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.
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 ...
Latin American Writers and the Rise of Hollywood Cinema
1st Edition
By Jason Borge
July 21, 2010
This book analyzes the initial engagement with Hollywood by key Latin American writers and intellectuals during the first few decades of the 20th century. The film metropolis presented an ambiguous, multivalent sign for established figures like Horacio Quiroga, Alejo Carpentier and Mário de Andrade...
Gay Male Fiction Since Stonewall: Ideology, Conflict, and Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Les Brookes
January 26, 2010
The conflict between assimilationism and radicalism that has riven gay culture since Stonewall became highly visible in the 1990s with the emergence and challenge of queer theory and politics. The conflict predates Stonewall, however—indeed, Jonathan Dollimore describes it as "one of the most ...
Cold War Literature: Writing the Global Conflict
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Hammond
October 13, 2009
The Cold War was the longest conflict in a century defined by the scale and brutality of its conflicts. In the battle between the democratic West and the communist East there was barely a year in which the West was not organising, fighting or financing some foreign war. It was an engagement that ...
Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays
1st Edition
Edited
By Jo Gill
October 13, 2009
A comprehensive and scholarly account of this popular and influential genre, the essays in this collection explore confessional literature from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, and include the writing of John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes and Helen Fielding. Drawing on a wide ...
The Early Poems: John Milton: Twentieth Century Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Martin Evans
November 08, 2002
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....