Book Series
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
New & Published Titles:
Regenerating the Novel
Gender and Genre in Woolf, Forster, Sinclair, and Lawrence
In this exploration of the most innovative and iconoclastic modernist fiction, James J. Miracky studies the ways in which cultural forces and discourses of gender… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94205-8 (Routledge)
Death, Men, and Modernism
Trauma and Narrative in British Fiction from Hardy to Woolf
Death, Men and Modernism argues that the figure of the dead man becomes a locus of attention and a symptom of crisis in British writing… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94350-5 (Routledge)
Writing the City
Urban Visions and Literary Modernism
Writing the City examines and challenges the traditional transatlantic axis of urban modernism, London-Paris-New York, an axis that has often elided the historical importance of… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94276-8 (Routledge)
Beyond the Sound Barrier
The Jazz Controversy in Twentieth-Century American Fiction
Beyond the Sound Barrier examines twentieth-century fictional representations of popular music-particularly jazz-in the fiction of James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, and Toni… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94300-0 (Routledge)
The Self in the Cell
Narrating the Victorian Prisoner
Michel Foucault's writing about the Panopticon in Discipline and Punish has dominated discussions of the prison and the novel, and recent literary criticism draws heavily… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94355-0 (Routledge)
Figures of Finance Capitalism
Writing, Class and Capital in Mid-Victorian Narratives
Figures of Finance Capitalism brings into focus Victorian narratives by major middle-class writers in which the workings of finance capitalism are prominently featured, and reads… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94318-5 (Routledge)
Segregated Miscegenation
On the Treatment of Racial Hybridity in the North American and Latin American Literary Traditions
Through the comparative study of literatures from the United States and Latin America, Segregated Miscegenation questions received notions of race and nation. Carlos Hiraldo examines… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94349-9 (Routledge)
Balancing the Books
Faulkner, Morrison and the Economies of Slavery
Balancing the Books represents a sophisticated examination of the ongoing engagement of American literature with the economies of slavery through the works of William Faulkner… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94298-0 (Routledge)
Making of the Victorian Novelist
Anxieties of Authorship in the Mass Market
This book examines a sequence of crises in nineteenth-century print culture and offers an original narrative of what it meant to be a Victorian novelist.… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94020-7 (Routledge)
The Merchant of Modernism
The Economic Jew in Anglo-American Literature, 1864-1939
The Merchant of Modernism examines how the figure of the economic Jew symbolizes the struggle of authors from Dickens to Pound to reconcile their critique… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94109-9 (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