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.
Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Michelle Kelly, Claire Westall
May 31, 2023
Prison Writing and the Literary World tackles international prison writingand writing about imprisonment in relation to questions of literary representationand formal aesthetics, the “value” or “values” of literature,textual censorship and circulation, institutional networks and ...
Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities: Anténor Firmin, Western Intellectual Tradition, and Black Atlantic Tradition
1st Edition
Edited
By Celucien L. Joseph, Paul C. Mocombe
May 31, 2023
Joseph Anténor Firmin (1850–1911) was the reigning public intellectual and political critic in Haiti in the nineteenth century. He was the first “Black anthropologist” and “Black Egyptologist” to deconstruct the Western interpretation of global history and challenge the ideological construction of ...
Shakespeare and Accentism
1st Edition
Edited
By Adele Lee
May 31, 2023
This collection explores the consequences of accentism—an under-researched issue that intersects with racism and classism—in the Shakespeare industry across languages and cultures, past and present. It adopts a transmedia and transhistorical approach to a subject that has been dominated by the ...
Spatial Literary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert T. Tally Jr.
May 31, 2023
Following the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, Spatial Literary Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Space, Geography, and the Imagination offers a wide range of essays that reframe or transform contemporary criticism by focusing attention, in various ways, on the dynamic ...
T. S. Eliot and the Mother
1st Edition
By Matthew Geary
May 31, 2023
The first full-length study on T. S. Eliot and the mother, this book responds to a shortfall in understanding the true importance of Eliot’s poet-mother, Charlotte Champe Stearns, to his life and works. In doing so, it radically rethinks Eliot’s ambivalence towards women. In a context of mother–son...
The New American West in Literature and the Arts: A Journey Across Boundaries
1st Edition
Edited
By Amaia Ibarraran-Bigalondo
May 31, 2023
The story of the American West is that of a journey. It is the story of a movement, of a geographical and human transition, of the delineation of a route that would soon become a rooted myth. The story of the American West has similarly journeyed across boundaries, in a two-way movement, sometimes ...
The Role of the Literary Canon in the Teaching of Literature
1st Edition
By Robert Aston
May 31, 2023
This book investigates the role of the idea of the literary canon in the teaching of literature, especially in colleges and secondary schools in the United States. Before the term "canon" was widely used in literary studies, which occurred in the second half of 20th century when the canon was first...
The Theological Dickens
1st Edition
Edited
By Brenda Ayres, Sarah E. Maier
May 31, 2023
This is the first collection to investigate Charles Dickens on his vast and various opinions about the uses and abuses of the tenets of Christian faith that imbue English Victorian culture. Although previous studies have looked at his well-known antipathies toward Dissenters, Evangelicals, ...
Trauma and Transformation in African Literature
1st Edition
By J. Roger Kurtz
May 31, 2023
This book fills a gap in the field of contemporary trauma studies by interrogating the relevance of trauma for African literatures. Kurtz argues that a thoughtful application of trauma theory in relation to African literatures is in fact a productive exercise, and furthermore that the benefits of ...
Visual Representations of the Arctic: Imagining Shimmering Worlds in Culture, Literature and Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Markku Lehtimäki, Arja Rosenholm, Vlad Strukov
May 31, 2023
Privileging the visual as the main method of communication and meaning-making, this book responds critically to the worldwide discussion about the Arctic and the North, addressing the interrelated issues of climate change, ethics and geopolitics. A multi-disciplinary, multi-modal exploration of the...
War Comics: A Postcolonial Perspective
1st Edition
By Jeanne-Marie Viljoen
May 31, 2023
This book focuses on non-fictional, visual narratives (including comics; graphic narratives; animated documentaries and online, interactive documentaries) that attempt to represent violent experiences, primarily in the Levant. In doing so it explores, from a philosophical perspective, the problem ...
Dante’s Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought: Toward a Speculative Philosophy of Self-Reflection
1st Edition
By William Franke
January 09, 2023
Self-reflection, as the hallmark of the modern age, originates more profoundly with Dante than with Descartes. This book rewrites modern intellectual history, taking Dante’s lyrical language in Paradiso as enacting a Trinitarian self-reflexivity that gives a theological spin to the birth of the ...