Literature & Gender Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. 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 March 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. Literary Radicalism in India

   Gender, Nation and the Transition to Independence

   By Priyamvada Gopal

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   Literary Radicalism in India situates postcolonial Indian literature in relation to the hugely influential radical literary movements initiated by the Progressive Writers Association and the Indian People's Theatre Association. In so doing, it redresses a visible historical gap in studies of...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
3. Music and Gender in English Renaissance Drama

   By Katrine Wong

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   This book offers a survey of how female and male characters in English Renaissance theatre participated and interacted in musical activities, both inside and outside the contemporary societal decorum. Wong’s analysis broadens our understanding of the general theatrical representation of music, or...

   Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
4. Global Issues in Contemporary Hispanic Women's Writing

   Shaping Gender, the Environment, and Politics

   Edited by Estrella Cibreiro, Francisca López

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

   This collection explores the contributions of Hispanic women writers to ongoing Western debates on gender, power, ethics, and the environment, offering a wide range of essays that specifically portray the ways in which contemporary writers focus on issues of global impact in a deliberate and...

   Published November 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. Writing Beyond Race

   Living Theory and Practice

   By bell hooks

   What are the conditions needed for our nation to bridge cultural and racial divides? By "writing beyond race," noted cultural critic bell hooks models the constructive ways scholars, activists, and readers can challenge and change systems of domination. In the spirit of previous classics like...

   Published October 24th 2012 by Routledge
6. 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 October 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Female Romantics

   Nineteenth-century Women Novelists and Byronism

   By Caroline Franklin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   The nineteenth century is sometimes seen as a lacuna between two literary periods. In terms of women’s writing, however, the era between the death of Mary Wollstonecraft and the 1860s feminist movement produced a coherent body of major works, impelled by an ongoing dialogue between Enlightenment ‘...

   Published August 9th 2012 by Routledge
8. Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective

   By Anna Ball

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creative imagination. Drawing on concepts from postcolonial feminist theory, Ball analyses a range of literary and filmic works by major creative...

   Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge
9. German Romanticism and Science

   The Procreative Poetics of Goethe, Novalis, and Ritter

   By Jocelyn Holland

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   Situated at the intersection of literature and science, Holland's study draws upon a diverse corpus of literary and scientific texts which testify to a cultural fascination with procreation around 1800. Through readings which range from Goethe’s writing on metamorphosis to Novalis’s aphorisms and...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
10. Post-Revolutionary Chicana Literature

    Memoir, Folklore and Fiction of the Border, 1900–1950

    By Sam Lopez

    Series: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues

    This book examines how Chicana literature in three genres—memoir, folklore, and fiction—arose at the turn of the twentieth century in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Lopez examines three women writers and highlights their contributions to Chicana writing in its earliest years...

    Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge