The Centre for Contemporary Literature is delighted to announce the launch of a scholarly edited collection which has been developed out of a conference we supported. "Weird Council: An International Conference on the Writing of China Miéville" was held at Birkbeck in September 2012 and brought together an international network of scholars working on the award-winning British novelist, China Miéville.
Dr Caroline Edwards (Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature, Birkbeck) and Dr Tony Venezia (Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Birkbeck) have co-edited China Miéville: Critical Essays (Canterbury: Gylphi, 2015): a collection of scholarly essays which examine Miéville's novels, short fiction, comics, non-fiction and legal scholarship. Contributors include leading scholars of contemporary science fiction and fantasy scholarship – Sherryl Vint (University of California, Riverside), Raphael Zähringer (University of Tübingen), Dougal McNeill (Victoria University of Wellington), Joe Sutliff Sanders (Kansas State University), Paul March-Russell (University of Kent), Ben de Bruyn (Maastricht University), Matthew Sangster (University of Birmingham), Anthony F. Lang, Jr. (University of St Andrews), Mark P. Williams (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz) and Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck). The collection also includes a Foreword by China Miéville himself.
China Miéville: Critical Essays is being launched with a new monograph by Professor Carl Freeman (Louisiana State University), Art and Idea in the Novels of China Miéville (Canterbury: Gylphi, 2015). The double book launch will take place:
When: Tues 24th November 2015, 6-8pm
Where: Room 404, 30 Russell Square, Birkbeck, London WC1B 5DT
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To pre-order a copy of China Miéville: Critical Essays please visit Amazon.
Featured image by Anna Podedworna. Used with permission.
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