Literature & Gender Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. Politics and Aesthetics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf

   By Joanne Tidwell

   Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

   In this critical study, Tidwell examines the conflict of aesthetics and politics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf. As a modernist writer concerned with contemporary aesthetic theories, Woolf experimented with limiting the representative nature of writing. At the same time, as a feminist, Woolf wanted...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
4. 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
5. The Family in English Children’s Literature

   By Ann Alston

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   From the trials of families experiencing divorce, as in Anne Fine’s Madame Doubtfire, to the childcare problems highlighted in Jacqueline Wilson’s Tracy Beaker, it might seem that the traditional family and the ideals that accompany it have long vanished. However, in The Family in English Children’...

   Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
6. The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature

   By Holly Blackford

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   In this book, Blackford historicizes the appeal of the Persephone myth in the nineteenth century and traces figurations of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades throughout girls’ literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She illuminates developmental patterns and anxieties in E. T. A. Hoffmann...

   Published August 24th 2011 by Routledge
7. Into the Closet

   Cross-Dressing and the Gendered Body in Children's Literature and Film

   By Victoria Flanagan

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   Into the Closet examines the representation of cross-dressing in a wide variety of children’s fiction, ranging from picture books and junior fiction to teen films and novels for young adults. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the different types of cross-dressing found in children’s...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
8. Aesthetic Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Women's Food Writing

   The Innovative Appetites of M.F.K. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Elizabeth David

   By Alice McLean

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This book explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992), Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), and Elizabeth David (1913-1992). Growing up during a time when women's food writing was largely limited to the domestic cookbook, which helped to codify...

   Published July 26th 2011 by Routledge
9. Print, Visuality, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Satire

   “The Scope in Ev’ry Page”

   By Katherine Mannheimer

   Series: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

   This study interprets eighteenth-century satire’s famous typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenment’s "ocularcentric" epistemological paradigms, as well as to a print-cultural moment identified by book-historians as increasingly "visual" — a moment at which widespread...

   Published May 25th 2011 by Routledge
10. Crossing Gender in Shakespeare

    Feminist Psychoanalysis and the Difference Within

    By James W. Stone

    Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

    In this book, Stone effects a return to gender, after many years of neglect by Twenty-First-Century critics, via a methodology of close reading that foregrounds moments of sexual decentering and disequilibrium within the text and in the interstices of the dialogue between Shakespeare and his...

    Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge