Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
About the Book Series
From Joyce to Rushdie, Modernism to Food Writing, Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Literature looks at both the literature and culture of the 20th century. This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering literature alongside religion, popular culture, race, gender, ecology, travel, class, space, and other subjects, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Tennessee Williams’s America: Homes, Families, Exiles
1st Edition
By Ahmed Honeini
September 10, 2025
Tennessee Williams’s America is the first full-length study of homes, families, and familial exile in the plays of Tennessee Williams. The central argument of this book is that Williams’s vision of American life in his plays is predicated upon challenging the traditional idea of the home and family...
Durée as Einstein-in-the-Heart: Mary Butts and Virginia Woolf
1st Edition
By Candice Kent
July 30, 2025
Durée as Einstein-in-the-Heart traces the trajectory of modernist interaction with Bergson and Einstein through the works of Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) and Mary Butts (1890–1937). It presents an overview of critical approaches that focus on time in Woolf’s novels, and that foreground Bergson in ...
Owen Barfield’s Poetry, Drama, and Fiction: Rider on Pegasus
1st Edition
By Jeffrey Hipolito
July 30, 2025
Owen Barfield influenced a diverse range of writers that includes T. S. Eliot, J. R. R. Tolkien, W. H. Auden, Howard Nemerov, and Saul Bellow, and Owen Barfield's Poetry, Drama, and Fiction is the first book to comprehensively explore and assess the literary career of the "fourth Inkling," Owen ...
The Literary Role of History in the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien
1st Edition
By Nicholas Birns
June 27, 2025
This volume analyzes the literary role played by history in the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. It argues that the events of The Lord of the Rings are placed against the background of an already- existing history, both in reality and in the fictional worlds of the books. History is unfolded in various ...
Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman’s AIDS Novels
1st Edition
By Jarosław Milewski
June 26, 2025
Queer Kinship in Sarah Schulman’s AIDS Novels is the first book to extensively discuss the works of Sarah Schulman, a journalist, activist and globally recognized novelist. This research monograph juxtaposes the works about the AIDS epidemic which were well-received by the mainstream America with ...
Valencian Folktales, Volume 2: Enric Valor
1st Edition
By Paul Scott Derrick, Maria-Lluïsa Gea-Valor
May 05, 2025
Enric Valor (1911–2000) is one of the most important Valencian authors of the 20th century. He has been, until now, almost completely unknown to an English-speaking audience. Following the publication of Valencian Folktales (2023), this second collection of his tales will help to consolidate work ...
Beat Myths in Literature: Revisionist Strategies in Beat Women
1st Edition
By Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo
December 18, 2024
Beat Myths in Literature reassesses the work of women poets associated with the Beat Generation from the critical lens of revisionist discourses. Using the metaphor and the critical lens of looking back, an act infused with feminist implications after Adrienne Rich (1972), the volume focuses on ...
Literature for a Society of Equals
1st Edition
By Daniel S. Malachuk
December 18, 2024
Literature for a Society of Equals defends modern equality and seeks its best literature. It accuses equality’s supposed friends on the left of attenuating this world-redefining relationship into a collection of rights and goods to distribute, secularizing it even as the right keeps sacralizing ...
Rereading Modernist Postcards: Critical Studies in Materialist Recovery
1st Edition
By Bradley D. Clissold
December 18, 2024
Informed by both new and old media theory, materialist approaches to the study of everyday objects, and a series of close readings that chart the critical history of postcard use in the fiction and correspondence of Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, James Joyce, and Wilfred Owen, this book locates ...
Strategies of Ambiguity
1st Edition
By Matthias Bauer, Angelika Zirker
December 18, 2024
There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for economy or, by contrast, a blessing that allows writers to involve readers in endless games of assigning meaning to a literary text. The present volume ...
Exploring Magic Realism in Salman Rushdie's Fiction
1st Edition
By Ursula Kluwick
October 14, 2024
Kluwick breaks new ground in this book, moving away from Rushdie studies that focus on his status as postcolonial or postmodern, and instead considering the significance of magic realism in his fiction. Rushdie’s magic realism, in fact, lies at the heart of his engagement with the post/colonial.In ...
Global Cold War Literature: Western, Eastern and Postcolonial Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Hammond
October 14, 2024
In countries worldwide, the Cold War dominated politics, society and culture during the second half of the twentieth century. Global Cold War Literatures offers a unique look at the multiple ways in which writers from Asia, Africa, Europe and North and South America addressed the military conflicts...