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.
The Birth of Intertextuality: The Riddle of Creativity
1st Edition
By Scarlett Baron
June 30, 2021
Why was the term ‘intertextuality’ coined? Why did its first theorists feel the need to replace or complement those terms – of quotation, allusion, echo, reference, influence, imitation, parody, pastiche, among others – which had previously seemed adequate and sufficient to the description of ...
Victimhood and Vulnerability in 21st Century Fiction
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean-Michel Ganteau, Susana Onega
June 30, 2021
Editors Jean-Michel Ganteau and Susana Onega) have assembled a volume which addresses the relationship between trauma and ethics, and moves one step further to engage with vulnerability studies in their relation to literature and literary form. It consists of an introduction and of twelve articles ...
Homemaking for the Apocalypse: Domesticating Horror in Atomic Age Literature & Media
1st Edition
By Jill Anderson
April 21, 2021
In Homemaking for the Apocalypse, Jill E. Anderson interrogates patterns of Atomic Age conformity that controlled the domestic practices and private activities of Americans. Used as a way to promote security in a period rife with anxieties about nuclear annihilation and The Bomb, these narratives ...
Attachment, Place, and Otherness in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: New Materialist Representations
1st Edition
By Jillmarie Murphy
September 30, 2020
This interdisciplinary study examines the role interpersonal and place attachment bonds play in crafting a national identity in American literature. Although there have been numerous ecocritical studies of and psychoanalytic approaches to American literature, this study seeks to integrate the ...
Conrad and Nature: Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By Lissa Schneider-Rebozo, Jeffrey Mathes McCarthy, John G. Peters
September 30, 2020
Conrad and Nature is the first collection of critical essays examining nature and the environment in Joseph Conrad’s writings. Together, these essays by established and emerging scholars reveal both the crucial importance of nature in Conrad’s work, and the vital, ongoing relevance of Conrad’s ...
Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies: Conversations from Earth to Cosmos
1st Edition
Edited
By Salma Monani, Joni Adamson
September 30, 2020
This book addresses the intersections between the interdisciplinary realms of Ecocriticism and Indigenous and Native American Studies, and between academic theory and pragmatic eco-activism conducted by multiethnic and indigenous communities. It illuminates the multi-layered, polyvocal ways in ...
God Behind the Screen: Literary Portraits of Personality Disorders and Religion
1st Edition
By Janko Andrijasevic
September 30, 2020
This interdisciplinary study of literary characters sheds light on the relatively under-studied phenomenon of religious psychopathy. God Behind the Screen: Literary Portrais of Religious Psychopathy identifies and rigorously examines protagonists in works from a variety of genres, written by ...
Journeys Exposed: Women’s Writing, Photography, and Mobility
1st Edition
By Giorgia Alù
September 30, 2020
Journeys Exposed: Women’s Writing, Photography and Mobility examines contemporary literature written by women that are all related to Italy in different ways. It argues that photography provides women with a means to expose aspects of their nomadic self and of others’ mobile lives within and beyond...
Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir
1st Edition
Edited
By Bunty Avieson, Fiona Giles, Sue Joseph
September 30, 2020
The argument has been made that memoir reflects and augments the narcissistic tendencies of our neo-liberal age. Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir challenges and dismantles that assumption. Focusing on the history, theory and practice of memoir writing, editors Bunty Avieson, Fiona ...
Modern Political Aesthetics from Romantic to Modernist Literature: Choreographies of Social Performance
1st Edition
By Tudor Balinisteanu
September 30, 2020
In this new research monograph, Tudor Balinsteanu draws on concepts of dance to demonstrate how the nonhuman is dealt with in terms of practical politics, that is, choreographies of social performance which emerge at the intersection of literature, art, and embodied life. Drawing on a number of ...
Motherhood in Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Gill Rye, Victoria Browne, Adalgisa Giorgio, Emily Jeremiah, Abigail Lee Six
September 30, 2020
Motherhood remains a complex and contested issue in feminist research as well as public discussion. This interdisciplinary volume explores cultural representations of motherhood in various contemporary European contexts, including France, Italy, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and the UK, and it ...
Multilingual Currents in Literature, Translation and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Rachael Gilmour, Tamar Steinitz
September 30, 2020
At a time increasingly dominated by globalization, migration, and the clash between supranational and ultranational ideologies, the relationship between language and borders has become more complicated and, in many ways, more consequential than ever. This book shows how concepts of ‘language’ and ‘...