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.
Cultural Heritage and the Literary Archive: Objects, Institutions, and Practices between the Analogue and the Digital
1st Edition
Edited
By Tim Sommer
May 21, 2026
Modern literary archives play a key role in how authors’ lives and works get canonized and consecrated as cultural heritage. This interdisciplinary volume combines literary studies, book history, textual criticism, heritage studies, archival theory, and the digital humanities to examine the past, ...
Multidisciplinary Representations of Home and Homeland in Diaspora
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean Amato, Kyunghee Pyun
May 21, 2026
This collection explores our fascination with homes across time, cultures, and disciplines while unpacking the relationship between private yearning and public belonging, illustrating the limitations and fluidity of identity and affiliation through the idea of homes and ancestral homelands. While ...
Stories of Love from Vikings to Tinder: The Evolution of Modern Mating Ideologies, Dating Dysfunction, and Demographic Collapse
1st Edition
By Mads Larsen
May 21, 2026
Increasing levels of singledom, dating dysfunction, and sexual inactivity contribute to plummeting fertility rates. This book investigates the perhaps most foundational factor behind this uncoupling: our present era’s ideology of love. Throughout human history, communities have shared fictional ...
A New Approach to Reading Videogames as Story: Virtual Cathedrals in an Age of Decadence
1st Edition
By Thomas Rowland
January 26, 2026
This book introduces a new methodology for understanding videogames, with particular attention to three types of videogames: toy-games, storybook games, and ludonarratives. This methodology pulls from phenomenological and deconstructionist roots, informed by medieval studies and the history of ...
Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film
1st Edition
By Tony Fabijančić
December 31, 2025
Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film explores four key types of anamorphic distortion in media across several centuries. Every work of art that involves anamorphosis invites the viewer or reader to decrypt its distortional elements, resolve confusion and seek understanding, ...
The Aesthetic Subject in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Literature: Thinking the Body-Thought
1st Edition
By Robert Hughes
December 26, 2025
Art makes its mark upon our flesh. It ravishes our eyes, invades our ears, and stirs our viscera; it commandeers our powers of attention and unsettles our body with its strangenesses. The event of art is thus an encounter both with a sensuous object and with ourselves, exposing us as subjects ...
Literature and Citizenship in the Age of Revolution: A Wish for Air and Liberty
1st Edition
By Mitchell Gauvin
December 25, 2025
Citizenship is at the forefront of popular imagination as political movements and state governments around the world traffic in anti-immigrant rhetoric and call for increased policing of borders. Literature and Citizenship in the Age of Revolution: A Wish for Air and Liberty looks back to a ...
Modern Fiction, Disability, and the Hearing Sciences
1st Edition
Edited
By Edward Allen
December 25, 2025
The relationship between critical disability studies and the hearing sciences is a dynamic one, and it’s changing still, both as clinicians come to terms with the evolving health of deaf and hearing communities and as the ‘social’ and ‘medical’ understandings of disability continue to gain traction...
The Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary Literature: A Study of Empathy in a Time of Global Crisis
1st Edition
By Tammy Amiel Houser
December 25, 2025
This book examines the relationship between empathy and neoliberalism as it unfolded in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and through the turbulent 2010s. Via close readings of contemporary novels, as well as various non-fictional texts, it traces the changing approaches to empathy in the ...
Negative Empathy in Literature and the Arts
1st Edition
By Stefano Ercolino, Massimo Fusillo
December 23, 2025
Negative Empathy in Literature and the Arts explores how readers and viewers engage cognitively and affectively with ethically troubling artworks across literature, the visual and performing arts, and screen media. Drawing on aesthetics, cultural history and theory, psychology, and neuroscience, ...
Narrating Multiplicities in Motion: The Transformative Power of Storytelling in Anglophone Cultures
1st Edition
Edited
By Elena Ogliari, Anna Pasolini, Carla Tempestoso
November 09, 2025
Narrating Multiplicities in Motion brings together a dynamic collection of interdisciplinary essays that explore storytelling as a powerful tool for resisting dominant narratives and imagining equitable futures. Grounded in Cultural Studies, English and Anglophone Literature, and Linguistics, the ...
Narratives of Hope and Despair: Ruin and Regeneration in Literature and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Johanna M. Wagner, Melanie Duckworth, Deanna Benjamin
October 13, 2025
In narratives of literature and cultural production, hope and despair remain fundamental in exploring our world. In recent years, political polarization, the Covid pandemic, global warming, and new and ongoing wars have contributed to global crises, to which despair is an understandable response. ...