Routledge Focus on Literature
Romancing Literature: When Literary Fiction Meets Genre
1st Edition
By Francesca Pierini
July 29, 2026
Romancing Literature places literary fiction in dialogue with what it rejects—the feminine, the popular and the romantic, disclosing deep-seated assumptions concerning artistic production and literary creation in relation to genre and gender. The book explores how literary fiction articulates and ...
Theorizing Flash Fiction: Postmodern Perspectives
1st Edition
By Ruchi Nagpal
July 02, 2026
Theorizing Flash Fiction: Postmodern Perspectives aims to theorize the genre of flash fiction. A close theoretical analysis of the genre brings forth the supposition that for any genre to thrive and dominate, the literary fabric of times must become conducive to the form it harbingers. Flash ...
Elevating Humanity via Africana Womanism
1st Edition
By Clenora Hudson (Weems)
May 22, 2026
Elevating Humanity via Africana Womanism is a short, but powerful book, advocating synergy via unity/collectivity as a panacea for all societal ills. It discusses the Africana Womanism theory - an authentic family centered concept for all women of African descent - as a grid upon which to erect the...
Margaret Wise Brown’s Experimental Art: The Modernist Picture Book
1st Edition
By Julia Pond
May 22, 2026
In this study, the engaging art created by children’s author Margaret Wise Brown receives the critical attention it deserves as a lasting contribution to American children’s literature. Through analysis of her dozens of titles published during the height of western Modernism, this scholarly text ...
Reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go: The Alternative Dystopian Imagination
1st Edition
By Eva Pelayo Sañudo
May 22, 2026
Reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go: The Alternative Dystopian Imagination aims to offer innovative perspectives for the analysis of Nobel-prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s oeuvre through a focus on the genre of science fiction, particularly the novel Never Let Me Go (2005). The study proposes the...
The Sagas of Icelanders: An Introduction to All Forty Sagas with Summaries
1st Edition
By Annette Lassen
May 22, 2026
This book offers an accessible and concise introduction to the sagas of Icelanders, perfect for both general and academic readers. Authored by a recognized expert, it immerses readers in the sagas’ world, exploring their cultural and historical context. The book surveys major themes such as belief ...
Reading Modernity, Modernism and Religion Today: Spinoza and Van Gogh
1st Edition
By Patrick Grant
May 21, 2026
Feelings of rootlessness, fragmentation and loneliness are endemic in today’s secular societies. In the late nineteenth century, Émile Durkheim described this kind of social malaise as anomie, a concept this book locates within a historical narrative of the emergence of Modernism from Modernity. ...
Romantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas of the Fall
1st Edition
By Callum Fraser
May 21, 2026
Romantic Responses to Revolution through Miltonic Ideas of the Fall explores the influence of John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost, on a range of Romantic and post-Romantic writers. Specifically, the book examines the way in which these writers use the Fall, and the notion of ‘fallenness’—as ...
Fragmented Forms in African American Women’s Memoir: Poetics, Praxis, and Politics
1st Edition
By Yolanda M. Manora
May 06, 2026
Fragmented Forms in African American Women’s Memoir examines fragment as formal praxis in autobiographical works by Black women makers, critics and creatives, including Claudia Rankine, Saidiya Hartman, and Beyonce Knowles. Exploring a range of forms, from the lyric fragment to the ellipses, from ...
Pale Fire, Nabokov’s Art and Shakespeare’s Magic
1st Edition
By Gerard de Vries
April 24, 2026
This manuscript examines Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, widely regarded as his most challenging and critically acclaimed work. While Lolita remains Nabokov's best-known novel, Pale Fire has generated the most sustained scholarly attention and interpretive debate among literary critics. Existing ...
Memes and Meaning: Presence and Transcendence in Literature
1st Edition
By Patrycja Austin, Simon Perry
April 17, 2026
Drawing from literature, philosophy, theology, and cultural critique, this short and accessible book challenges modern conceptions of meaning as something to be consumed rather than created. The book reframes meaning as an act of mediation, not transmission. Meaning is not the successful delivery ...
Reading the Racial Encounter in Multi-Media Texts
1st Edition
By Neil Cocks
February 16, 2026
Reading the Racial Encounter engages constructions of race through the analysis of scenes of meeting or encounter in three multimedia texts. Such scenes are rarely, if ever, subject to book-length analysis, yet such a project can arguably allow race to be understood in new and challenging ways. ...