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.
The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien
1st Edition
By Nicholas Birns
June 27, 2025
This volume analyzes the literary role played by history in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. It argues that the events of The Lord of the Rings are placed against the background of an already- existing history, both in reality and in the fictional worlds of the books. History is unfolded in various ...
Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman’s AIDS Novels
1st Edition
By Jarosław Milewski
June 26, 2025
Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman’s AIDS Novels is the first book to extensively discuss the works of Sarah Schulman, a journalist, activist and globally recognized novelist. This research monograph juxtaposes the works about the AIDS epidemic which were well-received by the mainstream America with ...
Valencian Folktales, Volume 3: Enric Valor
1st Edition
By Paul Scott Derrick, Maria-Lluïsa Gea-Valor
June 26, 2025
Enric Valor (1911–2000) is one of the most important Valencian authors of the 20th century. This third selection of his highly popular rondalles (folktales) will complete the publication of his folktales in English translation. At a time when Catalan was under threat from the cultural bulldozer of ...
Katherine Mansfield and Germany: Influences, Interactions, Afterlives
1st Edition
Edited
By Janet M. Wilson, Tracy Miao
June 08, 2025
Katherine Mansfield and Germany is the first study of Mansfield's encounter with Germany and all things German: language, culture, society. This crucial area of her life and art has been relatively neglected, even though Germany held Mansfield in its thrall all her life, as myriad associations ...
Music in Modern Japanese and Hebrew Literatures: Weaving Sounds into Words
1st Edition
By Shirah Malka Cohen
May 05, 2025
Music in Modern Japanese and Hebrew Literatures examines the place of classical music in early 20th-century Japanese and Hebrew literatures. As this book shows, both Japanese and Hebrew writers of the period made use of Western classical music in their novels and short stories in order to explore ...
Valencian Folktales, Volume 2: Enric Valor
1st Edition
By Paul Scott Derrick, Maria-Lluïsa Gea-Valor
May 05, 2025
Enric Valor (1911–2000) is one of the most important Valencian authors of the 20th century. He has been, until now, almost completely unknown to an English-speaking audience. Following the publication of Valencian Folktales (2023), this second collection of his tales will help to consolidate work ...
George Orwell and Communist Poland: Émigré, Official and Clandestine Receptions
1st Edition
By Krystyna Wieszczek
April 20, 2025
George Orwell and Communist Poland is the first major account of George Orwell’s Polish reception during the Second World War and the Cold War era. It shows how Orwell, the epitome of a censored writer in the Soviet bloc, enjoyed a fulsome reception both outside and within communist Poland. It does...
Reading Lovecraft in the Anthropocene: A New Dark Age
1st Edition
By Christian Wilken
March 09, 2025
In Reading Lovecraft in the Anthropocene: A New Dark Age, the intersection of environmental, philosophical, and literary discourses is explored through the lens of H.P. Lovecraft’s weird fiction. This study examines the convergence of three critical phenomena: the widespread recognition of the ...
Polish Camp Literature
1st Edition
By Arkadiusz Morawiec
March 06, 2025
Polish Camp Literature expands the boundaries of Polish camp literature, which has so far been defined too narrowly. This restricted outlook has been determined by politics, ideology, the scarcity of historical knowledge, the lack of literary research, and frequent manipulation concerning terms ...
Warrior-Writers of World War II
1st Edition
By Lee Congdon
February 28, 2025
Warrior-Writers of World War II delivers a thorough study of Americans who saw combat in World War II, survived, and returned home to become famous writers. It considers the works of 16 important authors, among them J. D. Salinger, John Ciardi, and James Jones, exploring these men’s war experiences...
Beat Myths in Literature: Revisionist Strategies in Beat Women
1st Edition
By Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo
December 18, 2024
Beat Myths in Literature reassesses the work of women poets associated with the Beat Generation from the critical lens of revisionist discourses. Using the metaphor and the critical lens of looking back, an act infused with feminist implications after Adrienne Rich (1972), the volume focuses on ...
Literature for a Society of Equals
1st Edition
By Daniel S. Malachuk
December 18, 2024
Literature for a Society of Equals defends modern equality and seeks its best literature. It accuses equality’s supposed friends on the left of attenuating this world-redefining relationship into a collection of rights and goods to distribute, secularizing it even as the right keeps sacralizing ...