Literature by Period Books

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1. The Middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (Routledge Revivals)

   By Mehl Dieter

   First published in English in 1968, this book provides a critical guide to the wide field of the Middle english Romances and gives a helpful survey of the contemporary state of scholarship. Dr Mehl traces the development of Middle English Romances from thee thirteenth to the end of the...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-61088-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture: Celebrating Impurity, Disrupting Borders

   Edited by Ana Cristina Mendes

   In Salman Rushdie’s novels images are invested with the power to manipulate the plotline, to stipulate actions from the characters, to have sway over them, seduce them, or even lead them astray. Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture sheds light on this largely unremarked – even if central – dimension...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-88545-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. The Textual Condition of Late Nineteenth-Century Literature

   By Josephine Guy, Ian Small

   In this important new book, Guy and Small develop a new account of literary creativity in the late nineteenth century, one which combines concepts generated by text-theorists concerning the embodied nature of textuality with the empirical insights of text-editors and book historians. They pay...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-80612-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. 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)

5. Shakespeare, the Bible, and the History of the Material Book: Contested Scriptures

   Edited by Travis DeCook, Alan Galey

   Why do Shakespeare and the English Bible seem to have an inherent relationship with each other? How have these two monumental traditions in the history of the book functioned as mutually reinforcing sources of cultural authority? How do material books and related reading practices serve as specific...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-88350-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. Why the Middle Ages Matter

   Edited by Celia Chazelle, Simon Doubleday, Felice Lifshitz, Amy Remensnyder

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-78065-0 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Making Space in the Works of James Joyce

   Edited by Valerie Benejam, John Bishop

   James Joyce’s preoccupation with space—be it urban, geographic, stellar, geometrical or optical—is a central and idiosyncratic feature of his work. In this volume some of the most esteemed scholars in Joyce studies have come together to evaluate the perception and mental construction of space, as...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-99741-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

10. The Female Romantics: Nineteenth-century Women Novelists and Byronism

    By Caroline Franklin

    This study focuses on the dynamic interaction between Byron and Madame de Staël, Lady Morgan, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen; and the reaction to Byronism of the Brontës and Harriet Beecher Stowe. It thus challenges previous critics’ segregation of the male Romantic poets from their female peers,...

    February 2011 | 978-0-415-99541-2 | Hardback (Routledge)