Literature: history & criticism books

This volume traces the growth of Tennessee Williams from being a fragile child to becoming one of America’s greatest...  Read More >>

Its chapters framed by the editors’ deeply researched introduction and theorist Caroline Levine’s reflective afterword...  Read More >>

In this volume, the authors adopt an intersectional methodology to question Italian “white innocence” and to examine...  Read More >>

This book of autobiographical, autoethnographic illness narratives tackles the intersection between cultural and...  Read More >>

This book combines research in life writing and pedagogy to examine the role of life stories in diverse learning...  Read More >>

Commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Paul Gilroy’s seminal text, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double...  Read More >>

Metaphors of Economic Exploitation in Literature, 1885-1914 explores the complex network of metaphors that emerged...  Read More >>

The book considers how identities have become more fractured since COVID-19, by thinking of COVID-19 in relation...  Read More >>

This book explores the process of modernisation during the Porfiriato and the Conservative republic from the perspective...  Read More >>

Psychoanalysis and Narrative analyzes narrative in literary fiction, film, and autobiography, through different...  Read More >>

By cataloguing scenes in which characters breastfeed across the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries,...  Read More >>

Life Writing narratives unveil complexities of migration or internal journeys, offering intimate perspectives on...  Read More >>

A Queer Reading of Nawabi Architecture and the Colonial Archive explores the architectural production of nawabs...  Read More >>

James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family is the first monograph focusing on Sweeney Todd and Varney the...  Read More >>

This book illustrates how Life Positioning Analysis can be used as a theoretical and methodological approach to...  Read More >>

This book interrogates the discontinuous ripples of postmodernism within post-Cold War American literature and culture....  Read More >>

The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English brings together essays that respond to consequential...  Read More >>

Understanding Sublimation in Freudian Theory and Modernist Writing resituates sublimation as an unfinished Freudian...  Read More >>

Chance in Theory and Practice proposes a multidisciplinary analysis that will serve as a reference work on cultural...  Read More >>

In analyzing relevant texts, and particularly the novels by Paolo Volponi and Ottiero Ottieri, the book focuses...  Read More >>

Transcultural Insights into Contemporary Irish Literature and Society examines the transcultural patterns that have...  Read More >>

Hilaire Belloc’s thinking on the economy constitutes a heterodox approach of the greatest interest in addressing...  Read More >>

Experiencing Epiphanies in Literature and Cinema uses health and psychological humanities to explore literary and...  Read More >>

Routledge Encyclopedia of Technology and the Humanities is a pioneer attempt to introduce a wide range of disciplines...  Read More >>

New directions in queer theory continue to trouble the boundaries of both queerness and the classical, leading to...  Read More >>