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1. Tolstoy's Political Thought

   By Alexandre Christoyannopoulos

   Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), besides writing famous novels such as War and Peace, also wrote on political thought, especially later in his life, putting forward a political philosophy which might be termed "Christian anarchism". This book provides a comprehensive overview of Tolstoy’s political thought...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-60402-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. 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)

3. The Routledge Concise History of World Literature

   By Theo D'Haen

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-49589-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. The Harlem Renaissance in the American West: The New Negro's WEstern Experience

   Edited by Cary D Wintz, Bruce A. Glasrud

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-88688-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. A Concise History of Irish Literature

   By Gerardine Meaney

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-46791-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Native American Writing

   Edited by A. Robert Lee

   As scholarly work on and around the literary output of Native Americans flourishes as never before, this new four-volume collection, co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to help users make sense of the subject’s vast literature and ...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-58895-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. Hesitancy and Experimentation in Enlightenment Spain and Spanish America

   Edited by Ann L Mackenzie, Jeremy Robbins

   This volume of essays is published in memory of Ivy L. McClelland, a pioneer woman scholar (1908-2006) whose books on Enlightenment culture and ideology have been internationally influential in developing scholarly understanding of eighteenth-century Spain and the rest of Europe. Besides an...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-60364-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. The Postcolonial Secular: God and Country in South Asian Anglophone Fiction

   By Manav Ratti

   Through an intimate, literary conjunction of religion and politics, this book theorizes the emergence of a "post-secular" condition of the contemporary world, in which organized, conventional religion has failed politically. Nationalism has also had its failures after decolonization in the...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-48097-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing

   By Margarita Marinova

   This book examines the diverse practices of crossing boundaries, tactics of translation, and experiences of double and multiple political and national attachments, evident in textual products of Russo-American travel encounters during an understudied period (from the end of the American Civil War...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-88271-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature: Critiquing Class

    Edited by Michelle Tokarczyk

    In this collection, contributors take a critical look at American working-class literature. Drawing upon theories of media studies, postcolonial studies, masculinity studies, and Marxism, contributors look at texts including Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer and Tom Wolfe's I Am...

    April 2011 | 978-0-415-88546-1 | Hardback (Routledge)