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The Historical Imagination of G.K. Chesterton

Locality, Patriotism, and Nationalism

By Joseph R. McCleary

This study examines a selection of Chesterton’s novels, poetry, and literary criticism and outlines the distinctive philosophy of history that emerges from these writings. Looking…

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January 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99175-9 (Routledge)

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Writing Fiction

By Linda Anderson, Derek Neale

Writing Fiction offers the novice writer engaging and creative activities, making use of insightful, relevant readings from well-known authors to illustrate the techniques presented. This…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46155-9 (Routledge)

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Life Writing

By Sara Haslam, Derek Neale

Life Writing offers the novice writer engaging and creative activities, making use of insightful, relevant readings from well-known authors to illustrate the techniques presented. This…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46153-5 (Routledge)

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The Meaning of "Life" in Romantic Poetry and Poetics

By Ross Wilson

This volume brings together an impressive range of established and emerging scholars to investigate the meaning of ‘life’ in Romantic poetry and poetics. This investigation…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95668-0 (Routledge)

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Myth

By Laurence Coupe

Laurence Coupe offers students a comprehensive overview of the development of myth, showing how mythic themes, structures and symbols persist in literature and entertainment today.…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44284-8 (Routledge)

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Philip K. Dick

Canonical Writer of the Digital Age

By Lejla Kucukalic

Kucukalic looks beyond the received criticism and stereotypes attached to Philip K. Dick and his work and shows, using a wealth of primary documents including…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96242-1 (Routledge)

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Ted Hughes

By Terry Gifford

For the first time, one volume surveys the life, works and critical reputation of one of the most significant British writers of the twentieth-century: Ted…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31189-2 (Routledge)

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Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'

Origins

By Justine Tally

This work expands the scope of Morrison’s project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32045-0 (Routledge)

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William Shakespeare

The Critical Heritage Volume 1 1623-1692

Edited by Brian Vickers

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48726-9 (Routledge)

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William Shakespeare

The Critical Heritage Volume 2 1693-1733

Edited by Brian Vickers

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work,…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48727-6 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama: W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory and J.M. Synge
By George Cusack
To be published April 16th 2009

Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times
By Shuli Barzilai
To be published May 1st 2009

Dickens's Secular Gospel: Work, Gender, and Personality
By Chris Louttit
To be published May 1st 2009

The Politics of Humiliation in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee
By Hania A.M. Nashef
To be published May 4th 2009

Lyric
By Scott Brewster
To be published May 29th 2009

Postcolonial Life-Writing: Culture, Politics, and Self-Representation
By Bart Moore-Gilbert
To be published June 16th 2009

Representations of Technology in Science Fiction for Young People: Control Shift
By Noga Applebaum
To be published July 1st 2009

Allegory
By Jeremy Tambling
To be published July 30th 2009

Writing Poetry
By Bill Herbert
To be published July 30th 2009

Ethics and Politics in Modern American Poetry
By John Wrighton
To be published August 1st 2009

William Shakespeare
By Robert Shaughnessy
To be published August 7th 2009

Fifty Key Figures in Science Fiction
Edited by Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts, Sherryl Vint
To be published August 31st 2009

The Historical Novel
By Jerome de Groot
To be published September 1st 2009

August Strindberg
By Eszter Szalczer
To be published September 1st 2009

Anton Chekhov
By Rose Whyman
To be published September 1st 2009

Sarah Kane
By Chris Megson
To be published September 30th 2009

Radicalization: The Life Narratives of Political Prisoners
By Melissa Dearey
To be published November 30th 2009

Diary Poetics
By Anna Jackson
To be published December 1st 2009

Ballad
By Suzanne Gilbert
To be published December 1st 2009

G.M. Hopkins
By Angus Easson
To be published December 1st 2009

Maria Irene Fornes
By Scott T. Cummings
To be published January 30th 2010

Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Sourcebook
By Shelley Fisher Fishkin
To be published March 1st 2010

David Mamet
By Brenda Murphy
To be published April 1st 2010

The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
Edited by Mark BOULD, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts, Sherryl Vint
To be published July 1st 2010

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