Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction
About the Book Series
Routledge Studies in Speculative Fiction is our home for cutting-edge research and criticism of literatures from imaginative genres. The monographs in this series each take a critical look at literatures from all around the word that fall within the speculative fiction umbrella, including but not limited to, science fiction, fantasy, horror, apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic, utopian/dystopian literatures, and supernatural fiction.
Genre and Reception in the Gothic Parody: Framing the Subversive Heroine
1st Edition
By Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
September 25, 2023
This book brings together an analysis of the theoretical connection of genre, reception, and frame theory and a practical demonstration thereof, using a set of parodies of the first wave of the Gothic novel, ranging from well-known titles such as Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, to little known and ...
Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming
1st Edition
Edited
By Antonio Alcala Gonzalez, Carl H. Sederholm
September 25, 2023
Lovecraft in the 21st Century assembles reflections from a wide range of perspectives on the significance of Lovecraft’s influence in contemporary times. Building on a focus centered on the Anthropocene, adaptation, and visual media, the chapters in this collection focus on the following topics: ...
Character and the Supernatural in Shakespeare and Achebe
1st Edition
By Kenneth Usongo
May 31, 2023
Through mainly a New Historicist critical approach, this book explores how Shakespeare and Achebe employ supernatural devices such as prophecies, dreams, gods/goddesses, beliefs, and divinations to create complex characters. Even though these features indicate the preponderance of the belief in the...
Human Evolution and Fantastic Victorian Fiction
1st Edition
By Anna Neill
May 31, 2023
Following the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Victorian anthropology made two apparently contradictory claims: it distinguished "civilized man" from animals and "primitive" humans and it linked them though descent. Paradoxically, it was by placing human history in a deep past ...
Speculative Satire in Contemporary Literature and Film: Rant Against the Regime
1st Edition
By Kirk Combe
May 31, 2023
Since 1980, when neoliberal and neoconservative forces began their hostile takeover of western culture, a new type of political satire has emerged that works to unmask and deter those toxic doctrines. Literary and cultural critic Kirk Combe calls this new form of satire the Rant. The Rant is grim, ...
The Biopolitics of Gender in Science Fiction: Feminism and Female Machines
1st Edition
By Emily Cox-Palmer-White
May 31, 2023
Questioning essentialist forms of feminist discourse, this work develops an innovative approach to gender and feminist theory by drawing together the work of key feminist and gender theorists, such as Judith Butler and Donna Haraway, and the biopolitical philosophy of Giorgio Agamben and Gilles ...