Routledge Research in Women's Literature
Heroines of the Postmodern and their Worlds in Contemporary Historical Fiction
1st Edition
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By Alicja Bemben, Michael Joseph
September 29, 2025
This volume focuses on historical fiction written by and for women, approximately, in the last 30 years and across the entire globe. It comprises three parts. The first one draws on the theme of the inner life and experiences of the female historical figure, the second one is concerned with ...
The Chalet School Books and the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Miles Booy
June 16, 2025
The first full-length study of this beloved children’s series, The Chalet School in the Twentieth Century moves beyond the largely generic analysis within which it has previously been discussed. Published between 1925 and 1970, the series moves from European reconciliation after the Great War, ...
Socio-Environmental Crisis in Women’s Novels and Films in The Americas: The Poetics of Environmental Destruction, Care, and Insurgency
1st Edition
By Victoria Jara
March 30, 2025
The climate crisis has reached a critical point, necessitating urgent global action. Women’s activism against environmental dispossession in the Americas manifests not only in protests and classrooms but also through artistic filmmaking and writing. This book focuses on the overlooked contributions...
Nigerian Authors and the Me-Generation: New Shades of Black
1st Edition
By Eugenia Ossana
December 31, 2024
Nigerian Authors and the Me-Generation: New Shades of Black explores African literary issues and focuses on Nigerian generations throughout history. It also underscores women authors’ relatively unknown or dispersed role and their positions regarding Western feminism. Concurrently, the book ...
Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories?
1st Edition
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By Paloma Fresno-Calleja, Hsu-Ming Teo
December 16, 2024
Romantic fiction has often involved stories of travel. In narratives of the journey towards love, "romance" often involves encounters with "exotic" places and peoples. When history is invoked in such stories, the past itself is exoticised and treated as "other" to the present to serve the purposes ...
Barbara Bray, A Woman of Letters: Translator, Radio Producer, Scriptwriter, Critic, and Theatre Director
1st Edition
By Pascale Sardin
November 27, 2024
Barbara Bray (1924-2010) was an English woman of letters who translated some hundred novels, plays, and essays from French to English and was Marguerite Duras’s preferred translator. She also collaborated with some of the most prestigious directors and playwrights of the 20th century – Harold ...
Maeve Brennan: A Place in the Mind
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By Edward O’Rourke
October 30, 2024
This book explores the intricate interplay between physical spaces and psychological landscapes in the works of Irish-American author Maeve Brennan. Brennan’s writing is now classed amongst the most important of twentieth-century Irish women’s fiction, having undergone a significant reclamation and...
Breastfeeding in American Women’s Literature: Latching On
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By Wendy Whelan-Stewart
September 18, 2024
Rather than rarities, literary depictions of women breastfeeding infants are more common in American literature than recognized. In some cases, readers have dismissed such portrayals as scenic background or strokes of verisimilitude. In other cases, we have failed to register them at all. By ...
The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writings
1st Edition
By Ágnes Zsófia Kovács
September 13, 2024
Edith Wharton was not only the author of novels and short stories but also of drama, poetry, autobiography, interior decoration, and travel writing. This study focuses on Wharton’s symbolic representations of architecture in her travel writings. It shows how a network of allusions to travel writing...
Motherhood and Creativity in Contemporary Self-Life Writing: Writers and Mothers
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By Alice Braun
August 21, 2024
This book aims to study the representation of motherhood in self-life writing by English-speaking authors. It highlights the particular issues women writers are faced with when they try to combine their vocation as artists with their duties towards their children. For those women who claim their ...
Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History
1st Edition
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By Hsu-Ming Teo, Paloma Fresno-Calleja
June 13, 2024
This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead imagining alternative histories. The novelists ...
Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works
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By Brenda Ayres
April 09, 2024
Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works draws from biography to explain her works, and it analyses the works to draw a biographical composite of Wollstonecraft. Becoming Wollstonecraft will be more fully developed than previous works, with added information that has not ...