Literary Studies 13 PDF

Incorporating
L i t e r a r y S t u d i es
2013
C o n t i n u u m b o o k s a r e n o w p u b l i s h e d u n d e r Bl o o m s b u r y
VISIT THE NEW BLOOMSBURY WEBSITE
w w w. b l o o m s b u r y. c o m / a c a d e m i c
K E Y F E AT U RE S
 Bloomsbury’s complete range of academic

titles, all in one place, by discipline
Online previews of many titles
Join in our online communities via blogs,

twitter and facebook
 Sign up for our subject-specific newsletters
FOR ACA DEM IC S FO R L IBR AR IANS

• Full inspection copy ordering service, including • Bloomsbury Academic Collections and Major
NEW e-inspection copies Reference Work areas
• Links to online resources and companion websites • Links to our Online Libraries, including Berg Fashion
Library, The Churchill Archive and Drama Online
• Discuss books, new research and current affairs on
our subject-specific academic online communities • Information and subscription details for Bloomsbury
Journals, including Fashion Theory, Food, Culture
• Dedicated textbook and eBook areas
and Society, The Design Journal and Anthrozoos
FOR ST UDE N T S FO R AUT HO R S

• Links to online resources, such as bibliographies, • Information about publishing with Bloomsbury and
author interviews, case studies and audio/video the publishing process
materials
• Style guidelines
• Share ideas and learn about research and
• Book and journal submissions information and
key topics in your subject areas via our online
proposals form
communities
• Recommended reading lists suggest key titles for
student use
Sign up for newsletters and to join our communities at:

w w w. b l o o m s b u r y. c o m
Contents
Bloomsbury Head Offices and Distributors
Letter from the Editors 2
UK, Europe and Rest of World
Introductory Literary Studies 3
Bloomsbury Publishing
Literary Theory 6 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK
Contemporary Literature 9 Tel: +44 (0)207 631 5600
Fax: +44 (0)207 631 5800
Modernism 17
academic@bloomsbury.com
Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Literature 20
Classical Literature 23 UK Trade Orders
Macmillan Distribution (MDL)
British and Irish Literature 26 Brunel Road, Houndmills, Basingstoke, RG21 6XT
North and South American Literature 28 Tel: +44 1256 302692
European Literature 32 Fax: +44 1256 812521 / 812558
orders@macmillan.co.uk
Comparative Literature 34
Literature and Philosophy 34 US, Canada, Central and South America
Bloomsbury Academic
Literature and Religion 39
80 Maiden Lane, Suite 704, New York, NY 10038, USA
Literature and Media 41 Tel: +1 212-953-5858
Comics and Graphic Novels 44 Fax: +1 212-953-5944
askacademic@bloomsbury.com
Genre Studies 45
Children’s Literature 47 US Trade Orders
Writing 48 Bloomsbury USA
MPS/BUSA Orders
English Language and Translation 50
16365 James Madison Highway, Gordonsville, VA 22942, USA
Methuen Drama 52 Tel: +1 888-330-8477
Drama Online 53 Fax: +1 800-672-2054
orders@mpsvirginia.com
The Arden Shakespeare 54 customerservice@mpsvirginia.com
Index 64
Representatives, Agents & Distributors 67
eBooks Proposals
eBook availability is indicated under each book entry: If you have a book proposal, please contact one of the editors listed on
Individual eBook: available for your e-reader. page 2 or submit your proposal using forms available at
www.bloomsbury.com/academic/forauthors.
Library eBook: available for institution-wide access.
See the website for details of vendors.
eBook prices listed in this catalogue relate to the RRP, including UK VAT Inspection / Exam Copies
on the sterling price. Prices vary according to local tax, and are subject
to change by individual vendors beyond the publisher’s control. textbook
Books with this symbol are available on inspection / as exam copies
and are particularly suitable for course use. If you would like to request
Review Copies any other paperback books on inspection please contact us at
For copies of books for review in journals, please email askacademic@bloomsbury.com (North and South America) or
askacademic@bloomsbury.com in North and South America and inspectioncopies@bloomsbury.com (UK and Rest of World).
academicreviews@bloomsbury.com in the UK and rest of world.
www textbook
Standing Orders In addition to the above, books with this symbol also have a companion
Many of our series are available on a standing order basis. For further website or online resources.
information contact our trade ordering departments (as listed above). Please see the website for our full inspection/exam/desk copy policy.
Translation Rights
Translation rights for all titles are available unless otherwise indicated.
open
Books with this symbol are available to read for free online, under the
Pricing and Availability Creative Commons or Bloomsbury Open licence.
Whilst we endeavour to ensure that prices, publication dates and other

details in this catalogue are correct on going to press, they are subject
to change without further notice.
www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com 1

L etter from the E ditors
L etter from the E ditors
Welcome to Bloomsbury Literary Studies

Incorporating Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare
Welcome to the new Bloomsbury Literary Studies catalogue, now also including The Arden Shakespeare and Methuen
Drama. As you will have noticed, for the first time this catalogue is coming out under the Bloomsbury name instead
of the separate Continuum and Bloomsbury Academic imprints. We wanted to give you some background to this
rebranding. In 2008, Bloomsbury decided to invest in building a new academic division. Growth since that decision
was taken has been very rapid: we now publish around 1,100 titles each year, with a particularly big presence in the
Humanities and Social Sciences, and our backlist comprises some 20,000 titles. The purchase of Continuum in 2011
was a key part of this growth.
We believe we are stronger as a group, which is why we have taken the strategic decision to adopt the Bloomsbury
name for all academic titles that we publish. With effect from 1st September 2012, all new Continuum titles will be
published under the Bloomsbury brand, although we will be retaining the Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare
imprints given the rich history of publishing excellence associated with these names. This will make it easier for you
to find quality publishing in literary studies, rather than navigating across a number of imprints.
The values of Continuum, Bloomsbury Academic, The Arden Shakespeare and other imprints which you have appreciated
over the years are already integral to the larger entity that is Bloomsbury. Much has changed over the past 12 months,
but we remain as committed to our authors and to publishing the same high quality textbooks, course books, primary
texts, research monographs, reference works, professional and general interest books, journals and online resources.
Publishing in Print and Digital

Bloomsbury leads the way in digital publishing, for example with the launch of Drama Online in spring 2013 (p.53).
Featuring the pre-eminent drama titles from the Methuen Drama, The Arden Shakespeare and Faber and Faber lists
it will form a collection of the most studied, performed and critically acclaimed plays from the last two and half
thousand years. In addition, expert student guidance in the form of scholarly notes, annotated texts, critical analysis
and contextual information alongside performance and practitioner texts and video and audio material, will make this
an essential study tool meeting the full range of drama teaching needs. Visit www.dramaonlinelibrary.com for more
information.
Highlights
We are also proud to be presenting a very strong selection of new books for readers at all levels: from a new edition
of Peter Barry’s English in Practice (p.3) for students embarking on undergraduate study for the first time, through
to cutting edge scholarly research. Other highlights include two new titles in our Arvon series of creative writing
guides covering Crime and Thriller Writing and Literary Non-Fiction (p.49), as well as Estimating Emerson (p.29), an
anthology of critical responses to the great American writer’s work. Do check out the latest titles in the third series of
the prestigious The Arden Shakespeare, too, including new editions of Coriolanus and Romeo and Juliet (p.55).
New Website
Finally we are delighted to announce the launch of a new global Bloomsbury website: www.bloomsbury.com.
This site brings together everything under the Bloomsbury Group, including Continuum, The Arden Shakespeare,
Methuen Drama, Berg, T&T Clark, Bristol Classical Press, and A&C Black titles. The site features enhanced academic
functionality such as online previews, digital inspection copies, textbook companion sites and online resources. Go to
www.bloomsbury.com/academic for more information.
We hope you enjoy reading our latest catalogue.
David Avital, Senior Commissioning Editor Margaret Bartley, Publisher, The Arden Shakespeare
david.avital@bloomsbury.com margaret.bartley@bloomsbury.com
Haaris Naqvi, Senior Commissioning Editor Mark Dudgeon, Senior Editor, Methuen Drama
haaris.naqvi@bloomsbury.com mark.dudgeon@bloomsbury.com
@bloomsburylit • @Ardenpublisher (Arden Twitter) Bloomsbury Literary Studies
www.bloomsburyliterarystudies.typepad.com
2 www.bloomsbury.com/literarystudies
I ntroductory L iterary S tudies

English in Practice 2nd
edition
textbook How to Read Texts 2nd
edition
textbook
In Pursuit of English Studies A Student Guide to Critical

Peter Barry Approaches and Skills
“I cannot imagine a better way for a student Neil McCaw
of English to start his or her studies than by “How to Read Texts is filled with a passion for reading and for
reading English in Practice. The best thing about authorship. Lively and approachable, this is a great book for
Peter Barry’s book is that issues of fundamental anyone interested in how we approach the texts we encounter in
importance are introduced by means of detailed our lives.” Graeme Harper, Bangor University, UK
examples, so that the student reader never need
feel lost or out of his or her depth. But at the same • Updated second edition helps students analyse a wide range of
time it is a book that forces the reader to think multi-media texts beyond the literary
rather than merely to absorb facts and opinions.” • Now includes additional guidance on writing critical essays and tips
Jeremy Hawthorn, Norwegian University of Science for independent research
and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
• A practical and accessible student guide to critical reading skills,
“Students will find Barry’s style clear, honest and informative” including practice exercises
Times Higher Education
• Now covering multi-media texts and practical advice on essay-
• A key foundation book for those at the outset of their courses in writing and independent research, this is an essential guide to
English critical reading at university level
• Rooted in the realities of day-to-day practice and engaged with Now in its second edition, How to Read Texts introduces students
theoretical debates to key critical approaches to literary texts and offers a practical
• The author is well known for his immensely successful Beginning introduction for students developing their own critical and close-
Theory, now in its third edition reading skills. Written in a lively, jargon-free style, it explains critical
concepts, approaches and ideas including:
• Aimed at those who are taking or teaching English degrees, this book
is a reflective overview of the discipline’s core and why we study it • Debates around critical theory
Fully revised and updated, this new edition of English in Practice aims • The role of history and context
to define or redefine our purposes for studying English. Including five • The links between creativity and criticism
new chapters, English in Practice outlines key topics such as literary
criticism and theory, English as language, online resources and advice • The relationship between author, reader and text.
on writing a dissertation. The book works through a series of fully Neil McCaw is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University
developed examples rather than abstract exposition, encouraging of Winchester, UK.
student readers to think for themselves.
UK September 2013 • US November 2013
Peter Barry is Professor of English at Aberystwyth University, UK. His has 192 pages
published on twentieth and twenty-first-century literature (especially modern PB 9781441190666 • £14.99 / $24.95
and contemporary poetry) and literary theory. HB 9781441174307 • £45.00 / $80.00
Individual eBook 9781441142221 • £14.99 / $19.99
224 pages
PB 9781780930336 • £14.99 / $24.95

Studying English Literature textbook Studying Literary Theory 2nd

edition
textbook
bestseller An Introduction bestseller
Ashley Chantler and David Higgins
Roger Webster
“Studying English Literature contains literary and
social history and a glossary of terms, balances “The explanations are lucid, helpfully contrasting the various
thoughtful generalizations with careful case theories.” C
HOICE, of 1st Edition
studies, and explains how best to use literary Like its previous edition, this book provides an accessible introductory
theory and secondary criticism (and how not to use guide to some of the most important aspects of literary theory, linking
it). This excellent guide will be consulted often them to more traditional terms and approaches. In doing so, it offers a
by undergraduates studying literature, if they are fuller introduction to a wider range of literary theories, including post-
wise.” Merritt Moseley, Professor of Literature and structuralism, post-modernism, New Historicism, post-colonial theory,
Language, The University of North Carolina at Asheville, USA and theories of sexual identity. Additional theories are revised and
• Chronological structure introduces history of English literature extended in this edition with additional illustrative material.
from Renaissance to the present, each chapter focusing on a key Roger Webster is Professor of Literary Studies at Liverpool John Moores
period and introducing the historical context, key authors and texts, University, UK.
criticism and theory
UK October 1995 • US October 1995
• Practical case studies on major texts commonly studied at level one 144 pages
provide analyses demonstrating the critical techniques, tools and PB 9780340584996 • £14.99 / $45.00
terms introduced Series: Studying...
Ashley Chanter is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Chester, UK.

David Higgins is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Leeds, UK.
Modern Literary Theory 4th
edition
textbook
UK February 2010 • US April 2010 bestseller
264 pages A Reader
PB 9780826497505 • £18.99 / $32.95
HB 9780826497499 • £60.00 / $110.00
Edited by Patricia Waugh and Philip Rice
• Covering the key theoretical approaches in modern literary theory,
this book offers an authoritative selection of essays and documents
with helpful introductory commentary
Studying the Novel 6th
edition
textbook
• Includes texts which do not deal directly with literature yet have a
bestseller
Jeremy Hawthorn fundamental importance to the discipline from thinkers including
“A model of compact exposition” The Times Marx, Freud and de Beauvoir
Educational Supplement Patricia Waugh is Professor of English Literature at Durham University, UK.
• The most established and well-thought-of Philip Rice was formerly Principal Lecturer in Communication Studies at
introduction to the novel, first published in 1985 Coventry University, UK.
and updated every four years since
UK May 2001 • US May 2001
• Includes coverage of film adaptation, of fiction and 512 pages
electronic media and of cyberfiction PB 9780340761915 • £19.99 / $39.95
• Sophisticated enough to appeal to Masters students, while lightly-

written and engaging enough to entice reading-group members
• Includes topics for discussion and practical tips on writing essays and
answering exam questions
• The section on the ‘short story’ and the ‘novella’ have been
developed into two separate chapters to reflect the increasing
popularity of these areas
Jeremy Hawthorn is Professor of British Literature at the Norwegian University
of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
UK July 2010 • US June 2010

288 pages
PB 9780340985137 • £14.99 / $22.95
Individual eBook 9781849660464 • £14.99
Series: Studying...
4 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • orders@macmillan.co.uk


The Poetry Toolkit 2nd
edition
textbook Literary Theory bestseller
The Essential Guide to Studying Poetry A Guide for the Perplexed

Rhian Williams Mary Klages
“Whether you’re a new-comer to poetry or a This Guide for the Perplexed provides an advanced
longtime reader, Rhian Williams’ The Poetry introduction to literary theory from basic information
Toolkit offers welcomed guidance. The book ranges and orientation for the uninformed leading on to
from the introductory (what does “stress” mean?) more sophisticated readings. It engages directly
to the sophisticated and complex. Throughout, the with the difficulty many students find intimidating,
author provides clear frameworks for interpreting asking ‘What is “Literary Theory’’?’ and offering a
how poetry’s formal structures participate in the clear, concise, accessible guide to the major theories
work of meaning-making. This book will relieve and theorists, including: humanism; structuralism;
students’ anxiety and deepen their understanding.” Jason R. poststructuralism; psychoanalytic approaches; feminist approaches;
Rudy,Assistant Professor of English University of Maryland, College queer theory; ideology and discourse; new historicism; race and
Park, USA postcolonialism; postmodernism. The final chapter points to new
directions in literary and cultural theory.
• Now in its 2nd edition, this guide helps students build the knowledge
and tools needed to tackle poetry with confidence Mary Klages is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University
of Colorado, Boulder, USA.
• Now includes practice comparative readings and more contemporary
examples in the expanded close reading section UK November 2006 • US January 2007
192 pages
• Easy to use reference format allows students to find key information PB 9780826490735 • £14.99 / $22.95
quickly HB 9780826490728 • £45.00 / $80.00
• Including exercises and practice readings, this guide helps students Library eBook 9781441167811 • £45.00 / $80.00
master the study of poetry Series: Guides for the Perplexed
Rhian Williams is Lecturer in Nineteenth-century Literature at the University of
Glasgow, UK.
UK January 2013 • US March 2013

288 pages
PB 9781441182784 • £17.99 / $29.95
From Language to textbook
HB 9781441116215 • £55.00 / $100.00 Creative Writing

An Introduction
Philip Seargeant and Bill Greenwell
On Modern Poetry
• The only book of its kind to combine the study of
From Theory to Total Criticism English language with practical creative writing
Robert Rowland Smith exercises
All too often, the history of poetry criticism in the • It draws on The Open University’s expertise in
20th Century is told as a tale of two sides. While ‘Lit creating market-leading textbooks and guides for
crit’ pored over the author’s every line, ‘Theory’ students, tutors and aspiring writers
stood on the shoulder of texts to gaze into the • Includes practical exercises to develop and refine
metaphysical mists. Drawing on the key insights of writing skills
both Lit crit and Theory, On Modern Poetry tries to
get beyond the opposition between them, proposing • This textbook examines the ways that language is used in different
instead a ‘total criticism’ that draws on all resources contexts and combines it with the study and practice of creative
available. It combines ‘analytic irony’ with ‘imaginative empathy’ in writing strategies
order to generate fresh insights. The themes discussed in the first part Developed by The Open University, this textbook offers an innovative
of the book include tradition, voice, rhyme, rhetoric, and objects, introduction to the study of the English language and the practices,
bringing in critics such as Eliot, Heidegger, Empson, Blackmur, and De skills and strategies of creative writing. For anyone studying English
Man. The second part examines texts by Tennyson, Symons, Hopkins, Language or Creative Writing at tertiary level or in higher education,
Larkin and Prynne. or for developing writers and those interested in the nature of
Robert Rowland Smith is Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, UK. linguistic creativity, it offers a uniquely integrated approach. Readers
will better understand the structure and uses of language and be able
UK July 2012 • US September 2012 to use a full range of strategies in crafting and developing their own
208 pages writing.
PB 9781441174222 • £18.99 / $32.95
HB 9781441165725 • £60.00 / $110.00 Philip Seargeant is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics in the Centre for Language
Individual eBook 9781441148520 • £18.99 / $23.99 and Communication, The Open University, UK.
Library eBook 9781441149763 • £60.00 / $110.00
Bill Greenwell is Lecturer in Creative Writing at The Open University, UK. He
is co-author of A Creative Writing Handbook: Developing Dramatic Technique,
Individual Style and Voice (Bloomsbury, 2009).
UK November 2012 • US January 2013

288 pages
PB 9781408175217 • £19.99 / $29.95

L iterary T heory
L iterary T heory
Maurice Blanchot and Style in Theory Adaptation Studies

Fragmentary Writing Between Literature and Philosophy New Challenges, New Directions
A Change of Epoch Edited by Ivan Callus, Edited by Jorgen Bruhn,
James Corby, and Gloria Anne Gjelsvik, and Eirik
Leslie Hill
Lauri-Lucente Frisvold Hanssen
“Maurice Blanchot and
Fragmentary Writing is a “Does style matter? It Extending the boundaries
remarkable study of the is a question that goes of contemporary adaptation
most extraordinary and right to the heart of studies, this book
enduring literary figure the traditionally fraught brings together leading
in twentieth-century relationship between international scholars to
France. An acknowledged literature and philosophy. survey new directions in the
authority on Blanchot [This] is an important and timely collection field. Re-thinking the key questions at the
and his peers, Leslie Hill guides the reader of essays that answers this question with heart of the discipline, Adaptation Studies:
through some of the most difficult and an emphatic and compelling ‘yes’. Offering New Directions, New Challenges explores a
exciting writing produced after the Second an impressive range of profound and wide range of perspectives and case studies in
World War: his remarks on the imbrications engaging reflections on the question of cross-media transformation.
of literature and philosophy are never less style in its various literary and philosophical Jorgen Bruhn is Associate Professor in the School
than illuminating. Any new book by Leslie manifestations, Style in Theory shows us of Language and Literature at Linneaus University,
Hill is an event in French Studies, and this why we ought to be thinking about style Sweden.
one is no exception.” Kevin Hart, Edwin B. differently.” Simon Critchley, Hans Jonas Anne Gjelsvik is Professor of Media Studies at the
Kyle Professor of Christian Studies, University Professor of Philosophy, The New School, New Norwegian Univeristy of Science and Technology.
of Virginia, USA York, USA
Eirik Frisvold Hanssen is Associate Professor of
Ivan Callus is Associate Professor and Head of the Film Studies at the Norwegian University of Science
For the first time in any language, this book Department of English at the University of Malta. and Technology.
explores in detail Blanchot’s own writing in
fragments in order to understand the stakes James Corby is Lecturer in the Department of
English at the University of Malta. UK May 2013 • US July 2013
of the fragmentary within philosophical and 208 pages
literary modernity. Gloria Lauri-Lucente is Director of the Institute PB 9781441192660 • £21.99 / $34.95
of Anglo-Italian Studies, Head of the Department of HB 9781441194671 • £65.00 / $120.00
Leslie Hill is Professor of French Studies at the Italian and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Individual eBook 9781441127969 • £21.99 / $23.99
University of Warwick, UK. University of Malta. Library eBook 9781441106476 • £65.00 / $120.00
UK September 2012 • US July 2012 UK January 2013 • US November 2012

400 pages 288 pages
PB 9781441166227 • £22.99 / $39.95 PB 9781441128935 • £21.99 / $34.95
HB 9781441125279 • £70.00 / $130.00 HB 9781441122186 • £65.00 / $120.00
Individual eBook 9781441171276 • £22.99 / $24.99 Individual eBook 9781441159007 • £21.99 / $23.99
Library eBook 9781441186980 • £70.00 / $110 Library eBook 9781441118592 • £65.00 / $120.00
The Transformative Humanities Filmspeak

A Manifesto How to Understand Literary Theory by Watching Movies
Mikhail Epstien Edward Tomarken
Edited by Igor E. Klyukanov Filmspeak is an accessible, innovative book which
Foreword by Caryl Emerson uses specific examples to show how once arcane
literary and cultural theory has infiltrated popular
Mikhail Epstein outlines the ‘desirable’ disciplines culture. Issues such as the nature of knowledge
and methodologies that may emerge in the or truth, the function of personal response in
humanities in response to the new realities of the interpretation, the nature of the forces of politics,
twenty-first century. Are the humanities a purely the female alternative to the male view of the world,
scholarly field, or should they have some active, are fundamental for all of us. And intelligent analysis
constructive supplement? We know that technology of the relationship between literary theory and popular culture can
serves as the practical extension of the natural sciences, and politics help us to understand our fast-changing world. Here, experienced
as the extension of the social sciences. Both technology and politics literary scholar and teacher Edward L. Tomarken explains how it is
are designed to transform what their respective disciplines study possible to study the rudiments of literary theory by watching and
objectively. The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto addresses the analyzing contemporary mainstream movies – from The Dark Knight to
question: Is there any activity in the humanities that would correspond The Devil Wears Prada.
to the transformative status of technology and politics?
Edward Tomarken is an emeritus professor of English at Miami University, Ohio,
Mikhail Epstein is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and USA.
Russian Literature at Emory University, USA, and Professor of Russian and Cultural
Theory at Durham University, UK. UK November 2012 • US September 2012
Igor E. Klyukanov is Professor of Communication Studies at Eastern Washington 208 pages
University, USA. PB 9780826428936 • £17.99 / $29.95
HB 9780826428929 • £55.00 / $100.00
Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Individual eBook 9781623562908 • £17.99 / $23.99
Literatures, and Professor of Comparative Literature, at Princeton University, USA. Library eBook 9781623563790 • £55.00 / $100.00
UK November 2012 • US September 2012

272 pages
PB 9781441155078 • £19.99 / $34.95
HB 9781441100467 • £65.00 / $120.00
Library eBook 9781441160942 • £65.00 / $120.00

L iterary T heory
L iterary T heory
Contagious Metaphor Mindful Aesthetics The Constitution of open
Peta Mitchell Literature and the Science of Mind English Literature
“Peta Mitchell’s highly Edited by Chris Danta Ideology, State and Nation
readable Contagious and Helen Groth
Metaphor explores medical Michael Gardiner
In the last few decades,
and popular beliefs and In this extended essay,
literary critics have
practices about contagion Michael Gardiner argues that
increasingly drawn insights
– and the metaphors that English Literature emerges
from cognitive neuroscience
shape them. Reaching back from the development of the
to deepen and clarify our
through the nineteenth state and that consequently
understanding of literary
century and then ranging widely through it has suppressed the idea of
representations of mind.
more recent decades, she shows how the nation. His claim is that
While cognitive literary studies has reinforced
ambivalence about figurative language and English Literature has lost
how central the concept of mind is to
misunderstanding of metaphor itself has its form since its methodology and canonicity
aesthetic practice from the classical period
shaped our responses to epidemics both depended so heavily on a constitutional
to the present, critics have questioned its
imagined and experienced. From miasma to form which can no longer be defended.
literalism and selective borrowing of scientific
Dionysian frenzy to memes on the internet, His view is that a lack of appreciation of
authority. Mindful Aesthetics presents both
Mitchell challenges our assumptions about ‘hard-edged’ political factors have led to a
these perspectives as part of a broader
both language and contagion, providing ‘continuant’ and regressive form of English
consideration of the ongoing and vital
engaging and provocative analyses of Literature which tends to hang on to stifling
importance of shifting concepts of mind to
examples from film, philosophy, linguistics methodologies. In its place, he appeals for
both literary and critical practice.
and literature.” Pamela K. Gilbert, the creation of a more open-ended, inclusive,
Department of English University of Florida, Chris Danta is Senior Lecturer in English in the internationalist, and comparative ‘literature
USA School of English, Media and Performing Arts at the
of England’.
University of New South Wales, Australia.
In Contagious Metaphor, Peta Mitchell offers Michael Gardiner is Professor of English and
Helen Groth is an Associate Professor and ARC
an innovative, interdisciplinary study of the Comparative Literary Studies at the University of
Future Fellow in the School of English, Media and
metaphor of contagion and its relationship to Warwick, UK.
Performing Arts at the University of New South
the workings of language. Wales, Australia.
UK June 2013 • US August 2013
Peta Mitchell is Senior Lecturer in the School 160 pages
of English, Media Studies in Art History at the UK May 2013 • US March 2013 HB 9781780930367 • £50.00 / $90.00
University of Queensland, Australia. 224 pages Individual eBook 9781780931104 • £16.99 / $22.95
HB 9781441102867 • £60.00 / $110.00 Library eBook 9781780931081 • £60.00 / $90.00
Individual eBook 9781441162526 • £18.99 / $23.99 Series: The WISH List
Library eBook 9781441181916 • £60.00 / $110.00
208 pages
HB 9781441132734 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781441197436 • £60.00 / $110.00
Reading Theory Now Aesthetic Sexuality

An ABC of Good Reading with J. Hillis Miller A Literary History of Sadomasochism
Eamonn Dunne Romana Byrne
Foreword by J. Hillis Miller To understand why the concept of aesthetic sexuality
Afterword by Julian Wolfreys is important, we must consider the influence of
the first volume of Foucault’s seminal The History
Reading Theory Now explores movements in critical thinking through of Sexuality. Arguing against Foucault’s assertions
a host of radical theorists, and channels those movements through that only scientia sexualis has operated in modern
the work of one of the most influential proponents of critical Western culture while ars erotica belongs to Eastern
interpretation in the world today, J. Hillis Miller. It enables its readers and ancient societies, Byrne suggests that modern
to see how and why theoretical models of reading are of use only in Western culture has indeed witnessed a form of
the practical event of reading literary and philosophical texts, that ars erotica, encompassed in what she calls ‘aesthetic sexuality’. To
the politics and poetics of interpretive paradigms are constantly argue for the existence of aesthetic sexuality, Byrne examines mainly
shifting, changing and evolving as present day perspectives transform works of literature to show how, within these texts, sexual practice
those traditions unalterably. it seeks to invite its readers to challenge and pleasure are constructed as having aesthetic value, a quality that
the concept of the paradigm, the school, the movement, even the marks these experiences as forms of art. In aesthetic sexuality, value
sequence, by presenting them with a choice to read in their own way, and meaning are located within sexual practice and pleasure rather
to ‘dip’ in and out of singular events of interpretation from A to Z. than in their underlying cause; sexuality’s raison d’être is tied to its
Eamonn Dunne teaches English at Coláiste Chraobh Abhann school in the aesthetic value, at surface level rather than beneath it.
Republic of Ireland.
Romana Bryne is Research Fellow at The University of Melbourne, Australia.
J. Hillis Miller is currently Distinguished Research Professor of English and
Comparative Literature at the University of California Irvine, USA. UK August 2013 • US June 2013
192 pages
UK August 2013 • US June 2013 HB 9781441100818 • £60.00 / $110.00
144 pages Individual eBook 9781441158796 • £18.99 / $23.99
PB 9781441115140 • £14.99 / $24.95 Library eBook 9781441183583 • £60.00 / $110.00
HB 9781441174581 • £45.00 / $80.00
Library eBook 9781441108425 • £45.00 / $65.00

L iterary T heory
L iterary T heory
Feminist 4th
edition
bestseller The Seven bestseller The City of Words bestseller
Theory textbook
Basic Plots Alberto Manguel
The Intellectual Traditions Why We Tell Stories In this most original and
stimulating study Alberto
Josephine Donovan Christopher Booker Manguel, award winning
“A masterful survey of “This book ... has mind- author of A History of
the philosophical and expanding properties. Not Reading, sets out to
intellectual roots of only for anyone interested investigate the ways in
contemporary feminism. in literature, but also for which stories can lend an
The author provides those fascinated by wider identity to a whole society.
lucid comprehensive questions of how human From Gilgamesh to the Bible, from Don
discussions of the main beings organise their Quixote to The Fast Runner, Manguel explores
intellectual traditions societies and explain the how books can hold the secret to what binds
of feminist theory. Intelligent, balanced, outside world to their inmost selves, it is us together. His thesis is argued here in an
accurate, and informed, Feminist Theory fascinating.” Financial Times engrossing and highly personal book that
is a major addition to the canon of feminist encompasses narratives of autobiography,
Using a wealth of examples, from ancient
literature.” Choice mythology, history and theology. He
myths and folk tales via the plays and novels
also raises concerns that technological
• This first major study of feminist theory, of great literature to the popular movies and
developments – the internet, for one – may
which is revised and completely reset, now TV soap operas of today, this book shows that
well fatally undermine the publishing industry
takes the reader into the twentieth century there are seven archetypal themes which
and threaten the survival of the individual
recur throughout every kind of storytelling.
• Updated and revised edition of a classic around whom the entire literary industry
Drawing on a vast array of examples, from
work in feminist theory was originally constructed: the beleaguered
Proust to detective stories, from the Marquis
• Incorporates recent developments, author. Do innovations like CD-Rom replace
de Sade to E.T., Christopher Booker then
including the renewed interest in feminism creative readers with passive viewers? This
leads us through the extraordinary changes in
following the 2008 US Presidential book is also about the art of reading, at a
the nature of storytelling over the past 200
campaign time when Manguel argues that it is still
years.
possible for stories to change us and the
Josephine Donovan is Professor Emerita of English Christopher Booker is a columnist for the Sunday world we live in.
at the University of Maine, USA. Telegraph in the UK.
Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires but
UK May 2012 • US March 2012 UK November 2005 • US September 2006 moved to Toronto early on in his life. He now lives in
304 pages 736 pages France. He is the author of some hugely successful
PB 9781441168306 • £17.99 / $29.95 PB 9780826480378 • £17.99 / $29.95 books including A Dictionary of Imaginary Places and
HB 9781441163653 • £55.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781441116512 • £17.99 / $23.99 A History of Reading.
UK November 2009
192 pages
PB 9781441163707 • £11.99
World All Languages excluding Australia/Canada/New
Zealand/USA
Geoffrey Hartman new

in PB
Georg Lukacs: new
in PB
J. Hillis Miller and the new
in PB
Romanticism after the The Fundamental Possibilities of Reading
Holocaust
Pieter Vermeulen Dissonance of Existence Literature After Deconstruction
Aesthetics, Politics, Literature Eamonn Dunne
UK February 2012 • US April 2012
192 pages Timothy Bewes UK April 2012 • US February 2012
PB 9781441140494 • £17.99 / $29.95 176 pages
UK November 2012 • US January 2013 PB 9781441136398 • £17.99 / $29.95
256 pages Library eBook 9781441107145 • £55.00 / $100.00
PB 9781441164674 • £24.99 / $44.95
On Bathos new
in PB
Literature, Art, Music
Sara Crangle
208 pages
PB 9781441155207 • £18.99 / $32.95

L iterary T heory / C ontemporary L iterature
L iterary T heory / contemporary literature

The Anatomy of Bloom Narrative Care
Harold Bloom and the Study of Influence and Anxiety Biopolitics and the Novel
Alistair Heys Arne De Boever
Here at last is a comprehensive introduction to the The twenty-first century has been marked by a series
career of America’s leading intellectual. The Anatomy of crises in which life’s vulnerability was brutally
of Bloom surveys Harold Bloom’s life as a literary exposed. As a result, care has moved to the forefront
critic, exploring all of his books in chronological of ethical and political debates. Narrative Care
order, to reveal that his work, and especially his shows that care is also an aesthetic issue: through
classic The Anxiety of Influence, is best understood close-readings of J.M. Coetzee’s Slow Man, Kazuo
as an expression of American Protestantism and yet Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Paul Auster’s The Book
haunted by a Jewish fascination with the Holocaust. of Illusions, and Tom McCarthy’s Remainder, it
Heys traces Bloom’s intellectual development from his formative investigates how literary representations of care are shaped by and
years spent as a poor second-generation immigrant in the Bronx to his have helped shape discussions about the welfare state and pastoral
later eminence as an international literary phenomenon. He argues care; about the concentration camps and bare life; about Sadism and
that, as the quintessential living embodiment of the American dream, the realist aesthetic; and about how the rise of the novel as a genre is
Bloom’s career-path deconstructs the very foundations of American related to all of the above.
Protestantism. Arne De Boever is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Director of the
Alistair Heys is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Paisii MA Program in Aesthetics and Politics in the School of Critical Studies, California
Hilendarski, Bulgaria. Institute of the Arts, USA.
UK August 2013 • US May 2013 UK May 2013 • US March 2013

224 pages 176 pages
PB 9781441183460 • £19.99 / $34.95 HB 9781441149992 • £55.00 / $100.00
HB 9781441120779 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781441128775 • £17.99 / $23.99
Individual eBook 9781441177636 • £19.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441144720 • £55.00 / $100.00
Library eBook 9781441167163 • £65.00 / $120.00
Michel Houellebecq and the

Reading New India
Post-Millennial Indian Fiction in English
Literature of Despair
Carole Sweeney
E. Dawson Varughese
The work of French writer and poet (and sometime
Reading New India is an insightful exploration of
rapper) Michel Houellebecq has been received as
contemporary Indian writing in English. Exploring the
nihilistic and pessimistic and has elicited a diversity
work of such writers as Aravind Adiga (author of the
of critical, cultural and political responses since
Man-Booker Prize winning White Tiger), Usha K.R.
the publication of his novel Atomised (2000) and
and Taseer, the book looks at how the ‘new’ India has
the more incendiary work Platform (2001). Critics
been recreated and defined in an English Language
speak already of ‘un monde houellbecquien’ (a
literature that is now reaching a global audience. The
Houellebecquian world) identifiable by its isolated
book describes how Indian fiction has moved beyond
and abject male characters, sexual despair, insensate consumption
notions of ‘postcolonial’ writing to reflect an increasingly confident
and moralistic essayistic asides. This book traces a set of reoccurring
and diverse cultures. Reading New India covers such topics as:
concerns in Houellebecq’s work through a series of close textual
• Representations of the city — from Mumbai to Calcutta readings of his four novels to date. Sweeney situates Houellebecq
within French literary and philosophical tradition and reads his work
• Young India — from Chick Lit to Blog Novels
alongside comparable American and British writers.
• Genre fiction — crime novels, science fiction and fantasy
Carole Sweeney is Lecturer in Modern Literature in the Department of English
• Bollywood adaptations and Graphic Novels. and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
Including a chronological time-line of major social, cultural and UK May 2013 • US September 2013
political reforms, biographies of the major authors covered, further 192 pages
reading and a glossary of Hindi terms, this book is an essential guide HB 9780826422620 • £60.00 /$120.00
for students of contemporary world literature and postcolonial writing. Individual eBook 9781623569181 • £18.99 /$23.99
Library eBook 9781623562984 • £60.00 / $110.00
E. Dawson Varughese is Sessional English Lecturer at Keele University, UK.

