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.
Provincializing the Bible: Faulkner and Postsecular American Literature
1st Edition
By Norman W. Jones
September 30, 2020
Why, in our supposedly secular age, does the Bible feature prominently in so many influential and innovative works of contemporary U.S. literature? More pointedly, why would a book indelibly allied with a long history of institutionalized oppressions play a supporting role—and not simply as an ...
Shame and Modern Writing
1st Edition
Edited
By Barry Sheils, Julie Walsh
September 30, 2020
Shame and Modern Writing seeks to uncover the presence of shame in and across a vast array of modern writing modalities. This interdisciplinary volume includes essays from distinguished and emergent scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and shorter practice-based reflections from poets ...
Spatial Modernities: Geography, Narrative, Imaginaries
1st Edition
Edited
By Johannes Riquet, Elizabeth Kollmann
September 30, 2020
This collection of essays offers a series of reflections on the specific literary and cultural forms that can be seen as the product of modernity’s spatial transformations, which have taken on new urgency in today’s world of ever increasing mobility and global networks. The book offers a broad ...
Storytelling and Ethics: Literature, Visual Arts and the Power of Narrative
1st Edition
Edited
By Hanna Meretoja, Colin Davis
September 30, 2020
In recent years there has been a huge amount of both popular and academic interest in storytelling as something that is an essential part of not only literature and art but also our everyday lives as well as our dreams, fantasies, aspirations, historical self-understanding, and political actions. ...
The Cultural Imaginary of Terrorism in Public Discourse, Literature, and Film: Narrating Terror
1st Edition
By Michael Frank
September 30, 2020
This study investigates the overlaps between political discourse and literary and cinematic fiction, arguing that both are informed by, and contribute to, the cultural imaginary of terrorism. Whenever mass-mediated acts of terrorism occur, they tend to trigger a proliferation of threat scenarios ...
The Phenomenology of Autobiography: Making it Real
1st Edition
By Arnaud Schmitt
September 30, 2020
Taking a fresh look at the state of autobiography as a genre, The Phenomenology of Autobiography: Making it Real takes a deep dive into the experience of the reader. Dr. Schmitt argues that current trends in the field of life writing have taken the focus away from the text and the initial purpose ...
TransGothic in Literature and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Jolene Zigarovich
September 30, 2020
This book contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which Gothic literature, visual media, and other cultural forms explicitly engage gender, sexuality, form, and genre. The collection is a forum in which the ideas of several well-respected critics ...
Ageing, Gender, and Illness in Anglophone Literature: Narrating Age in the Bildungsroman
1st Edition
By Heike Hartung
December 10, 2019
This study establishes age as a category of literary history, delineating age in its interaction with gender and narrative genre. Based on the historical premise that the view of ageing as a burden emerges as a specific narrative in the late eighteenth century, the study highlights how the changing...
Auto/Biography across the Americas: Transnational Themes in Life Writing
1st Edition
Edited
By Ricia A. Chansky
December 10, 2019
Auto/biographical narratives of the Americas are marked by the underlying themes of movement and belonging. This collection proposes that the impact of the historic or contemporary movement of peoples to, in, and from the Americas—whether chosen or forced—motivates the ways in which identities are ...
Cartographies of Exile: A New Spatial Literacy
1st Edition
Edited
By Karen Elizabeth Bishop
December 10, 2019
This book proposes a fundamental relationship between exile and mapping. It seeks to understand the cartographic imperative inherent in the exilic condition, the exilic impulses fundamental to mapping, and the varied forms of description proper to both. The vital intimacy of the relationship ...
Food and Foodways in African Narratives: Community, Culture, and Heritage
1st Edition
By Jonathan Highfield
December 10, 2019
Food is a defining feature in every culture. Despite its very basic purpose of sustaining life, it directly impacts the community, culture and heritage in every region around the globe in countless seen and unseen ways, including the literature and narratives of each region. Across ...
Heritage and the Legacy of the Past in Contemporary Britain
1st Edition
By Ryan Trimm
December 10, 2019
Bringing together heritage studies and literary studies, this book examines heritage as a ubiquitous trope in contemporary Britain, a seemingly inescapable figure for relations to the past. Inheritance has been an important metaphor for characterizing cultural and political traditions since the ...