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.
Reading Digital Fiction: Narrative, Cognition, Mediality
1st Edition
By Alice Bell, Astrid Ensslin
September 28, 2025
Reading Digital Fiction offers the first comprehensive and systematic theoretical, methodological, and analytical examination of digital fiction from a cognitive and empirical perspective. Proposing the new concept of “medial reading”, it argues for the centrality of an audience’s interest in, ...
Subversion and Conformity of Literary Collage: Between Cut and Glue
1st Edition
Edited
By Magda Dragu
September 28, 2025
Subversion and Conformity of Literary Collage: Between Cut and Glue fills a gap in the current scholarship on literary collage, by addressing how different the interpretations of the concept are, depending on the author who uses the concept and the material and writers surveyed. The book studies ...
Yuan Zhen’s New Music Bureau Poetry: Music and Ritual as Means of Governance
1st Edition
By Mei Ah Tan
September 24, 2025
This book is the first comprehensive study of the twelve New Music Bureau poems by the influential poet-official Yuan Zhen 元稹 (779–831) in comparison with the response poems of Bai Juyi 白居易 (772–846). Its new perspective on music and ritual reveals connections between Yuan’s poems that otherwise ...
Resistant Reproductions: Pregnancy and Abortion in British Literature and Film
1st Edition
By Fran Bigman
July 30, 2025
Resistant Reproductions asks why narratives of pregnancy and abortion emerged in the early twentieth century and what kinds of stories these narratives conveyed. Is it only once pregnancy becomes plannable that it becomes a story worth telling? Abortion is often considered resistant and feminist, ...
Mental Libraries: The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Julia Domínguez
June 12, 2025
Mental Libraries: The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture explores the enduring legacy of mnemonic systems across literature, visual arts, pedagogy, and cultural production. Centered on the metaphor of the “mental library,” this collection reveals how memory practices ...
E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism: Queer Matters
1st Edition
By Nour Dakkak
May 05, 2025
Through attending to the nonhuman, E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism: Queer Matters places Forster’s fiction in conversation with contemporary debates concerned with the intersection of neomaterialism, environmental humanities, and queer ecology. The book revisits Forster’s liberal humanism from a ...
Adaptation and Beyond: Hybrid Transtextualities
1st Edition
Edited
By Eva C. Karpinski, Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak
December 18, 2024
This interdisciplinary collection focuses on recent adaptations, both experimental and popular, that put hybridity, transtextuality, and transmediality at play. It reframes adaptation in terms of the transmedia concept of "world-building," which accurately captures the complexity and ...
Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film
1st Edition
Edited
By Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández, Miriam Fernández-Santiago
December 18, 2024
Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary and filmic representations of vulnerability depict embodied forms of vulnerability across languages, media, genres, countries, and traditions in the late 20th and ...
The Clouds: An Experiment in Theory-Fiction
1st Edition
By Stefano Gualeni
December 18, 2024
On a slow autumn afternoon, an atmospheric physicist working at the Malta Weather Station receives a surprising email from a colleague working in the United Kingdom: something troubling has apparently been detected during one of their research flights. The ensuing meteorological mystery is the ...
Late Churchill: Language from Crisis to Death
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
November 29, 2024
This book focuses on a close analysis of selected speeches of Winston Churchill in the House of Commons and some of the responses from fellow MPs from the middle of 1940 to the death of Churchill in 1965, speeches in war and peace, and concentrates on foreign affairs. The book will appeal to those ...
The Literary Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse: Psychoanalytic Readings of an American Tradition
1st Edition
By Beverly Haviland
November 29, 2024
This book examines the representation of child sexual abuse in five American novels written from 1850 to the present. The historical range of the novels shows that child sexual abuse is not a new problem, although it has been called by other names in other eras. The introduction explains what ...
Explorations of Spirituality in American Women's Literature: The Aging Woman in the Image of God
1st Edition
By Scarlett Cunningham
November 28, 2024
This book connects the aging woman to the image of God in the work of Flannery O’Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Alicia Ostriker, Lucille Clifton, Mary Szybist, and Anne Babson. It introduces a canon of contemporary American women’s spiritual literature with the goal of showing how this literature ...