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.
Katherine Mansfield: International Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Janka Kascakova, Gerri Kimber, Władysław Witalisz
September 25, 2023
Katherine Mansfield has been widely recognised as one of the key authors of her generation, continuing to influence literary modernism and the short story genre through her nomadic existence, colonial perspective, eclectic interests and impressive range of literary acquaintances. This volume ...
Polish Literature and Genocide
1st Edition
By Arkadiusz Morawiec
September 25, 2023
Polish Literature and Genocide presents the attitude of Polish literature to the 20th-century acts of genocide. This volume examines the literary representations of the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and the massacre in Srebrenica in a rich, detailed, and comprehensive way, expanding the ...
T. S. Eliot’s Ariel Poems: Making Sense of the Times
1st Edition
By Anna Budziak
May 31, 2023
T. S. Eliot once stated that the supreme poet "in writing himself, writes his time". In saying that, he honoured Dante and Shakespeare, but this pithy remark fittingly characterises his own work, including The Ariel Poems, with which he promptly and pointedly responded to the problems of his times....
Postcolonial Realism and the Concept of the Political
1st Edition
By Eli Park Sorensen
January 09, 2023
As the scholarly world attunes itself once again to the specifically political, this book rethinks the political significance of literary realism within a postcolonial context. Generally, postcolonial studies has either ignored realism or criticized it as being naïve, anachronistic, deceptive, or ...
William Faulkner and Mortality: A Fine Dead Sound
1st Edition
By Ahmed Honeini
January 09, 2023
William Faulkner and Mortality is the first full-length study of mortality in William Faulkner’s fiction. The book challenges earlier, influential scholarly considerations of death in Faulkner’s work that claimed that writing was his authorial method of ‘saying No to death’. Through close-readings ...
Memory, Voice, and Identity: Muslim Women’s Writing from across the Middle East
1st Edition
Edited
By Feroza Jussawalla, Doaa Omran
September 26, 2022
Muslim women have been stereotyped by Western academia as oppressed and voiceless. This volume problematizes this Western academic representation. Muslim Women Writers from the Middle East from Out al-Kouloub al-Dimerdashiyyah (1899–1968) and Latifa al-Zayat (1923–1996) from Egypt, to current ...
Character and Dystopia: The Last Men
1st Edition
By Aaron S. Rosenfeld
May 06, 2022
This is the first extended study to specifically focus on character in dystopia. Through the lens of the "last man" figure, Character and Dystopia: The Last Men examines character development in Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We, Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, Fyodor ...
Embodiment and the Cosmic Perspective in Twentieth-Century Fiction
1st Edition
By Marco Caracciolo
May 06, 2022
In dialogue with groundbreaking technologies and scientific models, twentieth century fiction presents readers with a vast mosaic of perspectives on the cosmos. The literary imagination of the world beyond the human scale, however, faces a fundamental difficulty: if, as researchers in both ...
Clemence Dane: Forgotten Feminist Writer of the Inter-War Years
1st Edition
By Louise McDonald
April 29, 2022
This feminist investigation of the works of Clemence Dane joins the growing body of research into the relationship of female-authored texts to the ideology and cultural hegemony of the Edwardian and inter-war period. An amalgam of single-author study and thematic period analysis, through sustained ...
Life-Writing, Genre and Criticism in the Texts of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland: Women Writing for Women
1st Edition
By Ailsa Granne
April 29, 2022
Sylvia Townsend Warner has increasingly become recognized as a significant and distinctive talent amongst twentieth-century authors. This volume explores her remarkable relationship with Valentine Ackland - her partner for forty years - by closely examining their letters and diaries alongside a ...
Literary Criticism, Culture and the Subject of 'English': F.R. Leavis and T.S. Eliot
1st Edition
By Dandan Zhang
April 29, 2022
This volume considers the highly convoluted relationship between F. R. Leavis and T. S. Eliot, comparing their ideas in literary and cultural criticism, and connecting it to the broader discourse of English Studies as a university subject that developed in the first half of the twentieth century. ...
Modernist Literature and European Identity
1st Edition
By Birgit Van Puymbroeck
April 29, 2022
Modernist Literature and European Identity examines how European and non-European authors debated the idea of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. It shifts the focus from European modernism to modernist Europe, and shows how the notion of Europe was constructed in a variety of ...