Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to literary studies, it engages with topics such as philosophy, science, race, gender, film, music, and ecology. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Narrating Multiplicities in Motion: The Transformative Power of Storytelling in Anglophone Cultures
1st Edition
Edited
By Elena Ogliari, Anna Pasolini, Carla Tempestoso
November 10, 2025
Narrating Multiplicities in Motion brings together a dynamic collection of interdisciplinary essays that explore storytelling as a powerful tool for resisting dominant narratives and imagining equitable futures. Grounded in Cultural Studies, English and Anglophone Literature, and Linguistics, the ...
Narratives of Hope and Despair: Ruin and Regeneration in Literature and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Johanna M. Wagner, Melanie Duckworth, Deanna Benjamin
October 14, 2025
In narratives of literature and cultural production, hope and despair remain fundamental in exploring our world. In recent years, political polarization, the Covid pandemic, global warming, and new and ongoing wars have contributed to global crises, to which despair is an understandable response. ...
Yuan Zhen’s New Music Bureau Poetry: Music and Ritual as Means of Governance
1st Edition
By Mei Ah Tan
September 16, 2025
This book is the first comprehensive study of the twelve New Music Bureau poems by the influential poet-official Yuan Zhen 元稹 (779–831) in comparison with the response poems of Bai Juyi 白居易 (772–846). Its new perspective on music and ritual reveals connections between Yuan’s poems that otherwise ...
Resistant Reproductions: Pregnancy and Abortion in British Literature and Film
1st Edition
By Fran Bigman
July 30, 2025
Resistant Reproductions asks why narratives of pregnancy and abortion emerged in the early twentieth century and what kinds of stories these narratives conveyed. Is it only once pregnancy becomes plannable that it becomes a story worth telling? Abortion is often considered resistant and feminist, ...
Mental Libraries: The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture
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Edited
By Julia Domínguez
June 12, 2025
Mental Libraries: The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture explores the enduring legacy of mnemonic systems across literature, visual arts, pedagogy, and cultural production. Centered on the metaphor of the “mental library,” this collection reveals how memory practices ...
Nature and Narrative: Rhetoric and Design in Contemporary Fiction
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By Markku Lehtimäki
May 22, 2025
The book explores environmental issues in twenty-first-century Anglophone fiction and how those issues are dealt with by specific literary means. It proposes a reciprocal relationship between nature and narrative—the idea according to which nature both informs and inspires artistic creations, while...
Teaching Text Technologies and Critical Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Objects of Study
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Heritage, Donna A. C. Sy
May 15, 2025
Teaching Text Technologies and Critical Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Objects of Study is a richly illustrated volume consisting of 23 methods-based chapters discussing innovative and often experimental approaches to hands-on teaching with material texts. Featuring 47 contributors whose work ...
E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism: Queer Matters
1st Edition
By Nour Dakkak
May 05, 2025
Through attending to the nonhuman, E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism: Queer Matters places Forster’s fiction in conversation with contemporary debates concerned with the intersection of neomaterialism, environmental humanities, and queer ecology. The book revisits Forster’s liberal humanism from a ...
Tolstoy's Search for the Kingdom of God: Gender and Queer Anarchism
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By Javier Sethness Castro
March 10, 2025
Building on its predecessor, Queer Tolstoy: A Psychobiography (2023), this book uncovers queer-anarchist dimensions of the second half of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy's life (1828–1910) and of the Russian writer's later art-works. It features queer-friendly readings of Anna Karenina (1875–1877), ...
Reading Contemporary India: An Interdisciplinary Enquiry into Sociocultural Issues
1st Edition
By MK Raghavendra
February 11, 2025
The book is the first ever attempt to examine various sociocultural aspects of contemporary India, ranging from caste and hierarchy and the religious or political conflict resulting from it to literary practice and intellectual life in the public space and making interdisciplinary associations. It ...
Multidisciplinary Representations of Home and Homeland in Diaspora
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By Jean Amato, Kyunghee Pyun
December 20, 2024
This collection explores our fascination with homes across time, cultures, and disciplines while unpacking the relationship between private yearning and public belonging, illustrating the limitations and fluidity of identity and affiliation through the idea of homes and ancestral homelands. While ...
Adaptation and Beyond: Hybrid Transtextualities
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By Eva C. Karpinski, Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak
December 18, 2024
This interdisciplinary collection focuses on recent adaptations, both experimental and popular, that put hybridity, transtextuality, and transmediality at play. It reframes adaptation in terms of the transmedia concept of "world-building," which accurately captures the complexity and ...