American & Canadian Literature Books

New and Published Books

1. Feminist Theory Across Disciplines

   Feminist Community and American Women's Poetry

   By Shira Wolosky

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   Defying traditional definitions of public and private as gendered terms, and broadening discussion of women’s writing in relation to feminist work done in other fields, this study addresses American women’s poetry from the seventeenth to late-twentieth century. Engaging the fields of literary...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. Sound and Aural Media in Postmodern Literature

   Novel Listening

   By Justin St. Clair

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This study examines postmodern literature— including works by Kurt Vonnegut, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Ishmael Reed, and Thomas Pynchon —arguing that one of the formal logics of postmodern fiction is heterophonia: a pluralism of sound. The postmodern novel not only bears...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
3. The American Civil War

   A Literary and Historical Anthology, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Ian Frederick Finseth

   The American Civil War: A Literary and Historical Anthology brings together a wide variety of important writings from the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, including short fiction, poetry, public addresses, memoirs, and essays, accompanied by detailed annotations and concise introductions. Now in...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
4. Wallace Stevens

   Edited by Charles Doyle

   This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. William Carlos Williams

   Edited by Crane Doyle

   This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Walt Whitman

   Edited by Milton Hindus

   This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
7. Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture

   By Shawan M. Worsley

   Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

   Audience, Agency and Identity in Black Popular Culture analyses black cultural representations that appropriate anti-black stereotypes. Using examples from literature, media, and art, Worsley examines how these cultural products do not rework anti-black stereotypes into seemingly positive images....

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
8. Edgar Allen Poe

   Edited by Ian Walker

   This set comprises 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
9. John Dos Passos

   Edited by Barry Maine

   This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set complements the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
10. Charles Bukowski, Outsider Literature, and the Beat Movement

    By Paul Clements

    Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

    This book uses cultural and psycho-social analysis to examine the beat writer Charles Bukowski and his literature, focusing on representations of the anti-hero rebel and outsider. Clements considers the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions represented by the author and his work, exploring...

    Published March 5th 2013 by Routledge