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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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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Transnationalism in Southern African Literature

Modernists, Realists, and the Inequality of Print Culture

By Stefan Helgesson

Considering the growing interest in South African Literature at the moment, this study looks at both the Anglophone literature of South Africa and the lusophone...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46239-6 (Routledge)

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Literature after 9/11

Edited by Ann Keniston, Jeanne Follansbee Quinn

Drawing on trauma theory, genre theory, political theory, and theories of postmodernity, space, and temporality, Literature After 9/11 suggests ways that these often distinct discourses...

July 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96252-0 (Routledge)

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American Fiction of the 1990s

Reflections of history and culture

Edited by Jay Prosser

American Fiction of the 1990s: Reflections of History and Culture brings together essays from international experts to examine one of the most vital andenergized decades...

July 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43567-3 (Routledge)

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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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Modernism and the Marketplace

Literary Culture and Consumer Capitalism in Rhys, Woolf, Stein, and Nella Larsen

By Alissa G. Karl

Though the relationship of modernist writers and artists to mass-marketplaces and popular cultural forms is often understood as one of ambivalence if not antagonism, Modernism...

June 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98141-5 (Routledge)

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Latin American Writers and the Rise of Hollywood Cinema

By Jason Borge

This book analyzes the initial engagement with Hollywood by key Latin American writers and intellectuals during the first few decades of the 20th century. The...

June 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96478-4 (Routledge)

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Milton and the Spiritual Reader

Reading and Religion in Seventeenth-Century England

By David Ainsworth

Milton and the Spiritual Reader considers how John Milton’s later works demonstrate the intensive struggle of spiritual reading. Milton presents his own rigorous process of...

March 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96251-3 (Routledge)

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The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama

Icon of Opposition

By Kristen Deiter

The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama historicizes the Tower of London's evolving meanings in English culture alongside its representations in twenty-four English history...

March 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96317-6 (Routledge)

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