Routledge New Textual Studies in Literature
About the Book Series
This series seeks to shift the priorities of existing scholarship on literature written in English, producing ground-breaking studies using archives, manuscripts, papers, collections, digital and facsimile collections, and all forms of primary texts and material. It will capitalize on the opportunity represented by the unprecedented wealth of primary materials now available to scholars working across this broad period. Amongst other things, the outputs in this series will:
- Reappraise canonical authors or movements in relation to new or overlooked archival evidence, asking how the canon might look different in light of this
- Re-evaluate a well-known genre, movement, or idea through attention to a wide range of texts or primary material
- Exploit and explore the rich variety of texts and primary sources now available digitally or in newly accessible physical archives
- Build on the work of new print editions
- Focus on manuscripts, letters, personal papers, or ephemera to challenge and reshape existing scholarship
- Articulate new and fresh methodological approaches to archival, digital-archival, or textual material
Books in this series will transform our understanding of the canon or of standard narratives of literary and cultural history by drawing upon primary materials, especially those that are rare, manuscript, out-of-print, ignored, commonly overlooked, or newly available.
Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past: Methods of Knowing
1st Edition
Edited
By Kevin A. Morrison, Pälvi Rantala
January 30, 2025
Although historical research undertaken in different disciplines often requires speculation and imagination, it remains relatively rare for scholars to foreground these processes explicitly as a knowing method. Historical Research, Creative Writing, and the Past brings together researchers in a ...
The British and Anglo-Irish Thing-Essay from 1701 to 2021: Of Broomsticks and Doughnuts
1st Edition
By Daniel Schneider
December 18, 2024
While the it-narrative, the thing-poem and thing theatre have been around for some time, the essay – which is often considered literature’s fourth genre – is still lacking its thing-subgenre. Yet, particularly British and Anglo-Irish literature display a long, albeit so far implicit tradition of ...
Literature and Computation: Platform Intermediality, Hermeneutic Modeling, and Analytical-Creative Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Tanasescu
June 28, 2024
Literature and Computation presents some of the most relevantly innovative recent approaches to literary practice, theory, and criticism as driven by computation and situated in digital environments. These approaches rely on automated analyses, but use them creatively, engage in text modeling but ...
Criticism After Theory from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf
1st Edition
By Perry Meisel
January 29, 2024
The argument of this book is a simple one: that criticism after theory is a single movement of thought defined by synthesis and continuity rather than by conflict and change. The most influential figures in criticism since Saussure—Bakhtin, Derrida, and Foucault—are wholly consistent with ...
The Mini-Cycle
1st Edition
By Allan Weiss
January 09, 2023
While scholars have been studying the short story cycle for some time now, this book discusses a form that has never before been identified and named, let alone analyzed: the mini-cycle. A mini-cycle is a short story cycle made up, in most cases, of only two or three stories. This study looks at ...
Richard Polwhele and Romantic Culture: The Politics of Reaction and the Poetics of Place
1st Edition
By Dafydd Moore
August 01, 2022
Richard Polwhele was a writer of rare energies. Today known only for The Unsex’d Females and its attack on radical women writers, Polwhele was a historian, translator, memoirist, and poet. As an indigent Cornish gentleman clergyman and JP, his extensive written output encompassed sermons, open ...