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.
Cartographies of Exile: A New Spatial Literacy
1st Edition
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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 ...
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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...