Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton

Power Play of Empire

By Ben Grant

By engaging closely with the work of Richard Francis Burton (1821-90), the iconic nineteenth-century imperial spy, explorer, anthropologist and translator, Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton explores the...

October 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45086-7 (Routledge)

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The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature

By Jan Susina

The Place of Lewis Carroll in Children's Literature examines the literary impact of Lewis Carroll's children's books on the history of English children's literature....

October 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-93629-3 (Routledge)

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A Life Adrift

Soeda Azembo, Popular Song and Modern Mass Culture in Japan

By Azembo Soeda

A Life Adrift, the memoir of balladeer-political activist Soeda Azembo (1872-1944), chronicles his life as one of Japan’s first modern mass entertainers and imparts an understanding...

September 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-7103-1337-9 (Routledge)

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Shakespeare's Comedy of Love

By Alexander Leggatt

First published in 1987.
This study removes some of the critical puzzles that Shakespeare's comedies of love have posed in the past. The author shows...

September 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48914-0 (Routledge)

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The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction

John Updike, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo

By Catherine Morley

This volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic. It analyses the tradition of the epic as...

September 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96113-4 (Routledge)

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Philosophy Through Science Fiction

A Coursebook with Readings

By Ryan Nichols, Nicholas D. Smith, Fred Miller

Philosophy Through Science Fiction offers a fun, challenging, and accessible way in to the issues of philosophy through the genre of science fiction. Tackling problems...

September 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95755-7 (Routledge)

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The Female Reader in the English Novel

From Burney to Austen

By Joe Bray

This book examines how reading is represented within the novels of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Contemporary accounts portrayed the female reader in...

September 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39601-1 (Routledge)

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Gender and the Fictions of the Public Sphere, 1690-1755

By Anthony Pollock

Challenging the longstanding interpretation of the early English public sphere as polite, inclusive, and egalitarian this book re-interprets key texts by representative male authors from the...

September 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99004-2 (Routledge)

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Contested Masculinities PBdirect

Crises in Colonial Male Identity from Joseph Conrad to Satyajit Ray

By Nalin Jayasena

Exploring how English masculinity - that was so contingent on the relative health of the British imperial project - negotiated the decline and ultimate dissolution of the...

September 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99843-7 (Routledge)

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Disability and/in Prose

Edited by Brenda J. Brueggemann, Marian E. Lupo

Through a series of critical essays this book concerns the relationships and possibilities in and between "prose" and "disability". It covers a diverse range from...

September 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49152-5 (Routledge)

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