Routledge Research in Women's Literature
The Lives and Afterlives of the Sidney Women Writers
1st Edition
Edited
By Aurélie Griffin, Alison Findlay
May 29, 2026
The Lives and Afterlives of the Sidney Women Writers charts the multifarious connections between the lives and works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561– 1621), and Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth (1587– 1651). Bringing together essays by renowned experts on the Sidney women and a new ...
The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writings
1st Edition
By Ágnes Zsófia Kovács
May 22, 2026
Edith Wharton was not only the author of novels and short stories but also of drama, poetry, autobiography, interior decoration, and travel writing. This study focuses on Wharton’s symbolic representations of architecture in her travel writings. It shows how a network of allusions to travel writing...
Barbara Bray, A Woman of Letters: Translator, Radio Producer, Scriptwriter, Critic, and Theatre Director
1st Edition
By Pascale Sardin
May 21, 2026
Barbara Bray (1924-2010) was an English woman of letters who translated some hundred novels, plays, and essays from French to English and was Marguerite Duras’s preferred translator. She also collaborated with some of the most prestigious directors and playwrights of the 20th century – Harold ...
Maeve Brennan: A Place in the Mind
1st Edition
By Edward O’Rourke
May 21, 2026
This book explores the intricate interplay between physical spaces and psychological landscapes in the works of Irish-American author Maeve Brennan. Brennan’s writing is now classed amongst the most important of twentieth-century Irish women’s fiction, having undergone a significant reclamation and...
Nigerian Authors and the Me-Generation: New Shades of Black
1st Edition
By Eugenia Ossana
May 21, 2026
Nigerian Authors and the Me-Generation: New Shades of Black explores African literary issues and focuses on Nigerian generations throughout history. It also underscores women authors’ relatively unknown or dispersed role and their positions regarding Western feminism. Concurrently, the book ...
Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories?
1st Edition
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By Paloma Fresno-Calleja, Hsu-Ming Teo
May 21, 2026
Romantic fiction has often involved stories of travel. In narratives of the journey towards love, "romance" often involves encounters with "exotic" places and peoples. When history is invoked in such stories, the past itself is exoticised and treated as "other" to the present to serve the purposes ...
Ukrainian Women's Prose: Unveiling Narratives, Imagery, and Societal Roles of Women
1st Edition
By Aniela Radecka
April 21, 2026
Ukrainian Women's Prose: Unveiling Narratives, Imagery, and Societal Roles of Women offers a groundbreaking exploration of contemporary Ukrainian women's literature during one of the most transformative periods in the nation's history. This compelling scholarly work examines 25 pivotal years — from...
Contemporary Literary Perspectives on Female Ageing: Insights from Erica Jong
1st Edition
By Ieva Stončikaitė
April 07, 2026
Contemporary Literary Perspectives on Female Ageing: Insights from Erica Jong offers a nuanced study of contemporary discourses on female ageing as depicted in the oeuvre of American writer Erica Jong. It is the first of its kind to examine the literary universe of a female writer through the lens ...
Women in the First World War and the Russian Civil War: Voices and Representations in Russian Literature
1st Edition
By Olga Simonova
March 03, 2026
Women in the First World War and the Russian Civil War explores how Russian literature and autobiographical writing portrayed nurses, women soldiers, and commanders who served in the First World War and the Russian Civil War. Simonova’s research challenges the traditional perception of war as a ...
Agent Eve(s) in Moroccan Postcolonial Literature
1st Edition
By Fatimaezzahra Abid
February 25, 2026
This monograph explores female agency in Moroccan postcolonial literature through the works of Fatima Mernissi, Leila Abouzeid, Laila Lalami, Najat El Hachmi, and Aicha Ech-Channa. These influential writers give voice to Moroccan women’s experiences across generations, tracing their roles as ...
Breastfeeding in American Women’s Literature: Latching On
1st Edition
By Wendy Whelan-Stewart
December 26, 2025
Rather than rarities, literary depictions of women breastfeeding infants are more common in American literature than recognized. In some cases, readers have dismissed such portrayals as scenic background or strokes of verisimilitude. In other cases, we have failed to register them at all. By ...
Motherhood and Creativity in Contemporary Self-Life Writing: Writers and Mothers
1st Edition
By Alice Braun
December 26, 2025
This book aims to study the representation of motherhood in self-life writing by English-speaking authors. It highlights the particular issues women writers are faced with when they try to combine their vocation as artists with their duties towards their children. For those women who claim their ...