Literary Genres Books

New and Published Books

1. Leigh Hunt

   Life, Poetics, Politics

   Edited by Nicholas Roe

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   Recent critical and scholarly interest in John Keats has encouraged a resurgence of interest in his friend and mentor, the poet and journalist Leigh Hunt. This timely collection of essays by leading British and North America romanticists explores Hunt's life, writings and cultural significance over...

   Published May 8th 2015 by Routledge
2. Keats's Boyish Imagination

   By Richard Marggraf Turley

   Series: Routledge Studies in Romanticism

   For many readers, John Keats's achievement is to have attainted a supreme poetic maturity at so young an age. Canonical poems of resignation and acceptance such as 'To Autumn' are traditionally seen as examples par excellence of this maturity. In this highly innovative study, however, Marggraf...

   Published May 8th 2015 by Routledge
3. Continuities (Routledge Revivals)

   By Sir Frank Kermode

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Continuities, first published in 1968, is a collection of reviews by Frank Kermode that appeared from 1962 to 1967. Kermode discusses a variety of novelists, poets, and critics, including T. S. Eliot, Northrop Frye, Wallace Stevens, Edmund Wilson, and Wallace Stevens. History and politics are two...

   Published May 8th 2015 by Routledge
4. A New Companion to Greek Tragedy (Routledge Revivals)

   By Andrew Brown

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   That the works of the ancient tragedians still have an immediate and profound appeal surely needs no demonstration, yet the modern reader continually stumbles across concepts which are difficult to interpret or relate to – moral pollution, the authority of oracles, classical ideas of geography – as...

   Published May 5th 2015 by Routledge
5. The Victorian Poet (Routledge Revivals)

   Poetics and Persona

   Edited by Joseph Bristow

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   The practice of poetry in the Victorian period was characterised by an extreme diversity of styles, preoccupations and subject-matter. This anthology attempts to draw out some of the main focuses of interest in the Victorian poet. No Victorian poet produced an overall theory of poetry, yet all...

   Published May 5th 2015 by Routledge
6. Shelley (Routledge Revivals)

   The Man and the Poet

   By A. Clutton-Brock

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1909, with a second edition in 1923, this concise and easily accessible overview of Shelley’s life and work presents the poet not as popular legend would have it, but in a more objective light. A.Clutton-Brock notes his forthright and imperious attitude to life – a life in which...

   Published May 5th 2015 by Routledge
7. Horace (Routledge Revivals)

   By Costa C.D.N.

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Two thousand years after his death Horace is still recognised as a unique poet, having exerted marked influence on later European literature. This collection, first published in 1973, explores the different aspects of Horace’s poetic achievement in his main works: the Odes, Epistles¸ Satires and...

   Published May 5th 2015 by Routledge
8. Space and the Postmodern Fantastic in Contemporary Literature

   The Architectural Void

   By Patricia García

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   Arising from the philosophical conviction that our sense of space plays a direct role in our apprehension and construction of reality (both factual and fictional), this book investigates how conceptions of postmodern space have transformed the history of the impossible in literature. Deeply...

   Published May 5th 2015 by Routledge
9. Gender, Race, and American Science Fiction

   Reflections on Fantastic Identities

   By Jason Haslam

   Series: Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

   This book focuses on the interplay of gender, race, and their representation in American science fiction, from the nineteenth-century through to the twenty-first, and across a number of forms including literature and film. Haslam explores the reasons why SF provides such a rich medium for both the...

   Published May 1st 2015 by Routledge
10. The Craft of Poetry

    Dialogues on Minimal Interpretation

    By Derek Attridge, Henry Staten

    This book presents an innovative format for poetry criticism that its authors call "dialogical poetics." This approach shows that readings of poems, which in academic literary criticism often look like a product of settled knowledge, are in reality a continual negotiation between readers. But Derek...

    Published April 29th 2015 by Routledge