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.
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...
AIDS Literature and Gay Identity: The Literature of Loss
1st Edition
By Monica Pearl
July 16, 2015
This book discusses the significance of late twentieth century and early twenty first century American fiction written in response to the AIDS crisis and interrogates how sexual identity is depicted and constructed textually. Pearl develops Freudian psychoanalytic theory in a complex account of the...
Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers’ Diaries, 1915-1962
1st Edition
By Anna Jackson
April 23, 2015
The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless, a "capacious hold-all" for the writer’s thoughts, and as offering unmediated access to the diarist’s true self. Focusing on the diaries of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Joe Orton, John Cheever, and Sylvia ...
Jewishness and Masculinity from the Modern to the Postmodern
1st Edition
By Neil R. Davison
April 23, 2015
This study examines the impact of racial, gender, and religious constructs of Jewish masculinity on a select group of male writers including George Du Maurier, Theodor Herzl, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, and Philip Roth during the Modernist and Postmodern eras. In reading the work of these ...
Primo Levi's Narratives of Embodiment: Containing the Human
1st Edition
By Charlotte Ross
April 23, 2015
This innovative reading of Primo Levi’s work offers the first sustained analysis in English of his representations of bodies and embodiment. Discussion spans the range of Levi’s works — from testimony to journalism, from essays to science fiction stories — identifying and tracing multiple ...
Travel and Modernist Literature: Sacred and Ethical Journeys
1st Edition
By Alexandra Peat
April 23, 2015
Through close readings of works from Henry James to W. E. B. Du Bois, and from Virginia Woolf to Jean Rhys, this book discusses how fictional travelers negotiate and adapt various tropes of travel (such as quest, expatriation, displacement, and exile) as models for their own journeys. Specifically,...
Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Michelle Tokarczyk
November 10, 2014
This book is one of the first collections on a neglected field in American literature: that written by and about the working-class. Examining literature from the 1850s to the present, contributors use a wide variety of critical approaches, expanding readers’ understanding of the critical lenses ...