Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

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41. The Spell Cast by Remains

    The Myth of Wilderness in Modern American Literature

    By Patricia Ross

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
42. The Politics of Melancholy from Spenser to Milton

    By Adam Kitzes

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Published June 15th 2009 by Routledge
43. Female Embodiment and Subjectivity in the Modernist Novel

    The Corporeum of Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore

    By Renée Dickinson

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    This study considers the work of two experimental British women modernists writing in the tumultuous interwar period--Virginia Woolf and Olive Moore--by examining four crucial incarnations of female embodiment and subjectivity: female bodies, geographical imagery, national ideology and textual...

    Published June 2nd 2009 by Routledge
44. Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit

    By Caroline J. Smith

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit focuses on the literary phenomenon popularly known as chick lit, and the way in which this genre interfaces with magazines, self-help books, romantic comedies, and domestic-advice publications. This recent trend in women’s popular fiction, which...

    Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
45. Misery's Mathematics

    Mourning, Compensation, and Reality in Antebellum American Literature

    By Peter Balaam

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    This book reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several remarkable writers -- including Emerson, Warner, and Melville -- to render the stark rupture of loss in innovative ways. Pushing Protestant culture's sense of loss into secular terrain, these three key...

    Published January 25th 2009 by Routledge
46. Contested Masculinities

    Crises in Colonial Male Identity from Joseph Conrad to Satyajit Ray

    By Nalin Jayasena

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Exploring how English masculinity - that was so contingent on the relative health of the British imperial project - negotiated the decline and ultimate dissolution of the empire by the middle of the twentieth century, this book argues that by defining itself in relation to indigenous...

    Published December 10th 2008 by Routledge
47. The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama

    Icon of Opposition

    By Kristen Deiter

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama historicizes the Tower of London's evolving meanings in English culture alongside its representations in twenty-four English history plays, 1579-c.1634, by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others. While Elizabeth I, James I, and...

    Published March 12th 2008 by Routledge
48. Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century

    By Pamela J. Albert

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century revisits eighteenth-century cultural artifacts through the lens of creative works produced by contemporary writers Beryl Gilroy (Guyana), Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), and David Dabydeen (Guyana). While early studies...

    Published November 12th 2007 by Routledge
49. William Morris and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings

    By Andrea Elizabeth Donovan

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, founded by artist and craftsman William Morris in 1877, sought to preserve the integrity of historic buildings by preventing unnecessary repairs and additions. William Morris's intention and that of the SPAB, as outlined by the original manifesto...

    Published October 29th 2007 by Routledge
50. The Rise of Corporate Publishing and Its Effects on Authorship in Early Twentieth Century America

    By Kim Becnel

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    This study examines the way that the modernization and incorporation of the American publishing industry in the early twentieth century both helped to foment the emerging late industrial cultural hierarchy and capitalized on that same hierarchy to increase readership and profits. More importantly,...

    Published July 12th 2007 by Routledge