Routledge Focus on Literature
Geomythology: How Common Stories Reflect Earth Events
1st Edition
By Timothy J. Burbery
January 09, 2023
Gold-guarding griffins, Cyclopes, killer lakes, man-eating birds, and "fire devils" from the sky—such wonders have long been dismissed as fictional. Now, thanks to the richly interdisciplinary field of geomythology, researchers are taking a second look. It turns out that these and similar tales, ...
Trump and Autobiography: Corporate Culture, Political Rhetoric, and Interpretation
1st Edition
By Nicholas K. Mohlmann
January 09, 2023
The 1970s and 1980s heralded the rise of neoliberalism in United States culture, fundamentally reshaping life and work in the United States. Corporate culture increasingly penetrated other aspects of American life through popular press CEO autobiographies and management books that encouraged ...
Introduction to Digital Humanities: Enhancing Scholarship with the Use of Technology
1st Edition
By Kathryn C. Wymer
December 19, 2022
Introduction to Digital Humanities is designed for researchers, teachers, and learners in humanities subject areas who wish to align their work with the field of digital humanities. Many institutions are encouraging digital approaches to the humanities, and this book offers guidance for students ...
Neo-Georgian Fiction: Reimagining the Eighteenth Century in the Contemporary Historical Novel
1st Edition
Edited
By Jakub Lipski, Joanna Maciulewicz
December 19, 2022
This book contributes to the development of contemporary historical fiction studies by analysing neo-Georgian fiction, which, unlike neo-Victorian fiction, has so far received little critical attention. The essays included in this collection study the ways in which the selected twentieth- and ...
Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question: The Case of Neera
1st Edition
By Catherine Ramsey-Portolano
April 29, 2022
Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question focuses on the literary, journalistic and epistolary production of Italian woman writer Neera, pseudonym for Anna Radius Zuccari, one of the most prolific and successful women writers of late nineteenth-century Italy. This study ...
The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Perspectives Across the Humanities
1st Edition
By John Burns, Matthew Flamm, William Gahan, Stephanie Quinn
April 29, 2022
The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy: Perspectives Across the Humanities is an interdisciplinary study of the abiding quarrel to which poet-philosopher Plato referred centuries ago in the Republic. The book presents eight chapters by four humanities scholars that historically contextualize and...