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.
Surreal Beckett: Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, and Surrealism
1st Edition
By Alan Warren Friedman
December 10, 2019
Surreal Beckett situates Beckett‘s writings within the context of James Joyce and Surrealism, distinguishing ways in which Beckett forged his own unique path, sometimes in accord with, sometimes at odds with, these two powerful predecessors. Beckett was so deeply enmeshed in Joyce’s circle during ...
The Nature of Modernism: Ecocritical Approaches to the Poetry of Edward Thomas, T. S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell and Charlotte Mew
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Black
December 10, 2019
This books presents the first extended study of the relationship between British modernist poetry and the environment. Challenging reductive associations of modernism as predominantly anthropocentric in character and urban in focus, the book’s central argument is that within British modernist ...
The Situationist International in Britain: Modernism, Surrealism, and the Avant-Garde
1st Edition
By Sam Cooper
December 10, 2019
This book tells, for the first time, the story of the Situationist International’s influence and afterlives in Britain, where its radical ideas have been rapturously welcomed and fiercely resisted. The Situationist International presented itself as the culmination of the twentieth century ...
Writing for the Masses: Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition
1st Edition
By Christine Colón
December 10, 2019
In Writing for the Masses: Dorothy L. Sayers and the Victorian Literary Tradition Dr. Christine A. Colón explores how Sayers carefully negotiates the complexities of early twentieth century literary culture by embracing a specifically Victorian literary tradition of writing to engage a wide ...
Dramatizing Time in Twentieth-Century Fiction
1st Edition
By William Vesterman
September 27, 2018
How have twentieth-century writers used techniques in fiction to communicate the human experience of time? Dramatizing Time in Twentieth-Century Fiction explores this question by analyzing major narratives of the last century that demonstrate how time becomes variously manifested to reflect and ...
James Joyce, Science, and Modernist Print Culture: “The Einstein of English Fiction”
1st Edition
By Jeffrey S. Drouin
August 23, 2018
This book makes an important intervention in the ongoing debates about modernism, science, and the divisions of early Twentieth-Century print culture. In order to establish Joyce's place in the nexus of modernism and scientific thought, Drouin uses the methods of periodical studies and textual ...
Making Space in the Works of James Joyce
1st Edition
Edited
By Valerie Benejam, John Bishop
August 23, 2018
James Joyce’s preoccupation with space—be it urban, geographic, stellar, geometrical or optical—is a central and idiosyncratic feature of his work. In Making Space in the Works of James Joyce, some of the most esteemed scholars in Joyce studies have come together to evaluate the perception and...
Contemporary Reconfigurations of American Literary Classics: The Origin and Evolution of American Stories
1st Edition
By Betina Entzminger
May 31, 2017
The number and popularity of novels that have overtly reconfigured aspects of classic American texts suggests a curious trend for both readers and writers, an impulse to retell and reread books that have come to define American culture. This book argues that by revising canonical American ...
The Epic Trickster in American Literature: From Sunjata to So(u)l
1st Edition
By Gregory E. Rutledge
May 31, 2017
Just as Africa and the West have traditionally fit into binaries of Darkness/Enlightenment, Savage/Modern, Ugly/Beautiful, and Ritual/Art, among others, much of Western cultural production rests upon the archetypal binary of Trickster/Epic, with trickster aesthetics and commensurate cultural forms ...
Autobiographies of Others: Historical Subjects and Literary Fiction
1st Edition
By Lucia Boldrini
May 24, 2017
In this volume, Boldrini examines "heterobiography"—the first-person fictional account of a historic life. Boldrini shows that this mode is widely employed to reflect critically on the historical and philosophical understanding of the human; on individual identity; and on the power relationships ...
Locating Gender in Modernism: The Outsider Female
1st Edition
By Geetha Ramanathan
March 03, 2016
This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range ...
Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa Goldfarb, Bart Eeckhout
March 03, 2016
This unique essay collection considers the impact of New York on the life and works of Wallace Stevens. Stevens lived in New York from 1900 to 1916, working briefly as a journalist, going to law school, laboriously starting up a career as a lawyer, getting engaged and married, gradually mixing with...