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1. Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature

   By Laurel Plapp

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since Edward Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Negotiating the Modern

   Orientalism and Indianness in the Anglophone World

   By Amit Ray

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   This book explicates long-standing literary celebrations of 'India' and 'Indian-ness' by charting a cultural history of Indianness in the Anglophone world, locating moments (in intellectual, religious and cultural history) where India and Indianness are offered up as solutions to modern moral,...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Parsing the City

   Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, and City Comedy's London as Language

   By Heather Easterling

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Parsing the City updates our understanding of Jacobean city comedy’s discursive role in its London society. Working with three major plays by Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, this book develops an updated reading of Jacobean city comedy as a dramatic subgenre whose...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. Masculinity and the English Working Class

   Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction

   By Ying Lee

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   This book examines representations of working-class masculine subjectivity in Victorian autobiography and fiction. In it, Ying focuses on ideas of domesticity and the male body and demonstrates that working-class masculinities differ substantially from those of the widely studied upper classes...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
5. Literature and Development in North Africa

   The Modernizing Mission

   By Perri Giovannucci

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   The book examines how modern global development largely privileges Western multinational interests at the expense of local or indigenous concerns in the "developing" nations of the East. The practices of development have mostly led not to economic, social, and political progressivism in local...

   Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Genesis of the Chicago Renaissance

   Theodore Dreiser, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and James T. Farrell

   By Mary Hricko

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   This study examines the genesis of Chicago's two identified literary renaissance periods (1890-1920 and 1930-1950) through the writings of Dreiser, Hughes, Wright, and Farrell. The relationship of these four writers demonstrates a continuity of thought between the two renaissance periods. By noting...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel

   The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning in the Era of Globalization

   By Stephen M. Levin

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel explores the themes of alienation and displacement in a genre of post-World War II novels that portrays the pursuit of an authentic travel experience in a culturally unfamiliar place. Levin explores two questions: why does travel to an "undiscovered"...

   Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
8. Gendered Pathologies

   The Female Body and Biomedical Discourse in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

   By Sondra Archimedes

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Gendered Pathologies examines nineteenth-century literary representations of the pathologized female body in relation to biomedical discourses about gender and society in Victorian England. Analyzing novels by Charles Dickens, H. Rider Haggard, and Thomas Hardy alongside Foucault's notion of...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
9. Between Profits and Primitivism

   Shaping White Middle-Class Masculinity in the U.S., 1880-1917

   By Athena Devlin

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Between 1800 and the First World War, white middle-class men were depicted various forms of literature as weak and nervous. This book explores cultural writings dedicated to the physical and mental health of the male subject, showing that men have mobilized gender constructions repeatedly and...

   Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge
10. Modernism and the Marketplace

    Literary Culture and Consumer Capitalism in Rhys, Woolf, Stein, and Nella Larsen

    By Alissa G. Karl

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Though the relationship of modernist writers and artists to mass-marketplaces and popular cultural forms is often understood as one of ambivalence if not antagonism, Modernism and the Marketplace redirects this established line of inquiry, considering the practical and conceptual interfaces between...

    Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge