Literature by Period 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. Modern Orthodoxies

   Judaic Imaginative Journeys of the Twentieth Century

   By Lisa Mulman

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This study introduces a genuine, provocative religious vocabulary into the discourse on Modernist art and literature. Mulman looks at key texts and figures of the Modern period, including Henry Roth, Amedeo Modigliani, James Joyce, and Art Spiegelman, revealing a significant engagement with the...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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
4. Womanism, Literature, and the Transformation of the Black Community, 1965–1980

   By Kalenda C. Eaton

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers, 1965–1980. By recognizing and often challenging prevailing cultural paradigms within the post-Civil Rights era, writers such as...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. Masculinity and the English Working Class

   Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction

   By Ying Lee

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   This book examines representations of working-class masculine subjectivity in Victorian autobiography and fiction. In it, Ying focuses on ideas of domesticity and the male body and demonstrates that working-class masculinities differ substantially from those of the widely studied upper classes...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. 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