9781472533234 Previously published in HB 9781472585943 Library eBook 9781472527370 Individual eBook 9781472585950 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic Library eBook 9781472585967 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

The Politics of 1930s British Chicago and the Making of Literature American Modernism Education, Class, Gender Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, and Natasha Periyan, Falmouth University, UK Fitzgerald in Conflict Drawing on a rich array of archival sources and historical detail, The Politics of 1930s British Michelle E. Moore, College of DuPage, USA Literature tells the story of a school-minded decade Chicago and the Making of American Modernism is and illuminates new readings of the politics and aesthetics of 1930s the first full-length study of the vexed relationship literature. This book explores how a wide array of writers including between America’s great modernist writers and the nation’s “second Virginia Woolf, W.H. Auden, George Orwell, Winifred Holtby and city.” Michelle E. Moore explores the ways in which the defining Graham Greene were informed by their pedagogic work. It considers writers of the era – Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner the ways in which education influenced writers’ analysis of literary style and F. Scott Fitzgerald – engaged with the city and reacted against the and their conception of future literary forms. commercial styles of "Chicago realism" to pursue their own European- influenced mode of modernist art. UK June 2018 • US June 2018 • 296 pages HB 9781350019843 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350019850 UK December 2018 • US December 2018 • 272 pages Library eBook 9781350019867 HB 9781350018037 • £85.00 / $114.00 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic Individual eBook 9781350018044 Library eBook 9781350018402 Series: Historicizing Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

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Series Editors: Laci Mattison, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA; Paul Ardoin, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA; S. E. Gontarski, Florida State University, USA Understanding Foucault, The aim of each volume in Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Understanding Modernism Modernism is to understand a philosophical thinker more fully Edited by David Scott, Coppin State University, through literary and cultural modernism and consequently to understand USA literary modernism better through a key philosophical figure. In this "Foucault’s radical and incisive analysis of way, the series also rethinks the limits of modernism, calling attention to modernity has had a transformative effect on lacunae in modernist studies and sometimes in the philosophical work our understanding of history. This wide-ranging under examination. volume allows us to connect that analysis to his more neglected account of aesthetic modernism. It gives us a fuller and richer picture of a thinker who remains indispensable." Simon During, University of Queensland, Australia Understanding Rancière, "A delightfully accessible and comprehensive guide to Foucault’s Understanding Modernism work." Daniel W. Smith, Purdue University, USA Edited by Patrick M. Bray, Ohio State University, "The essays in the first two sections are well crafted, insightful, USA and scholarly; the brief glossary and essays in part 3 highlight "Bray’s collection — and Bloomsbury’s series, Foucault’s pivotal terms and make the volume especially useful for generally — provides a wealth of intriguing new nonspecialists. ... Highly recommended." Choice theoretical possibilities." French Studies UK August 2018 • US August 2018 • 280 pages "This collection not only offers a compelling PB 9781501344701 • £28.99 / $39.95 account of current work around Rancière: it relaunches this work Previously published in HB 9781628927702 Individual eBook 9781628927719 anew." Martin Crowley, University of Cambridge, UK Library eBook 9781628927726 Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic "This collection does indeed provide invaluable new understanding of [Ranciere's] unfailingly productive struggle with modernism." Oliver Davis, University of Warwick, UK

"A cornucopia of some of the best critical minds working in French theory today." Lawrence D. Kritzman, Dartmouth College, USA Understanding James, Understanding Modernism UK September 2018 • US September 2018 • 312 pages • 6 bw illus Edited by David H. Evans, Dalhousie University, PB 9781501345630 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501311383 Canada Individual eBook 9781501311390 Library eBook 9781501311376 "Offers an accessible map of James's relation to Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic modernist aesthetics and intellectual projects and thus provides a rich base for further inquiries into modernism, aesthetics, philosophy, and religion. Choice Highly recommended." Understanding Blanchot, "A robust defense of pragmatism, pluralism, and religious experience, and the entire volume is merrily complicit in what Understanding Modernism Evans calls ‘the defenestration of metaphysics that would become Edited by Christopher Langlois, St. Lawrence the central philosophical project of the twentieth century.'" The University, USA New England Quarterly "Offers an irresistible invitation to join this UK October 2018 • US October 2018 • 328 pages conversation of outstanding scholars enabling us PB 9781501347207 • £28.99 / $39.95 to rethink the juncture between literature and Previously published in HB 9781501302749 philosophy." Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp, Individual eBook 9781501302756 Library eBook 9781501302763 Belgium Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic "Goes a good deal further than a reassessment of Blanchot's work in the context of what we might call modernism (since the term itself resonates by its very absence within Blanchot's oeuvre): as we put this book down we are reminded that Blanchot's work Understanding Wittgenstein, represents one of the profoundest meditations of the 20th century, but one which has nonetheless brought us closer to an Understanding Modernism understanding of the infinite and timeless power of literature Edited by Anat Matar, Tel Aviv University, Israel Michael Syrotinski, University of Glasgow, UK itself." "Elucidate[s] the tantalising relationships that arise from Wittgenstein's radical self-criticism, UK June 2018 • US June 2018 • 344 pages HB 9781501331374 • £102.00 / $130.00 his concern with language and the arts, and the Individual eBook 9781501331381 intensified development of the Enlightenment Library eBook 9781501331398 project that modernism represents." Andy Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic Hamilton, Durham University, UK If the gist of modernism involves attention to the way form expresses content, then Ludwig Wittgenstein’s “ear-opening” works deliver it most precisely. This volume shows how Wittgenstein’s work is closely linked to the modernist Geist that prevailed during his lifetime.

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Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Nietzsche, Understanding Modernism Understanding Modernism Edited by Ariane Mildenberg, University of Kent, Edited by Douglas Burnham, Staffordshire UK University, UK & Brian Pines, Independent Tutor, This book revises the concept of modernism by UK examining the kinship of method and concern Understanding Nietzsche, Understanding between Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology Modernism begins by outlining the major conceptual MODERNISM and modernist literature, art, music, film, structures of Nietzsche’s work. This first section is a neurophysiology, dance and ecological studies, opening up the series of essays, each of which explores a major work of Nietzsche’s, complexities of the philosopher’s phenomenology of perception to a explaining its significance while contributing new interpretations of the broader audience across the arts. An important resource for anyone text. The middle portion connects Nietzsche’s thought to the various interested in the links between modernism and philosophy, this strands of modernism in which it reveals itself. The final section is a collection offers close readings of Merleau-Ponty’s key texts, explores glossary of key terms that Nietzsche uses throughout his works. modernist literature in this light, and provides an extended glossary, with entries written by specialists, of Merleau-Ponty’s central terms and UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 320 pages concepts. HB 9781501339141 • £102.00 / $130.00 Individual eBook 9781501339158 Library eBook 9781501339165 UK November 2018 • US November 2018 • 288 pages Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic HB 9781501302718 • £102.00 / $130.00 Individual eBook 9781501302725 Library eBook 9781501302732 Series: Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism • Bloomsbury Academic

Ezra Pound in the Present Poetry and Poetics after Wallace Essays on Pound's Contemporaneity Stevens Edited by Paul Stasi, University of Albany, Edited by Bart Eeckhout, University of Antwerp, SUNY, USA & Josephine Park, University of Belgium & Lisa Goldfarb, NYU Gallatin, USA Pennsylvania, USA "A landmark work of scholarly and editorial "The outstanding scholars reunited in this imagination. Probing, often dazzling, and clearly collection have cut paths in the wilderness so that transformative, this book will appeal to anyone we may follow. We owe them gratitude." Roxana interested in Stevens." Maureen McLane, New York Preda, University of Edinburgh, UK University, USA Was Ezra Pound the first theorist of world literature? What, if anything, As Wallace Stevens begins to serve as a major reference point for would he find to value in today's economic and aesthetic discourses? poets and critics alike, the time has come to investigate poetry and Ezra Pound in the Present collects new essays by prominent scholars poetics after him. As individual cases are explored, the contributors of modernist poetics to engage the relevance of Pound’s work for our to this volume further re-engage with the vexed notion of influence, times, testing whether his literature was, as he hoped it would be, examining the often controversial links between earlier and later “news that stays news.” poems and poets.

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John McGahern and Modernism Pentecostal Modernism: Richard Robinson, University of Swansea, UK Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and An original contribution to Irish studies, John McGahern and Modernism includes close readings World-Systems Culture Stephen Shapiro, University of Warwick, UK & of Amongst Women and Memoir alongside Philip Barnard, University of Kansas, USA comparative readings of Tóibín, Joyce and Trevor. It surveys existing scholarly evaluations and sifts Bringing together new accounts of the pulp through critical assessments of McGahern's writing, writings of H.P. Lovecraft and the rise of American centring him in a theoretical framework of 'European' thought. Pentecostalism and Social Gospel, Pentecostal Robinson's study tackles the argument between tradition and Modernism challenges traditional histories of modernism as a secular modernity in McGahern's work, freeing the writer from out-dated avant-garde movement based in cities such as London or Paris. descriptions of an elegist for a vanishing way of life and portraying him Disrupting accounts that separate religion from progressive social as dramatic dramatist of the tension between ritual and change. movements and mass culture, Shapiro and Barnard construct a new modernism belonging to a history of new urban areas powered by the UK June 2018 • US June 2018 • 272 pages hopes and frustrations of populations seeking a better life. PB 9781350075122 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781441125781 UK August 2018 • US August 2018 • 192 pages Individual eBook 9781623562595 PB 9781350081628 • £28.99 / $39.95 Library eBook 9781350000919 Previously published in HB 9781474238731 Bloomsbury Academic Individual eBook 9781474238748 Library eBook 9781474238755 Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature • Bloomsbury Academic

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Literary Cynics James Joyce's Silences Borges, Beckett, Coetzee Edited by Jolanta Wawrzycka, Radford University, USA & Serenella Zanotti, Roma Tre University, Arthur Rose, University of Durham, UK Italy "A vital addition to studies of Borges, Beckett In this landmark book, leading international scholars and Coetzee." Times Literary Supplement from North America, Europe and the UK explore Literary Cynics reconsiders what words like cynicism silence in the writings of James Joyce. Examining all and cosmopolitanism mean for Jorge Luis Borges, of Joyce’s major works, including Ulysses, Portrait Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee, to test the of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake, the book studies limits of their merely cynical cosmopolitanism. In their transition to a the many different roles that silence plays in Joyce’s texts: aesthetic, ‘late style’, Rose demonstrates how these writers develop rhetorical rhetorical, textual and linguistic. strategies for coping with fame, cosmopolitanism and aesthetic form Exploring the many dimensions of what is revealed in the absences that become useful when returning to the canonical texts of their that fill his writing, James Joyce’s Silences opens up important new respective ‘high’ periods. avenues of scholarship on the great modernist writer.

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Beckett, Lacan and the D. H. Lawrence, Technology, and Mathematical Writing of the Real Modernity Arka Chattopadhyay, Indian Institute of Edited by Indrek Männiste, University of Tartu, Technology, Gandhinagar, India Estonia "Samuel Beckett and Jacques Lacan are two great While the dehumanizing effects of technology, European writer-thinkers of the 20th century modernity, and industrialization have been widely who really should have crossed paths: stylistically recognized in D. H. Lawrence’s works, no book- radical, scripturally innovative, and conceptually length study has been dedicated to these subjects. decisive, they shared friends, interests, and themes. Yet their This collection of newly commissioned essays by leading international work, and the studies of their work, have to date been marked by scholars fills a genuine void and investigates Lawrence’s peculiar a peculiar non-relation. Arka Chattopadhyay’s remarkable book relationship with modern technology and modernity in its many and sets out to re-examine this odd state of affairs, with intelligence, varied aspects. Addressing themes such as mining, war technology, erudition, and brio. Along the way, Chattopadhyay not only pastoralism vs. urbanism, ecocriticism, film, consumerism, aesthetics manages to give strong new interpretations of the sense and of technology, and many others, these essays help to reevaluate import of Beckett and Lacan’s writings, but resituates their work Lawrence’s complicated standing within modernist literary tradition. along new lines." Justin Clemens, University of Melbourne, Australia UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 240 pages • UK December 2018 • US December 2018 • 208 pages HB 9781501340000 £88.00 / $110.00 HB 9781501341168 • £96.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501340017 Individual eBook 9781501341175 Library eBook 9781501340031 Library eBook 9781501341182 Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic

The Great War, The Waste Land Rhythmic Modernism and the Modernist Long Poem Mimesis and the Short Story Oliver Tearle, Loughborough University, UK Helen Rydstrand, University of New South Wales, The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Australia Long Poem explores how cultural responses to the Helen Rydstrand argues that many modernist writers trauma of the First World War found expression in were profoundly invested in mimicking a substratum the form of the modernist long poem. Beginning of existence that was conceived as rhythmic. with T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Oliver Tearle reads Rydstrand shows that textual rhythms comprised the that most famous example of the genre in comparison with lesser substance of this mimesis, and investigates this coalescence of form known long poems, such as Hope Mirrlees’s Paris: A Poem, Richard and content in the short fiction of D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield Aldington’s A Fool I’ the Forest and Nancy Cunard’s Parallax. and Virginia Woolf. Through archival research and detailed close reading of their non-fiction and short stories, Rhythmic Modernism UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 224 pages demonstrates how each writer displays a fascination with rhythm, both HB 9781350027015 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350027039 as a formal device, and as a vital, protean concept that helped to Library eBook 9781350027022 make sense of the complex modern world. Bloomsbury Academic

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Robert Graves Visualizing Jewish Narrative From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All Jewish Comics and Graphic Novels That (1895-1929) Edited by Derek Parker Royal, Johnson C. Smith Jean Moorcroft Wilson University, USA This new revelatory biography of Robert Graves Examining a wide range of comics and graphic re-examines his position as a major First World War novels – including works by creators such as Will poet and master prose writer. Eisner, Leela Corman, Neil Gaiman, Art Spiegelman, Sarah Glidden and Joe Sacco – this book explores Jean Moorcroft Wilson relates Graves' fascinating life from his birth how comics writers and artists have tackled major issues of Jewish to the early 1930s: his experiences in the war, including being left identity. With chapters written by leading and emerging scholars for dead at the Battle of the Somme, his move to Spain, and his final in contemporary comic book studies, Visualizing Jewish Narrative "goodbye" to Sassoon in 1933. In this deeply-researched book, also includes a foreword by Danny Fingeroth (former editor of the containing startling archival material never previously revealed and Spiderman line and author of Superman on the Couch) and an little-studied poems, Moorcroft Wilson casts new light on the life, afterword by Arie Kaplan. prose and poetry of Graves, without which the story of Great War

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The 1950s The 1960s A Decade of Modern British Fiction A Decade of Modern British Fiction Edited by Nick Bentley, Keele University, UK, Edited by Philip Tew, Brunel University, UK, Alice Ferrebe, Liverpool John Moores University, James Riley, University of Cambridge, UK & UK & Nick Hubble, Brunel University, London, UK Melanie Seddon, University of Portsmouth, UK Exploring the full range of fiction in the 1950s, this This volume explores the ways in which the profound volume surveys the ways in which novels of the social changes that swept through the country time reflected an age of widespread social change. were reflected in British fiction of the 'swinging' Chapters cover the rise of a new generation of 'Angry Young Men', sixties. Chapters cover feminist writing that fused the personal and an emerging youth culture and vivid new voices from immigrant and the political, gay, lesbian and immigrant voices and the work of feminist writers. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the visionary experimental and science fiction writers. A major critical e-r book covers such writers as Margery Allingham, Kingsley Amis, Doris evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as J.G. Ballard, Lessing, Barbara Pym, Alan Sillitoe, Muriel Spark, Mary Renault, J. R. R. Anthony Burgess, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, John Fowles, Christopher Tolkien and John Wyndham. Isherwood, Doris Lessing, Michael Moorcock and V.S. Naipaul.

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Adventures in Theory Distillations A Compact Anthology Theory, Ethics, Affect Edited by Calvin Thomas, Georgia State Mari Ruti, University of Toronto, Canada University, USA “Mari Ruti negotiates the differences between "Noticing that Theory has been diluted, mixed those critical theorists willing to shatter the up in concoctions of old sours and rinds, Calvin subject for the sake of the universal and those Thomas has decided to refresh it, turning it into willing to dispense with universals for the sake of an adventure of insight that is also a restorative particular fragile subjects. Ruti makes a case for delight with strong but balanced recipes for a 21st-century how fragile subjects can and should follow their utopian desires, intellectual Bloody Mary." Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of however tinged with trauma.” Noëlle McAfee, Emory University, USA Pennsylvania, USA “Mari Ruti is among the most singular and significant voices in

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The Phenomenology of Love and Thinking in Search of a Language Essays on American Intellect and Intuition Reading Cassandra Falke, University of Tromsø, Norway Herwig Friedl, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany "To write on phenomenology and literature requires an author who reads with exacting "Never has the importance of Emerson delicacy and who construes demanding and William James to the modernization of philosophy with a high level of clarity. Cassandra philosophic thought been unfolded with greater Falke is just this person." Kevin Hart, University of subtlety, boldness, and erudition as in Herwig Virginia, USA Friedl's Thinking in Search of a Language, the product of a scholarly lifetime of research by one of the leading interpreters of This book accepts Jean-Luc Marion’s argument that love matters for the interrelations between American and Continental traditions who we are more than anything—more than cognition and more from Transcendentalism to Pragmatism." Lawrence Buell, Harvard than being itself. Cassandra Falke shows how reading can strengthen University, USA our capacity to love by giving us practice in love´s habits—attention, empathy, and a willingness to be overwhelmed. "Thinking in Search of a Language is the book readers devoted to American thought have been waiting for." Johannes Voelz, Goethe UK May 2018 • US May 2018 • 192 pages University Frankfurt, Germany PB 9781501342134 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781628926484 Individual eBook 9781628926507 UK September 2018 • US September 2018 • 416 pages Library eBook 9781628926491 PB 9781501332708 • £27.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781501332715 • £102.00 / $130.00 Bloomsbury Academic Individual eBook 9781501332722 Library eBook 9781501332739 Bloomsbury Academic

Political Monsters and Ordinary Matters Democratic Imagination Spinoza, Blake, Hugo, Joyce Modernist Women’s Literature and Photography Patrick McGee, Louisiana State University, USA Lorraine Sim, Western Sydney University, "[A] brilliant, pathbreaking work. Clear, well- Australia argued, profound: this is an exciting thought- experiment, a book to shift the debates on "Blending close assessments of modern women’s literature’s power." Enda Duffy, University of California Santa Barbara, literary texts and photographs with a rigorous USA engagement with everyday life theory, Sim digs Patrick McGee explores the democratic thought of Spinoza and deeply into the materiality of the ordinary so that pavements and its relation to William Blake, Victor Hugo, and James Joyce. storefronts, or shawls and boots, reveal the ways in which the These visionaries articulate a concept of power founded on social 'ordinary matters.' Beautifully written and carefully researched, cooperation, equality based on the difference between any individual this work pushes the field of everyday life studies into vital new and the intellectual power of society as a whole, thought that operates territory by positioning modern women writers and photographers between individuals, and infinite truth. in their rightful place as theorists of the everyday." Barbara Green, University of Notre Dame, USA UK March 2018 • US March 2018 • 280 pages PB 9781501341236 • £28.99 / $39.95 UK April 2018 • US April 2018 • 248 pages • 42 bw illus Previously published in HB 9781501320057 PB 9781501346453 • £28.99 / $39.95 Individual eBook 9781501320064 Previously published in HB 9781501314308 Library eBook 9781501320071 Individual eBook 9781501314339 Bloomsbury Academic Library eBook 9781501314322 Bloomsbury Academic

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Rethinking Joseph Conrad’s The Afterlives of Roland Barthes Concepts of Community Neil Badmington, Cardiff University, UK Strange Fraternity "An important contribution to Barthes Studies." Modern Language Review Kaoru Yamamoto, University of Shiga Prefecture, Japan Roland Barthes was one of the most important cultural critics of the post-war era. Since his death in "This is a bold book, a welcome contribution to 1980, new writings have continued to be discovered the critical endeavour to prove Conrad’s relevance and published. The Afterlives of Roland Barthes is English today." the first book to revisit and reassess Barthes’ thought in light of these Drawing on the work of continental thinkers including Jacques posthumously published writings. Derrida, Jean Luc-Nancy and Hannah Arendt, Kaoru Yamamoto offers original readings of Heart of Darkness, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, UK April 2018 • US April 2018 • 176 pages The Rover and Suspense and the short stories “The Secret Sharer”, PB 9781350066991 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474297455 “The Warrior’s Soul” and “The Duel”. Working at the intersection Individual eBook 9781474297462 between literature and philosophy this is a unique and interdisciplinary Library eBook 9781474297479 engagement with Conrad’s work. Bloomsbury Academic

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theory is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of the art of contemporary feminist Literary and Cultural Theory thought. With chapters written by world-leading Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of scholars from a range of disciplines, the book explores the latest Houston-Victoria, USA thinking on key topics in current feminist discourse, including: identity, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural difference, and intersectionality; affect, sex and the body; writing, Theory is the most comprehensive available survey reading, genre and critique; power, trauma and value; technology, of the state of theory in the 21st century. With migration and community. chapters written by the world’s leading scholars in their field, the book explores the latest thinking in feminist, Marxist, UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 384 pages HB 9781350032385 • £130.00 / $176.00 historicist, psychoanalytic and postcolonial criticism and new areas Individual eBook 9781350032392 of research in ecocriticism, biopolitics, affect studies, posthumanism, Library eBook 9781350032408 materialism and many other fields. Bloomsbury Academic In addition, the book includes a substantial A to Z of keywords and important thinkers in contemporary theory, making this an essential resource for scholars of literary and cultural theory at all levels.

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Romanticism and Speculative The Romantic Historicism to Realism Come Edited by Chris Washington, Francis Marion Jonathan Crimmins, University of Virginia’s University, USA & Anne C. McCarthy, Penn State College at Wise, USA University, USA Focusing attention on Romantic conceptions of Featuring contributors working at the intersection history’s connection to the future, The Romantic of literary poetics and philosophy, this book Historicism to Come examines the complications considers how the writing of the Romantic Era of not only Romantic historicism, but also our own reconceptualizes the human imagination, the natural world, and contemporary critical methods: what would it mean if the causal the language that correlates them in radical ways that can advance assumptions that underpin our historical judgments do not themselves current speculative debates concerning new ontologies and new develop in a stable, notional, progressive manner? Steering a middle materialisms. The scholars gathered here rethink the connections course between historical teleology and random disconnection, LITERARY THEORY LITERARY between the human and non-human world to envision speculative Jonathan Crimmins creates a theoretical apparatus that can account modes of social being and ecological politics. Spanning historical and for the mutual interaction of the scientific and the sociocultural without national frameworks—from historical romanticism to contemporary collapsing one into the other. post-romantic ecology, and from British and German romanticism to global modernity—these essays rethink life in all its varied forms in, UK April 2018 • US April 2018 • 192 pages and beyond, the Anthropocene. HB 9781501326974 • £102.00 / $130.00 Individual eBook 9781501326981 Library eBook 9781501326998 UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 288 pages Bloomsbury Academic HB 9781501336386 • £98.00 / $125.00 Individual eBook 9781501336393 Library eBook 9781501336409 Bloomsbury Academic Animaladies

Gender, Animals, and Madness Edited by Lori Gruen, Wesleyan University, Posing Sex USA & Fiona Probyn-Rapsey, University of Toward a Perceptual Ethics for Literary Wollongong, Australia and Visual Art Do depictions of crazy cat ladies obscure more Alan Singer, Temple University, USA sinister structural violence against animals hoarded in factory farms? Highlighting the frequent "This risk-taking, fearless book is a continually pathologization of animal lovers and animal rights activists, this rewarding act of looking and feeling and thinking, book examines how the “madness” of our relationships with animals insisting on their intimacy but also enacting it on intersects with the “madness” of taking animals seriously. The essays the page, where Singer's intellectual reach and collected in this volume argue that “animaladies” are expressive of analytical rigor produce an abundance of arresting perceptions of political and psychological discontent, and the characterization of sensuous aesthetic experience." Ross Posnock, Columbia University, USA animal advocacy as mad or “crazy” distracts attention from broader social unease regarding human exploitation of animal life. Posing Sex views the long and provocative tradition of representing the sexual act in Western art as an occasion for challenging UK November 2018 • US November 2018 • 240 pages assumptions about personhood. Singer draws upon a rich HB 9781501342158 • £96.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501342165 philosophical tradition—from the Greek Stoics, Descartes, Spinoza, Library eBook 9781501342172 and Hegel to contemporary theorists—to show how the stakes of Bloomsbury Academic aesthetic experience epitomized in the sex-image are essentially ethical.

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Afterlives of Abandoned Work Creative Debris in the Archive Matthew Harle, Barbican Centre, UK Over five distinct journeys through a variety of archives, from major research libraries to the unique collections of individual enthusiasts, Matthew Harle draws surprising connections between literary studies, media studies, and visual arts, exploring the various opportunities that unrealized work presents for literary studies in the archive. Rooted in literary criticism, Afterlives of Abandoned Work reads unbuilt buildings, unfilmed screenplays, and unpublished novels and radio sketches as forms of text that can help us consider the enduring fragmentation and anecdotal construction of cultural form, as well as expand literary criticism’s approach to the archive.

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Series Editor: Thomas Oliver Beebee, Penn State University, USA Literature and Capital Thomas Docherty, University of Warwick, UK Literatures as World Literature takes a novel approach to world literature by analyzing specific constellations—according to language, "The kind of urgent and committed scholarship nation, form, or theme—of literary texts and authors in their world- that the present requires." Stuart Murray, University literary dimensions. World literature has been mapped and theorized of Leeds, UK in the abstract, but the majority of critical work, the filling in of what Literature and Capital is a landmark new economic has been traced, lies ahead of us. Literatures as World Literature history of literary culture and its institutions in the begins the task of filling in the devilish details by allowing scholars to modern age. From the patronage of the early move outward from their own area of specialization. modern period, through the colonial exploitation of the 18th and 19th centuries to the institutionalisation of “literature” in the 21st-century neoliberal University, Thomas Docherty explores the changing ways

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Edited by Nicholas Birns, New York University, USA & Juan E. De Castro, Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, USA Melville’s Philosophies Edited by Branka Arsic, Columbia University, USA "Throughout the volume questions of politics, & K. L. Evans, Cornell University, USA ethics and aesthetics constantly intersect, and Melville’s Philosophies even though each essay on its own is worth " gives us an exhilaratingly reading, the collected volume is certainly more than just the sum re-imagined Melville and, in the process, gives us of its various parts." Journal of European Studies much-needed insight into contemporary questions of belief and attachment, materiality and ethics, "The best Bolaño critical ensemble since Bolaño Salvaje (2006)." aesthetics and sensation, and the limits of Comparative Literature Studies justice." Christopher Castiglia, Pennsylvania State University, USA "Indispensable reading for anyone interested in the great Chilean This volume departs from long tradition of critical assessments of author’s work, and in the cosmopolitan dimension of Latin Melville that dismissed his philosophical capacities as ingenious but American literature." Maarten van Delden, University of California, muddled. Its contributors do not apply philosophy to Melville, but Los Angeles, USA rather try to hear the philosophical arguments themselves that Melville never stopped articulating and reformulating. UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 240 pages PB 9781501343698 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501316067 UK November 2018 • US November 2018 • 424 pages • 53 bw illustrations Individual eBook 9781501316074 PB 9781501347504 • £28.99 / $39.95 Library eBook 9781501316081 Previously published in HB 9781501321016 Individual eBook 9781501321023 Series: Literatures as World Literature • Bloomsbury Academic Library eBook 9781501321030 Bloomsbury Academic

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Series Editors: Esther Rashkin, University of Utah, USA; Mari Ruti, University of Toronto, Canada & Peter L. Rudnytsky, In the Event of Laughter University of Florida, USA Psychoanalysis, Literature and Comedy Psychoanalysis is unique in being at once a theory and a therapy, a Alfie Bown, Hang Seng Management College, method of critical thinking and a form of clinical practice. Now in its Hong Kong second century, this fusion of science and humanism derived from "I read In the Event of Laughter with real Freud has outlived all predictions of its demise, and is indeed enjoying a pleasure. It is smart and confident, but also resurgence as many of its core tenets, and its value as a treatment, have ruminative and genuinely philosophical, and gained support from cutting-edge research. Psychoanalytic Horizons balances a distinct central thesis with many evokes the idea of a convergence between realms as well as the outer diverse case studies ... The book will certainly have readers in the limits of a vision. Books in the series test disciplinary boundaries and growing area of comedy and laughter studies, as it is a combative will appeal to readers who are passionate not only about the theory of (though courteous) shakeup of that field." James Smith, Royal literature, culture, media, and philosophy but also, above all, about the Holloway, University of London, UK real life of ideas in the world. "A wonderful book, providing a fresh and pleasantly surprising conceptual framework for the discussion of laughter." Alenka

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Does the Internet Have an UK October 2018 • US October 2018 • 160 pages HB 9781501342622 • £88.00 / $110.00 Unconscious? Individual eBook 9781501342639 Library eBook 9781501342646

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE COMPARATIVE Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons • Bloomsbury Academic Clint Burnham, Simon Fraser University, Canada "Clint Burnham does not merely apply

psychoanalysis to the internet; he demonstrates how the unconscious itself is 'structured like the internet,' how our entanglement in the impenetrable digital Born After web allows us to understand properly the way the unconscious Reckoning with the German Past overdetermines our thinking and activities. This is why Burnham’s Angelika Bammer, Emory University, USA path-breaking book reaches much deeper than the usual analyses Born After addresses questions of identity by of the social and psychological implications of the internet: it asking readers to think differently about a history does not just socialize and historicise the internet, it throws a new they believe they already know. Predicated on T.W. light on the unconscious itself." Slavoj Žižek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Adorno’s challenge that Germans must engage history “after Auschwitz” subjectively, Born After

UK May 2018 • US May 2018 • 240 pages • 3 bw illustrations explores the intergenerational dynamics of a German family before HB 9781501341298 • £98.00 / $125.00 and after the Nazi years. Arguing that what we accept as history is Individual eBook 9781501341304 not just what happened, but includes the structures of feeling shaped Library eBook 9781501341311 Series: Psychoanalytic Horizons • Bloomsbury Academic by the impact of particular events, it inflects questions about history (“what happened?”) with questions about ethics: “What could they – and what would we – have done?”

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psychoanalysis and our visual world ... Focussing on Freud's emphasis on visualization as a core element of the unconscious, O’Donoghue's work For Want of Ambiguity actually illustrates how each and every one of us Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, incorporates our visual context, real or virtual, into the articulation and Neuroscience of our desires ... A strong, readable and compelling book!" Sander L. Gilman, Emory University, USA Ludovica Lumer, Independent Scholar, USA & Lois Oppenheim, Montclair State University, USA "In this startlingly brilliant, original and deeply researched book, For Want of Ambiguity investigates how the Diane O’Donoghue ... examines the important works of art in dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience Freud’s life and links his aesthetic pleasures and insights to his can shed light on the transformational capacity development of psychoanalytic theory. This remarkable book is of contemporary art. Through neuroscienfitic and psychoanalytic a landmark and an absolutely indispensable understanding of exploration of the work of Diamante Faraldo, Ai Weiwei, Ida Freud." Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College, USA Barbarigo, Xavier Le Roy, Bill T. Jones, Cindy Sherman, Francis

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Series Editor: Imke Meyer, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Posthumanism in the Age of A long and venerable tradition of "Germanistik" has been opened up in exciting ways in the past few decades. This series taps into that tradition Humanism and its growth into German Studies, incorporating interdisciplinary Mind, Matter, and the Life Sciences after approaches to the analysis of the rich intellectual and cultural histories Kant of the German-speaking countries. It showcases projects focusing on hitherto underrepresented authors as well as those that seek to reframe Edited by Edgar Landgraf, Bowling Green State canonical works in light of new perspectives and methodologies. University, USA, Gabriel Trop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA & Leif Weatherby, New York University, USA

"Readers of Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism will have many Figures of Natality of their intellectual stereotypes challenged if not overturned and replaced with more generous conceptions." Bruce Clarke, Texas Reading the Political in the Age of Goethe Tech University, USA Joseph D. O’Neil, University of Kentucky, USA Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism shows how figures like Kant "O'Neil connects Hannah Arendt’s concept of and Goethe as well as scientists specializing in the emerging modern natality as the birth of the new and Carl Schmitt’s life and cognitive sciences not only established but also transgressed understanding of the sovereign decision as a basis the boundaries of the “human.” Posthumanism is older than we think, for social organization in order to explore the and the so-called “humanists” of the late Enlightenment have much to nature of ‘the political.’ By focusing on natality, offer our contemporary rethinking of the human. he can both use and challenge Arendt’s and Schmitt’s approaches, because natality points to the paradoxical conjoining of the UK October 2018 • US October 2018 • 304 pages HB 9781501335679 • £98.00 / $125.00 reproductive and productive, or, in O’Neil’s version, the economic Individual eBook 9781501335686 and the political. In his reading of major texts from German Library eBook 9781501335693 literature spanning the decades around 1800 that embrace this Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic conjoining, O’Neil makes the deployment of a discourse and metaphors around birth fruitful for us today." John H. Smith, University of California, Irvine, USA

UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 320 pages Transgender, Translation, PB 9781501343728 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781501315022 Translingual Address Individual eBook 9781501315039 Library eBook 9781501315046 Douglas Robinson, Hong Kong Baptist University, Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic Hong Kong The emergence of transgender communities into the public eye over the past few decades has

brought some new understanding, but also renewed Sissi’s World outbreaks of violent backlash. In Transgender, Translation, Translingual Address Douglas Robinson seeks to The Empress Elisabeth in Memory and understand not so much transgender directly but the “translational” Myth or “translingual” dialogues between cisgendered and transgendered Edited by Maura E. Hametz, Old Dominion people. University, USA & Heidi Schlipphacke, University Drawing on a wide range of LGBT scholars, philosophers, sociologists, of Illinois at Chicago, USA sexologists, and literary voices, Robinson sets up cis-trans dialogues Sissi’s World offers a transdisciplinary approach on such issues as “being born in the wrong body,” binary vs. to the study of the Habsburg Empress Elizabeth anti-binary sex/gender identities, and the nature of transition and of Austria, a Bavarian duchess born in 1837, the longest-serving transformation. Austrian empress, and the queen of Hungary who died in 1898 at the hands of a crazed anarchist. Despite the continuing fascination with UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 240 pages HB 9781501345548 • £96.00 / $120.00 "the beloved Sissi," the Habsburg empress, her impact, and legacy Individual eBook 9781501345555 have received scant attention from scholars. This collection goes Library eBook 9781501345562 beyond the popular biographical accounts, recountings of her mythic Series: Literatures, Cultures, Translation • Bloomsbury Academic beauty, and scattered studies of her well-known eccentricities to offer transdisciplinary cultural perspectives across art, film, fashion, history, literature, and media.

UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 408 pages • 30 bw illus Nabokov and Nietzsche HB 9781501313448 • £110.00 / $130.00 Problems and Perspectives Individual eBook 9781501313455 Library eBook 9781501313462 Michael Rodgers, Open University, UK Series: New Directions in German Studies • Bloomsbury Academic "Through its lively and insightful analysis of Nabokov’s fiction, criticism and auto/biography, set against the principal tenets of Nietzsche’s philosophy—eternal recurrence, the fluidity of truth and the Übermensch—Nabokov and Nietzsche enriches our responses both to problematic issues of transgression, alienation and discomfort across Nabokov’s work, and to fundamental questions of morality and metaphysics." Barbara Wyllie, University College London, UK

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A Literary History of Fault Lines of Modernity Reconciliation The Fractures and Repairs of Religion, Power, Remorse and the Limits of Ethics, and Literature Forgiveness Edited by Kitty Millet, San Francisco State Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen, University of Leiden, University, USA & Dorothy Figueira, University of The Netherlands Georgia, USA From William Shakespeare to Jonathan Franzen, "This thoughtful volume raises important this book traces the cultural history of the idea of ‘reconciliation’ in questions about the role of literature and religion literature, religion and politics. Drawing upon major works of Western in today's fractured world, inviting us to rethink the boundaries literature and key moments in history, the book shows how from the that have been constructed between religion, ethics and literature time of Shakespeare remorse then grew into the dominant, but also and to broaden our vision beyond the traditions of Western Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick, UK deeply fraught, model for interpersonal reconciliation during the 18th culture." and 19th centuries as reflected in the work of writers such as George "Against prevailing trends, Fault Lines of Modernity shows the Eliot, Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte and contemporary writers power of reading great literature to engage urgent ethical and such as Marilynne Robinson and J.M. Coetzee. religious problems. From mystery fiction to mysticism, the works examined here provide sites of transcendence that expose modern UK September 2018 • US September 2018 • 248 pages • 2 bw illus divisions and ways to overcome them." Brian Britt, Virginia Tech, HB 9781350027220 • £85.00 / $114.00 USA Individual eBook 9781350027244 Library eBook 9781350027237 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE COMPARATIVE Bloomsbury Academic UK September 2018 • US September 2018 • 272 pages HB 9781501316654 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501316661 Library eBook 9781501316685 Bloomsbury Academic Blanchot and the Outside of

Literature William S. Allen, University of Southampton, UK Persisting Partition "Deploys a lucid and incisive intelligence in Affect, Memory and Trauma in Women's attending to the distinctive qualities of Blanchot’s fictional and philosophical writings. A work all Narratives of Pakistan readers of modern philosophy and literature will Humaira Saeed, Nottingham Trent University, UK ponder at length." Leslie Hill, University of Warwick, Persisting Partition looks at the 1947 Partition of UK India from a new perspective: through an analysis Reading Blanchot involves understanding how literature can have of women's narratives of Pakistan. Humaira Saeed an effect on philosophy, to the extent of putting philosophy itself considers how history is mediated through cultural in question by exposing a different and literary mode of thought. production, as well as the potential for women’s narratives to disrupt Blanchot and the Outside of Literature provides a detailed and far- the homogenizing effects of dominant national historiography. reaching explication of how Blanchot's works changed in the postwar Through analysing a range of cultural forms—photography, period during which he arrived at his complex and distinctive form of feature film, fiction, and documentary—Saeed argues for a more writing. interdisciplinary approach to the ways in which Partition and Pakistan might be narrativised. UK October 2018 • US October 2018 • 224 pages HB 9781501345241 • £96.00 / $120.00 UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 176 pages Individual eBook 9781501345258 HB 9781501337420 • £88.00 / $110.00 Library eBook 9781501345265 Individual eBook 9781501337437 Bloomsbury Academic Library eBook 9781501337444 Bloomsbury Academic

South African Writing in Transition Edgar Allan Poe and His Edited by Rita Barnard, University of Nineteenth-Century American Pennsylvania, USA & Andrew van der Vlies, Counterparts Queen Mary, University of London, UK John Cullen Gruesser, Kean University, USA Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, Edgar Allan Poe and His Nineteenth-Century this book asks the question: how has contemporary American Counterparts addresses Poe's connections South African literature grappled with ideas of time with, critical assessments of, borrowings from, and and history during the political transition away from apartheid? effect on his literary peers. John Cullen Gruesser Reading the work of major South African writers such as J.M. Coetzee, demonstrates the profound influence of Poe's invention of detective Nadine Gordimer and Ivan Vladislavic as well as contemporary crime fiction, particularly on his literary contemporaries, establishes Poe's and science fiction, South African Writing in Transition explores how ability to transform themes he encountered in the works of his literary concerns about time and temporality have shaped literary form across contemporaries into great literature, and rebuts some of the persistent the country’s literary culture. Establishing new connections between myths that continue to cling to Poe. leading literary voices and lesser known works, the book explores themes of truth and reconciliation, disappointment and betrayal. UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 160 pages HB 9781501334528 • £80.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781501334559 UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 288 pages Library eBook 9781501334535 HB 9781350086883 • £85.00 / $114.00 Bloomsbury Academic Individual eBook 9781350086906 Library eBook 9781350086890 Bloomsbury Academic

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Series Editor: Daniel Katz, University of Warwick, UK A Black Arts Poetry Machine Despite or by virtue of its largely marginalised position, post-war poetry has been a focal point of dissidence, resistance, and challenge Amiri Baraka and the Umbra Workshop to many of the dominant discourses-political, social, erotic, and David Grundy, University of Cambridge, UK aesthetic-of the age. This series features work that examines the Bringing together new archival research and paradoxical force of poetry and poetics in these respects, while detailed close readings of poetry, A Black Arts engaging productively with the specifities of the medium and its Poetry Machine is a groundbreaking study of this diverse histories. The series also includes work by specialists in other important but neglected group of poets and the areas of inquiry (philosophy, psychoanalysis) for whom poetry has African American avant-garde in 1960s New York. become a vital element in their thinking. David Grundy explores the work of such poets as Amiri Baraka, Lorenzo Thomas and Calvin Hernton and how their innovative poetic forms engaged with radical political responses to state violence and

urban insurrection. Through this examination, the book highlights the continuing relevance of the work of the Umbra workshop today and Affect, Psychoanalysis, and is essential reading for anyone interested in 20th-century American American Poetry poetry. This Feeling of Exaltation UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 256 pages • 11 bw illus John Steen, Galloway School, USA HB 9781350061965 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350061989 Affect, Psychoanalysis, and American Poetry Library eBook 9781350061972 challenges the dominant metaphor of poetic Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics • Bloomsbury Academic containers by turning to recent poetic texts that represent the contagious and uncontainable feelings of anxiety, grief,

shame, and rage. From modernists to mid-century poets, and finally to contemporary practitioners, John Steen argues that new poetic techniques arise from the poetic productivity of negative affects, and City Poems and American Urban that a new model of poetic value can be found in poems that are Crisis permeable, social spaces of intimacy, attachment, and withdrawal. 1945 to the Present

UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 224 pages Nate Mickelson, Stella and Charles Guttman HB 9781350021549 • £85.00 / $114.00 Community College, USA Individual eBook 9781350021556 Library eBook 9781350021532 From William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics • Bloomsbury Academic to Miguel Algarin and Wanda Coleman, this groundbreaking book explores the ways in which contemporary poets have engaged with America’s changing urban experience since 1945.

City Poems and American Urban Crisis brings post-war American poetry into conversation with developments in city planning, activism, Lyric Pedagogy and Marxist- and urban theory to demonstrate that taking city poetry seriously as Feminism a mode of analysis and critique can enhance our attempts to produce Social Reproduction and the Institutions more just and equitable urban futures. of Poetry UK November 2018 • US November 2018 • 256 pages • 14 bw illus Samuel Solomon, University of Sussex, UK HB 9781350055780 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350055803 What is the political potential of poetry in the Library eBook 9781350055797 modern age? Exploring an often overlooked history Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics • Bloomsbury Academic of Marxist-Feminist poetics in post-war Britain – including such poets as Denise Riley, J.H. Prynne, Wendy Mulford and Nat Raha – this book confronts this central question to debates about the value of humanities education. Combining new archival research with close

readings, the book charts the interrelated crises both of poetry itself and literary education more widely. Paradoxically, the very The Poetry Toolkit marginalisation of poetry in contemporary culture serves to offer the The Essential Guide to Studying Poetry form new opportunities as an agent of social change. Rhian Williams, University of Glasgow, UK

UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 240 pages • 1 bw illus Now including a more diverse range of voices by HB 9781350063853 • £85.00 / $114.00 ethnicity, gender and sexuality, the third edition of Individual eBook 9781350063877 Library eBook 9781350063860 The Poetry Toolkit introduces students to the key Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics • Bloomsbury Academic terms, concepts and genres they need to know to develop their critical appreciation of poetry in all its many forms. The new edition includes an expanded practical section giving guidance on close reading, comparative reading and advice on writing critically about poetry. In addition, the book is accompanied by a companion website offering audio recordings of poetry readings, weblinks and overviews of key theoretical approaches to support advanced study.

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Series Editors: Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA & Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New Orleans, USA Doctor Andrew Bomback, Columbia University College Object Lessons is a series of concise, collectable, beautifully designed of Physicians and Surgeons, USA books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Each book starts from a specific inspiration: an historical event, a literary passage, a personal "A disarming, candid, precise meditation on the narrative, a technological innovation—and from that starting point inescapable role that 'complication' or 'luck'— explores the object of the title, gleaning a singular lesson or multiple otherwise known as 'fate'—plays in the life of any lessons along the way. Featuring contributions from writers, artists, doctor or patient or, indeed, any human." David scholars, journalists, and others, the emphasis throughout is lucid Shields, author of The Thing About Life Is That One writing, imagination, and brevity. Object Lessons paints a picture of the Day You’ll Be Dead (2008) world around us, and tells the story of how we got here, one object at a A 3-year-old asks her physician father about his job, and his inability time. to relay a succinct and accurate answer inspires a critical look at the profession of modern medicine. Andrew Bomback's Doctor attempts to unravel how much of doctoring is role-playing, artifice, and bluffing.

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We pull and tug on blankets to cover our bodies, to see us through the night, or an illness. Blankets Pill shield us in mourning, and witness our most intimate Robert Bennett, Montana State University, USA pleasures. We are born into blankets. Blankets keep us alive, and they cover us in death. Blanket reveals blankets everywhere: film, art, “You are what you eat.” Never is this truer than geology, disasters, battlefields, resistance, home. Curious, fearless, when we take medications—from beta blockers vulnerable, and critical, Blanket transforms an ordinary thing into a and aspirin to Viagra and epidurals—especially vibrant and vital carrier of stories and secrets, an object of inheritance psychotropic pills that transform our minds as and belonging, a companion to uncover. well as our bodies. Meditating on how modern medicine increasingly measures out human identity

UK September 2018 • US September 2018 • 192 pages not in coffee spoons but in 1mg-, 5mg-, or 300mg-doses, Pill traces PB 9781628922653 • £9.99 / $14.95 the uncanny presence of psychiatric pills through science, medicine, Individual eBook 9781628922660 advertising, autobiography, television, cinema, literature, and popular Library eBook 9781628922677 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic music. Ultimately, it argues that modern psychopharmacology reveals a brave new world in which human identities—thoughts, emotions, personalities, and selves themselves—are increasingly determined by

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Fake UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 160 pages Kati Stevens, Freelance writer, USA PB 9781501341946 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781501341953 "Fake is fascinating, clever, and utterly Library eBook 9781501341960 perspective-altering. Kati Stevens is the genuine Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic article." Emily Anthes, author of Frankenstein’s Cat (2013)

The electric candle and faux fur, coffee substitutes and meat analogues, Obama impersonators, Potato prosthetics. Imitation this, false that. Humans have been replacing Rebecca Earle, University of Warwick, UK and improving upon the real thing for millennia – from wooden toes found on Egyptian mummies to the Luxor pyramid in Las Vegas. Baked potatoes, Bombay potatoes, pommes frites... So why do people have such disdain for so-called “fakes”? Kati everyone eats potatoes, but what do they mean? To Stevens's Fake discusses the strange history of imitations, as well as the United Nations they mean global food security our ever-changing psychological and socioeconomic relationships with (potatoes are the world’s fourth most important food them. After all, fakes aren't going anywhere; they seem to be going crop). To 18th-century philosophers they promised everywhere. happiness. Nutritionists warn that too many increase your risk of hypertension. For the poet Seamus Heaney they conjured UK September 2018 • US September 2018 • 160 pages up both his mother and the 19th-century Irish famine. Thinking about PB 9781501338137 • £9.99 / $14.95 potatoes turns out to be a good way of thinking about some of the Individual eBook 9781501338144 Library eBook 9781501338151 important tensions in our world. Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 160 pages PB 9781501344312 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781501344329 Library eBook 9781501344336 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic

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The Work of Literature in an Age Interviews from the Edge of Post-Truth 50 Years of Conversations about Writing Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New and Resistance Orleans, USA Edited by Mark Yakich, Loyola University, New "A convincing portrait of this unsettling moment." Orleans, USA & John Biguenet, Loyola University, Christy Wampole, Princeton University, USA New Orleans, USA "Amounts to a guidebook on the significance of Interviews from the Edge presents a selection the humanities in visualizing different futures.” of conversations, drawn from 50 years of the Timothy Morton, Rice University, USA international journal New Orleans Review, that dive head-first into the most enduring aesthetic and social concerns of the last half century. What is the role of literary studies in an age of Twitter threads and viral From reflections on the making of literature and films to personal news? If the study of literature today is not just about turning to classic accounts of writing inside racial divides and working against capital texts with age-old questions, neither is it a rejection of close reading punishment, the writers, poets, and activists featured in this book offer or critical inquiry. Through the lived experience of a humanities not only a fresh perspective on our present struggles but also perhaps professor in a rapidly changing world, this book explores how the a way through them—for writers and readers alike. careful study of literature may be precisely what we need to navigate our dizzying epoch of post-truth politics and ecological urgency. Interviewees include John Ashbery, James Baldwin, Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Gaines, Valerie Martin, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Anais Nin, Sister UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 168 pages Helen Prejean, and Bertrand Tavernier, among many others. PB 9781501334290 • £19.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781501334306 • £64.00 / $80.00 Individual eBook 9781501334313 UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 224 pages Library eBook 9781501334320 PB 9781501347450 • £16.99 / $21.95 • HB 9781501347474 • £60.00 / $75.00 Bloomsbury Academic Individual eBook 9781501347467 Library eBook 9781501347481 Bloomsbury Academic

The Publishing Business

A Guide to Starting Out and Getting On Ceaseless Music Kelvin Smith & Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, University College London, UK Sounding Wordsworth’s The Prelude An invaluable guide to understanding what book Steven Matthews, Poet and Critic, UK publishing is and what it might become. This second Through a series of critical reflections and poetic edition explores the responsibilities at each stage responses, Ceaseless Music explores the historical of the publishing process, describes current roles and contemporary influence of Wordsworth’s and practices, and provides much food for thought on how publishers landmark autobiographical poem The Prelude in can ensure their skills remain relevant in the digital age. Fully updated literature, philosophy and life writing. Beginning to take into account recent developments in the publishing world, with an exploration of the poem’s genesis – from draft versions found this new edition also includes additional real-world examples from a in Wordsworth’s notebooks, to the alternative published versions variety of publishing sectors, insightful interviews with industry experts – the book goes on to explore the poem’s impact on 19th-century and new and updated activities throughout. biographical writing, on American literature and philosophy and on contemporary prose writing. In the final chapter, Steven Matthews UK February 2018 • US April 2018 • 240 pages • 200 colour illus reflects on what the study of Wordsworth’s writing and influence can PB 9781474249515 • £28.99 / $39.95 teach us about writing poetry in the 21st century. Individual eBook 9781474249539 Library eBook 9781474249522 Series: Creative Careers • Bloomsbury Visual Arts UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 208 pages PB 9781474232777 • £27.99 / $37.95 Previously published in HB 9781474232784 Individual eBook 9781474232814

Library eBook 9781474232807 Series: Beyond Criticism • Bloomsbury Academic The Reception of William Blake in Europe Edited by Morton D. Paley, University of California, Berkeley, USA & Sibylle Erle, Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln, UK Author of the 'The Tyger' and 'Jerusalem', the visionary poet and artist William Blake is one of the most vivid figures in British Romantic literature. With chapters written by leading international scholars, The Reception of William Blake in Europe is the first comprehensive and systematic reference guide to Blake's influence across Europe. Exploring Blake's impact on literature, art, music and culture, the book includes bibliographies of major translations of Blake's work in each country covered, as well as a publication history and timeline of the poet's reception on the continent.

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Cities and Wetlands Nerd Ecology: Defending the Bloomsbury Academic is celebrating our 10th anniversary The Return of the Repressed in Nature Earth with Unpopular Culture and Culture Anthony Lioi, Juilliard School, New York, USA with a year of celebrations, including: discounts, giveaways, Rod Giblett, Edith Cowan University, Australia "This aptly smart, witty, and quirky study poses From New Orleans to New York, from London to Geektopia as a place where black, queer, nerds advice for budding authors, contests and Paris to Venice, many of the world’s great cities were become interplanetary tricksters; where Dante, built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands Darwin and classical philososophy meet Star Trek; is the first book to explore the literary and cultural where Pynchon, postmodern aesthetics and The exclusives for email subscribers. histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments. Matrix find themselves in a (digital) wildlife refuge; and where Developing a ground-breaking mode of psychoanalytic ecology Buffy the Vampire Slayer fights for environmental justice... Lioi’s and surveying a wide range of cities in North America, Europe and book is fresh, riveting, surprising, invaluable—POW!" Stacy Alaimo, Australia, ecocritic and activist Rod Giblett shows how the wetland University of Texas at Arlington, USA origins of these cities haunt their later literature and culture and might prompt us to reconsider the relationship between human culture and UK April 2018 • US April 2018 • 240 pages PB 9781350066892 • £28.99 / $39.95 the environment. Previously published in HB 9781472567635 Individual eBook 9781472567642 UK February 2018 • US February 2018 • 288 pages Library eBook 9781472567659 • PB 9781350060609 • £28.99 / $39.95 Series: Environmental Cultures Bloomsbury Academic Previously published in HB 9781474269827 Individual eBook 9781474269834 Library eBook 9781474269841

Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic Fuel An Ecocritical History

Heidi C. M. Scott, University of Maryland, USA The New Nature Writing Fuel: An Ecocritical History is the first book to chart Rethinking the Literature of Place our changing attitudes to fuel and energy through Jos Smith, University of East Anglia, UK the literature and culture of the modern era, from Drawing on original interviews with authors, the 18th century to the present. Reading a wide archival research, and the latest scholarly work in range of writers from Blake, Austen and Dickens the fields of literary geographies, critical localism to Upton Sinclair, Heidi Scott explores how our move from a pre- and archipelagic criticism, The New Nature industrial reliance on biomass and primary energy sources to our Writing covers the work of such writers as Robert current dependence on the fossil fuels of coal, oil and natural gas have MacFarlane, Richard Mabey and Alice Oswald. Examining the ways fundamentally shaped human identity and culture. in which these writers have engaged with a wide range of different environments, from the edgelands to island spaces, Jos Smith reveals UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 328 pages • 14 bw illus HB 9781350053984 • £85.00 / $114.00 how they recreate a resourceful and dynamic sense of localism in Individual eBook 9781350054004 rebellion against the homogenising growth of ‘clone town Britain’. Library eBook 9781350053991 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic

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Previously published in HB 9781474275019 Individual eBook 9781474275026 Library eBook 9781474275033 Climate Change Scepticism Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic A Transnational Ecocritical Analysis Greg Garrard, University of British Columbia,

Canada, Axel Goodbody, University of Bath, B LOOM S B URY Colonialism, Culture, Whales UK, George Handley, Brigham Young University, USA & Stephanie Posthumus, McGill University, The Cetacean Quartet Canada Graham Huggan, University of Leeds, UK Climate Change Scepticism is the first ecocritical ACADEMIC Written by leading postcolonial critic Graham study to examine the cultures and rhetoric of climate scepticism Huggan, Colonialism, Culture, Whales: The in the USA, UK, France and Germany. Collaboratively written by Cetacean Quarter explores how our attitudes to leading scholars from Europe and North America, the book draws on whales, whale-hunting and whale-watching expose literary close reading techniques and methods of frame analysis from colonial attitudes to the natural world in modern environmental communication to explore climate sceptical texts as culture. Across four innovative, multi-disciplinary chapters, the book literature, as a way of overcoming partisan political paralysis on the explores colonial histories of whaling, their legacies in contemporary most important cultural debate of our time. tourism from whale-watching excursions to the performing orcas at Subscribe to our newsletters, follow us on Twitter SeaWorld, and cultural representations of anxieties of extinction in UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 288 pages literature, film and television. HB 9781350057029 • £85.00 / $114.00 Individual eBook 9781350057043 and like us on Facebook so you don’t miss a thing! Library eBook 9781350057036 UK August 2018 • US August 2018 • 152 pages • 5 bw illus Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic HB 9781350010895 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350010901 Library eBook 9781350010918 Series: Environmental Cultures • Bloomsbury Academic @BloomsburyAcademic www.facebook.com/bloomsburyacademic www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 35 Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children’s Literature

Series Editor: Lisa Sainsbury, Roehampton University, UK Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children’s Literature seeks to expand Adulthood in Children's the range and quality of research in children’s literature through publishing innovative monographs by leading and rising scholars in Literature the field. With an emphasis on cross and inter-disciplinary studies, Vanessa Joosen, University of Antwerp, Belgium this series takes literary approaches as a starting point, drawing on Vanessa Joosen re-positions the lens of children's the particular capacity for children’s literature to open out into other literature studies to focus on the adult over the child. disciplines. Adulthood in Children’s Literature demonstrates how adulthood is a stage in life in and of itself, enacted

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UK November 2018 • US November 2018 • 280 pages • 11 bw illus Alison Waller, University of Roehampton, UK PB 9781350092198 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781474222327 Examining writers’ memoirs, contemporary reviews Individual eBook 9781474222334 and the experiences of readers in light of the latest Library eBook 9781474222341 work in memory studies, this book explores the Series: Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature • Bloomsbury Academic phenomenon of rereading childhood books in adulthood. Covering the work of such classic and contemporary writers as Lewis Carroll, Enid Blyton, C.S. Lewis and Kevin Crossley-Holland, Rereading Childhood Books develops a new model for understanding lifelong reading and argues for the need to reconceive the history of children’s literature through the shared and individual experiences of the readers who carry these books with them throughout their lives.

