Routledge Research in Women's Literature
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
Edited
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
1st Edition
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...
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...