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Featured Books
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The European Byron
Mobility, Cosmopolitanism, and Chameleon Poetry
Jonathan Gross
This book considers Byron’s borrowings from Thomas Moore, Tasso, Percy Shelley, Ugo Foscolo, and Madame de Stael. The conclusion considers how Byron’s ironic mode in politics in Greece influenced Adam Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz and Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, encouraging other authors to imitate him, as he had imitated others.
Hardback
9781839991424
August 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book considers Byron’s borrowings from Thomas Moore, Tasso, Percy Shelley, Ugo Foscolo, and Madame de Stael. The conclusion considers how Byron’s ironic mode in politics in Greece influenced Adam Mickiewicz’s Pan Tadeusz and Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin, encouraging other authors to imitate him, as he had imitated others.
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Chernobyl Trauma and Gothic
Testimony, Cultural Memory and Global Literary Perspectives
Stuart Lindsay
This scholarly monograph explores the published eyewitness testimonies, poetry and literature surrounding the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It argues for the contextualisation of the disaster’s collective traumatic wound and its Soviet political repression through public articulation of survivor experience and its interpretation by the trauma narratives of Science Fiction and the Gothic.
Hardback
9781839990649
June 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This scholarly monograph explores the published eyewitness testimonies, poetry and literature surrounding the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It argues for the contextualisation of the disaster’s collective traumatic wound and its Soviet political repression through public articulation of survivor experience and its interpretation by the trauma narratives of Science Fiction and the Gothic.
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Revolution, Empire, and the Gothic Dream
Richard Moore Jr.
This monograph examines the centrality of dreams and their significant transformations in British Gothic novels and in Caribbean novels. The Gothic counters the Enlightenment’s internalization of dreams by reimagining dreams as social and political phenomena. They subsequently play vital roles in responding to profound questions concerning revolution and empire.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986741
March 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This monograph examines the centrality of dreams and their significant transformations in British Gothic novels and in Caribbean novels. The Gothic counters the Enlightenment’s internalization of dreams by reimagining dreams as social and political phenomena. They subsequently play vital roles in responding to profound questions concerning revolution and empire.
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German Gothic Literature
Origins, Adaptations, Transformations
Edited by Curtis Maughan, Jeffrey High
This collection not only provides a starting point for students and researchers of Gothic Studies interested in the variations and adaptations within the German tradition, but it also serves as a primer for Germanists interested in establishing––or reevaluating––the place of the Gothic in German literary and cultural history.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990069
March 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This collection not only provides a starting point for students and researchers of Gothic Studies interested in the variations and adaptations within the German tradition, but it also serves as a primer for Germanists interested in establishing––or reevaluating––the place of the Gothic in German literary and cultural history.
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Sexual Violence and Literary Art
Peter Robinson
Sexual Violence and Literary Art addresses the complicity of representation in what is represented, and its creative transformations, by re-examining classic poetic, dramatic and fictional texts by men in light of women’s philosophical, theoretical and critical responses to them.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278853
February 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Sexual Violence and Literary Art addresses the complicity of representation in what is represented, and its creative transformations, by re-examining classic poetic, dramatic and fictional texts by men in light of women’s philosophical, theoretical and critical responses to them.
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Black Refigurations
Facing, Naming and Voicing in African-American Literature, Volume III
Kimberly W. Benston
Black Refigurations is the third volume of a three-volume study of African-American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of “tradition,” haunting, trauma, and re-vision. Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works, including both canonical and lesser-known instances of African-American expression.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278730
February 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Black Refigurations is the third volume of a three-volume study of African-American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of “tradition,” haunting, trauma, and re-vision. Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works, including both canonical and lesser-known instances of African-American expression.
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Doing Sociology Through Film and Literature
Imaginings of the Social World
John Goodwin, Laurie Parsons
This book is primarily a research-informed textbook aimed at any reader with an interest in using film and literature in sociological and social science research.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839983894
February 2025
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95This book is primarily a research-informed textbook aimed at any reader with an interest in using film and literature in sociological and social science research.
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Essays and Interviews on Contemporary American Poets, Poetry, and Pedagogy
A Thirty-Year Creative Writing Workshop
Daniel Morris
Merging autobiography and literary criticism, Daniel Morris illustrates in sixteen essays how he learned to attend to avant-garde contemporary American poets whose aesthetic contributions were not part of his education.
Hardback
9781839992230
January 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Merging autobiography and literary criticism, Daniel Morris illustrates in sixteen essays how he learned to attend to avant-garde contemporary American poets whose aesthetic contributions were not part of his education.
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Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature
(Dis)figurations of Humanimality from Shakespeare to Desai
Kimberly W. Benston
Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature is an exploration of literary representations of the human-animal encounter in modernity that press human “being” to its limits. Texts studied include Shakespeare’s King Lear, Eliot’s Middlemarch, Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau, Atwood’s Surfacing, and Desai’s Clear Light of Day.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279607
January 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Animal Presence and Human Identity in Modern Literature is an exploration of literary representations of the human-animal encounter in modernity that press human “being” to its limits. Texts studied include Shakespeare’s King Lear, Eliot’s Middlemarch, Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau, Atwood’s Surfacing, and Desai’s Clear Light of Day.
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Nuclear Gothic
Textual and Cultural Fusions
Helena K Bacon
Nuclear Gothic investigates the previously unexplored congruities that lie between gothic forms and modes and nuclear cultures and techno-sciences; it aims to read Western nuclear fictions in relation to their Japanese counterparts and through a cohesive critical framework that examines atomic processes, nuclear fictions and specific historical and cultural moments.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981623
January 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Nuclear Gothic investigates the previously unexplored congruities that lie between gothic forms and modes and nuclear cultures and techno-sciences; it aims to read Western nuclear fictions in relation to their Japanese counterparts and through a cohesive critical framework that examines atomic processes, nuclear fictions and specific historical and cultural moments.
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Critical Approaches to Fen Gothic Literature
Gina Wisker
The book defines and discusses Fen Gothic, an example of regional Gothic inflected by geography, relationships of centre and margins, history, ecology and gender and the perspectives offered by related Gothic critical approaches.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982033
January 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00The book defines and discusses Fen Gothic, an example of regional Gothic inflected by geography, relationships of centre and margins, history, ecology and gender and the perspectives offered by related Gothic critical approaches.
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Wittgenstein and Popular Culture
Edited by Bernhard Stricker, Martin Urschel
This volume makes an incisive contribution to the field of philosophy of culture in outlining the potential of Wittgenstein’s philosophy for the study of popular culture, focusing on concrete examples: from detective fiction and comics, to TV series and football fandom.
Hardback
9781839991318
January 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This volume makes an incisive contribution to the field of philosophy of culture in outlining the potential of Wittgenstein’s philosophy for the study of popular culture, focusing on concrete examples: from detective fiction and comics, to TV series and football fandom.
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The Humanist Critic
£110.00 / $110.00Lionel Trilling and Edward Said
Daniel Nutters
Hardback
9781839991592
December 2024
Forthcoming
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Pursuits of Settler Belonging in Australian Post-Millennial Memoirs
Martina Horáková
This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals—writers, historians, academics, journalists—which attempt to come to terms with the history of colonial violence and dispossession of Indigenous people, and articulate new perspectives on how to belong ethically in a settler colony of the 21st century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990571
December 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals—writers, historians, academics, journalists—which attempt to come to terms with the history of colonial violence and dispossession of Indigenous people, and articulate new perspectives on how to belong ethically in a settler colony of the 21st century.
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Black Hauntologies
Slavery, Modernity and Spectral Re-Vision, Volume II
Kimberly W. Benston
Black Hauntologies is the second volume of a three-volume study of African-American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of “tradition,” haunting, trauma, and re-vision. Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works, including both canonical and lesser-known instances of African-American expression.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278709
November 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Black Hauntologies is the second volume of a three-volume study of African-American literary history, with special attention to the internal dialogues regarding concepts of “tradition,” haunting, trauma, and re-vision. Texts studied extend from slave narratives to contemporary works, including both canonical and lesser-known instances of African-American expression.
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Nordic Terrors
Scandinavian Superstition in British Gothic Literature
Robert William Rix
In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, Scandinavia emerged as a place where Gothic terror took place. This book explores the extensive use of Nordic superstition in providing a vocabulary for Gothic texts as well as the cultural significance it had for writers attempting to understand Britain’s northern roots.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839990458
September 2024
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature, Scandinavia emerged as a place where Gothic terror took place. This book explores the extensive use of Nordic superstition in providing a vocabulary for Gothic texts as well as the cultural significance it had for writers attempting to understand Britain’s northern roots.
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Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States, 1960s–1980s
Ameer Chasib Furaih
This book scrutinizes the poetries of Aboriginal poets Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker; 1920–1993) and Lionel Fogarty (1958–), and African American poets Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones; 1934–2004), and Sonia Sanchez (1934–) and aims to show how these poets collaborated with other civil rights activists in voicing the demands of their people, and how they used their poetry to reflect the realities they experienced and to imagine new possibilities.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982170
September 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book scrutinizes the poetries of Aboriginal poets Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker; 1920–1993) and Lionel Fogarty (1958–), and African American poets Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones; 1934–2004), and Sonia Sanchez (1934–) and aims to show how these poets collaborated with other civil rights activists in voicing the demands of their people, and how they used their poetry to reflect the realities they experienced and to imagine new possibilities.
