2015-16 Literary Studies

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Literary Studies 2015-16
LITERARY STUDIES
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F In a fantastic line-up of new books, we continue to explore the ever-changing world of contemporary literature: from our new biography

R Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage to Maya Angelou: Adventurous Spirit and Crunch Lit (p.10), the first study of post-credit
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L and Object Lessons—concise, collectable, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things—with volumes ranging from
Hotel to Cigarette Lighter to Tree (p.5-7). You will also find here new books for classroom use such as Poetry: A Survivor's Guide (p.3) and
Supplanting the Postmodern (p.10).
In 2016 The Arden Shakespeare marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death with a celebration of poetry in On Shakespeare’s
Sonnets and a ‘state of the nation’ collection of new essays, Shakespeare in Our Time (p.37). New titles in the Third Series include Henry
IV, Part 2 and revised editions of Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet and Othello (p.34).
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The End of Airports Present Tense
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Armen Avanessian & Anke Hennig, both at Free
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"A strong and innovative book. The End of University Berlin, Germany
Airports finds new ways to think about, among
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weather, jet bridges, viral stories about flight,
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for readers of cultural studies, media studies, and creative concerned with human world-making. An impressive tour de Y
force.” Andreas Gailus, University of Michigan, USA
nonfiction." Kathleen C. Stewart, The University of Texas at Austin,
USA The invention of the present-tense novel is a literary event whose
importance is on par with the discovery of perspective in painting.
"Thanks to Schaberg the airport may become the new figure
This book describes how the present tense was invented and why the
with which to think place, time, labor, leisure, organization, and
poetics of the present tense novel is essential for an understanding
communication, as well as hope, fatigue, loneliness, and desire."
of contemporary literature and the evolution of the novel since
Margret Grebowicz, Goucher College, USA
modernism.
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illustrations UK November 2015 • US September 2015 • 304 pages
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Poetry: A Survivor's Guide
Macbeth, Macbeth
Mark Yakich, Loyola University New Orleans, USA
Ewan Fernie, University of Birmingham, UK & Simon Palfrey
"Yakich’s irreverent style, conversational tone,
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth – pored over by students and critics
and quirky illustrations make for a guide that will
for generations – is one of the most familiar works of literature in
be both instructive and entertaining for anyone
the Western canon. Macbeth, Macbeth explores how, through the act
interested in learning more about reading and
of re-imagining the story of the play, we as readers might return to
writing poetry." Publishers Weekly
Shakespeare’s tragedy with fresh eyes. In Macbeth, Macbeth, Ewan
"If you’re a poet, this book will remind you of Fernie and Simon Palfrey construct a prose adaptation of the
the reasons why you fell in love with the art in the first place. If Macbeth story, with critical commentary throughout, exploring the
you’re a reader falling in love with the art in the first place, process of adaptation from the inside and its roots and sources in
it might just make you a poet." Srikanth Reddy, University of Shakespeare’s text.
Chicago, USA
"A funny, brash, sweet, in-your-face, humble, questioning, advice- UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 224 pages
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dispensing, and utterly smart-as-hell book." Shara McCallum, Individual eBook 9781474235587 • £19.99 / $27.99
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Series: Beyond Criticism • Bloomsbury Academic
UK December 2015 • US November 2015 • 232 pages • 20 b/w illustrations
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Bloomsbury Academic The Modes of Modern Writing
Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Typology of
Modern Literature
The Bloomsbury Introduction to
David Lodge
Adaptation Studies
The Modes of Modern Writing tackles some of the
Adapting the Canon in Film, TV, Novels fundamental questions we encounter when studying
or reading literature, such as: what is literature?
and Popular Culture
What is realism? What is relationship between form
Yvonne Griggs, University of New England, and content? In answering these questions, the book examines texts
Australia by a wide range of modern novelists and poets, including James
Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf,
Adaptations of literary classics are a constant
Samuel Beckett and Philip Larkin, and draws on the work of literary
feature of popular culture today. This textbook helps students master
theorists from Roman Jakobson to Roland Barthes. The Bloomsbury
the history, theory and practice of analysing literary adaptations.
Revelations edition includes a new Foreword and Afterword by the
The book includes chapter overviews and a glossary of critical terms
author.
to give students quick access to key information for further study,
reference and revision and covers adaptations of: Frankenstein;
UK October 2015 • US December 2015 • 368 pages
Little Women; Jane Eyre; Great Expectations; The Turn of the
PB 9781474244213 • £16.99 / $29.95
Screw; Hamlet; The Great Gatsby; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Individual eBook 9781474244220 • £16.99 / $26.99
Atonement. Library eBook 9781474244237
Series: Bloomsbury Revelations • Bloomsbury Academic
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 272 pages
PB 9781441166142 • £19.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781441138484 • £65.00 / $112.00
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Library eBook 9781441167026
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British Working-Class Fiction The Slow Philosophy of J.M. Coetzee
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Against Work In The Slow Philosophy of J.M. Coetzee Jan Wilm analyses Coetzee’s

singular aesthetic style which, he argues, provokes the reader to read
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of theorists including Deleuze and Guattari, Giorgio Agamben and
Antonio Negri Alcalá offers an innovative account of British literary UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 256 pages
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Alan Sillitoe, David Storey, Nell Dunn, Pat Barker, James Kelman, Individual eBook 9781474256469 • £59.99 / $92.99
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Irvine Welsh, Monica Ali, and Joanna Kavenna. Bloomsbury Academic
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 192 pages
HB 9781474273749 • £60.00 / $104.00
Individual eBook 9781474273756 • £59.99 / $92.99
Library eBook 9781474273763 The Pathos of Distance
Bloomsbury Academic
Affects of the Moderns
Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvania,
USA
Rethinking Joseph Conrad’s
Rabaté uses Nietzsche’s image of a “pathos of
Concepts of Community
distance,” the notion that certain values cannot
Strange Fraternity originate in a community but are created by a
few gifted and lofty individuals, as the basis for a
Kaoru Yamamoto wide-ranging investigation into the ethics of the moderns. By first
Rethinking Joseph Conrad’s Concepts of Community establishing an unlikely meeting of Nietzsche and Benjamin through
uses Conrad’s phrase ‘strange fraternity’ from The their ideas of history and ethics, Rabaté is able to provide an original
Rover as a starting point for an exploration of the genealogy for the ethics of the modern, moving through figures and
concept of community in his writing, including moments as varied as Yeats, Woolf, Rilke, Apollinaire, Gide, Derrida,
his neglected vignettes and later stories. Drawing on the work of and Joyce. The result is a fascinating critique of Nietzsche, Benjamin,
continental thinkers including Jacques Derrida, Jean Luc-Nancy and affect theory, and the origins of the ethics of modernism.
Hannah Arendt Yamamoto offers original readings of The Heart of
Darkness, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, The Rover and Suspense and UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 224 pages
the short stories “The Secret Sharer”, “The Warrior’s Soul” and “The PB 9781501307997 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501308000 • £80.00 / $120.00
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Duel”. Working at the intersection between literature and philosophy Library eBook 9781501307973
this is unique and interdisciplinary engagement with Conrad’s work. Bloomsbury Academic
UK October 2016 • US October 2016 • 224 pages
HB 9781474250023 • £60.00 / $104.00
Individual eBook 9781474250030 • £59.99 / $92.99 The New Human in Literature
Library eBook 9781474250047
Bloomsbury Academic
Posthuman Visions of Changes in Body,
World English
Mind and Society after 1900
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Aarhus University,
Hurt and Pain Denmark
Twentieth-century literature changed
Literature and the Suffering Body
understandings of what it meant to be human. Mads
Susannah B. Mintz, Skidmore College, USA Rosendahl Thomsen here chronicles literature's
changing ideas of mankind, questioning the degree to which
"A brilliant analysis of pain refracted through
literature records and creates visions of the new human.
genre." Merri Lisa Johnson, University of South
Carolina, USA Grounded in the theory of Niklas Luhmann, Thomsen uses literary
changes in the mind, body and society to define the new human. He
"An informed, provocative, important book." Sara
begins with the modernist minds of Virginia Woolf, Williams Carlos
van den Berg, St Louis University, USA
Williams and Louis-Ferdinand Celine's, the society-changing concepts
Hurt and Pain examines the strategies authors have used to portray envisioned by Chinua Achebe, Mo Yan and Orhan Pamuk and ends with
bodies in pain, drawing on a diverse range of literary texts from the Don DeLillo and Michel Houellebecq's ideas of revolutionizing man
seventeenth century to the present day. Susannah B. Mintz provides through biotechnology.
readings of canonical writers including John Donne, Emily Dickinson,
and Samuel Beckett, alongside contemporary writers such as Ana UK March 2015 • US March 2015 • 256 pages
Castillo and Margaret Edson and writers in a wide range of genres: PB 9781474228190 • £18.99 / $29.95
poetry, memoir, drama, and fiction. Previously published in HB 9781441183194
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explores the object of the title, gleaning a singular lesson or multiple lessons along the way. Featuring contributions from writers, artists,
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scholars, journalists, and others, the emphasis throughout is lucid writing, imagination, and brevity. Object Lessons paints a picture of the
world around us, and tells the story of how we got here, one object at a time.
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Look around and you will see that you are “A slim, sharp meditation on hotels and desire.”
surrounded by glass. It reflects and refracts light The Paris Review
through your windows; it encircles a glowing filament
“Joanna Walsh is fast becoming one of our most
above you; it’s in a mirror hanging on the wall; it lies
important writers. Hotel is a dazzling tour de
shattered in a dented corner of an iPhone—you’re
force of embodied ideas.” Deborah Levy, author of
drinking water out of a pint glass. Taking up a most
Black Vodka
common object, rarely considered because assumed
to be transparent, John Garrison draws evocative connections between Luxury, sex, power, anonymity, privacy: hotels are where our desires
historical depictions of glass and emerging visions that see it as holding go on holiday, but also places where our desires are shaped by the
a unique promise for new forms of interaction. hard realities of the marketplace. Part memoir and part meditation,
Hotel visits a series of rooms, suites, hallways, and lobbies—the
UK November 2015 • US September 2015 • 136 pages • 15 b/w illustrations spaces and things that make up these modern sites of gathering and
PB 9781628924244 • £9.99 / $16.95 alienation: hotels.
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Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic UK November 2015 • US September 2015 • 176 pages
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Phone Booth Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic
Ariana Kelly, Harvard-Westlake School, USA

"Fascinated and attuned, I was cabled into Phone Refrigerator
Booth. Ariana Kelly replenishes the work on
Jonathan Rees, Colorado State University -
speculative telephony in an altogether compelling
Pueblo, USA
way." Avital Ronell, New York University, USA
It may be responsible for a greater improvement in
The phone booth exists as a fond but distant memory
human diet and longevity than any other technology
for some people, and as a strange and dysfunctional
of the last two thousand years—but have you ever
waste of space for many more. Ariana Kelly approaches the phone
thought seriously about your refrigerator? That box
booth as an entity that embodies diverse attitudes about privacy,
humming in the background displays more than you
freedom, power, sanctuary, and communication in its various forms all
might expect, even who you are and the society in
around the world. Through portrayals of phone booths in literature,
which you live. Jonathan Rees examines the past, present, and future
film, personal narrative, philosophy, and religion, Phone Booth offers
of the household refrigerator with the aim of preventing its users
a definitive account of an object on the cusp of obsolescence.
from ever taking it for granted again. No mere container for cold
Cokes and celery stalks, the refrigerator acts as a mirror—and what it
UK November 2015 • US September 2015 • 160 pages • 23 b&w illustrations
PB 9781628924091 • £9.99 / $16.95 reflects is chilling indeed.
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UK November 2015 • US September 2015 • 136 pages • 12 b/w images
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Silence Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic
John Biguenet, Loyola University, New Orleans,

USA Waste
"When I realized I was making notes on memorable Brian Thill, Golden West College, USA
passages in Silence several times a page, I knew
Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every
I’d found the book I’ve been needing to read."
object, plus time. Whatever else an object is, it’s
Valerie Martin, Orange Prize-winning novelist
also waste—or was, or will be. All that is needed
What is silence? In a series of short meditations, is time or a change of sentiment or circumstance.
novelist and playwright John Biguenet considers silence as a servant Waste is not merely the field of discarded objects,
of power, as a lie, as a punishment, as the voice of God, as a but the name we give to our troubled relationship
terrorist’s final weapon, as a luxury good, as the reason for torture— with the decaying world outside ourselves. Waste
in short, as an object we both do and do not recognize. Concluding focuses on those waste objects that most fundamentally shape our
with the prospects for its future in a world burgeoning with noise, lives and also attempts to understand our complicated emotional and
Biguenet asks whether we should desire or fear silence—or if it is intellectual relationships to our own refuse: nuclear waste, climate
even ours to choose. debris, pop-culture rubbish, digital detritus, and more.
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Every shelf is different and every bookshelf tells Smokers, survivalists, teenagers, collectors… The

a different story. Lydia Pyne finds bookshelves cigarette lighter is a charged, complex, yet often
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to be holders not just of books but of so many entirely disposable object that moves across these
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other things: values, vibes, and verbs that can be various groups of people, acquiring and emitting
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contained and displayed in the buildings and rooms different meanings while always supplying its
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of contemporary human existence. With a shrewd primary function, that of ignition. Jack Pendarvis
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why is the life of the bookshelf in full bloom? Pendarvis shows how the lighter tarries with the cheapest ends of
consumer culture as much as it displays more profound dramas of
UK March 2016 • US January 2016 • 144 pages • 7 b/w illustrations human survival, technological advances, and aesthetics.
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Dust
Michael Marder, University of the Basque
Hood
Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Dust pervades everything. It gathers in even layers, Alison Kinney, Freelance Writer, New York, USA
adapting to the contours of things and marking We all wear hoods: the Grim Reaper, Red Riding
the passage of time. In itself, it is also a gathering Hood, torturers, executioners and the executed,
place, a random community of what has been and athletes, laborers, anarchists, rappers, babies in
what is yet to be: dead skin cells and plant pollen, onesies, and anyone who’s ever grabbed a hoodie
hair and paper fibers, and dust mites. Dust blurs on a chilly day. Alison Kinney’s Hood explores the
the boundaries between the living and the dead, plant and animal material and symbolic vibrancy of this everyday
matter, the inside and the outside, you and the world. Dust treats garment and political semaphore, which often
one of the most mundane and familiar phenomena, showing how protects the powerful at the expense of the powerless—with deadly
it can provide a key to thinking about existence, community, and results. Kinney considers medieval clerics and the Klan, anti-hoodie
justice today. campaigns and the Hooded Man of Abu Ghraib, the Inquisition and the
murder of Trayvon Martin, uncovering both the hooded perpetrators
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Shipping Container
Craig Martin, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Questionnaire
The shipping container is all around: whizzing by
on the highway, trundling past on rails, unloading Evan Kindley, Claremont McKenna College, USA
behind a big box store even as you shop there, Questionnaires are everywhere: we fill them out in
clanking on the docks just out of sight. 90% of the doctor’s offices and at job interviews, to express
goods and materials that move around the globe ourselves and to advance knowledge, to find love
do so in shipping containers. It is an absolutely and to kill time. But where did they come from,
ubiquitous object, even if most of us have no and why have they proliferated? In Questionnaire,
direct contact with it. But what is this thing? Where has it been, and Evan Kindley investigates the history of “the form
where is it going? Craig Martin’s book illuminates the “development as form,” from the Victorian confession album to
of containerization”—including design history, standardization, the BuzzFeed quiz. In the process, he uncovers surprising connections
aesthetics, and a surprising speculative discussion of the futurity of between disparate fields (literature and science, psychology and
shipping containers. business, and journalism and surveillance), and asks questions about
the questions we ask ourselves.
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in the “bread riots” that punctuate European history, and sometimes that they are usually held unconsciously (and more strongly for
figuratively, in the ways bread operates as ethnic, religious or class that). From Hittites to hippies, from Pentecostals to porn stars, hair
signifier. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from the scriptures to is a ubiquitous personal and vibrant object, a charged and carefully
modern pop culture, Bread tells the story this ancient and everyday managed dead thing.
object.
