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You are currently browsing 1–10 of 132 new and published books in the subject of Literary History — sorted by publish date from newer books to older books.

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New and Published Books

  1. Reading the Early Modern Dream

    The Terrors of the Night

    Edited by Sue Wiseman, Katharine Hodgkin, Michelle O'Callaghan

    Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

    Dreams have been significant in many different cultures, carrying messages about this world and others, posing problems about knowledge, truth, and what it means to be human. This thought-provoking collection of essays explores dreams and visions in early modern Europe, canvassing the place of the...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge

  2. 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 March 21st 2013 by Routledge

  3. Abolitionist Places

    Edited by Martha Schoolman, Jared Hickman

    From David Brion Davis's The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution to Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic, some of the most influential conceptualizations of the Atlantic World have taken the movements of individuals and transnational organizations working to advocate the abolition of slavery as...

    Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Black Women in New South Literature and Culture

    By Sherita L. Johnson

    Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

    Using the "the Negro Problem" in African American literature as a point of departure, this book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans, specifically those in the South. Although the South has been one of the most enduring sites of criticism in...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion

    'Our Feverish Contact'

    By Allan Conrad Christensen

    Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

    This intriguing book examines the ways contagion - or disease - inform and shape a wide variety of nineteenth century texts and contexts. Christensen dissects the cultural assumptions concerning disease, health, impurity and so on before exploring different perspectives on key themes such as...

    Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge

  6. John Brown and the Era of Literary Confrontation

    By Michael Stoneham

    Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

    Radical abolitionist and freedom-fighter John Brown inspired literary America to confrontation during his short but dramatic career as a public figure in antebellum America. Emerging from obscurity during the violent struggle to determine how Kansas would enter the Union in 1856, John Brown...

    Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge

  7. The Stubborn Structure (Routledge Revivals)

    Essays on Criticism and Society

    By Northrop Frye

    First published in 1970, this collection is made up of a selection of essays composed between 1962 and 1968, written by distinguished humanist and literary critic Northrop Frye. The book is divided into two parts: one deals largely with the contexts of literary criticism; the other offers more...

    Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Epic

    By Paul Innes

    Series: The New Critical Idiom

    This student guidebook offers a clear introduction to an often complex and unwieldy area of literary studies. Tracing epic from its ancient and classical roots through postmodern and contemporary examples this volume discusses: a wide range of writers including Homer, Vergil, Ovid, Dante,...

    Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Imagining the Pagan Past

    Gods and Goddesses in Literature and History since the Dark Ages

    By Marion Gibson

    Imagining the Pagan Past explores stories of Britain’s pagan history. These tales have been characterised by gods and fairies, folklore and magic. They have had an uncomfortable relationship with the scholarly world; often being seen as historically dubious, self-indulgent romance and, worse,...

    Published January 22nd 2013 by Routledge

  10. 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

Forthcoming Books

  1. An Introduction to Literary Studies, 3rd Edition
    By Mario Klarer
    To Be Published June 9th 2013
  2. Metafiction in Classical Literature: The Invention of Self-Conscious Fiction
    By Owen Hodkinson
    To Be Published June 29th 2013
  3. Apuleius and Africa
    Edited by Benjamin Todd Lee, Ellen Finkelpearl, Luca Graverini
    To Be Published June 29th 2013
  4. American Literature: A History
    By Hans Bertens, Theo D'haen
    To Be Published July 29th 2013
  5. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    Edited by Clara Dawson
    To Be Published September 14th 2013

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