Forthcoming Literature & Gender Studies Books

Forthcoming Books

1. International Perspectives in Feminist Ecocriticism

   Edited by Greta Gaard, Simon Estok, Serpil Oppermann

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   Exploring environmental literature from a feminist perspective, this volume presents a diversity of feminist ecocritical approaches to affirm the continuing contributions, relevance, and necessity of a feminist perspective in environmental literature, culture, and science. Feminist ecocriticism has...

   To Be Published May 24th 2013 by Routledge
2. Diasporic Women’s Writing of the Black Atlantic

   (En)Gendering Literature and Performance

   Edited by Emilia María Durán-Almarza, Esther Álvarez López

   Series: Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies

   This book brings together a complete set of approaches to works by female authors that articulate the black Atlantic in relation to the interplay of race, class, and gender. The chapters provide the grounds to (en)gender a more complex understanding of the scattered geographies of the African...

   To Be Published September 16th 2013 by Routledge
3. Forever England

   Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars

   By Alison Light

   Shows how ideas of nation identity were bound up with notions of femininity and private life during the period between the wars. Alison Light looks at a range of writers from Ivy Compton-Burnett and Daphne du Maurier to Agatha Christie....

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
4. Friendship and Queer Theory in the Renaissance

   Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern England

   By John S. Garrison

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   Studies of Renaissance literature frequently frame marriage as signalling the resolution of narrative conflicts and the necessary end of comedies. Even studies of same-sex relations, while calling into question the primacy of heterosexual bonds, persistently reinforce the centrality of the figure...

   To Be Published December 29th 2013 by Routledge
5. Gender and the Self in Latin American Literature

   By Emma Staniland

   Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

   This book explores texts from across Central and South America in which the coming-of-age story ('Bildungsroman') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region’s socio-cultural contexts. Looking at a range of novels from the late twentieth century, the author ...

   To Be Published February 28th 2014 by Routledge
6. Rereading Female Masochism

   Between Pleasure and Pain in Female Sexuality

   By Estelle Noonan

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This book considers the importance of female heterosexual masochism as a site for critical and cultural innovation in the contemporary understanding of women’s sexuality. Visiting the dominant historical approaches to conceptualizing female masochism in literature, sexology, and psychoanalysis, it...

   To Be Published May 14th 2014 by Routledge