Literature & Culture Books

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11. International Life Writing

    Memory and Identity in Global Context

    Edited by Paul Longley Arthur

    Representing the best of international life writing scholarship, this collection reveals extraordinary stories of remarkable lives. These wide-ranging accounts span the Americas, Britain, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Pacific over a period of more than two centuries. Showing fascinating...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
12. Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

    Edited by Liedeke Plate, Anneke Smelik

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
13. English & Englishness

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
14. Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion

    'Our Feverish Contact'

    By Allan Conrad Christensen

    Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

    This intriguing book examines the ways contagion - or disease - inform and shape a wide variety of nineteenth century texts and contexts. Christensen dissects the cultural assumptions concerning disease, health, impurity and so on before exploring different perspectives on key themes such as...

    Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
15. Literature & Propaganda

    Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
16. The Stubborn Structure (Routledge Revivals)

    Essays on Criticism and Society

    By Northrop Frye

    First published in 1970, this collection is made up of a selection of essays composed between 1962 and 1968, written by distinguished humanist and literary critic Northrop Frye. The book is divided into two parts: one deals largely with the contexts of literary criticism; the other offers more...

    Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
17. Narrative Hospitality in Late Victorian Fiction

    Novel Ethics

    By Rachel Hollander

    Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

    Bringing together poststructuralist ethical theory with late Victorian debates about the morality of literature, this book reconsiders the ways in which novels engender an ethical orientation or response in their readers, explaining how the intersections of nation, family, and form in the late...

    Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
18. Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture

    Artificial Slaves

    By Kevin LaGrandeur

    Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

    This book explores the creation and use of artificially made humanoid servants and servant networks by fictional and non-fictional scientists of the early modern period. Beginning with an investigation of the roots of artificial servants, humanoids, and automata from earlier times, LaGrandeur...

    Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
19. American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship

    Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons

    Edited by Joni Adamson, Kimberly N. Ruffin

    Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

    This collection reclaims public intellectuals and scholars important to the foundational work in American Studies that contributed to emerging conceptions of an "ecological citizenship" advocating something other than nationalism or an "exclusionary ethics of place." Co-editors Adamson and Ruffin...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
20. Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature

    Edited by Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

    Drawing on a variety of theoretical approaches including trauma theory, psychoanalysis, genre theory, narrative theory, theories of temporality, cultural theory, and ethics, this book breaks new ground in bringing together trauma and romance, two categories whose collaboration has never been...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge