Book Series in Literature

Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

New & Published Titles:

Jewishness and Masculinity from the Modern to the Postmodern

By Neil R. Davison

This study examines the impact of racial, gender, and religious constructs of Jewish masculinity on a select group of male writers including George Du Maurier,…

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July 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-87586-8 (Routledge)

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Gender, Ireland and Cultural Change

Race, Sex and Nation

By Gerardine Meaney

This book analyzes the roots of Irish social and sexual conservatism and the dramatic change in one of the most basic areas of human experience:…

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May 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95790-8 (Routledge)

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Latin American Writers and the Rise of Hollywood Cinema

By Jason Borge

This book analyzes the initial engagement with Hollywood by key Latin American writers and intellectuals during the first few decades of the 20th century. The…

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April 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-88396-2 (Routledge)

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Diary Poetics

Form and Style in Writers’ Diaries, 1915-1962

By Anna Jackson

The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless, a "capacious hold-all" for the writer’s thoughts, and as offering unmediated access…

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April 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99831-4 (Routledge)

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Gay Male Fiction Since Stonewall

Ideology, Conflict, and Aesthetics

By Les Brookes

The conflict between assimilationism and radicalism that has riven gay culture since Stonewall became highly visible in the 1990s with the emergence and challenge of…

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January 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-88073-2 (Routledge)

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Cold War Literature

Writing the Global Conflict

Edited by Andrew Hammond

The Cold War was the longest conflict in a century defined by the scale and brutality of its conflicts. In the battle between the democratic…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54402-3 (Routledge)

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Modern Confessional Writing

New Critical Essays

Edited by Jo Gill

A comprehensive and scholarly account of this popular and influential genre, the essays in this collection explore confessional literature from the mid-twentieth century to the…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54414-6 (Routledge)

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Travel and Drugs in Twentieth-Century Literature

By Lindsey Michael Banco

This book examines the connections between two disparate yet persistently bound thematics -- mobility and intoxication -- and explores their central yet frequently misunderstood role…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99861-1 (Routledge)

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Before Auschwitz

Irčne Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France

By Angela Kershaw

This book analyses Irene Némirovsky’s literary production in its relationship to the literary and cultural context of the inter-war period in France. It examines topics…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95722-9 (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,…

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

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Forthcoming Titles:

Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture: Celebrating Impurity, Disrupting Borders
Edited by Ana Cristina Mendes
To be published June 1st 2011

Critical Approaches to American Working-Class Literature: Critiquing Class
Edited by Michelle Tokarczyk
To be published May 1st 2011

Aesthetic Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Women's Food Writing: The Innovative Appetites of M.F.K. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Elizabeth David
By Alice McLean
To be published February 1st 2011

Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness: The Utopian Imagination in An Age of Urban Crisis
By Letizia Modena
To be published January 15th 2011

Travel and Modernist Literature: Sacred and Ethical Journeys
By Alexandra Peat
To be published November 12th 2010

Primo Levi's Narratives of Embodiment: Containing the Human
By Charlotte Ross
To be published October 27th 2010