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Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo
Charlotte Beyer
Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo presents a compelling and timely fourth-wave feminist reading of crime fiction in the age of #metoo.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278556
August 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo presents a compelling and timely fourth-wave feminist reading of crime fiction in the age of #metoo.
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Wittgenstein and Artificial Intelligence, Volume I
Mind and Language
Alice C Helliwell, Alessandro Rossi, Brian Ball
Wittgenstein and AI (Volume I): Mind and Language. This is the first of two edited collections, exploring Wittgensteinian themes in AI. The issues covered by the various chapters of this volume range over a number of topics, with a specific focus on mind and language.
Hardback
9781839991363
July 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Wittgenstein and AI (Volume I): Mind and Language. This is the first of two edited collections, exploring Wittgensteinian themes in AI. The issues covered by the various chapters of this volume range over a number of topics, with a specific focus on mind and language.
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Wittgenstein and Artificial Intelligence, Volume II
Values and Governance
Alice C Helliwell, Alessandro Rossi, Brian Ball
Wittgenstein and AI (Volume II): Value and Governance. This is the second of two edited collections, exploring Wittgensteinian themes in AI. The issues covered by the various chapters of this volume range over a number of topics, with a specific focus on ethics, governance, aesthetics and the law.
Hardback
9781839991394
July 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Wittgenstein and AI (Volume II): Value and Governance. This is the second of two edited collections, exploring Wittgensteinian themes in AI. The issues covered by the various chapters of this volume range over a number of topics, with a specific focus on ethics, governance, aesthetics and the law.
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Finding the Way to ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’
Eugene O'Neill and Carlotta Monterey O'Neill at Tao House
William Davies King
A profound new way to approach Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night comes from reading this intensely autobiographical masterpiece in terms of the Taoism-inspired California house where it was written on the verge of World War II and the fractious marriage to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill to whom the play is dedicated.
Hardback
9781839992490
July 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00A profound new way to approach Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night comes from reading this intensely autobiographical masterpiece in terms of the Taoism-inspired California house where it was written on the verge of World War II and the fractious marriage to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill to whom the play is dedicated.
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Defining Hybrid Heroes
The Leadership Spectrum from Scoundrel to Saint
Inge Brokerhof, Stephan Sonnenburg, Greg Stone
Defining Hybrid Heroes: The Leadership Spectrum from Scoundrel to Saint defines the hero (and his or her journey) from a hybrid perspective, exploring the spectrum from scoundrel to saint. It utilizes a more dynamic and situational outlook, regarding heroism not only as a personal characteristic, but also as a series of heroic acts within a given situation.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274312
June 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Defining Hybrid Heroes: The Leadership Spectrum from Scoundrel to Saint defines the hero (and his or her journey) from a hybrid perspective, exploring the spectrum from scoundrel to saint. It utilizes a more dynamic and situational outlook, regarding heroism not only as a personal characteristic, but also as a series of heroic acts within a given situation.
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Apphia Peach, George Lord Lyttelton, and ‘The Correspondents’:
An Annotated Edition of a Forgotten Gem (1775)
Melvyn New
This book is an annotated edition of The Correspondents (1775), a work, as the introduction argues, derived from A Sentimental Journey, and one of the best of the many later efforts to capture Sterne’s unique blend of sensibility and sensuality.
Hardback
9781839991516
June 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book is an annotated edition of The Correspondents (1775), a work, as the introduction argues, derived from A Sentimental Journey, and one of the best of the many later efforts to capture Sterne’s unique blend of sensibility and sensuality.
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Taxidermy and the Gothic
The Horror of Still Life
Elizabeth Effinger
Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothic’s collusion with taxidermy. Focusing on contemporary cultural and material texts, it shows how taxidermy’s imbrication with Gothic horror is more than skin deep: these are rich discourses stuffed by affinities for corporeal transgressions, the uncanny, and the counterfeit.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990267
June 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Taxidermy and the Gothic: The Horror of Still Life is the first extended study of the Gothic’s collusion with taxidermy. Focusing on contemporary cultural and material texts, it shows how taxidermy’s imbrication with Gothic horror is more than skin deep: these are rich discourses stuffed by affinities for corporeal transgressions, the uncanny, and the counterfeit.