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1. Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism

   Edited by Lisa Goldfarb, Bart Eeckhout

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This unique essay collection considers the impact of New York on the life and works of Wallace Stevens. Stevens lived in New York from 1900 to 1916, working briefly as a journalist, going to law school, laboriously starting up a career as a lawyer, getting engaged and married, gradually mixing with...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism

   The Haunting Interval

   By Luke Thurston

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary response to the technological and psychological disturbances that marked the end of the Victorian era....

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
3. Locating Gender in Modernism

   The Outsider Female

   By Geetha Ramanathan

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
4. Travel and Drugs in Twentieth-Century Literature

   By Lindsey Michael Banco

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This book examines the connections between two disparate yet persistently bound thematics -- mobility and intoxication -- and explores their central yet frequently misunderstood role in constructing subjectivity following the 1960s. Emerging from profound mid-twentieth-century changes in how drugs...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
5. Modernism and the Crisis of Sovereignty

   By Andrew John Miller

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This book describes how three of the most significant Anglophone writers of the first half of the twentieth century – Yeats, Eliot, and Woolf – wrestled with a geopolitical situation in which national boundaries had come to seem increasingly permeable at the same time as war among (and within)...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity

   The Figure of the Map in Contemporary Theory and Fiction

   By Peta Mitchell

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   The last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of the figure of the map in critical, theoretical, and fictional discourse. References to mapping and cartography are endemic in poststructuralist theory, and, similarly, geographically and culturally diverse authors of twentieth-century...

   Published February 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. Global Cold War Literature

   Western, Eastern and Postcolonial Perspectives

   Edited by Andrew Hammond

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   In countries worldwide, the Cold War dominated politics, society and culture during the second half of the twentieth century. Global Cold War Literatures offers a unique look at the multiple ways in which writers from Asia, Africa, Europe and North and South America addressed the military conflicts...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
8. Exploring Magic Realism in Salman Rushdie’s Fiction

   By Ursula Kluwick

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   Kluwick breaks new ground in this book, moving away from Rushdie studies that focus on his status as postcolonial or postmodern, and instead considering the significance of magic realism in his fiction. Rushdie’s magic realism, in fact, lies at the heart of his engagement with the post/colonial....

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
9. Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture

   Celebrating Impurity, Disrupting Borders

   Edited by Ana Cristina Mendes

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   In Salman Rushdie’s novels, images are invested with the power to manipulate the plotline, to stipulate actions from the characters, to have sway over them, seduce them, or even lead them astray. Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture sheds light on this largely unremarked – even if central – dimension...

   Published November 20th 2011 by Routledge
10. Aesthetic Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Women's Food Writing

    The Innovative Appetites of M.F.K. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Elizabeth David

    By Alice McLean

    Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

    This book explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992), Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), and Elizabeth David (1913-1992). Growing up during a time when women's food writing was largely limited to the domestic cookbook, which helped to codify...

    Published July 26th 2011 by Routledge