Major Works: Interdisciplinary Literary Studies

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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. Alchemical Poetry, 1575-1700

   From Previously Unpublished Manuscripts

   Edited by Robert M. Schuler

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Alchemy

   Of interest to interdisciplinary historians as well as those in various other fields, this book presents the first publication of 14 poems ranging from 12 to 3,000 lines. The poems are printed in the chronological order of their composition, from Elizabethan to Augustan times, but nine of them are...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
5. Feminine Fictions

   Revisiting the Postmodern

   By Patricia Waugh

   Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

   ‘Postmodernism’ and ‘feminism’ have become familiar terms since the 1960s, developing alongside one another and clearly sharing many strong points of contact. Why then have the critical debates arising out of these movements had so little to say about each other? Patricia Waugh addresses the...

   Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
6. Abjection, Melancholia and Love

   The Work of Julia Kristeva

   Edited by John Fletcher, Andrew Benjamin

   Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

   This volume begins with a new essay by Julia Kristeva, ‘The Adolescent Novel’, in which she examines the relation between novelistic writing and the experience of adolescence as an ‘open structure’. It is this blend of the literary with the psychoanalytic that places Kristeva’s work central to...

   Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. Gender, Genre & Narrative Pleasure

   Edited by Derek Longhurst

   Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

   Recent years have witnessed important new initiatives in the study of popular fictional modes of writing. At one time the field could have been described with reasonable accuracy by two traditions: one that analyzed the production and distribution of popular fiction as commodities; and one whose...

   Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
8. Engendering Men

   The Question of Male Feminist Criticism

   Edited by Joseph A. Boone, Michael Cadden

   Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

   Over the past several years, the question of men’s relation to feminism has become a fiercely and sometimes bitterly debated subject. Engendering Men demonstrates the creative impact that feminist modes of inquiry have already had on a new generation of male critics. In the wake of feminism, many...

   Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
9. Changing Subjects

   The Making of Feminist Literary Criticism

   Edited by Gayle Greene, Coppélia Kahn

   Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

   These twenty autobiographical essays by eminent feminist literary critics explore the process by which women scholars became feminist scholars, articulating the connections between the personal and political in their lives and work. They describe the experiences that radicalised women within...

   Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
10. Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature

    Series: RLE: Women, Feminism and Literature

    Reissuing seminal works originally published between 1979 and 1994, Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature offers a selection of scholarship from a time of great change in feminist studies and literary studies. Topics cover all aspects of women's literature, gender and feminism...

    Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge