Gay Male Fiction Since Stonewall

Ideology, Conflict, and Aesthetics

By Les Brookes

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...

July 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96244-5 (Routledge)

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Feminism and Contemporary Women Writers

Rethinking Subjectivity

By Radha Chakravarty

This book attempts to deal with the problem of literary subjectivity in theory and practice. The works of six contemporary women writers — Doris Lessing,...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46731-5 (Routledge India)

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Politics and Aesthetics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf

By Joanne Tidwell

In this critical study, Tidwell examines the conflict of aesthetics and politics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf. As a modernist writer concerned with contemporary...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95817-2 (Routledge)

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Decolonising Gender

Literature and a poetics of the real

By Caroline Rooney

Through examination of the functions of language and cross-cultural readings of literature – from African queer reading to postcolonial Shakespeare – Rooney explores the nature of the...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42418-9 (Routledge)

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Aesthetic Hysteria

The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction

By Ankhi Mukherjee

Aesthetic Hysteria is a deconstructive psychoanalytic study of hysteria, using literary texts to foreground a telling encounter between two growing discourses within English studies: that...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98140-8 (Routledge)

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Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde

By Paul Fortunato

Oscar Wilde was a consumer modernist. His modernist aesthetics drove him into the heart of the mass culture industries of 1890s London, particularly the journalism...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98103-3 (Routledge)

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You Can Run

Gay, Glam, and Gritty Travels in South America

From Machu Picchu to a cocaine purchase in a Bolivian jail—and beyond!

How do you rough it in extreme South American travels and still...

2007 | Paperback: 978-1-56023-654-2 (Routledge)

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Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature

Manifestations of Feminist and Gay Identities

By Alma Rosa Alvarez

Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature looks at the ways in which Chicana/o authors who have experienced cultural disconnection or marginalization because of their gender, gender...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95557-7 (Routledge)

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M. Feminist Criticism

Edited by Terrence Hawkes

These two volumes are part of the forty-one volume set New Accents. First launched in 1977, the New Accents series rapidly changed the face of...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43795-0 (Routledge)

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Dorothy Wordsworth's Ecology

By Kenneth Cervelli

Dorothy Wordsworth has a unique place in literary studies. Notoriously self-effacing, she assiduously eschewed publication, yet in her lifetime, her journals inspired William to write...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98037-1 (Routledge)

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