Women’s and Gender Studies: Literature & Gender Studies

Edited by Kavita Daiya

This book explores the field of Comics Studies in South Asia, illuminating an art form in which there has been a much-documented explosion of recent interest. A diverse group of scholars from Asia, Europe, and North America examine aesthetics, politics, and ideology in sequential art about South…

Hardback – 2019-11-19
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By Roger Emerson Moore

Jane Austen's England was littered with remnants of medieval religion. From her schooling in the gatehouse of Reading Abbey to her visits to cousins at Stoneleigh Abbey, Austen faced constant reminders of the wrenching religious upheaval that reordered the English landscape just 250 years before…

Paperback – 2019-11-11
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By Kate G. Harper

Out of Reach: The Ideal Girl in American Girls’ Serial Literature traces the journey of the ideal girl through American girls’ series in the twentieth century. Who is the ideal girl? In what ways does the trope of the ideal girl rely on the exclusion and erasure of Othered girls? How does the…

Hardback – 2019-11-08
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Children's Literature and Culture

Edited by Stephen Clucas

This title was first published in 2003. This collection of essays presents a variety of new approaches to the oeuvre of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, one of the most influential and controversial women writers of the seventeenth century. Reflecting the full range of Cavendish's output -…

Paperback – 2019-11-04
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Routledge Revivals

By Kendra Reynolds

This monograph aims to counter the assumption that the anti-tale is a ‘subversive twin’ or dark side of the fairy tale coin, instead it argues that the anti-tale is a genre rich in complexity and radical potential that fundamentally challenges the damaging ideologies and socializing influence of…

Hardback – 2019-10-24
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

By Valerie Rohy

This innovative work makes use of psychoanalytic, queer, and narrative theories to read nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and demonstrate how the concept of contingency—whether chance, accident, luck, or mutation—enriches our understanding of how queer sexualities are articulated…

Paperback – 2019-10-23
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By Maisha S. Akbar

Preaching the Blues: Black Feminist Performance in Lynching Plays examines several lynching plays to foreground black women’s performances as non-normative subjects who challenge white supremacist ideology. Maisha S. Akbar re-maps the study of lynching drama by examining plays that are contingent…

Hardback – 2019-10-08
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By Marina Perez de Mendiola

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…

Paperback – 2019-10-02
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Latin American Studies

By Helen C. Scott

In this forceful study, Helen C. Scott situates The Tempest within Marxist analyses of the ‘primitive accumulation’ of capital, which she suggests help explain the play’s continued and particular resonance.　The ‘storm’ of the title refers both to Shakespeare’s Tempest hurtling through time, and to…

Hardback – 2019-09-26
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By Tulasi Acharya

This book explores the sex lives of women with disabilities in Nepal, showing that many women suffer more than men despite prevailing disability policies that emphasize nondiscrimination against people with disabilities. It also argues that far from general perceptions of women as asexual,…

Hardback – 2019-08-27
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Routledge ISS Gender, Sexuality and Development Studies

By Sarah Ailwood

This book illuminates Jane Austen’s exploration of masculinity through the courtship romance genre in the socially, politically and culturally turbulent Romantic era. Austen scrutinises, satirises, censures and ultimately rewrites dominant modes of masculinity through the courtship romance plot…

Hardback – 2019-08-20
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Routledge Studies in Romanticism

By Jade Munslow Ong

This book works across established categories of modernism and postcolonialism in order to radically revise the periods, places, and topics traditionally associated with anti-colonialism and aesthetic experimentation in African literature. The book is the first account of Olive Schreiner as a…

Paperback – 2019-07-29
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