Book Series
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
New & Published Titles:
Embodying Beauty
Twentieth-Century American Women Writers' Aesthetics
This study argues that twentieth-century American women writers' textual representations of female beauty generally recognize a link between beauty standards and aesthetic ideology, exploring female… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3732-4 (Routledge)
Modern Primitives
Race and Language in Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston
This book explores the ways in which the American writers Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston used modernist primitivism to assert a uniquely… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3650-1 (Routledge)
Artful Itineraries
European Art and American Careers in High Culture, 1865-1920
This study investigates the paradoxical dynamics of American high culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by examining the strategies of Americans who… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3654-9 (Routledge)
A Coincidence of Wants
The Novel and Neoclassical Economics
This interdisciplinary study examines four major British and American novels in view of key concepts from the mainstream tradition of neoclassical economics. Studies of… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-3648-8 (Routledge)
Literatura Hispanoamericana
Una Antologia - An Anthology
This Spanish-language anthology contains selections by 45 Latin-American authors. It is intended as a text for upper division Latin American literature survey courses. The anthology… read more1994 | Paperback: 978-0-8153-1284-0 (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