Ben Doyle

@bendoyle

Senior Publisher for Literary Studies, STS, Digital Cultures and Medical/Health Humanities at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.

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Ben Doyle@bendoyle· 17d

Pickle getting dressy. Photo courtesy of @gabyturner.bsky.social

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Ben Doyle@bendoyle· 19d

Can we talk about how terrifying pigeons attempting to kiss is?

Ben Doyle@bendoyle· 20d

Part III Genres, Styles, and Translations
20. Asiatic Goths and Oriental Gothic. James Watt 531–558
21. Asia on the British Romantic Stage. David Worrall 559–585
22. The Fashion for Kashmiri Shawls in Romantic Britain. Suchitra Choudhury 586-610
23. The Chinese Taste in Britain. Stephen McDowall 611–634
24. The Company We Keep: Art, Commerce, Empire. Holly Shaffer 635–666
25. Texts and Translation: China. Timothy Barrett and Amy Matthewson 667–689
26. Translation and Transculturation of English Romantic Poetry in Meiji Japan. Kaz Oishi 690–712
27. Romanticism and Japan in the Later Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Kimiyo Ogaw 713– 739
28. Romanticism and China in the Twentieth Century. Ou Li. 740–763

Ben Doyle@bendoyle· 20d

Part II Peoples, Places, and Cross-Cultural Encounters
10. India, 1770–1813: Early Anglophone Writing. James Mulholland 284–310
11. India (1814–40): Later British Writing. Máire ní Fhlathúin 311–334
12. Remaking British Romanticism: Women Poets in Nineteenth-century India. Mary Ellis Gibson 335–359
13. On Ideas of the Bengal Renaissance and the Thing Itself. Rosinka Chaudhuri 360–381
14. China (1770-1842): From Chinoiserie to Opium. Elizabeth Chang 382–403
15. Hermit Kingdoms: British Ideas of Japan and Tibet, 1760–1860. Laurence Williams 404–428
16. Malay Dreams: Knowledge, History, and Colonial Expansion in Southeast Asia. Christina Skott 429-–56
17. Pan-Buddhism and Heritage-making across Maritime Networks. Himanshu Prabha Ray
457–477
18. Britain, India, China, and the Opium Trade. Daniel Sanjiv Roberts 478–505
19. Tea. Markman Ellis 506–530

Ben Doyle@bendoyle· 20d

Introduction: Romanticism in Britain and Asia. Rosinka Chaudhuri, Peter J. Kitson, and Alex Watson 1–44

Part I Histories and Contexts
1. Romanticism in the Colony: Orientalism, Translation, and the Aesthetic unconscious in British India. Baidik Bhattacharya 45–66
2. Romantic Orientalism and Asia. Alex Watson 67–92
3. The English East India Company, Colonialism, and Empire. Callie Wilkinson 93-–17
4. Obedient Despots: Indirect Rule and the Lure of Empire in Early British India. Sudipta Sen
118–140
5. Asian Religions and Romanticism. Chris Murray 141–168
6. Sati, Colonialism, and the Romantic Imagination. Andrea Major 169–190
7. Circulating Plants: Canton, Calcutta, Kew. Kate Teltscher 191–222
8. Romantic Ecology and Asia. Robert E. Markley 223–252
9. War, Resistance, and Revolt. Peter J. Kitson 253–283

Ben Doyle@bendoyle· 27d

'Green Dreams' traces the rise of green techno-optimism from postwar fantasies of progress to Silicon Valley manifestos, EV marketing, Big Tech sustainability campaigns, and Hollywood eco-futures. Beautiful eh? @imreszeman.bsky.social @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/green-dreams...

The book's jacket shows a dreamy background of clouds and blue sky, with wind turbines peaking above the clouds. The jacket blurb reads: Electric cars, smart apps, green AI, carbon
capture, solar panels—everywhere we
turn, we’re told technology will save the
planet. Green Dreams shows why that
promise is so compelling, and why it keeps
us chasing solutions that leave the real
causes of the climate crisis untouched.
Blending cultural criticism, political
analysis, and environmental history,
Green Dreams traces the rise of green
techno-optimism from postwar fantasies
of progress to Silicon Valley manifestos,
EV marketing, Big Tech sustainability
campaigns, and Hollywood eco-futures.
Along the way, it exposes the hidden
costs of supposedly “clean” technologies:
extractive mining, exploding energy
demand, ecological destruction, and the
preservation of systems built on endless
growth and consumption. Rather than
rejecting technology outright, Tanner
Mirrlees and Imre Szeman argue that
technological solutions can matter only if
paired with deeper social, political, and
economic transformation. Provocative,
accessible, and sharply argued, Green
Dreams offers a powerful critique of one
of the defining ideologies of our time.

Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Jul 15

JUST landed on my desk, the amazing 'Black Feminist Theories', a landmark text and an essential book for courses. So many people put so much into this, including the volume editors and my amazing assistant Leigh. Huge thanks to you all. www.bloomsbury.com/black-femini...

Image shows two copies of the book 'Black Feminist Theories'. Jacket image is of Nana Buku by Brianna McCarthy.

Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Jul 2

Day two of #MSA #BAMS joint conference. Come see me at the stand!

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Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Jun 21

Lining a tag and calling the tagger a 'toy'. No, not New York in the 80s/90s. Ladies and gentlemen I give you Fleet high street, in Hampshire.

Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Jun 18

Also any excuse to push our 'Blue Humanities' series, ed. @serpiloppermann.bsky.social & @stevementz.bsky.social First three books are 'The Agony of Water in an Age of Climate Change', 'Hydropoetics' and 'Anti-Colonial Poetics of Water'. Check the series out here: www.bloomsbury.com/series/the-b...

Image is of a series flyer for the Bloomsbury series 'Blue Humanities'. Text reads:
SERIES EDITORS:
Steve Mentz, Professor of English, St. John’s University, USA, mentzs@stjohns.edu Serpil Oppermann, Professor of Environmental Humanities, Cappadocia University, Turkey, serpil.oppermann@kapadokya.edu.tr
The Blue Humanities is a book series about humans and water, in all the forms that both of these assume and create. Re-examining relations between human and watery spaces, the books in this series will explore connections between waterscapes and landscapes from cultural, social, historical, theoretical, literary, symbolic, aesthetic, and ethical perspectives, often using data provided by the scientific disciplines of oceanography and limnology. The books published in this series will engage with the multivalent meanings of salt and freshwaters and the compounded changes that all waterscapes are undergoing today.
The series will present new research on postmodernist, hydrofeminist, new materialist, posthumanist, postcolonial, and new historiographic approaches to the poetics of water. Since the blue humanities is transdisciplinary and methodologically diverse, interacting with marine and freshwater sciences, the series will contribute significantly to the future direction and reorientations of broader discourses in environmental studies.
Forthcoming in the series
The Agony of Water in an Age of Climate Change
By Simon Estok
December 2026
This book proposes a methodology for better understanding and conceptualizing our relationship to water in an age characterized by climate change.
Hydropoetics
Briony Hughes
June 2027
Examines work by innovative poets to think about the ‘hydro’ not simply thematically but also in terms of methodology, material, and practice.
Anti-Colonial Poetics of Water
Kate Lewis Hood
October 2027
This book develops an interdisciplinary approach that reads poetic work in dialogue with anti-colonial spatial practices.

Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Jun 18

A lot of interest in our new 'Critical Memory Studies' series at the mo! The first three volumes publishing: 'Slowing Down Memory Studies' (open access), 'Critical Indigenous Memory Studies', and 'Enabling Memory'. Check the series out here: www.bloomsbury.com/series/criti...

