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Ben Doyle

@bendoyle.bsky.social

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

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Jacket is green with the title and subtitle in pink text. The jacket is covered with small blue illustrated icons relating to weather (umbrellas, ice lollies, wellington boots, sunglasses etc). There is an endorsement from Naomi Klein in the top right hand corner which reads 'This eye-opening, body-connecting thought experiment provides a blueprint for an embodied approach to climate change.'

Jacket is green with the title and subtitle in pink text. The jacket is covered with small blue illustrated icons relating to weather (umbrellas, ice lollies, wellington boots, sunglasses etc). There is an endorsement from Naomi Klein in the top right hand corner which reads 'This eye-opening, body-connecting thought experiment provides a blueprint for an embodied approach to climate change.'

Just glorying once again in the jacket for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social book 'How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change' by Astrida Neimanis and Jen Hamilton, now complete with a LOVELY endorsement from the utterly amazing Naomi Klein.
www.bloomsbury.com/how-to-weath...

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional endeavor of…

And finally, a bonus 'new in paperback' for one of our handbooks, 'The Bloomsbury Handbook to Ageing in Contemporary Literature and Film': www.bloomsbury.com/bloomsbury-h...

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Transgressing Later Life Sexualities in British Sitcoms Based on close readings of three major sitcoms, this book unpacks how sitcoms understand later life sexualities and focusses on how they represent sexually acti…

And finally, new in our 'Bloomsbury Studies in the Humanities, Ageing and Later Life' series, 'Transgressing Later Life Sexualities in British Sitcoms': www.bloomsbury.com/transgressin...

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Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire in Romantic and Victorian Culture Piya Pal-Lapinski explores the transformation of the Ottoman empire (and its Byzantine ghosts) during the period 1800-1876 in terms of its crucial impact on Bri…

Next up, 'Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire in Romantic and Victorian Culture': www.bloomsbury.com/istanbul-and...

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Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth Century Using Wordsworth as a focal point, this book describes how, in the period of Romanticism and beyond, the historical practice of pilgrimage became internalised f…

Bit of a shout out for three @bloomsburylit.bsky.social books publishing this month...first up, 'Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth Century', in our 'New Directions in Religion and Literature' series: www.bloomsbury.com/wordsworth-a...

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Sad times.

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Jeremy Vine shares what happens if Joey Barton fails to pay huge legal bill BBC Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine has revealed the staggering amount of money former footballer Joey Barton must pay out following their High Court libel battle last year

Apologies for the daily mirror link but it was either that or twitter. Cracking stuff in the Jeremy Vine Vs Joey Barton feud...lovely resolution! www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...

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We're lucky to have it - it's a fabulous book, and yours is a fantastic contribution, as per usual!

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New Directions in Digital Textual Studies The overlaps between the digital humanities and textual studies-two major scholarly fields which share common interests and methods-still demand further theoret…

'New Directions in Digital Textual Studies' brings together an exciting collection of book historians, textual editors, curators, and new media theorists to provide templates for and methodological reflections on how digital textual studies research can be done. www.bloomsbury.com/new-directio...

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Drone Cultures The drone is an object of contradiction: at once a weapon of war and a medium of wonder. Often linked to destruction and death, the drone also sparks creativity…

'Drone Cultures' encourages us to think critically about the drone, tracing its emergence in 21sr-century warfare and examining its entanglement with surveillance culture, biopolitics and artificial intelligence, and its representations in literature and the arts. www.bloomsbury.com/drone-cultur...

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Listening In In 1945, W. Averell Harriman, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, was presented with a carved wooden plaque of the Great Seal of the United States as a 'gesture…

'Listening In' begins with post-WW2 monitoring devices, and traces an arc through the Cold War era into the present day in which state and commercial spyware can record our calls, copy messages and secretly film us. www.bloomsbury.com/listening-in...

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Resisting Big Tech How does Google Maps reorient our city travels? How do matching algorithms affect how we seek love? And how does artificial β€œintelligence” prompt how we think?…

'Resisting Big Tech', available open access, critiques Big Tech's colonization of everyday life and advocates for the de-Googling of life and the need to foster truly communal spaces, online but especially offline. www.bloomsbury.com/resisting-bi...

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Bloomsbury Studies in Digital Cultures: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) - Bloomsbury This series responds to a rapidly changing digital world, one which permeates both our everyday lives and the broader philosophical challenges that accrue in it…

@bloomsburylit.bsky.social digital cultures line going from strength to strength! Coming up in paperback: 'Resisting Big Tech', 'Listening in: How Audio Surveillance Became Artificial Intelligence', 'Drone Cultures' and 'New Directions in Digital Textual Studies' www.bloomsbury.com/series/bloom...

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Photo shows a copy of Saul Bellow's 'The Adventures of Augie Marsh' in the foreground against a backdrop of a view of the Douro valley.

Photo shows a copy of Saul Bellow's 'The Adventures of Augie Marsh' in the foreground against a backdrop of a view of the Douro valley.

Post-ADHO trip to the Douro valley! #holidayreads

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Photograph is of the list of books displayed at the conference. For details of specifically what titles these are, email me at ben.doyle@bloomsbury.com

Photograph is of the list of books displayed at the conference. For details of specifically what titles these are, email me at ben.doyle@bloomsbury.com

Last day of @bloomsburylit.bsky.social at the ADHO conference today! I know you couldn't all be here, so here's the conference booklist. Order via our website and use the discount code BLOOM-CONF-26 to get 35% off. Lisbon, it's been real!

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Photograph is of Thomas Pynchon's new book 'Shadow Ticket', publishing October 7 2025.

Photograph is of Thomas Pynchon's new book 'Shadow Ticket', publishing October 7 2025.

A new Thomas Pynchon novel imminent? Sign me up!

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Photograph shows a Bloomsbury Academic book stand with ten digital humanities books on it, along with some flyers. There is a hand holding a DH 2025 lanyard in the foreground.

Photograph shows a Bloomsbury Academic book stand with ten digital humanities books on it, along with some flyers. There is a hand holding a DH 2025 lanyard in the foreground.

@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social all set up at #adho25 in Lisbon. Looking forward to an exciting week aheadm

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@bloomsburylit.bsky.social are now boarding to Lisbon for the #adho25 conference - excited to talk DH for the next week! Interested in meeting to discuss a project? PLEASE swing by the stand!

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Photograph of a table with a Bloomsbury tablecloth on it, along with six books all on Jane Austen

Photograph of a table with a Bloomsbury tablecloth on it, along with six books all on Jane Austen

All set up at the global Jane Austen conference at Southampton!

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Gnomish?

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to F. Scott Fitzgerald Bringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to F. Scott Fitzgerald presents state-of-the-art scholarship on the renowned Jaz…

Lovely review of @bloomsburylit.bsky.social new F Scott Fitzgerald handbook in @thetls.bsky.social - β€œ...a treasure trove of new scholarly work on the author.” Check out the handbook here: www.bloomsbury.com/bloomsbury-h...

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Thank you!

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DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Review of The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities (2023)

Nice review of our DH handbook: 'deserves to be read widely for its very approach to curation & conversation around a subject. Its relevance lies beyond DH.' dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/1/000...
PB here: www.bloomsbury.com/bloomsbury-h... @jamesosullivan.bsky.social @bloomsburylit.bsky.social

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I'll be there on the Friday - can I be added pretty please?!

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For your consideration.
THE GRAPHIC HISTORY OF HIP HOP.

A Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity in Comics finalist.

#BlackSky

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Even the NYT knows this is a bad idea.
Partnering with these companies to ruin an entire generation of children is shameful.

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Representing the New AI in Film and Television The 21st-century has witnessed rapid advances in artificial intelligence, giving rise to a society at once hopeful but also mistrustful of the possibilities tha…

Recently published by @bloomsburylit.bsky.social and available in paperback, 'Representing the New AI in Film and Television' which argues that since the mid-2010s, a distinctly new phase in the representation of AI has occurred. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/represent...

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DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: It’s Time to Historicize DH: A Review of Digital Humanities and the Cyberspace Decade, 1990-2001: A World Elsewhere

Really positive review of @bloomsburylit.bsky.social book Digital Humanities and the Cyberspace Decade, 1990-2001 in DHQ dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/2/000... - grab a copy of the book here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/digital-h...

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Wiaan Mulder says 'legend' Brian Lara should keep Test record for highest individual score South Africa’s Wiaan Mulder declares on 367 not out, passing up the opportunity to break Brian Lara’s record for the highest individual score in a Test innings.

Classy move www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

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Photo shows a table with a Bloomsbury branded tablecloth, with ten Bloomsbury books on the table.

Photo shows a table with a Bloomsbury branded tablecloth, with ten Bloomsbury books on the table.

Better late than never, but obligatory stand photo at the Shared Futures conference! Into the second day and all going well!

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