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Literary Studies 2015-16 LITERARY STUDIES BBlloooommssbbuurryy CCoolllleeccttiioonnss ddeelliivveerrss iinnssttaanntt aacccceessss ttoo qquuaalliittyy rreesseeaarrcchh aanndd provides libraries with a fl exible way to build eBook collections across the humanities and social sciences. Collections include 30-90 titles per subject, with new collections issued each year. Literary Studies Collections cover a wide range of topics and periods including Literary Theory, Contemporary Literature, Modernism, North and South American Literature, Comparative Literature and Creative Writing. Collections include critical works on writers as diverse as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Toni Morrison and Zadie Smith, overviews such as Steven Moore’s The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800 and Emma Rees’s The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History, as well as monographs on Shakespeare and early modern drama from the Arden Shakespeare imprint. LITERARY STUDIES SUBJECT AREAS: KEY TITLES: African, Asian and Postcolonial Literatures; British and Irish Shakespeare’s Demonology; Bloomsbury Companion to Literature; Children’s Literature; Classical Literature; Comics Holocaust Literature; Coleridge, Romanticism and the and Graphic Novels; Comparative Literature; Contemporary Orient; Angela Carter: New Critical Readings; Elizabeth Literature; Creative Writing; Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Barrett Browning and Shakespeare; The 1980s: A Literature; European Literature; German Studies; Iberian and Decade of Contemporary British Fiction; Katherine Latin American Literature; Literary Biography; Literary Genres; Mansfi eld and Literary Modernism; Black Comics Literary Theory; Medieval Literature; Modernism; North American KEY AUTHORS: Literature; Reception Studies; Romanticism; Russian, Central and Adrian Poole; Jenni Adams; Daniel Albright; East European Literature; Shakespeare Studies; Sixteenth- and Mark Taylor-Batty; Peter Holland Seventeenth-Century Literature; Theatre Studies; Translation and Interpretation in Literary Studies; Twentieth-Century Literature Bloomsbury Collections offers eBook collections on a perpetual access basis. Free trials are available for your institution: these are typically for 30 days but can be longer as needed Libraries: ask us for a free trial, price quote or more information – use the online form at www.bloomsburycollections.com or email: Americas: [email protected] Outside Americas: [email protected] Australia and New Zealand: [email protected] Contents Bloomsbury Head Offices & Distributors Letter from the Editors ............................................2 UK, Europe & Rest of World Bloomsbury Publishing Literary Theory ......................................................3 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK Contemporary Literature ........................................10 Tel: +44 (0)207 631 5600 Fax: +44 (0)207 631 5800 Modernism ......................................................... 13 [email protected] UK Trade Orders British and Irish Literature ......................................17 Macmillan Distribution (MDL) North American Literature ......................................19 Brunel Road, Houndsmill, Basingstoke, RG21 6XT, UK Tel: +44 (0)1256 302692 World Literature .................................................. 23 Fax: +44 (0)1256 812521 / 812558 [email protected] Environmental Literature ........................................26 US, Canada, Latin America Comparative Literature .......................................... 28 Bloomsbury USA 1385 Broadway, 5th Floor Religion and Literature .......................................... 30 New York, NY 10018, USA Tel: +1 212-419-5300 Writing .............................................................. 32 [email protected] Literary Biography ................................................ 33 US Trade Orders Bloomsbury USA The Arden Shakespeare ..........................................34 MPS/BUSA Orders 16365 James Madison Highway, Bloomsbury Academic Collections ..............................43 Gordonsville, VA 22942, USA Tel: +1 888-330-8477 Bestsellers ......................................................... 45 Fax: +1 800-672-2054 [email protected] Index ................................................................ 48 [email protected] Representatives, Agents & Distributors ........................51 EBooks Proposals EBook availability is indicated under each book entry: If you have a book proposal, please contact one of the editors listed on page 2 or submit your proposal using forms available at Individual eBook: available for your e-reader www.bloomsbury.com/academic/forauthors Library eBook: available for institution-wide access Inspection / Exam Copies See the website for details of vendors, or to purchase individual eBooks direct. 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We are also launching an exciting series, New Horizons in Contemporary Writing (p.33) which will bring you the best of T contemporary literary studies scholarship. T Other important series include New Modernisms (p.15), which surveys key topics in contemporary modernist studies over the last decade E 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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David Avital Margaret Bartley Haaris Naqvi Publisher, Publisher, Publisher, Literary Studies (UK) The Arden Shakespeare Literary Studies (US) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] bloomsburyliterarystudies.typepad.com @bloomsburylit • @Ardenpublisher • @ dramaonlinelib Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com/literarystudies 2 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] L I T E The End of Airports Present Tense R Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New A Poetics A Orleans, USA R Armen Avanessian & Anke Hennig, both at Free Y "A strong and innovative book. The End of University Berlin, Germany Airports finds new ways to think about, among “Drawing on narratology, cognitive science, T other things, drones, airport/aircraft seating, deconstruction and philosophy of language, H weather, jet bridges, viral stories about flight, Avanessian and Hennig reconceptualize the E tensions with new media expectations and relation between time and narrative; what O technologies, and seatback pockets. A fascinating read for anyone interested in airports and airplanes, but also is more, they rethink poetics as an expanded cultural theory R 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. UK November 2015 • US November 2015 • 232 pages • 19 colour illustrations & 6 b/w illustrations UK November 2015 • US September 2015 • 304 pages PB 9781501305498 • £13.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781501305504 • £50.00 / $75.00 PB 9781628927641 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781628927658 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501305511 • £9.99 / $16.99 Individual eBook 9781628927665 • £14.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781501305528 Library eBook 9781628927672 Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic World English 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 PB 9781474235549 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474235556 • £65.00 / $112.00 dispensing, and utterly smart-as-hell book." Shara McCallum, Individual eBook 9781474235587 • £19.99 / $27.99 Bucknell University, USA Library eBook 9781474235570 Series: Beyond Criticism • Bloomsbury Academic UK December 2015 • US November 2015 • 232 pages • 20 b/w illustrations PB 9781501309496 • £13.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781501309502 • £50.00 / $75.00 Individual eBook 9781501309519 • £9.99 / $16.99 Library eBook 9781501309526 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 Individual eBook 9781441167699 • £19.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781441167026 Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 3 Y R O British Working-Class Fiction The Slow Philosophy of J.M. Coetzee E H Narratives of Refusal and the Struggle Jan Wilm T 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 Y Roberto del Valle Alcalá his works slowly. Drawing on fresh archival material, this is the first R British Working-Class Fiction offers an account of study of its kind to explore Coetzee’s writing process as already slow; A British literary responses to work from the ‘affluent’ as a program of seemingly relentless revision which brings forth his R 1950s to the onset of the ‘Great Recession’. Alcalá uniquely dense and crystalline style. The book includes close readings E argues that throughout this period, working- of Coetzee's popular and lesser known work, including Disgrace, T class writing developed new strategies of resistance against the Waiting for the Barbarians, Elizabeth Costello, Life and Times of LI social discipline imposed by capitalist work. Drawing on the work Michael K and Slow Man. 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 treatments of work. The book includes close readings of fiction by HB 9781474256452 • £60.00 / $104.00 Alan Sillitoe, David Storey, Nell Dunn, Pat Barker, James Kelman, Individual eBook 9781474256469 • £59.99 / $92.99 Library eBook 9781474256476 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 Individual eBook 9781501307980 • £14.99 / $25.99 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 Individual eBook 9781441114068 • £18.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472531254 UK June 2015 • US June 2015 • 208 pages Bloomsbury Academic PB 9781474245425 • £18.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781441174482 Individual eBook 9780567558459 • £59.99 / $92.99 Library eBook 9781441148322 Bloomsbury Academic 4 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] L Object Lessons I T E Series Editors: Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA and Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New Orleans, USA. R Object Lessons is a series of concise, collectable, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Each book starts from A a specific inspiration: an historical event, a literary passage, a personal narrative, a technological innovation—and from that starting point R explores the object of the title, gleaning a singular lesson or multiple lessons along the way. Featuring contributions from writers, artists, Y 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. T H E Glass Hotel O John Garrison, Carroll University, USA Joanna Walsh, Writer and Illustrator, UK R Y 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. Individual eBook 9781628924282 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781628924299 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic UK November 2015 • US September 2015 • 176 pages PB 9781628924732 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781628924763 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781628924770 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. Individual eBook 9781628924114 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781628924121 UK November 2015 • US September 2015 • 136 pages • 12 b/w images Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic PB 9781628924329 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781628924343 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781628924350 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. UK November 2015 • US September 2015 • 152 pages UK November 2015 • US September 2015 • 152 pages • 20 b/w images PB 9781628921427 • £9.99 / $16.95 PB 9781628924367 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781628921441 • £8.99 / $14.99 Individual eBook 9781628924381 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781628921465 Library eBook 9781628924398 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 5 Y R O Bookshelf Cigarette Lighter E H Lydia Pyne, University of Texas of Austin, USA Jack Pendarvis, Freelance Writer, USA T 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 Y to be holders not just of books but of so many entirely disposable object that moves across these R other things: values, vibes, and verbs that can be various groups of people, acquiring and emitting A contained and displayed in the buildings and rooms different meanings while always supplying its R of contemporary human existence. With a shrewd primary function, that of ignition. Jack Pendarvis E eye toward this particular moment in the history explodes the lighter as something with deep T of books, Pyne takes the reader on a tour of the bookshelf that leads history, as something with quirky episodes in cultural contexts, and LI critically to this juncture: amid rumors of the death of book culture, as something that dances with wide ranging taboos and traditions. 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. PB 9781501307324 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781501307331 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781501307348 UK March 2016 • US January 2016 • 152 pages Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic PB 9781501307362 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781501307379 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781501307386 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic 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 UK March 2016 • US January 2016 • 160 pages of violence and the hooded victims in their sights. PB 9781628925586 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781628925944 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781628923308 UK March 2016 • US January 2016 • 160 pages • 3 b/w Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic PB 9781501307409 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781501307416 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781501307423 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic 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. UK March 2016 • US January 2016 • 144 pages • 8 b/w PB 9781501303142 • £9.99 / $16.95 Library eBook 9781501303166 UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 160 pages Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic PB 9781501314773 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781501314797 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781501314780 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic 6 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] L I T E Bread Hair R Scott Cutler Shershow, University of California, Scott Lowe, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, A Davis, USA USA R Y Bread is an object that, throughout the myriad Hair, a primary marker of our mammalian nature, details of its manufacture and social existence, is a remarkably powerful indicator of economic T is always in process of becoming something else: status, social standing, political orientation, H flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf religious affiliation, marital state, and cultural E to crumb. Bread is also often a figure or vehicle leanings, among other things. Scott Lowe offers O of social cohesion: from the homely image of a pithy yet wide-ranging overview of global hair “breaking bread together” to the mysteries of the Eucharist. But customs. The rules of hair—head and body, visible and covered—are R bread also commonly figures in social conflict — sometimes literally, deep, powerful, and so profoundly embedded in cultural conditioning Y 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. UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 160 pages UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 160 pages PB 9781628922868 • £9.99 / $16.95 PB 9781501307447 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781628928570 • £8.99 / $14.99 Individual eBook 9781501307454 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781628922219 Library eBook 9781501307461 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic 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. encampments, through cultural representations (from Ali Baba to Harry Potter) and up to contemporary implementations in the digital UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 160 pages world. PB 9781628920512 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781628920536 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781628920543 UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 160 pages Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic PB 9781501314872 • £9.99 / $16.95 Individual eBook 9781501314889 • £8.99 / $14.99 Library eBook 9781501314896 Series: Object Lessons • Bloomsbury Academic 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 UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 224 pages UK November 2015 • US November 2015 • 256 pages HB 9781474274357 • £60.00 / $112.00 HB 9781501305368 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781474274364 • £59.99 / $92.99 Individual eBook 9781501305375 • £57.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781474274371 Library eBook 9781501305382 Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 7 Y R O Narratives of Nothing in 20th- Women's Experimental Writing E H Century Literature Negative Aesthetics and Feminist Critique T Meghan Vicks, University of Colorado at Boulder, Ellen E. Berry, Bowling Green State University, Y USA USA R The concept of nothing has been an enduring Women's Experimental Writing considers six A concern of 20th-century literature, philosophy, contemporary authors who use experimental R art, music, physics, and mathematics. As Martin methods and negative modes of critique in E Heidegger proposed that nothing is essential to their fiction and feminism. The authors covered T the creation of a knowable being, as Jacques Derrida demonstrated are Valerie Solanas, Kathy Acker, Theresa Cha, Chantel Chawaf, I how all structures are built upon a nothing within the structure, and Jeanette Winterson, and Lynda Barry. Berry argues that the radical L as mathematicians argued that zero – the number that is also not a aesthetic practices they employ are central to the emergence of 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. UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 224 pages UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 208 pages HB 9781474226400 • £60.00 / $104.00 HB 9781501307218 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781474226417 • £59.99 / $92.99 Individual eBook 9781501307225 • £57.99 / $98.99 Library eBook 9781474226424 Library eBook 9781501307232 Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 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 UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 208 pages terms. PB 9781474265096 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781474265102 • £9.99 / $15.99 Art as the Absolute will be of interest to students and scholars Library eBook 9781474265119 interested in exploring aesthetics from both a literary and a Series: Bloomsbury Revelations • Bloomsbury Academic philosophical perspective. UK September 2015 • US September 2015 • 216 pages HB 9781501308017 • £74.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781501308024 • £57.99 / $98.99 Aesthetic Sexuality Library eBook 9781501308031 Bloomsbury Academic A Literary History of Sadomasochism 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 UK May 2015 • US May 2015 • 200 pages animals in literature. The Aesthetics of Care begins PB 9781501308697 • £19.99 / $29.95 with a guide to the relationship between ethics and aesthetics, Previously published in HB 9781441100818 leading to a reconceptualization of key literary critical terms such Individual eBook 9781441158796 • £14.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781441183583 as mimesis and catharsis, before moving on to a practical section, Bloomsbury Academic 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. UK June 2016 • US June 2016 • 208 pages PB 9781501317200 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781501317194 • £80.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781501317217 • £14.99 / $25.99 Library eBook 9781501317224 Bloomsbury Academic 8 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected]

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