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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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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Emmanuel Levinas

By Seán Hand

Best known for his theories of ethics and responsibility, Emmanuel Levinas was one of the most profound and influential thinkers of the last century. In...

September 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40275-0 (Routledge)

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Memory

By Anne Whitehead

The concept of ‘memory’ has given rise to some of the most exciting new directions in contemporary theory.

In this much-needed guide to a burgeoning...

September 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40273-6 (Routledge)

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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

By Jason Edwards

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is one of the most significant literary theorists of the last forty years and a key figure in contemporary queer theory. In...

August 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35845-3 (Routledge)

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Narrative Conventions and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison

By Jennifer Lee Jordan Heinert

This study analyzes the relationship between race and genre in four of Toni Morrison’s novels: The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby, Jazz, and Beloved. Heinert argues how...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96148-6 (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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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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The Trauma Question

By Roger Luckhurst

In this book, Roger Luckhurst both introduces and advances the fields of cultural memory and trauma studies, tracing the ways in which ideas of trauma...

June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40271-2 (Routledge)

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