Medieval Sexuality

A Casebook

Edited by April Harper, Caroline Proctor

Medieval Sexuality: A Casebook is a fascinating collection featuring both new and established experts in the field. The volume includes 11 original essays by Ross...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97831-6 (Routledge)

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Shakespeare and Child's Play

Performing Lost Boys on Stage and Screen

By Carol Chillington Rutter

Shakespeare wrote more than fifty parts for children, amounting to the first comprehensive portrait of childhood in the English theatre. Focusing mostly on boys, he...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36519-2 (Routledge)

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Contemporary African American Women Playwrights

A Casebook

Edited by Philip C. Kolin

'For students and scholars of American theatre and drama generally and African American theatre and drama most particularly, this is an extremely valuable critical source.'...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97826-2 (Routledge)

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Decolonising Gender

Literature and a poetics of the real

By Caroline Rooney

Through examination of the functions of language and cross-cultural readings of literature – from African queer reading to postcolonial Shakespeare – Rooney explores the nature of the...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42418-9 (Routledge)

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By Caroline J. Smith

Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit focuses on the literary phenomenon popularly known as chick lit, and the way in which this genre interfaces...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95662-8 (Routledge)

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Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

By David Whittaker, Mpalive-Hangson Msiska

Offering an insight into African culture that had not been portrayed before, Things Fall Apart is both a tragic and moving story of an individual...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34456-2 (Routledge)

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Batting for the Opposition

By John Bale

This book draws on literature, specifically on the writings of selected novelists and poets to widen an existing anti-sport discourse to include hitherto excluded voices from...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42265-9 (Routledge)

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Modernism

By Peter Childs

The modernist movement radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and its effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyzes what...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41546-0 (Routledge)

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Race, Immigration, and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner

By Randy Boyagoda

Salman Rushdie once observed that William Faulkner was the writer most frequently cited by third world authors as their major influence. Inspired by the unexpected...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97984-9 (Routledge)

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Post-Colonial Studies

The Key Concepts

By Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42855-2 (Routledge)

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