Book Series
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
New & Published Titles:
Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland
Focusing on plays (Richard II, Henry V, and Hamlet) which appear prominently in the writing of the Irish nationalist movement of the early twentieth century,… read moreOctober 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-87576-9 (Routledge)
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Race, Immigration, and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner
Salman Rushdie once observed that William Faulkner was the writer most frequently cited by third world authors as their major influence. Inspired by the unexpected…
read moreOctober 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-87578-3 (Routledge)
Conspiracy, Revolution, and Terrorism from Victorian Fiction to the Modern Novel
Drawing on critical and theoretical work by Miller, Boone, Foucault, Jameson, and others, as well as cultural history, affect theory, and contemporary psychiatric literature, the…
read moreOctober 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-87580-6 (Routledge)
Novels, Maps, Modernity
The Spatial Imagination, 1850–2000
"Novels, Maps, Modernity is a remarkable book that promises to transform our knowledge of the representation of space in modern fiction." - Brian Richardson, University…
read moreSeptember 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80053-2 (Routledge)
City/Stage/Globe
Performance and Space in Shakespeare's London
This interdisciplinary study theorizes the interaction of individual performance and social space. Examining three categories of space – the urban, the theatrical, and the cartographic…
read moreSeptember 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-87552-3 (Routledge)
Ethics and Politics in Modern American Poetry
From the Objectivists to e-poetry, this thoughtful and innovative book explores the dynamic relationship between the ethical imperative and poetic practice, revitalizing the study of…
read moreJuly 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-80122-5 (Routledge)
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Satire and the Postcolonial Novel
V.S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie
Satire plays a prominent and often controversial role in postcolonial fiction. Satire and the Postcolonial Novel offers the first study of this topic, employing the… read moreJuly 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80349-6 (Routledge)
Narrative Desire and Historical Reparations
A.S. Byatt, Ian McEwan, and Salman Rushdie
This book examines and explains the obsession with history in the contemporary British novel. It frames these "historical" novels as expressions of narrative desire, highlighting… read moreJune 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80338-0 (Routledge)
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Cosmopolitan Fictions
Ethics, Politics, and Global Change in the Works of Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Jamaica Kincaid, and J. M. Coetzee
Participating in the reframing of literary studies, Cosmopolitan Fictions identifies, as "cosmopolitan fiction", a genre of global literature that investigates the ethics and politics of…
read moreJune 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80340-3 (Routledge)
The Colonizer Abroad
Island Representations in American Prose from Herman Melville to Jack London
Looking at a diverse series of authors--Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Mark Twain, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Jack London--The Colonizer Abroad claims that as… read moreJune 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80343-4 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
Idioms of Self Interest: Credit, Identity, and Property in English Renaissance Literature
By Jill Phillips Ingram
To be published January 1st 2010
Modern American Counter Writing: Beats, Outriders, Ethnics
By A. Robert Lee
To be published January 26th 2010