American & Canadian Literature Books

New and Published Books

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. Asian American Literature

   Edited by David Leiwei Li

   Co-published by Routledge and Edition SynapseAmerican writers whose provenance lies in Asia have been producing and publishing work of interest and distinction for well over a century. However, in recent decades there has been an exponential growth in their output, and much Asian-American...

   Published May 24th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Genesis of the Chicago Renaissance

   Theodore Dreiser, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and James T. Farrell

   By Mary Hricko

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   This study examines the genesis of Chicago's two identified literary renaissance periods (1890-1920 and 1930-1950) through the writings of Dreiser, Hughes, Wright, and Farrell. The relationship of these four writers demonstrates a continuity of thought between the two renaissance periods. By noting...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789–1919

   By Amy Dunham Strand

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Examining language debates and literary texts from Noah Webster to H.L. Mencken and from Washington Irving to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this book demonstrates how gender arose in passionate discussions about language to address concerns about national identity and national citizenship elicited by...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Western Landscape in Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stegner

   Myths of the Frontier

   By Megan Riley McGilchrist

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   The western American landscape has always had great significance in American thinking, requiring an unlikely union between frontier mythology and the reality of a fragile western environment. Additionally it has borne the burden of being a gendered space, seen by some as the traditional "virgin...

   Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
6. The Black Female Body in American Literature and Art

   Performing Identity

   By Caroline Brown

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This book examines how African-American writers and visual artists interweave icon and inscription in order to re-present the black female body, traditionally rendered alien and inarticulate within Western discursive and visual systems. Brown considers how the writings of Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones,...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
7. Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Culture

   Edited by Robert Gregg, Gary W. McDonogh, Cindy H. Wong

   Series: Encyclopedias of Contemporary Culture

   As a meeting point for world cultures, the USA is characterized by its breadth and diversity. Acknowledging that diversity is the fundamental feature of American culture, this volume is organized around a keen awareness of race, gender, class and space and with over 1,200 alphabetically-arranged...

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
8. Intertextual and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cormac McCarthy

   Borders and Crossings

   Edited by Nicholas Monk

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

   This collection offers a fresh approach to the work of Cormac McCarthy, one of the most important contemporary American authors. Essays focus on his work across the genres and/or in constellation with other writers and artists, presenting not only a different "angle" on the work, but setting him...

   Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
9. Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction

   By Aliki Varvogli

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   This book offers a critical study and analysis of American fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It focuses on novels that ‘go outward’ literally and metaphorically, and it concentrates on narratives that take place mainly away from the US’s geographical borders. Varvogli draws on...

   Published October 9th 2011 by Routledge
10. The Harlem Renaissance in the American West

    The New Negro's Western Experience

    Edited by Cary D Wintz, Bruce Glasrud

    Series: New Directions in American History

    The Harlem Renaissance, an exciting period in the social and cultural history of the US, has over the past few decades re-established itself as a watershed moment in African American history. However, many of the African American communities outside the urban center of Harlem that participated in...

    Published September 18th 2011 by Routledge