Book Series
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
New & Published Titles:
The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism
The book focuses on the representation of South Asian life in works by four Anglophone writers: V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Anita… read moreJune 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80308-3 (Routledge)
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Female Embodiment and Subjectivity in the Modernist Novel
The Corporeum of Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore
This study considers the work of two experimental British women modernists writing in the tumultuous interwar period--Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore--by examining four crucial incarnations… read moreJune 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99383-8 (Routledge)
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Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit
Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit focuses on the literary phenomenon popularly known as chick lit, and the way in which this genre interfaces…
read moreApril 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80626-8 (Routledge)
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Postmodernism and its Others
The Fiction of Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker, and Don DeLillo
The book analyzes Ishmael Reed [Mumbo Jumbo], Kathy Acker [The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec], and Don Delillo [White Noise], three… read moreApril 2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-80292-5 (Routledge)
The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama
W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J.M. Synge
This study examines the early dramatic works of Yeats, Synge, and Gregory in the context of late colonial Ireland’s unique socio-political landscape. By contextualizing each…
read moreMarch 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99003-5 (Routledge)
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Misery's Mathematics
Mourning, Compensation, and Reality in Antebellum American Literature
This book reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several remarkable writers -- including Emerson, Warner, and Melville -- to…
read moreJanuary 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96807-2 (Routledge)
Contested Masculinities PBdirect
Crises in Colonial Male Identity from Joseph Conrad to Satyajit Ray
Exploring how English masculinity - that was so contingent on the relative health of the British imperial project - negotiated the decline and ultimate dissolution…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99843-7 (Routledge)
The Genesis of the Chicago Renaissance
Theodore Dreiser, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and James T. Farrell
This study examines the genesis of Chicago's two identified literary renaissance periods (1890-1920 and 1930-1950) through the writings of Dreiser, Hughes, Wright, and Farrell. The… read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95792-2 (Routledge)
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Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture
Looking at texts including Jean Toomer’s Cane, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, James Baldwin’s Another Country, and Beat poetry by Bob Kaufmann, in this original study, Parham…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99094-3 (Routledge)
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Ruined by Design
Shaping Novels and Gardens in the Culture of Sensibility
By examining the motif of ruination in a variety of late-eighteenth-century domains, this book portrays the moral aesthetic of the culture of sensibility in Europe,…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98950-3 (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