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81. Intertextual and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cormac McCarthy

    Borders and Crossings

    Edited by Nicholas Monk

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

    This collection offers a fresh approach to the work of Cormac McCarthy, one of the most important contemporary American authors. Essays focus on his work across the genres and/or in constellation with other writers and artists, presenting not only a different "angle" on the work, but setting him...

    Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
82. The Brontë Novels (Routledge Revivals)

    By W. A. Craik

    First published in 1968, this reissue of Dr. Craik’s critical appreciation of the completed novels of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë is seminal for the way in which it shifts emphasis away from the Brontë family biography towards a detailed critical analysis of the novels themselves. Separate...

    Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
83. Jane Austen (RLE Jane Austen)

    The Six Novels

    By Wendy Craik

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Jane Austen

    First published in 1965, this reissued work by Wendy Craik provides a thorough and extensive study of Jane Austen's six complete novels: Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion. This is a truly groundbreaking study of Austen which,...

    Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
84. Jane Austen (RLE Jane Austen)

    A French Appreciation

    By Léonie Villard, R. Brimley Johnson

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Jane Austen

    First published in 1924, this unique title provides an extremely valuable early Twentieth Century perspective on Jane Austen, offering analysis from both sides of the channel. The book includes both a translated study of Jane Austen by French academic...

    Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
85. Jane Austen's Heroines (RLE Jane Austen)

    Intimacy in Human Relationships

    By John Philips Hardy

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Jane Austen

    First published in 1984, John Hardy's important interpretation of Jane Austen's heroines breaks through the accepted tradition of viewing the author as merely a rational comedienne of manners. He argues instead that Jane Austen's greatness lies in her exploration of human...

    Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
86. Routledge Library Editions: Jane Austen

    By Various

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Jane Austen

    This four volume backlist collection brings together an array of criticism written about the works of Jane Austen, encompassing everything from a detailed analysis of her six published novels, through to an investigation of the heroines within her fiction, a re-evaluation...

    Published October 11th 2011 by Routledge
87. The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama

    W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J.M. Synge

    By George Cusack

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    This study examines the early dramatic works of Yeats, Synge, and Gregory in the context of late colonial Ireland’s unique socio-political landscape. By contextualizing each author’s work within the artistic and political discourses of their time, Cusack demonstrates the complex negotiation of...

    Published October 10th 2011 by Routledge
88. Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction

    By Aliki Varvogli

    Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

    This book offers a critical study and analysis of American fiction at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It focuses on novels that ‘go outward’ literally and metaphorically, and it concentrates on narratives that take place mainly away from the US’s geographical borders. Varvogli draws on...

    Published October 9th 2011 by Routledge
89. Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry

    By Bryan Walpert

    Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

    This book examines types of resistance in contemporary poetry to the authority of scientific knowledge, tracing the source of these resistances to both their literary precedents and the scientific zeitgeists that helped to produce them. Walpert argues that contemporary poetry offers a palimpsest of...

    Published September 25th 2011 by Routledge
90. Ernest Hemingway

    Edited by Henry Claridge

    Series: Critical Assessments of Major Writers

    Few twentieth-century American writers have been as influential as Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961). Whilst contemporaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner may be as widely taught and studied as Hemingway, neither had an influence on other writers—or indeed, the cognate arts—as great as...

    Published September 11th 2011 by Routledge