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,...

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...

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

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Suzan-Lori Parks

A Casebook

Edited by Kevin J. Wetmore Jr, Alycia Smith-Howard

Suzan-Lori Parks confirmed herself as one of the most exciting and successful playwrights of her generation when her work Topdog/Underdog was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97381-6 (Routledge)

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Food, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Consumption

Eating the Avant-Garde

By Michel Delville

From Plato’s dismissal of food as a distraction from thought to Kant’s relegation of the palate to the bottom of the hierarchy of the senses,...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95831-8 (Routledge)

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Martin McDonagh

A Casebook

Edited by Richard Rankin Russell

This book represents the first collection of original critical material on Martin McDonagh, one of the most celebrated young playwrights of the last decade. Credited...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97765-4 (Routledge)

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Writers' Houses and the Making of Memory

By Harald Hendrix

This innovative new book examines the ways in which writers’ houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95742-7 (Routledge)

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Our Scene is London

Ben Jonson's City and the Space of the Author

By James D. Mardock

In this thought-provoking study Mardock looks at Ben Jonson's epigrams, prose, and verse satire in order to focus on Jonson's theatrical appropriations of London space both in and out...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97763-0 (Routledge)

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Asian Diaspora Poetry in North America

By Benzi Zhang

Presenting a new way of reading that helps us discern some previously unnoticed or unnoticeable features of Asian diaspora poetry, this volume highlights how poetry...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95717-5 (Routledge)

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Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century

By Pamela J. Albert

Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century revisits eighteenth-century cultural artifacts through the lens of creative works produced by contemporary writers Beryl Gilroy (Guyana), Derek...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95743-4 (Routledge)

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Romanticism and Visuality

Fragments, History, Spectacle

By Sophie Thomas

This book investigates the productive crosscurrents between visual culture and literary texts in the Romantic period, focusing on the construction and manipulation of the visual,...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96118-9 (Routledge)

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