Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
About the Book Series
From Joyce to Rushdie, Modernism to Food Writing, Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Literature looks at both the literature and culture of the 20th century. This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering literature alongside religion, popular culture, race, gender, ecology, travel, class, space, and other subjects, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Joseph Conrad and the Intersection of Narrative, Epistemology, and Cosmology
1st Edition
By John G. Peters
September 14, 2026
This volume presents a comprehensive collection of critical essays on Joseph Conrad's works, developed over three decades of scholarly engagement. While addressing diverse aspects of Conrad's oeuvre, these studies are unified by a consistent methodological approach and thematic focus that ...
Lacanian Non-Rapport in the Novels of John Fowles: Impossible Relationships
1st Edition
By Mahitosh Mandal
August 31, 2026
Lacanian Non-Rapport in the Novels of John Fowles offers the first systematic Lacanian study of the fiction of John Fowles. Although Fowles repeatedly acknowledged his engagement with psychoanalysis, his novels have rarely been examined in relation to Jacques Lacan’s theorisation of sexual ...
Feminist Science Fiction’s Sartorial Spaces: Fashioning Future Females
1st Edition
Edited
By Marleen S. Barr
August 17, 2026
Feminist Science Fiction’s Sartorial Spaces is a collection of critical essays consisting of established critical voices and cutting-edge new generation fresh perspectives across feminist theory, science fiction, and fashion. This book brings science fiction to bear upon the limiting impact ...
Indeterminacy and the Reader’s Engagement in the Italian Novel: Ungraspable
1st Edition
By Laura Lucia Rossi
August 07, 2026
What makes literature ‘literary’? Some theories argue it is a certain degree of ungraspability— openness, vagueness, or ambiguity that invites readers’ active participation in constructing meaning. This book examines five canonical twentieth-century Italian novels (by Tozzi, Landolfi, Vittorini, ...
The Literary Legacy of the Kennedy Assassination: True Crime Tragedy
1st Edition
By Danielle Johannesen
July 22, 2026
The Literary Legacy of the Kennedy Assassination: True Crime Tragedy surveys and analyzes literary representations of the 1963 JFK assassination in Dallas. The book argues for understanding the assassination as a true crime event. As true crime narratives, the Zapruder film and the Warren Report ...
Contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American Poets: Lyrical Solidarity
1st Edition
By John Burns, Toshiaki Komura
July 15, 2026
Contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American Poets examines how contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American poets imagine their past, present and future through shared aesthetics. Their poems explore topics surrounding immigration, internment, and racialization, as part of ...
Psychoanalysis and The Lord of the Rings: A Meltzerian Perspective on Frodo’s Journey
1st Edition
By Adrian Smith
February 25, 2026
Psychoanalysis and The Lord of the Rings offers a psychoanalytical perspective on Tolkien’s masterpiece, informed by the Kleinian school within psychoanalysis, especially the work of Donald Meltzer. Treating Tolkien’s work as a Bildungsroman, a forming novel or coming-of-age tale, this study tracks...
Theodore Dreiser and the Cultures of Travel
1st Edition
By Gary Totten
January 21, 2026
Theodore Dreiser and the Cultures of Travel examines Dreiser’s three published travel narratives, A Traveler at Forty (1913), A Hoosier Holiday (1916), and Dreiser Looks at Russia (1928), along with his 1916–26 travel diaries for trips to Georgia, New Jersey, California, and Florida, and his ...
Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903-1929: Viewer, I Married Him
1st Edition
By Jamie Barlowe
December 26, 2025
Silent Film Adaptations of Novels by British and American Women Writers, 1903–1929 focuses on fifty-three silent film adaptations of the novels of acclaimed authors George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Mary Shelley, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, and Edith Wharton....
An Analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Plays in Théâtre complet
1st Edition
By Adrian van den Hoven
December 25, 2025
An Analysis of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Plays in Théâtre complet is the first volume to propose a critical analysis of all of Jean-Paul Sartre’s plays as published in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris, Gallimard, 2005. Viewing the plays in the context of Sartre’s philosophy, his prose writings and ...
Industrial Literature and Authors: Labor, Factory Utopias, and Testimonial Intent
1st Edition
By Bianca Rita Cataldi
December 25, 2025
In recent years, the field of literary studies at the international level has become more involved in the analysis of the so-called industrial literature, a literary genre that focuses on the literary representation of factory work and workers’ alienation. This book engages in the ongoing...
Reading Mohamed Choukri’s Narratives: Hunger in Eden
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonas Elbousty, Roger Allen
December 25, 2025
Reading Mohamed Choukri’s Narratives presents an intricate exploration into the life and literary universe of Mohamed Choukri, a towering figure in 20th-century Moroccan literature. Known primarily for his groundbreaking autobiographical work "al-Khubz al-Ḥāfī" (For Bread Alone), Choukri's literary...