Book Series in Literature

Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

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The Literary Quest for an American National Character

By Finn Pollard

"What then is the American, this new man?" This question is explored here through the lives and writings of a sequence of imaginative authors each…

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June 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-88402-0 (Routledge)

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The Western Landscape in Cormac McCarthy and Wallace Stegner

Myths of the Frontier

By Megan Riley McGilchrist

The western American landscape has always had great significance in American thinking, requiring an unlikely union between frontier mythology and the reality of a fragile…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-80611-4 (Routledge)

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Native American Literature

Towards a Spatialized Reading

By Helen May Dennis

Native American Literature underwent a Renaissance around 1968, and the current canon of novels written in the late twentieth century in American English by Native…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54416-0 (Routledge)

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Mexican American Literature

The Politics of Identity

By Elizabeth Jacobs

Presenting an up-to-date critical perspective as well as a cultural, political and historical context, this book is an excellent introduction to Mexican American literature, affording…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54406-1 (Routledge)

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Remapping Citizenship and the Nation in African-American Literature

By Stephen Knadler

Through a reading of periodicals, memoirs, speeches, and fiction from the antebellum period to the Harlem Renaissance, this study re-examines various myths about a U.S.…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99631-0 (Routledge)

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Asian American Fiction, History and Life Writing

International Encounters

By Helena Grice

The last ten years have witnessed an enormous growth in American interest in Asia and Asian/American history. In particular, a set of key Asian historical…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-38475-9 (Routledge)

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Transnationalism and American Literature

Literary Translation 1773–1892

By Colleen G. Boggs

What is transnationalism and how does it affect American literature?

This book examines nineteenth century contexts of transnationalism, translation and American literature. The discussion of transnationalism…

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2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-99989-2 (Routledge)

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Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'

Origins

By Justine Tally

This work expands the scope of Morrison’s project to examine the ways and means of memory in the preservation of belief systems passed down from…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32045-0 (Routledge)

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The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction

John Updike, Philip Roth and Don DeLillo

By Catherine Morley

This volume explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic. It analyses the tradition of the epic…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96113-4 (Routledge)

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Don DeLillo

The Possibility of Fiction

By Peter Boxall

One of the few available books of criticism on the topic, this monograph presents the fullest account to date of Don DeLillo's writing, situating his…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30981-3 (Routledge)

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Series Details:

Series Editor: Susan Castillo, King's College London, UK

In recent years, transnational approaches to the study of American literature have opened up exciting new theoretical perspectives. Rather than viewing American literature through the prism of the exceptional nation-state-seen as a static, bounded entity evolving toward progress and perfection-this series approaches American writing as emerging in a dynamic context of global networks of economic and cultural production. Titles already published in the series include monographs written by U.S. academics and by scholars based in Britain and continental Europe.

Forthcoming Titles:

Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction
By Aliki Varvogli
To be published February 1st 2011

The Construction of Irish Identity in American Literature
By Christopher Dowd
To be published August 30th 2010