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.
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 ...
Queering Modernist Translation: The Poetics of Race, Gender, and Queerness
1st Edition
By Christian Bancroft
February 01, 2022
Queering Modernist Translation explores translations by Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and H.D. through the concept of queering translation. As Bancroft argues, queering translation is an intersectional lens for gleaning identity and socio-cultural issues in translation, such as gender, sexuality, ...
Modernism and Modernity in British Women’s Magazines
1st Edition
By Alice Wood
January 08, 2022
This book explores responses to the strangeness and pleasures of modernism and modernity in four commercial British women’s magazines of the interwar period. Through extensive study of interwar Vogue (UK), Eve, Good Housekeeping (UK), and Harper’s Bazaar (UK), Wood uncovers how modernism was ...
Aesthetic and Philosophical Reflections on Mood: Stimmung and Modernity
1st Edition
By Birgit Breidenbach
December 13, 2021
This study explores the concept of Stimmung in literary and philosophical texts of the modern age. Signifying both 'mood' and 'attunement', Stimmung speaks to the categories of affective experience and aesthetic design alike. The study locates itself in the nexus between discourses on modernity, ...
Charles Bukowski, Outsider Literature, and the Beat Movement
1st Edition
By Paul Clements
December 13, 2021
This book uses cultural and psycho-social analysis to examine the beat writer Charles Bukowski and his literature, focusing on representations of the anti-hero rebel and outsider. Clements considers the complexities, ambiguities, and contradictions represented by the author and his work, exploring ...
Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction: Ray Bradbury’s Elliott Family
1st Edition
Edited
By Miranda Corcoran, Steve Gronert Ellerhoff
December 13, 2021
Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires, witches, and assorted monstrosities, Ray Bradbury’s Elliott family stories are a unique component of his extensive literary output. Written between 1946 and 1994, Bradbury eventually quilted the stories together into a novel, From the ...