Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to literary studies, it engages with topics such as philosophy, science, race, gender, film, music, and ecology. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Narrative, Cognition, and Community: The Human Reader
1st Edition
By Paula Leverage
November 12, 2026
Narrative, Cognition, and Community: The Human Reader explores the relationship between literature, cognition, and lived experience, asking why we read and what happens when we do. Bringing literary studies into dialogue with cognitive science, psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience, it shows how...
A Deweyan Approach to Teaching Literary Inquiry
1st Edition
By Richard James Johnson
October 02, 2026
Drawing upon the work of philosopher John Dewey, A Deweyan Approach to Teaching Literary Inquiry describes an inquiry-based, process-oriented approach to making meaning from literary texts. Beginning with a Deweyan examination of why we teach literature, the book then presents its central argument:...
Aesthetics of the Novel: Beyond Bakhtin
1st Edition
By Luis Beltrán Almería
September 18, 2026
Aesthetics of the Novel: Beyond Bakhtin examines the history of the novel through the diverse aesthetic currents that this literary genre has adopted from antiquity to the present day. Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's aesthetic theory, this work provides a comprehensive overview of the Western novel ...
Nature and Narrative: Rhetoric and Design in Contemporary Fiction
1st Edition
By Markku Lehtimäki
August 27, 2026
The book explores environmental issues in twenty-first-century Anglophone fiction and how those issues are dealt with by specific literary means. It proposes a reciprocal relationship between nature and narrative—the idea according to which nature both informs and inspires artistic creations, while...
Teaching Text Technologies and Critical Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Objects of Study
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Heritage, Donna A. C. Sy
August 27, 2026
Teaching Text Technologies and Critical Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Objects of Study is a richly illustrated volume consisting of 23 methods-based chapters discussing innovative and often experimental approaches to hands-on teaching with material texts. Featuring 47 contributors whose work ...
Charlie Kaufman’s Möbius Strip: Film, Philosophy and Literary Theory
1st Edition
By Colm O’Shea
July 20, 2026
Charlie Kaufman’s Möbius Strip: Film, Philosophy and Literary Theory presents Kaufman’s diagnosis of alienation and corruption in the modern age as a fundamentally spiritual malady. Each chapter builds on a theological or metaphysical idea, drawing from thinkers as diverse as Kierkegaard, Kafka, ...
Reading Contemporary India: An Interdisciplinary Enquiry into Sociocultural Issues
1st Edition
By MK Raghavendra
July 20, 2026
The book is the first ever attempt to examine various sociocultural aspects of contemporary India, ranging from caste and hierarchy and the religious or political conflict resulting from it to literary practice and intellectual life in the public space and making interdisciplinary associations. It ...
Tolstoy's Search for the Kingdom of God: Gender and Queer Anarchism
1st Edition
By Javier Sethness Castro
July 20, 2026
Building on its predecessor, Queer Tolstoy: A Psychobiography (2023), this book uncovers queer-anarchist dimensions of the second half of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy's life (1828–1910) and of the Russian writer's later art-works. It features queer-friendly readings of Anna Karenina (1875–1877), ...
Reading Food in Literature, Film and Other Imaginative Texts: Gastrocriticism
1st Edition
By Anke Klitzing
July 14, 2026
Reading Food in Literature, Film and Other Imaginative Texts is the first dedicated guide to gastrocriticism – an emerging interdisciplinary, critical framework for investigating food, drinks and foodways in literature, film and other imaginative texts. Organised into three comprehensive sections, ...
Nature, Literature and Culture: Affinities, Influences, Lives and Ideas
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
June 18, 2026
Nature, Literature and Culture: Affinities, Influences, Lives and Ideas explores the profound connections between scientific inquiry and literary expression across generations of thinkers and writers. In poetry, Erasmus Darwin attempts to decode the mysteries of botany and geology, while through ...
Beyond Resilience in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: Research on Critical Terms
1st Edition
Edited
By Hannah Grayson
June 10, 2026
Beyond Resilience in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: Research on Critical Terms examines the stakes of public discourse on how people respond to crisis. This interdisciplinary volume examines multilingual critical alternatives to the all-pervasive language of “resilience” and “crisis”. ...
Beat Film, Beat Writers
1st Edition
By David Stephen Calonne
May 21, 2026
Beat Film, Beat Writers is the first monograph to analyze the films of Christopher Maclaine, Lawrence Jordan, ruth weiss, Ron Rice, Robert Frank, Barbara Rubin, Shirley Clarke, William S. Burroughs, and Joanne Kyger. The book is noteworthy for its emphasis on women filmmakers who have traditionally...