192 pages
PB 9781441181749 •£19.99 / $34.95
HB 9781441185402 • £65.00 / $120.00
Individual eBook 9781441105561 • £19.99 /$23.99
Library eBook 9781441136237 • £65.00 / $120.00

C ontemporary L iterature
Andrea Levy Salman Rushdie

Contemporary Critical Perspectives Contemporary Critical Perspectives
Edited by Jeannette Baxter and David James Edited by Robert Eaglestone and
Andrea Levy has emerged as one of the most Martin McQuillan
significant and popular voices in contemporary black Sir Salman Rushdie is perhaps the most significant
British writing both in the UK and abroad. Drawing living novelist in English. His second novel, Midnight’s
on a familial history of emigration, her critically- Children, is regularly cited as the ‘Booker of Bookers’
acclaimed novels — including the multiple award- and its impact is still being felt in world literature.
winning Small Island — attempt to bring a variety His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses, is a very
of voices and perspectives to the representation of major, possibly epoch-defining work, which led to
black experience in post-war Britain. the ‘Rushdie Affair’, certainly the most significant
With chapters written by leading established and emerging scholars the literary-political event since the Second World War.
book explores issues of literary form, diasporic literature and cultural This collection brings together leading scholars to provide an up-to-
value, as well as the BBC TV adaptation of Small Island. The book also date critical guide to Rushdie’s writing from his earliest works up
includes a new interview with Levy herself, a timeline of her life, to the most recent, his memoir of the Fatwa Years, Joseph Anton.
chapter summaries and guides to further reading and online resources, Contributors offer new perspectives on key issues, including: Rushdie
making this an essential guide to the work of one of the most exciting as a postcolonial writer; Rushdie as a postmodernist; his use and reuse
voices in contemporary fiction. of the canon; the ‘Rushdie Affair’; his responses to 9/11 and to the
Jeannette Baxter is Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, ‘War on Terror’; and issues of more complex philosophical weight
specializing in modern and contemporary fiction. arising from his fiction.
David James is Lecturer in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature at the Robert Eaglestone is Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at
University of Nottingham, UK. Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Martin McQuillan is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at Kingston University, UK, and
208 pages
Co-Director of the London Graduate School.
PB 9781441113603 • £17.99 / $29.95
HB 9781441160454 • £55.00 / $100.00
Individual eBook 9781441147585 • £17.99 /$23.99 UK June 2013 • US August 2013
Library eBook 9781441124739 • £55.00 /$100.00 176 pages
Series: Contemporary Critical Perspectives PB 9781441173454 • £16.99 / $27.95
HB 9781441135018 • £50.00 / $90.00
Library eBook 9781441145277 • £50.00 / $90.00
Ian McEwan
Series: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
2nd
edition
Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Edited by Sebastian Groes Sarah Waters
Ian McEwan is one of the most significant, and Contemporary Critical Perspectives
controversial, British novelists working today. His
books are both critically — and academically — Edited by Kaye Mitchell
acclaimed and embraced by readers across the A multiple award-winning author, Sarah Waters is one
world. Although primarily a novelist, he has also of the most critically and commercially successful
written short stories, television plays, a libretto, a novelists writing today. In such novels as Fingersmith,
children’s book and a film adaptation. Across these Tipping the Velvet, and The Night Watch, her writing
many forms his work retains a distinctive character has played compellingly with popular and generic
that explores questions of morality, place and history, nationhood, forms and narrative techniques and covered a
sexuality and gender. number of important contemporary themes.
Now fully updated for its second edition, this guide brings together This critical guide is the first book to offer a wide
a collection of new critical perspectives on McEwan’s oeuvre, not range of current critical perspectives on Waters’ work. The book
only covering the early works and his writing for the screen but explores issues such as gender, sexuality, class, time and space in
also incorporating detailed and original analyses of the later work, Waters’ fiction, as well as her appropriation of a range of genres
including a new ecocritical reading of his book, Solar. With an updated from the historical and neo-victorian novel to the gothic. The book
and extended guide to further critical reading on McEwan, the book also includes a new interview with Waters herself, a timeline of her
also includes an interview with the author himself and a chronology of life, chapter summaries and guides to further reading, making this
his life, work and times. an essential guide to the work of one of the most exciting voices in
Sebastian Groes is Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University, UK. contemporary fiction.
Kaye Mitchell is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature in the Centre for New
UK June 2013 • US August 2013 Writing at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of Intention and
208 pages Text (Continuum, 2008).
PB 9781441139221 • £16.99 / $27.95
Individual eBook 9781623561918 • £16.99 / $22.99 UK May 2013 • US July 2013
Library eBook 9781623569846 • £50.00 / $90.00 208 pages
Series: Contemporary Critical Perspectives PB 9781441199416 • £17.99 / $29.95
HB 9781441180841 • £55.00 / $100.00
Library eBook 9781441120212 • £55.00 / $100.00
Series: Contemporary Critical Perspectives

Angela Carter: Kipling’s Japan
New Critical Readings Hugh Cortazzi and
George Webb
Edited by Sonya Andermahr and
Lawrence Phillips Kipling visited Japan in 1889 and 1892. No other
leading English literary figure of his day spent so long
Bringing together leading international scholars of in that country or wrote so fully about it. Kipling’s
contemporary fiction and modern women writers, newspaper despatches from Japan were described
this book provides authoritative new critical readings by the great Japanologist Basil Han Chamberlain as
of Angela Carter’s work from a variety of innovative ‘the most graphic even penned by a globetrotter’.
theoretical and disciplinary approaches. Angela Previously published in 2000, these vivid pen-
Carter: New Critical Readings both evaluates Carter’s pictures, together with Kipling’s other writings about Japan, are now
legacy as feminist provocateur and postmodern collected by Sir Hugh Cortazzi and George Webb, carefully edited with
stylist, and broaches new ground in considering Carter as, variously, a an introduction wand Notes.
poet and a ‘naturalist’. Including coverage of Carter’s earliest writings
Hugh Cortazzi was British Ambassador to Japan from 1980-1988.
and her journalism as well as her more widely studied novels, short
stories and dramatic works, the book covers such topics as rescripting George Webb is Editor of the ‘Kipling Journal’.
the canon, surrealism, and Carter’s poetics.
UK December 2012 • US February 2013
Sonya Andermahr is Reader in English at the University of Northampton, UK. 304 pages
HB 9781780939575 • £75.00 / $140.00
Lawrence Phillips is Professor in English and Cultural Criticism at the University
of Northampton, UK.
Library eBook 9781780939599 • £75.00 / $140.00
UK August 2012 / US October 2012

272 pages
Literature After Globalization

HB 9781441169280 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781441141118 • £60.00 / $110.00
Textuality, Technology and the Nation-State
Philip Leonard
Contemporary Caribbean Literature after Globalization offers a detailed
study of recent literary and theoretical responses
Writing and Deleuze to technology, globalization, and national identity.
Focusing on texts of the 1990s and 2000s, particularly
Literature Between Postcolonialism and novels and other writing by Mark Danielewski, Hari
Post-Continental Philosophy Kunzru, Indra Sinha, and Neal Stephenson, it charts
Lorna Burns a departure from narratives of globalization which
declare the collapse of national cultures, and it
Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze considers how national sovereignty has been reinvented and reasserted
maps a new intellectual and literary history of in the face of technology’s transnational effects. Drawing upon recent
postcolonial Caribbean writing and thought spanning theoretical responses to technology and culture (including work by
from the 1930s surrealist movement to the present, Yochai Benkler, Manuel Castells, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida,
crossing the region’s language blocs, and focused N. Katherine Hayles, Paul Virilio, and McKenzie Wark) this book will
on the interconnected principles of creativity and explore how, in these novels, the notion of an inclusive globalization
commemoration. Exploring the work of René Ménil, has been replaced by a sense of national globalism.
Édouard Glissant, Wilson Harris, Derek Walcott,
Philip Leonard is Reader in Literary Studies and Critical Theory at Nottingham
Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Pauline Melville, Robert Antoni and Nalo
Trent University, UK.
Hopkinson, this study reveals the explicit and implicit engagement
with Deleuzian thought at work in contemporary Caribbean writing. UK January 2013 • US March 2013
Uniting for the first time two major schools of contemporary thought - 208 pages
postcolonialism and post-continental philosophy - this study establishes HB 9781441190710 • £60.00 / $110.00
a new and innovative critical discourse for Caribbean studies and Individual eBook 9781441105783 • £18.99 / $23.99
postcolonial theory beyond the oppositional dialectic of colonizer and Library eBook 9781441155733 • £60.00 / $110.00
colonized.
Lorna Burns is a Lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln, UK.
UK July 2012 • US September 2012

224 pages
HB 9781441116437 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781441117465 • £60.00 / $110.00

Ian McEwan’s Atonement Maggie Gee: Writing the

Julie Ellam Condition-of-England Novel
The Continuum Contemporaries series gives readers Mine Özyurt Kιlιç
accessible and informative introductions to some
of the most popular, most acclaimed and most In the first critical study of Gee’s work, Mine Özyurt
influential novels of recent years. This guide to Kιlιç identifies the specific social problems her
Atonement features a biography of the author, a novels address and explains the social consciousness
full-length analysis of the novel, a summary of the similarities Gee shares with the Victorians. Analyzing
novel’s popular and critical reception, a discussion how Gee adjusts the condition-of-England novel to
of the recent film adaptation and a great deal more. reflect contemporary Britain enables Özyurt Kιlιç
If you are studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you to reveal the accuracy of Gee’s rich portraits of
simply want to know more about it, you’ll find this guide informative, Britain. She focuses on Gee’s ability to cut across the
intelligent, and helpful. boundaries of race, class and gender, mix voices from the margin with
the majority and challenge and change the idea of the mainstream.
Julie Ellam is a freelance writer. She previously taught at Hull University, UK. Gee paints a panoramic view of society. Her critiques of class, race
and the world of publishing, allow Özyurt Kιlιç to cover a wide range
96 pages of topics and detail how English fiction shapes and influences, and is
PB 9780826445384 • £9.99 /$14.95 shaped and influenced by, the contemporary literary market.
Individual eBook 9781441135773 • £9.99 /$11.99 Mine Özyurt Kiliç is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language
Library eBook 9781441146311 • £30.00 / $45.00
and Literature at Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Series: Continuum Contemporaries
UK November 2013 • US October 2013
192 pages
HB 9781441108784 • £60.00 / $110.00
J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Individual eBook 9781441162779 • £18.99 / $23.99
Library eBook 9781441100870 • £60.00 / $110.00
Andrew van der Vlies
One of the most widely read novels by a South
African-born writer or ‘about’ South Africa, Nobel
Laureate J.M. Coetzee’s (second) Booker Prize-
winning novel, Disgrace (1999), is a firm favourite
with reading groups and a fixture on many university-
level courses on postcolonial or international
literatures in English. Sometimes regarded as offering
a bleak picture of post-apartheid South Africa,
Disgrace has also been read as an ultimately hopeful novel about
renunciation and redemption. This introduction offers an indispensable
guide to the historical contexts and critical ideas necessary for an
informed and rewarding engagement with one of the most significant
novels of the last quarter century.
Andrew van der Vlies was born in South Africa and educated both there and at
the University of Oxford, UK. He teaches in the School of English and Drama at
Queen Mary, University of London, UK.
UK March 2010 • US April 2010

122 pages
PB 9780826406613 • £9.99 / $14.95
Library eBook 9781441192905 • £30.00 / $45.00
Series: Continuum Contemporaries

Salman Rushdie and Translation Scenes of Intimacy
Jenni Ramone Reading, Writing and Theorising Contemporary Literature
Salman Rushdie’s writing is engaged with translation Edited by Jennifer Cooke
in many ways: translator-figures tell and retell stories Scenes of Intimacy analyzes the representation of
in his novels, while acts of translation are catalysts acts and relationships of intimacy in contemporary
for climactic events. Covering his major novels literature, the affect this has upon readers, and
as well as his often-neglected short stories and the ways these representations resonate with,
writing for children, Salman Rushdie and Translation complement, and challenge the concerns of
explores the role of translation in Rushdie’s work. contemporary theory. Opening with an in-depth
In this book, Jenni Ramone draws on contemporary interview with literary critic, Derridean, and novelist
translation theory to analyse the part translation plays in Rushdie’s Nicholas Royle, the volume contains eleven further
appropriation of historical and contemporary Indian narratives of essays that move from intimate scenes of familial and pedagogic
independence and migration. legacy, on to representations of love, of sex, and finally to scenes
Jenni Ramone is Senior Lecturer in English at Newman University College, UK. of death and dying. The essays are textually attentive to how
literary techniques create intimacy, and draw upon new and notable
UK September 2013 • US November 2013 theoretical positions and critics from queer theory, affect studies,
208 pages
psychoanalysis, poststructualism and deconstruction to ask difficult
HB 9781441144355 • £60.00 / $110.00
Individual eBook 9781441106612 • £18.99 / $23.99 and uncomfortable questions about intimacy and its representation.
Library eBook 9781441128164 • £60.00 / $110.00 Across the genres of poetry, autobiography, journals, love letters,
short stories and novels, Scenes of Intimacy shows that contemporary
literature poses new possibilities and questions about our intimate
relationalities, their failures and their futures.
Jennifer Cooke is Lecturer in English at Loughborough University, UK.
UK March 2013 • US May 2013

224 pages
HB 9781441107268 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781441185440 • £60.00 / $110.00
Succeeding Postmodernism The Return of the Storyteller in

Language and Humanism in Contemporary American Fiction Contemporary Fiction
Mary Holland Areti Dragas
Succeeding Postmodernism examines how novels Focusing on the figure of the storyteller, this study
by DeLillo, Wallace, Danielewski, Foer and others breaks new ground in the approach to reading
conceptualize threats to individuals and communities contemporary literature by identifying a growing
posed by a poststructural culture of mediation interest in storytelling. Only since the rise of
and simulation, and possible ways of resisting the postcolonialism have academic critics been overtly
disaffected solipsism bred by that culture. Ultimately interested in stories, where high theory frameworks
it finds that twenty-first century American fiction sets are less applicable. However, as we move through
aside the postmodern problem of how language does various contemporary contexts engaging with
or does not mean in order to raise the reassuringly retro question of postcolonial identities and hybridity, to narratives of disability and
what it can and does mean: it finds that novels today offer language evolutionary accounts of group and individual survival, a common
as solution to the problem of language. Thus it suggests a new way feature of all is the centrality of story, which posits both the idea of
of reading ‘antihumanist’ late postmodern fiction, and a framework survival and the passing on of traditions. This book closely examines
for understanding postmodern and twenty-first century fiction as this preoccupation with story and storytelling through a close reading
participating in a long and newly enlivened tradition of humanism and of sixteen contemporary international novels written in English which
realism in literature. are about actual ‘storytellers’, revealing how death of the author has
Mary Holland is Assistant Professor of contemporary literature at The State given birth to the storyteller.
University of New York, New Paltz, USA.
Areti Dragas works as a visiting lecturer and associate tutor at Durham
University and the University of Sunderland, UK.
UK June 2013 • US April 2013
240 pages
HB 9781441130617 • £60.00 / $110.00 UK April 2013 • US June 2013
Individual eBook 9781441121899 • £18.99 / $23.99 240 pages
Library eBook 9781441159342 • £60.00 / $110.00 HB 9780826439901 • £60.00 / $120.00
Library eBook 9781441143549 • £60.00 / $110.00

The Decades Series

Series Editors:
Philip Tew, Professor of English, Brunel University, UK
Nick Hubble, Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary English Literature, Brunel University, UK
Leigh Wilson, Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Westminster, UK
Moving beyond a survey approach, this major series places British fiction among the cultural shifts and headline events of a decade. From the
collapse of communism, through the rise of Thatcher to the shifts in global power, each volume evaluates the impact of social, cultural and
political history on the fiction of the respective period. Breaking British fiction into its four constituent decades, the 1970s, the 1980s, the
1990s and the 2000s and using social, cultural and political contexts to understand its chronology means changing literary themes are properly
accounted for and traditional readings opened up. Alongside the national reception, the series looks closely at how British fiction has been
received internationally. Approaching the subject from the perspective of its disciplinary formation, The Decades Series is a crucial reference
point for the progressive development of contemporary British fiction, not only a literary and cultural phenomenon, but as an academic field.
The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary

British Fiction British Fiction
Edited by Nick Hubble, Philip Tew and Edited by Leigh Wilson, Philip Tew
John McLeod and Emily Horton
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain Setting the fiction squarely within the context of
during the 1970s shape Contemporary British Fiction? Conservative politics and questions about culture
Exploring the impact of events like the Cold War, and national identity, this volume reveals how the
miners’ strikes and Winter of Discontent, this volume decade associated with Thatcherism frames the work
charts the transition of British fiction from post-war of Kazuo Ishiguro, Martin Amis, and Graham Swift,
to contemporary. Chapters outline the decade’s of Scottish novelists and new diasporic writers. How
diversity of writing, showing how the literature of Ian and why 1980s fiction is a response to particular
McEwan and Iain Sinclair interacted with the experimental work of B.S. psychological, social and economic pressures is explored in detail.
Johnson. Close contextual readings of Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish Drawing on the rise of individualism and the birth of neo-liberalism,
and English novels map the steady break-up of Britain. This volume contributors reflect on the tense relations between 1980s politics
also examines the rising resonance of the marginal voices: the world of and realism, and between elegy and satire. Noting the creation of a
1970s British Feminist fiction and postcolonial and diasporic writers. ‘heritage industry’ during the decade, the rise of the historical novel is
Nick Hubble is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary English Literature at also considered against broader cultural changes.
Brunel University, UK. Leigh Wilson is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of
Philip Tew is Professor of English at Brunel University, UK, Director of Brunel’s Westminster, UK.
Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK Network for Modern Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University,
Fiction Studies. UK, Director of Brunel’s Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK
John McLeod is Professor of Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures in the School Network for Modern Fiction Studies.
of Englist at the University of Leeds, UK. Emily Horton is Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at Brunel University, UK
and at the University of Westminster, UK.
256 pages UK March 2013 • US May 2013
HB 9781441133915 • £75.00 / $140.00 256 pages
Individual eBook 9781441156716 • £23.99 / $34.99 HB 9781441126498 • £75.00 / $140.00
Library eBook 9781623563851 • £75.00 / $140.00 Individual eBook 9781623563509 • £23.99 / $34.99
Series: The Decades Series Library eBook 9781441168535 • £75.00 / $140.00
Series: The Decades Series

Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition Bret Easton Ellis’s new
in PB
The Invention of an Aesthetic Controversial Fiction

Justine Jenny Baillie Writing Between High and Low Culture
Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition explores Sonia Baelo-Allué
Toni Morrison’s construction of alternative and
oppositional narratives of history and places her 240 pages
work as central to the imagining and re-imagining PB 9781623562458 • £19.99 / $34.95
of American and diasporic identities. Covering the Individual eBook 9781441126481 • £19.99 / $23.99
Nobel Prize-winning author’s novels (up to Home), as
well as her essays, dramatic works and short stories,
this book situates Morrison’s writings within both
African-American and American writing traditions and examines them Contemporary Women Writers new
in PB
in terms of her continuous dialogue with the politics, philosophy and Look Back
literary forms of these traditions. Justine Baillie goes on to argue that
From Irony to Nostalgia
Morrison’s aesthetic should be understood in relation to the historical,
political and cultural contexts in which it, and the African-American Alice Ridout
and American literary traditions upon which she draws, have been
UK August 2012 • US November 2012
created and developed. 208 pages
Justine Jenny Baillie is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of PB 9781441130235 • £18.99 / $32.95
Greenwich, UK. Individual eBook 9781441114976 • £18.99 / $23.99
UK April 2013 • US June 2013

256 pages
HB 9781441183101 • £60.00 / $110.00 Magical Realism and Deleuze new
in PB
Library eBook 9781441184467 • £60.00 / $110.00
The Indiscernibility of Difference in Postcolonial
Literature
Eva Aldea
Reading Theories in UK September 2012 • US November 2012

208 pages
Contemporary Fiction PB 9781441135438 • £18.99 / $32.95
Lisa McNally
Even after the upheavals wrought by Theory,
literary criticism has generally ignored the act and Melancholy and the Archive new
in PB
experience of reading itself, proceeding as though
something so fundamental to our experience of texts
Trauma, History and Memory in the Contemporary Novel
could be taken for granted. Reading Theories in Jonathan Boulter
Contemporary Fiction draws on deconstruction and
the thought of Jacques Derrida to explore the ways 224 pages
in which contemporary fiction engages with reading, PB 9781623569921 • £18.99 / $32.95
its power, the elusive nature of its experience and the failures of Individual eBook 9781441185358 • £18.99 / $23.99
understanding inherent in it. Along the way, the book proceeds through
close readings of such authors as J.M. Coetzee, David Mitchell, Toni
Morrison and Philip Roth.
Lisa McNally teaches at Brighton College, UK.

224 pages
HB 9781441164094 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781441109545 • £60.00 / $110.00

Queer Postcolonial Narratives and The Secret of Bog Lane literary

edition
the Ethics of Witnessing Americo Tulipano

Donna McCormack Amazonian legend about a river god clothed in
pure white...an elegant home with a vast, tropical
Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the Ethics of garden in its basement...an unlikely love affair in
Witnessing is a critically engaged exploration of the depths of the world’s largest rain-forest...a
power and its relation to ethics and bodies. By hideous presence on a dead-end street in an historic
revisiting and revising Judith Butler’s and Homi American town...and a covert scientific project that
Bhabha’s queer and postcolonial theories of could alter the course of human civilization. These
literary performance, McCormack expands current are some of the mysteries that set the stage for The
understandings of the performative workings of Secret of Bog Lane – a story that unfolds in present day Brazil and
power through an embodied, multisensory ethics. Massachusetts. In each region, a cast of memorable characters must
That remembering is an embodied act which necessitates an undoing come to grips with an insidious form of evil. In the balance hang a
of one’s sense of self captures how colonial and familial histories peaceful and natural way of life, a small American family, and a six
silenced by hegemonic structures may only emerge through opaque year old boy in search of acceptance.
bodily sensations. These non-institutionalised forms of witnessing serve
Americo Tulipano, the author of this thriller, is well acquainted with the
both to reconfigure theories of performativity, by re-situating the act
regions and subjects that form its intersecting story-lines. He masterfully weaves
of witnessing as integral to the workings of power, and to interrogate these diverse threads in a suspenseful tale of clashing cultures, predatory minds,
the current emphasis on speech in trauma studies, by analysing the and redemptive love.
multifarious, communal and public ways in which memories emerge.
Donna McCormack is a Research Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced US March 2012
430 Pages
Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. PB 9781557789006 • $19.95
Available from Bloomsbury in North America only
UK May 2013 • US March 2013 Paragon House
208 pages
HB 9781441111005 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781441163103 • £60.00 / $110.00
Terrorism, Media, and the new

in PB
Ethics of Fiction
Transatlantic Perspectives on Don DeLillo
Peter Schneck
UK November 2012 • US September 2012
246 pages
PB 9781441199362 • £24.99 • $44.95
Individual eBook 9781441133786 •£24.99 / $34.99
Library eBook 9781441113733 • £75.00 / $140.00

M odernism
M odernism
Anatomy of a Short Story Polish, Hybrid, and Otherwise new
in PB
Nabokov’s Puzzles, Codes, ‘Signs and Symbols’ Exilic Discourse in Joseph Conrad and Witold Gombrowicz
George Z. Gasyna
Edited by Yuri Leving
Afterword by John Banville UK April 2013 • US February 2013
288 pages • 6 bw illus
Since its first publication in 1948, one of Vladimir PB 9781441153005 £24.99 • $44.95
Nabokov’s shortest short stories, ‘Signs and Symbols’, Individual eBook 9781441192981 • £24.99 / $34.99
has generated perhaps more interpretations and Library eBook 9781441130167 • £75.00 / $140.00
critical appraisal than any other that he wrote.
Anatomy of a Short Story contains:
• The full text of ‘Signs and Symbols’, line numbered
and referenced throughout the book
The Culture of Yellow
Or, The Visual Politics of Late Modernity
• Correspondence about the story, most of it never before published,
between Nabokov and the editor of The New Yorker, where the story Sabine Doran
was first published This is the first book to explore the cultural
• 33 essays of literary criticism on the story, bringing together classic significance of the colour yellow, showing how its
essays and new interpretations psychological value marked and shaped many of the
intellectual, political, and artistic currents of late
• A round-table discussion in which a screenwriter, a theater scholar, modernity. It contends that yellow functions during
a mathematician, a psychiatrist, and a literary scholar bring their the period 1890-1990 primarily as a colour of stigma
perspectives to bear on ‘Signs and Symbols’. Anatomy of a Short and scandal. Yellow stigmatization has had a long
Story illuminates the ways in which we interpret fiction, and the history. Though scholars have commented on these
short story in particular. associations in particular contexts, Doran offers the first overarching
Yuri Leving is Professor and Chair in the Department of Russian Studies, account of how yellow connects disparate cultural phenomena,
Dalhousie University, Canada. such as turn-of-the-century decadence (the ‘yellow nineties’), mass
immigration from Asia (‘yellow peril’), and mass stigmatization (the
UK August 2012 • US June 2012 yellow stars of Nazi Germany). The Culture of Yellow combines
PB 9781441142634 • £19.99 / $34.95 cultural history with innovative readings of literature, providing a
HB 9781441196064 • £65.00 / $120.00 multilayered account of the unique role played by the colour yellow in
Individual eBook 9781441107688 • £19.99 / $23.99 late-nineteenth and twentieth-century European culture.
Library eBook 9781441186287 • £65.00 / $120.00
Sabine Doran is Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature and
Director of the German Program at the University of California, Riverside, USA.
Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ and UK June 2013 • US April 2013

Contemporary Thought
PB 9781441185877 • £21.99 / $32.95
HB 9781441184443 • £65.00 / $120.00
Revisiting the Horror with Lacoue-Labarthe Library eBook 9781441169495 • £65.00 / $120.00
Edited by Nidesh Lawtoo
With its innovative narrative structure and its
controversial explorations of race, gender and Understanding Bergson,
empire, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a
landmark of 20th-century literature that continues Understanding Modernism
to resonate to this day. This book brings together
leading scholars to explore the full range of Edited by Paul Ardoin, S.E. Gontarski, and
contemporary philosophical and critical responses Laci Mattison
to the text. Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Despite renewed interest in Bergson, his influence
Contemporary Thought includes the first publication in English of remains understudied and consequently undervalued.
philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s essay, ‘The Horror of the While books examining the impact of Freud and
West’. In the company of Lacoue-Labarthe, leading scholars explore James on Modernism abound, Bergson’s impact,
new readings of Conrad’s text from a full range of theoretical though widely acknowledged, has been closely
perspectives, including deconstructive, psychoanalytic, narratological examined much more rarely. Understanding Bergson,
and postcolonial approaches. Drawing on the very latest insights of Understanding Modernism remedies this deficiency
contemporary thought, this is an essential study of one of the most in three ways. First, it offers close readings and critiques of six pivotal
important literary texts of the 20th century. texts. Second, it reassesses Bergson’s impact on Modernism while also
Nidesh Lawtoo is Lecturer in English at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. tracing his continuing importance to literature, media, and philosophy
throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. In its final
UK September 2012 • US November 2012 section it provides an extended glossary of Bergsonian terms, complete
256 pages with extensive examples and citations of their use across his texts.
PB 9781441101006 • £18.99 / $32.95
HB 9781441124616 • £60.00 / $110.00 Paul Ardoin is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Florida State University, USA.
S. E. Gontarski is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at
Library eBook 9781441103765 • £60.00 / $110.00
Florida State University, USA.
Laci Mattison is a PhD candidate in English Literature at Florida State
University, USA.
UK February 2013 • US January 2013

208 pages
HB 9781441172211 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781441188373 • £60.00 / $110.00

M odernism
M odernism
Historicizing Modernism
Series Editors:
Matthew Feldman, Teeside University, UK
Erik Tonning, University of Bergen, Norway
Historicizing Modernism challenges traditional literary interpretations by taking an empirical approach to modernist writing: a direct response
to new documentary sources made available over the last decade. Informed by archival research, and working beyond the usual European/
American avant-garde 1900-1945 parameters the series reassesses established images of modernist writers by developing fresh views of
intellectual backgrounds and working methods.
Ezra Pound’s Adams Cantos Modern Manuscripts

David Ten Eyck Aspects of Genetic Criticism
Ezra Pound transformed his style of poetry when Dirk Van Hulle
he wrote The Adams Cantos in the 1920s. But what The twentieth century has been called ‘the golden
caused him to rethink his earlier writing techniques? age of the modern manuscript’, a time when the
Grounded in archival material, this study explores historical value of early manuscripts as a record
the extent to which Pound’s poetry changed in of a writer’s thought processes came to be fully
response to his reading of seventeenth-century recognized. Drawing on the critical tools of French
American history and the social climate of the pre- genetic criticism, Modern Manuscripts explores
war period. Drawing on the Ezra Pound papers, David the development of early 20th-century literary
Ten Eyck documents the changes to Pound’s documentary techniques, texts, from source texts and early notes, through
establishing a chronology of the composition of The Cantos. His close successive draft manuscripts to publication and successive editions.
readings of specific passages, set against the interwar years, allow Ten Historicizing these modernist processes of writing, Dirk Van Hulle
Eyck to gain insights into Pound’s 1930s political and social criticism. contrasts these twentieth-century manuscripts with the development
Through references to the annotated copy of The Works of John of Charles Darwin’s text for On the Origin of Species, itself a formative
Adams, he explores Pound’s engagement with Adams at the expense of intellectual influence on modern writing.
Thomas Jefferson: a figure formally at the heart of his previous work.
Dirk Van Hulle is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Centre for
David Ten Eyck teaches Modernism and poetry at the University of Lorraine, Manuscript Genetics, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
France.
UK August 2013 • US October 2013
UK September 2012 • US November 2012 208 pages
208 pages HB 9781441133168 • £60.00 / $110.00
Individual 9781623566128 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441129475 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781441188410 • £60.00 / $110.00 Series: Historicizing Modernism
Series: Historicizing Modernism
Great War Modernisms and Reframing Yeats

Genre and History in the Poems, Prose and Plays
‘The New Age’ Magazine Charles Armstrong
Paul Jackson While existing studies of Yeats’s work choose
“This is an intelligent and thought-provoking between a biographical orientation or a formalist
study which encourages us to rethink the meaning approach, Armstrong’s study combines the theory
of ‘modernism’. After reading Paul Jackson’s of New Historicism and Hermeneutics: a theoretical
book, historians and literary scholars will have approach that takes Yeatsian scholarship one step
to question the utility of a narrow, aesthetic further.
definition of modernism … Great War Modernisms Grounded in history and informed by recent studies,
is an important contribution to twentieth-century this innovative approach presents new interpretations
intellectual history.” — Dan Stone, Royal Holloway, and understandings of Yeats’s texts. As well as providing a fresh
University of London, UK reading of ‘Among School Children’ and situating his autobiographical
The literary magazine The New Age brought together a diverse set of writings in relation to preceding Victorian practices and contemporary
intellectuals. Against the backdrop of the First World War, they chose experimentation, this groundbreaking work documents some of the
to write about more than modernist art and aesthetics. By closely most important existing readings of Yeats’s relationship to history,
reading and contextualizing their contributions, Paul Jackson’s study Modernism and the literary genres.
engages with the political and philosophical responses of literary Charles Ivan Armstrong is Professor of British Literature at the University of
artists to modernity. Jackson demonstrates the need to interpret Bergen, Norway.
modernism not merely as an aesthetic phenomenon, but inherently
linked to politics and philosophy. UK July 2013 • US September 2013
192 pages
Paul Jackson is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Northampton, UK. HB 9781441183163 • £60.00 / $110.00
UK July 2012 • US September 2012 Library eBook 9781441139719 • £60.00 / $110.00
224 pages Series: Historicizing Modernism
HB 9781441180087 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781441127815 • £60.00 / $110.00

M odernism
M odernism
Samuel Beckett and Samuel Beckett and The Autobiographies of
Arnold Geulincx The Bible Mina Loy
Tracing ‘a Literary Fantasia’ Iain Bailey Myth of the Modern Woman
David Tucker From Waiting for Godot to Sandeep Parmar
“Every now and again, his later novels, the work of Drawing on substantial new
rarely, a book comes Samuel Beckett is filled with archival research, this book
along that offers a Biblical references. Samuel challenges the existing
definitive account of a Beckett and the Bible re- critical myth of Loy as a
particularly vexing critical appraises the relationships ‘modern woman’ through an
question - this study is between Beckett’s work and analysis of her unpublished
one of them. Drawing on the Bible, exploring both autobiographical prose. The
a range of published and as objects of history, matter and memory. Autobiographies of Mina Loy
unpublished materials, David Tucker offers a Iain Bailey ranges across the Beckett oeuvre explores this major twentieth century writer’s
comprehensive and sensitive examination of to examine how the Bible has come to be ideas about the ‘modern’ and how they apply
the role Geulincx plays in Beckett’s writing regarded as a book of unique significance to the ‘modernist’ writer – based on her
and aesthetics, and in doing so makes us in his work, offering innovative readings engagement with twentieth-century avant-
think differently about Beckett’s work.” of intertextuality and influence in both garde aesthetics – and charts how Loy herself
Marx Nixon, Beckett International Foundation published and archival writings. Beckett’s uniquely defined modernity in her essays
and Lecturer, University of Reading, UK Bibles, the book demonstrates, are thoroughly on literature and art. Sandeep Parmar here
material, as significant for their involvement shows how, ultimately, Loy’s autobiographies
Samuel Beckett once wrote that were he in in histories of education, the family, common extend the modernist project by rejecting
the ‘unfortunate position’ of a critic studying knowledge and canon-formation as for earlier impressions of avant-garde futurity
his work, one of his points of departure would what they have to say about God, hope and and newness in favour of a ‘late modernist’
be the ideas of the seventeenth-century salvation. The book explores Beckett’s uneasy aesthetic, one that is more pessimistic,
philosopher, Arnold Geulincx. This is the first forms of memory, materiality, language and inward and interested in the fragmentary
full-length study to document the extent history to assess how far and in what ways the interplay between the past and present.
of the influence Geulincx’s philosophy had Bible matters in his work, and why Beckett’s
on Beckett’s prose and late drama. David voice ‘harps, but no worse than Holy Writ’. Sandeep Parmar is Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall,
Tucker’s study presents a clear, chronological University of Cambridge, UK.
Iain Bailey is Honorary Research Fellow at the
exploration of Beckett’s engagement with University of Manchester, UK. UK June 2013 • US August 2013
Geulincx, and of how this engagement 224 pages • 4 bw illus
marks, and is marked by, broader changes in UK June 2013 • US August 2013 HB 9781441176400 • £60.00 / $110.00
Beckett’s aesthetic thinking. 224 pages Individual eBook 9781441173201 • £18.99 / $23.99
HB 9781780936888 • £60.00 / $110.00 Library eBook 9781441134592 • £60.00 / $110.00
David Tucker is a Visiting Research Fellow at the
Individual eBook 9781780937168 • £18.99 / $23.99 Series: Historicizing Modernism
University of Sussex and currently teaches at the
Library eBook 9781780936499 • £60.00 / $110.00
University of Oxford, UK. Series: Historicizing Modernism
UK May 2012 • US July 2012

240 pages
HB 9781441139351 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781441108173 • £60.00 / $110.00
The Life and Work of Thomas Virginia Woolf’s Late Cultural Criticism
MacGreevy The Genesis of ‘The Years’, ‘Three Guineas’
and ‘Between the Acts’
A Critical Reappraisal
Alice Wood
Edited by Susan Schreibman
After the Modernist literary experiments of her
As a poet and literary critic, Thomas MacGreevy
earlier work, Virginia Woolf became increasingly
is a central force in Irish modernism and a crucial
concerned with overt social and political commentary
facilitator in the lives of key modernist writers and
in her later writings, which are preoccupied with
artists. Split into four sections, the volume explains
dissecting the links between patriarchy, patriotism,
how and where MacGreevy made his impact: in his
imperialism and war. This book unravels the complex
poetry; his role as a literary and art critic; during
textual histories of The Years (1937), Three Guineas
his time in Dublin, London and Paris and through his
(1938) and Between the Acts (1941) to expose the
relationships with James Joyce, Samuel Beckett,
genesis and evolution of Virginia Woolf’s late cultural criticism. By
Wallace Stevens, Jack B. Yeats and W.B. Yeats. With access to the
demonstrating that Woolf’s late cultural criticism developed through
Thomas MacGreevy Archive, contributors draw on letters, his early
her literary experimentalism as well as in response to contemporary
poetry, and contributions to art and literary journals, to better
social, political and economic upheavals, this book offers a fresh
understand the first champion of Jack B. Yeats, and Beckett’s chief
perspective on her emergence as a cultural commentator in her final
correspondent and closest friend in the 1930s.
decade and paves the way for further genetic enquiries in the field.
Susan Schreibman is the Long Room Hub Associate Professor in Digital
Alice Wood is Lecturer in English Literature at De Montfort University, UK.
Humanities in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
208 pages
240 pages
HB 9781441102850 • £60.00 / $110.00
HB 9781441140920 • £60.00 /$110.00
Library eBook 9781441148728 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781441192714 • £60.00 / $110.00

E ighteenth and N ineteenth - C entury L iterature
Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov Secular Mysteries: Stanley Cavell and

Julian W. Connolly English Romanticism
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov is Edward T. Duffy
unquestionably one of the greatest works of world
literature. The novel has had a major impact Secular Mysteries: Stanley Cavell and English
on writers and thinkers across a broad range of Romanticism serves as both introduction to Cavell
disciplines, from psychology to religious and political for Romanticists, and to the larger question of what
philosophy. This guide helps the reader understand philosophy means for the reading of literature, as
the place of Dostoevsky’s novel in Russian and world well as to the importance and relevance of Romantic
literature, and illuminates the writer’s compelling literature to Cavell’s thought. Illustrated through
and complex artistic vision. Haunted by the question of God’s close readings of Wordsworth and Shelley, and
existence, Dostoevsky uses the character of Ivan Karamazov to ask extended discussions of Emerson and Thoreau as
what kind of God would create a world in which innocent children well as Cavell, Duffy proposes a Romanticism of persisting cultural
have to suffer, and he hoped that his entire novel would provide the relevance and truly trans-Atlantic scope. The turn to romanticism of
answer. The design of Dostoevsky’s work, in which one character America’s most distinguished ‘ordinary-language’ philosopher is shown
poses questions that other characters must try to answer, provides a to be tied to the neo-Romantic claim that far from being merely an
stimulating basis for reader engagement. illustrator of the truths discovered by philosophy, poetry is its equal
partner in the instituting of knowledge.
Julian W. Connolly is Professor and Chair of the Department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures at the University of Virginia, USA. Edward T. Duffy is Associate Professor of English (Emeritus) at Marquette
University, USA.
UK April 2013 • US February 2013
160 pages UK May 2013 • US March 2013
PB 9781441135315 • £12.99 / $19.95 304 pages
HB 9781441108470 • £45.00 / $75.00 PB 9781441126788 • £19.99 / $34.95
Series: Reader’s Guides HB 9781441117182 • £65.00 / $120.00
Library eBook 9781441186478 • £65.00 / $120.00
Emily Brontë and the Religious

Texts and Contexts
Imagination
Series Editors:
Simon Marsden
Readers of Emily Brontë’s poetry and of Wuthering Gail Ashton, an academic, writer and poet with research
Heights have seen in their author, variously, a devout and publishing interests in medieval and women’s
if somewhat unorthodox Christian, a heretic, or a literature, poetry and contemporary literary theory based
visionary ‘mystic of the moors’. Emily Brontë and the in the UK.
Religious Imagination suggests that such conflicting
readings are the product of tensions, conflicts and Fiona McCulloch, Head of English at the University of
ambiguities within the texts themselves. The book Bradford, UK.
argues that Wuthering Heights and the poems
dramatise individual experiences of faith in the context of a world Texts and Contexts is a series of clear, concise and accessible
in which such faith is always conflicted, always threatened. Her introductions to key literary fields and concepts. The series provides
characters cling to visionary faith in the face of death and mortality, the literary, critical, historical context for texts and authors in a
awaiting and anticipating a final vindication, an eschatological specific literary area in a way that introduces a range of work in the
fulfilment that always lies in a future beyond the scope of the text. field and enables further independent study and reading.
Simon Marsden is Senior Teaching Associate in the Department of English and

Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK.
Victorian Poetry in Context
UK January 2013 • US February 2013 Rosie Miles
192 pages
HB 9781441166302 • £60.00 / $110.00 Victorian Poetry in Context offers a lively and
Individual eBook 9781441153500 • £18.99 / $23.99 accessible introduction to the diverse range of
Library eBook 9781441168139 • £60.00 / $110.00 poetry written in the Victorian period. Considering
such issues as reform and protest, gender, science
and belief this book sets out the social and cultural
contexts for the poetry of a fast-changing era.
Sections on Victorian poetics, form and Victorian
voices introduce the key literary contexts of poetry’s
production, and poetic innovations of the period such as the dramatic
monologue are highlighted. At the heart of the book is a focus on the
importance of attentive close reading, with original readings offered of
well-known texts alongside those that have recently received renewed
attention within scholarship.
Rosie Miles is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.

176 pages
PB 9780826437679 • £16.99 / $27.95
HB 9780826430557 • £50.00 / $90.00
Library eBook 9781441182463 • £50.00 / $90.00
Series: Texts and Contexts


Walter Scott and Coleridge and Kantian Coleridge, Romanticism
Contemporary Theory Ideas in England, 1796- and the Orient
Evan Gottlieb 1817 Cultural Negotiations
Over the last two decades, Coleridge’s Responses to German Edited by David Vallins,
scholars have come to Kazuyoshi Oishi and
Philosophy
see Sir Walter Scott as Seamus Perry
an important figure in Monika Class
Romantic-period literature, Bringing together leading
The advent of Immanuel
Scottish literature and international writers,
Kant in Coleridge’s thought
the development of the Coleridge, Romanticism
is traditionally seen as the
historical novel. Walter and the Orient is the first
start of the poet’s turn
Scott and Contemporary Theory builds on this substantial exploration of
towards an internalized
renewed appreciation of Scott’s importance Coleridge’s literary and
Romanticism. Demonstrating
by viewing his most significant novels - from scholarly representations of the east and the
that Coleridge’s discovery
Waverley and Rob Roy to Ivanhoe and beyond ways in which these were influenced by and
of Kant came at an earlier
- through the lens of contemporary critical went on to influence his own work and the
point than has been previously recognized,
theory. By juxtaposing pairings of Scott’s early orientalism of the Romanticists more broadly.
this book examines the historical roots of
and later novels with major contemporary Bringing together postcolonial, philsophical,
Coleridge’s life-long preoccupation with
theoretical concepts and the work of such historicist and literary-critical perspectives,
Kant over a period of twenty years from the
thinkers as Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, this groundbreaking book develops a new
first extant Kant entry until the publication
Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Žižek, this book understanding of ‘Orientalism’ that recognises
of his autobiography. Drawing on previously
uses theory to illuminate the complexities of the importance of colonial ideologies in
unpublished contemporary reviews of Kant
Scott’s fictions, while simultaneously using Romantic representations of the East as well
and seeking socio-political meaning outside
Scott’s fictions to explain and explore the as appreciating the unique forms of meaning
the literary canon in the English radical
state of contemporary theory. and value which authors such as Coleridge
circles of the 1790s, Monika Class here
associated with the Orient.
Evan Gottlieb is Associate Professor of English at establishes conceptual affinities between
Oregon State University, USA. Coleridge’s writings and that of Kant’s earliest David Vallins is Professor of English at the
University of Hiroshima, Japan.
English mediators and in doing so revises
UK February 2013 • US April 2013 Coleridge’s allegedly non-political response Kazuyoshi Oishi is Associate Professor of English at
208 pages the University of Tokyo, Japan.
PB 9781441120229 • £19.99 / $34.95
to Kant.
HB 9781441182531 • £65.00 / $120.00 Monika Class is Marie Curie Research Fellow at Seamus Perry is Fellow of Balliol College and
Individual eBook 9781441133540 • £19.99 / $23.99 King’s College London, UK. Lecturer in English, University of Oxford, UK.
Library eBook 9781441128744 • £65.00 / $120.00
UK September 2012 • US November 2012 UK May 2013 • US July 2013
272 pages 224 pages
HB 9781441180759 • £60.00 / $110.00 HB 9781441149879 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781441185419 • £60.00 / $110.00 Library eBook 9781441121349 • £60.00 / $110.00
Neo-Victorianism and the Romancing Fascism

Memory of Empire Modernity and Allegory in Benjamin, de Man, Shelley
Elizabeth Ho Kathleen Kerr-Koch
“By demonstrating that recovery from Victoria’s Romancing Fascism argues that intellectual
empire is a global cultural enterprise and by responsibility can only be safeguarded if criticism
insisting on neo-Victorianism’s import in a is mobilised both as a poetic and as a critically
postcolonial present – where empire is a thing to enlightened endeavour. In this analysis of allegory
be dealt with and not just a thing to be missed - as a function of modernity, what is made clear is
Elizabeth Ho’s work refreshes our account of the the difficulty, if not impossibility, of definitively
field. Serious, engaged, and always smart, Neo- determining the genealogical antecedents of
Victorianism and the Memory of Empire identifies intellectual trends, particularly those considered
what’s consequential in those of our contemporary pleasures pernicious to clear thinking. Thus Kerr-Koch takes a wide-ranging
that circulate around a particularized past.” Mary Ann O’Farrell, approach to the analysis of allegory as it is treated by three
Department of English, Texas A&M University, USA controversial writers whose works flank the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, the middle and late periods of what we call modernity –
By reading a range of popular and literary Anglophone neo-Victorian Walter Benjamin, Paul de Man and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
texts. Elizabeth Ho explores how constructions of popular memory
Kathleen Kerr-Koch is Senior Lecturer in Literary History and Literary Theory
and fictionalisations of the past reflect political and psychological at the University of Sunderland, UK.
engagements with our contemporary post-Imperial circumstances.
Elizabeth Ho is Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College, USA. UK June 2013 • US April 2013
240 pages
UK April 2012 • US June 2012 HB 9781441104939 • £60.00 / $110.00
HB 9781441161550 • £60.00 / $110.00 Library eBook 9781441111807 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781441197788 • £60.00 / $110.00

The South Pacific Narratives of Robert Dickens’s Women bestseller
Louis Stevenson and Jack London His Great Expectations

Race, Class, Imperialism Anne Isba
Lawrence Phillips On the bicentenary of his birth, this short account
of the emotional life of Charles Dickens examines
From 1888 to 1915 Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack his relationships with some of the women to whom
London were uniquely placed to witness and record he was closest. They include the mother who failed
the imperial struggle for the South Pacific. Exploring to recognise his early promise; the young woman
a unique moment in South Pacific and Western history who spurned him before he was famous; the wife
through the work of Stevenson and London, this study he cast aside in middle age; the benefactress for
assesses the impact of their national identities on whom he managed a house for ‘fallen women’; and
works like The Amateur Emigrant and Adventure; the actress, less than half his age, with whom he spent his final years.
discusses their attitudes towards colonialism, race Each woman casts light on a different aspect of Dickens’s personality.
and class; shows how they negotiated different cultures and peoples
Anne Isba read Modern Languages at Oxford University, UK.
in their writing and considers where both writers are placed in the
Western tradition of writing about the Pacific. By contextualizing UK October 2011 • US December 2011
Stevenson’s and London’s South Pacific work, this study reveals two 184 pages
critical voices of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century HB 9781441107206 • £14.99 / $19.95
colonialism that deserve to stand beside their contemporary Joseph Individual eBook 9781441193278 • £14.99 / $19.99
Conrad in shaping contemporary attitudes towards imperialism, race,
and class.
Lawrence Phillips is Professor in English and Cultural Criticism at the University
of Northampton, UK.
Dostoevsky bestseller
Language, Faith and Fiction
224 pages Rowan Williams
HB 9781441199560 • £60.00 / $110.00
“The Archbishop of Canterbury has written a
Library eBook 9781441199287 • £60.00 / $110.00 book on Dostoevsky which illuminates the real
operations of religion in human minds... We need a
guide who combines the gifts of a literary critic and
a trained theologian to work out how far the novels
What Matters in Jane Austen? new
in PB
of Dostoevsky can be used as vehicles for such
explorations. We also need a guide who is deeply
Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved versed in the ethos and spiritual traditions of the
John Mullan Russian Orthodox Church to place Dostoevsky, and the tormented
exchanges of his characters, within some intelligible historical
Is there any sex in Austen? What do the characters
framework. Luckily the Archbishop of Canterbury combines all
call each other, and why? What are the right and
these qualities, and more” A. N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement
wrong ways to propose marriage? In What Matters
in Jane Austen, John Mullan shows that you can best Rowan Williams is Archbishop of Canterbury, UK.
appreciate Jane Austen’s brilliance by looking at the
intriguing quirks and intricacies of her fiction. UK October 2009
268 pages
In twenty-one short chapters Mullan illuminates PB 9781441183880 • £14.99
the themes that matter most to the workings of Individual eBook 9781441118523 • £14.99
World All Languages excluding USA/Canada
the fiction. So the reader will discover when people had their meals
and what shops they went to, how they addressed each other, who
owned coaches or pianos, how vicars got good livings and how wealth
was inherited. What Matters in Jane Austen explores the rituals and
conventions of her fictional world in order to reveal her technical
Victorians in Japan
virtuosity and sheer daring as a novelist. In and around the Treaty Ports
Inspired by an enthusiastic reader’s curiosity, written with flair and Hugh Cortazzi
based on a lifetime’s study, What Matters in Jane Austen will appeal An anthology of impressions, ‘snapshots’ and
to all those who love and enjoy Jane Austen’s work. anecdotes – vignettes conveying vividly what it was
John Mullan is a professor in the English department at University College like to be a foreigner in Japan in Victorian times.
London, UK. The focus is upon Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama,
Nagasaki and the other Treaty Ports and their vicinity.
UK January 2013 • US January 2013 This amusing and evocative book throws a revealing
352 pages
UK Edition:
light both upon the Victorian experience of Japan
PB 9781408831694 • £8.99 and upon Japan itself.
Individual eBook 9781408828731 • £14.99 (£8.99 starting January 2013) HUGH CORTAZZI was British Ambassador to Japan from 1980-1984.
US Edition:
HB 9781620400418 • $30.00
Individual eBook 9781620400449 • $23.99
386 pages
HB 9781780939759 • £75.00 / $140.00
Individual eBook 9781780939766 • £23.99/ $34.99
Library eBook 9781780939773 • £75.00 / $140.00

C lassical L iterature
Epic, Novel and the Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles
Progress of Antiquity Edited by Luke Houghton and
Gesine Manuwald
Ahuvia Kahane
Investigation of the Latin poetry produced by British
This book rethinks the characterization of two highly contrastive forms
poets from the sixteenth century onwards affords
of ancient literary tradition — epic and novel — and re-frames their
an indispensable insight into a dominant strand in
function as dynamic points of reference in the history of ideas and in
the intellectual, cultural and educational life of
our understanding of the interface between antiquity and the modern.
the British Isles during this period. At this time, the
Epic and novel have often been construed in terms of sharp contrasts:
composition of Latin poetry was a regular feature of
temporally, hierarchically, and in terms of specific highly contrasting
school curricula and a popular leisure-time activity
attributes: ‘sublime’ vs. ‘subversive’; an aspiration to ‘oral’ song vs.
of the educated elite. Such examination also sheds light on the poetic
an intimate association with book culture; heroic vs. ‘anti-heroic’ or
principles and practice of major British poets (such as Campion,
‘mock-heroic’.
Cowley, Herbert and Milton) who penned a large quantity of neo-Latin
Ahuvia Kahane here argues for the fallibility of each of several major verse in addition to their better-known vernacular works.
differential attributes, to the point of generic disintegration. He
Contributors: Ceri Davies, Swansea University; Roger P.H. Green,
then sets out to construct a new understanding of epic and novel in
University of Glasgow; Philip Hardie, University of Cambridge; Jason
antiquity as part of a more fragile, dynamic framework.
Harris, University College Cork; Stephen Harrison, University of Oxford;
Ahuvia Kahane is Professor of Greek, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. L.B.T. Houghton, University of Glasgow; Sarah Knight, University of
Leicester; Gesine Manuwald, University College London; David Money,
UK October 2013 • US November 2013 University of Cambridge; Victoria Moul, King’s College London; Niall
160 pages
PB 9780715636770 • £14.99 /$27.00
Rudd, University of Liverpool; Keith Sidwell, University of Calgary;
Series : Classical Inter/Faces Andrew Taylor, University of Cambridge; Angus Vine, University of
Bristol Classical Press Stirling.
Luke Houghton is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow, UK.
Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin at University College London, UK.
Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed UK July 2012 / US September 2012
Ahuvia Kahane 288 pages
PB 9781780930145 • £25.00 / $40.00
Homer’s poetry is widely recognized as the beginning Bristol Classical Press
of the literary tradition of the West and among its Sold by IPM in the US
most influential canonical texts. Outlining a series
of key themes, ideas, and values associated with
Homer and Homeric poetry, Homer: A Guide for the
Perplexed explores the question of the formation of No Laughing Matter
the Iliad and the Odyssey – the so-called ‘Homeric Studies in Athenian Comedy
Problem’. Among the main Homeric themes which
the book considers are origin and form, orality and composition, heroic Edited by C.W. Marshall and George Kovacs
values, social structure, and social bias, gender roles and gendered No Laughing Matter is a wide-ranging collection of
interpretation, ethnicity, representations of religion, mortality, and new studies of the comic theatre of Athens, from
the divine, memory, poetry, and poetics, and canonicity and tradition, its origins until the 340s BCE. Fifteen international
and the history of Homeric receptions. scholars employ an array of approaches and
Ahuvia Kahane is Professor of Greek, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. methodologies that will appeal to Classics and
Theatre scholars while still remaining accessible to
UK October 2012 • US December 2012 students. By including discussions of fragmentary
208 pages authors alongside Aristophanes, the collection
PB 9781441100108 • £14.99 / $24.95 provides a broad understanding of the richness of Athenian comedy.
HB 9781441179463 • £45.00 / $80.00
The collection showcases the best of the new scholarship on Old and
Library eBook 9781441189264 • £45.00 / $80.00 Middle Comedy.
Series: Guides for the Perplexed
No Laughing Matter has been prepared in tribute to Professor Ian
Storey of Trent University whose work on Athenian comedy will
continue to shape scholarship for many years to come.
C.W. Marshall is Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Theatre at the
University of British Columbia, Canada.
George Kovacs is Assistant Professor of Ancient History and Classics at Trent
University, Canada.
UK July 2012 / US September 2012

224 pages
PB 9781780930152 • £25.00 / $40.00
Bristol Classical Press
Sold by IPM in the US

Prescribing Ovid The Roman Poetry of Love textbook
The Latin Works and Networks of the Elegy and Politics in a Time of Revolution
Enlightened Dr Heerkens Efi Spentzou
Yasmin Haskell • Highlights themes and contextual references
Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens was a cosmopolitan Dutch between poems and poets
physician and Latin poet of the eighteenth century. A • Explores the idea of creativity as subversion in
Catholic, he was in many ways an outsider on his own Augustan Rome
turf, the peat country of Protestant Groningen, and
looked to Voltaire’s Paris, as much as Ovid, in exile, • Summarises the scholarship and debates
had looked to Rome. An indefatigable traveller and surrounding Latin love elegy
networker, Heerkens mixed freely with philosophers, • A concise introduction to the politics of love,
physicians, churchmen, and antiquarians. This book artistic subversion and creativity in Latin love elegy
reconstructs his Latin works and networks, and reveals in the process in Augustan Rome
a virtually unexplored corner of eighteenth-century culture, the ‘Latin
Enlightenment’. The Roman Poetry of Love: Elegy and Politics in a Time of Revolution
offers a fresh and accessible look at the gendered power play at work
Yasmin Haskell is Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism at the in Latin love elegy, for the undergraduate student and any newcomer
University of Western Australia and is a Chief Investigator in the Australian
to the field. It reviews the elegiac corpus as a whole, presenting
Research Council’s new Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions 1100-
1800. the most enduring debates in the scholarship of the last 30 years.
A series of chapters focusing on particular poems illuminates the
UK January 2013 • US March 2013 development of this short-lived genre in the context of Augustus’
256 pages • 3 bw illus ascent to power by following recognizable threads through the texts to
HB 9780715637234 • £70.00 / $130.00 build an understanding of the relationship between this poetry and the
Individual eBook 9781780934686 • £22.99 / $24.99 increasingly totalising regime.
Library eBook 9781780934693 • £70.00 / $130.00
Bristol Classical Press Efi Spentzou is Senior Lecturer in Latin Literature, Royal Holloway, University
Sold by IPM in the US of London, UK.
UK February 2013 • US May 2013

128 pages
Euripides: Alcestis PB 9781780932040 • £12.99 / $19.95
Series: Classical World
Niall W. Slater Bristol Classical Press
Sold by IPM in the US
Alcestis is Euripides’s earliest complete work and his only surviving
play from the period preceding the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War.
Currently dominant post-structuralist models of Greek tragedy focus
on its ‘oppositional’ role in the discourse of war and public values. This Homer: The Iliad
study challenges not only this politicised model of tragic discourse but
also both traditional masculinist and more recent feminist readings of William Allan
the discourse and performance of gender in this remarkable play. This book offers a clear and stimulating introduction
to Homer’s Iliad, the greatest poem of Western
The play survived in the performance repertoire of antiquity into the
culture. It discusses central aspects of the work
Roman period. Euripides’ version strongly influenced the reception of
(including the tradition of oral poetry, the style
the myth through the middles ages into the Renaissance, and the story
and structure of the epic, and its depiction of the
enjoyed a lively afterlife through opera. Alcestis’ contested reception
gods, heroism, war, and gender roles) and guides
in the last two centuries charts our changing understanding of tragedy.
the reader in understanding the skill and profundity
Niall Slater’s study explores the reception and afterlife of the play, as of Homer’s achievement. This introduction is ideal
well as its main themes, the myth before the play, the play’s historical for undergraduates and students in the upper forms of schools, but it
and social context and the central developments in modern criticism. requires no knowledge of ancient Greek and is intended for all readers
Niall W. Slater’s research interests are in ancient Theatre, the archaeology of interested in Homer.
the theatre and ancient novel gender studies. William Allan is the McConnell Laing Fellow and Tutor in Greek and Latin
Languages and Literature at University College, Oxford, UK, and Lecturer at the
UK May 2013 • US July 2013 Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, UK.
144 pages
PB 9781780934730 • £16.99 / $27.95 UK July 2012 • US September 2012
HB 9781780934723 • £50.00 / $90.00 128 pages
Individual eBook 9781780934747 • £16.99 / $22.99 PB 9781849668897 • £12.99 / $19.95
Library eBook 9781780934754 • £50.00 / $90.00 Series: Classical World
Series: Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy Bristol Classical Press
Bristol Classical Press Sold by IPM in the US

Statius, Poet Between Women in Ancient Greece
Rome and Naples A SourceBook
Carole E. Newlands Edited by Bonnie MacLachlan
This book examines the poetry of Statius (c. 40-96 The study of women in the ancient Mediterranean
AD), in relation to significant social and cultural world is a topic of growing interest among classicists
issues of his day, in particular shifting attitudes to and ancient historians, and also students of history,
Hellenism, gender and Roman imperialism. It also sociology and women’s studies. This volume is
discusses the reception of Statius’ poetry in the an essential resource supplying a compilation of
Middle Ages, when his reputation was its zenith. source material in translation, with suggestions
Medieval interpretations of Statius’ epics suggest that for further reading, a general bibliography, and an
their popularity rested in part on the prominence index of ancient authors and works. Texts come from
they give to female action and the female voice, thus suggesting new literary, rhetorical, philosophical and legal sources, as well as papyri
expressive and generic possibilities. and inscription. The volume follows a clear chronological structure –
beginning in the eighth century BCE the coverage continues through
Carole E. Newlands is Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado Archaic and Classical Athens concluding with the Hellenistic era.
Boulder, USA.
Bonnie MacLachlan is Professor of Classical Studies at the University of
UK September 2012 • US November 2012 Western Ontario.
224 pages
PB 9781780932132 • £19.99 / $29.95 UK May 2012 • US August 2012
Series: Classical Literature and Society 248 pages
Bristol Classical Press PB 9781441179630 • £22.99 / $39.95
Sold by IPM in the US HB 9781441132864 • £70.00 / $130.00
Library eBook 9781441104755 • £70.00 / $130.00
Series: Bloomsbury Sources in Ancient History
The Lives of the Greek Poets 2nd
edition
Mary R. Lefkowitz
Mary R. Lefkowitz has extensively revised and
Seduction and Power
rewritten her classic study to introduce a new Antiquity in the Visual and Performing Arts
generation of students to the lives of the Greek Edited by Silke Knippschild and
poets. Thoroughly updated with references to the
most recent scholarship, this second edition includes Marta Garcia Morcillo
new material and fresh analysis of the ancient This volume focuses on the reception of antiquity in
biographies of Greece’s most famous poets. the performing and visual arts from the Renaissance
With little or no independent historical information to the twenty-first century. It explores the tensions
to draw on, ancient writers searched for biographical data in the and relations of gender, sexuality, eroticism and
poets’ own works and in comic poetry about them. Lefkowitz describes power in reception. Such universal themes dictated
how biographical mythology was created and offers a sympathetic plots and characters of myth and drama, but also
account of how individual biographers reconstructed the poets’ lives. served to portray historical figures, events and places
She argues that the life stories of Greek poets, even though primarily from Classical history. Their changing reception and reinterpretation
fictional, still merit close consideration, as they provide modern across time has created stereotypes, models of virtue or immoral
readers with insight into ancient notions about the creative process conduct, that blend the original features from the ancient world with
and the purpose of poetic composition. a diverse range of visual and performing arts of the modern era. The
Mary R. Lefkowitz is Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, at Wellesley volume deconstructs these traditions and shows how arts of different
College, Massachusetts, USA. periods interlink to form and transmit these images to modern
audiences and viewers.
UK May 2012 Silke Knippschild is a lecturer in ancient history at the University of Bristol, UK.
240 pages
PB 9781780930893 • £18.99 Marta Garcia Morcillo is a lecturer in ancient history at the University of
World All Languages excluding USA/Canada Wales, Lampeter, UK.
Bristol Classical Press
UK February 2013 • US March 2013
312 pages
HB 9781441177469 • £65.00 / $120.00
Library eBook 9781441190659 • £65.00 / $120.00

B ritish and I rish L iterature
Bloomsbury Studies in the City

Series Editors: Lawrence Phillips, Professor in English at University of Northampton, UK
Matthew Beaumont, Senior Lecturer in English, University College London, UK
The history of literature is tied to the city. From Aeschylus to Addison, Baudelaire to Balzac, Conrad to Coetzee and Dickens to Dostoevsky,
writers make sense of the city and shape modern understandings through their reflections and depictions. The urban is a fundamental aspect of
a substantial part of the literary canon that is frequently not considered in and of it self because it is so prevalent. Bloomsbury Studies in the
City captures the best contemporary criticism on urban literature. Reading literature, drama and poetry in their historical and social context
and alongside urban and spatial theory, this series explores the impact of the city on writers and their work.
Irish Writing London: Volume 1 G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity

Revival to the Second World War Edited by Matthew Beaumont
Edited by Tom Herron and Matthew Ingleby
The presence of Irish writers is almost invisible in G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity is the first
literary studies of London. Irish Writing London book to explore the persistent theme of the city in
redresses the critical deficit. A range of experts Chesterton’s writing. Situating him in relation to both
on particular Irish writers reflect on the diverse Victorian and Modernist literary paradigms, the book
experiences and impact this immigrant group has had explores a range of theoretical and methodological
on the city. Such sustained attention to a location approaches to address the way his imaginative
and concern of Irish writing, long passed over, opens investments and political interventions conceive
up new terrain to not only reveal but create a history urban modernity and the central figure of London. With chapters
of Irish-London writing. Alongside discussions of Wilde, Shaw, Joyce written by leading scholars in the field of 20th century literature,
and Yeats, the writing of the political nationalist Katharine Tynan the book also provides fresh readings and suggests new contexts for
and work of Irish-Language writer Ó Conaire is considered. Written central texts such as The Man Who Was Thursday, The Napoleon of
by an international array of scholars, these new essays on key figures Notting Hill and the Father Brown stories. It also discusses lesser-
challenge the deep-seated stereotype of what constitutes the proper known works, such as Manalive and The Resurrection of Rome, drawing
domain of Irish writing, producing a study that is both culturally and out their significance for scholars interested in urban representation
critically alert and a dynamic contribution to literary criticism of the and practice in the first three decades of the twentieth century.
city. Matthew Beaumont is Senior Lecturer in English, University College London, UK.
Tom Herron is Senior Lecturer in English and Irish Literature at Leeds Matthew Ingleby is a Teaching Fellow at University College London, UK.
Metropolitan University, UK.
UK November 2012 • US January 2013 208 pages
184 pages HB 9781780937069 • £60.00 / $110.00
HB 9781441168054 • £60.00 / $110. Individual eBook 9781780935805 • £18.99 / $23.99
Individual eBook 9781441139641 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781780936833 • £60.00 /$110.00
Library eBook 9781441150578 • £60.00 /$110.00 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the City
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the City
Irish Writing London: Volume 2 London in Contemporary British Fiction

The City Beyond the City
Post-War to the Present
Edited by Nick Hubble, Lynn Wells and
Edited by Tom Herron Philip Tew
Alongside discussions of MacNeice, Boland and
Contemporary writers such as J.G. Ballard and Zadie
McGahern, the autobiography of Brendan Behan
Smith have been registering the changes to the
and identity of Irish-language writers in London is
social and cultural London landscape for years. This
considered. Written by an internal array of scholars,
volume brings together their vivid representations
these new essays on key figures challenge the deep-
of the capital. Uniting the readings are themes
seated stereotype of what constitutes the proper
such as relationship between the country and the
domain of Irish writing, producing a study that is
city; the capacity of satirical forms to encompass
both culturally and critically alert and a dynamic
the ‘real London’; spatio-temporal transformations and emergences;
contribution to literary criticism of the city.
the relationship between multiculturalism and universalism; the
Tom Herron is Senior Lecturer in English and Irish Literature at Leeds underground as the spatial equivalent of London’s unconsciousness and
Metropolitan University, UK. the suburbs as the frontier of the future.
UK November 2012 • US January 2013 Nick Hubble is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary English Literature at
184 pages Brunel University, UK.
HB 9781441172488 • £60.00 / $110.00 Lynn Wells is Associate Professor of English and Associate Vice-President
(Academic) at the University of Regina in Canada.
Library eBook 9781441105547 • £60.00 /$110.00
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the City Philip Tew is Professor of English (Post-1900 Literature) at Brunel University,
UK, Director of Brunel’s Centre for Contemporary Writing and Director of the UK
Network for Modern Fiction Studies.

208 pages
HB 9781441190192 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781441191472 • £60.00 / $110.00
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the City


Evelyn Waugh Poems in the Porch bestseller Chance and the Modern
Fictions, Faith and Family The Radio Poems of John Betjeman British Novel
Michael G. Brennan Kevin Gardner From Henry Green to Iris Murdoch
Evelyn Waugh: Fictions, Faith Between 1953-57, John Julia Jordan
and Family is a wide-ranging Betjeman read a series of
survey of the prolific literary poems on ‘The Faith in the 192 pages
career of one of the most West’ program airing on the PB 9781441110145 • £17.99 / $29.95
popular English writers of BBC’s West of England Home Library eBook 9781441109712 • £55.00 / $100.00
the 20th century. Michael Service. What few people Series: Continuum Literary Studies
G. Brennan here identifies now realize is that Betjeman
three major themes as read at least 20 original
central to any understanding of Waugh’s work:
Catholicism, society and the concept of family.
poems on the radio in this series, perhaps
even more, and Kevin Gardner has been able London’s Burning
From Decline and Fall (published in 1928) to his to identify and collect 26 of these poems Pulp Fiction, the Politics of Terrorism
final writings, this book draws not only on the and has written a fascinating introductory and the Destruction of the Capital in
major novels and short stories but also Waugh’s essay recounting the story of Betjeman as a
British Popular Culture, 1840 - 2005
substantial journalistic output, his private radio poet and discussing the artistry of these
journals and correspondences and unpublished poems. Antony Taylor
draft manuscripts. Through this comprehensive Kevin Gardner is Professor of English Literature at From the early years of the
and systematic exploration, Brennan Baylor University, USA. nineteenth century, cultural
demonstrates the sustained creative importance pessimists imagined in
of Catholicism to Waugh’s literary work. UK September 2009 • US November 2009 fiction the political forces
Michael G. Brennan is Professor of Renaissance PB 9781441142184 • £9.99 / $14.95
that might bring about the
Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the HB 9781847063281 • £14.99 / $34.95 destruction of London.
author of Graham Greene: Fiction, Faith and There has been a tendency
Authorship (Continuum, 2010). to dismiss such writings
as the lurid imaginings of pulp novelists but
192 pages The Wit and bestseller this book re-evaluates the contribution of
popular fiction to the construction of the
PB 9781441100344 • £19.99 / $34.95
HB 9781441131119 • £65.00 / $120.00 Wisdom of G.K. terrorist threat. From the 1840s, when a
Chesterton
Individual eBook 9781441135032 • £19.99 / $23.99 fear of Chartist insurgency was paramount in
Library eBook 9781441194176 • £65.00 / $120.00
the minds of authors, it moves through the
Bevis Hillier anarchist thrillers of the 1890s, considers
writers’ fears about Bolshevik revolution in
In this collection, Bevis
Reading Authority and Hillier draws on Chesterton’s
the East End of the 1920s and 1930s, explores
fears of Fascism in the inter-war years, and
most humorous epigrams
Representing Rule in and more serious extracts
assesses the concerns with underground
counter-culture that feature in the thriller
Early Modern England not only from his most
popular works, the Father
literature of the 1970s.
Kevin Sharpe Brown stories, but also Antony Taylor is Senior Lecturer in History at
his contributions to the Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
Reading Authority and
Illustrated London News and GK’s Weekly,
Representing Rule in Early UK January 2012 • US March 2012
as well as his numerous novels, poems,
Modern England explores the 272 pages • 16 bw illus
essays and tracts on a vast array of subjects. HB 9781441118875 • £65.00 / $120.00
publication and reception
These pieces shine a light into the margins Individual eBook 9781441121851 • £19.99 / $23.99
of authority in early modern Library eBook 9781441171566 • £65.00 / $120.00
of Chesterton’s work and give a sense of
England. The chapters
the distinctive flavour of his mind. Some of
in this volume look at a
Chesterton’s remarkable drawings (he trained
broad range of historical
materials, enabling a rich historicization of a
as an artist at the Slade) are included, among
them a hitherto unpublished caricature of
London Gothic new
in PB
variety of texts and presenting the history of Place, Space and the Gothic
Winston Churchill, c. 1919.
society and state as a cultural as well as an
Bevis Hillier is an author, journalist and critic, and
Imagination
institutional or political history.
a former editor of The Connoisseur magazine and of Lawrence Phillips
Kevin Sharpe was a leading scholar in The Times Saturday Review in the UK.
interdisciplinary approaches to the study May 2012 • July 2012
of early modern Britain. He pioneered the UK April 2010 • US June 2011 208 • 7 bw illus
312 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781441185129 • £18.99 / $32.95
application of other disciplines, such as
HB 9781441179586 • £14.99 / $24.95 Library eBook 9781441159977 • £60.00 / $110.00
literary criticism, reception studies and
studies in visual culture, to the study of the
English Renaissance state.
Kevin Sharpe was Professor of Renaissance Studies Mapping the Wessex Novel
and Director of the Centre for Renaissance and Early Landscape, History and the Parochial in
Modern Studies at Queen Mary, University of London,
UK.
British Literature, 1870-1940
Andrew Radford
352 pages UK April 2012 • US June 2012
PB 9781441195012 • £19.99 / $34.95 192 pages
HB 9781441149442 • £65.00 / $120.00 PB 9781441131591 • £24.99 / $44.95

N orth and S outh A merican L iterature
Narcoepics Must Read: Rediscovering

A Global Aesthetics of Sobriety American Bestsellers
Hermann Herlinghaus From Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code
Narcoepics foregrounds the controversial yet mostly Edited by Sarah Churchwell and Thomas
untheorized phenomenon of contemporary Latin
American ‘narcoepics’. Foregrounding the art that
Ruys Smith
has arisen from or seeks to describe drug culture, “Although the past two decades have seen a
Herlinghaus’s comparative study looks at writers sizeable increase in scholarly interest in bestsellers
such as Gutiérrez, J. J. Rodríguez, Reverte, films in the American context, there remains a great
such as City of God, and the narratives surrounding deal of unexplored territory when it comes to such
cultural villains/heroes such as Pablo Escobar. literature. Must Read goes a long way in addressing
Narcoepics shows that that in order to grasp the aesthetic and ethical this deficiency by examining a tremendous range
core of these narratives it is pivotal, first, to develop an ‘aesthetics of such literature with great critical care, insight,
of sobriety’. The aim is to establish a criteria for a new kind of and theoretical sophistication. Must Read is a must read for anyone
literary studies, in which cultural hermeneutics plays as much a part interested in American bestsellers.” Paul Gutjahr, Professor of
as political philosophy, analysis of religion, and neurophysiological English, American Studies, and Religious Studies, Indiana University, USA
inquiry. What is it about certain books that makes them bestsellers? Why do
Hermann Herlinghaus is Professor of Latin American Literatures in the Institute some of these books remain popular for centuries, and others fade
of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Freiburg, Germany, gently into obscurity? Addressing those and other equally pressing
and International Adjunct Professor of Latin American Literatures and Cultural questions about popular literature, Must Read is the first scholarly
Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
collection to offer both a survey of the evolution of American
UK March 2013 • US January 2013
bestsellers as well as critical readings of some of the key texts that
224 pages have shaped the American imagination since the nation’s founding.
PB 9781441107787 • £17.99 / $29.95 Sarah Churchwell is Professor of American Literature and Public
HB 9781441121981 • £55.00 / $100.00 Understanding of the Humanities at the University of East Anglia, UK.
Thomas Ruys Smith is a Lecturer in American Literature and Culture in the
School of American Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK.
UK October 2012 • US August 2012

384 pages
PB 9781441162168 • £17.99 / $29.95
HB 9781441150684 • £55.00 / $100.00
Library eBook 9781441145888 • £55.00 / $100.00
Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction

Series Editor:
Sarah Graham, Lecturer in American Literature, University of Leicester, UK
This series offers up-to-date guides to the recent work of major contemporary North American authors. Written by leading scholars in the field,
each book presents a range of original interpretations of three key texts published since 1990, showing how the same novel may be interpreted
in a number of different ways. These informative, accessible volumes will appeal to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students,
facilitating discussion and supporting close analysis of the most important contemporary American and Canadian fiction.
Chuck Palahniuk Toni Morrison

Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Choke Paradise, Love, A Mercy
Edited by Francisco Collado-Rodrίguez Edited by Lucille P. Fultz
Offering a distinctive world full of traumatized Toni Morrison features a collection of ten new essays
characters trapped in a consumerist society where by noted Morrison scholars, including recipients of
men, women, sex and gender have become unstable the Toni Morrison Society Book Award. Focusing upon
commodities, Chuck Palahniuk has become one of Morrison’s most recently published novels (Paradise,
the most controversial of contemporary novelists. Love, A Mercy) the contributors to this volume
This book is the first guide to bring together scholars revisit issues that continue to engage Morrison and
from a full range of critical perspectives to explore are part of the currency of contemporary American
three of Palahniuk’s most widely-studied novels: literary and cultural history. These selections
Fight Club, Invisible Monsters and Choke. Examining these works in examine Morrison’s ongoing ‘romance’ with African Americans as they
light of such key critical themes as violence, masculinity, postmodern continue to battle the demons of race, gender, class, and poverty, to
aesthetics and trauma, the book also explores the ethical dimension name a few. Together, these essays offer comprehensive and nuanced
of Palahniuk’s work that is often lost in the heat of the controversies discussions of Morrison’s latest novels and provide new directions for
surrounding his books. Morrison scholarship in the twenty-first century.
Francisco Collado-RodrÍguez is Professor of English at the University of Lucille P. Fultz is Associate Professor Emerita in English at Rice University, USA.
Zaragoza, Spain.
UK October 2012 • US December 2012
UK May 2013 • US August 2013 208 pages
192 pages PB 9781441119681 • £17.99 / $29.95
PB 9781441174321 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781441130136 • £55.00 / $100.00
Library eBook 9781441152046 • £55.00 / $100.00 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction


Lyric Encounters Estimating Emerson
Essays on American Poetry from Lazarus and Frost to An Anthology of Criticism from Carlyle to Cavell
Cofer and Alexie Edited by David LaRocca
Daniel Morris “This is the definitive anthology on America’s
A new survey of twentieth-century U.S. poetry premier man of letters—Ralph Waldo Emerson.”
that places a special emphasis on poets who have Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor
put lyric poetry in dialogue with other forms of Professor, Princeton University, USA
creative expression, including modern art, the novel, “Quite apart from the usefulness of having all
jazz, memoir, and letters. Contesting readings of these important essays handy, readers may also
twentieth-century American poetry as hermetic toy with this simple question: when writing about
and narcissistic, Morris interprets the lyric as a a writer’s work, over the years, have critics gotten
scene of instruction and thus as a public-oriented better or have they gotten worse?” William H. Gass, David May
genre. American poets from Robert Frost to Sherman Alexie bring Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities, Washington
aesthetics to bear on an exchange that asks readers to think carefully University in St Louis, USA
about the ethical demands of reading texts as a reflection of how we
metaphorically ‘read’ the world around us and the persons, places, “David LaRocca’s Estimating Emerson is an essential anthology of
and things in it. criticism. Every lover of Emerson will be tempted to read deeply
in this volume, which offers a rich spectrum of reactions to the
Daniel Morris is Professor of English at Purdue University, USA.
Emersonian genius, from Emerson’s own day to the present. It’s not
just a delightful book, but a necessary one.” David Mikics, John and
208 pages Rebecca Moores Professor of English, University of Houston, USA, and
PB 9781441151568 • £17.99 / $29.95 Editor of The Annotated Emerson
HB 9781441194428 • £55.00 / $100.00
Individual eBook 9781441110176 • £17.99 / $23.99 “Estimating Emerson looks to be an anthology that easily will find a
Library eBook 9781441159946 • £55.00 / $100.00 place in the classroom for courses in American literature, American
studies, and American philosophy.” William Day, Associate Professor
of Philosophy, Le Moyne College, USA
Borges, between History and Eternity As ‘America’s Plato’, it is perhaps not surprising that Emerson has
drawn a great deal of critical (in both senses of the word) attention.
Hernán Díaz What is surprising, however, is the fact that so much of the attention
was given by writers and thinkers as varied as Thomas Carlyle,
“A splendid book. Intelligent, illuminating, original,
Matthew Arnold, the James brothers, Walt Whitman, D. H. Lawrence,
worthy of its ambitious subject. I have read it with
George Santayana, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, John
increasing pleasure, and finished it feeling I now
Updike, and William Gass. Estimating Emerson collects for the first
had a better understanding of Borges’s seemingly
time the writing of these and many other notable writers as they
simple and apparent but in fact deeply mysterious
consider the impact of Emerson on their life and work.
intelligence.” Alberto Manguel
David LaRocca is Writer-in-Residence in the Frederick Lewis Allen Room at the
That Borges is one of the key figures in twentieth- New York Public Library, USA, and Coordinating Producer and Consulting Editor
century literature is beyond debate. The reasons for the ongoing documentary film project The Intellectual Portrait Series.
behind this claim, however, are a matter of contention. In Latin
America he is read as someone who reorganized the canon, questioned UK February 2013 • US January 2013
literary hierarchies, and redefined the role of marginal literatures. 672 pages
PB 9781441164865 • £22.99 / $39.95
On the other hand, in the rest of the world, most readers (and HB 9781441199386 • £65.00 / $120.00
dictionaries) tend to identify the adjective ‘Borgesian’ with intricate
metaphysical puzzles and labyrinthine speculations of universal
reach, completely detached from particular traditions. One reading
is context-saturated, while the other is context-deprived. Oddly
enough, these ‘institutional’ and ‘transcendental’ approaches have
not been pitched against each other in a critical way. Borges, between
History and Eternity brings these perspectives together by considering
key aspects of Borges’s work – the reciprocal determinations of
politics, philosophy and literature; the simultaneously confining and
emancipating nature of language; and the incipient program for a
literature of the Americas.
Hernán Díaz is Associate Director of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia
University, USA.

208 pages
PB 9781441197795 • £16.99 / $27.95
HB 9781441188113 • £50.00 / $90.00
Library eBook 9781441169099 • £50.00 / $90.00

American Fiction in Transition One Man Zeitgeist: Dave Eggers, new

in PB
Observer-Hero Narrative, the 1990s, and Postmodernism Publishing and Publicity
Adam Kelly Caroline D. Hamilton
American Fiction in Transition is a significant and UK July 2012 • US May 2012
highly readable study of a key but hitherto neglected 144 pages
genre of American literary fiction. It examines PB 9781441117373 • £19.99 / $34.95
the 1990s in relation to debates on the end of Individual eBook 9781441179654 • £19.99 / $23.99
Library eBook 9781441167491 • £65.00 / $120.00
postmodernism and to earlier periods of transition
in US literature. The book reads individual novels
by four major American contemporary writers -
Philip Roth, Paul Auster, E. L. Doctorow and Jeffrey
Eugenides. Each novel has a similar structure: an observer-narrator
Outside, America
tells the story of a significant person in their lives who has died. But The Temporal Turn in Contemporary American Fiction
in their struggle to tell the story, to find adequate means to narrate
Hikaru Fujii
the life and death of the hero figure of their tale, and to decide on
motivation and define character, each narrator offers a window onto The idea of the ‘outside’ as a space of freedom
problems of ethics, representation and understanding that mark the has always been central in the literature of the
legacy of the postmodern era in literature and culture. United States. This concept still remains active
in contemporary American fiction; however, its
Adam Kelly is IRCHSS CARA Postdoctoral Mobility Fellow at Harvard University,
USA, and University College Dublin, Ireland.
function is being significantly changed. Outside,
America argues that, among contemporary American
UK June 2013 • US April 2013 novelists, a shift of focus to the temporal dimension
176 pages is taking place. No longer a spatial movement, the
HB 9781441112859 • £55.00 / $100.00 quest for the outside now seeks to reach the idea of time as a force
Individual eBook 9781441135933 • £17.99 / $23.99 of difference, a la Deleuze, by which the current subjectivity is
Library eBook 9781441173744 • £55.00 / $100.00
transformed. In other words, the concept is taking a ‘temporal turn’.
Discussing eight novelists, including Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, Paul
Theroux, and Annie Proulx, each of whose works describe forces of
Early Visions and Representations given identities – masculine identity, historical temporality, and power,
etc. – which block quests for the outside, Fujii shows how the outside
of America in these texts ceases to be a spatial idea.
Álvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios and William Hikaru Fujii is Assistant Professor of English Department at Doshisha University,
Japan.
Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation
M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo UK June 2013 • US April 2013
160 pages
When the Europeans first arrived in America, they HB 9781441161871 • £55.00 / $100.00
had a number of preconceptions, prejudices, Library eBook 9781441122520 • £55.00 / $100.00
expectations and hopes about what life in the
New World would be like. This book examines the
different visions and representations of America
conveyed in the writings of Spanish conquistador Political Initiation in the Novels of
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and the Pilgrim leader
William Bradford, taking both writers within their
Philip Roth
respective literary and historical contexts. Anthologies of American Claudia Franziska Bruhwiler
literature have consistently ignored Spanish-language achievements on
Political Initiation in the Novels of Philip Roth
the grounds of a restrictive interpretation of American literature based
exemplifies how literature and, specifically, the work
on linguistic boundaries. In seeking to redress this neglect, Galisteo
of Philip Roth can help readers understand the ways
contributes to scholarship which seeks to analyze Early America as a
in which individuals develop their political identity,
whole, including not only Anglo American perspectives but also the
learn to comprehend political ideas, and define
Spanish American aspect of the colonization process.
their role in society. Combining political science,
M. Carmen Gomez-Galisteo is Associate Professor in the English Department at literary theory, and anthropology, the book describes
ESNE - Universidad Camilo José Cela, Madrid, Spain. an individual’s political coming of age as a political
initiation story, which is crafted as much by the individual himself as
UK January 2013 • US November 2012
224 pages
by the circumstances influencing him, such as political events or the
HB 9781441103826 • £65.00 / $120.00 political attitude of the parents. Philip Roth’s characters constantly
Individual eBook 9781441195944 • £19.99 / $23.99 re-write their own stories and experiment with their identities.
Library eBook 9781441103949 • £65.00 / $120.00 Accordingly, Philip Roth’s works enable the reader to explore, for
instance, how individuals construct their identity against the backdrop
of political transformations or contested territories, and thereby
become initiands – or fail to do so.
Improvisation and the Making of new
in PB
Claudia Franziska Bruhwiler is Lecturer at the University of St. Gallen,
American Literary Modernism Switzerland.
Rob Wallace UK June 2013 • US April 2013

192 pages
UK July 2012 • US May 2012
HB 9781441153210 • £60.00 / $110.00
216 pages
PB 9781441113757 •£24.99 / $44.95
Library eBook 9781441142283 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781441122896 •£75.00 / $140.00


The Contemporary Spanish textbook Contemporary Jewish American textbook
American Novel Poetry: An Anthology

Edited by Will H. Corral, Nicholas Birns, and Edited by Deborah Ager and M.E. Silverman
Juan E. DeCastro • The first anthology of its kind
• Comprehensive survey of the development of the • Contains 212 poems on a variety of Jewish themes, cultural and
contemporary Spanish-American novel religious
• Covers Central America, the greater Andean region, • Collects the work of 110 poets, ranging from established writers to
the Caribbean, the Southern Cone and the US new voices
• Each geographical section has contextual • The most comprehensive and up-to-date anthology of contemporary
5 introduction, indicating major trends as well as the Jewish American poetry available
sociocultural factors
In bringing together poets whose writings explore cultural Jewish
• Includes detailed discussion of over 60 novelists, both well-known topics with those who directly address Jewish religious themes as
and important but neglected writers well as those who only indirectly touch on their Jewishness, this
The Contemporary Spanish American Novel offers an authoritative anthology offers a fascinating insight into what it is to be a Jewish
guide to a rich and varied novelistic tradition. It covers all poet. Established poets are included, such as David Lehman, who also
demographic areas, including United States Latino authors, in exploring provides the Foreword to the anthology, as well as representatives of
the diversity of this literature and its major themes, such as exile, the next generation of Jewish voices, such as Melissa Stein.
migration, and gender representation. Deborah Ager is the author of the poetry collection Midnight Voices and
Wilfrido (Will) H. Corral has taught at Stanford University, the University of founder of 32 Poems Magazine.
Massachussets and Amherst College, USA. M. E. Silverman teaches at Gordon College in Georgia, USA.
Nicholas Birns is Associate Teaching Professor at Eugene Lang College, the New
School, New York, USA. UK November 2013 • US September 2013
272 pages
Juan E. De Castro is an Associate Professor in Literary Studies at Eugene Lang PB 9781441188793 • £18.99 / $29.95
College, The New School for Liberal Studies, New York, USA. HB 9781441125576 • £60.00 / $110.00
400 pages
PB 9781441142597 • £22.99 / $39.95
HB 9781441140395 • £65.00 / $120.00
Terrorism and Henry Miller: The Emerson and the Natural

Temporality in the Works Inhuman Artist History of the Metaphor
English Traits and the Varieties of
of Thomas Pynchon and Indrek Männiste
Transcendental Biology
Don DeLillo Against skeptics, Männiste argues that
Miller does indeed have a philosophy of his David LaRocca
James Gourley own, which underpins most of his texts. It Using English Traits as his point of departure,
is demonstrated that this philosophy, as a LaRocca explores the presence and
This book starts from a simple premise:
metaphysical sense of life, forms a system significance of metaphors in Emerson. In doing
that the events of the 11th of September
the understanding of which is necessary so, he shows their centrality to Emerson’s
2001 must have had a major effect on two
to adequately explain even some of the thinking, but also reminds us of their
New York residents, and two of the seminal
most basic of Miller’s ideas. Building upon centrality to all thinking.
authors of American letters, Pynchon and
his notion of the inhuman artist, Miller’s
DeLillo. By examining implicit and explicit For example, purity metaphors abounded
philosophical foundation is revealed through
allusion to these events in their work, it in nineteenth-century discourse in science,
his literary attacks against the metaphysical
becomes apparent that both consider 9/11 literature, and philosophy. Emerson picks
design of the modern age. It is argued that,
a crucial event, and that it has profoundly up on this phenomenon, both to examine
by repudiating some of the most potent
impacted their work. From this important and undermine it. Purity is merely one of a
elements of late modernity such as history,
point, the volume focuses on the major host of metaphors that reveal problematical
modern technology and an aesthetisized view
change identifiable in both author’s work; a implications. Others include: blood, race,
of art, Miller paves the way for overcoming
change in the perception, and conception, of family, nation, genealogy, anatomy, and
Western metaphysics. Finally it is showed
time. This is not, however, a simple change melancholy. By throwing light on Emerson’s
that, philosophically, this aim is governed by
after 2001. It allows, at the same time, a scrutiny of the great metaphors of his age,
Miller’s idiosyncratic concept of art, in which
re-examination of both author’s work, and the LaRocca lays bare the allusive and anecdotal
one is led towards self-liberation through
acknowledgment of time as a crucial concept aspects of Emerson’s prose—the way it makes
transcending the modern society and its
to both authors throughout their careers. possible thinking on certain topics, and
dehumanizing pursuits.
James Gourley is a Member of the Writing and renews thinking of other issues.
Indrek Männiste is Visiting Fellow in the
Society Research Group at the University of Western
Department of English and Comparative Literature David LaRocca is Writer-in-Residence in the
Sydney, Australia.
at the University of Warwick, UK. Frederick Lewis Allen Room at the New York Public
Library, USA.
UK August 2013 • US May 2013
192 pages UK August 2013 • US June 2013
192 pages UK September 2013 • US July 2013
HB 9781441166890 • £60.00 / $110.00
HB 9781623561086 •£60.00 /$110.00 176 pages
Individual eBook 9781623569006 • £18.99 / $23.99 PB 9781441161406 • £17.99 / $29.95
Library eBook 9781441133564 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781623562083 • £60.00 / $110.00 HB 9781441193179 • £55.00 / $100.00
Library eBook 9781441175618 • £55.00 / $100.00

E uropean L iterature
E uropean L iterature
Evil: A History in Modern French The Book of Imitation and Desire

Literature and Thought Reading Milan Kundera with Rene Girard
Damian Catani Trevor Cribben Merrill
Foreword by Andrew J. McKenna
In this original, interdisciplinary approach to evil
in French literature, Damian Catani links literary Trevor Merrill offers a new interpretation of Milan
depictions of evil with cultural events to chart a Kundera’s work that seeks to reinsert him in the
history of the concept in some of the most important contemporary conversation and the post-Iron Curtain
texts in modern literature. context. Harold Bloom and others have dismissed
Kundera as a maker of ‘period pieces’ that lost
Beginning with Balzac and Baudelaire, Catani currency once the Berlin Wall fell. Merrill refutes this
covers the restoration and the Second Empire view and, in doing so, marshals a critical approach
before interpreting how Catholic stereotypes of introduced by René Girard in his 1961 book Deceit, Desire, and the
the ‘evil feminine’ and new scientific theories impacted the work of Novel desire springs neither from individual tastes nor inherent
Lautréamont and Zola. Moving into the twentieth century, evil is then physical attractiveness but hinges on imitation or, more precisely,
explored in terms of the Self, power, knowledge and politics through on imitative desire. Merrill seeks to overturn our understanding of
readings of Proust, Céline, Sartre and Foucault. Kundera by showing how Kundera overturns our understanding of love
Damian Catani is Lecturer in the Department of European Cultures and and desire.
Languages at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.
Trevor Cribben Merrill sits on the Research Committee of Imitatio:
Integrating the Human Sciences.
240 pages Andrew J. McKenna is Professor of French Language and Literature at Loyola
HB 9781441185563 • £60.00 / $110.00 University Chicago, USA.
Library eBook 9781441185075 • £60.00 / $110.00 UK May 2013 • US February 2013
208 pages
HB 9781441118653 • £60.00 / $110.00
The Politics of Literature in Library eBook 9781441195463 • £60.00 / $110.00
Nazi Germany
The Book and the Media Dictatorship
Jan-Pieter Barbian
Translated by Kate Sturge
This is the most comprehensive account to date
of literary politics in Nazi Germany and of the
institutions, organizations and people who controlled
German literature during the Third Reich. Barbian
details a media dictatorship that began almost
immediately under the National Socialists, leading
4
to authors’ forced declarations of loyalty, literary
propaganda, censorship, and book burnings. Special attention is given
to Nazi regulation of the publishing industry and command over all
forms of publication and dissemination. Barbian describes a society in
which everybody who was not openly opposed to it, participated in the
system, whether as a writer, an editor, or even as an ordinary visitor to
a library.
Jan-Pieter Barbian is a historian and Director of Duisburg Municipal Library,
Germany.
Kate Sturge holds a Chartered Institute of Linguists’ Diploma in Translation
(German-English) and a PhD in Comparative Literature. She is co-editor of the
Routledge journal Translation Studies.
UK September 2013 • US July 2013

448 pages
PB 9781441107343 • £22.99 / $39.95
HB 9781441120335 • £70.00 / $130.00
Library eBook 9781441168146 • £70.00 / $130.00
Translation rights not available

Europ e a n L it e ratur e
Europ e a n L it e ratur e
New Directions in German Studies
Series Editor: Imke Meyer, Helen Herrmann Chair and Professor of German, Bryn Mawr College, USA
A long and venerable tradition of ‘Germanistik’ has been opened up in exciting ways in the past few decades. The series taps into that tradition
and its growth into ‘German Studies,’ reframing aspects of the discipline in light of concerns germane to these fields: German, Austrian, or
Swiss national identity and aesthetics; historical approaches to German-language literature and cinema; the legacy of the Holocaust and its
influence on aesthetics; politics and aesthetics; issues of canonization and periodization; the place of gender, queer, and postcolonial studies
within German Studies; the aesthetics of exile; myth and national identity; cross-cultural dialogues and aesthetics; material culture; German-
language aesthetics and globalization.
Image in Outline Thomas Mann in English

Reading Lou Andreas-Salomé A Study in Literary Translation
Gisela Brinker-Gabler David Horton
This new study introduces the reader into Lou Andreas- Thomas Mann owes his place in world literature to
Salomé’s critical and creative engagement with modern the dissemination of his works through translation.
thought. Through detailed explorations of some of her Indeed, it was the monumental success of the
major texts, Brinker-Gabler examines Andreas-Salomé’s original English translations that earned him the
unique perspective within contemporary discourses title of ‘the greatest living man of letters’ during
attentive to meaning, perception, memory and the his years in American exile (1938-52). This book
unconscious. Making use of conceptual frameworks provides the first systematic exploration of the
of Irigaray and Benjamin, Freud and Kristeva, among English versions, illustrating the vicissitudes of
others, Brinker-Gabler argues that Andreas-Salome displaces dominant literary translation through a principled discussion of a major author.
visions of gender and sexuality, culture, religion, and creativity with The study illuminates the contexts in which the translations were
multifaceted revisions through the female lens of a creative thinker. produced before exploring the transformations Mann’s work has
With her aesthetics of the ‘in-visible’, as Brinker-Gabler calls it, Andreas- undergone in the process of transfer. An exemplary analysis of selected
Salomé seeks to retrieve the multilayered past that is embedded in the textual dimensions demonstrates the multiplicity of factors which
present and to give positive accounts of sexual and cultural difference, impinge upon literary translation, leading far beyond the traditional
experience, narcissism, and becoming. preoccupation with issues of equivalence. Thomas Mann in English thus
Gisela Brinker-Gabler is Professor of Comparative Literature at The State fills a gap both in translation studies, where Thomas Mann serves as
University of New York at Binghamton, USA. a constant but ill-defined point of reference, and in literary studies,
which has focused increasingly on the author’s wider reception.
UK October 2012 • US August 2012 David Horton is Lecturer in English Translation Studies, Saarland University,
160 pages
Germany.
HB 9781441199751 • £55.00 /$100.00
Library eBook 9781441133380 • £55.00 / $100.00
204 pages
Series: New Directions in German Studies
HB 9781441167989 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781441182777 • £60.00 / $110.00
Out of Place
German Realism, Displacement and Modernity
From Kafka to Sebald
John Lyon
Modernism and Narrative Form
In late nineteenth-century Germany, the onset of
modernity transformed how people experienced Edited by Sabine Wilke
place. In response to increased industrialization and This volume takes up the question of literary
urbanization, the expansion of international capitalism, narratives and their encounters with modernism
and the extension of railway and other travel networks, and postmodernism within the German-language
the sense of being connected to a specific place gave milieu. Original essays written by scholars of German
way to an unsettling sense of displacement. John and Comparative Literature approach the issue of
Lyon analyzes works of three major representatives narrative form anew, analysing the ways in which
of German Realism – Wilhelm Raabe, Theodor Fontane, and Gottfried modernist and postmodernist German-language
Keller – within this historical context. It situates the perceived loss of narratives frame and/or deconstruct historical
place evident in their texts within the contemporary discourse of housing narratives. The authors (Kafka, Kappacher, Goll, Bernhard, Menasse,
and urban reform (Huber, Faucher, Engels, Gurlitt, and Simmel), but also and Wolf, among others) and works interpreted in the essays included
views such discourse through the lens of twentienth-century theories of here span the period from before World War I to the post-Holocaust,
place. Informed by both phenomenological (Heidegger and Casey) as well post-Wall present.
as Marxist (Deleuze, Guattari, and Benjamin) approaches to place, Lyon
Sabine Wilke is Professor of German at the University of Washington, Seattle,
highlights the struggle to address issues of place and space that reappear USA, where she is also associated with European Studies, and the Program in
today in debates about environmentalism, transnationalism, globalization, Critical Theory.
and regionalism.
John Lyon is Associate Professor in the Department of German at the University UK August 2012 • US June 2012
of Pittsburgh, USA. 160 pages
HB 9781441122674 • £60.00 / $110.00
UK May 2013 • US February 2013
Library eBook 9781441198235 • £60.00 / $110.00
224 pages
HB 9781441133403 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781441117014 • £60.00 / $110.00

C omparative L iterature / L iterature and P hilosophy
C omparative L iterature / literature and philosophy
The Promise and Premise of Creativity Transnational Tolstoy

Why Comparative Literature Matters Between the West and the World
Eugene Eoyang John Burt Foster Jr.
“A book that has been crying to be written for the Transnational Tolstoy renews and enhances our
last several decades. It is a superb volume and a understanding of Tolstoy’s fiction in the context of
significant contribution to the field in terms of its ‘World Literature’, a term that he himself used in
probing insight and critical sophistication.” Steven What is Art? (1897). It offers a fresh perspective on
P. Sondrup, President, International Comparative Tolstoy’s fiction as it connects with writers and works
Literature Association from outside his Russian context, including Stendhal,
Flaubert, Goethe, Proust, Lampedusa and Mahfouz.
The Promise and Premise of Creativity considers
literature in the larger context of globalization and Foster provides an interlocking series of cross-
‘the clash of cultures’. Refuting the view that the study of literature cultural readings ranging from nineteenth-century Germany, France,
is ‛useless’, Eoyang argues that it expands three distinct intellectual and Italy through the rise of modernist fiction and the crisis of World
skills: creative imagination, vicarious sympathy, and capacious War II, to the growth of a worldwide literary outlook from 1960
intuition. onward. He emphasizes Tolstoy’s writings with the most consistent
Eugene Eoyang is Professor Emeritus of English, Humanities, Translation, international resonance: War and Peace and Anna Karenina, two of the
and General Education at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China, and Professor world’s most compelling novels.
Emeritus of Comparative Literature and of East Asian Languages and Cultures at John Burt Foster Jr. is Professor of World and Comparative Literature at
Indiana University, USA. George Mason University, USA.
UK September 2012 • US July 2012 UK August 2013 • US June 2013

208 pages 208 pages
PB 9781441181039 • £17.99 / $29.95 PB 9781441157706 • £17.99 / $29.95
HB 9781441108647 • £55.00 / $100.00 HB 9781441153265 • £55.00 / $100.00
The Novel: bestseller Weakness: A Literary and

An Alternative History Philosophical History
Beginnings to 1600 Michael O’Sullivan
Steven Moore “Michael O’Sullivan’s Weakness: A Literary
“Everything we know about the origins of the and Philosophical History makes a significant
novel is wrong. The novel did not spring from contribution to scholarship by discussing a much
the minds of eighteenth-century English writers, neglected theme of the dialectic of weakness and
nor did Cervantes invent it. Instead, the novel showing its multifaceted complexity in innovative
coalesced in the Mediterranean in the fourteenth ways. It is a real tour de force in literary theory
century with ‘Greek romances and Latin satires.’ and criticism that relates to an impressive array
And writers were creating ‘experimental,’ of issues, ideas, and arguments, and offers much
internalized, mischievous, and wildly imaginative for students of literature, literary theory, and philosophy to reflect
novels centuries before James Joyce. In his zestfully encyclopedic, on and think through. An important book, and definitely worth
avidly opinionated, and dazzlingly fresh history of the most ‘elastic’ reading.” Zhang Longxi, Chair Professor of Comparative Literature
of literary forms, Moore shares his discoveries of ancient Egyptian, and Translation, City University of Hong Kong
Mesopotamian, Hebrew, Greek, Roman, and Christian fiction and Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, this first book-length study of the
analyzes with unflagging enthusiasm the novels of medieval and concept explores weakness as it is interpreted by Lao Tzu, Nietzsche,
Renaissance Europe, followed by deep readings of Indian, Tibetan, Derrida, the Romantics, Dickens and the Modernists. It examines
Arabic, Persian, Japanese, and Chinese fiction. Reveling in the most what feminist writers Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray have
innovative and daring creations, Moore energetically evaluates made of the gendered biomythology constructed around the figure
tales fantastic, chilling, hilarious, erotic, and tragic, comparing of the ‘weaker vessel’ and it considers related notions such as im-
centuries-old novels to those of Barth, Gaddis, Pynchon, and potentiality, a ‘syntax of weakness’ and human vulnerability in the
Vollmann. Destined for controversy, Moore’s erudite, gargantuan, work of Agamben, Beckett and Coetzee.
kaleidoscopic, and venturesome ‘alternative history’ will leave
readers feeling as though they’ve been viewing literature with Michael O’Sullivan is Assistant Professor in English at The Chinese University of
Hong Kong.
blinders on.” Booklist
Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, The Novel: An UK May 2012 • US July 2012
Alternative History is the first attempt in over a century to tell the 224 pages
HB 9781441162991 • £60.00 / $110.00
complete story of our most popular literary form.
Steven Moore is the author of several books and essays on modern literature. Library eBook 9781441178794 • £60.00 / $110.00
From 1988 to 1996 he was managing editor of the Review of Contemporary Series: Continuum Literary Studies
Fiction/Dalkey Archive Press, and for decades he has reviewed books for a
variety of journals and newspapers, principally The Washington Post.

704 pages
HB 9781441177049 • £25.00 / $39.95


Agamben’s Joyful Kafka In the Beginning, She Was
Finding Freedom Beyond Subordination Luce Irigaray
Anke Snoek In this new book, crucial for understanding her
Both Giorgio Agamben and Franz Kafka are best journey, Luce Irigaray goes further than in Speculum
known for their gloomy political worldview. A and questions the work of the Pre-Socratics at the
cautious study of Agamben’s references on Kafka, root of our culture. Reminding us of the story of
however, reveals another dimension right at Ulysses and Antigone, she demonstrates how, from
the intersection of their works: a complex and the beginning, Western tradition represents an exile
unorthodox theory of freedom. The inspiration for humanity. Indeed, to emerge from the maternal
emerges from Agamben’s claims that ‘it is a very origin, man elaborated a discourse of mastery and
poor reading of Kafka’s works that sees in them only constructed a world of his own that grew away from life and prevented
a summation of the anguish of a guilty man before the inscrutable perceiving the real as it is. To recover our natural belonging and learn
power’. Virtually all of Kafka’s stories leave us puzzled about what how to cultivate it humanly is imperative and needs turning back
really happened. Was Josef K., who is butchered like a dog, defeated? before the golden age of Greek culture. Another language is, then,
And what about the meaningless but in his own way complete creature to discover, capable of expressing living energy and transforming our
Odradek? Agamben’s work sheds new light on these questions and instincts into shareable desires.
arrives, through Kafka, at different strategies for freedom at the point In the Beginning, She Was reworks themes that are central to Irigaray’s
where this freedom is most blatantly violated. thought: the limits of Western logic, the sexuation of discourse, the
Anke Snoek is currently completing her PhD thesis on addiction, moral identity existence of two different subjects, the necessity of art as mediation
and moral agency at Macquarie University, Australia. She has published articles towards another culture. These themes are approached with a new
and book chapters on autonomy, freedom, Agamben, Kafka, Foucault and level of maturity that reconfirms the place of Irigaray as one of the
addiction. world’s most important contemporary thinkers.
UK December 2012 • US October 2012 Luce Irigaray is Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la
160 pages Recherche Scientifique, Paris.
HB 9781441104892 • £55.00 / $110.00
Individual eBook 9781441172495 • £17.99 / $23.99 UK October 2012 • US December 2012
PB 9781441106377 • £14.99 / $24.95
HB 9781441135070 • £45.00 / $80.00
Translation rights not available
Deconstruction without Derrida

Martin McQuillan
Deconstruction without Derrida’s principal theme
The Bloomsbury Anthology textbook
is an attention to instances of deconstruction other of Aesthetics

than or beyond Derrida and thus imagining a future
for deconstruction after Derrida. This future is Edited by Joseph J. Tanke and Colin McQuillan
both the present of deconstruction and its past. • Contains translations that are both scholarly and
The readings presented in this book address the user-friendly
expanded field of deconstruction in the work of
• Provides readers with the essential passages
Jean-Luc Nancy, Helene Cixous, Paul de Man, Harold
of each text, ones chosen for their historical
Bloom, J. Hillis Miller, Judith Butler, Gayatri Spivak and Catherine
significance and contemporary relevance
Malabou. They also, necessarily, address Derrida’s own readings
of this work. McQuillan accounts for an experience of otherness in • Incorporates important figures, such as Friedrich
deconstruction that is, has been and always will be beyond Derrida, Schiller, Novalis, Hölderlin, Charles Baudelaire,
just as deconstruction remains forever tied to Derrida by an invisible, and Paul Valéry, often neglected by philosophical
indestructible thread. aesthetics
Martin McQuillan is Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and • Introductory essays provide readers with a comprehensive and
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Science at Kingston University, UK, and coherent story about the genesis, development, and transformations
Co-Director of the London Graduate School.
of aesthetics, as well as useful introductions to individual texts
UK August 2012 • US October 2012 The Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics is a comprehensive survey of
240 pages the field of aesthetics, with selections drawn from ancient, medieval,
HB 9781441107947 • £65.00 / $120.00 renaissance, modern, and contemporary sources. It provides teachers
Library eBook 9781441141224 • £65.00 / $120.00
Series: Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy and students with a radically new perspective on the genesis and
Translation rights not available development of aesthetic theory by including an expanded section
on early modern aesthetics and introducing readers to a number of
never-anthologized thinkers. It contextualizes these new positions by
situating them in terms of the history to which they are responding.
The Anthology pays special attention to the interdisciplinary nature
of aesthetics by reconstructing dialogues in literary theory and art
criticism that gave rise to philosophy’s more systematic efforts.
Joseph J. Tanke is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii, USA.
Colin McQuillan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at St. Mary’s University in
San Antonio, TX, USA.

720 pages
PB 9781441138262 • £22.99 / $39.95
HB 9781441141101 • £70.00 / $130.00

Language, Ethics and Animal Life Non-dualism in Eckhart, Julian of

Wittgenstein and Beyond Norwich and Traherne
Edited by Niklas Forsberg, Mikel Burley, and A Theopoetic Reflection
Nora Hämäläinen
James Charlton
New research into human and animal consciousness, The words ‘me’, ‘mine’, ‘you’, ‘yours’, can mislead
a heightened awareness of the methods and us into feeling separate from other people. This book
consequences of intensive farming, and modern is an exhilarating contribution to the spirituality
concerns about animal welfare and ecology are of non-duality or non-separation. Meister Eckhart,
among the factors that have made our relationship to Mother Julian of Norwich and Thomas Traherne are
animals an area of burning interest in contemporary interpreted as ‘theopoets’ of the body/soul who
philosophy. Utilizing methods inspired by Ludwig share a moderate non-dualism. Their work is brought
Wittgenstein, the contributors to this volume explore this area in a within the ambit of non-dual Hinduism. Specifically,
variety of ways. Topics discussed include: scientific vs. non-scientific their passion for unitive spiritual experience is linked to construals of
ways of describing human and animal behaviour; the ethics of eating both ‘the Self’ and ‘Awakening’, as enunciated by Advaita Vedanta.
particular animal species; human nature, emotions, and instinctive Charlton draws on poetry, theology and philosophy to perceive fresh
reactions; the concept of dignity; and the question whether non- connections. A commonality of interest is proposed between the three
human animals can use language. Europeans and Ramana Maharshi. This text contributes to a recovery,
Niklas Forsberg is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Uppsala in the West, of the vital, unifying power of non-dual awareness and
University, Sweden. connectedness.
Mikel Burley is Lecturer in Religion and Philosophy at the University of Leeds, James Charlton is a poet and theological writer with an interest in
UK. transformative spiritual knowledge and experience, across traditions.
Nora Hämäläinen is post-doctoral researcher and temporary lecturer in
philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and former editor-in-chief of UK December 2012 • US October 2012
the Helsinki-based cultural weekly Ny Tid. 192 pages
HB 9781441152633 • £60.00 / $110.00
UK December 2012 • US October 2012 Individual eBook 9781441146786 • £18.99 / $23.99
HB 9781441140555 • £65.00 / $120.00
Library eBook 9781441164629 • £65.00 / $120.00
Performatives After Deconstruction
Edited by Mauro Senatore
Levinas, Storytelling and Following Derrida’s appeal to any rigorous
Anti-Storytelling deconstruction to reckon with Austin’s theorems and
his ever growing commitment to rethink and rewrite
Will Buckingham the performative and its multiple articulations, it
is now urgent that we reflect upon the effects of a
The telling of tales is always a troubling business, and
theoretical event that has profoundly marked the
the way in which we tell stories about ourselves and
contemporary scene. The contributors to this book
about others always involves a degree of ethical risk.
suggest various ways of re-reading the heritage
Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling explores
and future of both deconstruction and the performative after their
the troubling nature of storytelling through a reading
encounter, bringing into focus both the constitutive aporias of the
of the work of Emmanuel Levinas.
performatives and the role they play within the deconstruction of
Levinas is a thinker who has a complex relationship the metaphysical tradition. Ultimately the book asks whether there
with literature and with storytelling. At times, is such a thing as a deconstructive performative and to what extent
Levinas is a teller of powerful tales about ethics; at other times, deconstruction can be thought of in terms of a performative.
on ethical grounds, he disavows storytelling altogether. Levinas,
Mauro Senatore is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Kingston
Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling explores the tensions between
University, UK.
philosophy and storytelling that run throughout Levinas’s work. By
asking about how Levinas tells and untells his stories, and by risking UK April 2013 • US June 2013
the telling of tales that Levinas himself does not dare to tell, this book 224 pages
opens up new ways of thinking about Levinas’s ethics of responsibility. HB 9781441123466 • £65.00 / $120.00
It may be, as Levinas often insists, that storytelling presents us with Library eBook 9781441184801 • £65.00 / $120.00
ethical dangers, but Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling makes Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
the case that an ethics of responsibility may demand that, whilst
mindful of these dangers, we nevertheless continually seek out new
stories to tell about ourselves, about others and about the world.
Will Buckingham is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities at De Montfort
University, Leicester, UK.

176 pages
HB 9781441124159 • £65.00 / $120.00
Library eBook 9781441105394 • £65.00 / $120.00
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy


Confessions The Poetics of Sleep
The Philosophy of Transparency From Aristotle to Nancy
Thomas Docherty Simon Morgan Wortham
Thomas Docherty examines confessional writings To what extent does sleep constitute a limit for
from Augustine to Montaigne and from Sylvia Plath the philosophical imagination? What is at issue
to Derrida, arguing that through all this work in the repeated relegation of sleep to the realm
runs a philosophical substratum - the conditions of physiological study, in favour of promoting the
under which it is possible to assert a confessional critical investigation of dreams and dreaming as a
mode - that needs exploration and explication. In a key indicator of modernity?
postmodern ‘transparent society’, the self coincides
Through a series of engagements with key thinkers in
with its self-representations. Such a position is
modern European philosophy, this book rearticulates
central to the idea of authenticity and truth-telling in confessional
a poetics of sleep at the heart of some of its seminal texts. From the
writing. The question is: what other consequences might there be
problematic yet instructive status of a Kantian discourse on sleep to
of an assumption of the primacy of transparency? Docherty shows
the conceptual contradictions inherent in psychoanalytic thought and
that despite the tendency to regard transparency as a general social
the rich possibilities of thinking ‘sleep’ in the writings of Bergson,
and ethical good, our contemporary culture of transparency has
Blanchot and Nancy, the book’s aim is to dredge the remains of sleep
engendered a society in which autonomy (or the very authority of the
- not to bring its secrets to the surface of waking life, but instead to
subject that proclaims ‘I confess’) is grounded in guilt, reparation and
draw closer to what falls under or away in thinking and writing ‘sleep’.
victimhood.
Simon Morgan Wortham is Professor of English and co-director of the London
Thomas Docherty is Professor of English at Warwick University, UK. Graduate School at Kingston University London, UK.
UK May 2012 • US August 2012 UK January 2013 • US March 2013

224 pages 208 pages
HB 9781849666596 • £50.00 / $89.95 HB 9781441124760 • £65.00 / $120.00
Library eBook 9781849666787 • £50.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781441180810 • £65.00 / $120.00
Series: The WISH List
The Cognitive Value of

Philosophical Fiction
Jukka Mikkonen
This study addresses the philosophical value of
literature by examining how literary works impart
philosophy truth and knowledge and to what extent
the works should be approached as communications
of their authors.
Beginning with theories of fiction, it examines the
case against the prevailing ‘pretence’ and ‘make-
believe’ theories of fiction hostile to propositional
theories of literary truth. Tackling further arguments against the
cognitive function and value of literature, this study illustrates how
literary works can contribute to knowledge by making assertions and
suggestions and by providing hypotheses for the reader to assess.
Through clear analysis of the concept of the author, the role of the
authorial intention and the different approaches to the ‘meaning’
of a literary work, this study provides an historical survey to the
cognitivist-anti-cognitivist dispute, introducing contemporary trends in
the discussion before presenting a novel approach to recognizing the
cognitive function of literature.
Jukka Mikkonen is a postdoctor researcher in the Department of Philosophy
at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Tampere,
Finland.

224 pages
HB 9781441154002 • £65.00 / $120.00
Library eBook 9781441123633 • £65.00 / $120.00
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy

Violence, Desire, and the Sacred Vasilii Rozanov and the Creation
Girard’s Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines The Edenic Vision and the Rejection of Eschatology
Edited by Scott Cowdell, Chris Fleming, Adam Ure
and Joel Hodge “One of early 20th Century Russia’s most
Foreword by Wolfgang Palaver important and original thinkers, Vasilii Rozanov
This collection showcases the work of outstanding has undergone a revival in Russia since the fall of
scholars in mimetic theory and how they are applying communism and his impact continues to resonate
and developing Girard’s insights in a variety of fields. amongst Russian intellectuals of all persuasions.
Girard’s mimetic insight has provided a fruitful Adam Ure’s meticulously researched new book is
way for different disciplines, such as literature, the first substantive work in English on Rozanov.
anthropology, theology, religion studies, cultural Its hugely impressive merit is that, unlike
studies, and philosophy, to engage on common anthropological previous scholarship which has tended to treat the writer in purely
ground, with a shared understanding of the human person. The aim literary mode, or in his philosophical context, it offers a holistic
of this edited collection is to present this interdisciplinary work and interpretation capable of unifying Rozanov’s philosophical, political,
to illustrate how Girard’s insights provide fertile ground for bringing theological and aesthetic activities within a single system: that of
together disparate disciplines in a shared purpose. his theory of Creation ... Ure’s achievement will be of compelling
interest to scholars and students of European literature, religious
Scott Cowdell is Associate Professor and Research Fellow at Charles Sturt philosophy and intellectual history alike.” S tephen Hutchings,
University, Australia and Founding President of the Australian Girard Seminar.
Professor of Russian Studies, University of Manchester, UK
Chris Fleming is Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Sydney, Australia
Adam Ure completed his PhD at the School of Slavonic and East European
and is current Vice-President of the Australian Girard Seminar.
Studies, University College London, in 2009, on the religious philosophy of Vasilii
Joel Hodge is Lecturer in at the Australian Catholic University, Australia and is Rozanov.
current Treasurer and Secretary of the Australian Girard Seminar.
Wolfgang Palaver is Professor and Chair of the Institute for Systematic
288 pages
Theology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.
HB 9781441154941 • £60.00 / $110.00
UK October 2012 • US August 2012 Library eBook 9781441193483 • £60.00 / $110.00
312 pages
HB 9781441194015 • £65.00 / $120.00
Library eBook 9781441146892 • £65.00 / $120.00
Iris Murdoch: Philosophical Novelist

Miles Leeson
PB 9781441110220 • £19.99 / $34.95
Library eBook 9781441179043 • £65.00 / $120.00
Modern/Postmodern new
in PB
Society, Philosophy, Literature
Peter V. Zima
328 pages
PB 9781441199010 • £29.99 / $55.00
Library eBook 9781441112897 • £95.00 / $160.00

C omparative L iterature / literature and R eligion
C omparative L iterature / L iterature and R eligion

The Writing of Violence The Poetics of Mourning Divine Providence: A
in the Middle East in the Middle East History
Inflictions Elegies The Bible, Virgil, Orosius, Augustine,
Jason Bahbak Alina Gharabegian and Dante
Mohaghegh In the birthplace of the Brenda Deen Schildgen
From the domains of Abrahamic religions, the “At the heart of
contemporary Middle postmodern elegy reads Schildgen’s study of the
Eastern literature, this like a forlorn prayer. providential ideal is
book stages a powerful The world of formalized her reading of Dante’s
conversation on questions grief comes to life in this shift from an imperialist
of cruelty, evil, rage, volume about the ancient theology, in the vein of an
vengeance, madness, and ways in which the East Orosius, in Monarchia to
deception. Beyond the narrow judgment sorrows over suffering, over anguish, over the subtle Augustinianism
of violence as a purely tragic reality, death. A collection of Armenian, Iranian, of the Commedia, his poetic masterwork.
these writers (in states of exile, prison, and Arabic poets from the 19th and 20th Schildgen sets the stage for Dante with
martyrdom, and war) come to wager with centuries are gathered to formulate a theory the late antique debate within Christianity
the more elusive, inspiring, and even ecstatic of poeticized affect that stands counter over the visibility of providence, mainly
dimensions that rest at the heart of a visceral to Western conceptualizations of loss and a story of two different syntheses of two
universe of imagination. Covering complex elegiac mourning. Through a psycho-poetic contrasting legacies: one biblical, the other
and controversial thematic discussions, approach, this book investigates themes Roman. She has an extraordinary ability to
Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh forms an extreme such as disaster, exile, pity, humanness, weave a narrative thread through a thicket
record of voices, movements, and thought- boundlessness, forgetting, condemnation, the of conceptual and historical complexity.”
experiments drawn from the inner circles of unnamable, prophecy, profusion, and cosmic James Wetzel, Augustinian Endowed Chair,
the Middle Eastern region. By exploring the grief. The rhythms of lament that rise and Villanova University
most abrasive writings of this vast cultural fall so differently in the Islamicate world
herald a new way of mourning for our age, Holding divine intervention responsible for
front, the book reveals how such captivating
by way of one of the most time-honored and political and military success and failure has
outsider texts could potentially redefine
distinguished poetic genres in existence. a long history in western thought. This book
our understanding of violence and its now-
explores the idea of providential history as
unstoppable relationship to a dangerous age. Alina Gharabegian is Assistant Professor of English an organizing principle for understanding
Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is Assistant Professor of at New Jersey City University, USA.
the divine purpose for humans in texts that
World Literature at New Jersey City University, USA. may be literary, historical, philosophical, and
224 pages theological.
HB 9781441101013 • £65.00 / $120.00 Brenda Deen Schildgen is Professor and Chair
HB 9781441106308 • £65.00 / $120.00
Individual eBook 9781441157492 • £19.99 /$23.99 of Comparative Literature at the University of
Library eBook 9781441109002 • £65.00 / $120.00
Library eBook 9781441150639 • £65.00 / $120.00 California, Davis, USA.
Series: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and
Series: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and
Islamicate Thought
Islamicate Thought UK September 2012 • US July 2012
224 pages
HB 9781441112705 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781441131386 • £60.00 / $110.00
Humour and Religion new Redcrosse

in PB
Remaking Religious Poetry for Today’s World
Challenges and Ambiguities
Edited by Ewan Fernie
Hans Geybels
“How do we think about identity in ways that don’t reflect anxiety, fear
UK September 2012 • US November 2012 of the other, uncritical adulation of our past and all the other pitfalls that
288 pages surround this subject? The Redcrosse project manages to negotiate these
PB 9781441139245 • £27.99 / $49.95
difficulties with immense imaginative energy and honesty: no sour notes,
Library eBook 9781441194831 • £85.00 / $150.00 no attempt to overcompensate by desperately overapologetic rhetoric,
simply a recover of deep roots and generous vision. As much as it takes its
cue from Spenser, it’s a contemporary working out of some of the great
and inexhaustible legacy of Blake, a unique contribution to what is often
a pretty sterile discussion of who we are in these islands.” Rowan Williams, Archbishop of
Canterbury, UK
This book explores the creation of Redcrosse, a new poetic liturgy for St George’s Day and a
unique collaborative work written by the critic Ewan Fernie, the theologian Andrew Shanks and
the major contemporary poets Jo Shapcott, Michael Symmons Roberts and Andrew Motion.
Ewan Fernie is Professor and Chair of Shakespeare Studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of
Birmingham, UK.

176 pages
PB 9781441138996 • £16.99 / $27.95
HB 9781441178589 • £50.00 / $90.00
Library eBook 9781441157300 • £50.00 / $90.00

C omparative L iterature / literature and R eligion
C omparative L iterature / L iterature and R eligion
New Directions in Religion and Literature

Series Editors:
Mark Knight, University of Toronto, Canada
Emma Mason, University of Warwick, UK
This series aims to showcase new work at the forefront of religion and literature through short studies written by leading and rising scholars
in the field. Books will pursue a variety of theoretical approaches as they engage with writing from different religious and literary traditions.
Collectively, the series will offer a timely critical intervention to the interdisciplinary crossover between religion and literature, speaking to
wider contemporary interests and mapping out new directions for the field in the early twenty-first century.
Dante and the Sense of Incarnational Poetics Rewriting the Old

Transgression Rhian Williams Testament in
The Trespass of the Sign Incarnational Poetics offers a lively
engagement with contemporary debates
Anglo-Saxon Verse
William Franke regarding the close reading of poetry. It Becoming the Chosen People
In Dante and the Sense looks back to the nineteenth century to
Samantha Zacher
of Transgression, consider how the establishment of English
William Franke combines Literature as an academic discipline related In this book, Samantha Zacher explores
literary-critical analysis to contemporaneous Higher Criticism of how the very earliest English Biblical poetry
with philosophical and the Bible. Suggesting that this comparison creatively adapted, commented on and
theological reflection to cast reveals a foundational relationship between spread Biblical narratives and traditions
new light on Dante’s poetic interpreting the body of the divine and the to the wider population. Systematically
vision. Conversely, Dante’s body of the poem, the book uses this as surveying the manuscripts of surviving
medieval masterpiece becomes our guide to a springboard for thinking about what we poems, the book shows how these vernacular
rethinking some of the most pressing issues of undertake when we ‘close read’ a poem and poets commemorated the Hebrews as God’s
contemporary theory. how this has shaped poetry reading across the ‘chosen people’ and claimed the inheritance
subsequent centuries. of that status for Anglo-Saxon England.
William Franke is Professor of Comparative
The book undertakes close readings of the
Literature and Religious Studies at Vanderbilt Rhian Williams is Lecturer in Nineteenth-century
University, USA. Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK. poems Exodus, Daniel and Judith in order to
examine their methods of adaptation for their
UK October 2012 • US December 2012 UK May 2013 • US April 2014 particular theologico-political circumstances
192 pages 176 pages and the way they portray and problematize
PB 9781441160423 • £18.99 / $32.95 PB 9781441142122 • £17.99 / $29.95 Judaeo-Christian religious identities.
HB 9781441136916 • £60.00 / $110.00 HB 9781441163493 • £55.00 / $100.00
Individual eBook 9781441185020• £18.99 / $23.99 Individual eBook 9781623562069 • £17.99 / $23.99 Samantha Zacher is Associate Professor of English
Library eBook 9781441150288 • £60.00 / $110.00 Library eBook 9781623566746 • £55.00 / $100.00 at Cornell University, USA.
Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature
192 pages
PB 9781441185600 • £18.99 / $32.95
HB 9781441134776 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781441121103 • £60.00 / $110.00
Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature
The Glyph and the Gramophone The Late Walter Benjamin

D.H. Lawrence’s Religion John Schad
Luke Ferretter The Late Walter Benjamin is a documentary
Although he had broken with the Congregationalist novel that juxtaposes the life and death of Walter
faith by his early twenties, D.H. Lawrence remained Benjamin with the days, hours and minutes of a
what he called a ‘passionately religious’ thinker working-class council estate on the edge of London
and writer. There have been several studies in the in post-war Austerity England. The novel centres
last fifteen years of specific aspects of Lawrence’s on one particular tenant who claims to be Walter
religious thought - on his use of typology, on his Benjamin, and only ever uses words written by
theories of creativity, and on his relationship to the Benjamin, apparently oblivious that the real
Bible. To date, however, there has been no complete Benjamin committed suicide 20 years earlier whilst fleeing the Nazis.
survey of the development of Lawrence’s complex and changing Initially set in the sixties, the text slips back to the early years of the
body of religious thinking and writing. The first major study since the estate and to Benjamin’s last days, as he moves across Europe seeking
Cambridge Edition of Lawrence’s work (begun in 1979), this book will ever-more desperately to escape the Third Reich. Through this fictional
discuss Lawrence’s developing religious thought, as he expresses it narrative, John Schad explores not only the emergence of Benjamin’s
both directly in prose and aesthetically in his literary works. thinking from a politicised Jewish theology forced to confront the rise
of Nazism but also the implications of his utopian Marxism.
Luke Ferretter is Assistant Professor of Twentieth-Century British and American
Literature at Baylor University, USA. John Schad is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Lancaster, UK.
UK May 2013 • US July 2013 UK May 2012 • US July 2012

160 pages 264 • 12 bw illus
PB 9781441122957 • £17.99 /$29.95 PB 9781441177681 • £18.99 / $32.95
HB 9781441132581 • £55.00 / $100.00 HB 9781441171702 • £60.00 / $110.00
Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature

C omparative L iterature / L iterature and M edia

Adaptation and the Avant-Garde The Film Novelist
Alternative Perspectives on Adaptation Theory and Practice Writing a Screenplay and Short Novel in 15 Weeks
William Verrone Dennis J. Packard
“With a certain amount of historical irony, What is the difference between a screenplay and
adaptation studies have, in recent years, become a film novel? Screenplays indicate solely what the
a subtle, dynamic, and complex centerpiece in audience is to see or hear on screen. Film novels are
contemporary film and media studies. As the short, and take about as long to read as a feature
range of this work expands, new areas and issues film takes to watch. The description, dialogue, and
continue to be explored, and Verrone’s wide- narration of a film novel can simply be lifted out
ranging study of adaptation and the avant-garde and used as the description, dialogue, and voice-
is a long needed and exciting contribution to over narration for a script. The author has devised
the intellectual energy of the field.” Timothy Corrigan, Professor a fifteen week program starting from a one-sentence pitch to the
of Cinema Studies, English, and History of Art, University of novel itself. He grounds the discussion of early film novels, like The
Pennsylvania, USA Maltese Falcon, Of Mice and Men, and The Misfits, to provide historical
and theoretical background while detailing the practical, sequential
Adaptation and the Avant-Garde examines films by Peter Greenaway,
approach for completing a short novel and script.
Jean-Luc Godard, Guy Maddin, Jan Svankmajer and many others,
offering illuminating insights and making us reconsider the nature of Dennis J. Packard is a professor at Brigham Young University, USA.
adaptation, appropriation, borrowing, and the re-imagining of previous
sources. UK November 2011 • US September 2011
William Verrone is Assistant Professor of Film and Literature at the University PB 9781441103178 • £13.99 / $19.95
of North Alabama, USA. Individual eBook 9781441190680 • £13.99 / $15.99
UK December 2011 • US September 2011

288 pages
HB 9781441163523 • £70.00 / $130.00
Library eBook 9781441134189 • £70.00 / $130.00
The Drift
Affect, Adaptation, and New Perspectives on Fidelity
John Hodgkins
The Drift offers a new perspective on the complex interrelations
between literature and cinema. It does so by articulating an ‘affective
turn’ for adaptation studies, a field whose traditional focus has been
the critical castigation of film adaptations of canonical plays or novels.
What affective work are certain literary and filmic texts performing?
What can this tell us, more broadly, about the underexplored
affective dimensions of literature and cinema? The book addresses
such questions through close readings which put a variety of realist,
modernist, and postmodernist works into conversation with each other,
among them the fiction of John Dos Passos, Don DeLillo, and Susanna
Moore, the films of Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein, as well as
recent cinematic adaptations by Jane Campion and Charles Burnett.
John Hodgkins currently teaches English and film at York College and
Manhattan Marymount College in New York City, USA.

192 pages
HB 9781623560706 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781623562649 • £60.00 / $110.00

International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics

Series Editor: Francisco J. Ricardo is affiliated with the University Professors of Boston University and is cofounder of the
Digital Video Research Archive.
International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics provides a platform for new scholarship in the area of electronic art and literature, to be
presented from the perspective of critical aesthetics – philosophical positions dedicated to the problem of how and whether technology as a
medium for art and literature simultaneously makes reference to and differs from the use of more traditional media and methods for these
expressive practices.
Cybertext Poetics New Directions in Digital Poetry

The Critical Landscape of New Media Literary Theory C.T. Funkhouser
Markku Eskelinen “Once again, Funkhouser is way ahead of the rest.
“Markku Eskelinen’s …. deep knowledge of the No one else pays such close attention to digital
subjects that are object of his sharp attention, poetry, and no one else attends to the payoff: a
his intelligence and intellectual brightness, his deep understanding of the viewing and reading
provocative style and the will to understand and experience, backed by detailed and illuminating
explain how textuality works make Eskelinen the research into the technical and compositional
foremost scholar in the field. With connections process.” Sandy Baldwin, the Center for Literary
to all literary media and transtextual relations Computing, West Virginia University
between them, Cybertext Poetics is a major work As poets continue to use digital media technology, functionalities
of cultural criticism that reminds us of the power of literature.” of computing extend aesthetic possibilities in documents focusing
Laura Borràs, University of Barcelona, Spain; and Director of the attention on crafting verbal content. Utility of these machines and
Hermeneia Research Group tools enables multiple types of compounded articulation (combinations
By focusing on a cultural mode of expression that is formally, of verbal, visual, animated, and interactive elements). New Directions
cognitively, affectively, socially, aesthetically, ethically and in Digital Poetry aspires to influence the formation of writing with
rhetorically different from narratives and stories, Cybertext Poetics media in literary society of the future, specifically as a record of a
constructs a ludological basis for comparative game studies, shows the particular technological era.
importance of game studies to the understanding of digital media, and C.T. Funkhouser is an Associate Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology,
argues for a plurality of transmedial ecologies. USA.
Markku Eskelinen is an independent scholar, experimental author based in UK March 2012 • US January 2012
Finland. 344 pages • 40 bw illus
PB 9781441115911 • £19.99 / $34.95
UK May 2012 •US March 2012 HB 9781441165923 • £65.00 / $120.00
472 pages • 25 bw illus Individual eBook 9780826443618 • £19.99 / $23.99
PB 9781441107459 • £22.99 / $39.95 Library eBook 9781441195678 • £65.00 / $120.00
HB 9781441124388 • £70.00 / $130.00 Series: International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics
Library eBook 9781441118202 • £70.00 / $130.00
Series: International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics

C omparative L iterature
C omparative L iterature
New Perspectives on the new The Reception of new
in PB in PB
European Bildungsroman David Hume In Europe
Giovanna Summerfield Peter Jones
May 2012 • July 2012 UK January 2013 • US February 2013
208 pages 434 pages
PB 9781441108531 • £18.99 / $32.95 PB 9781441102423 • £29.99 / $55.00
Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
The Reception of Charles The Reception of

Dickens in Europe H.G. Wells in Europe
new
in PB
Michael Hollington Patrick Parrinder

The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe offers a
full historical survey of Dickens’s reception in all the UK January 2013 • US February 2013
464 pages
major European countries and many of the smaller PB 9781441112996 • £29.99 / $55.00
ones, filling a major gap in Dickens scholarship, Individual eBook 9781623568641 • £29.99 / $39.99
which has by and large neglected Dickens’s fortunes Library eBook 9781847144447 • £95.00 / $160.00
in Europe, and his impact on major European authors Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
and movements. Essays by leading international
critics and translators give full attention to cultural
changes and fashions, such as the decline of Dickens’s fortunes at
the end of the nineteenth century in the period of Naturalism and
The Reception of new
in PB
Aestheticism, and the subsequent upswing in the period of Modernism, Jonathan Swift in Europe
in part as a consequence of the rise of film in the era of Chaplin and
Eisenstein. It will also offer accounts of Dickens’s reception in periods Hermann J. Real
of political upheaval and revolution such as during the communist era UK January 2013 • US February 2013
in Eastern Europe or under fascism in Germany and Italy in particular. 416 pages
PB 9781441143945 • £29.99 / $55.00
Michael Hollington is Professor of English at the University of Toulouse-Le
Mirail 2.
Library eBook 9781847143129 • £95.00 / $160.00
720 pages
HB 9781847060969 • 2 volumes • £200.00 / $395.00
Library eBook 9781623560768 • £200.00 / $395.00 The Reception of new
in PB
W. B. Yeats in Europe
Klaus Peter Jochum
Existential Utopia UK January 2013 • US February 2013

400 pages
New Perspectives on Utopian Thought PB 9781441155986 • £29.99 / $55.00
Edited by Michael Marder and Patricia Vieira Library eBook 9781847143532 • £95.00 / $160.00
These original essays, contributed by key thinkers Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
such as Gianni Vattimo and Jean-Luc Nancy, highlight
the connection between utopian theory and
practice. The book reassesses the legacy of utopia
and conceptualizes alternatives to the neo-liberal,
The Reception of new
Walter Pater in Europe
in PB
technocratic regimes prevalent in today’s world.
It argues that only utopia in its existential sense,
Stephen Bann
grounded in the lived time and space of politics, can
distance itself from mainstream ideology and not be at the service UK January 2013 • US February 2013
of technocratic regimes, while paying attention to the material 328 pages
conditions of human life. Existential Utopia offers a new and exciting PB 9781441130402 • £29.99 / $55.00
interpretation of utopia in contemporary culture and a much-needed
Library eBook 9781847144331 • £95.00 / $160.00
intervention into the philosophical and political discussion of utopian Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
thinking that is both accessible to students and comprehensive.
Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor in the Department of
Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Patricia Vieira is Researcher of the Center for Comparative Studies, University
of Lisbon, Portugal and Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and
Portuguese at Georgetown University, USA.
UK January 2012 • US November 2011

192 pages
PB 9781441169211 • £17.99 / $29.95
HB 9780826420725 • £55.00 / $100.00
Library eBook 9781441100511 • £55.00 / $100.00

C omics and G raphic N ovels
C omics and G raphic N ovels
Black Comics Transnational Perspectives

Politics of Race and Representation on Graphic Narratives
Edited by Ronald L. Jackson II and Sheena C. Howard Comics at the Crossroads
Bringing together contributors from a wide-range of critical Edited by Daniel Stein, Christina Meyer
perspectives, Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation is
an analytic history of the diverse contributions of Black artists to the
and Shane Denson
medium of comics. Covering comic books, superhero comics, graphic Bringing together an international team of scholars,
novels and cartoon strips from the early 20th century to the present, this book charts and analyzes the ways in which
the book explores the ways in which Black comic artists have grappled comic book history and new forms of graphic
with such themes as the Black experience, gender identity, politics and narrative have been impacted by aesthetic, social,
social media. political, economic, and cultural interactions that
reach across national borders in an increasingly
This book introduces students to such key texts as:
interconnected and globalizing world.
• The work of Jackie Ormes
Exploring the tendencies of graphic narratives - from popular comic
• Black women superheroes from Vixen to Black Panther book serials and graphic novels to manga - to cross national and
• Aaron McGruder’s strip The Boondocks cultural boundaries, Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives
addresses a previously marginalized area in comics studies.
Ronald L. Jackson II is Dean of McMicken College of Arts and Sciences at the
University of Cincinnati, USA. Daniel Stein is Research Associate in American Studies at Georg-August-
University Göttingen, Germany.
Sheena C. Howard is Assistant Professor at Rider University, USA.
Christina Meyer is Assistant Professor at the University of Osnabrück, Germany.
UK May 2013 • US March 2013 Shane Denson is Research Associate in American Studies at Gottfried Leibniz
224 pages • 6 bw illus University Hannover, Germany.
PB 9781441135285 • £18.99 / $32.95
HB 9781441172761 • £60.00 / $110.00 UK February 2013 • US April 2013
Individual eBook 9781441138491 • £18.99 / $23.99 256 pages
Library eBook 9781441168474 • £60.00 / $110.00 HB 9781441185754 • £65.00 / $120.00
Library eBook 9781441161468 • £18.99 /$23.99
Looking for Calvin and Hobbes bestseller
The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and his

Revolutionary Comic Strip The Power of Comics textbook bestseller
Nevin Martell History, Form and Culture
In Looking for Calvin and Hobbes, Nevin Martell sets Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith
out on a very personal odyssey to understand the
life and career of the intensely private man behind The Power of Comics is the first introductory
Calvin and Hobbes. Martell talks to a wide range textbook for comic art studies courses. Lending
of artists and writers (including Dave Barry, Harvey a broader understanding of the medium and its
Pekar, and Brad Bird) as well as some of Watterson’s communication potential, it provides students with
closest friends and professional colleagues, and along a coherent and comprehensive explanation of comic
the way reflects upon the nature of his own fandom books and graphic novels, including coverage of
and on the extraordinary legacy that Watterson left behind. their history and their communication techniques,
research into their meanings and effects and an
Nevin Martell is a Contributing Editor at Filter magazine and his music overview of industry practices and fan culture.
journalism has appeared in Paste, Giant, Men’s Health, High Times, and
Flaunt, as well as online at RollingStone.com. You can find him online at Co-authors Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith draw on their own
www.nevinmartell.com. years of experience teaching comics studies courses and the scholarly
literature across several disciplines to create a text with the following
UK October 2010 • US August 2010 features:
256 pages
PB 9781441106858 • £10.99 /$16.95 • Discussion questions for each chapter
• Activities to engage readers
• Recommended reading suggestions
• Over 150 illustrations
• Bibliography
• Glossary
Randy Duncan is a co-founder the Comic Arts Conference. He also wrote the
entries on Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Will Eisner and other comics-related topics for
the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture.
Matthew J. Smith is Associate Professor and Chair of Communication at
Wittenberg University, US, where he regularly teaches comics arts courses.

PB 9780826429360 • £17.99 / $29.95
HB 9780826429353 • £50.00 / $90.00

G enre S tudies
G enre S tudies
The Science textbook Bending Genre Crime Culture new
in PB
Fiction Handbook Essays on Creative Nonfiction Figuring Criminality in Fiction

Edited by Margot Singer and and Film
Nick Hubble and
Aris Mousoutzanis Nicole Walker Edited by Bran Nicol
The Science Fiction Handbook provides a Ever since the term ‘creative nonfiction’ first July 2012 • September 2012
comprehensive guide to the genre and how came into widespread use, memoirists and 256 pages
to study it for students new to the field. journalists, essayists and fiction writers have PB 9781441150165 • £24.99 / $44.95
faced off over where the border between Individual eBook 9781441192974 • £24.99 / $34.99
Features include an historical timeline, Library eBook 9781441140128 • £75.00 / $140.00
encyclopaedia-style entries on key writers, fact and fiction lies. This debate over ethics,
critics and critical terms, case studies of both however, has sidelined important questions
literary and critical works, discussion points of literary form. Bending Genre does not
and study questions. In the later sections of ask where the boundaries between genres
should be drawn, but what happens when
Adapting Detective new
in PB
the book, the changing nature of the science
fiction canon and its growing role in relation you push the line. Written for writers and
students of creative writing, this collection
Fiction
to the wider categories of English Literature Crime, Englishness and the TV
are discussed in depth introducing the reader brings together perspectives from today’s
to the latest critical thinking on the field. leading writers of creative nonfiction, Detectives
including Michael Martone, Brenda Miller,
Nick Hubble is Lecturer in Modern and Neil McCaw
Ander Monson, John D’Agata, and David
Contemporary English Literature at Brunel
Shields. Each writer’s innovative essay probes UK July 2012 • US September 2012
University, UK.
our notions of genre and investigates how 208 pages
Aris Mousoutzanis is a Visiting Lecturer in the creative nonfiction is shaped, modeling the PB 9781441186171 • £18.99 / $32.95
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston forms of writing being discussed. Individual eBook 9781441130549 • £18.99 /$23.99
University, UK. Library eBook 9781441156624 • £60.00 / $110.00
Margot Singer is Associate Professor of Creative
UK September 2013 • US November 2013 Writing at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.
256 pages Nicole Walker currently teaches at Northern
PB 9781441170965 • £19.99 / $34.95
Arizona University in Flagstaff, USA.
HB 9781441197696 • £65.00 / $120.00
SERIES: Literature and Culture Handbooks
UK May 2013 • US February 2013
208 pages
PB 9781441123299 • £17.99 / $29.95
HB 9781441180650 • £55.00 / $100.00
Library eBook 9781441195265 • £55.00 / $100.00
Detecting Detection The Foreign in International

International Perspectives on the Uses of a Plot Crime Fiction
Edited by Peter Baker and Deborah Shaller Transcultural Representations
Modern fiction regularly uses elements of a detective Edited by Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda
narrative to tell another story altogether, to engage
characters, narrators, and readers with questions
and Barbara Pezzotti
of identity, with examinations of moral and ethical “Ranging from early twentieth-century British spy
reasoning, with critiques of social and political stories to contemporary Scandinavian thrillers
injustices, and with the metaphysics of meaning and covering settings that include Argentina, the
itself. Detective plots cross cultural and national French Pacific, Cuba, Australia, New Zealand,
boundaries and occur in different ways and different and much of Europe, the sixteen essays in this
genres. Taken together, they suggest important contemporary important collection ask crucial questions about
understandings of who and what we are, how and what we aspire to the ways in which the encounter with the foreign
become. Detecting Detection gathers writing from the UK, North and has been staged in Western literature ... The Foreign in International
South America, Europe, and Asia to draw together instances of the Crime Fiction is indispensable reading not only for scholars of
detective plot in contemporary fiction. the genre but also of ethnography, and of post-colonial and travel
Peter Baker is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Towson University,
literature.” Luca Somigli, University of Toronto, Canada
Baltimore, USA. Offering readings of 20th and 21st-century crime writing from Norway,
Deborah Shaller is professor in the English Department at Towson University, the UK, India, China, Europe and Australasia, the essays in this
Baltimore, USA. book open up new directions for scholarship on crime writing and
transnational literatures.
UK August 2012 • US June 2012
208 pages Jean Anderson is Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New
PB 9781441100788 • £19.99 / $34.95 Zealand.
HB 9781441149367 • £65.00 / $120.00 Carolina Miranda is Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Library eBook 9781441128126 • £65.00 / $120.00 Barbara Pezzotti is a journalist and a Teaching Fellow in Italian at Victoria
University of Wellington, New Zealand.

256 pages
HB 781441128171 • £60.00 / $110.00
Library eBook 9781441177032 • £18.99 / $23.99

G enre S tudies
G enre S tudies
Making Poetry Matter Writing the Self The Fiction of

International Research on Poetry Diaries, Memoirs, and the Autobiography
Pedagogy History of the Self
Reading and Writing Identity
Edited by Sue Dymoke, Peter Heehs
Macaela Maftei
Andrew Lambirth and Ideas of the self have
Drawing upon a wide range of late
Anthony Wilson changed markedly since the
twentieth and early twenty-first-century
Making Poetry Matter draws Romantic period and most
autobiographical writing, The Fictions
together contributions scholars today regard it as
of Autobiography examines key aspects
from leading scholars in at best a mental construct.
of autobiography from the interrelated
the field to offer a variety First-person genres such
perspectives of author, reader, critic and
of perspectives on poetry as diaries and memoirs
scholar, to reconsider how we view this form
pedagogy. A wide range have provided an outlet for
of writing, and its relationship to the way
of topics are covered and throughout, the self-expression. Protestant diaries replaced
we understand and construct identity. Maftei
internationally recognised contributors the Catholic confessional, but secular diaries
considers recent cases and texts such as
draw on case studies to ensure that the such as Pepys’s may reveal yet more about
Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking and
theory is clearly linked to practice as they the self. After Richardson, novels competed
Frey’s A Million Little Pieces alongside older
consider teaching and learning poetry to with diaries and memoirs as vehicles of
texts such as Proust’s In Search of Lost Time¸
those aged between 5 and 19 from different self-expression, though memoirs survived
Nabokov’s Speak, Memory and Stein’s The
perspectives, looking at reading, writing, and continue to thrive, while the diary has
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
speaking and listening, and transformative found a new incarnation in the personal blog.
Writing the Self narrates the intertwined Macaela Maftei is Research Fellow at the University
poetry cultures. of Glasgow, UK, where she teaches English literature
histories of the self and of self-expression
Sue Dymoke is Senior Lecturer and PGCE English and creative writing.
through first-person literature.
Course Leader in the School of Education at the
University of Leicester, UK. Peter Heehs is an independent scholar based in UK August 2013 • US June 2013
India. He has written or edited nine books and 208 pages
Andrew Lambirth is Professor of Education at the published more than fifty articles. PB 9781623568016 • £19.99 / $29.95
University of Greenwich, UK. HB 9781623569020 • £65.00 / $120.00
Anthony Wilson is a Lecturer at University of UK March 2013 • US January 2013 Individual eBook 9781623561758 • £19.99 / $23.99
Exeter, UK, where he is Subject Leader for Primary 288 pages Library eBook 9781623561819 • £65.00 / $120.00
English. PB 9781441168283 • £19.99 / $34.95
HB 9781441168023 • £65.00 / $120.00
UK May 2013 • US July 2013 Individual eBook 9781441153449 • £19.99 / $23.99
HB 9781441101471 • £75.00 / $140.00 Graphic Poetics new
in PB
Library eBook 9781441105684 • £75.00 / $140.00 Poetry as Visual Art
Richard Bradford
224 pages
PB 9781441175175 • £19.99 / $34.95
Library eBook 9781441146656 • £65.00 / $120.00
Postmodern Science new

Fiction and Temporal in PB
Imagination
Elana Gomel
192 pages
PB 9781441144027 • £24.99 / $44.95
Library eBook 9781441178831 • £75.00 / $140.00
Series: Continuum Literary Studies

C hildren ’ s L iterature
C hildren ’ s L iterature
Adapting Canonical Texts Children’s Literature Children’s Literature and
in Children’s Literature in Second Language Learner Empowerment
Edited by Anja Müller Education Children and Teenagers in English
This collection analyses Language Education
Edited by Janice Bland
different examples of Janice Bland
adapting canonical texts in
and Christiane Lütge
Bringing together leading This text provides a
or for children’s literature
scholars and teacher comprehensive introduction
encompassing adaptations
educators from across the to children’s and young
of English classics for
world, from Europe and the adult literature in EFL
children and young adult
USA to Asia, this book covers teaching. It demonstrates
readers and intercultural
such topics as extensive the complexity of children’s
adaptations of children’s classics across
reading, creative writing in literature and how it
Europe. The international contributors assess
the language classroom, the use of picture can encourage an active
both historical and transcultural adaptation
books and graphic novels in second language community of second language readers:
in relation to historically and regionally
teaching and the potential of children’s with multilayered picture books, fairy tales,
contingent concepts of childhood. By
literature in promoting intercultural graphic novels and radical young adult fiction.
assessing how texts move across age-specific
education. The focus throughout the book is It examines the opportunities of children’s
or national borders, they examine the traces
on creative approaches to language teaching, literature in EFL teacher education, including:
of a common literary and cultural heritage in
from early years through to young adult the intertexuality of children’s literature as
European children’s literature.
learners, making this book an essential read a gate-opener for canonised adult literature;
Anja Müller is Professor of English Literature and the rich patterning of children’s literature
Culture at the University of Siegen, Germany. for those studying or embarking on second
language teaching at all levels. supporting creative writing; the potential of
interactive drama projects.
UK January 2013 • US March 2013 Janice Bland is a teacher educator in literature and
224 pages • 8 bw illus EFL at Hildesheim University, Germany. Janice Bland is a teacher educator in literature and
HB 9781441178770 • £60.00 / $110.00 EFL at Hildesheim University, Germany.
Individual eBook 9781441152817 • £18.99 / $23.99 Christiane Lütge is Professor of English at Münster
Library eBook 9781441164278 • £60.00 / $110.00 University, Germany. UK May 2013 • US July 2013
UK November 2012 • US January 2013 HB 9781441144416 • £75.00 / $140.00
HB 9781441183521 • £75.00 / $140.00 Library eBook 9781441153395 • £75.00 / $140.00
Library eBook 9781441129789 • £75.00 / $140.00
Ethics in British Children’s Literature Resources for Teaching

Unexamined Life Shakespeare: 11-16
Lisa Sainsbury Fred Sedgwick
Featuring close readings of selected poetry, visual Shakespeare’s plays and plots are very much alive in
texts, short stories and novels published for children the modern curriculum. For many of those required
since 1945, this is the first extensive study of the to study him, however, their enthusiasm is dead
nature and form of ethical discourse in British and buried. Aimed at those teaching Shakespeare
children’s literature. to students aged from 11-16, Fred Sedgwick
Ethics in British Children’s Literature explores the provides tried-and-tested lessons accompanied by
extent to which contemporary writing for children photocopiable and downloadable resources to enable
might be considered philosophical. Rigorously teachers to develop their practice and inspire their
engaging with influential moral philosophers, from Aristotle through students. This fantastic resource provides lessons to engage and
Kant and Hegel, to Arno Leopold, Iris Murdoch, Mary Midgley, and Lars enlighten students and features activities, teaching strategies and
Svendsen, this book demonstrates the narrative strategies employed to schemes informed by current ideas about teaching and learning and
engage young readers as moral agents. the curriculum.
Lisa Sainsbury is Director of the National Centre for Research in Children’s Fred Sedgwick is a poet, former headteacher and author of many books in the
Literature, University of Roehampton, UK. areas of literature, expressive arts, education and creativity.
UK May 2013 • US July 2013 UK August 2011 • US October 2011

224 pages 128 pages
HB 9781441139832 • £60.00 / $110.00 PB 9780826438591 • £29.99 /$55.00
Individual eBook 9781441190772 • £18.99 / $23.99 Library eBook 9781441180773 • £29.99 /$39.99
Library eBook 9781441124951 • £60.00 / $110.00 Series: Resources for Teaching

WRITING
WRITING
Critical-Creative Writing textbook Writing the Horror Movie

Readings and resources Marc Blake
Michelene Wandor By tracing the development of the horror film from
The rapid expansion of creative writing courses in the German Expressionism of Nosferatu to the
higher education, from undergraduate to MA/MFA Universal franchises of the 30’s (Frankenstein), to
and PhD level, has generated its own literature and Sci-Fi (Psycho), the Slasher film franchise (Friday
pedagogical practices. All students, at all levels, are 13th), Asian Horror, horror verite (Blair Witch),
asked to supply some kind of ‘reflective commentary’ torture porn (Saw) to current developments in the
on their creative writing. All students also participate field, including 3D and remakes, the authors deliver
in workshops, where student writing is subject to instructions in a readable style that will appeal to
peer and tutor criticism. anyone with a genuine interest in the form and the mechanics of
the genre. It also includes step-by-step writing exercises, annotated
There is no agreed, standardised way in which either of these practices extracts from horror screenplays and interviews with seasoned writers/
is approached. While this variety of approaches is one of creative directors/producers discussing budget restrictions, screenplay form
writing’s strengths, it is also a serious, and sometimes confusing and formulas and how screenplays work during shooting.
limitation. Providing a historical, literary and theoretical resource
Marc Blake has written for the Independent on Sunday, the Evening Standard,
for creative writing students and their teachers, Critical-Creative The Mail, Express and the Scriptwriter as well being a staff writer on Eagle Moss’
Writing offers secure grounding for critical commentaries and provides ‘The Horror Collection’.
material for workshop use and clarification of the critical process
itself. Critical-Creative Writing is the first of its kind to offer a unique UK May 2013 • US March 2013
support for students dealing with criticism and critical commentary as 224 pages • 20 bw illus
part of their creative writing practice and assessment. PB 9781441196187 • £14.99 / $22.95
Michelene Wandor is a playwright, poet, fiction writer and musician and
teaches on the Lancaster University, UK, MA in Creative Writing.

192 pages
The Creative Writing bestseller
PB 9781441199577 • £19.99 / $39.95
HB 9781441127563 • £65.00 / $130.00 MFA Handbook, Revised and
Updated Edition
A Guide for Prospective Graduate Students
Write What You Don’t Know Tom Kealey
An Accessible Manual for Screenwriters The Creative Writing MFA Handbook guides
Julian Hoxter prospective graduate students through the difficult
Write What You Don’t Know is a friendly manual for process of researching, applying to, and choosing
aspiring screenwriters. It encourages you to move graduate schools in creative writing. The handbook
beyond your comfort zones in search of stories. We includes profiles of fifty creative writing programs,
all write what we know - how could we not? Writing guidance through the application process, advice
what you don’t know and doing it in an informed from current professors and students and the most
and imaginative way is what makes the process comprehensive listings of graduate writing programs
worthwhile. Write What You Don’t Know contains in and outside the United States. This second edition updates and
examples and case studies from a wide range of builds upon the first edition, which was published in 2005 to great
movies, both mainstream and alternative such as The Virgin Spring, acclaim and contains a vastly expanded ranking of current creative
Die Hard, The Ipcress File, For The Birds, (500) Days of Summer, Juno, writing programs.
Up In The Air, Knocked Up and Brick. Tom Kealey currently teaches at Stanford University, USA.
Julian Hoxter is the Screenwriting Coordinator and Assistant Professor of
UK December 2008 • US October 2008
Screenwriting in the Cinema Department of San Francisco State University, USA. 240 pages
PB 9780826428868 • £14.99 /$22.95
296 pages
PB 9781441102102 • £13.99 / $21.95

WRITING
WRITING
The Arvon Book of Crime and The Psychology of Screenwriting textbook
Thriller Writing Theory and Practice

Michelle Spring and Laurie R. King Jason Lee
The Arvon Foundation runs professional writing The Psychology of Screenwriting is an innovative
courses by published writers and provides expert book that combines practical elements with theory,
tuition and creative support. The Arvon Book of to give aspiring screenwriters a well-rounded guide
Crime and Thriller Writing captures the essence of to the craft. Using key in-text features for advanced
Arvon teaching into a practical handbook for writers, pedagogy this text guides the student screenwriter
packed with tips and advice from leading novelists as through the stages of screenwriting. Chapters focus
well as reflections on the genre itself and practical on core topics such as the purpose of screenwriting,
instruction on great storytelling. Contributors include genres, structure, the expression of ideas, character,
Lee Child, P. D. James, and Ian Rankin. awareness of the visual, and adaptations. Films analyzed in-depth
include Rear Window, Short Cuts, Pulp Fiction, Crash, Moon,
The Arvon Book of Crime and Thriller Writing is divided into three and Orlando – with the focus throughout the book being on more
sections: contemporary films with which students are likely to be familiar.
Part 1 Essays on critical issues in the genre Jason Lee is Head of Film, Media and Creative Writing at the University of Derby,
UK.
Part 2 Guest Writers: twenty-five contributors offering advice and tips
Part 3 How to Write Crime UK March 2013 • US January 2013
Michelle Spring, has published six crime novels including In the Midnight Hour PB 9781441128478 • £16.99 / $27.95
and is currently Royal Literary Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK. HB 9781441104984 • £45.00 / $80.00
Laurie R. King’s books have won the Edgar, Creasey, Wolfe, Lambda, and
Macavity awards. She is currently Royal Literary Fellow at Magdalene College,
Cambridge, UK.
textbook
UK August 2012 • US October 2012 Analyze Anything
304 pages
PB 9781408131220 • £14.99 / $20.00 A Guide to Critical Reading and Writing
Individual eBook 9781408166161 • £14.99/ $19.99
Library eBook 9781408166154 • £45.00 / $80.00
Gregory Fraser and Chad Davidson
How well can you decode the signs that permeate our
daily lives? All of us, consciously or not, constantly
engage in the acts of reading and interpreting the
The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction signs in the world around us. But how do we sharpen
these skills, deepen our awareness of meaning in
Sally Cline and Midge Gillies a complex world, and ultimately reach our full
The Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction is an essential potential as university writers? This book answers the
guide to writing in a wide range of genres, from needs of students of composition, culture studies,
travel writing to feminist polemic and writing on and literature, providing a process-orientated guide to analyzing
nature, history, death, friendship and sexuality. anything.
Part 1 explores the full range of genres and asks the Gregory Fraser is Associate Professor of English at the University of West
question: what is literary non-fiction? Georgia, USA
Part 2 includes tips by bestselling literary non-fiction Chad Davidson is Associate Professor of English at the University of West
Georgia, USA.
writers.
Part 3 offers practical advice – from planning and researching to UK April 2012 • US June 2012
writing a proposal and finding an agent or a publisher when your work 224 pages
PB 9781441107305 • £19.99 / $34.95
is complete.
HB 9781441154064 • £65.00 / $120.00
Sally Cline, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Advisory Fellow to the Royal Individual eBook 9781441191151 • £19.99 / $23.99
Literary Fund, is an award winning biographer and short fiction writer. Library eBook 9781441155580 • £65.00 / $120.00
Midge Gillies has written seven non-fiction books and is a part-time tutor at
Cambridge University’s Institute of Continuing Education, UK.

288 pages
PB 9781408131237 • £14.99 / $20.00

E nglish L anguage and T ranslation
Censoring Translation Self-Translation

Censorship, Theatre, and the Politics of Translation Brokering Originality in Hybrid Culture
Michelle Woods Edited by Anthony Cordingley
“This fascinating book traces the complexities Self-Translation: Brokering Originality in
of translating and staging the work of one Czech Hybrid Culture provides critical, historical and
playwright, the late, great Vaclav Havel for English interdisciplinary analyses of self-translators and
and American audiences. Woods raises important their works. It investigates the challenges which
questions about the politics of translation and the bilingual oeuvre and the experience of the
exposes just how forms of censorship can operate self-translator pose to conventional definitions of
in both totalitarian and commercially-driven translation and the problematic dichotomies of
environments.” Susan Bassnett is Professor of ‘original’ and ‘translation’, ‘author’ and ‘translator’.
Comparative Literature in the Department of English and Comparative Canonical self-translators, such Samuel Beckett, Vladimir Nabokov and
Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK Rabindranath Tagore, are here discussed in the context of previously
overlooked self-translators, from Japan to South Africa, from the
Censoring Translation questions the role of textual translation
Basque Country to Scotland. This book seeks therefore to offer a
practices in shaping the circulation and reception of foreign censored
portrait of the diverse artistic and political objectives and priorities of
theatre. It examines three forms of censorship in relation to
self-translators by investigating different cosmopolitan, post-colonial
translation: ideological censorship; gender censorship; and market
and indigenous practices.
censorship.
Anthony Cordingley is Lecturer in Translation at the Université de Paris 8,
Michelle Woods is Assistant Professor of English at The State University of New
France.
York, New Paltz, USA.
UK July 2012 • US May 2012
216 pages
200 pages
PB 9781441142894 • £27.99 / $49.95
PB 9781441100573 • £17.99 / $29.95
HB 9781441125415 • £80.00 / $150.00
HB 9781441185853 • £55.00 / $100.00
Library eBook 9781441147295 • £85.00 / $150.00
Library eBook 9781441187185 • £55.00 / $100.00
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Translation
Kafka Translated Translation, Adaptation and

How Translators have Shaped our Reading of Kafka
Transformation
Michelle Woods
Edited by Laurence Raw
Kafka Translated is the first book-length publication
to look at the issue of translation and Kafka’s work. “This valuable collection offers a thorough and
What effect do these translations have on how engaging overview of the intersection between
we read Kafka? Are our interpretations of Kafka adaptation studies and translation studies.
influenced by the translators’ interpretations? For too long the two fields have existed at an
Woods focuses on issues central to the burgeoning artificial distance from each other and Laurence
field of Translation Studies: the notion of cultural Raw’s carefully compiled collection of essays
untranslatability; the centrality of female translators demonstrates the dialogue that is beginning to
in literary history; and the under-representation of the influence of occur between the two fields. The resulting
the translator as interpreter of literary texts. The book specifically collection is a refreshing and urgent contribution to scholarship
focuses on the role of two of Kafka’s first translators, Milena Jesenská that should be essential reading for those working in the academic
and Willa Muir, both women, and how this might allow us to reassess areas of adaptation and translation - and beyond.” Richard J.
reading Kafka. Hand, founding co-editor of the Journal of Adaptation in Film and
Performance, and Professor of Theatre and Media Drama, University
Michelle Woods is Assistant Professor of English at The State University of New
York, New Paltz, USA.
of Glamorgan, UK
This collection furthers the research into exactly what the act of
UK May 2013 • US February 2013 adaptation involves and whether it differs from other acts of textual
160 pages
PB 9781441197719 • £14.99 / $24.95
rewriting.
HB 9781441149916 • £45.00 / $80.00 Laurence Raw is teaches Adaptation Studies and Literature in the Department
Individual eBook 9781441131959 • £14.99 / $19.99 of English, Faculty of Education, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey.
Library eBook 9781441133441 • £45.00/ $80.00
240 pages
HB 9781441108562 • £75.00 / $140.00
Library eBook 9781441143488 • £75.00 / $140.00
Series: Continuum Advances in Translation


I. A. Richards and the The Stylistics of Poetry
Rise of Cognitive Stylistics Context, Cognition, Discourse, History
David West Peter Verdonk
I. A. Richards is an influential figure in literary This is a collection of Professor Peter Verdonk’s
criticism but has rarely been thought of as someone most important work on the stylistics of poetry. It
who laid the foundations for cognitive stylistics. This begins with a brand new introduction by the series
book proposes that Richards was a ‘protocognitivist’. editor Dan McIntyre retrospectively analysing key
themes in the work. Gathering articles published
West argues that Richards anticipated many of the across a wide variety of locations into one complete
discipline’s core aims, methods and assumptions. The collection, it arrives at a career-long perspective on
book argues that the roots of cognitive psychology the development of the stylistics of poetry. Looking
lie in early twentieth-century psychology, when at Auden, Heaney and Larkin amongst others it is framed by an opening
there was a focus on cognitive processes such as memory and learning, introduction to poetic artifice and literary stylistics, and a concluding
attention, categorisation, perception and consciousness. It was this retrospective of Verdonk’s work.
cognitive psychology that Richards drew upon to build a theory of
literature and interpretation – which in itself prefigured cognitive Underlying all of the chapters is a concern with style and how this is
stylistics. represented in language, and in poetry specifically. It will appeal to all
students on stylistics and literary linguistics courses, especially those
David West is a Lecturer in English Language, Linguistics and Literature at the focussing on poetry and poetic language.
University of Münster, Germany.
Peter Verdonk is Emeritus Professor of Stylistics, University of Amsterdam, the
UK November 2012 • US January 2013 Netherlands.
176 pages
HB 9781441110435 • £75.00 / $150.00 UK May 2013 • US July 2013
Series: Advances in Stylistics 224 pages
PB 9781441167903 • £24.99 / $44.95
HB 9781441158789 • £75.00 / $140.00
Style in the Renaissance Library eBook 9781441144805 • £75.00 / $140.00
Series: Advances in Stylistics
Language and Ideology in Early Modern England
Patricia Canning
“Patricia Canning’s adventurous interdisciplinary
study brings together in new and exciting ways
the two fields of linguistics and literary criticism in
her examination of selected texts by Shakespeare
and his contemporaries. The range and detail of
her analysis, evident especially in her microscopic
examination of linguistic forms, cultural
assumptions, and historical contexts in plays by
Shakespeare and Middleton, and in the poetry of George Crashaw,
is impressive. Here is a rare combination of strenuous scholarly
rigour, and uncompromising analysis, replete with a full and clear
awareness of what interdisciplinarity involves. A welcome new
voice offering unique insights into texts that we thought we knew.”
Professor John Drakakis, University of Stirling, UK
Patricia Canning is a Teaching Assistant at the School of English, Queen’s
University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

224 pages
HB 9781441185525 • £75.00 / $140.00
Library eBook 9781441183811 • £75.00 / $140.00
SERIES: Advances in Stylistics

M ethuen D rama
M ethuen D rama
Critical Companions
Ranging across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Methuen Drama’s Critical Companions series covers playwrights, theatre makers,
movements and periods of international theatre and performance. Drawing on original research each volume provides a critical survey and
analysis of a body of work by one author, giving attention to both text and performance. In addition, each book features several complementary
scholarly essays and interviews with practitioners to provide alternative perspectives on the subject.
The Theatre of The Theatre of The Plays of 3rd

edition
Sean O’Casey David Greig Samuel Beckett

Edited by James Moran Clare Wallace Katherine Weiss
This Critical Companion Since he began writing Challenging and at times
to the work of one of for theatre in the early perplexing, Beckett’s work
Ireland’s most famous and nineties, David Greig’s work is represented on almost
controversial playwrights, has been both copious and every literature, theatre
Sean O’Casey, is the remarkably varied, defying and Irish studies curriculum
first major study of the neat generalisations or in universities in North
playwright’s work to attempts to pigeon-hole America, Europe and
consider his oeuvre and his work. This Critical Australia. Katherine Weiss’
the archival material that has appeared Companion provides an analytical survey of admirably clear study of his work provides
during the last decade. Published ahead of his work, from his early plays such as Europe the perfect companion, illuminating each
the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising in and The Architect through to more recent play and Beckett’s vision, and investigating
Ireland with which O’Casey’s most famous works Damascus, Dunsinane and Ramallah. his experiments with the body, voice and
plays are associated, it provides a clear and technology. It includes in-depth studies of the
Clare Wallace provides a detailed analysis
detailed study of the work in context and major works Waiting for Godot, Endgame and
of a broad selection of plays and their
performance. Krapp’s Last Tape, and as with other volumes
productions, reviews current discourses
in Methuen Drama’s Critical Companions
Moran considers the writer’s plays, about his work and offers a framework for
series it features a series of essays by
autobiographical writings and essays, paying enquiry. The Companion features an interview
other scholars and practitioners offering
special attention to the Dublin trilogy, The with David Greig and a further three essays
different critical perspectives on Beckett in
Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, by leading academics offering a variety of
performance that will inform students’ own
and The Plough and the Stars. It considers the critical perspectives.
critical thinking.
work produced in exile, during the war and Clare Wallace is Senior Lecturer in Irish and British
the late plays. The Companion also features Literature and Irish and Intercultural Studies at Katherine Weiss is an Associate Professor of
a number of essays by other leading scholars Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. English and Modern Drama at East Tennessee State
University, USA.
and practitioners providing further critical
perspectives on the work. UK June 2013 • US August 2013
256 pages UK December 2012 • US February 2013
James Moran is Head of Drama in the School of 216 x 135mm 272 pages• 4 bw illus
English Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. PB 9781408157398 • £14.99 / $24.95 PB 9781408145579 • £14.99 / $24.95
HB 9781408157329 • £55.00/ $100.00 HB 9781408157305 • £55.00 / $100.00
UK May 2013 • US July 2013 Individual eBook 9781408159514 • £14.99/ $19.99 Individual eBook 9781408145593 • £14.99 / $19.99
272 pages Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781408145586 • £45.00 / $80.00
PB 9781408175354 • £14.99 / $24.95 Series: Critical Companions Methuen Drama
HB 9781408175347 • £55.00 / $100.00 Series: Critical Companions
Library eBook 9781408165959 • £45.00 / $80.00
Methuen Drama
Series: Critical Companions

New for Spring 2013, Drama Online is the ultimate online
resource for plays, critical analysis and performance for
libraries, educators, students and researchers.
Developed in partnership by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc and Faber and
Faber Ltd, Drama Online features the pre-eminent drama titles from
the Methuen Drama, The Arden Shakespeare and Faber lists, to form a
collection of the most studied, performed and critically acclaimed plays
from the last two and half thousand years.
In addition, it provides expert student guidance in the form of scholarly
notes, annotated texts, critical analysis and contextual information.
Performance and practitioner texts from theory to backstage and acting
guides, coupled with audio material, will make this an essential study
tool meeting the full range of drama teaching needs.
KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS

• View lines for individual characters
• Instant access to hundreds of plays and reference works
• Option to turn textual notes on or off
• Regularly updated with contemporary plays and study
materials • Detailed monologues and audition speech search
• Expert guidance with annotated texts, scholarly editions and • Comfortable on screen reading experience complete with
critical material pagination, stage directions and lineation in place
• Powerful full text searching and advanced search options • Cross referencing via DOI (Digital Object Identifiers) and
OpenURLs
• Filtered browsing across authors, periods, genres and themes
• Industry standard access: unlimited concurrent access via IP
• Personalisation features: annotate, save, share, extract,
recognition, ATHENS/Shibboleth, library cards, and username
citation options
and password for remote users.
• Simple navigation and intuitive user interface, easily
• COUNTER compliant usage statistics and library branding
accessible from VLEs
• Extensive online help and excellent customer and technical
• View cast size and the number of lines per character
support
• Rehearsal grids illustrate when characters appear in scenes
Register now at www.dramaonlinelibrary.com to receive updates, pricing

and trial information about Drama Online as it is released
w w w. d r a ma online lib ra ry.c om

Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/dramaonlinelib
www.methuendrama.com
M ethuen D rama
M ethuen D rama
New Mermaids
General Editors: Brian Gibbons, University of Münster; William C. Carroll, Boston University, USA; Tiffany Stern,
University College, University of Oxford, UK.
New Mermaids is a series of over 50 modernized and fully annotated classic plays, with an active programme of new editions.
New Mermaids are:
• Edited and updated by experienced teachers who are internationally recognized as authorities in their field
• Ideal for, and accessible to, actors, theatre-goers and students
• Printed in a clear, easy-to-use format, with annotations below the text and a comprehensive introduction.
The Rover A Woman Killed With Kindness

Revised edition New edition
Aphra Behn Thomas Heywood
Edited by Robyn Bolam Edited by Fran Dolan
• With its long introduction and on-page commentary In Thomas Heywood’s masterpiece, one woman is almost prostituted
notes, this edition offers students the most value by her brother in order to pay off his creditor and another woman
begins an affair with her husband’s friend and houseguest, only to be
• The Rover is the most popular play by the first discovered by her husband and sent away from their home. In this
female professional writer in England, Aphra Behn edition students will find a wealth of information to support their
• Set in Italy during the chaotic misrule of carnival studies: an extended introduction exploring theatrical and historical
time, the play explores issues of love, deception context, critical reactions, background on the author and stage
and the excesses of sexual passion history as well as the latest research on Heywood. The play itself
contains numerous notes and explanations throughout to aid students’
This new edition contains a completely new introduction, and takes understanding.
into account important criticism from the past decade, as well as a
new understanding of the nature of theatre in Behn’s time, and the Frances E. Dolan is Professor of English at the University of California at Davis, USA.
significance of her contribution to English drama.
Robyn Bolam is Professor of Literature at St Mary’s University College, London. 144 pages • Production photographs
PB 9780713677775 • £7.99 • $12.95
UK October 2012 • US December 2012 Methuen Drama
176 pages Series: New Mermaids
PB 9781408152119 • £8.99 / $14.95
Methuen Drama
Series: New Mermaids Mrs Warren’s Profession
Edited by Brad Kent
Thomas Middleton: Shaw’s 1893 play centres on the mother and
daughter relationship between Kitty Warren and
Four Plays her Cambridge-educated daughter, Vivie, who is
Women Beware Women, The Changeling, The Roaring Girl currently enjoying a comfortable and financially
and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside untroubled life. Kitty’s own upbringing was far from
easy, however, and meant that she eventually had to
Thomas Middleton make money through prostitution and then through
Edited by William C. Carroll the management of several brothels. When Vivie
discovers that her mother brought her up and funded Vivie’s Cambridge
This New Mermaids anthology brings together the
education on the money made from these pursuits, she is horrified
four most popular and widely studied of Thomas
and can barely cope. What’s more, Vivie discovers that her mother’s
Middleton’s plays - Women Beware Women; The
brothels are still in operation.
Changeling; The Roaring Girl and A Chaste Maid
in Cheapside - with a new introduction by William Students will find a wealth of information in this text to guide their
Carroll, examining the plays in the context of early studies: an extended introduction exploring the theatrical and
modern theatre, culture and politics, as well as historical context, critical reactions, background on the author, and
their language, characters and themes. On-page commentary notes stage history. It also includes Shaw’s original Preface, and the play
guide students to a better understanding and combine to make this an itself contains numerous notes and explanations throughout to aid
indispensable student edition. students’ understanding
William C. Carroll is Professor of English at Boston University, USA. He is a BRAD KENT is Associate Professor of British and Irish Literatures at Université
General Editor of the New Mermaids Series. Laval in Quebec City, Canada.
UK August 2012 • US October 2012 November 2012 • January 2013

560 pages 224 pages
PB 9781408156582 • £9.99 / $19.95 PB 9780713679946
Methuen Drama Methuen Drama
Series: New Mermaids Series: New Mermaids

T he A rden S hakespeare
The Arden Shakespeare: Third Series
General Editors: Richard Proudfoot, Emeritus Professor, King’s College London, UK; Ann Thompson, King’s College London,
UK; David Scott Kastan, Yale University, USA; H.R. Woudhuysen, Lincoln College, University of Oxford, UK.
Associate General Editor: George Walton Williams, Emeritus Professor, Duke University, USA.
Each Arden edition includes:
• A full and concise introduction with illustrations, designed to engage and attract the reader
• A modernized, easy-to-read version of the text
• Thorough commentary on every page explaining the speech and action taking place
• Detailed explanations of unusual words and phrases
• Appendices, source notes and extracts giving a fully rounded understanding for students
• An index providing a pathway through the material.
Coriolanus New
edition
Romeo and Juliet New
edition
The Tempest bestseller
Third Series Third Series William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare William Shakespeare Edited by Alden T
Edited by Peter Holland Edited by René Weis Vaughan & Virginia
This Roman play is one of “Romeo and Juliet Mason Vaughan
Shakespeare’s last tragedies, continues to be a perennial The Tempest is one of
best known for its political favourite in the English Shakespeare’s most popular
and military themes. Its classroom. As well as plays, both in the classroom
hero, Coriolanus, is a proud offering students a and in the theatre, and this
General who does not clear and spacious text revision brings the Arden 3
hesitate to show his arrogant to read and annotate, edition right up-to-date. A
and outspoken contempt of the latest Arden edition completely new section of the introduction
the Roman rabble. The Tribunes banish him provides a wealth of critical and contextual discusses new thinking about Shakespeare’s
and he raises an army to take his revenge on material – so crucial to today’s study of sources for the play and examines his
Rome. He finally concedes to the pleas of his Shakespeare. Ideal for teachers looking treatment of colonial themes, as well as
mother to spare the city and leaves only to be to refresh and update their reading of the covering key productions since this edition
publicly killed by his former allies. text, René Weis’s introduction combines was first published in 1999. Alden and Virginia
close attention to dramatic language with a Vaughan’s edition of The Tempest is much
Peter Holland’s comprehensive Introduction
comprehensive overview of the history of valued for its authority and originality and
and commentary notes open up the language,
the play in performance. However familiar their revision brings it up-to-date, making it
themes and ideas in this complex yet richly
a reader might be with Romeo and Juliet, even more relevant and useful to students and
rewarding play for the student and teacher.
this new edition will bring a range of fresh theatre practitioners.
The play is discussed in its historical and
perspectives, dispelling some oft-repeated
critical contexts and its theatrical history is ALDEN T. VAUGHAN is Professor Emeritus of History
myths along the way.” Jenny Stevens, at Columbia University, USA.
analysed too.
Teacher and Lecturer in English
Peter Holland is the McMeel Family Professor VIRGINIA MASON VAUGHAN is Profess of English and
of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Notre RenÉ Weis is Professor of English at University former Chair of the English Department at Clark
Dame, Indiana, USA. College London, UK, and a distinguished editor and University in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
biographer of Shakespeare.
UK November 2012 • US January 2013 UK August 2011 • US November 2011
400 pages • 20 bw illus UK May 2012 • US July 2012 416 pages • 20 bw illus
PB 9781904271284 • £10.99 / $17.00 454 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781408133477 • £8.99 / $13.95
HB 9781904271277 • £65.00 / $100.00 PB 9781903436912 • £8.99 / $13.95 HB 9781408133484 • £65.00 / $100.00
The Arden Shakespeare HB 9781903436905 • £65.00 / $100.00 The Arden Shakespeare
Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series The Arden Shakespeare Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS APP NOW AVAILABLE

Experience Shakespeare’s Sonnets in a whole new way with the new Sonnets
iPad app, developed in partnership by The Arden Shakespeare, Touch Press,
Faber and Faber, and Illuminations. Featuring video and audio commentary
by leading Shakespeare actors alongside the Arden text on screen, and
accompanied by notes and critical interpretations, this exciting new product
brings Shakespeare’s Sonnets into the twenty-first century and brings
Shakespeare’s rich language vividly to life.
To find out more and view the videos, visit: www.thesonnets.tv

The Merchant Of Venice bestseller Othello bestseller
Third Series Third Series

William Shakespeare William Shakespeare
Edited by John Drakakis Edited by E.A.J. Honigmann
The Merchant of Venice is perhaps most associated “Honigmann’s extensive knowledge illuminates this
not with its titular hero, Antonio, but with the play at every turn, making this the best edition of
complex figure of the money lender, Shylock. The Othello now available.” Review of English Studies
play was described as a comedy in the First Folio but
In a period of ten years, Shakespeare wrote a series
its modern audiences find it more problematic to
of tragedies that established him, by universal
categorise. The vilification of Shylock ‘the Jew’ can
consent, in the front rank of the world’s dramatists.
be very uncomfortable for a post-holocaust audience
Critics have praised either Hamlet or King Lear as
and debates continue as to whether Shakespeare’s
the greatest of these; Ernst Honigmann, in the most
portrayal of this complex man is sympathetic or anti-semitic.
significant edition of the play for a generation, asks: why not Othello?
John Drakakis’ comprehensive introduction traces the stage history This edition sheds new light on the text of the play as we have come
of the figure of the Jew and looks boldly at twenty-first-century to know it, and on our knowledge of its early history. Honigmann
issues surrounding it. He also explores other themes of the play such examines the major critical issues, the play in performance and the
as father/daughter relations, the power of money and the forceful relationship between reading it and seeing it. He also explores topics
character of Portia, to offer readers an energetic, original and such as its date, sources and the conundrum of `double time’.
revelatory reading of this challenging play. E.A.J. Honnigman was Professor Emeritus at the University of Newcastle, UK.
John Drakakis is Professor of English Studies at the University of Stirling,
Scotland. UK February 1997 • US February 1997
432 pages
UK February 2011 • US April 2011 PB 9781903436455 8 £8.99 / $17.00
480 pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781904271130 • £65.00 / $100.00
PB 9781903436813 • £9.99 / $17.00 The Arden Shakespeare
HB 9781903436806 • £65.00 /$100.00 Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
The Arden Shakespeare
The Winter’s Tale

King Lear Third Series
Third Series bestseller Edited by John Pitcher
One of Shakespeare’s later plays, best described as
William Shakespeare a tragi-comedy, the play falls into two distinct parts.
Edited by R.A. Foakes In the first Leontes is thrown into a jealous rage by
“By far the best edition of King Lear - in respect his suspicions of his wife Hermione and his best-
of both textual and other matters - that we now friend, and imprisons her and orders that her new
have.” English Language Notes born daughter be left to perish. The second half is
a pastoral comedy with the ‘lost’ daughter Perdita
“This volume is a treasure-trove of precise having been rescued by shepherds and now in love
information and stimulating comments on with a young prince. The play ends with former lovers and friends
practically every aspect of the Lear-universe. I reunited after the apparently miraculous resurrection of Hermione.
know of no other edition which I would recommend
with such confidence: to students, professional John Pitcher’s lively introduction and commentary explores the
colleagues and also the ‘educated public’.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch extraordinary merging of theatrical forms in the play and its success
in performance. As the recent Sam Mendes production at the Old Vic
R.A. Foakes is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles,
USA.
shows, this is a play that can work a kind of magic in the theatre.
JOHN PITCHER is Professor of English at St John’s College, Oxford, UK.
UK May 1997 • US May 1997
456 pages UK July 2010 US September 2010
PB 9781903436592 • £8.99 / $17.00 496 Pages
HB 9781903436585 • £65.00 / $100.00 PB 9781903436356 • £9.99 / $17.00
The Arden Shakespeare HB 9781903436349 • £65.00 / $100.00
Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series The Arden Shakespeare

Arden Early Modern Drama
Series Editors: Suzanne Gossett, Professor Emertius at Loyola University, Chicago, USA
John Jowett, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK
Gordon McMullan, Professor of English at King’s College London, UK
Arden Early Modern Drama accompanies and complements the Arden Shakespeare Third Series, offering editions of non-Shakespearean
Renaissance and Restoration drama from the period 1500-1700. Modelled on the Third Series in appearance and style, Arden Early Modern Drama
editions offer high-quality textual scholarship, together with an accessible, student-friendly introduction.
The Island Princess The Tragedy of Mariam

John Fletcher Elizabeth Cary
Edited by Clare McManus Edited by Ramona Wray
The Island Princess is a tragicomic romance set in “A path-breaking edition that brings together
the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Fletcher rewrites exemplary scholarship, a comprehensive
Shakespeare’s The Tempest through the encounter introduction and pioneering work on dramatic
of Islam and Christianity and the fierce European production. Wray’s seminal edition of Elizabeth
competition for wealth at the farthest reaches of Cary’s Tragedy of Mariam is now essential for
empire. The play also stages the degeneration of research and teaching, as well as professional
religious tolerance into fanaticism. performance.” Marion Wynne-Davies, University of
Surrey, UK
This ground-breaking edition explores the play
in its gendered, political, social and religious contexts whilst also Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean closet
finding its resonances for a twenty-first century audience. The critical drama by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary. First published in 1613, it was the
introduction and on-page commentary notes create an ideal teaching first work by a woman to be published under her real name. The play
text giving a comprehensive account of the play from both literary and exposes and explores the themes of sex, divorce, betrayal, murder,
performance perspectives. and Jewish society under Herod’s tyrannous rule.
Clare McManus is Reader in English Literature, Roehampton University, London, The comprehensive, illustrated introduction discusses the play in
UK. the context of closet drama, female dramatists and in terms of the
religious issues it explores, seeing Mariam as a martyr figure. The on-
UK November 2012 • US January 2013
page commentary notes provide further close analysis and explanation,
PB 9781904271536 • £12.99 / $19.95 creating an ideal edition for study and teaching.
HB 9781408130063 • £65.00 /$100.00 Ramona Wray is Senior Lecturer in the School of English at Queen’s University,
The Arden Shakespeare Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Series: Arden Early Modern Drama
UK June 2012 • US September 2012
PB 9781904271598 • £12.99 / $19.95
The Spanish Tragedy HB 9781408129999 • £65.00 / $100.00
Thomas Kyd Series: Arden Early Modern Drama
Edited by Clara Calvo and Jésus Tronch
This is a major new edition of Thomas Kyd’s The Also Available:
Spanish Tragedy, an outstanding landmark of The Duchess of Malfi
Elizabethan drama. As a revenge tragedy, it set By John Webster
up the salient features of a dramatic genre that Edited by Leah Marcus
would last decades. Its hero became the standard Paperback: 9781904271512 • £10.99 / $17.00
stage representation of grief, rhetorical passion and Hardback: 9781408119488 • £65.00 / $100.00

madness and its main antagonist is one of the first
Machiavellian characters of English drama. Everyman and Mankind
Edited by Douglas Bruster and Eric Rasmussen
This edition explores the play in relation to its historical context and PB 9781904271628 • £10.99 / $18.00
contemporary Iberian dynastic policy. For the first time, this edition HB 9781408119464 • £65.00 / $100.00

presents an integrated text inviting a reading of the play as it was
published both in 1592 and in 1602. Philaster
By Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Clara Calvo teaches at the University of Murcia, Spain. Edited by Suzanne Gossett
JÉsus Tronch teaches at the University of Valencia, Spain. PB 9781904271734 • £11.99 / $20.00
HB 9781408119471 • £65.00 / $100.00
UK January 2013 • US April 2013
256 pages • 15 bw illus The Renegado
PB 9781904271604 • £9.99 / $16.00 By Philip Massinger
HB 9781408129982 • £65.00 / $100.00 Edited by Michael Neill
The Arden Shakespeare PB 9781904271611 • £10.99 / $19.95
Series: Arden Early Modern Drama HB 9781408125182 • £65.00 / $100.00

’Tis Pity She’s A Whore
John Ford
Edited by Sonia Massai
288pp • 198mmx129mm
PB 9781904271505 • £9.99 / $15.95
HB 97811408129968 • £65.00/$100.00

Shakespeare and Shakespeare and the Hamlet’s Dreams

Contemporary Theory Language of Translation The Robben Island Shakespeare
New Historicism and Cultural Edited by Ton David Schalkwyk
Materialism Hoenselaars Hamlet’s Dreams uses
the circulation of the
Neema Parvini Shakespeare’s international so-called ‘Robben Island
In the thirty years since status as a literary icon Shakespeare’ to examine
the publication of Stephen is largely based on his the representation and
Greenblatt’s Renaissance masterful use of the English experience of imprisonment
Self-Fashioning overthrew language, yet beyond Britain in South African prison
traditional modes of his plays and poems are memoirs and Shakespeare’s
Shakespeare criticism, New read and performed mainly Hamlet. It looks at the ways in which
Historicism and Cultural in translation. Shakespeare and the Language oppressive spaces or circumstances restrict
Materialism have rapidly of Translation addresses this apparent the ways in which personal identity can be
become the dominant modes for studying and contradiction and is the first major survey of formed or formulated in relation to others.
writing about the Bard. This comprehensive its kind. The ‘bad dreams’ that keep Hamlet from
guide introduces students to the key writers, Covering the many ways in which the considering himself the ‘king of infinite space’
texts and ideas of contemporary Shakespeare translation of Shakespeare’s works is are, it argues, the need for other people that
criticism and alternatives to new historicist practised and studied from Bulgaria to becomes especially evident in situations of
and cultural materialist approaches suggested Japan, South Africa to Germany, this book real or psychological imprisonment.
by a range of dissenters including evolutionary also discusses the translation of Macbeth David Schalkwyk is Director of Research at the
critics, historical formalists and advocates into Scots and of Romeo and Juliet into Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C. and
of ‘the new aestheticism’, and the more British Sign Language. The collection places Professor of English at the University of Cape Town,
politically active presentists. renderings of Shakespeare’s works aimed South Africa.
Neema Parvini is Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, at the page and the stage in their multiple
cultural contexts, including gender, race and UK January 2013 • US March 2013
University of London, UK and Adjunct Assistant
128 pages
Professor at Richmond, The American International nation, as well as personal and postcolonial PB 9781441129284 • £14.99 / $24.95
University, UK. politics. HB 9781441140333 • £45.00 / $80.00
Ton Hoenselaars is Professor of Early Modern Individual eBook 9781441110732 • £14.99 / $19.99
UK September 2012 • US November 2012 Library eBook 9781441183743 • £45.00 / $80.00
240 pages English Literature and Culture at the English
Department of Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Series: Shakespeare Now!
PB 9781441193933 • £19.99 / $34.95
HB 9781441111272 • £65.00 / $120.00
Individual eBook 9781441190871 • £19.99 / $23.99 UK April 2012 • US August 2012
PB 9781408179741 • £16.99 / $27.95
Individual eBook 9781408179727 •£22.99
Library eBook 9781408179710 • £50.00 / $90.00
Shakespeare and YouTube Shakespeare Up Close

New Media Uses of the Bard Reading Early Modern Texts
Stephen O’Neill Edited by Russ McDonald, Nicholas D. Nace
YouTube is now one of the key media spaces where Shakespeare’s and Travis D. Williams
works are recycled, received and understood. As such, the social This landmark collection of newly-commissioned
networking site offers an exciting new frontier in popular culture essays by leading international scholars, offers
Shakespeare. Shakespeare and YouTube explores the forms of expert close readings of Shakespeare and other early
Shakespeare content on YouTube, from user uploads featuring modern authors. The book is an intervention into
performances in existing media (such as film, television and theatre) current critical methodology as well as an invaluable
to user generated or amateur videos. Particular emphasis is placed tool for all students of the literature of the period,
on the specific nature of the YouTube platform and the extent to exemplifying the possibilities of close reading in the
which it enables amateur creativity. Opening up the multifaceted hands of a range of gifted practitioners. Chapters cover a range of key
subject of YouTube Shakespeare, this book argues that YouTube offers texts from Shakespeare and other major writers of the period such as
exciting possibilities as well as challenges for the teaching and study of Milton, Donne, Jonson and Sidney.
Shakespeare in a global context.
Russ McDonald is Professor of English Literature at Goldsmiths College,
Stephen O’Neill is Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland University of London, UK.
Maynooth.
Nicholas D. Nace is Assistant Professor at the State University of New York,
Binghamton, USA.
208 pages Travis D. Williams is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University
HB 9781441120922 • £60.00 / $110.00 of Rhode Island, USA.
Library eBook 9781441153982 • £60.00 / $110.00 UK November 2012 • US January 2013
Series: Arden Shakespeare Library 416 pages
PB 9781408158784 • £17.99 / $24.95
Library eBook 9781408172384 • £55.00 / $100.00

A Year of Shakespeare Emotional Excess on the
Re-living the World Shakespeare Festival Shakespearean Stage
Edited by Paul Edmondson, Erin Sullivan and Passion’s Slaves
Paul Prescott
Bridget Escolme
A Year of Shakespeare gives a uniquely
Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage
comprehensive, expert and exciting overview of
demonstrates the links made between excess of
the largest Shakespeare festival the world has ever
emotion and madness in the early modern period. It
known: The World Shakespeare Festival, 2012. This
argues that the ways in which today’s popular and
is the only book fully to document all 74 productions
theatrical cultures judge how much is too much can
which formed part of the Festival in 2012 through
distort our understanding of early modern drama and
well-informed, lively and accessible reviews and
theatre and that permitting the excesses of the early
other short pieces of related interest. From a Lithuanian Hamlet, to
modern drama onto the contemporary stage might
an Israeli Merchant of Venice and Jonathan Pryce’s King Lear, this
free actors and audiences alike from assumptions that in order to
is a rich resource of critical interest to all students and scholars of
engage with the drama of the past, its characters must be just like us.
Shakespeare in performance, global Shakespeare and the adaptation of
Shakespeare. Plays discussed include Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Spanish
Paul Edmondson is Head of Research and Knowledge for The Shakespeare Tragedy, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for
Birthplace Trust and a priest in The Church of England. Measure, and Coriolanus.
Erin Sullivan is a Lecturer, Fellow, and the Distance Learning Co-ordinator at Bridget Escolme is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Queen Mary College, University
The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. of London, UK.
Paul Prescott is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, a UK June 2013 • US August 2013
specialist in Shakespeare theatre reviewing, and a teaching associate for The 256 pages
Royal Shakespeare Company. PB 9781408179673 • £17.99 / $29.95
HB 9781408179666 • £55.00 / $100.00
UK April 2013 • US June 2013 Individual eBook 9781408179697 • £17.99 / $23.99
240 pages • 20 bw illus Library eBook 9781408179680 • £55.00 / $110.00
PB 9781408188149 • £14.99 / $24.95 The Arden Shakespeare
HB 9781408188132 • £45.00 /$80.00
Essential Shakespeare
The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation
Macbeth Jenny Stevens and Pamela Bickley
The State of Play An introductory critical study for first year
Edited by Ann Thompson undergraduates which bridges the gap between
school and university study. The book offers an
This is a ‘freeze frame’ volume showcasing the range
accessible overview of key critical perspectives, early
of current debate and ideas surrounding this most
modern contexts, and methods of close reading,
familiar of Shakespeare’s tragedies. Each chapter
as well as screen and stage performances spanning
has been carefully selected for its originality and
several decades. Organised around the discussion of
relevance to students’ needs. Key themes and topics
fourteen major plays, it introduces readers to the
covered include: The Text, History and Topicality,
diverse theoretical approaches typical of today’s English studies. This
Current Critical Perspectives, and Adaptation and
is a go-to resource that can be consulted thematically or by individual
Afterlife. All the essays offer new views and combine
play or genre.
to give readers an up-to-date understanding of what’s exciting and
challenging about the play. Jenny Stevens and Pamela Bickley have taught Shakespeare at pre-university
and degree level for many years. They lead the English Association’s ongoing
Ann Thompson is a Professor of English at King’s College London, UK, and involvement with transition issues and lecture and publish on a range of literary
Director at the London Shakespeare Centre. topics.
UK June 2013 • US August 2013 UK April 2013 US June 2013

224 pages 240 pages
PB 9781408159828 • £14.99 / $24.95 PB 9781408158739 • £12.99 / $19.95
HB 9781472503206 • £45.00 / $80 Individual eBook 9781408170663 • £12.99 / $15.99
Individual eBook 9781472503190 / £14.99 / $19.99 The Arden Shakespeare
Library eBook 9781472503213 • £45.00 / $80.00
Series: Arden Shakespeare The State of Play

Marlowe’s Literary Scepticism Shakespeare and the Apocalypse

Politic Religion and Post-Reformation Polemic Visions of Doom from Early Modern Tragedy to Popular
Chloe Kathleen Preedy Culture
Marlowe’s Literary Scepticism re-evaluates the R.M. Christofides
representation of religion in Christopher Marlowe’s Drawing on extant examples of medieval imagery,
plays and poems, demonstrating the extent to which Roger Christofides uses poststructuralist and
his literary engagement with questions of belief was psychoanalytic accounts of how language works to
shaped by the virulent polemical debates that raged shed new light on our understanding of Hamlet,
in post-Reformation Europe. Offering new readings of Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear. He then links
under-studied works such as the poetic translations Shakespeare’s dependence on his audience to
and a fresh perspective on well-known plays such appreciate the allusions made to the religious
as Doctor Faustus, this book focuses on Marlowe’s depiction of the paintings to the present day. For instance, popular
religious frauds denounced by his contemporaries. It identifies Marlowe television series like Battlestar Galactica, seminal horror movies such
as one of the earliest writers to acknowledge the practical value of as An American Werewolf in London and Carrie and recent novels like
religious hypocrisy, and a pivotal figure in the history of scepticism. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. All draw on imagery that can be traced
Chloe Kathleen Preedy is a teaching associate at the University of Cambridge, directly back to the depictions of the Doom, an indication of the
UK. cultural power these vivid imaginings of the end of the world have in
Shakespeare’s day and now.
240 pages R.M. Christofides is Associate Lecturer at Huddersfield University, UK.
HB 9781408164884 • £55.00 / $100.00
Individual eBook 9781408175798 • £17.99 / $23.99 UK June 2012 • US August 2012
The Arden Shakespeare HB 9781441179944 • £60.00 / $110.00
Series: Arden Shakespeare Library Individual eBook 9781441101303 • £18.99 / $23.99
Library eBook 9781441183224 • £60.00 / $110.00
Arden Student Guides

Series Editor: Dympna Callaghan, William Safire Professor of Modern Letters, Syracuse University, USA
Macbeth The Tempest

Language and Writing Language and Writing
Emma Smith Brinda Charry
Arden Student Guides offer a new type of study This volume on The Tempest discusses the play’s
aid which combine lively critical insight with early stage history before going on to examine
practical guidance on the critical and writing skills the complexities and ambiguities of its language
students need to develop in order to engage fully through close reading and analysis. Further sections
with Shakespeare’s texts. The books’ core focus look at the play’s critical history and in particular
is on language: both understanding and enjoying contemporary critical responses to it, especially
Shakespeare’s rich and complex dramatic language those of postcolonial critics. The sections on
and the students’ own critical language and how they students’ writing and critical skills focus on helping
can improve and develop this to become a critical writer. This volume the student formulate and express a critical response to a play about
on Macbeth discusses the play in its Jacobean context and in relation which so much has been written and which has been staged and
to Shakespeare’s other tragedies before looking closely at its language adapted in a huge variety of ways.
and poetry. The third section examines the play’s critical history and Brinda Charry is Assistant Professor of English at Keene State College in New
how students can use this in forming their own critical responses. A Hampshire, USA.
final section looks at the play’s history in performance and its afterlife
in film and other media. UK May 2013 • US July 2013
192 pages
Emma Smith is Fellow in English at Hertford College, Oxford, UK. PB 9781408152898 • £9.99 / $14.95
UK May 2013 • US July 2013 Library eBook 9781408190425 • £30.00 / $45.00
192 pages The Arden Shakespeare
PB 9781408152904 • £9.99 / $15.95 Series: Arden Student Guides
Individual eBook 9781408156032 •£9.99 / $11.99
Series: Arden Student Guides

Shakespeare and the Medieval World Shakespeare’s Demonology
Helen Cooper A Dictionary
“Cooper’s book is a timely one, and deserves to Marion Gibson and Jo Ann Esra
be a significant one, in reorienting perspectives to • Covers Shakespeare’s use of alchemy, prophecy,
the important place of the medieval, visible and astrology and folk-medicine in the plays
invisible, direct and intangible, in Shakespeare’s
mind . . . It will give Shakespeareans of all shades a • Provides an account of how each term is used in
fuller understanding of the world in which he lived the plays
and thought, and the ones he created.” Joanna • Entries follow an easy-to-use three part structure
Bellis, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Marginalia
• A comprehensive overview of how demonology is
Helen Cooper’s unique study examines how continuations of presented across the entire Shakespearean canon
medieval culture into the early modern period forged Shakespeare’s
development as a dramatist and poet. Medieval culture pervaded This volume in the long running and acclaimed Shakespeare Dictionary
his life and work, from his childhood, spent within reach of the last series is a detailed, critical reference work examining all aspects of
performances of the Coventry Corpus Christi plays, to his dramatisation magic, good and evil, across Shakespeare’s works. Topics covered
of Chaucer in The Two Noble Kinsmen three years before his death. include the representation of fairies, witches, ghosts, devils and
A high proportion of his plays have medieval origins and he kept spirits.
returning to Chaucer, acknowledged as the greatest poet in the English Marion Gibson is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Exeter, UK.
language. Above all, he grew up with an English tradition of drama Jo Ann Esra is a Doctoral student at the University of Exeter, UK.
developed during the Middle Ages that assumed that it was possible to
stage anything - all time, all space. UK October 2013 • US December 2013
480 pages
Helen Cooper is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University
HB 9780826498342 • £150.00 / $295.00
of Cambridge, UK.
Series: Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries
Shakespeare’s Theatres and the

PB 9781408172322 • £18.99 / $29.95
HB 9781904271789 • £55.00 / $100.00
Library eBook 9781408138984 • £54.99 / $100.00 Effects of Performance
Series: Arden Critical Companions Edited by Farah Karim Cooper
and Tiffany Stern
How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies
Shakespeare for Young People create their visual and aural effects? What materials
were available to them and how did they impact on
Productions, Versions and Adaptations staging and writing? What impact did the sensations
Abigail Rokison of theatre have on early modern audiences? How
did the construction of the playhouses themselves
This book explores the range of productions, contribute to or enable technological innovations in
versions, and adaptations of Shakespeare aimed the theatre and what impact might these innovations have had on the
particularly at children or young people. It is the only writing of plays in this period?
comprehensive overview of its kind, engaging with a
range of genres - drama, prose narrative, television This landmark collection of essays by leading international scholars
and film - and including both British and international addresses these and other questions to create a unique and
examples. Abigail Rokison covers stage and screen comprehensive overview of the practicalities and realities of the
productions, shortened versions, prose narratives and theatre in the early modern period.
picture books (including Manga), animations and original novels, plays Farah Karim Cooper is Head of Research at Shakespeare’s Globe, London, UK.
and films rewriting Shakespeare.
Tiffany Stern is Beaverbrook and Bouverie Fellow and Tutor in English,
Abigail Rokison is Lecturer in Drama and English in the Education Faculty in University College, Oxford, UK.
Cambridge and Director of Studies in English and Drama at Homerton College,
Cambridge, UK. UK February 2013 • US April 2013
UK March 2013 • US May 2013 HB 9781408146927 • £55.00 / $85.00
PB 9781441125569 • £19.99 / $34.95 Library eBook 9781408174647 • £55.00 / $100.00
HB 9781441172280 • £65.00 / $120.00 The Arden Shakespeare
Individual eBook 9781441175298 • £19.99 / $23.99 Series: Arden Shakespeare Library
Library eBook 9781441188052 • £65.00 / $120.00

Springboard Shakespeare
These accessible introductions offer a ‘springboard’ into Shakespeare’s plays, breaking down any fears or preconceptions and taking a hands-
on, performance-based approach. Each book is structured in three parts, exploring things you need to know and think about before you see or
study a play, while you see or read it, and ideas and questions to explore afterwards as you form your own critical view of the play. Each book
includes a detailed glossary and a scene by scene analysis. Ben Crystal’s most recent book Shakespeare on Toast was widely acclaimed. Crystal
combines a genuine passion and understanding of Shakespeare with his experience as an actor, to give the reader a clear route to thinking
about, understanding and enjoying each play.
Springboard Shakespeare Springboard Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night’s Dream Macbeth
Ben Crystal Ben Crystal
“Having Crystal as a companion through the Macbeth is one of the most popular, if bloody, of
stickier parts of Hamlet and Macbeth is like going Shakespeare’s tragedies, both in the theatre and the
to the theatre with an intelligent friend.” The classroom. Springboard Shakespeare: Macbeth has a
Independent three-part structure: Before, During and After. Ben
Crystal takes you through what you need to know and
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s
think about before you see or study the play, while
most popular comedies both in the theatre and on
you watch or read it, and after you have seen or read
stage.
it. He combines a genuine passion and understanding
Springboard Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s of Shakespeare with his experience as an actor, to give the reader a
Dream has a three-part structure: Before, During and After. Ben Crystal clear route to thinking about, understanding and enjoying Macbeth.
takes you through what you need to know and think about before you
Ben Crystal is an actor and writer with an established expertise in Shakespeare.
see or study the play, while you watch or read it, and after you have He is the author of the very successful Shakespeare on Toast.
seen or read it. He combines a genuine passion and understanding of
Shakespeare with his experience as an actor, to give the reader a clear UK May 2013 • US July 2013
route to thinking about, understanding and enjoying A Midsummer 96 pages
Night’s Dream. PB 9781408164624 • £5.99 / $9.95
Ben Crystal is an actor and writer with an established expertise in Shakespeare. Series: Springboard Shakespeare

96 pages
PB 9781408164631 • £5.99 / $9.95
Springboard Shakespeare
Series: Springboard Shakespeare Hamlet
Ben Crystal
Hamlet is the most studied and performed of
Springboard Shakespeare Shakespeare’s tragedies. However, its dense but
King Lear beautiful language can seem forbidding to students
and audiences, giving the play a reputation of being
Ben Crystal ‘difficult’. This accessible introduction to Hamlet
Shakespearean author and actor Ben Crystal gives a offers a “springboard” into the play, breaking down
unique introduction to King Lear with guidance on any fears or preconceptions about it and taking a
what to think about before, during and after you see hands-on, performance-based approach. It combines
or study the play. ideas and critical information about the context in which the play was
written, the ideas it explores and the challenges and the rewards it
King Lear is a towering drama of personal and
presents to actors, audiences and students.
national tragedy. This accessible introduction
offers a “springboard” into the play, breaking down Ben Crystal is an actor and writer with an established expertise in Shakespeare.
any fears or preconceptions about it and taking a
hands-on, performance-based approach. It combines ideas and critical UK May 2013 • US July 2013
96 pages
information about the context in which the play was written, the ideas PB 9781408164662 • £5.99 / $9.95
it explores and the challenges and the rewards it presents to actors, The Arden Shakespeare
audiences and students. Series: Springboard Shakespeare
Ben Crystal is an actor and writer with an established expertise in Shakespeare.

96 pages
PB 9781408164679 • £5.99 / $9.95
Series: Springboard Shakespeare

the A rden S hakespeare

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
Series Editors:
Andrew Hiscock, University of Wales Bangor, UK
Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Arden Renaissance Drama offers practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performative contexts of key Elizabethan and
Jacobean plays. Each guide introduces the text’s critical and performance history but also provides students with an invaluable insight into the
landscape of current scholarly research through a keynote essay on the state of the art and newly commissioned essays of fresh research from
different critical perspectives.
The Alchemist
A Critical Reader
Edited by Erin Julian and Helen Ostovich Twelfth Night
Described by Coleridge as having one of the three
A Critical Reader
mostperfectly constructed plots in literary history,
The Alchemist is a play that is strikingly modern in Edited by Alison Findlay and
its cynicism.This guide,with new essays by leading Liz Oakley-Brown
scholars, provides a comprehensive survey of major
Twelfth Night is the most mature and fully developed
issues in the contemporary study of the play and
of Shakespeare’s comedies and, as well as being
points to new avenues for critical exploration.
one of his most popular plays, represents a crucial
Throughout the book, chapters explore such issues as
moment in the development of his art. Assembled by
the play’s critical reception from the Restoration to the 21st century,
leading scholars, this guide provides a comprehensive
its performance history, from Jonson’s own time through to recent
survey of major issues in the contemporary study
productions and key themes in current scholarship, from issues of
of the play. Throughout the book survey chapters
gender to Jonson’s use of scatological humour.
explore such issues as the play’s critical reception, from John
Erin Julian is a Doctoral student at McMaster University, Canada. Manningham’s account of one of its first performances to major current
Helen Ostovich is Professor of English at McMaster University, Canada. commentators like Stephen Greenblatt; the performance history of
the play, from Shakespeare’s day to the present and key themes in
UK March 2013 • US May 2013 current scholarship, from issues of gender and sexuality to the study of
240 pages comedy and song.
HB 9781441154156 • £60.00 / $110.00
Paperback 9781780938295 • £16.99 / $27.95 Alison Findlay is Professor of Renaissance Drama at the Department of English
Individual eBook 9781441176257 • £18.99 / $23.99 and Creative Writing, University of Lancaster, UK.
Library eBook9781441180599 • £18.99 / $23.99 Liz Oakley-Brown is Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Renaissance Writing at
the Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Lancaster, UK.
Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
224 pages
PB 978142503299 • £17.99 / $23.95
The Jew of Malta HB 9781441128782 • £60.00 / $110.00
A Critical Reader Library eBook 9781472503312 • £60.00 / $110.00
Edited by Robert A. Logan Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
In this up-to-date critical guide to Christopher
Marlowe’s absorbing and controversial play, The
Jew of Malta, leading Marlowe scholars explore key
questions surrounding the text. What are we to make
of Barabas, the villainous Jew, who maintains his
alienation in a degenerate Christian culture? Can
the play be categorized as a darkly cynical tragedy
or, conversely, a series of comic book exaggerations
meant to be taken as satire; or is it a groundbreaking mix of several
perspectives? Are such uncertainties a major reason why has the play
has continued to hold so much interest for readers and audiences
alike? Including wide-ranging coverage of racial, religious, political,
and ethical matters, the contributors present the best in contemporary
thinking on the play.
Robert A. Logan is Professor of English and Chair, University of Hartford, USA.

