Studies in Major Literary Authors
Studies in Major Literary Authors features outstanding scholarship on celebrated and neglected authors of both canonical and lesser-known texts.
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Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Based on extensive archival research, Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals offers an entirely new perspective on popular Shakespeare reception by focusing on articles published in Victorian periodicals. Shakespeare had already reached the apex of British culture in the previous...
Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
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Pynchon and the Political
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Thomas Pynchon's writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction. It is characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic, as a series of complex and esoteric language games. This study attempts to demonstrate, however, that an oblique yet compelling sense of the "political"...
Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
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American Flaneur
The Cosmic Physiognomy of Edgar Allan Poe
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
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The Artist-Figure, Society, and Sexuality in Virginia Woolf's Novels
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This book explores the relationship between aesthetic productivity and artists' degree of involvement in social and sexual life as depicted in Virginia Woolf's novels. Ann Ronchetti locates the sources of Woolf's lifelong preoccupation with the artist's relationship to society in her family...
Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
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Queer Impressions
Henry James' Art of Fiction
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
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Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens
The Performance of Modern Consciousness
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This book traces the presence of the theater, both as an abstract concept and a literal space, in the plays and poetry of Gertrude Stein and Wallace Stevens as it attempts to explain the parallel depictions of consciousness that are found in both authors' work. Literary modernists inherited a self...
Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
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Narrative Conventions and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This study analyzes the relationship between race and genre in four of Toni Morrison’s novels: The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby, Jazz, and Beloved. Heinert argues how Morrison’s novels revise conventional generic forms such as bildungsroman, folktales, slave narratives, and the formal realism of the...
Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge
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Dickens, Journalism, and Nationhood
Mapping the World in Household Words
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Dickens, Journalism, and Nationhood examines Charles Dickens’ weekly family magazine Household Words in order to develop a detailed picture of how the journal negotiated, asserted and simultaneously deconstructed Englishness as a unified (and sometimes unifying) mode of expression. It offers...
Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge
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Paul Auster's Postmodernity
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
This book focuses upon the literary and autobiographical writings of American novelist Paul Auster, investigating his literary postmodernity in relation to a full range of his writings. Martin addresses Auster’s evocation of a range of postmodern notions, such as the duplicitous art of...
Published December 12th 2010 by Routledge
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Philip K. Dick
Canonical Writer of the Digital Age
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
Kucukalic looks beyond the received criticism and stereotypes attached to Philip K. Dick and his work and shows, using a wealth of primary documents including previously unpublished letters and interviews, that Philip K. Dick is a serious and relevant philosophical and cultural...
Published November 9th 2010 by Routledge
Forthcoming Books
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Editing Emily Dickinson: The Production of an Author
To Be Published May 14th 2012 -
Yeats and Theosophy
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Poetic Language and Political Engagement in the Poetry of Keats
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Politics and Aesthetics in The Diary of Virginia Woolf
To Be Published May 14th 2012 -
Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative: “What’s aught but as ‘tis valued?”
To Be Published May 14th 2012 -
Dorothy Wordsworth's Ecology
To Be Published December 14th 2012
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