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Tree
Password
Matthew Battles, Harvard University, USA
Martin Paul Eve, Birkbeck College, University of
Tree explores the forms, uses, and alliances of this
London, UK
living object's entanglement with humanity, from
Passwords are crucial to our lives. They regulate antiquity to the Anthropocene. Trees tower over
our finances, protect our communications and prove us and yet fade into background. Their lifespan
who we are to others. They are powerful words. But outstrips ours, and yet their wisdom remains
from where did this equation of verbal knowledge inscrutable, treasured up in the heartwood. They
with a person's identity emerge? What does it really serve us in many ways—as keel, lodgepole, and
mean, in the world of passwords, to say that one's execution site—and yet to become human, we had to come down
“identity has been stolen”? What does the future of the password from their limbs. In this book Matthew Battles follows the tree's
hold in store? In Password Martin Paul Eve traces the cultural histories branches across art, poetry, and landscape, marking the edges of
of the password from ancient Rome and the “watchwords” of military imagination with wildness and shadow.
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Dead Theory Literature and Moral Theory
Derrida, Death and the Afterlife of Nora Hämäläinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Theory "Some of the most fundamental challenges
to analytic ethics have come from moral
Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of
philosophers who believe literature holds forth
Houston-Victoria, USA
the promise of transforming received views of
What is the legacy of Theory after the deaths of what moral thought is like, and of the kinds of
so many of its leading lights, from Jacques Derrida difficulties it presents. Hämäläinen’s Literature
to Roland Barthes? Bringing together reflections by and Moral Theory offers an insightful and
leading contemporary scholars, Dead Theory explores the afterlives encompassing tour of this ‘turn to literature,’ describing with
of the work of the great theorists and the current state of Theory particular grace and thoughtfulness the writings of Iris Murdoch
today. Considering the work of thinkers such as Derrida, Deleuze, and and Martha Nussbaum, two of this movement’s most significant
Levinas, the book explores the ways in which Theory has long been figures." Alice Crary, Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy,
haunted by death and how it might endure for the future. New School for Social Research, USA
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A concern of 20th-century literature, philosophy, contemporary authors who use experimental
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T the creation of a knowable being, as Jacques Derrida demonstrated are Valerie Solanas, Kathy Acker, Theresa Cha, Chantel Chawaf,
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number – allows for the creation of our modern mathematical system, contemporary Western feminisms. The volume rectifies a critical
Narratives of Nothing in 20th-Century Literature suggests that neglect of contemporary experimental writing by women, especially
nothing itself enables the narrative act, thereby allowing meaning to in politicized forms, within the still-emerging postmodern canon.
come into existence.
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What is Art?

Art as the Absolute Leo Tolstoy
Art's Relation to Metaphysics in Leo Tolstoy is one of the most celebrated novelists
of all time. As well as writing literary classics such
Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and
as Anna Karenina and War and Peace he was also
Schopenhauer the author of some hugely influential critical and
Paul Gordon, University of Colorado, Boulder, philosophical works. First published in 1898 his book
length essay What is Art? has lost none of its power
USA
to challenge our perception of art and its function
Art as the Absolute is a literary and philosophical
in society today. In this provocative work Tolstoy famously dismisses
investigation into the meaning of art and its claims
works by Shakespeare, Dante, Wagner and even many of his own
to truth. Exploring in particular the writings of Kant and those who
works as 'bad art' based on various criteria including sincerity, ethics,
followed after, including Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer,
morality and accessibility.
and Nietzsche, Paul Gordon contends that art solves the problem of
how one can “know” the absolute in non-conceptual, non-discursive
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Romana Byrne, Independent Scholar, France
"Aesthetic Sexuality reads against the grain of

The Aesthetics of Care standard readings of the scientia sexualis versus
ars erotica distinction Foucault made famous in
On the Literary Treatment of Animals his History of Sexuality. From Sade to Nietzsche
Josephine Donovan, University of Maine, USA to contemporary fetish fashion, Byrne brilliantly
uses the aesthetics of sadomasochism to reconceptualize sexuality
In this important new book from a pioneering
itself. A tour de force!" Lynne Huffer, Professor of Women's, Gender,
scholar, Josephine Donovan develops a new
and Sexuality Studies, Emory University, USA
aesthetics of care, which she establishes as the
basis for a critical approach to the representation of
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with interpretations of the specific treatment of animals handled by
a wide range of authors, including Willa Cather, Leo Tolstoy, George
Sand, and J.M. Coetzee. The book closes with three concluding
theoretical chapters.
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