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Edited by Pamela Moss, Courtney Donovan

Intimacy, expressed through the feelings and sensations of the researcher, is bound up in the work of a feminist geographer. Tapping into this intimacy and including it in academic writing facilitates　a　grasping of the effects of power in particular places and initiates a discussion about how to…

Hardback – 2017-03-06
Routledge

Edited by Angelia Mui Cheng Poon, Angus Whitehead

Since the nation-state sprang into being in 1965, Singapore literature in English has blossomed energetically, and yet there have been few books focusing on contextualizing and analyzing Singapore literature despite the increasing international attention garnered by Singaporean writers. This volume…

Hardback – 2017-03-06
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

Edited by Shirley Sharon-Zisser

Despite the outpour of interpretations, from critics of all schools, on Shakespeare's dramatic works and other poetic works, A Lover's Complaint has been almost totally ignored by criticism. This collection of essays is designed to bring to the poem the attention it deserves for its beauty, its…

Paperback – 2017-03-06
Routledge

Edited by Naomi J. Miller, Naomi Yavneh

While the relationships between parents and children have long been a staple of critical inquiry, bonds between siblings have received far less attention among early modern scholars. Indeed, until now, no single volume has focused specifically on relations between brothers and sisters during the…

Paperback – 2017-03-06
Routledge
Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

By Shelley Saguaro

Shelley Saguaro's unique book illustrates the persistent presence of gardens in literature. Gardens in fiction do not simply represent a familiar theme, Saguaro contends, but are bound up with wider aesthetic and ideological issues. As with literary forms, so too are gardens subject to…

Paperback – 2017-03-06
Routledge

By Kelly Hager

Questioning a literary history that, since Ian Watt's Rise of the Novel, has privileged the courtship plot, Kelly Hager proposes an equally powerful but overlooked narrative focusing on the failed marriage. Hager maps the legal history of marriage and divorce, providing crucial background as she…

Paperback – 2017-02-27
Routledge

By Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet

Taking as its point of departure recent insights about the performative nature of genre, The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic challenges the critical tendency to accept at face value that gothic literature is mainly about fear. Instead, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet argues that the American…

Paperback – 2017-02-27
Routledge

By Zoë Kinsley

Between the late seventeenth and the early nineteenth century, the possibilities for travelling within Britain became increasingly various owing to improved transport systems and the popularization of numerous tourist spots. Women Writing the Home Tour, 1682-1812 examines women's participation in…

Paperback – 2017-02-27
Routledge

By David M. Robinson

Arguing for renewed attention to covert same-sex-oriented writing (and to authorial intention more generally), this study explores the representation of female and male homosexuality in late sixteenth- through mid-eighteenth-century British and French literature. The author also uncovers and…

Paperback – 2017-02-27
Routledge

By Cristina León Alfar

How does a woman become a whore? What are the discursive dynamics making a woman a whore? And, more importantly, what are the discursive mechanics of unmaking? In Women and Shakespeare’s Cuckoldry Plays: Shifting Narratives of Marital Betrayal, Cristina León Alfar pursues these questions to tease…

Hardback – 2017-02-16
Routledge
Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

By Esra Mirze Santesso, James McClung

Largely, though not exclusively, as a legacy of the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center, Islamic faith has become synonymous in many corners of the media and academia with violence, which many believe to be its primary mode of expression. The absence of a sophisticated recognition of the wide…

Hardback – 2017-02-14
Routledge

By Laura Barberán Reinares

At present, the bulk of the existing research on sex trafficking originates in the social sciences. Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature adds an original perspective on this issue by examining representations of sex trafficking in postcolonial literature. This book is a sustained…

Paperback – 2017-02-10
Routledge
Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures