Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics in American Literature and Culture.
Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife: A Step Closer to Heaven
1st Edition
Edited
By Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Emily Hamilton-Honey
May 31, 2023
This collection analyzes the theme of the "afterlife" as it animated nineteenth-century American women’s theology-making and appeals for social justice. Authors like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Martha Finley, Jarena Lee, Maria Stewart, Zilpha Elaw, Rebecca Cox Jackson, Catharine...
Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s "Beloved": The Case for Reparations
1st Edition
By Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
May 31, 2023
Objects and Intertexts in Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”: The Case for Reparations is an inspired contribution to the scholarship on one of the most influential American novels and novelists. The author positions this contemporary classic as a meditation on historical justice and re-comprehends it as ...
Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Matter That Complains So
1st Edition
By Andrew Hicks
May 31, 2023
Posthumanism in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Matter That Complains So re-examines the prevailing critical consensus that Kurt Vonnegut was a humanist writer. While more difficult elements of his work have often been the subject of scholarly attention, the tendency amongst critics writing on ...
Pragmatism and Poetic Agency: The Persistence of Humanism
1st Edition
By Ulf Schulenberg
May 31, 2023
Pragmatism is a humanist philosophy. In spite of the much-debated renaissance of pragmatism, however, a detailed discussion of the relationship between pragmatism and humanism is still a desideratum. It is difficult to understand the complexity of pragmatism without considering the significance of ...
Racism and Xenophobia in Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction: When a House is Not a Home
1st Edition
By Wisam Abughosh Chaleila
May 31, 2023
"The Melting Pot," "The Land of The Free," "The Land of Opportunity." These tropes or nicknames apparently reflect the freedom and open-armed welcome that the United States of America offers. However, the chronicles of history do not complement that image. These historical happenings have not often...
Rethinking Fiction after the 2007/8 Financial Crisis: Consumption, Economics, and the American Dream
1st Edition
By Mirosław Aleksander Miernik
May 31, 2023
This book provides insight into the impact the 2007/8 financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession had on American fiction. Employing an interdisciplinary approach which combines literary studies with anthropology, economics, sociology, and psychology, the author attempts to gauge the changes ...
Trauma and Fictions of the "War on Terror": Disrupting Memory
1st Edition
By Sarah O'Brien
May 31, 2023
This book explores the ways in which transnational fiction in the post-9/11 era can intervene in discourse surrounding the "war on terror" to advocate for marginalised perspectives. Trauma and Fictions of the "War on Terror" conceptualises global political discourse about the "war on terror" as ...
From Subjection to Survival: The Artistry of American Women Writers
1st Edition
By Molly J. Freitas
December 23, 2022
From Subjection to Survival is a work of feminist scholarship that works at the intersection of literature and art history, the written and the visual. By examining six important and diverse multiethnic American women writers of the twentieth century (Kate Chopin, Anzia Yezierska, Edith Wharton, ...
Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era
1st Edition
Edited
By Tiffany Austin, Sequoia Maner, Emily Rutter, Darlene Scott
December 13, 2019
Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era is an edited collection of critical essays and poetry that investigates contemporary elegy within the black diaspora. Scores of contemporary writers have turned to elegiac poetry and prose in order to militate against the white supremacist logic ...