Image is a series flyer for the series Critical Memory Studies. Text reads: Critical Memory Studies
Critical Memory Studies ranges across diverse cultures of memory and histories of remembrance while simultaneously synthesising and disrupting the legacies of cultural memory studies with fresh interventions from newer interdisciplinary areas of study. These includes studies of gender, queer LGBTQIA+ issues, race, indigeneity, disability, social movements, animals and posthumanism, and environmental and digital humanities. This exciting new series explores how cultures of memory are shaped by the legacies of colonisation and decolonisation; the remembrance of nonhuman actants and agencies in event-formation; the recalibration, beyond human-centred perspectives, of the temporal and spatial scales by which event-formation can be measured; the socioecological effects of climate change; and new digital technologies and their mediations of memory. This dynamic series ensures the field’s immersion in lived experiences across social, cultural, political, economic and geographical contexts and its agile responsiveness to challenging real-world scenarios.
Series Editors:
Lucy Bond, University of Westminster, UK Rick Crownshaw, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Jessica Rapson, King’s College London, UK Brett Ashley Kaplan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Forthcoming in the Series:
Slowing Down Memory Studies: Theory and Practice for Transformative Change
Edited by Jenny Wüstenberg and Joanna Wawrzyniak
Critical Indigenous Memory Studies
Edited by Ethan Madarieta
Enabling Memory: Ambivalence and Frames of Mourning the Empire
By Pia Bakshi

Ben Doyle@bendoyle· May 23

Beer garden read. KNOW YOUR ENEMY!

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Ben Doyle@bendoyle· May 6

VERY excited that the @bloomsburylit.bsky.social Handbook to the Blue Humanities, edited by the incomparable @stevementz.bsky.social @serpiloppermann.bsky.social Mohammed Muharram & Sandra Young, is in production, with a January '27 pub date. On our website soon, but here's a sneak preview ToC...

Image shows a table of contents which reads:
Prefatory Poem: Juan Carlos Galeano
Preface: Anna Iltnere

Part I: Discourses
1. Blue Postcolonialism, Mohammed Muharram and Kerstin Knopf
2. Black Hydro-Logics, Mapule Mohulatsi
3. Blue History, Matt McKenzie
4. Blue Philosophy, Melody Jue
5. Blue Ecology, Michael Blackstock
6. Blue Religion, Justine Bakker
7. Blue Linguistics, K. David Harrison
8. Blue Law, Irus Braverman and Sofie Quist
9. Blue Anthropology, Nils Bubant
10. Hydro-Feminism, Tamara Sheffer and Vivienne Bozalek
Part II: Networks
11. Indian Ocean, Rila Mukherjee
12. Atlantic Ocean, Christopher Pastore
13. Pacific Ocean, Antonio Ortega Santos
14. Southern Ocean, Charne Lavery
15. Arctic Ocean, Hester Blum,
Part III: Forms
16. The Non-Human, Simon Estok
17. Currents: Dan Brayton
18. The Surf, Keven Dawson
19. Storms, Alison Maas
20. Clouds and Rain, Alison Glassie
21. Ice, Lowell Duckert
22. Fresh Water, Ellen Arnold
23. The Deep, Laurence Publicover
24. The Seabed, Killian Quigley
25. Coasts and Ports, Isaac Land
26. Human Bodies, Gulsah Gocmen and Adem Balci
27. Oceanic Feelings, Steve Mentz
Part IV: Representations
28. Underwater Photography, Margaret Cohen
29. Blue Acoustics, Stefan Helmreich
30. Visual Art, Jaimey Hamilton Faris
31. Theatre and Performance, Maurya Wickstrom
32. Poetry of Oceania, Craig Santos Perez
33. Blue Literature, Meg Samuelson and Maria Geustyn
34. Indigenous Poetics: Hsinya Huang
Conclusion: The Blue Humanities and the Anthropocene, Serpil Oppermann
Index

Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Apr 30

Coming soon in the @bloomsburylit.bsky.social Environmental Cultures series...'Images of the Plant Humanities'. It's a fantastic collection (and rather beautiful too). www.bloomsbury.com/images-of-th...

Image shows a jacket proof for the book 'Images of the Plant Humanities'. Across both the front and back are botanical drawings of plants.

Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Apr 28

Another rather lovely looking jacket proof! Publishing open access in September, 'Neurodiversity and the Contemporary in the 21st-Century Novel' is coming soon in our Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities series: www.bloomsbury.com/neurodiversi...

Image shows a full spread of the front, spine and back jackets of 'Neurodiversity and the Contemporary in the 21st-Century Novel' by Nicola Simonetti. The jacket is green, with a graphic featuring c. 10 distorted, wavy Alice in Wonderland style clocks

Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Apr 24

Great to see the jacket proof for this finalized! A wide-ranging, future-focused overview of madness in literature and visual culture - this book makes a huge contribution to literary and visual culture studies as well as mad studies. More details: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/madness-i...

Image shows the jacket proof for the book 'Madness in Literature and Visual Culture' by anna six. Jacket depicts a tornado rendered in charcoal, billowing up to the top left of the jacket. The title is in block caps in yellow in the top left.

Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Apr 22

Look what just landed on my desk...! Publishing in Aug, in beautiful jacketed hardback, 'Vonnegut's War', fusing biography with popular history and textual analysis, Vonnegut's War tells the story of the making of a modern classic and the writer that created it. www.bloomsbury.com/vonneguts-wa...

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Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Apr 9

@bloomsburylit.bsky.social all set up at the BSLS conference!

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Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Apr 9

Just got in to the #BSLS2026 conference after a LONG and very interrupted and delayed journey. Feels good to be back in Glasgow. Come see me!

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Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Feb 11

Enraged Brontë fans making their feelings known in Fleet

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Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Feb 11

Really nice to see the final paperback jacket proof for the latest in @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Global Challenges...' series. Edited by Roman Bartosch, Ursula Heise & Kate Rigby, 'Unsettling Extinction': www.bloomsbury.com/unsettling-e...

Image displays the front and back jacket of 'Unsettling Extinction', a book in the Global Challenges in the Environmental Humanities' series. The jacket image depicts a bird on a perch in a bell-jar with a spike through it. Jacket blurb reads:

Biodiversity loss threatens to transform the ecological foundations of all
biological life on the planet, yet solutions to this crisis are fiercely contested. This
book addresses extinction by exploring species decline and conservation with a
particular emphasis on divergent cultural framings, temporal scales, and media.
Drawing on the disciplines of anthropology, cultural geography, environmental
history, philosophy, literary studies, media studies, and studies of religion, this
book explores how the engagement with biodiversity loss challenges basic
assumptions in these disciplines and opens up new avenues of thought and
activism for shaping the multispecies communities of the future.
Featuring contributions from key names in the field alongside some of the most
exciting new voices, this collection presents cutting-edge work on species
extinction from a wide variety of perspectives across the environmental
humanities.

Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Jan 28

Also publishing in Aug (but you can order your paperback copy now): 'Black Feminist Theories', an amazing collection which brings together the most influential historical and contemporary thinkers across transnational contexts. Perfect for course use! www.bloomsbury.com/black-femini...

Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Jan 28

Delighted to have a final jacket for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Vonnegut's War'! A fetching £20/$27 jacketed hardback, it fuses biography with popular history & textual analysis, telling the story of the making of a modern classic and the writer that created it. www.bloomsbury.com/vonneguts-wa...

Image shows a jacket spread (front and back) for new book 'Vonnegut's War' by Susan Farrell. The front cover is a cartoonish image of a stickperson being beamed up by the icon of a UFO. This image is surrounded by icons of eyes. The back jacket contains endorsements from John Irving, Ken Kalfus and Suzanne McConnell.

Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Jan 9

Great to see so many of our books in one place!

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Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Oct 22

Look what we saw out in the wild, in Foyles. 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social turned JACKET OUT and in rather exalted company! Grab your copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/jane-austen-...

Photograph shows the book 'Jane Austen in 50 Words' on a bookshop bookshelf, jacket out.

Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Oct 9

All set up at #MSA25. Stand looking good and we are ready to rock!

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Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Oct 9

Look what just landed on my desk...! It looks amazing and GREAT to see it in the real world. Grab a copy here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/how-to-we...

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Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Oct 8

A free row?! I'll take this as a good omen.

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Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Sep 12

Great to have the final jacket for the next book in our Studies in Digital Cultures series locked down. Available in paperback near you soon! www.bloomsbury.com/listening-in...

Image shows the full jacket spread for new Bloomsbury book 'Listening In'.

Ben Doyle@bendoyle· Aug 21

Advance copies of 'The American Sentence' by Ira Nadel from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social just dropped onto my desk and look AMAZING! Available in paperback, it's a thoroughly engrossing account on the evolution of the American sentence over the years. www.bloomsbury.com/american-sen...