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Compassion

The Culture and Politics of an Emotion

Edited by Lauren Berlant

In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion. Together these essays demonstrate…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-97052-5 (Routledge)

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Slavery and Augustan Literature

Swift, Pope and Gay

By Dr J. Richardson

Slavery and Augustan Literature investigates slavery in the work of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and John Gay. These three writers were connected with a Tory…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31286-8 (Routledge)

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Dark Horizons

Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination

Edited by Tom Moylan, Raffaella Baccolini

With essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, Dark Horizons focuses on the development of critical dystopia in science fiction at the end…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96614-6 (Routledge)

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Dostoevsky and The Idea of Russianness

A New Perspective on Unity and Brotherhood

By Sarah Hudspith

This book examines Dostoevsky's interest in, and engagement with, "Slavophilism" - a Russian mid-nineteenth century movement of conservative nationalist thought. It explores Dostoevsky's views,…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30489-4 (Routledge)

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Cultures of Forgery

Making Nations, Making Selves

Edited by Judith Ryan, Alfred Thomas

In Cultures of Forgery, leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examine the double meaning of the word "forge"-to create or to form, on the…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96832-4 (Routledge)

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A Knight at the Movies

Medieval History on Film

By John Aberth

Imagining the Middle Ages is an unprecedented examination of the historical content of films depicting the medieval period from the 11th to the 15th centuries.…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-93886-0 (Routledge)

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Theory Matters

By Vincent Leitch

In this new book on what theory means today, the general editor of the Norton Anthology of Criticism and Theory explores how theory has altered…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96717-4 (Routledge)

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Dramatic Monologue

By Glennis Byron

The dramatic monologue is traditionally associated with Victorian poets such as Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson, and is generally considered to have disappeared with the…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-22937-1 (Routledge)

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Ideology

By David Hawkes

This new revised edition includes an updated bibliography, a new glossary and index and fresh suggestions for further reading, as well as a discussion of…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-29012-8 (Routledge)

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Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth Century Theatre

By P.A. Skantze

Stillness in Motion in the Seventeenth Century Theatre provides a comprehensive examination of this aesthetic theory. The author investigates this aesthetic history as a form…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-28668-8 (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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