Book Series
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
New & Published Titles:
Postmodern Counternarratives
Irony and Audience in the Novels of Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Charles Johnson, and Tim O'Brien
This book provides a wide-ranging discussion of realism, postmodernism, literary theory and popular fiction before focusing on the careers of four prominent novelists. Despite wildly… read moreJune 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80344-1 (Routledge)
Fictional Feminism
How American Bestsellers Affect the Movement for Women's Equality
This book focuses on the ways in which second-wave feminism has been represented in American popular culture, and on the effects that these representations have… read moreJune 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80345-8 (Routledge)
Labor Pains
Emerson, Hawthorne, & Alcott on Work, Women, & the Development of the Self
This book explores the importance of work and its role in defining and developing the self. Maibor reveals how the writings of Emerson, Hawthorne, and… read moreJune 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80350-2 (Routledge)
Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s
Joanna Russ and Dorothy Bryant
This book presents an exploration of the reinvented utopia that provided second-wave feminists of the 1970s with a conceptual space to articulate the politics of… read moreJune 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80351-9 (Routledge)
The Life Writing of Otherness
Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston, and Winterson
Focusing on innovative works by Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston and Winterson, the author analyzes how they each represent the self as unique, collectively "other," and inclusively… read moreJune 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80353-3 (Routledge)
The Subject of Race in American Science Fiction
While the connections between science fiction and race have largely been neglected by scholars, racial identity is a key element of the subjectivity constructed in…
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The Spell Cast by Remains
The Myth of Wilderness in Modern American Literature
June 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80290-1 (Routledge)
The Politics of Melancholy from Spenser to Milton
During the so-called "Age of Melancholy," many writers invoked both traditional and new conceptualizations of the disease in order to account for various types of… read moreJune 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80291-8 (Routledge)
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Between the Angle and the Curve
Mapping Gender, Race, Space, and Identity in Willa Cather and Toni Morrison
In this study, Russell explores the ways in which Willa Cather and Toni Morrison subvert the textual expectations of gendered geography and push against the…
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Wilderness City
The Post-War American Urban Novel from Nelson Algren to John Edger Wideman
The books seeks to examine changes in the U.S.--literary, aesthetic, and social--as represented in novels set in an environment where the gamut of ethnicities and… read moreJune 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80307-6 (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