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.
Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film
1st Edition
Edited
By Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández, Miriam Fernández-Santiago
December 18, 2024
Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary and filmic representations of vulnerability depict embodied forms of vulnerability across languages, media, genres, countries, and traditions in the late 20th and ...
The Clouds: An Experiment in Theory-Fiction
1st Edition
By Stefano Gualeni
December 18, 2024
On a slow autumn afternoon, an atmospheric physicist working at the Malta Weather Station receives a surprising email from a colleague working in the United Kingdom: something troubling has apparently been detected during one of their research flights. The ensuing meteorological mystery is the ...
Late Churchill: Language from Crisis to Death
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
November 29, 2024
This book focuses on a close analysis of selected speeches of Winston Churchill in the House of Commons and some of the responses from fellow MPs from the middle of 1940 to the death of Churchill in 1965, speeches in war and peace, and concentrates on foreign affairs. The book will appeal to those ...
The Literary Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse: Psychoanalytic Readings of an American Tradition
1st Edition
By Beverly Haviland
November 29, 2024
This book examines the representation of child sexual abuse in five American novels written from 1850 to the present. The historical range of the novels shows that child sexual abuse is not a new problem, although it has been called by other names in other eras. The introduction explains what ...
Explorations of Spirituality in American Women's Literature: The Aging Woman in the Image of God
1st Edition
By Scarlett Cunningham
November 28, 2024
This book connects the aging woman to the image of God in the work of Flannery O’Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Alicia Ostriker, Lucille Clifton, Mary Szybist, and Anne Babson. It introduces a canon of contemporary American women’s spiritual literature with the goal of showing how this literature ...
Beat Film, Beat Writers
1st Edition
By David Stephen Calonne
October 25, 2024
Beat Film, Beat Writers is the first monograph to analyze the films of Christopher Maclaine, Lawrence Jordan, ruth weiss, Ron Rice, Robert Frank, Barbara Rubin, Shirley Clarke, William S. Burroughs, and Joanne Kyger. The book is noteworthy for its emphasis on women filmmakers who have traditionally...
Comics and Novelization: A Literary History of Bandes Dessinées
1st Edition
By Benoît Glaude
October 08, 2024
This book opens a novel perspective on comics and literature interactions. It claims that the two artistic media have always maintained a mutual emulation, for as long as they have coexisted in media culture. To demonstrate this, the present research does not focus on literary adaptations in comics...
Interpreting Violence: Narrative, Ethics and Hermeneutics
1st Edition
Edited
By Cassandra Falke, Victoria Fareld, Hanna Meretoja
October 08, 2024
Representations of violence surround us in everyday life – in news reports, films and novels – inviting interpretation and raising questions about the ethics of viewing or reading about harm done to others. How can we understand the processes of meaning-making involved in interpreting violent ...
The Affects of Pedagogy in Literary Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Lloyd, Hilary Emmett
October 08, 2024
The Affects of Pedagogy in Literary Studies considers the ways in which teachers and students are affected by our encounters with literature and other cultural texts in the higher education classroom. The essays consider the range of emotions and affects elicited by teaching settings and practices:...
Cultural Heritage and the Literary Archive: Objects, Institutions, and Practices between the Analogue and the Digital
1st Edition
Edited
By Tim Sommer
September 30, 2024
Modern literary archives play a key role in how authors’ lives and works get canonized and consecrated as cultural heritage. This interdisciplinary volume combines literary studies, book history, textual criticism, heritage studies, archival theory, and the digital humanities to examine the past, ...
Stories of Love from Vikings to Tinder: The Evolution of Modern Mating Ideologies, Dating Dysfunction, and Demographic Collapse
1st Edition
By Mads Larsen
September 12, 2024
Increasing levels of singledom, dating dysfunction, and sexual inactivity contribute to plummeting fertility rates. This book investigates the perhaps most foundational factor behind this uncoupling: our present era’s ideology of love. Throughout human history, communities have shared fictional ...
Literature and Citizenship in the Age of Revolution: A Wish for Air and Liberty
1st Edition
By Mitchell Gauvin
September 11, 2024
Citizenship is at the forefront of popular imagination as political movements and state governments around the world traffic in anti-immigrant rhetoric and call for increased policing of borders. Literature and Citizenship in the Age of Revolution: A Wish for Air and Liberty looks back to a ...