Modernism Books

New and Published Books

1. Literature, Migration and the 'War on Terror'

   Edited by Fiona Tolan, Stephen Morton, Anastasia Valassopoulos, Robert Spencer

   This is a major new collection of essays on literary and cultural representations of migration and terrorism, the cultural impact of 9/11, and the subsequent ‘war on terror’. The collection commences with analyses of the relationship between migration and terrorism, which has been the focus of much...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Modernism (Routledge Revivals)

   By Peter Faulkner

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1977, this book focuses on Modernism, one of the most frequently used terms in the discussion of twentieth-century literature and culture. It provides an historical account of the concept, showing the relation of Modernism to Victorian culture and uses the work of Henry James and...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
3. Ford Maddox Ford

   Edited by Frank MacShane

   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 February 28th 2013 by Routledge
4. Modernism and Literature

   An Introduction and Reader

   Edited by Mia Carter, Alan Friedman

   This volume offers a comprehensive representation of the exciting, pivotal, and urgent nature of literary Modernism, as well as more recent approaches including the "global turn." Modernism can be difficult to understand without an awareness of contemporary concerns, so Mia Carter...

   Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge
5. Henry James

   Edited by Roger Gard

   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 February 13th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Routledge Concise History of Twentieth-Century British Literature

   By Ashley Dawson

   Series: Routledge Concise Histories of Literature

   In The Routledge Companion to Twentieth-Century British Literature Ashley Dawson identifies the key British writers and texts, shaped by era-defining cultural and historical events and movements from the period. He provides: Analysis of works by a diverse range of influential authors Examination...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
7. Food, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Consumption

   Eating the Avant-Garde

   By Michel Delville

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   From Plato’s dismissal of food as a distraction from thought to Kant’s relegation of the palate to the bottom of the hierarchy of the senses, the sense of taste has consistently been devalued by Western aesthetics. Kant is often invoked as evidence that philosophers consider taste as an inferior...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
8. James Joyce

   Edited by Colin Milton

   Series: Critical Assessments of Major Writers

   James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882–1941) is a towering figure in the development of English-language modernist prose fiction. And his influence extends well beyond the anglophone literary world; like his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, Joyce flew by the nets of nationality, language, and religion,...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
9. Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity

   By Karen Leick

   Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

   This book is a cultural history of Stein’s rise to fame and the function of literary celebrity in America from 1910 to 1935. By examining not the ways that Stein portrayed the popular in her work, but the ways the popular portrayed her, this study shows that there was an intimate relationship...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
10. Nabokov, History and the Texture of Time

    By Will Norman

    Series: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

    This book argues that the apparent evasion of history in Vladimir Nabokov’s fiction conceals a profound engagement with social, and therefore political, temporalities. While Nabokov scholarship has long assumed the same position as Nabokov himself — that his works exist in a state of historical...

    Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge