Forthcoming Literature Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Wallace Stevens, New York, and Modernism

   Edited by Lisa Goldfarb, Bart Eeckhout

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This unique essay collection considers the impact of New York on the life and works of Wallace Stevens. Stevens lived in New York from 1900 to 1916, working briefly as a journalist, going to law school, laboriously starting up a career as a lawyer, getting engaged and married, gradually mixing with...

   To Be Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. Colonial India in Children’s Literature

   By Supriya Goswami

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   Colonial India in Children’s Literature is the first book-length study to explore the intersections of children’s literature and defining historical moments in colonial India. Engaging with important theoretical and critical literature that deals with colonialism, hegemony, and marginalization in...

   To Be Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. Jacobean Drama (Routledge Revivals)

   An Interpretation

   By Una Mary Ellis Fermor

   Series: Routledge Revivals: Una Ellis-Fermor

   First published in 1936, The Jacobean Drama is a brilliant interpretation of the drama written between the last years of Elizabeth I and the first years of Charles I. Professor Una Mary Ellis-Fermor’s book traces the evolution of thought and mood from the end of Marlowe’s career,...

   To Be Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
4. Irish Dramatic Movement (Routledge Revivals)

   An Interpretation

   By Una Mary Ellis Fermor

   Series: Routledge Revivals: Una Ellis-Fermor

   First published in 1939, The Irish Dramatic Movement is a critical study of the dramatic work of W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, Synge, their contemporaries and some of their successors. Professor Ellis-Fermor relates each to the movement as a whole, discussing the nature of poetic drama in the...

   To Be Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
5. Tamburlaine the Great (Routledge Revivals)

   In Two Parts

   By Una Mary Ellis Fermor

   Series: Routledge Revivals: Una Ellis-Fermor

   First published in 1930, in Tamburlaine the Great – in Two Parts, Professor Ellis-Fermor discusses early editions of the work and considers how far the spelling and punctuation of the 1590 octavo should be retained in modern editions. The author discusses the date that the play was written and its...

   To Be Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
6. Christopher Marlowe (Routledge Revivals)

   By Una Mary Ellis Fermor

   Series: Routledge Revivals: Una Ellis-Fermor

   First published in 1927, this book aims to trace the development of Christopher Marlowe’s mind and art as these are revealed in the surviving parts of his work, while portraying the personality thus perceived. Professor Ellis-Fermor begins by looking at Marlowe’s life and early works, before making...

   To Be Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Frontiers of Drama (Routledge Revivals)

   By Una Mary Ellis Fermor

   Series: Routledge Revivals: Una Ellis-Fermor

   First published in 1964, this arresting and original work is a study of the relations between content and form in drama; the conflict between and ultimate reconciliation of certain kinds of material that life presents to the poet and the demands inherent in dramatic form and technique. There are...

   To Be Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
8. Selling the Perfect Girl

   Girls as Consumers, Girls as Commodities

   By Mary Napoli

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   Mapping the global distribution of children’s consumer culture and the branding of children’s literature, this study examines how young girls resist and negotiate ideological messages inherent in popular culture texts. Napoli explores the ambivalence generated by texts such as the Mary Kate and...

   To Be Published May 31st 2012 by Routledge
9. World Literature

   A Reader

   Edited by Theo D'haen, César Domínguez, Mads Thomsen

   Series: Routledge Literature Readers

   World Literature is an increasingly influential subject in literary studies, which has led to the re-framing of contemporary ideas of ‘national literatures’, language and translation. World Literature: A Reader brings together thirty essential readings which display the theoretical foundations of...

   To Be Published May 31st 2012 by Routledge
10. Regional Cuisines of Medieval Europe

    A Book of Essays

    Edited by Melitta Weiss Adamson

    Series: Garland Medieval Casebooks

    Expert food historians provide detailed histories of the creation and development of particular delicacies in six regions of medieval Europe-Britain, France, Italy, Sicily, Spain, and the Low Countries....

    To Be Published June 1st 2012 by Routledge