Book Series
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
New & Published Titles:
The Real Negro
The Question of Authenticity in Twentieth-Century African American Literature
In this book, Shelly Eversley historicizes the demand for racial authenticity-what Zora Neale Hurston called "the real Negro"-in twentieth-century American literature. Eversley argues that the… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96835-5 (Routledge)
Narrative in the Professional Age
Transatlantic Readings of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and George Eliot
Challenging previous studies that claim anxiety and antagonism between transatlantic Victorian authors, Jennifer Cognard-Black uncovers a model of reciprocal influence among three of the most… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96994-9 (Routledge)
Through the Negative
The Photographic Image and the Written Word in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
The Civil War was the first "image war," as photographs of the battlefields became the dominant means for capturing an epochal historic moment. At the… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96673-3 (Routledge)
Revised Lives
Whitman, Religion, and Constructions of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Culture
Revised Lives examines self-representation in U.S. culture from the American Revolution through the nineteenth century. Drawing on studies of the history of the book, Pierre… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96870-6 (Routledge)
The Dangerous Potential of Reading
Readers & the Negotiation of Power in Selected Nineteenth-Century Narratives
The development of a mass readership, a mass market for books, and a prominent status of reading and readers is reflected in the central role… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96833-1 (Routledge)
The Other Empire
British Romantic Writings about the Ottoman Empire
This book contributes to the body of postcolonial scholarship that explores the growth of imperial culture in the Romantic and early Victorian periods by focusing… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96805-8 (Routledge)
Intimate and Authentic Economies
The American Self-Made Man from Douglass to Chaplin
The story of the American self-made man carries a perennial interest in American literature and cultural studies. This book expands the study of such stories… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96869-0 (Routledge)
Dead Letters to the New World
Melville, Emerson, and American Transcendentalism
This book contextualizes and details Herman Melville's artistic career and outlines the relationship between Melville and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Michael McLoughlin divides Melville's professional career… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96784-6 (Routledge)
Love American Style
Divorce and the American Novel, 1881-1976
A popular subject in sociology and cultural studies, divorce has until recently been overlooked by literary critics. Spanning nearly a century during which the divorce… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96783-9 (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