Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism

By Alison Waller

Constructing Adolescence in Fantastic Realism examines those fundamental themes which inform our understanding of "the teenager"—themes that emerge in both literary and cultural contexts. Models...

July 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95832-5 (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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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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Pinocchio Goes Postmodern

Perils of a Puppet in the United States

By Richard Wunderlich, Thomas J. Morrissey

In the first full-length study in English of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, the authors show how the checkered history of the puppet illuminates...

April 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99324-1 (Routledge)

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Enterprising Youth

Social Values and Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century American Children’s Literature

Edited by Monika Elbert

Enterprising Youth examines the agenda behind the shaping of nineteenth-century children’s perceptions and world views and the transmission of civic duties and social values to...

April 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96150-9 (Routledge)

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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...

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...

April 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95848-6 (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...

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

March 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96111-0 (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 – and reactions against...

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

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