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    Now Available - The Gothic World

    "This splendid book will be indispensable for all students of the Gothic." Sue Zlosnik, Professor of Gothic Literature, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

    The Gothic World offers an overview of this popular field, while also extending critical debate in exciting new directions such as film, politics, fashion, architecture, fine art and cyberculture. Structured around the principles of time, space and practice, and including a detailed general introduction, the five sections look at: Gothic Histories, Gothic Spaces, Gothic Readers and Writers, Gothic Spectacle and Contemporary Impulses. Read a sample of the introduction.

    Recommend this fantastic compilation to your Librarian today
    

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    Professor Caroline Franklin Awarded the Elma Dangerfield Prize

    Congratulations to our author, Professor Caroline Franklin, who has won the Elma Dangerfield Prize, for her book The Female Romantics: Nineteenth-century Women Novelists and Byronism. This prize aims to identify and reward scholarship for publication of new and original work related to the life, works and times of poet, the 6th Lord George Gordon Noel Byron.

    The Female Romantics has also recently been reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement. Click here to read the full review.

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    An Introduction to Literary Studies, 3rd Edition

    In this classic beginner's guide to English literature, Mario Klarer offers a concise and accessible discussion of central issues in the study of literary texts. Now in its third edition, An Introduction to Literary Studies has been updated to include: a wider range of textual examples from world literature, additional references to contemporary cinema, a section on comparative literature, an extended survey of literary periods and genres, and much more. Read more here.
    
    Follow this link if you are teaching and would like to receive a complimentary exam copy to consider for adopting.
     

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    May Author of the Month: Ewan Fernie

    Professor Ewan Fernie is author of The Demonic, and is chairman of Shakespeare studies at the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham. He has previously been a lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, Royal Holloway and was selected in 2004 by Gary Taylor and the Hudson Strode Program of the University of Alabama as ‘one of the six most brilliant scholars of Renaissance drama in the world under 40’.

    Ewan Fernie, will appear at the Hay Festival on 28th May 2013. He will be examining scenes from Othello, Hamlet, The Tempest and Measure For Measure and discussing how to teach Shakespeare with imagination and intensity.

    Visit the Hay Festival website to book your place today.

15. 

    Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures - Now Available

    This study highlights the connections between power, cultural products, resistance, and the artistic strategies through which that resistance is voiced in the Middle East.

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    PUBLISHING IN JUNE: Routledge Library Editions: Women, Feminism and Literature

    June marks the publication month of our eagerly awaited collection: Routledge Library Edition: Women, Feminism and Literature.
    
     

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    Timothy Corrigan, Author of the Month

    Timothy Corrigan is Professor of English and Cinema Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. His work in Cinema Studies has focused on modern American and contemporary international cinema. His books include New German Film: The Displaced Image, The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History, Writing about Film, A Cinema without Walls: Movies and Culture after Vietnam and The Essay Film: From Montaigne, After Marker. He is the editor of the journal Adaptation.

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    Routledge Literature Research Online Catalog

    The Routledge Literature Research Online Catalog is now available to view here. Routledge Research is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections and we are pleased to be offering books ranging from Medieval to Contemporary Literature, and covering topics such as Postcolonial Literature, Children’s Literature, Atlantic Studies, American Studies, and Travel Writing.

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    New Series Editor for Children’s Literature and Culture Series

    Routledge is pleased to announce Philip Nel as the new editor of the esteemed Children’s Literature and Culture series. Founded by Jack Zipes in 1994, it is the longest-running series devoted to the study of children’s literature and culture from a national and international perspective. Dedicated to promoting original research in children’s literature and children’s culture, in 2011 the series is expanding its focus to include childhood studies, and also seeks to explore the legal, historical, and philosophical conditions of different childhoods. An advocate for scholarship from around the globe, the series recognizes innovation and encourages interdisciplinarity.

20. 

    New: Using Critical Theory

    Explaining both why theory is important and how to use it, Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this oftentimes daunting area in a friendly and approachable style. The new edition of this textbook is clearly structured with chapters based on major theories that students are expected to cover in their studies.
    For more information, including selected table of contents and an author bio, click here.