Literary History Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Editing Emily Dickinson

   The Production of an Author

   By Lena Christensen

   Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors

   Editing Emily Dickinson considers the processes through which Dickinson's work has been edited in the twentieth century and how such editorial processes contribute specifically to the production of Emily Dickinson as author. The posthumous editing of her handwritten manuscripts into the...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Black Women in New South Literature and Culture

   By Sherita L. Johnson

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Using the "the Negro Problem" in African American literature as a point of departure, this book focuses on the profound impact that racism had on the literary imagination of black Americans, specifically those in the South. Although the South has been one of the most enduring sites of criticism in...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Contagion

   'Our Feverish Contact'

   By Allan Conrad Christensen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

   This intriguing book examines the ways contagion - or disease - inform and shape a wide variety of nineteenth century texts and contexts. Christensen dissects the cultural assumptions concerning disease, health, impurity and so on before exploring different perspectives on key themes such as...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
4. John Brown and the Era of Literary Confrontation

   By Michael Stoneham

   Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture

   Radical abolitionist and freedom-fighter John Brown inspired literary America to confrontation during his short but dramatic career as a public figure in antebellum America. Emerging from obscurity during the violent struggle to determine how Kansas would enter the Union in 1856, John Brown...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Stubborn Structure (Routledge Revivals)

   Essays on Criticism and Society

   By Northrop Frye

   First published in 1970, this collection is made up of a selection of essays composed between 1962 and 1968, written by distinguished humanist and literary critic Northrop Frye. The book is divided into two parts: one deals largely with the contexts of literary criticism; the other offers more...

   Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Genesis of the Chicago Renaissance

   Theodore Dreiser, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and James T. Farrell

   By Mary Hricko

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   This study examines the genesis of Chicago's two identified literary renaissance periods (1890-1920 and 1930-1950) through the writings of Dreiser, Hughes, Wright, and Farrell. The relationship of these four writers demonstrates a continuity of thought between the two renaissance periods. By noting...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. Women, Murder, and Equity in Early Modern England

   By Randall Martin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

   This book presents the first comprehensive study of over 120 printed news reports of murders and infanticides committed by early modern women. It offers an interdisciplinary analysis of female homicide in post-Reformation news formats ranging from ballads to newspapers. Individual cases are...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Criticism of Henry Fielding

   By Ioan Williams

   First published in 1970, this selection of Fielding’s criticism is an important contribution to our understanding of Fielding and his age. It directs considerable light upon Fielding’s own critical views, with regard both to his own works and to eighteenth century life and literature at large. The...

   Published July 31st 2012 by Routledge
9. Romantic Representations of British India

   Edited by Michael J Franklin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   Michael J. Franklin's Romantic Representations of British India is a timely study of the impact of Orientalist knowledge upon British culture during the Romantic period. The subject of the book is not so much India, but the British cultural understanding of India, particularly between 1750 and 1850...

   Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
10. Post-Revolutionary Chicana Literature

    Memoir, Folklore and Fiction of the Border, 1900–1950

    By Sam Lopez

    Series: Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues

    This book examines how Chicana literature in three genres—memoir, folklore, and fiction—arose at the turn of the twentieth century in the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. Lopez examines three women writers and highlights their contributions to Chicana writing in its earliest years...

    Published June 27th 2012 by Routledge