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1. Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction

   By Aliki Varvogli

   This book offers a critical study and analysis of American novels that quite literally "go outward": it discusses books whose protagonists go abroad, and concentrates on narratives that take place mainly away from the US’s geographical borders. Contemporary American fiction has featured soldiers,...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-99582-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Sarah Kane

   By Chris Megson

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-45032-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Ernest Hemingway

   Edited by Henry Claridge

   Few twentieth-century American writers have been as influential as Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961). Whilst contemporaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner may be as widely taught and studied as Hemingway, neither had an influence on other writers—or indeed, the cognate arts—as great as...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-49120-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. Maria Irene Fornes

   By Scott T. Cummings

   Maria Irene Fornes provides an enlightening introduction to a pivotal figure in both Hispanic-American and experimental theater. From her theatrical origins in 1960s Cuba to her precedent plays for the US stage, this book presents an important guide of work of this politically-charged...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-45435-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. The Routledge Concise History of Science Fiction

   By Dr Mark Bould, Sherryl Vint

   Measured both in terms of the range of texts it encompasses and the number of academic publications it provokes, science fiction is one of the most significant areas of popular culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While ‘science fiction’ has an established common usage, close...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-43571-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Routledge Guide to William Shakespeare

   By Robert Shaughnessy

   William Shakespeare is one of the most widely studied and culturally significant writers of all time, and his language and thought remain interwoven through popular reference and imaginings of the Western canon. In this concise, structured guide, Robert Shaughnessy: introduces Shakespeare’s...

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-27540-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Poetry as Discourse

   By Antony Easthope

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-60687-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Pale Hecates Team:Briggs V 2

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-60691-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Fairies Trad Literature:Briggs

   December 2010 | 978-0-415-60692-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Gerard Manley Hopkins

    By Angus Easson

    The poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins was among the most innovative writing of the Victorian period. An experimental and idiosyncratic writer, his work remains important for any student of nineteenth-century literature and culture. Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Hopkins’ poetry...

    December 2010 | 978-0-415-27324-4 | Paperback (Routledge)