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.
Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism: Unsettling Presences
1st Edition
Edited
By Kostas Boyiopoulos, Anthony Patterson, Mark Sandy
June 30, 2021
Our collection of essays re-evaluates the much critically contested term of Modernism that, eventually, came to be used of the dominant, or paradigmatic, strain of literary discourse in early-twentieth-century culture. Modernism as a category is one which is constantly challenged, hybridised, and ...
New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthew Hayward, Maebh Long
June 30, 2021
For so long figured in European discourses as the antithesis of modernity, the Pacific Islands have remained all but absent from the modernist studies’ critical map. Yet, as the chapters of New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernities in the Pacific collectively show, Pacific artists and writers have ...
The British Stake In Japanese Modernity: Readings in Liberal Tradition and Native Modernism
1st Edition
By Michael Gardiner
June 30, 2021
This book describes firstly a Japanese modernity which is readable not only as a modernising, but also as a Britishing, and secondly modernist attempts to overhaul this British universalism in some well-known and some less-known Japanese texts. From the mid-nineteenth century, and particularly as ...
The Nationality of Utopia: H. G. Wells, England, and the World State
1st Edition
By Maxim Shadurski
June 30, 2021
Since its generic inception in 1516, utopia has produced visions of alterity which renegotiate, subvert, and transcend existing places. Early in the twentieth century, H. G. Wells linked utopia to the World State, whose post-national, post-Westphalian emergence he predicated on English national ...
Theatre-Fiction in Britain from Henry James to Doris Lessing: Writing in the Wings
1st Edition
By Graham Wolfe
June 30, 2021
This volume posits and explores an intermedial genre called theatre-fiction, understood in its broadest sense as referring to novels and stories that engage in concrete and sustained ways with theatre. Though theatre has made star appearances in dozens of literary fictions, including many by modern...
Twentieth-Century American Fiction in Circulation: Short Stories Written for Magazines and Republished in Linked Story Collections
1st Edition
By Matthew Vechinski
June 30, 2021
Twentieth-Century American Fiction in Circulation is a study of the twentieth-century linked story collection in the United States. It emphasizes how the fictional form grew out of an established publishing model—individual stories printed in magazines, revised and expanded into single-author ...
Twentieth-Century Literary Encounters in China: Modernism, Travel, and Form
1st Edition
By Jeffrey Mather
June 30, 2021
From the travel writing of the eccentric plant collector and Reginald Farrer, to Emily Hahn’s insider depictions of bohemian life in semi-colonial Shanghai, to Ezra Pound’s mediated ‘journeys’ to Southwest China via the explorer Joseph Rock – Anglo-American representations of China during the first...
Ukrainian Erotomaniac Fictions: First Postindependence Wave
1st Edition
By Maryna Romanets
June 30, 2021
Ukrainian Erotomaniac Fictions explores the aggressive sexualization of the Ukrainian cultural mainstream after the collapse of the USSR as a counter-reaction to the Soviet state's totalitarian, repressive politics of the body. While the book's introduction includes concise sections on such ...
Altered Consciousness in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Jake Poller
December 18, 2020
The twentieth century saw an unprecedented spike in the study of altered states of consciousness. New ASCs, such as those associated with LSD and psilocybin mushrooms, were cultivated and studied, while older ASCs were given new classifications: out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, ...
Hermeneutic Ontology in Gadamer and Woolf: The Being of Art and the Art of Being
1st Edition
By Adam Noland
December 18, 2020
This volume analyses Virginia Woolf’s novels through a philosophical lens, providing an interpretive overview of her works through Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutic ontology. The text argues that interpretation itself is the central subject matter of Woolf’s novels: in order to understand these ...
Bringing Up War-Babies: The Wartime Child in Women’s Writing and Psychoanalysis at Mid-Century
1st Edition
By Amanda Jones
September 30, 2020
The figure of the wartime child in the mid-twentieth century unsettles and disturbs. This book employs a range of material – biographical, literary and historical – to chart some of the surprising and unanticipated crossovers between women’s writing and early psychoanalysis in the years of the ...
Collage and Literature: The Persistence of Vision
1st Edition
By Scarlett Higgins
September 30, 2020
Collage and Literature analyzes how and why the history of literature and art changed irrevocably beginning in the early years of the twentieth century, and what that change has meant for late modernism and postmodernism. Starting from Pablo Picasso’s 1912 gesture, breaking the ...