Book Series
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
New & Published Titles:
The End of the Mind
The Edge of the Intelligible in Hardy, Stevens, Larking, Plath, and Gluck
This book seeks to include among accounts of modern lyric poetry a theory of the poem's relation to the unintelligible. DeSales Harrison draws a distinction… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97029-7 (Routledge)
Authoring the Self
Self-Representation, Authorship, and the Print Market in British Poetry from Pope through Wordsworth
Drawing upon historicist and cultural studies approaches to literature, this book argues that the Romantic construction of the self emerged out of the growth of… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97128-7 (Routledge)
Ethical Diversions
The Post-Holocaust Narratives of Pynchon, Abish, DeLillo, and Spiegelman
2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97167-6 (Routledge)
Narrative Mutations
Discourses of Heredity and Caribbean Literature
Given the welcomed shift throughout the academy away from essentialist and biologically fixed understandings of "race" and the body, it is a curiosity worth exploring… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97115-7 (Routledge)
The Slave in the Swamp
Disrupting the Plantation Narrative
In 19th century plantation literature, the runaway slave in the swamp was a recurring "bogey-man" whose presence challenged myths of the plantation system. By… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97216-1 (Routledge)
Racial Blasphemies
Religious Irreverence and Race in American Literature
Racial Blasphemies, using critical race theory and literary analysis, charts the tense, frustrated religious language that saturates much twentieth-century American literature. Michael Cobb argues that… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97126-3 (Routledge)
The Architecture of Address
The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry
The Architecture of Address traces the evolution of an American species of lyric capable of public pronouncement without polemic. Beginning with Whitman, Jake Adam York… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97058-7 (Routledge)
Protest and the Body in Melville, Dos Passos, and Hurston
This book analyzes the work of Herman Melville, John Dos Passos, and Zora Neale Hurston alongside biographical materials and discourses on the body. Thomas McGlamery… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97063-1 (Routledge)
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Surviving the Crossing
(Im)migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen
By examining the fiction of three women modernists--Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen--this book complicates binary paradigms of national, gender, and ethnic identities in… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97118-8 (Routledge)
The Metanarrative of Suspicion in Late Twentieth-Century America
Narratives of suspicion and mistrust have escaped the boundaries of specific sites of discourse to constitue a metanarrative that pervades American culture. Sandra Baringer investigates… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97076-1 (Routledge)
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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