Book Series
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
New & Published Titles:
Fighting the Flames
The Spectacular Performance of Fire at Coney Island
In Fighting the Flames, Sally contextualizes, historicizes, and theorizes the spectacular performance of fire at turn-of-the-twentieth century Coney Island. The performance of fire included staged…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97759-3 (Routledge)
Visionary Dreariness
Readings in Romanticism's Quotidian Sublime
Visionary Dreariness: Readings in Romanticism’s Quotidian Sublime undertakes a reconceptualization of the theoretical and experiential framework of the Romantic sublime by shifting the focus from…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97896-5 (Routledge)
You Factory Folks Who Sing This Song Will Surely Understand
Culture, Ideology, and Action in the Gastonia Novels of Myra Page, Grace Lumpkin, and Olive Dargin
2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97758-6 (Routledge)
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Equity in English Renaissance Literature
Thomas More and Edmund Spenser
This book accounts for the previously inadequately explained transformation in the meaning of equity in sixteenth century England, a transformation which, intriguingly, first comes to… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97705-0 (Routledge)
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Revisiting Vietnam
This book explores the memorializing practices of American veterans of the Vietnam War at several of the most significant contemporary sites of memory in the… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97840-8 (Routledge)
Strange Cases
The Medical Case History and the British Novel
Strange Cases is the story of the mutual influence of the case history
and the British novel during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Fictions from…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97716-6 (Routledge)
Rhizosphere
Gilles Deleuze and the 'Minor' American Writing of William James, W.E.B. Du Bois, Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, and William Falkner
This book explores the significant intellectual impact the philosopher Jean Wahl had on the directions Gilles Deleuze took as a philosopher and writer of a… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97535-3 (Routledge)
Like Parchment in the Fire
Literature and Radicalism in the English Civil War
2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97718-0 (Routledge)
Divergent Visions, Contested Spaces
The Early United States through Lens of Travel
This multicultural project examines fictional and non-fictional accounts of travel in the Early Republic and antebellum periods. Connecting literary representations of geographic spaces within and… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97708-1 (Routledge)
Different Dispatches
Journalism in American Modernist Prose
2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97675-6 (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