Literature

By Christian Fuchs

This book is a comprehensive guide to Marx’s most important and groundbreaking work. Renowned Marxist scholar Christian Fuchs provides a thorough, chapter-by-chapter introduction to Capital Volume 1 that assists undergraduate and postgraduate readers in making sense of Marx in the information age,…

Paperback – 2015-11-09 
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Edited by Carl Thompson

The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing is both the ideal springboard for beginners new to the genre and an important resource for established researchers. Covering a broad range of historical, theoretical and cultural contexts for the study of travel writing, and combining critical surveys with…

Hardback – 2015-11-08 
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Routledge Literature Companions

Edited by Peter I. Barta, Phil Powrie

This book focuses on literature and cinema in English or French by authors and directors not working in their native language. Artists with hybrid identities have become a defining phenomenon of contemporary reality following the increased mobility between civilisations during the postcolonial…

Hardback – 2015-11-08 
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Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature

By Alexandra Schultheis Moore

This book responds to the failures of human rights—the way its institutions and norms reproduce geopolitical imbalances and social exclusions—through an analysis of how literary and visual culture can make visible human rights claims that are foreclosed in official discourses. Moore draws on…

Hardback – 2015-11-08 
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Michael D'Arcy, Mathias Nilges

At a juncture in which art and culture are saturated with the forces of commodification, this book argues that problems, forms, and positions that defined modernism are crucially relevant to the condition of contemporary art and culture. The volume is attuned to the central concerns of recent…

Hardback – 2015-11-08 
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

Edited by Jane Ford, Kim Edwards Keates, Patricia Pulham

This volume marks the first sustained study to interrogate how and why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect in the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siècle. At the end of the nineteenth-century, the move towards new models of economic thought marked the…

Hardback – 2015-11-03 
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Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

Edited by Steven H. Gale

First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the…

Hardback – 2015-07-23
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Routledge Revivals

By Arnold Kettle

First published in 1953, this book forms the second part of Arnold Kettle’s An Introduction to the English Novel. In this second part, Kettle builds a discussion of the modern English novel around the study of various books that have a more than casual significance in its development. He begins…

Hardback – 2015-07-23
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Routledge Revivals: An Introduction to the English Novel

By Arnold Kettle

First published in 1951 (this edition in 1967), this book forms the first part of Arnold Kettle’s An Introduction to the English Novel. Since the novel, like every other literary form, is a product of history, the book opens with a discussion of how and why the novel developed in England in the…

Hardback – 2015-07-23
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Routledge Revivals: An Introduction to the English Novel