Literature: Literature by Geographic Area

By Sandy Alexandre

This study looks at the role that fictional and actual material things play in black-American literature and culture. The book analyzes cultural products ranging from fictional literary narratives and black memorabilia to black inventions in order to glean an ethics from the transition of enslaved…

Hardback – 2016-08-01 
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature

By Catherine Martin

This book joins a growing trend toward transnational literary studies and revives a venerable tradition of Anglo-Italian scholarship centering on John Milton. Correcting misperceptions that have diminished the international dimensions of his life and work, it broadly surveys Milton’s Italianate…

Hardback – 2016-08-01 
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Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture

Edited by Richard Pearson

First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This first volume contains extracts of William Makepeace Thackeray’s early fiction and journalism in the 1830s and 1840s. In his early career, Thackeray worked as an editor,…

Hardback – 2016-07-30 
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Routledge Revivals: The William Makepeace Thackeray Library

Edited by Richard Pearson

First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. William Makepeace Thackeray spent part of virtually every year of his writing life in Paris and he wrote continually on France and French culture. This volume contains a…

Hardback – 2016-07-30 
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Routledge Revivals: The William Makepeace Thackeray Library

Edited by Richard Pearson

First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This third volume contains Anthony Trollope’s volume on Thackeray from John Morley’s series entitled The English Men of Letters. The work signifies Thackeray’s move to…

Hardback – 2016-07-30 
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Routledge Revivals: The William Makepeace Thackeray Library

Edited by Richard Pearson

First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This fourth volume contains Charles Plumptre Johnson’s The Early Writings of William Makepeace Thackeray and Adolphus Alfred Jack’s Thackeray: A Study. While Johnson’s work…

Hardback – 2016-07-30 
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Routledge Revivals: The William Makepeace Thackeray Library

Edited by Richard Pearson

First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This fifth volume contains the memoir of Eyre Crowe, who accompanied Thackeray on his tour of America. The account offers an outsider’s glimpse into the professional and…

Hardback – 2016-07-30 
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Routledge Revivals: The William Makepeace Thackeray Library

Edited by Richard Pearson

First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of works written by and about the novelist. This sixth volume contains the work of Lewis Melville, one of the most productive biographers and critics of Thackeray at the turn of the 20th century. Richard Pearson’s…

Hardback – 2016-07-30 
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Routledge Revivals: The William Makepeace Thackeray Library

Edited by Richard Pearson

First published in 1996, The William Makepeace Thackeray Library is a collection of texts written by and about the novelist, which provide an insight into his life and works beyond his major novels such as Vanity Fair. It begins with some of Thackeray’s lesser-known journalistic work and travel…

Hardback – 2016-07-30 
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Routledge Revivals: The William Makepeace Thackeray Library

By Jason Scott-Warren, Andrew Elder Zurcher

In early modern culture, eating and reading were entangled acts. Our dead metaphors (swallowed stories, overcooked narratives, digested information) are all that now remains of a rich interplay between text and food, in which every element of dining, from preparation to purgation, had its…

Hardback – 2016-07-28 
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Material Readings in Early Modern Culture

Edited by Kirsteen McCue, Pam Perkins

This collection includes the first critical editions of both Anne Grant’s Letters from the Mountains (1806), one of the Romantic era’s most successful non-fictional accounts of the Scottish Highlands, and Elizabeth Isabella Spence’s Letters from the North Highlands (1816), a work that, while…

Hardback – 2016-07-20 
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Chawton House Library: Women’s Travel Writings

Edited by Kate Flint

First published in 1987. Many Victorian novels that considered social problems made extensive use of contemporary source material for their descriptions. This book aims to provide a greater acquaintance with this non-literary material — illustrating and exemplifying issues that the authors treated…

Hardback – 2016-07-20 
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Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel