Literary History Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. Editing Emily Dickinson

   The Production of an Author

   By Lena Christensen

   Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

   Editing Emily Dickinson considers the processes through which Dickinson's work has been edited in the twentieth century and how such editorial processes contribute specifically to the production of Emily Dickinson as author. The posthumous editing of her handwritten manuscripts into the...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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
4. Originality and Intellectual Property in the French and English Enlightenment

   Edited by Reginald McGinnis

   Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

   Are legal concepts of intellectual property and copyright related to artistic notions of invention and originality? Do literary and legal scholars have anything to learn from each other, or should the legal debate be viewed as separate from questions of aesthetics? Bridging what are usually...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. 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
6. Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

   By Mary McCartin Wearn

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Returning to a foundational moment in the history of the American family, Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how various authors of the period represented the maternal role – an office that came to a new, social prominence at the end of the eighteenth century....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Modernism and the Marketplace

   Literary Culture and Consumer Capitalism in Rhys, Woolf, Stein, and Nella Larsen

   By Alissa G. Karl

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Though the relationship of modernist writers and artists to mass-marketplaces and popular cultural forms is often understood as one of ambivalence if not antagonism, Modernism and the Marketplace redirects this established line of inquiry, considering the practical and conceptual interfaces between...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
8. Juvenile Literature and British Society, 1850-1950

   The Age of Adolescence

   By Charles Ferrall, Anna Jackson

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   In this study, Charles Ferrall and Anna Jackson argue that the Victorians created a concept of adolescence that lasted into the twentieth century and yet is strikingly at odds with post-Second World War notions of adolescence as a period of "storm and stress." In the enormously popular "juvenile"...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Children's Book Business

   Lessons from the Long Eighteenth Century

   By Lissa Paul

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   In The Children’s Book Business, Lissa Paul constructs a new kind of book biography. By focusing on Eliza Fenwick’s1805 product-placement novel, Visits to the Juvenile Library, in the context of Marjorie Moon’s 1990 bibliography, Benjamin Tabart’s Juvenile Library, Paul explains how twenty-first...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Victorian World

    Edited by Martin Hewitt

    Series: Routledge Worlds

    With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses political history, the history of ideas, cultural history and art history, The Victorian World offers a sweeping survey of the world in the nineteenth century. This volume offers a fresh evaluation of Britain and its global presence in the years...

    Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge