Interdisciplinary Literary Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Keats and Philosophy

   The Life of Sensations

   By Shahidha Bari

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   John Keats remains one of the most familiar and beloved of English poets, but has received surprisingly little critical attention in recent years. This study is a fresh contribution to Keats criticism and Romantic scholarship, positioning Keats as a figure of philosophical interest who warrants...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature

   By Laurel Plapp

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since Edward Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Travel Writing, Form, and Empire

   The Poetics and Politics of Mobility

   Edited by Julia Kuehn, Paul Smethurst

   Series: Routledge Research in Travel Writing

   This collection of essays is an important contribution to travel writing studies -- looking beyond the explicitly political questions of postcolonial and gender discourses, it considers the form, poetics, institutions and reception of travel writing in the history of empire and its aftermath....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England

   By Randall Martin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It offers an interdisciplinary analysis of female homicide in post-Reformation news formats ranging from ballads to newspapers. Individual cases are...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel

   The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning in the Era of Globalization

   By Stephen M. Levin

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel explores the themes of alienation and displacement in a genre of post-World War II novels that portrays the pursuit of an authentic travel experience in a culturally unfamiliar place. Levin explores two questions: why does travel to an "undiscovered"...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Literature and Development in North Africa

   The Modernizing Mission

   By Perri Giovannucci

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   The book examines how modern global development largely privileges Western multinational interests at the expense of local or indigenous concerns in the "developing" nations of the East. The practices of development have mostly led not to economic, social, and political progressivism in local...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture

   Pop Goth

   Edited by Justin Edwards, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This interdisciplinary collection brings together world leaders in Gothic Studies, offering dynamic new readings on popular Gothic cultural productions from the last decade. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: contemporary High Street Goth/ic fashion, Gothic performance and art...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
8. 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
9. Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater

   Upstaging Dictatorship

   By Ana Elena Puga

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   Memory, Allegory, and Testimony in South American Theater traces the shaping of a resistant identity in memory, its direct expression in testimony, and its indirect elaboration in two different kinds of allegory. Each chapter focuses on one contemporary playwright (or one collaborative...

   Published May 2nd 2012 by Routledge
10. New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality

    Edited by Ruth Page

    Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

    The contributors in this collection question what kinds of relationships hold between narrative studies and the recently established field of multimodality, evaluate how we might develop an analytical vocabulary which recognizes that stories do not consist of words alone, and demonstrate the...

    Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge