This book provides an analysis of female Swahili novelists from a feminist perspective, highlighting their contributions to the Swahili literary tradition. Grounded throughout in the historical and socio-political contexts of the authors it discusse...More info...
This book explores the conceptualizations of female power through the notion of matriarchy in a variety of historical, cultural and epistemological contexts....More info...
Winsome Pinnock is the first book length study of one of Britains most important play-wrights and her four-decade long career chronicling the lives of Black people, and Black women in particular, in Britain....More info...
Victorian Womens Travel Narratives and the Female-Capitalist Gaze argues that female travellers both informed and expanded upon Victorian debates surrounding the role of art, and art production, as a nexus of political-economic progress and cultura...More info...
Over the course of a prodigious literary career which now spans seven decades, DeLillo has engaged with the problem and the promise of vision. Don DeLillo and the Visual offers a fresh perspective on the lead writer for the Age of the Image....More info...
This book will help educators to define videogames in a literary context, gives an overview of their history, and the current state of the industry, while also providing critical discussions of videogame theory....More info...
Irish Writers and The New Yorker in the Mid-Twentieth Century draws on archival research in the New Yorker Records to uncover the contractual details of the first-reading agreement, The New Yorkers fat payments, and Irish writers relationships with...More info...
Real Lives in the Eighteenth Century presents a global history using four sets of biographies to illustrate corresponding situations in different geographical regions....More info...
This book investigates the nature of home and nation in post-imperial British novels, which deal with the loss of Empire and its uncanny presence at home....More info...
This volume offers a philosophical and literary exploration of Dostoevskys humanism, with a particular focus on his ethical and aesthetic reflections on human nature....More info...
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Diamela Eltits recent novels, highlighting how her experimental narratives engage with Chiles evolving social and political landscape....More info...
This book is the first sustained analysis of travel narratives from one of the most important US writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....More info...
First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from its classical origins up to the contemporary state of criticism in the English-speaking world. Volume Four focuses on Modern criticism....More info...
This companion is the first comprehensive study of courier poetryin which someone, usually a lonely lover, sends an unlikely messenger (a cloud, a bee, a goose, a bat, a language, the wind, a poem, and so on) to the beloved or to a close friend or p...More info...
Anamorphic Distortion in Literature, Visual Art and Film explores four key types of anamorphic distortion in media across several centuries....More info...
This monograph explores selected texts by four major American authors: Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sojourner Truth, and Kate Chopin. While they critique organized religion and challenge the premise of doctrine and the restrictiveness of relig...More info...
Empire of Elites investigates the self-representation of the late Roman senatorial aristocracy in epigraphic evidence to illuminate the cultural, social, and political dynamics of the Later Roman Empire....More info...
Challenging received scholarship on the practice of Shakespeares theatre, this book displaces a contemporary cultural bias towards leadership models to reconsider possibilities of working in a non-hierarchical and inclusive creative theatrical pract...More info...
In Folklore and Ethnology of the Modern World, Simon Bronner identifies cultural engagements that people use to reconcile tradition and modernity, and confront the anxieties of the present by bringing together the past, often represented by traditio...More info...
This book reveals how sociocultural and political debates today are still heavily influenced by ancient mythology. It explores how ancient stories shape how our modern secular society thinks about the interconnected geopolitical, technological, and...More info...
(Pub. Date: 29-Dec-2025, Publisher: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003589211)
This book offers new insights into the debates of vernacularity, language ideologies, and the decolonial turn. It identifies vernacular encounters as nuanced interactions of languages that are often termed as local with culture and power. It will be...More info...
This book offers the first modern, critical edition of the diary of John William Polidori (1795-1821). Polidoris diary was first published in 1911 by his nephew William Michael Rossetti, based on the expurgated version of the diary created by Polido...More info...
In this illuminating book, Clint Burnham invites the reader to consider humanitys relationship with the world around us, using a unique blend of Lacanian psychoanalysis, literary criticism and visual art to hold a mirror up to our own implications...More info...
Seamus Heaney and the Art of Translation is comprised of eleven essays that examine the Nobel prize winning poets translations, and that situates the works within a transnational perspective....More info...
This volume provides a critical analysis of Irish literature and the timely appraisal of contemporary developments in which ideas about Irishness have been constructed, exploited, and racialized....More info...
Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century is the first book to explore overlooked histories of women who filled the theatrical stages of the nineteenth century, dialoguing with contemporary adaptations, reworkings and retellings of these hi...More info...
Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics brings together for the first time these two research fields to demonstrate that life writing is reputation politics....More info...
Routledge Encyclopedia of Technology and the Humanities is a pioneer attempt to introduce a wide range of disciplines in the emerging field of techno-humanities to the English-reading world....More info...
This book builds on nascent research in the human dimension of literary translators to shed light on the evolution and impact of translators brand-building, focusing on case studies from contemporary Chinese-English literary translation and their ri...More info...
This is the first monograph to evaluate Elizabeth Bowens verbal painting in a variety of genres, and to acknowledge the influence of the East Kent landscape in her novels. Using the neologism dyslocution Hirst demonstrates how influences from French...More info...
Textile Translations: Weaving Stories, Touching Meanings offers a new and original perspective in Translation Studies. The key idea explored in this book is that we communicate not only through our intellect but also through our senses....More info...
It introduces the concept of negative empathy to examine how readers and viewers engage emotionally and cognitively with ethically troubling artworks. Through a comparative and intermedial approach, it offers a compelling new theory of aesthetic eng...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Dec-2025, Publisher: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003716815)
This book explores the works of seven prominent contemporary Hindi women poets from India, showcasing a vibrant landscape of distinct voicesDalit, Adivasi, urban, rural and lower-middle class. It traces the historical trajectory of womens writing in...More info...
Battle Lines Drawn: War Comics since 1914 delves into the rich and diverse history of war comics, exploring how the medium represents and reflects upon global conflicts from World War I to the modern era....More info...
Angela Carter Translator and Translated situates the British writer Angela Carter within a global framework by documenting how foreign languages and cultures played a key role in her work, before gaining attention internationally today, notably in t...More info...
This book explores how late antique miracle collections depict Christian saints as subversive, theatrical tricksters who blur the boundaries between sacred and profane, human and divine. Suitable for scholars and students of late antique Christianit...More info...
Old Norse Mythology is an accessible and multidisciplinary introduction to the field. It surveys the 13 most consequential Eddic poems and Snorri Sturlusons Edda, with a text-by-text approach explaining the content of each, how they represent Old No...More info...
Focusing on comedias, this book identifies sixteen overt references to Ganymede across works from Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, Ana Caro, Andrés de Claramonte, and others, ranging from La escolástica celosa (15961602) to Fray...More info...
Food Places in Childrens Literature analyses how food, place and social interactions are intertwined in childrens and young adult novels....More info...
This volume introduces a fresh exploration of Classical literature, examining its engagement with personal or collective tragedy, horrific events, and fear-inflicting episodes. It explores the different ways fear, terror, and horror have been manife...More info...
This examination of thirty-two ghost stories by twenty-one Victorian women writers defines a new genre, feminist Gothic, that utilizes the Gothic structure....More info...
Guohua Zhu unveils the last two decades of Chinese literary theory and research, offering a glimpse into the evolving dialogue between Eastern and Western theoretical frameworks within Chinas unique cultural landscape....More info...
Drumlin N.M. Crape and Brooke Camerons Disability and the Vampire is an edited collection of essays addressing a wide range of literary depictions of vampirism and disability....More info...
The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion surveys new and longstanding critical conversations about the role of religion in Shakespeares plays and poems. It features thirty-four chapters authored by leading scholars on topics from antithea...More info...
Thomas Ogden: A Contemporary Introduction is the first book to gather and analyse Ogdens significant contributions to contemporary psychoanalytic thinking....More info...
This study is a comprehensive overview of the literature produced in Canada during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901). This book draws together a rich corpus of notable works in order to illustrate the hybrid nature of the periods literature....More info...
(Pub. Date: 15-Dec-2025, Publisher: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003598770)
Part of the Voices from the Margins series, this book focuses on select contributions made to the Nepali periodical Chandrika, published from Kurseong/Darjeeling, India, from 1918 to 1919....More info...
This collection brings together leading and emerging scholars across Dante studies and translation studies to chart the English-language translation journey of the Divine Comedy from the 18th century to the present....More info...
Jungian Shakespeare is an original work of Jungian literary criticism, examining the psychological expression within three plays from different times in Shakespeares career through a Jungian framework....More info...
