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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. Corpus Stylistics and Dickens’s Fiction

   By Michaela Mahlberg

   This book presents a way into the Dickensian world that starts from linguistic patterns, employing corpus linguistic methodology to study electronic versions of his texts. The analysis begins with clusters -- i.e. repeated sequences of words -- as pointers to local textual functions, and...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-80014-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. The Routledge Concise History of World Literature

   By Theo D'Haen

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

5. Film and Literature: An Introduction and Reader

   Edited by TIMOTHY CORRIGAN

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-56010-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. The Postcolonial Gramsci

   Edited by Neelam Srivastava, Baidik BHATTACHARYA

   The importance of Antonio Gramsci’s work for postcolonial studies can hardly be exaggerated, and in this volume, contributors attempt to situate Gramsci's work in the vast and complex oeuvre of postcolonial studies. Specifically, The Postcolonial Gramsci endeavors to reassess the...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-87481-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. 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)

8. 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)

9. Sarah Kane

   By Chris Megson

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

10. A Concise History of Irish Literature

    By Gerardine Meaney

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