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Book news from the Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing team in London and New York - formerly Continuum Literary Studies!

💻Check out our blog: https://bloomsburyliterarystudiesblog.com/
With juicy morsels for lifelong #JaneAusten lovers as well as new students of the great writer, 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' offers new perspectives on her world, giving readers the tools to better understand her novels individually and as a whole.

📘Get your copy: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
'Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction' is the winner of the @theignyteawards.bsky.social award for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction! 🙌🎉

Congratulations to @genni.bsky.social and the contributors!

🏆 ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/
📕 www.bloomsbury.com/afrocentered...
October 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Attention UK readers! 'Hot Type' by @jeffjarvis.bsky.social is 25% off on @waterstones.bsky.social online!

Discover the story of the Linotype, the revolutionary machine that gave birth to mass media.

Pre-order a copy today through 17th Oct.

📕 www.waterstones.com/book/hot-typ...

#WPreorder
October 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM
📖 Also of interest during #BannedBooksWeek: The Rhetoric of Manipulation by Robert Harvey

Explore how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.

🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/rhetoric-of-...
October 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
📚 Silenced in the Library by Zeke Jarvis

Explores how our view of right and wrong has evolved over the years, and helps readers to understand the tremendous importance of books and films in our society.

🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/silenced-in-...

#BannedBooksWeek #FreedomToRead
October 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
📕 Banning Books in America: Not a How-to edited by Samuel Cohen

Out February 2026: A vital exploration of how and why books are banned in the U.S.—and what that means for democracy, education, and free expression.

🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/banning-book...

#BannedBooksWeek #FreedomToRead
October 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
LAST CHANCE! Save 30% sitewide in our Back to School Sale! 📚💻📝 Sale ends October 5th.

Discover our bestsellers: https://bit.ly/4mjeU1i
October 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Have an idea you would like to develop into an academic book?

Applications to the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship are open until Oct. 1st to Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse early career scholars (UK only).

More info: bit.ly/4mHlgcn
September 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
New from Object Lessons: Videotape

Discover rise and fall and global cultural impact of the VHS tape ⤵️

📕 https://bit.ly/3VlTPZi

#filmstudies #mediastudies #materialculture #nostalgia
September 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Attending the @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2025 conference?

Book a meeting with @bendoyle.bsky.social to discuss your book idea on the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social stand!

Find out more about publishing with us ⤵️
https://bit.ly/42sYjRI
September 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Have an idea you would like to develop into an academic book?

Applications to the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship are open until Oct. 1st to Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse early career scholars (UK only).

More info: https://bit.ly/4mHlgcn
September 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
New for your library: 'Theory Across Disciplines' edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo

From architecture and film studies through to economics and neuroscience, this is an introduction to the multidisciplinary character of contemporary theory.

📙 https://bit.ly/4mkfP1K
September 22, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Don't forget: save 30% sitewide in our Back to School Sale! 📚💻📝

Discover our bestsellers: https://bit.ly/4mjeU1i
September 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Out now: 'Reading and Writing for Change' ✍️🌐

An exploration of how creative writers and readers can recognize and resist processes of power in works of literature and their own writing to redress social injustices.

📙 https://bit.ly/46rCLX1

#creativewriting
September 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Have an idea you would like to develop into an academic book?

Applications to the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship open 1st September 2025 to Black, Asian or Ethnically Diverse early career scholars (UK only).

More info: bit.ly/4mHlgcn

#academicsky #phdlife #highered
September 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
New for your library: ‘Teenage Time’ by @pamthur.bsky.social

Discover how the teenager, as they has been perceived since the 1940s, have shaped the temporal imaginary of the 20th and 21st century literature.

📖 Read a sample: bit.ly/4m33waB
📘 More info: bit.ly/45nJBfn
August 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
New reference volume in The Decades Series!

‘The 1920s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction’ examines both canonical writers such as Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster as well as less widely-studied writers such as A. A. Milne and Naomi Mitchison.

📘 bit.ly/4m0JBsZ

#britishfiction #literarystudies
August 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
'Resisting Big Tech' is out today!

This #openaccess book alerts us to the ways in which #bigtech has come to structure the way we live and of the dangers of datafiction, urging us to resist it slowly colonizing our everyday lives.

🔓 bit.ly/41rLLJJ

#digitalhumanities
August 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Unplanned Cities in Modern American Poetry: a new perspective of modernist American poetry, as well as in urban studies of this period.

Learn more: bit.ly/3HoqmKH

#modernism #poetry #urbanliterature
August 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
‘Critical Neurodiversity Studies’ introduces a new, more inclusive field of scholarship for #literarystudies, cultural studies and #medicalhumanities

📙 Out now: www.bloomsbury.com/9781350421172
August 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
‘Beckett and Nature’ is out now!

Discover new analyses on how Beckett’s work actively engages with contested notions of nature and the natural, and how they develop a radical version of modernism’s main questions and insights.

📗 www.bloomsbury.com/9798765125410

#modernism #beckett
August 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Happy #InternationalCatDay from the Literary Studies & Creative Writing team! Our feline friends are getting plenty of summer reading in. 😻 📚

#booksky
August 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
New in the Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life series!

Based on close readings of three major sitcoms, this book unpacks how sitcoms understand later life sexualities and focusses on how they represent sexually active older adults.

📘 bit.ly/4kCaKRv
July 24, 2025 at 1:03 PM
'Trespassing in the Archive: Poetry in Conversation with History' is out now!

An exploration in the ways in which poetry has offered a hypothetical testing ground where the power dynamics, upheavals, and discontent reflected in historical texts can be renegotiated.

📙 bit.ly/4eEPcCh
July 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
'Song Lyrics and Literary History' is out now!

Paving new paths for the study of the history of literature, this study explores the intricate networks of one single poem across two centuries – the 'Vårvindar friska', a poem meant to be sung.

📗 bit.ly/40O9eEH
July 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM