Book Series
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
New & Published Titles:
Aesthetic Hysteria
The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction
Aesthetic Hysteria is a deconstructive psychoanalytic study of hysteria, using literary texts to foreground a telling encounter between two growing discourses within English studies: that…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98140-8 (Routledge)
Masculinity and the English Working Class
Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction
This book examines representations of working-class masculine subjectivity in Victorian autobiography and fiction. In it, Ying focuses on ideas of domesticity and the male body…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98146-0 (Routledge)
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The Rise of Corporate Publishing and Its Effects on Authorship in Early Twentieth Century America
This study examines the way that the modernization and incorporation of the American publishing industry in the early twentieth century both helped to foment the… read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95555-3 (Routledge)
Novel Notions
Medical Discourse and the Mapping of the Imagination in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction
Medical, popular, and literary understanding about the imagination converged when Thomas Willis asserted that he had discovered the area of the brain that facilitated imagining.…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97948-1 (Routledge)
The Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s
This materialist study of the short story’s development in three diverse magazines reveals how, at the dawn of modernism, commercial pressures prompted modernist formal innovation… read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97733-3 (Routledge)
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Negotiating the Modern
Orientalism and Indianness in the Anglophone World
This book explicates long-standing literary celebrations of 'India' and 'Indian-ness' by charting a cultural history of Indianness in the Anglophone world, locating moments (in intellectual,…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97843-9 (Routledge)
Parsing the City
Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, and City Comedy's London as Language
Parsing the City updates our understanding of Jacobean city comedy’s discursive role in its London society. Working with three major plays by Ben Jonson and…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97950-4 (Routledge)
Unsettled Narratives
The Pacific Writings of Stevenson, Ellis, Melville and London
In the nineteenth-century Pacific, the production of a text of encounter occurred in tandem with the production of a settled space; asserting settler presence through…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97951-1 (Routledge)
Keeping up Her Geography
Women's Writing and Geocultural Space in Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture
Recently, literary critics and some historians have argued that to use the language of separate spheres is to "mistake fiction for reality." However, the tendency…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97949-8 (Routledge)
Machine and Metaphor
The Ethics of Language in American Realism
American literary realism burgeoned during a period of tremendous technological innovation. Because the realists evinced not only a fascination with this new technology but also…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97835-4 (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