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The Family in English Children’s Literature

By Ann Alston

From the trials of families experiencing divorce, as in Anne Fine’s Madame Doubtfire, to the childcare problems highlighted in Jacqueline Wilson’s Tracy Beaker, it might…

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April 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98885-8 (Routledge)

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From Nursery Rhymes to Nationhood

Children's Literature and the Construction of Canadian Identity

By Elizabeth Galway

As Canada came to terms with its role as an independent nation following Confederation in 1867, there was a call for a literary voice to…

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March 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95848-6 (Routledge)

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Humanism

By Tony Davies

Definitions of humanism have evolved throughout the centuries as the term has been adopted for a variety of purposes – literary, cultural and political –…

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March 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42064-8 (Routledge)

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Recharting the Black Atlantic

Modern Cultures, Local Communities, Global Connections

Edited by Annalisa Oboe, Anna Scacchi

This book focuses on the migrations and metamorphoses of black bodies, practices, and discourses around the Atlantic, particularly with regard to current issues such as…

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March 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96111-0 (Routledge)

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Literature and Development in North Africa

The Modernizing Mission

By Perri Giovannucci

The book examines how modern global development largely privileges Western multinational interests at the expense of local or indigenous concerns in the "developing" nations of…

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March 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95818-9 (Routledge)

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Humanism

By Tony Davies

Definitions of humanism have evolved throughout the centuries as the term has been adopted for a variety of purposes – literary, cultural and political –…

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March 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42065-5 (Routledge)

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China’s Literary and Cultural Scenes at the Turn of the 21st Century

Edited by Jie Lu

China’s literary and cultural production at the turn of the twenty-first century is marked by heterogeneity, plurality, and diversity. Given its complexity, the literary/cultural…

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March 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42078-5 (Routledge)

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Engines of the Imagination

Renaissance Culture and the Rise of the Machine

By Jonathan Sawday

At what point did machines and technology begin to have an impact on the cultural consciousness and imagination of Europe? How was this reflected through…

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2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35062-4 (Routledge)

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Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland

By Robin Bates

Focusing on plays (Richard II, Henry V, and Hamlet) which appear prominently in the writing of the Irish nationalist movement of the early twentieth century,…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95816-5 (Routledge)

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Autism and Representation

By Mark Osteen

Autism, a neuro-developmental disability, has received wide but often sensationalistic treatment in the popular media. A great deal of clinical and medical research has been…

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2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95644-4 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture: Cannibalizations of the Canon
Edited by Carlos Rojas, Eileen Chow
To be published December 4th 2008

Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature
By Kathryn James
To be published December 4th 2008

The Historical Imagination of G.K. Chesterton: Locality, Patriotism, and Nationalism
By Joseph R. McCleary
To be published January 9th 2009

The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
Edited by Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts, Sherryl Vint
To be published January 30th 2009

Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity
By Karen Leick
To be published March 15th 2009

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