Language & Literature Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Retelling Stories, Framing Culture

   Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature

   By John Stephens, Robyn McCallum

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Entropy Exhibition (Routledge Revivals)

   Michael Moorcock and the British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction

   By Colin Greenland

   When first published in 1983 The Entropy Exhibition was the first critical assessment of the literary movement known as ‘New Wave’ science fiction. It examines the history of the New Worlds magazine and its background in the popular imagination of the 1960s, traces the strange history of sex in...

   Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Heyday of Sir Walter Scott (Routledge Revivals)

   By Donald Davie

   First published in 1961, this book examines a number of works popular in the Romantic period, during the heyday of Sir Walter Scott in the early part of the nineteenth century. Encompassing works by the likes of Alexander Pushkin, Sir Walter Scott, Adam Mickiewicz and James Fenimore Cooper, this...

   Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
4. A Gathered Church (Routledge Revivals)

   The Literature of the English Dissenting Interest, 1700-1930

   By Donald Davie

   First published in 1978, this study considers the impact of dissenting voices upon literature, religion and politics in order to reassess the nonconformist contribution to English culture from the eighteenth century through to the twentieth. This historical survey takes into the account the...

   Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
5. Reading the Early Modern Dream

   The Terrors of the Night

   Edited by Sue Wiseman, Katharine Hodgkin, Michelle O'Callaghan

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   Dreams have been significant in many different cultures, carrying messages about this world and others, posing problems about knowledge, truth, and what it means to be human. This thought-provoking collection of essays explores dreams and visions in early modern Europe, canvassing the place of the...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
6. Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature

   By Laurel Plapp

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since Edward Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Editing Emily Dickinson

   The Production of an Author

   By Lena Christensen

   Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

   Editing Emily Dickinson considers the processes through which Dickinson's work has been edited in the twentieth century and how such editorial processes contribute specifically to the production of Emily Dickinson as author. The posthumous editing of her handwritten manuscripts into the...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
8. Negotiating the Modern

   Orientalism and Indianness in the Anglophone World

   By Amit Ray

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   This book explicates long-standing literary celebrations of 'India' and 'Indian-ness' by charting a cultural history of Indianness in the Anglophone world, locating moments (in intellectual, religious and cultural history) where India and Indianness are offered up as solutions to modern moral,...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
9. Parsing the City

   Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, and City Comedy's London as Language

   By Heather Easterling

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Parsing the City updates our understanding of Jacobean city comedy’s discursive role in its London society. Working with three major plays by Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, this book develops an updated reading of Jacobean city comedy as a dramatic subgenre whose...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
10. Telicity and Durativity

    A Study of Aspect in Dëne Suliné (Chipewyan) and German

    By Andrea Luise Wilhelm

    Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics

    This book studies the linguistic representation of events by examining the relevance of two salient event characteristics-- telicity and durativity-- to the grammatical system of natural language. The study of events, and of event characteristics, is an important testing ground for theories on the...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge