Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
From Joyce to Rushdie, Modernism to Food Writing, Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Literature looks at both the literature and culture of the 20th Century. This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering literature alongside religion, popular culture, race, gender, ecology, travel, class, space, and other subjects, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
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AIDS Literature and Gay Identity
The Literature of Loss
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
This book discusses the significance of late twentieth century and early twenty first century American fiction written in response to the AIDS crisis and interrogates how sexual identity is depicted and constructed textually. Pearl develops Freudian psychoanalytic theory in a complex account of the...
Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Autobiographies of Others
Historical Subjects and Literary Fiction
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
In this volume, Boldrini examines "heterobiography"—the first-person fictional account of a historic life. Boldrini shows that this mode is widely employed to reflect critically on the historical and philosophical understanding of the human; on individual identity; and on the power relationships...
Published June 24th 2012 by Routledge
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Charles Bukowski, Outsider Literature, and the Beat Movement
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
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Contemporary Reconfigurations of American Literary Classics
The Origin and Evolution of American Stories
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
The number and popularity of novels that have overtly reconfigured aspects of classic American texts suggests a curious trend for both readers and writers, an impulse to retell and reread books that have come to define American culture. This book argues that by revising canonical American...
Published August 24th 2012 by Routledge
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Exploring Magic Realism in Salman Rushdie’s Fiction
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Kluwick breaks new ground in this book, moving away from Rushdie studies that focus on his status as postcolonial or postmodern, and instead considering the significance of magic realism in his fiction. Rushdie’s magic realism, in fact, lies at the heart of his engagement with the post/colonial....
Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
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James Joyce, Science, and Modernist Print Culture
“The Einstein of English Fiction”
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
This book makes an important intervention in the ongoing debates about modernism, science, and the divisions of early Twentieth-Century print culture. In order to establish Joyce's place in the nexus of modernism and scientific thought, Drouin uses the methods of periodical studies and textual...
To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism
The Haunting Interval
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary response to the technological and psychological disturbances that marked the end of the Victorian era....
Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
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Locating Gender in Modernism
The Outsider Female
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range...
Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
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Poetry as Testimony
Witnessing and Memory in Twentieth-century Poems
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
This book analyzes Holocaust poetry, war poetry, working-class poetry, and 9/11 poetry as forms of testimony. Rowland argues that testamentary poetry requires a different approach to traditional ways of dealing with poems due to the pressure of the metatext (the original, traumatic events), the...
To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Sound and Aural Media in Postmodern Literature
Novel Listening
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
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Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
This unique essay collection considers the impact of New York on the life and works of Wallace Stevens. Stevens lived in New York from 1900 to 1916, working briefly as a journalist, going to law school, laboriously starting up a career as a lawyer, getting engaged and married, gradually mixing with...
Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
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Travel Narratives in Translation, 1750-1830
Nationalism, Ideology, Gender
Series: Routledge Research in Travel Writing
This book examines how non-fictional travel accounts were rewritten, reshaped, and reoriented in translation between 1750 and 1850, a period that saw a sudden surge in the genre's popularity. It explores how these translations played a vital role in the transmission and circulation of knowledge...
Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge
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Travel and Ethics
Theory and Practice
Series: Routledge Research in Travel Writing
Despite the recent increase in scholarly activity regarding travel writing and the accompanying proliferation of publications relating to the form, its ethical dimensions have yet to be theorized with sufficient rigour. Drawing from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, literary studies...
To Be Published June 23rd 2013 by Routledge
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Travel Writing, Form, and Empire
The Poetics and Politics of Mobility
Series: Routledge Research in Travel Writing
This collection of essays is an important contribution to travel writing studies -- looking beyond the explicitly political questions of postcolonial and gender discourses, it considers the form, poetics, institutions and reception of travel writing in the history of empire and its aftermath....
Published October 25th 2012 by Routledge