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LITERARy STUDIES
Samuel Beckett and
Science
Chris Ackerley
• Close readings
of the texts
illustrate how
Beckett’s
scientific interest
is applied in
practice
• Presents a
comprehensive
overview of the
oeuvre though an analysis of Beckettian
uncertainty
• A thematically-based account of the
works, crossing the boundaries between
science and humanities
Samuel Beckett spent his early years
absorbing all he could of Western
European literature, art, philosophy—and
science. yet his interest in scientific
disciplines and methodologies, essential
to his writing, has been largely neglected.
Samuel Beckett and Science returns to
the empirical roots of his thought.
CHRIS ACKERLEy is Professor of English at the
University of Otago, New zealand.
UK November 2012 US January 2013
192 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441175472 - £60.00 / $110.00
Historicizing Modernism
Continuum
Great War Modernism and ‘The
New Age’ Magazine
Paul Jackson
Samuel Beckett and
Arnold Geulincx
Tracing ‘a literary fantasia’
• The first close analysis of cultural
contributions from a leading Little
Magazine, The New Age
• Explores the relationship between
revolutionary wartime politics and
artistic developments associated with
various modernisms
• Compares the contrasting modernists
H.G. Wells and Wyndham Lewis
The literary magazine The New Age brought together a diverse
set of intellectuals. Against the backdrop of the First World
War, they chose to write about more than modernist art
and aesthetics. By closely reading and contextualizing their
contributions, Paul Jackson’s study engages with the political
and philosophical responses of literary artists to modernity.
PAUL JACKSON is a Lecturer in History at the University of Northampton,
UK.
UK July 2012 US September 2012
192 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441180087 - £60.00 / $110.00
Historicizing Modernism
Continuum
David Tucker
• Traces the
changing dynamic
of Geulincx’s
influence on
Beckett’s writing
• Brings a wealth
of previously
unpublished
material from
archives into the
public domain
• Uncovers vital new material and
connections on the Geulincx-Murphy
relationship
Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx:
Tracing ‘a literary fantasia’ is the first
full-length study to document the extent
of the influence Geulincx’s philosophy had
on Beckett’s prose and late drama.
DAVID TUCKER is Visiting Research Fellow in the
School of English at the University of Sussex,
UK.
UK May 2012 US July 2012
192 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441139351 - £60.00 / $110.00
Historicizing Modernism
Continuum
Whitman’s Queer
Children
America’s Homosexual Epics
Catherine A.
Davies
• Examines some
of the foremost
poets of the
twentieth century
through the lens
of sexuality
• The first
comprehensive
consideration of the homosexual
tradition in epic poetry
• Considers how the epic form has
been transformed by the American
experience
Davies examines the work of four of
the most important twentieth-century
poets who have explored the epic
tradition. Some of the poems display an
explicit concern with ideas of American
nationhood, while others emulate the
formal ambitions and encyclopaedic
scope of the epic poem.
CATHERINE A. DAVIES completed her PhD at
University College London. She is currently a
specialist examiner with Edexcel.
UK June 2012 US April 2012
192 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches
HB 9781441192622 - £60.00 / $110.00
Continuum
Ezra Pound’s Adams Cantos
David Ten Eyck
• Draws on material from the Pound
archive to retrace the composition of
The Cantos
• Contextualizes poetry in the prewar
period and Pound’s reading of
seventeenth-century American History
• Close readings of specific passages
illustrate Pound’s political and social
views
Grounded in archival material, this study explores the extent
to which Pound’s poetry changed in response to his reading of
seventeenth-century American History and the social climate of
the pre-war period.
DAVID TEN EyCK is Associate Professor of American Literature at Nancy-
Université, France.
UK July 2012 US September 2012
192 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781441100498 - £60.00 / $110.00
Historicizing Modernism
Continuum