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LITERARy STUDIES 80 LITERARy STUDIES Pynchon and Relativity Narrative Time in Thomas Pynchon’s Later Novels Simon de Bourcier • Explores the relevance of Relativity theory to the workings of narrative time in Pynchon’s novels • Presents new readings informed by insights from contemporary philosophy of science • Includes detailed readings of Pynchon’s later writings, including Against the Day Simon de Bourcier looks in detail at Pynchon’s novel Against the Day, which is set during the period in which Einstein published his world-changing theory, and Mason & Dixon, set in the eighteenth century when Newton’s picture of a world governed by absolute space and time was unchallenged. SIMON DE BOURCIER has a PhD from the University of East Anglia, UK, where he has also taught as an Associate Tutor. UK February 2012 US April 2012 240 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches HB 9781441130099 - £60.00 / $110.00 Continuum Literary Studies Continuum Ethics and Desire in the Wake of Postmodernism Contemporary Satire Graham Matthews • Examines the work of Ellis, Palahniuk, Ballard, Self, Houellebecq and Janowitz • Draws on the work of such theorists as Nietzsche, Lacan and Badiou Exploring the work of six contemporary novelists – Bret Easton Ellis, J.G. Ballard, Will Self, Michel Houellebecq, Tama Janowitz and Chuck Palahniuk. This book delivers a series of interventions into six key areas of contemporary debate: fear, nihilism, revolution, ethics, enjoyment and feminism. GRAHAM MATTHEWS is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Newcastle University, UK. UK May 2012 US July 2012 208 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches HB 9781441140074 - £60.00 / $110.00 Continuum Literary Studies Continuum Angela Carter: New Critical Readings Edited by Sonya Andermahr and Lawrence Phillips • Covers Carter’s poems and journalism, as well as her novels, short stories and dramatic works • Includes a chapter exploring Carter’s legacy and influence on women writers • Covers key topics in contemporary Literary Studies, including myth, gender, evolution and the city Leading international scholars of contemporary fiction and modern women writers provide authoritative new critical readings of Angela Carter’s work from a variety of innovative theoretical and disciplinary approaches. SONyA ANDERMAHR is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Northampton, UK. LAWRENCE PHILLIPS is Professor in English Literature at the University of Northampton, UK. UK August 2012 US October 2012 224 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches HB 9781441169280 - £60.00 / $110.00 Continuum Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire Elizabeth Ho • Explores the reception and appropriation of the Victorian era in contemporary postcolonial fiction • Examines political contexts of the neo-Victorian phenomenon in relation to the decline of European Empires • Includes readings of literary fiction, science fiction and ‘Steampunk’, graphic novels and films Examining the global dimensions of Neo-Victorianism, this book explores how the appropriation of Victorian images in contemporary literature and culture has emerged as a critical response to the crises of decolonization and Imperial collapse. ELIzABETH HO is Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College, USA. UK April 2012 US June 2012 208 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches HB 9781441161550 - £60.00 / $110.00 Continuum Literary Studies Continuum Dickens, Journalism, Music ‘Household Words’ and ‘All The year Round’ Robert Terrell Bledsoe • Critically explores the coverage of music in the two journals edited by Dickens • Explores the importance of music to Dickens as entertainment and a means of social improvement • Considers Dickens own writings and those of the writers he commissioned as Editor Dickens, Journalism, Music presents the first full analysis of the articles on music published in the two journals conducted by Charles Dickens, Household Words and its successor, All the Year Round. ROBERT TERRELL BLEDSOE is Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA. UK February 2012 US April 2012 256 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches HB 9781441150875 - £60.00 / $110.00 Continuum Literary Studies Continuum The South Pacific Narratives of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London Race, Class, Imperialism Lawrence Phillips • Explores Stevenson and London’s relationship to early modernist ideologies and aesthetics • Examines their writing in light of recent scholarly work on South Pacific imperialism Exploring a unique moment in South Pacific and Western history through the work of Stevenson and London, this study assesses the impact of their national identities on works like The Amateur Emigrant and Adventure. LAWRENCE PHILLIPS is Professor in English Literature at the University of Northampton, UK. UK September 2012 US November 2012 192 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches HB 9781441199560 - £60.00 / $110.00 Continuum Literary Studies Continuum
The Foreign in International Crime Writing Transcultural Representations Edited by Jean Anderson, Carolina Miranda and Barbara Pezzotti • A global comparative study of ‘the foreigner’ in modern crime fiction • Explores twentieth and twenty-first century crime writing from Europe, India, China, South America and Australasia • Examines how international crime fiction presents issues of ‘otherness’, globalization, immigration and diaspora communities Exploring popular crime fiction from across the world, The Foreign in International Crime Writing examines how these popular works tackle such issues as national identity, immigration, globalization and diaspora communities. JEAN ANDERSON is Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, New zealand. CAROLINE MIRANDA is Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, New zealand. BARBARA PEzzOTTI is Teaching Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington, New zealand. UK June 2012 US August 2012 240 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches HB 9781441128171 - £60.00 / $110.00 Continuum Contagious Metaphor Peta Mitchell Benjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of Photography Kathrin Yacavone ‘Meticulously tracing the network of connections between Benjamin’s and Barthes’s visions of the encounter between photograph and viewer, this book performs an invaluable critical service.’ Michael Sheringham, FBA, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK • The first major study of Benjamin’s and Barthes’s highly influential theories of photography • Explores familiar texts as well as works which have only recently become available Benjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of Photography presents two of the most important intellectual figures of the twentieth century in a new comparative light. KATHRIN yACAVONE teaches in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. UK March 2012 US January 2012 272 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches HB 9781441118080 - £60.00 / $110.00 Continuum • Innovative study of the metaphor of contagion • Takes an interdisciplinary approach • Strong potential for subsequent paperback publication In Contagious Metaphor, Peta Mitchell offers an innovative, interdisciplinary study of the metaphor of contagion and its relationship to the workings of language. Examining both metaphors of contagion and metaphor as contagion, Contagious Metaphor suggests a framework through which the emergence and often epidemic-like reproduction of metaphor can be better understood. PETA MITCHELL is a Lecturer in the School of English, Media Studies, and Art History at the University of queensland, Australia. UK August 2012 US November 2012 192 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches HB 9781441132734 - £60.00 / $110.00 Continuum LITERARy STUDIES NEW IN PAPERBACK Catastrophe and Survival: Walter Benjamin and Psychoanalysis Elizabeth Stewart • Demonstrates how Benjaminian and psychoanalytic theories of subjectivity illuminate each other • Clarifies central but opaque categories of Benjamin’s thought: ‘redemption,’ ‘the messianic,’ ‘the coming philosophy’ This book addresses the way that Benjamin’s thoughts regarding mental space, the mind-body problem, and the individual’s experience of the material object world make contact with post- Freudian psychoanalytic confrontations with similar issues. ELIzABETH STEWART is Associate Professor of English, yeshiva University, New york, USA. UK May 2012 US March 2012 240 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches PB 9781441116833 - £22.99 / $39.95 Continuum The Late Walter Benjamin John Schad ‘... mixes apparently autobiographical fiction and social history with astute critical reworking of many of Walter Benjamin’s most important ideas.’ J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine, USA • Examines Benjamin’s experiences of Nazi Germany as context of his thought • Fully annotated to guide students and scholars through the documentary sources of the narrative This book is a documentary novel that juxtaposes the life and death of Walter Benjamin with the days, hours and minutes of a working-class council estate in post-war Austerity England. JOHN SCHAD is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Lancaster, UK. UK April 2012 US June 2012 256 Pages 138 x 216 mm 5.375 x 8.5 inches HB 9781441171702 - £60.00 / $110.00 PB 9781441177681 - £18.99 / $32.95 New Directions in Religion and Literature Continuum LITERARy STUDIES 81
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