Christopher Schaberg, Loyola University New Orleans, USA This book is one English professor’s assessment of university life in the early 21st century. From rising mental health concerns and trigger warnings to learning management systems and the COVID pandemic, Christopher Schaberg reflects on the rapidly evolving landscape of higher education. Adopting an interdisciplinary public humanities approach, Schaberg considers the frequently exhausting and depressing realities of college today. Yet in these meditations he also finds hope: collaboration, mentoring, less grading, surface reading, and other pedagogical strategies open up opportunities to reinvigorate teaching and learning in the current turbulent decade. UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 240 pages PB 9781501364570 • £15.99 / $21.95 • HB 9781501364587 • £55.00 / $75.00 ePub 9781501364594 • £15.33 / $19.75 ePdf 9781501364600 • £15.33 / $19.75 Bloomsbury Academic
Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia Narratives
Edited by Heike Hartung, University of Graz, Austria, Rüdiger Kunow, Potsdam University, Germany & Matthew Sweney, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www. bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Graz. Bringing together new insights from both masculinity and age studies, this book focuses on the gendered and relational perspectives in cultural representations of Alzheimer’s disease. Taking a comparative, interdisciplinary and gendered approach, it explores representations of Alzheimer’s across a wide range of cultural contexts and examines memoir, film, poetry and prose fiction. UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 256 pages HB 9781350230613 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350230620 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePdf 9781350230606 • £0.00 / $0.00 Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life • Bloomsbury Academic
New Horizons in Contemporary Writing Contemporary Fiction, Celebrity Culture, and the Market for Modernism Fictions of Celebrity Carey Mickalites Arguing that contemporary celebrity authors position their work and public personae within a received modernist canon to claim and monetize its cultural capital in the lucrative market for literary fiction, this book also shows how the corporate conditions of marketing and branding have redefined older models of literary influence and innovation. UK February 2022 • US February 2022 • 256 pages HB 9781350248564 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350248588 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350248571 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing • Bloomsbury Academic
David Foster Wallace's Toxic Sexuality
L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S – Contemporary Literature
Pedagogy of the Depressed
Hideousness, Neoliberalism, Spermatics Edward Jackson, University of Birmingham, UK David Foster Wallace had a problem with sex. Revelations concerning his exploitation of women continue to darken his reputation, while scholars struggle to reconcile the magnanimous spirit of his writing with his abusive personal behaviour. Reading the full range of Wallace’s writings from the short stories to Infinite Jest, this book confronts his literary work’s disturbing fixation with ‘hideous’ male sexuality. Setting this concern within the cultural logics of neoliberalism and longstanding associations of capital and semen, David Foster Wallace’s Toxic Sexuality casts new light on the complicity of the author’s work with both hegemonic ideas of capitalism and masculinity. UK January 2022 • US January 2022 • 228 pages PB 9781350249295 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350117761 ePub 9781350117785 • £76.50 / $100.32 ePdf 9781350117778 • £76.50 / $100.32 Series: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing • Bloomsbury Academic
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