224 pages
PB 9781441110794 • £17.99 / $29.95
HB 9781441169396 • £55.00 / $100.00
Library eBook 9781408191545 • £55.00 / $100.00
Series: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides

index
index
Adaptation and the Avant-Garde 41 Children’s Literature in Second Language Emerson and the Natural
Adaptation Studies 6 Education 47 History of the Metaphor 31
Adapting Detective Fiction 45 Christofides, R. M. 60 Emerson, Caryl 6
Adapting Canonical Texts in Chuck Palahniuk 28 Emily Bronte and the Religious Imagination 20
Children’s Literature 47 Churchwell, Sarah 28 Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage 59
Aesthetic Sexuality 7 City of Words, The 8 English in Practice 3
Agamben’s Joyful Kafka 35 Class, Monika 21 Eoyang, Eugene 34
Ager, Deborah 31 Cline, Sally 49 Epic, Novel and the Progress of Antiquity 23
Alchemist, The: A Critical Guide 63 Cognitive Value of Philosophical Fiction, The 37 Escolme, Bridget 59
Aldea, Eva 15 Coleridge and Kantian Ideas in England, Eskelinen, Markku 42
Allan, William 24 1796 - 1817 21 Essential Shakespeare 59
American Fiction in Transition 30 Coleridge, Romanticism and the Orient 21 Estimating Emerson 29
Analyze Anything 49 Collado-Rodriguez, Francisco 28 Ethics in British Children’s Literature 47
Anatomy of a Short Story 17 Confessions 37 Euripedes: Alcestis 24
Anatomy of Bloom, The 9 Connolly, Julian W. 20 Evelyn Waugh 27
Andermahr, Sonya 11 Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ and Contemporary Evil: A History in Modern French Literature and
Anderson, Jean 45 Thought 17 Thought 32
Andrea Levy 10 Constitution of English Literature, The 7 Existential Utopia 43
Angela Carter: New Critical Readings 11 Contagious Metaphor 7 Ezra Pound’s Adams Cantos 18
Ardoin, Paul 17 Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze 11 Feminist Theory 8
Armstrong, Charles 18 Contemporary Jewish American Poetry: Fernie, Ewan 39
Arvon Book of Crime and Thriller Writing, The 49 An Anthology 31 Ferrettter, Luke 40
Arvon Book of Literary Non-Fiction, The 49 Contemporary Spanish American Novel, The 31 Fiction of Autobiography, The 46
Autobiographies of Mina Loy, The 19 Contemporary Women Writers Look Back 15 Film Novelist, The 41
Baela-Allué, Sonia 15 Cooke, Jennifer 13 Filmspeak 6
Bailey, Iain 19 Cooper, Farah Karim 61 Findlay, Alison 63
Baillie, Justine Jenny 15 Cooper, Helen 61 Fleming, Chris 38
Baker, Peter 45 Corby, James 6 Fletcher, John 57
Banville, John 17 Cordingley, Anthony 50 Foakes, R.A. 56
Barbian, Jan-Pieter 32 Coriolanus 55 Foreign in International Crime Fiction, The 45
Barry, Peter 3 Corral, Will H. 31 Forsberg, Niklas 36
Baxter, Jeannette 10 Cortazzi, Hugh 11, 22 Foster Jr., John Burt 34
Beaumont, Matthew 26 Cowdell, Scott 38 Franke, William 40
Behn, Aphra 54 Crangle, Sara 8 Fraser, Gregory 49
Bending Genre 45 Creative Writing MFA Handbook, From Kafka to Sebold 33
Bewes, Timothy 8 Revised and Updated Edition 48 From Language to Creative Writing 5
Bickley, Pamela 59 Crime Culture 45 Fujii, Hikaru 30
Birns, Nicholas 31 Critical-Creative Writing 48 Fultz, Lucille P. 28
Black Comics 44 Crystal, Ben 62 Funkhouser, C.T. 42
Blake, Marc 48 Culture of Yellow, The 17 G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity 26
Bland, Janice 47 Cybertext Poetics 42 Gardiner, Michael 7
Bloomsbury Anthology of Aesthetics, The 35 Danta, Chris 7 Gardner, Kevin 27
Book of Imitation and Desire, The 32 Dante and the Sense of Transgression 40 Gasyna, George Z. 17
Booker, Christopher 8 Davidson, Chad 49 Geoffrey Hartman 8
Borges, between History and Eternity 29 De Boever, Arne 9 Georg Lukacs: The Fundamental
Boulter, Jonathan 15 DeCastro, Juan E. 31 Dissonance of Existence 8
Bradford, Richard 46 Deconstruction without Derrida 35 Geybels, Hans 39
Brennan, Michael G. 27 Denson, Shane 44 Gharabegian, Alina 39
Bret Easton Ellis’s Controversial Fiction 15 Detecting Detection 45 Gibson, Marion 61
Bridges, Elizabeth 42 Diaz, Hernán 29 Gillies, Midge 49
Brinker-Gabler, Gisela 33 Dicken’s Women 22 Gjelsvik, Anne 6
Bruhn, Jorgen 6 Divine Providence: A History 39 Glyph and the Gramophone, The 40
Bruhwiler, Claudia Franziska 30 Docherty, Thomas 37 Gomel, Elana 46
Buckingham, Will 36 Dolan, Fran 54 Gomez-Gallisteo, M. Carmen 30
Burley, Mikel 36 Donna McCormack 16 Gontarski, S.E. 17
Burns, Lorna 11 Doran, Sabine 17 Gottlieb, Evan 21
Byrne, Romana 7 Dostoevsky 22 Gourley, James 31
Callus, Ivan 6 Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov 20 Graphic Poetics 46
Calvo, Clara 57 Drakakis, John 56 Great War Modernisms and
Canning, Patricia 51 Drift, The 41 ‘The New Age’ Magazine 18
Carroll, William C. 54 Drogas, Areti 13 Greenwell, Bill 5
Cary, Elizabeth 57 Duffy, Edward T. 20 Groes, Sebastian 10
Catani, Damian 32 Duncan, Randy 44 Groth, Helen 7
Censoring Translation 50 Dunne, Eamonn 7, 8 Hämäläinen, Nora 36
Chance and the Modern British Novel 27 Dymoke, Due 46 Hamilton, Caroline D. 30
Chantler, Ashley 4 Eaglestone, Robert 10 Hamlet’s Dreams 58
Charlton, James 36 Early Visions and Representations of America 30 Hanssen, Eirik Frisvold 6
Charry, Brinda 60 Edmondson, Paul 59 Haskell, Yasmin 24
Children’s Literature and Learner Ellam, Julie 12 Hawthorn, Jeremy 4
Empowerment 47 Haxter, Julian 48

index
I ndex
Heehs, Peter 46 LaRocca, David 29, 31 Morcillo, Marta Garcia 25
Henry Miller: The Inhuman Artist 31 Late Walter Benjamin, The 40 Morris, Daniel 29
Herlinghaus, Hermann 28 Lauri-Lucente, Gloria 6 Mousoutzanis, Aris 45
Herron, Tom 26 Lawtoo, Nidesh 17 Mrs. Warren’s Profession 54
Heys, Alistair 9 Lee, Jason 49 Mullan, John 22
Heywood, Thomas 54 Leeson, Miles 38 Müller, Anja 47
Higgins, David 4 Lefkowitz, Mary R. 25 Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers 28
Hill, Leslie 6 Leonard, Philip 11 Nace, Nicholas D. 58
Hillier, Bevis 27 Levinas, Storytelling and Anti-Storytelling 36 Narcoepics 28
Ho, Elizabeth 21 Leving, Yuri 17 Narrative Care 9
Hodge, Joel 38 Life and Work of Thomas MacGreevy, The 19 Nazisploitation! 42
Hodgkins, John 41 Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed 5 Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles 23
Hoenselaars, Ton 58 Literature After Globalization 11 Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire 21
Holland, Mary 13 Lives of the Greek Poets, The 25 New Directions in Digital Poetry 42
Holland, Peter 55 Logan, Robert A. 63 New Perspectives on the European
Hollington, Michael 43 London Gothic 27 Bildungsroman 43
Homer: A Guide for the Perplexed 23 London in Contemporary British Fiction 26 Newlands, Carole E. 25
Homer: The Iliad 24 London’s Burning 27 Nicol, Bran 45
Honingmann, E.J. 56 Looking for Calvin and Hobbes 44 No Laughing Matter 23
Horton, David 33 Lütge, Christiane 47 Non-dualism in Eckhart,
Horton, Emily 14 Lyon, John 33 Julian of Norwich and Traherne 36
Houghton, Luke 23 Lyric Encounters 29 Novel: An Alternative History, The 34
How to Read Texts 3 Macbeth: Language and Writing 60 Oakley-Brown, Liz 63
Howard, Sheena C. 44 Macbeth: The State of the Play 59 Oishi, Kazuyoshi 21
Hubble, Nick 14, 26, 45 MacLachlan, Bonnie 25 On Bathos 8
Humour and Religion 39 Maftel, Macaela 46 On Modern Poetry 5
I.A. Richards and the Rise of Maggie Gee: Writing the One Man Zeitgeist: Dave Eggers,
Cognitive Stylistics 51 Condition-of-England Novel 12 Publishing and Publicity 30
Ian McEwan 10 Magical Realism and Delueze 15 O’Neill, Stephen 58
Ian McEwan’s Atonement 12 Making Poetry Matter 46 Ostovich, Helen 63
Image in Outline 33 Manguel, Alberto 8 O’Sullivan, Michael 34
Improvisation and the Making of Männiste, Indrek 31 Othello 56
American Literary Modernism 30 Manuwald, Gesine 23 Out of Place 33
In the Beginning, She Was 35 Mapping the Wessex Novel 27 Outside, America 30
Incarnational Poetics 40 Marder, Michael 43 Packard, Dennis J. 41
Ingleby, Matthew 26 Margilow, Daniel H. 42 Palaver, Wolfgang 38
Irigaray, Luce 35 Marlowe’s Literary Scepticism 60 Parmar, Sandeep 19
Irish Murdoch: Philosophical Novelist 38 Marsden, Simon 20 Parrinder, Patrick 43
Irish Writing London: Volume 1 26 Marshall, C.W. 23 Parvini, Neema 58
Irish Writing London: Volume 2 26 Martell, Nevin 44 Performatives After Deconstruction 36
Isba, Anne 22 Mason Vaughn, Virginia 55 Perry, Seamus 21
Island Princess, The 57 Mattison, Laci 17 Pezzotti, Barbara 45
J. Hillis Miller and the Possibilities of Reading 8 Maurice Blanchot and Fragmentary Writing 6 Phillips, Lawrence 11, 22, 27
J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace 12 McCaw, Neil 3, 45 Pitcher, John 56
Jackson II, Ronald L. 44 McDonald, Russ 58 Plays of Samuel Beckett, The 52
Jackson, Paul 18 McKenna, Andrew J. 32 Poems in the Porch 27
James, David 10 McLeod, John 14 Poetics of Mourning in the Middle East, The 39
Jew of Malta, The: A Critical Guide 63 McManus, Clare 57 Poetics of Sleep, The 37
Jochum, Klaus Peter 43 McNally, Lisa 15 Poetry Toolkit, The 5
Jones, Peter 43 McQuillan, Martin 10, 35 Polish, Hybrid, and Otherwise 17
Jordan, Julia 27 Melancholy and the Archive 15 Political Initiation in the Novels of Philip Roth 30
Josephine Donovan 8 Merchant of Venice, The 56 Politics of Literature in Nazi Germany, The 32
Julian, Erin 63 Merrill, Trevor Cribben 32 Postmodern Science Fiction and
Kafka Translated 50 Meyer, Christina 44 Temporal Imagination 46
Kahane, Ahuvia 23 Michel Houellebecq and the Power of Comics, The 44
Kealey, Tom 48 Literature of Despair 9 Preedy, Chloe Kathleen 60
Kelly, Adam 30 Middleton, Thomas 54 Prescott, Paul 59
Kent, Brad 54 Mikkanen, Jukka 37 Prescribing Ovid 24
Kerr-Koch, Kathleen 21 Miles, Rosie 20 Promise and Premise of Creativity, The 34
Kɪlɪç, Mine Özyurt 12 Miller, J. Hillis 7 Psychology of Screenwriting, The 49
King Lear 56 Mindful Aesthetics 7 Queer Postcolonial Narratives and the
King, Laurie R. 49 Miranda, Carolina 45 Ethics of Witnessing 16
Kipling’s Japan 11 Mitchell, Kaye 10 Radford, Andrew 27
Klages, Mary 5 Mitchell, Peta 7 Ramone, Jenni 13
Klyukanov, Igor E. 6 Modern Literary Theory 4 Raw, Laurence 50
Knippschild, Silke 25 Modern Manuscripts 18 Reading Authority and Representing
Kovacs, George 23 Modern/Postmodern 38 Rule in Early Modern England 27
Kyd, Thomas 57 Mohaghegh, Jason Bahbak 39 Reading New India 9
Lambirth, Andrew 46 Moore, Steven 34 Reading Theories in Contemporary Fiction 15
Language, Ethics and Animal Life 36 Moran James 52 Reading Theory Now 7

I ndex
index
Real, Hermann, J. 43 Slater, Niall W. 24 Tucker, David 19

Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe, The 43 Smith, Emma 60 Tulipano, Americo 16
Reception of David Hume in Europe, The 43 Smith, Matthew J. 44 Twelfth Night: A Critical Guide 63
Reception of H.G. Wells in Europe, The 43 Smith, Robert Rowland 5 Understanding Bergson, Understanding
Reception of Jonathan Swift in Europe, The 43 Snoek, Anke 35 Modernism 17
Reception of W.B. Yeats in Europe, The 43 South Pacific Narratives of Robert Ure, Adam 38
Redcrosse 39 Louis Stevenson and Jack London, The 22 Vallins, David 21
Reframing Yeats 18 Spanish Tragedy, The 57 van der Vlies, Andrew 12
Resources for Teaching Shakespeare: 11-16 47 Spentzou, Efi 24 van Hulle, Dirk 18
Return of the Storyteller in Spring, Michelle 49 Vander Lugt, Kristin 42
Contemporary Fiction, The 13 Springboard Shakepeare: King Lear 62 Varughese, E. Dawson 9
Rewriting the Old Testament in Springboard Shakespeare: Vasilii Rozanov and the Creation 38
Anglo-Saxon Verse 40 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 62 Vaughan, Aiden T. 55
Rice, Philip 4 Springboard Shakespeare: Hamlet 62 Verdonk, Peter 51
Ridout, Alice 15 Springboard Shakespeare: Macbeth 62 Vermeulen, Pieter 8
Rokison, Abigail 61 Statius, Poet Between Rome and Naples 25 Verrone, William 41
Roman Poetry of Love, The 24 Stein, Daniel 44 Victorian Poetry in Context 20
Romancing Fascism 21 Stern, Tiffany 61 Victorians in Japan 22
Romeo and Juliet 55 Stevens, Jenny 59 Vieira, Patricia 43
Rover, The 54 Studying English Literature 4 Violence, Desire, and the Sacred 38
Ruys Smith, Thomas 28 Studying Literary Theory 4 Virginia Woolf’s Late Cultural Criticism 19
Sainsbury, Lisa 47 Studying the Novel 4 Walker, Nicole 45
Salman Rushdie 10 Sturge, Kate 32 Wallace, Clare 52
Salman Rushdie and Translation 13 Style in the Renaissance 51 Wallace, Rob 30
Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx 19 Style in Theory 6 Walter Scott and Contemporary Theory 21
Samuel Beckett and The Bible 19 Stylistics of Poetry, The 51 Wandor, Michelene 48
Sarah Waters 10 Succeeding Postmodernism 13 Waugh, Patricia 4
Scenes of Intimacy 13 Sullivan, Erin 59 Weakness: A Literary and Philosophical History 34
Schad, John 40 Summerfield, Giovanna 43 Webb, George 11
Schalkwyk, David 58 Sweeney, Carole 9 Webster, Roger 4
Schildgen, Brenda Deen 39 Tanke, Joseph J. 35 Weis, René 55
Schneck, Peter 16 Taylor, Antony 27 Weiss, Katherine 52
Schreibman, Susan 19 Tempest, The 55 Wells, Lynn 26
Science Fiction Handbook, The 45 Tempest, The : Language and Writing 60 West, David 51
Seargeant, Philip 5 Ten Eyck, David 18 What Matters in Jane Austen? 22
Secret of Bog Lane, The 16 Terrorism and Temporality in the Wilke, Sabine 33
Secular Mysteries: Stanley Cavell and Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo 31 Williams, Rhian 5, 40
English Romanticism 20 Terrorism, Media, and the Ethics of Fiction 16 Williams, Rowan 22
Sedgwick, Fred 47 Tew, Philip 14, 26 Williams, Travis D. 58
Seduction and Power 25 1970s, The: A Decade of Contemporary Wilson, Anthony 46
Self-Translation 50 British Fiction 14 Wilson, Leigh 14
Senatore, Mauro 36 1980s, The: A Decade of Contemporary Winter’s Tale, A 56
Seven Basic Plots, The 8 British Fiction 14 Wit and Wisdom of GK Chesterton, The 27
Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory 58 Theatre of David Greig, The 52 Wolfreys, Jullian 7
Shakespeare and the Apocalypse 60 Theatre of Sean O’Casey, The 52 Woman in Ancient Greece 25
Shakespeare and the Language of Translation 58 Thomas Mann in English 33 Woman Killed With Kindness, A 54
Shakespeare and the Medieval World 61 Thomas Middelton: Four Plays 54 Wood, Alice 19
Shakespeare and YouTube 58 Thompson, Ann 59 Woods, Michelle 50
Shakespeare for Young People 61 Tomarken, Edward 6 Wortham, Simon Morgan 37
Shakespeare Up Close 58 Toni Morrison 28 Wray, Ramona 57
Shakespeare, William 55, 56 Toni Morrison and Literary Tradition 15 Write What You Don’t Know 48
Shakespeare’s Demenology 61 Tragedy of Mariam, The 57 Writing of Violence in the Middle East 39
Shakespeare’s Theatres and the Effects of Transformative Humanities, The 6 Writing the Horror Movie 48
Performance 61 Translation, Adaptation and Transformation 50 Writing the Self 46
Shaller, Deborah 45 Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Year of Shakespeare, A 59
Sharpe, Kevin 27 Narratives 44 Zacher, Samantha 40
Silverman, M.E. 31 Transnational Tolstoy 34 Zima, Peter V. 38
Singer, Margot 45 Tronch, Jesus 57

Representatives, Agents & Distributors – UK, Europe, Rest of World
R epresentatives , A gents & D istributors – U K , E urope , R est of W orld

Marketing, Sales, and Eire and Northern Ireland AFRICA Philippines and Vietnam
Editorial Offices Louise Dobbin Jeffrey Lim
Bloomsbury Rep Force Ireland Southern Africa (Lesotho, Botswana, Books Sales Director
50 Bedford Square Dublin 4 Namibia, Republic of South Africa, E jeffrey.lim@tandf.com.sg
London WC1B 3DP Eire Swaziland)
T +44 (0)207 631 5600 T +3531 364 9927 Book Promotions / Horizon Books Hong Kong
F +44 (0)20 7631 5800 E info@repforce.ie P O Box 6836 Andrew Kwan
academic@bloomsbury.com Roggebaai 8012 Manager
EUROPE South Africa E andrew.kwan@tandf.com.sg
Orders and Customer Service T +27 21 4698900
Customer Services, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, F +27 21-4698903 Thailand
Macmillan Distribution (MDL) Switzerland and The Netherlands E enquiries@bookpro.co.za Nonglak Sawaithong
Brunel Road Rachel Webster Account Manager
Houndmills Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Rest of Africa E s.nonglak@tandf.com.sg
Basingstoke T +44 (0) 207 631 5918 Tula Publishing Ltd
Hampshire E rachel.webster@bloomsbury.com Aristotle House Malaysia and Brunei
RG21 6XS Aristotle Lane Taylor & Francis Asia Pacific
E: orders@macmillan.co.uk Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway Oxford No. 23-2, Jalan PJS 8/18
Tel: 01256 302 692 and Sweden OX2 6TR Dataran Mentari
Fax: 01256 812 558 Colin Flint Ltd T +44 (0)1865 553606 46150 Petaling Jaya
26 Harvey Goodwin Avenue E julian@tulapublishing.co.uk Selangor Darul Ehsan
UK Cambridge E tom@tulapublishing.co.uk Malaysia
CB4 3EU T +603 56301361
Academic Key Accounts Manager T +44 1223 565 052 F +603 56301732
Phil Prestianni E ben.greig@dial.pipex.com ASIA
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc David Yeong
T +44 (0)7733 328663 Austria, Greece and Cyprus India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri General Manager
E phil.prestianni@bloomsbury.com Tyers Book Sales Ltd. Lanka E david.yeong@tandf.com.sg
Stisilaou 13 Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt
National Accounts Manager 11 363 Ano Kypseli Limited China
Barry Horrocks Athens VISHRUT Building Taylor & Francis Asia Pacific
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Greece Building no3, DDA Complex, Ground Room 1108, Culture Plaza
T +44 (0)207 631 5600 T +30 210 2133 436 Floor Jia #59, Zhongguancun St., Haidian
E barry.horrocks@bloomsbury.com E gellag@hol.gr Pocket C 6&7, Vasant Kunj District
New Delhi 110070 Beijing 100872
Adult Key Account Manager Central and Eastern Europe India PR China
Sam Fanaken Jacek Lewinson T +91 11 40574957, +91 11 40574954
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Nowogrodzka 18m.20 E marketing-in@bloomsbury.com Cynthia Ji
T +44 (0)207 631 5600 PL-00-511 Warszawa Sales Manager
E sam.fanaken@bloomsbury.com Poland Pakistan E cynthia.ji@tandf.com.sg
T +48 226 283 956 Jennifer Cima
South West England, South Wales, E jacek.lewinson@data.pl Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Taiwan
Oxfordshire and Hampshire T +44 (0) 207 631 5914 Taylor & Francis Asia Pacific
David Simm Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar E jennifer.cima@bloomsbury.com Room 629, 6F, No.6, Sec.4, Hsinyi Road
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Iberian Book Services Taipei 10683
T +44 (0)7714 849550 Sector Islas, 12, 1B Japan Taiwan
E david.simm@bloomsbury.com 28760 Tres Cantos Jennifer Cima T +886 2 5551 1266 ext. 6291
Madrid Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Jason Lin
City of London, Northern and Spain T +44 (0) 207 631 5914 Sales Manager
Eastern Home Counties T +34 91 8034918 E jennifer.cima@bloomsbury.com E Jason.lin@tandf.com.sg
Robin Birch F +34 91 8035936
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc E pprout@telefonica.net South Korea
T +44 (0)7775 891729 Information and Culture Korea AUSTRALASIA
E robin.birch@bloomsbury.com MIDDLE EAST / NORTH AFRICA 473-19 Seokyo-dong Mapo-ku
(EXCLUDING ISRAEL) AND MALTA Seoul 121-842 Bloomsbury Publishing Pty Ltd
Central London and the Southern South Korea Hannah Temby
Home Counties International Publishers Services T +822 3141 4791 Level 14
David Foy P.O. Box 27533 F +822 3141 7733 309 Kent St
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Dubai E cs.ick@ick.co.kr Sydney NSW 2000
T +44 (0)7824 435717 United Arab Emirates Australia
E david.foy@bloomsbury.com T +971 4 238 4001 Asia Pacific - General Enquiries, T +61 2 9994 8969
F +971 4 238 4005 Customer Service and Orders E hannah.temby@bloomsbury.com
Midlands and Eastern Counties Email: itpme@emirates.net.ae Taylor & Francis Asia Pacific
Max Bridgewater 240 MacPherson Road For all other imprints:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc #08-01 Pines Industrial Building Lisa Finch
ISRAEL
T +44 (0)7770 503641 Singapore Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
E max.bridgewater@bloomsbury.com 348574 T +44 (0) 207 631 5922
Emily Medcalf
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc T +65 67415166 E lisa.finch@bloomsbury.com
Northern England, North Wales and F +65 67429356
T +44 (0) 207 631 5819
Scotland E info@tandf.com.sg For all other international queries
E emily.medcalf@bloomsbury.com
Terry Lee please contact:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Singapore and Indonesia E export@bloomsbury.com
T +44 (0)7802 617672 Mohamed Feroz
E terry.lee@bloomsbury.com Assistant Sales Manager
E mohamed.feroz@tandf.com.sg Rights
Elizabeth White
Academic Rights Manager
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
T +44 (0) 207 631 5879
E elizabeth.white@bloomsbury.com

Representatives, Agents & Distributors – USA, Canada, Latin America
R epresentatives , A gents & D istributors – U S A , C anada , L atin A merica
USA John Mesjak Mid Atlantic and New England

509 Edward Street Parson Weems’ Publisher Services
Marketing, Sales, and Editorial Offices Sycamore, IL 60178 Christopher R. Kerr
Bloomsbury Academic Tel: 815-899-0079 565 Broadway, #5A
80 Maiden Lane, Suite 704 Fax: 815-261-4114 Hastings on Hudson, NY 10706-1712
New York, NY 10038 john@abrahamassociatesinc.com Tel: 914-478-5751
Tel: 212-953-5858 Fax: 914-478-5751
Fax: 212-953-5944 chrisKerr@parsonweems.com
askacademic@bloomsbury.com Nevada, Arizona, Southern California, and New
Mexico Eileen Bertelli
Orders and Customer Service Faherty & Associates 48 Wawayanda Road
Bloomsbury USA Richard McNeace Warwick, NY 10990-3339
MPS/BUSA Orders 1402 Highgate Avenue Tel: 845-987-7233
16365 James Madison Highway Los Angeles, CA 90042 Cell: 845-492-7309
Gordonsville, VA 22942 Tel: 323-273-7763 Fax: 866-761-7112
Tel: 888-330-8477 Fax: 323-478-0182 eileenbertelli@parsonweems.com
Fax: 800-672-2054 richard@fahertybooks.com
orders@mpsvirginia.com Causten Stehle, Manager
customerservice@mpsvirginia.com Tom Faherty 55 McKinley Ave., #D214
6665 SW Hampton St., Suite 100 White Plains, NY 10606
For former Bristol Classical Press titles publishing Portland, OR 97223 Tel: 914-948-4259
April 30 and before Tel: 800-824-2888 x.11 Fax: 866-861-0337
International Publishers Marketing Fax: 503-598-9850 office@parsonweems.com
22841 Quicksilver Drive tomjr@fahertybooks.com
Dulles, VA 20166 Linda Cannon
Tel: 800-758-3756 Trevin Matlock 220 E. 31st St., Apt.3D
Fax: 703-661-1547 7765 Calle Casino Baltimore, MD 21218-3951
ipmmail@presswarehouse.com Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 Tel: 724-513-9426
Tel: 909 263-2346 Fax: 866-583-2066
For former Bristol Classical Press titles publishing Fax: 613 822-5457 lindacannon@parsonweems.com
May 1 and after trevin@fahertybooks.com
Bloomsbury Academic
80 Maiden Lane, Suite 704 CANADA
New York, NY 10038 Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North/
Tel: 212-953-5858 South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia For Continuum/T&T Clark titles
Fax: 212-953-5944 Southeastern Book Travelers, LLC Codasat Canada Ltd.
askacademic@bloomsbury.com Chip Mercer 3122 Blenheim Street
1920 Valleydale Road, Suite 220 Vancouver, BC V6K 4J7
Northern California, Pacific Northwest, and Birmingham, AL 35244 Canada
Mountains & Plains Tel: 205-682-8570 Tel: 604-228-9952
Redsides Publishing Services Fax: 770-804-2013 Fax: 604-222-2965
George Carroll chipmercer@bellsouth.net info@codasat.com
4616 25th Ave NE, PMB 597
Seattle, WA 98105 Jim Barkley For all other titles
Tel: 425-922-1045 1153 Bordeau Court Penguin Group (Canada)
Fax: 425-671-0362 Dunwoody, GA 30338 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700
geocarroll@earthlink.net Tel: 770-827-0488 Toronto, Ontario, M4P 2Y3
Fax: 770 234-5715 Canada
jbarkley@mindspring.com Tel: 416-925-2249
Midwest Fax: 416-925-0068
Abraham Associates Stewart Koontz info@penguin.ca
Roy Schonfeld 6012 Shadow Moss Circle
2084 Mirimar Blvd Raleigh, NC 27603
S. Euclid, OH 44121 Tel: 256 483-7969 MEXICO, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA,
Tel: 216-291-3538 Fax: 770 804-2013
AND THE CARIBBEAN
Fax: 216-691-0548 cskoontz@hotmail.com
roy@abrahamassociatesinc.com
Shanta Inshiqaq
Rich Thompson
Bloomsbury Academic
Stu Abraham 576 Bentmoor Dr.
80 Maiden Lane, Suite 704
5120-A Cedar Lake Rd Helena, AL 35080
New York, NY 10038
St. Louis Park, MN 55416 Tel: 205-910-2687
Tel: 212-953-5858
Tel: 952-927-7920 Fax: 770-804-2013
Fax: 212-953-5944
Fax: 952-927-8089 richthompson@charter.net
shanta.inshiqaq@bloomsbury.com
stu@abrahamassociatesinc.com
Steve Horwiz Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas

5120-A Cedar Lake Rd Bill McClung & Associates Rights
St. Louis Park, MN 55416 20475 State Hwy 46W, Suite 180 Elizabeth White
Tel: 651-647-1712 Spring Branch, TX 78070 Academic Rights Manager
Fax: 651-647-1717 Tel: 214-505-1501 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
steve@abrahamassociatesinc.com Fax: 888-311-8932 Tel: +44 (0) 207 631 5905
bmcclung@ix.netcom.com elizabeth.white@bloomsbury.com
Theresa McClung
20475 State Hwy 46W, Suite 180
Spring Branch, TX 78070
Tel: 214-676-3161
Fax: 888-311-8932
tmcclung@ix.netcom.com

bloomsbury revelati o ns
launching april 2013
bringing together great thinkers and groundbreaking books that have changed
the way we see the world, the new bloomsbury revelations series will
open your eyes to the likes of gilles deleuze, mohandas gandhi and karl barth.
978 1 7809 3535 5 • £12.99 978 1 7809 3568 3 • £12.99 978 1 7809 3625 3 • £14.99 978 1 7809 3804 2 • £14.99
world english world english Japan, commonwealth/uk exc. canada world english
978 1 7809 3823 3 • £12.99 978 1 7809 3843 1 • £9.99 978 1 7809 3781 6 • £12.99 978 1 7809 3821 9 • £12.99
world english commonwealth/uk exc canada world english world english
978 1 7809 3680 2 • £12.99 978 1 7809 3624 6 • £16.99 978 1 7809 3661 1 • £16.99 978 1 7809 3756 4 • £16.99
world english world english world english exc usa/canada commonwealth/uk exc canada
www.bloomsbury.com/revelations
PAGE 3 PAGE 5 PAGE 6 PAGE 7 PAGE 9
www.bloomsbury.com

Literary Studies 13 PDF

Uploaded by

Document Information

Original Description:

Original Title

Copyright

Available Formats

Share this document

Share or Embed Document

Sharing Options

Did you find this document useful?

Is this content inappropriate?

Copyright:

Available Formats

Literary Studies 13 PDF

Uploaded by

Copyright:

Available Formats

Incorporating

 Bloomsbury’s complete range of academic

Online previews of many titles

Join in our online communities via blogs,

 Sign up for our subject-specific newsletters

FOR ACA DEM IC S FO R L IBR AR IANS

FOR ST UDE N T S FO R AUT HO R S

Sign up for newsletters and to join our communities at:

Whilst we endeavour to ensure that prices, publication dates and other

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com 1

Welcome to Bloomsbury Literary Studies

Publishing in Print and Digital

@bloomsburylit • @Ardenpublisher (Arden Twitter) Bloomsbury Literary Studies

I ntroductory L iterary S tudies

In Pursuit of English Studies A Student Guide to Critical

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com 3

Studying English Literature textbook Studying Literary Theory 2nd

Ashley Chanter is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Chester, UK.

• Sophisticated enough to appeal to Masters students, while lightly-

UK July 2010 • US June 2010

4 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • orders@macmillan.co.uk

I ntroductory L iterary S tudies

The Essential Guide to Studying Poetry A Guide for the Perplexed

UK January 2013 • US March 2013

HB 9781441116215 • £55.00 / $100.00 Creative Writing

UK November 2012 • US January 2013

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com 5

Maurice Blanchot and Style in Theory Adaptation Studies

UK September 2012 • US July 2012 UK January 2013 • US November 2012

The Transformative Humanities Filmspeak

UK November 2012 • US September 2012

6 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • orders@macmillan.co.uk

Reading Theory Now Aesthetic Sexuality

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com 7

Geoffrey Hartman new

8 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • orders@macmillan.co.uk

L iterary T heory / contemporary literature

UK August 2013 • US May 2013 UK May 2013 • US March 2013

Michel Houellebecq and the

UK February 2013 • US April 2013

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com 9

Andrea Levy Salman Rushdie

Contemporary Critical Perspectives

10 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • orders@macmillan.co.uk

UK August 2012 / US October 2012

Literature After Globalization

UK July 2012 • US September 2012

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com 11

Ian McEwan’s Atonement Maggie Gee: Writing the

UK March 2010 • US April 2010

12 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • orders@macmillan.co.uk

UK March 2013 • US May 2013

Succeeding Postmodernism The Return of the Storyteller in

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com 13

The Decades Series

The 1970s: A Decade of Contemporary The 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary

14 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • orders@macmillan.co.uk

The Invention of an Aesthetic Controversial Fiction

UK April 2013 • US June 2013

Reading Theories in UK September 2012 • US November 2012

UK March 2013 • US May 2013

www.bloomsbury.com • US, Canada, South America • 888-330-8477 • customerservice@mpsvirginia.com 15