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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Gothic Romanced

Consumption, Gender and Technology in Contemporary Fictions

By Fred Botting

The dark, destructive and monstrous elements of gothic fiction have traditionally been seen in opposition to the rose-tinted idealism of Romanticism. In this ground-breaking study,...

June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45090-4 (Routledge)

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Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre

Fiction for Children and Adults

By Mike Cadden

This book critically examines Le Guin's fiction for all ages, and it will be of great interest to her many admirers and to all students...

May 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99527-6 (Routledge)

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Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood

Authorship, Authority and the Playhouse

By Grace Ioppolo

This book presents new evidence about the ways in which English Renaissance dramatists such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Heywood, John Fletcher and Thomas...

March 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47031-5 (Routledge)

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Modern Drama CC V1

Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

Edited by Martin Puchner

February 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-38661-6 (Routledge)

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The Dryden-Tonson Miscellanies 6 vols

Edited by David Hopkins, Stuart Gillespie

This collection is a facsimile reprint of the initial publication of the Tonson miscellanies (in the first four of which Dryden played a prominent role as...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-37577-1 (Routledge)

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Modern Drama: Critical Concepts

Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

Edited by Martin Puchner

What is generally referred to as modern drama was an international development or movement centred in Europe and North America, a movement directed against many...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-38660-9 (Routledge)

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Poetic Language and Political Engagement in the Poetry of Keats

By Jack L. Siler

In this incisive volume Siler traces the uneasy relationship between the content of Keats' poems and social history. In the process, he discovers that the early...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95602-4 (Routledge)

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Asian Diaspora Poetry in North America

By Benzi Zhang

Presenting a new way of reading that helps us discern some previously unnoticed or unnoticeable features of Asian diaspora poetry, this volume highlights how poetry...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95717-5 (Routledge)

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