Book Series
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
New & Published Titles:
Here and Now
The Politics of Social Space in D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf
Working at the crossroads of contemporary geographical and cultural theory, the book explores how social spaces function as sites which foreground D. H. Lawrence and… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97540-7 (Routledge)
Urban Revelations
Cities, Homes, and Other Ruins in American Literature, 1790-1860
This study reexamines the ethos of national progress by analyzing how American writers import images of ruins from European aesthetics to cast the city as… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97640-4 (Routledge)
Museum Mediations
Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry
This interdisciplinary study participates in the ongoing critical conversation about postwar American poetry and visual culture, while advancing that field into the arena of the… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97534-6 (Routledge)
Overheard Voices
Address and Subjectivity in Postmodern American Poetry
Overheard Voices examines poetic address and in particular apostrophe (the address of absent or inanimate others) in the work of four post-World War II American… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97627-5 (Routledge)
"Foreign Bodies"
Trauma, Corporeality, and Textuality in Contemporary American Culture
"Foreign Bodies" investigates the relation between the notion of trauma and possible forms of representation within the necessary constraints that traumatic experience itself imposes. While… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97523-0 (Routledge)
Depression Glass
Documentary Photography and the Medium of the Camera-Eye in Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen, and William Carlos Williams
This interdisciplinary study examines the interrelations between the documentary poetics of "Objectivism" in the United States during the 1930s. Focusing on three volumes published by… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97547-6 (Routledge)
Negotiating Copyright
Authorship and the Discourse of Literary Property Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
This book examines how debates over copyright law in the United States during the nineteenth century, particularly over the lack of an international copyright law,… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97625-1 (Routledge)
The Fatal News
Reading and Information Overload in Early Eighteenth-Century Literature
What was "information" in the early eighteenth century, and what influence did the emergence of information, as potential physical and psychological threat, have on readers… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97626-8 (Routledge)
Nihilism and the Sublime Postmodern
This book examines the relationship between nihilism and postmodernism in relation to the sublime, and is divided into three parts: history, theory, and praxis. Arguing… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97529-2 (Routledge)
An Ethics of Becoming
Configurations of Feminine Subjectivity in Jane Austen Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot
In attempting to conceptualize feminine subjectivity beyond the familiar paradigm of dualism and within the parameters of ethics, this study examines the political and intellectual… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97537-7 (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