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  1. Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

    By Various

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

    Reissuing works originally published between 1968 and 1993, Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature offers a selection of scholarship covering the crossover of novels and the movies. Volumes on Shakespearean and Greek Tragedy films among others round this out to be an interesting compact...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Novel Images

    Literature in Performance

    Edited by Peter Reynolds

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

    Written specifically with the student in mind and focusing on a number of well-known texts, including Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Nicholas Nickleby, Nice Work and The Color Purple, the contributions in this book demonstrate how we can look critically at literary adaptations and learn to distinguish...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Greek Tragedy into Film

    By Kenneth MacKinnon

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

    If Greek tragedy is sometimes regarded as a form long dead and buried, both theatre producers and film directors seem slow to accept its interment. Originally published in 1986, this book reflects the renewed interest in questions of staging the Greek plays, to give a comprehensive account and...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge

  4. Filming Literature

    The Art of Screen Adaptation

    By Neil Sinyard

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

    This is a comprehensive survey of the relationship between film and literature. It looks at the cinematic adaptations of such literary masters as Shakespeare, Henry James, Joseph Conrad and D.H. Lawrence, and considers the contribution to the cinema made by important literary figures as Harold...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Shakespeare on Silent Film

    A Strange Eventful History

    By Robert Hamilton Ball

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

    In 1899, when film projection was barely three years old, Herbert Beerbohm Tree was filmed as King John. In his highly entertaining history, Robert Hamilton Ball traces in detail the fate of Shakespeare on silent films from Tree’s first effort until the establishment of sound in 1929. The silent...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors

    By Peter S. Donaldson

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature

    Originally published in 1990, this book brought a new rigor and subtlety to the interpretation of film adaptations of Shakespeare. Drawing on traditional literary analysis, psychoanalysis, and current film theory about gender and subjectivity, the author combines close readings of seven films with...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Scottish Tours (8-vol. set) (ES)

    Edited by Kazumi Kanatsu

    Following the success of earlier facsimile collections (Lake District Tours: A Collection of Travel Writings and Guide Books in the Romantic Era and Picturesque Wales: Facsimile Reprints of ''Pennant's Tours'' and ''Wales Illustrated''), this is the third Edition Synapse collection of travel...

    Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge

  8. African American Writing

    Edited by A. Robert Lee

    Co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse Although there are any number of single-volume anthologies on individual writers and movements (e.g. the Harlem Renaissance), African American Writing is the first multi-volume collection to provide users with full coverage of a crucial literary...

    Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge

  9. The Philosophy of Mr. B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll

    With an Appendix of Leading Passages from Certain Other Works. A Skit.

    Edited by Philip E. B. Jourdain

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Russell

    This skit of Bertrand Russell’s philosophy was originally published in 1918 by Russell’s correspondent friend Jourdain. The introduction explains that the contents purport to be lost papers written by Mr. B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll, a contemporary of Bertrand Russell. This politically humorous volume from...

    Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge

  10. Travel Writing

    Edited by Tim Youngs, Charles Forsdick

    Series: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

    The past three decades have seen a remarkable growth of cross-disciplinary academic interest in travel writing. This new four-volume collection from Routledge brings together the best research from scholars around the world. The collection also features pieces by travel writers themselves...

    Published November 11th 2012 by Routledge

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Women Writing Latin: Early Modern Women Writing Latin
    Edited by Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, Jane E. Jeffrey
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  2. Women Writing Latin: Women Writing Latin in Roman Antiquity, Late Antiquity, and the Early Christian Era
    Edited by Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, Jane E. Jeffrey
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  3. Women Writing Latin: Medieval Modern Women Writing Latin
    Edited by Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, Jane E. Jeffrey
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  4. Girls’ School Stories, 1749–1929
    Edited by Kristine Moruzi, Michelle Smith
    To Be Published September 25th 2013
  5. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    Edited by Clara Dawson
    To Be Published September 29th 2013

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