Literary Genres 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. 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
3. Beyond Cyberpunk

   New Critical Perspectives

   Edited by Graham J. Murphy, Sherryl Vint

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

   In this collection of essays, contributors consider the continuing cultural relevance of the cyberpunk genre into the new millennium. Cyberpunk is no longer an emergent phenomenon, but in our digital age of CGI-driven entertainment, the information economy, and globalized capital, we have never...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science

   Edited by Bruce Clarke, Manuela Rossini

   Series: Routledge Companions

   With forty-four newly commissioned articles from an international cast of leading scholars, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science traces the network of connections among literature, science, technology, mathematics, and medicine. Divided into three main sections, this volume: links...

   Published April 18th 2012 by Routledge
5. Novel and Romance 1700-1800 (Routledge Revivals)

   A Documentary Record

   By Ioan Williams

   The documents collected in this volume, first published in 1970, trace the development of novel criticism during one of the most formative periods in the history of fiction: from 1700-1800. The material includes prefaces to collections, translations and original novels; essays written for journals...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
6. Sir Walter Scott on Novelists and Fiction (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Ioan Williams

   First published in 1968, this collection of essays and reviews represents all that Sir Walter Scott wrote on the subject of novels and novelists, and will be invaluable for the study of Scott, both as novelist and critic. The work provides a survey of the novel at an important...

   Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
7. English Tragedy before Shakespeare

   The Development of Dramatic Speech

   By Wolfgang Clemen

   First published in English 1961, this reissue relates the problems of form and style to the development of dramatic speech in pre-Shakespearean tragedy. The work offers positive standards by which to assess the development of pre-Shakespearean drama and, by tracing certain characteristics in...

   Published March 1st 2012 by Routledge
8. Poetic Language and Political Engagement in the Poetry of Keats

   By Jack L. Siler

   Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

   In this incisive volume Siler traces the uneasy relationship between the content of Keats' poems and social history. In the process, he discovers that the early poems are linked with the mission statement of the radical journal Annals of the Fine Arts, whilst the poems after Endymion reveal a...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Both Sides of the Circle

   The Autobiography of Christmas Humphreys

   By Christmas Humphreys

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1978, Christmas Humphrey’s autobiography presents the fascinating history of a life rich and varied in both private and in public. Spanning seven decades it touches on many events of historical interest in which he was personally involved. Among them the abdication of Edward VIII...

   Published February 21st 2012 by Routledge
10. An Accident of Hope

    The Therapy Tapes of Anne Sexton

    By Dawn M. Skorczewski

    In 1956, Anne Sexton was admitted into a mental hospital for post-partum depression, where she met Dr. Martin Orne, a young psychiatrist who treated her for the next eight years. In that time Sexton would blossom into a world-famous poet, best known for her "confessional" poems dealing...

    Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge