Literature: Products

By Barbara Ryan

First published in 1880, Lew Wallace’s Ben-Hur is one of the best-selling novels of all time. Employing analytical strategies from the fields of literature, fan studies, reception history, and media research, Barbara Ryan traces Ben-Hur’s popularity from 1880 to 1924. She analyzes fan mail as well…

Hardback – 2019-04-29 
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By Frances Restuccia

This volume develops the central (though neglected) Agambenian concept of nudity along with its crucial political implications. The book discovers within The Use of Bodies a philosophical path to Agamben’s "ontology of nudity," as it is subtended by his notion of the messianic—a dual temporality of…

Hardback – 2019-04-25 
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Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

By William Walker

Rather than treating the plays as objects to be studied, described and interpreted, Engagements with Shakespeare examines precisely what about Shakespeare’s plays is so special – why they continue to be discussed and performed all around the world. This book highlights the importance of our…

Paperback – 2019-04-23 
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Routledge Engagements with Literature

By Catherine G. Martin

Milton and the New Scientific Age represents significant advantages over all previous volumes on the subject of Milton and science, as it includes contributions from top scholars and prominent beginners in a broad number of fields. Most of these fields have long dominated work in both Milton and…

Hardback – 2019-04-23 
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Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

Edited by Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles, Sue Joseph

Still Here: Memoirs of Trauma, Illness and Loss explores the history, ethics, and cross-cultural range of memoirs focusing on illness, death, loss, displacement, and other experiences of trauma. From Walt Whitman’s Civil War diaries to kitchen table survivor-to-survivor storytelling following…

Hardback – 2019-04-23 
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Birgit Breidenbach, Thomas Docherty

Mood is a phenomenon whose study is inherently interdisciplinary. While it has remained resistant to theorisation, it nonetheless has a substantial influence on art, politics and society. Since its practical omnipresence in every-day life renders it one of the most significant aspects of affect…

Hardback – 2019-04-23 
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Warwick Series in the Humanities

By Peter L. Rudnytsky

In Formulated Experiences, Peter L. Rudnytsky continues his quest for a "re-vision" of psychoanalysis by coupling his revival of the unjustly neglected figure of Erich Fromm with his latest groundbreaking research on Ferenczi and Groddeck. Committed at once to a humanistic and to a literary…

Paperback – 2019-04-22 
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Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series

By Sarah J. Lippert

Offering an examination of the paragone, meaning artistic rivalry, in nineteenth-century France and England, this book considers how artists were impacted by prevailing aesthetic theories, or institutional and cultural paradigms, to compete in the art world. The paragone has been considered…

Hardback – 2019-04-19 
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Routledge Research in Art History

Edited by Sanjay Kumar, Satya P. Mohanty, Archana Kumar, Raj Kumar

The conception of modernity as a radical rupture from the past runs parallel to the conception of Europe as the primary locus of global history. The essays in this volume contest the temporal and spatial divisions—between past and present, modernity and tradition, and Europe’s progress and…

Hardback – 2019-04-19 
Routledge India

Edited by Nina Morgan, Alfred Hornung, Takayuki Tatsumi

The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies provides scholars and students of American Studies with theoretical and applied essays that help to define Transnational American Studies as a discipline and practice. In more than 30 essays, the volume offers a history of the concept of…

Hardback – 2019-04-17 
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Routledge Literature Companions

By Angharad Saunders

The act of writing is intimately bound up with the flow and eddy of a writer’s being-within-the-world; the everyday practices, encounters and networks of social life. Exploring the geographies of literary practice in the period 1840-1910, this book takes as its focus the work, or craft, of…

Paperback – 2019-04-17 
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Studies in Historical Geography

By Clara A.B. Joseph

By studying the history and sources of the Thomas Christians of India, a community of pre-colonial Christian heritage, the book revisits the assumption that Christianity is Western and colonial and that Christians in the non-West are products of colonial and post-colonial missionaries. Christians…

Hardback – 2019-04-16 
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Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy