Routledge Research in Women's Literature
The Aesthetic of Elizabeth Bowen’s Novels: Light, Atmosphere, Fragmentation, and Sensation
1st Edition
By Diana Hirst
December 23, 2025
This is the first monograph to evaluate Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘verbal painting’, and the first to acknowledge the influence of the East Kent landscape in her novels. Drawing on the work of critics and on Bowen’s own essays and articles, Hirst introduces Bowen to the reader, outlining the range of her ...
Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History
1st Edition
Edited
By Hsu-Ming Teo, Paloma Fresno-Calleja
November 27, 2025
This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead imagining alternative histories. The novelists ...
Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works
1st Edition
By Brenda Ayres
September 28, 2025
Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works draws from biography to explain her works, and it analyses the works to draw a biographical composite of Wollstonecraft. Becoming Wollstonecraft will be more fully developed than previous works, with added information that has not ...
Heroines of the Postmodern and their Worlds in Contemporary Historical Fiction
1st Edition
Edited
By Alicja Bemben, Michael Joseph
September 28, 2025
This volume focuses on historical fiction written by and for women, approximately, in the last 30 years and across the entire globe. It comprises three parts. Part 1 draws on the theme of the inner life and experiences of the female historical figure, Part 2 is concerned with ...
The Chalet School Books and the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Miles Booy
June 16, 2025
The first full-length study of this beloved children’s series, The Chalet School in the Twentieth Century moves beyond the largely generic analysis within which it has previously been discussed. Published between 1925 and 1970, the series moves from European reconciliation after the Great War, ...
Socio-Environmental Crisis in Women’s Novels and Films in The Americas: The Poetics of Environmental Destruction, Care, and Insurgency
1st Edition
By Victoria Jara
March 30, 2025
The climate crisis has reached a critical point, necessitating urgent global action. Women’s activism against environmental dispossession in the Americas manifests not only in protests and classrooms but also through artistic filmmaking and writing. This book focuses on the overlooked contributions...