Paul Auster's Postmodernity

By Brendan Martin

The premise of this book is to provide a detailed critique of Paul Auster’s major writings. Auster’s most popular work remains The New York Trilogy...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96203-2 (Routledge)

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Contemporary Arab Fiction

Innovation from Rama to Yalu

By Fabio Caiani

This book introduces Western readers to some of the most significant novels written in Arabic since 1979. Despite their contribution to the development of contemporary...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41456-2 (Routledge)

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Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

By Mary McCartin Wearn

Returning to a foundational moment in the history of the American family, Negotiating Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century American Literature explores how various authors of the period...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98104-0 (Routledge)

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Reading the Early Modern Dream

The Terrors of the Night

Edited by Sue Wiseman, Katharine Hodgkin, Michelle O'Callaghan

Dreams have been significant in many different cultures, carrying messages about this world and others, posing problems about knowledge, truth, and what it means to...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-38601-2 (Routledge)

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Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage

By Ayanna Thompson

Performing Race and Torture on the Early Modern Stage provides the first sustained reading of Restoration plays through a performance theory lens. This approach shows...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95721-2 (Routledge)

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The Gothic in Children's Literature

Haunting the Borders

Edited by Anna Jackson, Roderick McGillis, Karen Coats

From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96036-6 (Routledge)

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Soon Come Home to This Island

West Indians in British Children's Literature

By Karen Sands-O'Connor

Soon Come Home to This Island traces the representation of West Indian characters in British children's literature from 1700 to today. This book challenges traditional...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97630-5 (Routledge)

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Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth

By Janet Beer, Pamela Knights, Elizabeth Nolan

Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905) is a sharp and satirical, but also sensitive and tragic analysis of a young, single woman trying to...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35010-5 (Routledge)

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Aesthetic Hysteria

The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction

By Ankhi Mukherjee

Aesthetic Hysteria is a deconstructive psychoanalytic study of hysteria, using literary texts to foreground a telling encounter between two growing discourses within English studies: that...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98140-8 (Routledge)

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Milton's Uncertain Eden

Understanding Place in Paradise Lost

By Andrew Mattison

This study describes a variety of ways of thinking about place in the Renaissance and in Paradise Lost. Despite coming from different perspectives, they have...

2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-98134-7 (Routledge)

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