Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

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1. Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature

   By Laurel Plapp

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature examines twentieth-century Jewish writing that challenges imperialist ventures and calls for solidarity with the colonized, most notably the Arabs of Palestine and Africans in the Americas. Since Edward Said defined orientalism in 1978 as a...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Genesis of the Chicago Renaissance

   Theodore Dreiser, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and James T. Farrell

   By Mary Hricko

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   This study examines the genesis of Chicago's two identified literary renaissance periods (1890-1920 and 1930-1950) through the writings of Dreiser, Hughes, Wright, and Farrell. The relationship of these four writers demonstrates a continuity of thought between the two renaissance periods. By noting...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Negotiating the Modern

   Orientalism and Indianness in the Anglophone World

   By Amit Ray

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   This book explicates long-standing literary celebrations of 'India' and 'Indian-ness' by charting a cultural history of Indianness in the Anglophone world, locating moments (in intellectual, religious and cultural history) where India and Indianness are offered up as solutions to modern moral,...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel

   The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning in the Era of Globalization

   By Stephen M. Levin

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel explores the themes of alienation and displacement in a genre of post-World War II novels that portrays the pursuit of an authentic travel experience in a culturally unfamiliar place. Levin explores two questions: why does travel to an "undiscovered"...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Parsing the City

   Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, and City Comedy's London as Language

   By Heather Easterling

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Parsing the City updates our understanding of Jacobean city comedy’s discursive role in its London society. Working with three major plays by Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker, this book develops an updated reading of Jacobean city comedy as a dramatic subgenre whose...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Literature and Development in North Africa

   The Modernizing Mission

   By Perri Giovannucci

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   The book examines how modern global development largely privileges Western multinational interests at the expense of local or indigenous concerns in the "developing" nations of the East. The practices of development have mostly led not to economic, social, and political progressivism in local...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Masculinity and the English Working Class

   Studies in Victorian Autobiography and Fiction

   By Ying Lee

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   This book examines representations of working-class masculine subjectivity in Victorian autobiography and fiction. In it, Ying focuses on ideas of domesticity and the male body and demonstrates that working-class masculinities differ substantially from those of the widely studied upper classes...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Modernism and the Marketplace

   Literary Culture and Consumer Capitalism in Rhys, Woolf, Stein, and Nella Larsen

   By Alissa G. Karl

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Though the relationship of modernist writers and artists to mass-marketplaces and popular cultural forms is often understood as one of ambivalence if not antagonism, Modernism and the Marketplace redirects this established line of inquiry, considering the practical and conceptual interfaces between...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
9. Victorian Narrative Technologies in the Middle East

   By Cara Murray

   Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

   Victorian Narrative Technologies tells the story of how the British, who wanted nothing to do with the Suez Canal during the decades in which it was being internationally planned and invested, came to own it. It stands to reason that the nation that prided itself on its engineering prowess and had...

   Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge
10. Spaces of the Sacred and Profane

    Dickens, Trollope, and the Victorian Cathedral Town

    By Elizabeth A. Bridgham

    Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

    This study examines the unique cultural space of Victorian cathedral towns as they appear in the literary work of Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope, arguing that Dickens and Trollope use the cathedral town’s enclosure, and its overt connections between sacred and secular, present and past, as an...

    Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge