LITERARY 2015 STUDIES THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH LITERARY STUDIES Key Textbooks 4 Bible & Classical 44 Literary Criticism 11 Theory 45 20th Century 16 Transatlantic Literature 51 War Literature 18 Arabic & Persian Literature 53 Modernism 20 Scottish Literature 54 Gothic 34 Journals 62 19th Century, Romanticism 36 Index 65 Shakespeare & Renaissance 42 Order Form 67 Placing your order Please email our sales department: [email protected] Mailing list Join our mailing list to sign up for catalogues, email bulletins and journal ToC alerts. Create your account and manage your mailing preferences at www.euppublishing.com/action/registration Ebooks Books marked with an ebook are available as ebooks. Our ebooks are available for individuals to buy from the Kindle and Nook stores and are available to libraries from a number of aggregators and platforms. 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New research monographs include 7 new titles in the Edinburgh FORTHCOMING Critical Studies in Victorian Culture series as well as the first titles in the new Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism series. Three new titles are publishing in our Gothic Companions series: on Romantic Gothic, American Gothic Culture and Women and the Gothic. We have several new research companions – The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction and The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory – as well as The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism, edited by Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Olga Taxidou. We are also delighted to publish The Poetry and Critical Writings of Katherine Mansfield, the 3rd volume in The Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works of Katherine Mansfield series, edited by Gerri Kimber and Angela Smith. NEW Look out for the newly annotated critical edition of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, edited by Adam Roberts, The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Selected Writings of Andrew Lang, in two volumes as well as the first volume in The Edinburgh Edition of the Periodical Criticism of Walter Scott and The Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, complete in a 3-volume set. Key new textbooks for classroom use include The European Avant- Gardes, 1905–1935: A Portable Guide and Teaching Transatlanticism: Resources for Teaching Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Print Culture, with its accompanying dedicated website. Books in paperback for students and general readers are Shakespeare and Continental Philosophy, The Decadent Short Story: NEW IN PAPERBACK An Annotated Anthology and 9/11 and the Literature of Terror. We hope there is something here for your research, your library and your teaching. Kind regards, Jackie Jones Edinburgh University Press THE UNIVERSITY Literary Studies 3 of EDINBURGH KEY TEXTBOOKS Teaching Transatlanticism Resources for Teaching Nineteenth-Century Anglo- American Print Culture Edited by Linda K. Hughes and Sarah R. Robbins, both at Texas Christian University FORTHCOMING An essential resource for teaching 19th-century print culture in Transatlantic Studies The 18 chapters in this book outline conceptual approaches to the field and provide practical resources for teaching, ranging from ideas for individual class sessions to full syllabi and curricular frameworks. February 2015 312pp The book is divided into 5 key sections: Curricular Histories Pb 978 0 7486 9446 4 £29.99 and Key Trends; Organising Curriculum through Transatlantic Hb 978 0 7486 9445 7 £90.00 Lenses; Teaching Transatlantic Figures; Teaching Genres in ebook textbook Transatlantic Context; and Envisioning Digital Transatlanticism. Individual chapters from experts in the field range from reconceptualising entire courses to revisiting individual texts, authors and genres through a transatlantic lens. Weaving in strategies from innovative teaching shaped by the digital humanities, the collection also looks ahead to the future of this growing field. A dedicated Teaching Transatlanticism website accompanies the book: https://teachingtransatlanticism.tcu.edu/ Key Features • Provides readers with help about the conceptual and practical issues • Classroom accounts address multiple genres, issues and media • Reflections on real-world teaching contexts are blended with scholarly analysis of key issues in the field today • The specially designed project website supports the book and invites continued conversations through a moderated discussion space and submission venue for readers’ own teaching materials 4 www.euppublishing.com KEY TEXTBOOKS Modernist and Avant-Garde Performance An Introduction Claire Warden, University of Lincoln The first detailed, student-focused introduction to modernist avant-garde performance FORTHCOMING This textbook introduces the reader to modernist avant- garde theatre. It clearly explains the key terms as well as the major movements, including expressionism, dadaism, futurism, Workers’ theatres, constructivism and the living newspaper, and mass performance, using a case study approach. It introduces the important innovations of the modernist avant-garde, reassesses theatrical techniques, February 2015 224pp and provides examples of plays and performances from Pb 978 0 7486 8155 6 £19.99 across Europe and America. There are also chapters on the Hb 978 0 7486 8154 9 £70.00 modernist body and on interdisciplinary performance. The ebook textbook book approaches the modernist avant-garde both as an area of academic study and as potential raw material for contemporary performance. Key Features • The first introductory guide to the modernist theatrical avant-garde • Includes case studies, practical exercises at the end of each chapter, an annotated bibliography and a glossary of performance terms • Includes links to performance-based explorations of theatrical techniques • Provides a springboard for further independent study, both theoretical and practical Literary Studies 5 KEY TEXTBOOKS Sascha Bru The European Avant-Gardes, 1905–1935 A Portable Guide The European Sascha Bru, KU Leuven Avant-Gardes, The first introduction to the early 20th-century European 1905-1935 avant-gardes A Portable Guide FORTHCOMING The works of the classic European avant-gardes (cubism, futurism, expressionism, Dadaism, constructivism and many other -isms) today still strike many students of modernism as strange or incomprehensible. Is this art? Do we have to take a sound poem seriously? How, at all, are we to read and interpret avant-garde works? And what on earth is the fourth dimension in physics that fascinated so many avant-gardists? December 2015 288pp Pb 978 0 7486 9591 1 £24.99 This engaging introduction is designed to answer all these Hb 978 0 7486 9590 4 £75.00 questions and more. ebook textbook In 3 thematic sections – Strategies and Tactics; Spaces and Places; and Times and Temporalities, each divided into 3 chapters – the book sketches the cultural and political contexts in which the avant-gardes operated, taking readers on a journey throughout the whole of Europe, from London to Moscow, and back. It discusses the most salient features of the avant-gardes’ work in all the arts (including dance and film), and it succinctly surveys all major avant-garde movements. Clearly written, this textbook shows students how and why the avant-gardes are to be taken seriously as an important force in the development of modern art and writing. Key Features • An up-to-date, historically and geographically comprehensive textbook for students of modernism • Covers all the arts of the ‘classic’ European avant-gardes, from 1905 to 1935 • 9 concise chapters with a topical and thematic approach • 12 text-boxes handily summarise the most important modernist avant-garde movements • Clearly and accessibly written, illustrated throughout 6 www.euppublishing.com KEY TEXTBOOKS Creative Criticism An Anthology and Guide Edited by Stephen Benson and Clare Connors, both at University of East Anglia A guide to the creative possibilities of critical writing, with sample texts from a range of writer/critics Of interest to all students, teachers and critics of literature and creative writing, this anthology gathers 14 exemplary texts, which share a common question: how to write criticism in response to artworks whose aim is to change the ways in which we see and describe our world? 2014 320pp Key Features Pb 978 0 7486 7433 6 £24.99 Hb 978 0 7486 7432 9 £75.00 • Unique as an anthology of and guide to creative critical writing ebook textbook • Demonstrates a range of ways to write critically and creatively • Extensive introduction; explanatory headnotes to each text The Handbook of Creative Writing Edited