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.
The Words of Winston Churchill
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
May 27, 2024
The Words of Winston Churchill, a study that ranges over the course of a rich, controversial and remarkable career, is about the power and art of his language as a writer and speaker. Churchill used words as the greatest of poets and orators do, and did so in Parliament and for the people, Britain ...
Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism
1st Edition
Edited
By James Rovira
May 27, 2024
Women in Rock, Women in Romanticism is the first book-length work to explore the interrelationships between contemporary female musicians and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, music, and literature by women and men. The music and videos of contemporary musicians including Erykah Badu, Beyoncé...
Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System: Global Perspectives in Spanish and Portuguese
1st Edition
By Carlos Garrido Castellano
January 29, 2024
The main objective of this book is to explain how contemporary literatures in Spanish and Portuguese are dealing with artistic creativity when artmaking is no longer a specialised field of cultural production, but rather an expanded field of socioeconomic interaction, personal and creative ...
The Theory and Practice of Reception Study: Reading Race and Gender in Twain, Faulkner, Ellison, and Morrison
1st Edition
By Philip Goldstein
January 29, 2024
This book examines novels of Faulkner and Morrison as well as Mark Twain and Ralph Ellison in order to show that their works forcefully undermine the racial and sexual divisions characterizing both the South and contemporary culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Moreover, the book ...
Contemporary Narratives of Ageing, Illness, Care
1st Edition
Edited
By Katsura Sako, Sarah Falcus
September 25, 2023
This collection of essays explores cultural narratives of care in the contexts of ageing and illness. It includes both text-based and practice-based contributions by leading and emerging scholars in humanistic studies of ageing. The authors consider care not only in film (feature and documentary) ...
Cultures of Currencies: Literature and the Symbolic Foundation of Money
1st Edition
Edited
By Joan Ramon Resina
September 25, 2023
This book’s premise is not only the commonly accepted cultural relativity of economic concepts, but also the observation that the current shift in the meaning of concepts like “market,” “currency,” “exchange,” and “money” suggests that culture is undergoing a change with unpredictable economic and ...
Beards and Masculinity in American Literature
1st Edition
By Peter Ferry
May 31, 2023
Beards and Masculinity in American Literature is a pioneering study of the symbolic power of the beard in the history of American writing. This book covers the entire breadth of American writing – from 18th century American newspapers and periodicals through the 19th and 20th centuries to recent ...
Befriending the Queer Nineteenth Century: Curious Attachments
1st Edition
By Michael Borgstrom
May 31, 2023
Befriending the Queer Nineteenth Century: Curious Attachments addresses a longstanding question in literary and cultural studies: how can a case be made for the ongoing value of the humanities without an articulation of that field's social effects? In response, this book examines how readers "...
Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen: The Colombian Condition
1st Edition
By Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola
May 31, 2023
This book traverses the cultural landscape of Colombia through in-depth analyses of displacement, local and global cultures, human rights abuses, and literary and media production. Through an exploration of the cultural processes that perpetuate the "darker side" of Latin America for global ...
Connecting Literature and Science
1st Edition
By Jay A. Labinger
May 31, 2023
This book presents a case for engagement between the sciences and the humanities. The author, a professional chemist, seeks to demonstrate that the connections between those fields of intellectual activity are far more significant than anything that separates them. The book combines a historical ...
Ethnicity and Kinship in North American and European Literatures
1st Edition
Edited
By Silvia Schultermandl, Klaus Rieser
May 31, 2023
This edited collection applies kinship as an analytical concept to better understand the affective economies, discursive practices, and aesthetic dimensions through which cultural narratives of belonging establish a sense of intimacy and affiliation. In North American and European ethnic ...
Figures of the Migrant: The Roles of Literature and the Arts in Representing Migration
1st Edition
Edited
By Siobhan Brownlie, Rédouane Abouddahab
May 31, 2023
This volume seeks to investigate the representation of the migrant and migration in literary texts and the arts. Through studies that examine works in a range of art forms ‒ novels, theatre, poetry, creative non-fiction, documentary films and performance and video installations ‒ that evoke a ...