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.
Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness: The Utopian Imagination in An Age of Urban Crisis
1st Edition
By Letizia Modena
September 11, 2014
This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well as a wide range of works--primarily urban planning and design theory and history--...
Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture: Celebrating Impurity, Disrupting Borders
1st Edition
Edited
By Ana Cristina Mendes
September 11, 2014
In Salman Rushdie’s novels, images are invested with the power to manipulate the plotline, to stipulate actions from the characters, to have sway over them, seduce them, or even lead them astray. Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture sheds light on this largely unremarked – even if central – dimension ...
Testimony from the Nazi Camps: French Women's Voices
1st Edition
By Margaret Anne Hutton
August 12, 2014
This interdisciplinary study intergrates historiographical, literary and cultural methodologies in its focus on a little known corpus of testimonial accounts published by French women deported to Nazi camps. Comprising epistemological and literary analyses of the accounts and an examination of the ...
Anglophone Jewish Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Axel Stähler
July 17, 2014
Anglophone Jewish literature is not traditionally numbered among the new literatures in English. Rather, Jewish literary production in English has conventionally been classified as ‘hyphenated’ and has therefore not yet been subjected as such to the scrutiny of scholars of literary or cultural ...
Literary Ghosts from the Victorians to Modernism: The Haunting Interval
1st Edition
By Luke Thurston
February 14, 2014
This book resituates the ghost story as a matter of literary hospitality and as part of a vital prehistory of modernism, seeing it not as a quaint neo-gothic ornament, but as a powerful literary response to the technological and psychological disturbances that marked the end of the Victorian era. ...
Aesthetic Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Women's Food Writing: The Innovative Appetites of M.F.K. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Elizabeth David
1st Edition
By Alice McLean
March 21, 2013
This book explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992), Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967), and Elizabeth David (1913-1992). Growing up during a time when women's food writing was largely limited to the domestic cookbook, which helped to codify ...
Food, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Consumption: Eating the Avant-Garde
1st Edition
By Michel Delville
November 28, 2012
From Plato’s dismissal of food as a distraction from thought to Kant’s relegation of the palate to the bottom of the hierarchy of the senses, the sense of taste has consistently been devalued by Western aesthetics. Kant is often invoked as evidence that philosophers consider taste as an inferior ...
Travel and Drugs in Twentieth-Century Literature
1st Edition
By Lindsey Michael Banco
April 20, 2012
This book examines the connections between two disparate yet persistently bound thematics -- mobility and intoxication -- and explores their central yet frequently misunderstood role in constructing subjectivity following the 1960s. Emerging from profound mid-twentieth-century changes in how drugs ...
Modernism and the Crisis of Sovereignty
1st Edition
By Andrew John Miller
February 23, 2012
This book describes how three of the most significant Anglophone writers of the first half of the twentieth century – Yeats, Eliot, and Woolf – wrestled with a geopolitical situation in which national boundaries had come to seem increasingly permeable at the same time as war among (and within) ...
Cartographic Strategies of Postmodernity: The Figure of the Map in Contemporary Theory and Fiction
1st Edition
By Peta Mitchell
February 10, 2012
The last fifty years have witnessed the growing pervasiveness of the figure of the map in critical, theoretical, and fictional discourse. References to mapping and cartography are endemic in poststructuralist theory, and, similarly, geographically and culturally diverse authors of twentieth-century...
Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change: Race, Sex and Nation
1st Edition
By Gerardine Meaney
May 16, 2011
This book analyzes the roots of Irish social and sexual conservatism and the dramatic change in one of the most basic areas of human experience: how we understand our roles as men and women. It looks at the relationship between sexual and cultural dissent and the long, slow role of culture in ...
Before Auschwitz: Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France
1st Edition
By Angela Kershaw
January 06, 2011
This book analyses Irene Némirovsky’s literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France. It examines topics of central importance to our understanding of the literary field in France in the period, such as: the close relationship between ...