Literature by Geographic Area Books

New and Published Books

1. Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction

   By Judie Newman

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   This book examines the quest for/failure of Utopia across a range of contemporary American/transnational fictions in relation to terror and globalization through authors such as Susan Choi, André Dubus, Dalia Sofer, and John Updike. While recent critical thinkers have reengaged with Utopia, the...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. Youth of Darkest England

   Working-Class Children at the Heart of Victorian Empire

   By Troy Boone

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This book examines the representation of English working-class children — the youthful inhabitants of the poor urban neighborhoods that a number of writers dubbed "darkest England" — in Victorian and Edwardian imperialist literature. In particular, Boone focuses on how the writings for and about...

   Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Epic Trickster in American Literature

   From Sunjata to So(u)l

   By Gregory E. Rutledge

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upon the archetypal binary of Trickster/Epic, with trickster aesthetics and commensurate cultural forms...

   Published December 20th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Postsecular Imagination

   Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature

   By Manav Ratti

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. While secularism and religion can foster inspiration and creativity, they also can be...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
5. AIDS Literature and Gay Identity

   The Literature of Loss

   By Monica Pearl

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This book discusses the significance of late twentieth century and early twenty first century American fiction written in response to the AIDS crisis and interrogates how sexual identity is depicted and constructed textually. Pearl develops Freudian psychoanalytic theory in a complex account of the...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
6. Stanley Cavell, Literature, and Film

   The Idea of America

   Edited by Andrew Taylor, Áine Kelly

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This is the first book to offer a thorough examination of the relationship that Stanley Cavell’s celebrated philosophical work has to the ways in which the United States has been imagined and articulated in its literature. Establishing the contours of Cavell’s most significant readings of American...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
7. American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship

   Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons

   Edited by Joni Adamson, Kimberly N. Ruffin

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This collection reclaims public intellectuals and scholars important to the foundational work in American Studies that contributed to emerging conceptions of an "ecological citizenship" advocating something other than nationalism or an "exclusionary ethics of place." Co-editors Adamson and Ruffin...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
8. Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature

   Edited by Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

   Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches including trauma theory, psychoanalysis, genre theory, narrative theory, theories of temporality, cultural theory, and ethics, this book breaks new ground in bringing together trauma and romance, two categories whose collaboration has never been...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
9. Civility and Empire

   Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921

   By Anindyo Roy

   Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

   This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Come and Leonard Woolf's writings show how the...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. Beatrix Potter

    Writing in Code

    By M. Daphne Kutzer

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    Beatrix Potter was one of the inventors of the contemporary picture book, and her small novels published at the turn of the twentieth century are still available and popular today. Writing in Code is the first book-length study of Potter's work, and it covers the entire oeuvre. Daphne Kutzer...

    Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge