Book Series
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
New & Published Titles:
Out of Touch
Skin Tropes and Identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker
Out of Touch investigates how skin has become a crucial but disavowed figure in twentieth-century literature, theory, and cultural criticism. These discourses reveal the extent… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94019-1 (Routledge)
Border Modernism
Reorienting the field of American literary modernism, Christopher Schedler defines an intercultural form of representation termed "border modernism" that challenges the aesthetic hegemony of metropolitan… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94149-5 (Routledge)
Poetic Gesture
Myth, Wallace Stevens, and the Desirous Motions of Poetic Language
This study addresses the problem of meaning as it is conveyed by poetic language, attempting to move beyond some of the obstacles and boundaries of… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93868-6 (Routledge)
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
Family and Sectionalism in the Virginia Novels of Kennedy, Caruthers, and Tucker, 1830-1845
This work examines eight Virginia novels against the background of the political and social concerns of the Jacksonian years in which they were written, arguing… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94157-0 (Routledge)
The Waste Fix
Seizures of the Sacred from Upton Sinclair to the Sopranos
This book explores the philosophical, social, and aesthetic implications of twentieth-century America's obsession with eliminating waste. Through interdisciplinary engagement with fiction and popular culture,… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94053-5 (Routledge)
Word of Mouth
Food and Fiction After Freud
An examination of the importance of oral experience as reflected in literature, Word of Mouth extends psychoanalytic theory as forwarded by Freud, Karl Abraham, Melanie… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93850-1 (Routledge)
The Self Wired
Technology and Subjectivity in Contemporary Narrative
2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93964-5 (Routledge)
The Figure of Consciousness
William James, Henry James and Edith Wharton
Through analysis of metaphors of consciousness in the philosophy and fiction of William James, Henry James and Edith Wharton, this work traces the significance of… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93979-9 (Routledge)
From Within the Frame
Storytelling in African-American Studies
The book explores the written representation of African-American oral storytelling from Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison to James Alan McPherson, Toni Cade… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93954-6 (Routledge)
The Space and Place of Modernism
The Little Magazine in New York
This book examines reactions to the Russian Revolution by four little magazines of the teens and twenties (The Liberator, The Messenger, The Little Review, and… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93980-5 (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