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Short-Form Creative Writing Critical Creative Writing A Writer's Guide and Anthology Essential Readings on the Writer's Craft Stephanie Lenox, Willamette College, USA & Edited by Janelle Adsit, Humboldt State H.K. Hummel, University of Arkansas at Little University, USA Rock, USA A comprehensive introduction to the key debates Short-Form Creative Writing is a complete in creative writing today, from the ethics of truth- introduction to the art and craft of writing in a telling to the complexities of appropriation. variety of short forms. The authors introduce Critical Creative Writing covers such topics as: both traditional and innovative approaches to the short form and Language & Community; Representation & Resistance; Appropriation demonstrate how it possesses structure, logic, and coherence while & Intertextuality; Difficulty & Accessibility; Audience & Evaluation; simultaneously resisting expectations. With discussion questions, and Aesthetics & Activism. The book anthologizes 25 essential writing prompts, flash interviews and glossary of key terms, the book works of creative writing criticism by international writers including also includes an anthology offering inspiring examples of short-form Ayana Mathis, Natasha Sajé, Porochista Khakpour, and Dorothy J. writing in all of the styles covered by the book. Wang, each contextualized with an introduction and followed by sample questions, writing prompts and suggested readings. The UK November 2018 • US November 2018 • 304 pages book’s companion website www.criticalcreativewriting.org offers PB 9781350019881 • £24.99 / $33.95 • HB 9781350019898 • £75.00 / $102.00 supplemental materials such as lesson plans and course materials. Individual eBook 9781350019904 Library eBook 9781350019911 Series: Bloomsbury Writers’ Guides and Anthologies • Bloomsbury Academic UK December 2018 • US December 2018 • 272 pages World English PB 9781350023321 • £25.99 / $35.95 • HB 9781350023338 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350023345 Library eBook 9781350023352 Bloomsbury Academic

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Collaborative Worldbuilding for Creative Writing Innovations Writers and Gamers Breaking Boundaries in the Classroom Trent Hergenrader, Rochester Institute of Edited by Michael Dean Clark, Azusa Pacific Technology, USA University, USA, Trent Hergenrader, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA & Joseph Rein, From Dungeons and Dragons to Minecraft University of Wisconsin, River Falls, USA to NaNoWriMo, new transmedia worlds and narratives are being built collaboratively online, When teachers experiment, students benefit. When in classrooms and in writing groups everywhere. students gain confidence to pursue their own literary This bookdescribes how writers can co-create vast shared worlds experiments, creative writing can become a life-changing experience. to use as common settings for their narratives. Using role-playing With chapters written by experienced teachers and classroom games as a model, and drawing from creative writing craft exercises innovators, Creative Writing Innovations builds on these principles to and educational theories, readers are guided step-by-step through uncover the true potential of the creative writing classroom. Rooted in the process of collaboratively building vibrant worlds for telling classroom experience, this book takes teaching beyond the traditional interconnected stories. The book includes a companion website workshop model to explore topics such as multi-media genres, with links to online resources, templates for wiki entries and lists of collaborative writing and issues of identity. Taken together, this is an best practices for collaborative world building, craft tips and critique essential guide for teachers of creative writing at all levels. advice. UK August 2018 • US August 2018 • 256 pages • 1 bw illus PB 9781350081635 • £28.99 / $39.95 UK October 2018 • US October 2018 • 272 pages • 18 bw illus Previously published in HB 9781474297172 PB 9781350016668 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350016675 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781474297189 Individual eBook 9781350016699 Library eBook 9781474297196 Library eBook 9781350016682 Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic

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RM+SS_FY19.indd 1 13/08/2018 15:19 Cultural Histories Series MAJOR REFERENCE WORKS The Cultural Histories are multi-volume sets offering comprehensive surveys of the social and cultural construction of specific subjects across six historical periods: Antiquity; The Medieval Age; The Renaissance; The Enlightenment; The Age of Empire; and The Modern Age. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters so that readers may gain a broad understanding of a period by reading an entire volume, or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Titles are also available as part of a fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).

A Cultural History of the Emotions Six-Volume Set Edited by Susan Broomhall, University of Western Australia, Australia, Jane W. Davidson, University of Western Australia, Australia & Andrew Lynch, University of Western Australia, Australia A thematic reference work covering the cultural history of the emotions from antiquity to the 21st century. Themes and chapter titles are: Medical and Scientific Understandings; Religion and Spirituality; Music and Dance; Drama; The Visual Arts; Literature; In Private: The Individual and the Domestic Community; and In Public: Collectivities and Polities.

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A Cultural History of Disability Six-Volume Set Edited by David Bolt, Liverpool Hope University, UK & Robert McRuer, George Washington University, USA Over 50 experts, 48 chapters and around 2,000 pages add to our understanding of disability from antiquity to the present day. Themes and chapter titles are: Atypical Bodies; Mobility Impairment; Chronic Pain and Illness; Blindness; Deafness; Speech; Learning Difficulties; and Mental Health.

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A Cultural History of Theatre Six-Volume Set Edited by Christopher B. Balme, University of Munich, Germany & Tracy C. Davis, Northwestern University, USA The first comprehensive overview of theatre in culture and culture in theatre throughout history. Themes and chapter titles are: Institutional Frameworks; Social Functions; Sexuality and Gender; The Environment of Theatre; Circulation; Interpretations; Communities of Production; Repertoire and Genres; Technologies of Performance; and Knowledge Transmission: Media and Memory.

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A Cultural History of Tragedy Six-Volume Set Edited by Rebecca Bushnell, University of Pennsylvania, USA 55 experts, 48 chapters and around 1,800 pages add greatly to our understanding of the influence of tragedy on society from antiquity to the present day. Themes and chapter titles are: Forms and Media; Sites of Performance and Circulation; Communities of Production and Consumption; Philosophy and Social Theory; Religion, Ritual and Myth; Politics of City and Nation; Society and Family; and Gender and Sexuality.

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MAJOR REFERENCE WORKS The Great European Stage Directors Two Four-Volume Sets Edited by Simon Shepherd, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK The two sets offer an account of the work, lineage and legacy of the major theatre directors from the late 19th century onwards. Each volume provides a substantial treatment of three directors, with each individual considered by two specialists, combining analysis of their practical craft

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Decades of Modern American Drama Eight-Volume Set Playwriting from the 1930s to 2009 Edited by Brenda Murphy, University of Connecticut, USA & Julia Listengarten, University of Central Florida, USA A comprehensive study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1930s to 2009, each volume equips readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which work emerged, as well as a thorough survey of the companies, dramatists, new movements and developments in theatre. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from each decade receives in-depth analysis, and a final section brings together original documents.

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Literature and the Environment Four-Volume Set Critical and Primary Sources Edited by Stephanie LeMenager, University of Oregon, USA & Teresa Shewry, University of California Santa Barbara, USA Bringing together 100 essential critical articles, this set is a comprehensive collection of the most important academic writings on ecocriticism and literature’s engagement with environmental crisis. With texts by key scholars, creative writers and activists, the articles in these four volumes follow the development and history of environmental criticism, including work by writers such as: Stacy Alaimo, Jonathan Bate, Rosi Braidotti, Jacques Derrida, Ursula K. Heise, Bruno Latour, Rob Nixon, Arundati Roy, Ken Saro-Wiwa, William Shakespeare, Leslie Marmon Silko, Henry David Thoreau, E.O. Wilson, Cary Wolfe and William Wordsworth.

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The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism Three-Volume Set Edited by Michael Richardson, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Surrealism is one of the most influential and popular art forms of the last century. It has shaped painting, literature, film, photography, music, theatre, architecture, fashion and design, as well as thinking about politics and culture. The Encyclopedia presents the first comprehensive and systematic overview of surrealism internationally, from its beginnings to the present day.

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