Routledge Focus on Literature
Literary Resistance: Jewish Humor as a Defense Mechanism
1st Edition
By Gustavo Sánchez Canales
November 02, 2026
Literary Resistance: Jewish Humor as a Defense Mechanism examines how Jewish humor has functioned as a vital survival strategy and coping mechanism throughout 4,000 years of Jewish history, with particular emphasis on the Holocaust and its literary aftermath. Drawing on foundational theories by ...
Shashi Deshpande and the Global South Gender Entanglements
1st Edition
By Soumyadeep Chakraborty
October 28, 2026
Shashi Deshpande and the Global South Gender Entanglements offers a transformative approach to literary gender studies and feminist literary criticism by moving beyond rigid gender binaries to examine the complex, humanistic dynamics of man-woman relationality in Shashi Deshpande’s fiction. ...
Toxic Masculinity on the London Stage, 1600–1610
1st Edition
By Anthony Archdeacon
October 16, 2026
The idea of toxic masculinity might feel like a very modern, even twenty-first century notion, but similar concerns about male behaviour, also often characterised in terms of poisons and poisoning, can be identified in the literature of 400 hundred years ago, not only in Shakespeare’s Othello ...
Pro-Animal Poetics: Poetry of D. H. Lawrence and Ted Hughes
1st Edition
By Krishanu Maiti
September 13, 2026
Pro-Animal Poetics offers a comprehensive study of the animal poems of D. H. Lawrence and Ted Hughes through the lens of Critical Animal Studies. It examines the works of these two renowned pro-animal poets chosen for their repudiation of ‘abstract thought’ and celebration of ‘animalness embodied ...
The Global Distribution of Popular Narrative in the Nineteenth Century: Forms of Circulation and Circulation of Forms
1st Edition
Edited
By Graham Law
August 26, 2026
The principal aim of this collection of articles is to explore the evolving generic patterns and the modes of transnational distribution of popular narrative over the course of the nineteenth century. This volume addresses networks of reception drawn around cities as diverse as Constantinople, ...
Imagination Besieged: Coloniality, Violence, and Feminism in “Mediterranean” Art and Literature
1st Edition
By Federica Bueti
July 19, 2026
Imagination Besieged records the silenced stories of a Mediterranean defined by loss, displacement, dispossession, violence, and its refusal. Drawing links and connections between Calabria, Athens, Ramallah, and Beirut, the book grapples with the legacies of histories of violence, criminality, and ...
Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature: The Hope for Planetary Salvation
1st Edition
By William Franke
July 19, 2026
Pandemics and Apocalypse rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Roman (Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid), through the Middle Ages (Dante, Boccaccio) and Modernity (Defoe, Manzoni, Artaud, Camus) as a basis for ...
The Life of the Soul in Early Modern Spanish Literature and Culture
1st Edition
By Esther Fernández
July 19, 2026
Understanding the soul’s essence is an elusive pursuit, rendering any attempt to write about it akin to grasping at a mirage. As a sublime subject, the soul has captivated human thought for centuries. How do we approach it? How can we define its boundaries? This exploration offers an experimental ...
Romancing Literature: When Literary Fiction Meets Genre
1st Edition
By Francesca Pierini
July 10, 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 ...
Theorizing Flash Fiction: Postmodern Perspectives
1st Edition
By Ruchi Nagpal
June 22, 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 21, 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 21, 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 ...