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.
Landscape, Seascape, and the Eco-Spatial Imagination
1st Edition
Edited
By Simon Estok, Jonathan White, I-Chun Wang
December 10, 2019
Written from within the best traditions of ecocritical thought, this book provides a wide-ranging account of the spatial imagination of landscape and seascape in literary and cultural contexts from many regions of the world. It brings together essays by authors writing from within diverse cultural ...
Latin American and Iberian Perspectives on Literature and Medicine
1st Edition
Edited
By Patricia Novillo-Corvalán
December 10, 2019
This is the first study to examine the representation of illness, disability, and cultural pathologies in modern and contemporary Iberian and Latin American literature. Innovative and interdisciplinary, the collection situates medicine as an important and largely overlooked discourse in these ...
Liminality and the Short Story: Boundary Crossings in American, Canadian, and British Writing
1st Edition
Edited
By Jochen Achilles, Ina Bergmann
December 10, 2019
This book is a study of the short story, one of the widest taught genres in English literature, from an innovative methodological perspective. Both liminality and the short story are well-researched phenomena, but the combination of both is not frequent. This book discusses the relevance of the ...
Literature and the Glocal City: Reshaping the English Canadian Imaginary
1st Edition
Edited
By Ana María Fraile-Marcos
December 10, 2019
The modern city is a space that can simultaneously represent the principles of its homeland alongside its own unique blend of the cultures that intermingle within its city limits.This book makes an intervention in Canadian literary criticism by foregrounding both ‘globalism,’ which is increasingly ...
Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability: Talking Normal
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Eagle
December 10, 2019
Examining representations of speech disorders in works of literature, this first collection of its kind founds a new multidisciplinary subfield related but not limited to the emerging fields of disability studies and medical humanities. The scope is wide-ranging both in terms of national ...
Milton and the Early Modern Culture of Devotion: Bodies at Prayer
1st Edition
By Naya Tsentourou
December 10, 2019
Miton and Early Modern Devotional Culture analyses the representation of public and private prayer in John Milton’s poetry and prose, paying particular attention to the ways seventeenth-century prayer is imagined as embodied in sounds, gestures, postures, and emotional responses. Naya Tsentourou ...
National Poetry, Empires and War
1st Edition
By David Aberbach
December 10, 2019
Nationalism has given the world a genre of poetry bright with ideals of justice, freedom and the brotherhood of man, but also, at times, burning with humiliation and grievance, hatred and lust for revenge, driving human kind, as the Austrian poet Grillparzer put it, ‘From humanity via nationality ...
Post-Conflict Literature: Human Rights, Peace, Justice
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Andrews, Matt McGuire
December 10, 2019
This book brings together a variety of perspectives to explore the role of literature in the aftermath of political conflict, studying the ways in which writers approach violent conflict and the equally important subject of peace. Essays put insights from Peace and Conflict Studies into dialog with...
Representations of Anne Frank in American Literature
1st Edition
By Rachael McLennan
December 10, 2019
This book explores portrayals of Anne Frank in American literature, where she is often invoked, if problematically, as a means of encouraging readers to think widely about persecution, genocide, and victimisation; often in relation to gender, ethnicity, and race. It shows how literary ...
Representations of War, Migration, and Refugeehood: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel H. Rellstab, Christiane Schlote
December 10, 2019
War, migration, and refugeehood are inextricably linked and the complex nature of all three phenomena offers profound opportunities for representation and misrepresentation. This volume brings together international contributors and practitioners from a wide range of fields, practices, and ...
Rewriting the American Soul: Trauma, Neuroscience and the Contemporary Literary Imagination
1st Edition
By Anna Thiemann
December 10, 2019
Rewriting the American Soul focuses on the political implications of psychoanalytic and neurocognitive approaches to trauma in literature, their impact on cultural representations of collective trauma in the United States, and their subversive appropriation in pre- and post-9/11 fiction. Anna ...
Security and Hospitality in Literature and Culture: Modern and Contemporary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeffrey Clapp, Emily Ridge
December 10, 2019
With contributions from an international array of scholars, this volume opens a dialogue between discourses of security and hospitality in modern and contemporary literature and culture. The chapters in the volume span domestic spaces and detention camps, the experience of migration and the ...