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Forthcoming American & Canadian Literature Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Nathaniel Hawthorne

    Edited by Donald J. Crowley

    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 compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  2. W.H. Auden

    Edited by Dr John Haffenden, John Haffenden

    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...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  3. Fictions of Female Education in the Nineteenth Century

    By Jaime Osterman Alves

    Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

    Seeking to understand how literary texts both shaped and reflected the century's debates over adolescent female education, this book examines fictional works and historical documents featuring descriptions of girls' formal educational experiences between the 1810s and the 1890s. Alves argues...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  4. Children’s Literature and New York City

    Edited by Keith O'Sullivan, Padraic Whyte

    Series: Children's Literature and Culture

    This book visits the significance of New York City in children’s literature, stressing literary, political, and societal influences on writing for young people from the twentieth century to the present day. Contextualized in light of contemporary critical and cultural theory, the chapters examine...

    To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge

  5. Mark Twain

    Edited by Frederick Anderson

    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 compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in...

    To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge

  6. U.S. Latino/a Writing

    Edited by A. Robert Lee

    Including the Chicano southwest of California, Texas, Arizona, Colarado, New Mexico, and Nevada, together with the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and its Manhattan offshoot, Spanish Harlem, the Cuban America of Florida, as well as the many smaller communities whose origins lie in Central and South...

    To Be Published October 21st 2013 by Routledge

  7. American Literature

    A History

    By Hans Bertens, Theo D'haen

    This comprehensive history of American Literature traces its development from the earliest colonies in 1600 through to the present day. This accessible and engaging guide: discusses major movements such as Puritanism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism and Postmodernism draws on the historical...

    To Be Published November 7th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Religion in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction

    Apocryphal Borderlands

    By Manuel Broncano

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature

    This book addresses the religious scope of Cormac McCarthy’s fiction, one of the most controversial issues in studies of his work. Current criticism is divided between those who find a theological dimension in his works, and those who reject such an approach on the grounds that the nihilist...

    To Be Published November 20th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Class and the Making of American Literature

    Created Unequal

    Edited by Andrew Lawson

    Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

    This book refocuses current understandings of American Literature from the revolutionary period to the present-day through an analytical accounting of class, reestablishing a foundation for discussions of class in American culture. American Studies scholars have explored the ways in which American...

    To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Style and Rhetoric of Short Narrative Fiction

    Covert Progressions Behind Overt Plots

    By Dan Shen

    Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics

    In many fictional narratives, the progression of the plot exists in tension with a very different and powerful dynamic that runs, at a hidden and deeper level, throughout the text. In this volume, Dan Shen systematically investigates how stylistic analysis is indispensable for uncovering this...

    To Be Published December 29th 2013 by Routledge