Literature: Products

By Janelle Rodriques

This book explores representations of Obeah, a name used in the English/Creole-speaking Caribbean to describe various African-inspired, syncretic Caribbean religious practices, across a range of prose fictions published in the twentieth century. In the Caribbean and its diasporas, Obeah often…

Hardback – 2019-03-08 
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By Anne Brewster, Sue Kossew

This book is the first to examine gender and violence in Australian literature. It argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gendered violence, bringing this often private and suppressed issue into the public sphere. It draws on…

Hardback – 2019-03-07 
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Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

Edited by Ricki Ginsberg, Wendy J. Glenn

With a focus on fostering democratic, equitable education for young people, Ginsberg and Glenn’s engaging text showcases a wide variety of innovative, critical classroom approaches that extend beyond traditional literary theories commonly used in K-12 and higher education classrooms and provides…

Paperback – 2019-03-07 
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Edited by Delphine Munos, Bénédicte Ledent

Moving beyond the postcolonial literature field’s traditional focus on the novel, this book shines a light on the "minor" genres in which postcolonial issues are also explored. The contributors examine the intersection of generic issues with postcolonial realities in regions such as South Africa,…

Hardback – 2019-03-07 
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Edited by Daniel O'Quinn, Kristina Straub, Misty G. Anderson

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances, beginning with Nell Gwyn in a 1668 staging of　Secret Love, and moving chronologically towards the final performance of John Philip Kemble's…

Paperback – 2019-03-04 
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By Alice Wood

This book explores the treatment of modernism and modernity in early twentieth-century British women’s magazines. It expands recent research into the diverse markets and publication outlets through which literary modernism circulated by tracing modernism’s presence in commercial magazines that have…

Hardback – 2019-03-01 
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Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

By Silvia Dapia

Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) was born and lived in Poland for the first half of his life but spent twenty-four years as an émigré in Argentina before returning to Europe to live in West Berlin and finally Vence, France. His works have always been of interest to those studying Polish or Argentinean…

Hardback – 2019-03-01 
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Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

By Linda C. Mitchell

As this lively new study effectively demonstrates, dictionaries serve as far more than just simple reference tools-they also offer a rich fund of information about people in society. Before now, the extent to which dictionaries encode social history, as opposed to merely relaying linguistic…

Hardback – 2019-02-28 
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By Tim Crook

Assessing the quality and representation of George Orwell on the radio - the radio dramas he wrote himself and the dramatizations and documentaries of his fiction and nonfiction by others - this book explores the interaction of Orwell’s fiction, journalism and documentary writing with the audio/…

Hardback – 2019-02-28 
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Edited by Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Roy Porter

First published in 1993. Although today, medicine and literature are widely seen as falling on different sides of the ‘two cultures’ divide, this was not so in the eighteenth century when doctors, scientists, writers and artists formed a well-integrated educate elite. This book uncovers the…

Paperback – 2019-02-28 
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Routledge Revivals

Edited by Isabel Jaen Portillo, Julien J. Simon

The interrelation of mind and literature is a relatively unexplored topic in the field of early modern studies. Moreover, there has been insufficient dialogue between humanists and scientists on how fictional and scientific accounts of the mind contribute together to the view that early modern…

Hardback – 2019-02-28 
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Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

By Alison Smith

This title was first published in 2000:  John Petts (1914-1991) is one of the outstanding wood-engravers of the twentieth century. His stunning prints featuring Welsh mountains and the people who live amongst them reflect his deep concern for the history of the land and are distinguished by…

Paperback – 2019-02-28 
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Routledge Revivals