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 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...
Composing Modernist Connections in China and Europe
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By Chunjie Zhang
September 30, 2020
Global modernisms are marked by tremendous transformations in lifestyle, historical consciousness, cultural values, ethics, wars, and crises. This book emphasizes modernist connections within literature, culture, history, and media beyond the nation state and the bifurcation between East and West. ...
Lorca’s Legacy: Essays in Interpretation
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By Jonathan Mayhew
September 30, 2020
In Lorca’s Legacy, Jonathan Mayhew explores multiple aspects of the creative and critical afterlife of Federico García Lorca, the most internationally recognized Spanish poet and playwright of the twentieth century. Lorca is an iconic and charismatic figure who has evoked the admiration and ...
The Stability of Laughter: The Problem of Joy in Modernist Literature
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By James Nikopoulos
September 30, 2020
A "sad and corrupt" age, a period of "crisis" and "upheaval"—what T.S. Eliot famously summed up as "the panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." Modernism has always been characterized by its self-conscious sense of suffering. Why, then, was it so obsessed with laughter? ...