Welcome to the Routledge Literature Research online catalogue. We hope you find this new format easy to use – there are a number of new functions which should help you whilst browsing.
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This catalogue represents a small selection of our list, to see our full range of titles visit: www.routledge.com/literature.
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Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature is the first scholarly volume on the topic, connecting children's literature to the burgeoning discipline of food studies. Following the lead of historians like Mark Kurlansky, Jeffrey Pilcher and Massimo Montanari, who use food as a fundamental...
Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
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The Cinema and the Origins of Literary Modernism
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
Modernist writing has always been linked with cinema. The recent renaissance in early British film studies has allowed cinema to emerge as a major historical context for literary practice. Treating cinema as a historical rather than an aesthetic influence, this book analyzes the role of early...
Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
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Postcolonial Audiences
Readers, Viewers and Reception
Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
Without readers and audiences, viewers and consumers, the postcolonial would be literally unthinkable. And yet, postcolonial critics have historically neglected the modes of reception and consumption that make up the politics, and pleasures of meaning-making during and after empire. Thus, while...
Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
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Radical Shakespeare
Politics and Stagecraft in the Early Career
Series: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
This book argues that Shakespeare was permanently preoccupied with the brutality, corruption, and ultimate groundlessness of the political order of his state, and that the impact of original Tudor censorship, supplemented by the relatively depoliticizing aesthetic traditions of later centuries,...
Published October 24th 2011 by Routledge
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Crossover Picturebooks
A Genre for All Ages
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
This book situates the picturebook genre within the widespread international phenomenon of crossover literature, examining an international corpus of picturebooks — including artists’ books, wordless picturebooks, and celebrity picturebooks — that appeal to readers of all ages. Focusing on...
Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
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The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture
Pop Goth
Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
This interdisciplinary collection brings together world leaders in Gothic Studies, offering dynamic new readings on popular Gothic cultural productions from the last decade. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: contemporary High Street Goth/ic fashion, Gothic performance and art...
Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
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Locating Gender in Modernism
The Outsider Female
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
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Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture
The Devil in the Latrine
Series: Routledge Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture
This important new contribution to the history of the body analyzes the role of filth as the material counterpart of sin in medieval thought. Using a wide range of texts, including theology, historical documents, and literature from Augustine to Chaucer, the book shows how filth was regarded as...
Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge

