Literary/Critical Theory Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature

   By Laurel Plapp

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since Edward Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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
4. Travel Writing, Form, and Empire

   The Poetics and Politics of Mobility

   Edited by Julia Kuehn, Paul Smethurst

   Series: Routledge Research in Travel Writing

   This collection of essays is an important contribution to travel writing studies -- looking beyond the explicitly political questions of postcolonial and gender discourses, it considers the form, poetics, institutions and reception of travel writing in the history of empire and its aftermath....

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. 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
6. 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
7. Literature and Development in North Africa

   The Modernizing Mission

   By Perri Giovannucci

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   The book examines how modern global development largely privileges Western multinational interests at the expense of local or indigenous concerns in the "developing" nations of the East. The practices of development have mostly led not to economic, social, and political progressivism in local...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. 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
9. Language and History in Adorno's Notes to Literature

   By Ulrich Plass

   Series: Studies in Philosophy

   Plass argues that Adorno’s essays on literature are of prime importance for an understanding of his aesthetics because they challenge the conceptual limitations of philosophical discourse....

   Published May 7th 2012 by Routledge
10. New Directions in Picturebook Research

    Edited by Teresa Colomer, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, Cecilia Silva-Díaz

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    In this new collection, children’s literature scholars from twelve different countries contribute to the ongoing debate on the importance of picturebook research, focusing on aesthetic and cognitive aspects of picture books. Contributors take interdisciplinary approaches that integrate different...

    Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge