The Social and Political Thought of George Orwell

A Reassessment

By Stephen Ingle

Stephen Ingle is Professor at the Politics Department, University of Stirling. His main academic interests are in the relationship between politics and literature and in...

June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47981-3 (Routledge)

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The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel

The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning in the Era of Globalization

By Stephen M. Levin

The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel explores the themes of alienation and displacement in a genre of post-World War II novels that portrays the pursuit of...

June 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95549-2 (Routledge)

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On Waiting

By Harold Schweizer

'This is a quite remarkable book, a pleasure to read. Not only is it clear and informative but also by turns witty, melancholic and insightful....

June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77507-6 (Routledge)

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Victorian Narrative Technologies in the Middle East

By Cara Murray

Victorian Narrative Technologies tells the story of how the British, who wanted nothing to do with the Suez Canal during the decades in which it...

May 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95791-5 (Routledge)

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Martin Amis

By Brian Finney

Booker-shortlisted for Time's Arrow and widely known for his novels, short stories, essays, reviews, and autobiographical works, Martin Amis is one of the most influential...

May 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40292-7 (Routledge)

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Narrating Post/Communism

Colonial Discourse and Europe's Borderline Civilization

By Natasa Kovacevic

The transition of communist Eastern Europe to capitalist democracy post-1989 and in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars has focused much scholarly attention - in...

May 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46111-5 (Routledge)

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Writing Okinawa

Narrative acts of identity and resistance

By Davinder L. Bhowmik

Writing Okinawa is the first comprehensive study in English of Okinawan fiction, from it’s emergence in the early twentieth-century through its most recent permutations. It...

May 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77556-4 (Routledge)

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Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre

Fiction for Children and Adults

By Mike Cadden

This book critically examines Le Guin's fiction for all ages, and it will be of great interest to her many admirers and to all students...

May 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99527-6 (Routledge)

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Arab, Muslim, Woman

Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and Film

By Lindsey Moore

Given a long history of representation by others, what themes and techniques do Arab Muslim women writers, filmmakers and visual artists foreground in their presentation...

May 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40416-7 (Routledge)

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Tolkien the Medievalist

Edited by JANE CHANCE

Interdisciplinary in approach, Tolkien the Medievalist provides a fresh perspective on J. R. R. Tolkien's Medievalism. In fifteen essays, eminent scholars and new voices explore...

May 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47348-4 (Routledge)

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