Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to literary studies, it engages with topics such as philosophy, science, race, gender, film, music, and ecology. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Feminism across Differences in Literature and Film: Ecofeminism, Posthumanism, Ethics
1st Edition
By Carolina Núñez-Puente
January 21, 2027
Feminism across Differences in Literature and Film: Ecofeminism, Posthumanism, Ethics aims to cross academic and cultural borders by putting literature and film into dialogue, not only with each other but also with the most cutting-edge theories of our time. Linking feminist criticism with ...
New Horizons in Italian Studies: Turning Points, Changes, and Research Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Joanna Janusz, Aleksandra Paliczuk
January 14, 2027
New Horizons in Italian Studies: Turning Points, Changes, and Research Perspectives examines the major methodological and conceptual transformations currently reshaping Italian Studies. Bringing together contributions from scholars across Europe, the volume investigates how literary studies, ...
Creative Writing and Wellbeing: Research, Theory, and Practice Beyond Words
1st Edition
Edited
By Caty Flynn, Ursula Hurley
December 14, 2026
Creative Writing and Wellbeing: Research, Theory, and Practice Beyond Words is a pioneering collection that explores the transformative potential of creative writing across physical, psychological, and social dimensions of wellbeing. Moving beyond the premise that creative writing is beneficial, ...
Narrative, Cognition, and Community: The Human Reader
1st Edition
By Paula Leverage
November 12, 2026
Narrative, Cognition, and Community: The Human Reader explores the relationship between literature, cognition, and lived experience, asking why we read and what happens when we do. Bringing literary studies into dialogue with cognitive science, psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience, it shows how...
Mental Libraries: The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Julia Domínguez
October 16, 2026
Mental Libraries: The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture explores the enduring legacy of mnemonic systems across literature, visual arts, pedagogy, and cultural production. Centered on the metaphor of the “mental library,” this collection reveals how memory practices ...
A Deweyan Approach to Teaching Literary Inquiry
1st Edition
By Richard James Johnson
October 02, 2026
Drawing upon the work of philosopher John Dewey, A Deweyan Approach to Teaching Literary Inquiry describes an inquiry-based, process-oriented approach to making meaning from literary texts. Beginning with a Deweyan examination of why we teach literature, the book then presents its ...
Aesthetics of the Novel: Beyond Bakhtin
1st Edition
By Luis Beltrán Almería
September 17, 2026
Aesthetics of the Novel: Beyond Bakhtin examines the history of the novel through the diverse aesthetic currents that this literary genre has adopted from antiquity to the present day. Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s aesthetic theory, this work provides a comprehensive overview of the Western novel ...
Nature and Narrative: Rhetoric and Design in Contemporary Fiction
1st Edition
By Markku Lehtimäki
August 26, 2026
The book explores environmental issues in twenty-first-century Anglophone fiction and how those issues are dealt with by specific literary means. It proposes a reciprocal relationship between nature and narrative—the idea according to which nature both informs and inspires artistic creations, while...
Teaching Text Technologies and Critical Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Objects of Study
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Heritage, Donna A. C. Sy
August 26, 2026
Teaching Text Technologies and Critical Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Objects of Study is a richly illustrated volume consisting of 23 methods-based chapters discussing innovative and often experimental approaches to hands-on teaching with material texts. Featuring 47 contributors whose work ...
Charlie Kaufman’s Möbius Strip: Film, Philosophy and Literary Theory
1st Edition
By Colm O’Shea
July 19, 2026
Charlie Kaufman’s Möbius Strip: Film, Philosophy and Literary Theory presents Kaufman’s diagnosis of alienation and corruption in the modern age as a fundamentally spiritual malady. Each chapter builds on a theological or metaphysical idea, drawing from thinkers as diverse as Kierkegaard, Kafka, ...
Reading Contemporary India: An Interdisciplinary Enquiry into Sociocultural Issues
1st Edition
By MK Raghavendra
July 19, 2026
The book is the first ever attempt to examine various sociocultural aspects of contemporary India, ranging from caste and hierarchy and the religious or political conflict resulting from it to literary practice and intellectual life in the public space and making interdisciplinary associations. It ...
Tolstoy's Search for the Kingdom of God: Gender and Queer Anarchism
1st Edition
By Javier Sethness Castro
July 19, 2026
Building on its predecessor, Queer Tolstoy: A Psychobiography (2023), this book uncovers queer-anarchist dimensions of the second half of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy's life (1828–1910) and of the Russian writer's later art-works. It features queer-friendly readings of Anna Karenina (1875–1877), ...