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.
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 ...
Temporal Experiments: Seven Ways of Configuring Time in Art and Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruce Barnhart, Marit Grøtta
August 26, 2024
Temporal Experiments: Seven Ways of Configuring Time in Art and Literature conducts an expansive exploration of different modes of timing. Its seven chapters pursue the question of time as it is embodied in key figures that shape both aesthetic and pragmatic life. Working closely with literary, ...
The Words of Winston Churchill: Speeches 1933-1940
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
August 26, 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 1933-1940 in peace and war, during the rise of Hitler, and concentrates on foreign affairs. The study will appeal to those interested in Churchill, ...
Islam as Imagined in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century English Literature
1st Edition
By Clinton Bennett
May 27, 2024
Since medieval times, English literature has often demonized Muslims. The term ‘Islamophobia’ is recent, but the phenomenon is old. This survey of literature focusing on the modern period up to 1914 identifies negative ideas about Islam in novels and plays. Some works are iconic, some more obscure....