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Staging Early Modern Romance

Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance, and Shakespeare

Edited by Mary Ellen Lamb, Valerie Wayne

This collection recovers the continuities between three forms of romance that have often been separated from one another in critical discourse: early modern prose fiction,…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96281-0 (Routledge)

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Genders

By David Glover, Cora Kaplan

The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44244-2 (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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Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature

Edited by Kara K. Keeling, Scott T. Pollard

Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature is the first scholarly volume on the topic, connecting children's literature to the burgeoning discipline of food studies.…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96366-4 (Routledge)

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Jean Baudrillard

By Richard J. Lane

Jean Baudrillard is one of the most controversial theorists of our time, famous for his claim that the Gulf War never happened and for his…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47448-1 (Routledge)

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Romanticism, History, Historicism

Essays on an Orthodoxy

Edited by Damian Walford Davies

The "(re)turn to history" in Romantic Studies in the 1980s marked the beginning of a critical orthodoxy that continues to condition, if not define, our…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96112-7 (Routledge)

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The Child That Haunts Us

Symbols and Images in Fairytale and Miniature Literature

By Susan Hancock

The Child That Haunts Us focuses on the symbolic use of the child archetype through the exploration of miniature characters from the realms of children’s…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44776-8 (Routledge)

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Originality and Intellectual Property in the French and English Enlightenment

Edited by Reginald McGinnis

Are legal concepts of intellectual property and copyright related to artistic notions of invention and originality? Do literary and legal scholars have anything to learn…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96288-9 (Routledge)

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Travel Writing, Form, and Empire

The Poetics and Politics of Mobility

Edited by Julia Kuehn, Paul Smethurst

This collection of essays is an important contribution to travel writing studies -- looking beyond the explicitly political questions of postcolonial and gender discourses, it…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96294-0 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Edward Said and the Literary, Social, and Political World
Edited by Ranjan Ghosh
To be published March 6th 2009

Perspectives on Gramsci: Politics, culture and social theory
Edited by Joseph Francese
To be published March 31st 2009

Fundamental Concepts of Children’s Literature Research: Literary and Sociological Approaches
By Hans-Heino Ewers
To be published April 20th 2009

Reading Sexualities: Hermeneutic Theory and the Future of Queer Studies
By Donald E. Hall
To be published April 28th 2009

American Literary Criticism since the 1930s
By Vincent B. Leitch
To be published April 30th 2009

Lyric
By Scott Brewster
To be published May 29th 2009

Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change
By Gerardine Meaney
To be published June 1st 2009

Robinson Crusoe's Economic Man: A Construction and Deconstruction
Edited by Ulla Grapard, Gillian Hewitson
To be published June 1st 2009

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

F.R. Leavis
By Richard Storer
To be published June 20th 2009

Postcolonial Ecocriticism
By Helen Tiffin, Graham Huggan
To be published July 1st 2009

"Juvenile" Literature and British Society, 1850-1950: The Age of Adolescence
By Charles Ferrall, Anna Jackson
To be published July 15th 2009

Allegory
By Jeremy Tambling
To be published July 30th 2009

Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory
Edited by Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace
To be published August 20th 2009

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

Raymond Williams
By Sean Matthews
To be published September 1st 2009

Power, Voice and Subjectivity in Literature for Young Readers
By Maria Nikolajeva
To be published September 15th 2009

Continuing Theory
By Peter Barry
To be published October 1st 2009

Re-Routing the Postcolonial: New Directions for the New Millenium
Edited by Janet Wilson, Sarah Lawson Welsh, Cristina Sandru
To be published November 1st 2009

Writing, Representation and Postcolonial Nostalgias
By Dennis Walder
To be published November 1st 2009

Ballad
By Suzanne Gilbert
To be published December 1st 2009

Sexuality
By Joseph Bristow
To be published December 20th 2009

Approaches to Corpus Stylistics: The Corpus, the computer and the study of literature
By David L. Hoover, Jonathan Culpeper, Bill Louw
To be published January 1st 2010

Race
By Glenn Jordan
To be published January 1st 2010

Critical Theory in Russia and the West
Edited by Alastair Renfrew, Galin Tihanov
To be published January 1st 2010

The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature
Edited by David Rudd
To be published January 31st 2010

Iris Murdoch, Gender and Philosophy
By Sabina Lovibond
To be published February 1st 2010

Reading
By Vincent Quinn
To be published February 1st 2010

Shakespeare and Trauma: Contemporary Performances on Stage and Screen
By Catherine Silverstone
To be published February 1st 2010

Satire
By John Gilmore
To be published February 2nd 2010

Textual Scholarship: An Introduction
By David C. Greetham
To be published February 28th 2010

The Routledge Companion to Caribbean Literatures in English
Edited by Alison Donnell
To be published March 1st 2010

The Canon
By Christopher Kuipers
To be published April 1st 2010

Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race
By Robert J. C. Young
To be published April 15th 2010

Travel Writing and Ethics: Theory and Practice
Edited by CHARLES FORSDICK, Corinne Fowler, Ludmilla Kostova
To be published June 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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