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28 NEW ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH SERIES Studies in Major Literary Authors Series Series Editor: William E. Cain, Wellesley College, UK Edited by William E. Cain, Studies in Major Literary Authors features outstanding scholarship on celebrated and neglected authors of both canonical and lesser-known texts. Dickens, Journalism, and Nationhood Mapping the World in Household Words Sabine Clemm, University of Southampton, UK Dickens, Journalism, and Nationhood examines Charles Dickens’ weekly family magazine Household Words in order to develop a detailed picture of how the journal negotiated, asserted and simultaneously deconstructed Englishness as a unified (and sometimes unifying) mode of expression. It offers close readings of a wide range of materials that self-consciously focus on the nature of England as well as the relationship between Britain and the European continent, Ireland, and the British colonies. 2008: 234x156: 244pp Hb: 978-0-415-95846-2: £60.00 eBook: 978-0-203-88775-2 NEW Djuna Barnes, T.S. Eliot and the Gender Dynamics of Modernism Tracing Nightwood Monika Faltejskova Extending our understanding of modernism beyond the group of familiar canonical male names such as Joyce, Pound and Eliot, Djuna Barnes and other modernist women-writers have received detailed critical attention in recent years. The study looks at the origins of the modernist movement, linking gender, modernism and the literary, before considering the bearing these discourses had on Barnes’s writing. April 2009: 234x156: 192pp Hb: 978-0-415-99626-6: £60.00 NEW Frontier/Grotesque in the Novels of William Faulker Peter Alan Froehlich, Southeast Missouri State University, USA This book locates Faulkner’s historical vision in his use of ‘frontier/grotesque’, a cultural rhetoric associated with colonization, which appears in the tension between the regional mythology of plantation and the national mythology of frontier. The book identifies Absalom, Absalom!, The Hamlet, and Go Down, Moses as a ‘mythic trilogy’, novels less concerned with portraying the harsh realities of the Depression than the author’s vision of a South caught in the tension between the regional mythology of plantation and the national mythology of frontier. May 2009: 234x156: 208pp Hb: 978-0-415-97536-0: £45.00 ORDER NOW! See Order Form in the centre of this catalogue NEW Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity Karen Leick, Ohio State University, USA By examining not the ways that Stein portrayed the popular in her work, but the ways the popular portrayed her, this study shows that there was an intimate relationship between literary modernism and mainstream culture and that modernist writers and texts were much more well-known than has been previously acknowledged. Specifically, Karen Leick reveals through the case study of Stein that the relationship between mass culture and modernism in America was less antagonistic, more productive and integrated than previous studies have suggested. February 2009: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-99472-9: £60.00 NEW The Historical Imagination of G.K. Chesterton Locality, Patriotism, and Nationalism Joseph R. McCleary, University of Maryland, USA This study examines a selection of Chesterton’s novels, poetry, and literary criticism and outlines the distinctive philosophy of history that emerges from these writings. Looking at Chesteron’s relationship with and influence upon authors including William Cobbett, Sir Walter Scott, Belloc, Shaw, H.G. Wells, Christopher Dawson, Evelyn Waugh, and Marshall McLuhan, Joseph R. McCleary contends that Chesterton’s recurring use of the themes of locality, patriotism, and nationalism embodies a distinctive understanding of what gives history its coherence. January 2009: 234x156: 177pp Hb: 978-0-415-99175-9: £60.00 eBook: 978-0-203-88225-2 Narrative Conventions and Race in the Novels of Toni Morrison Jennifer Lee Jordan Heinert, University of Wisconsin, USA This study analyzes the relationship between race and genre in four of Toni Morrison’s novels: The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby, Jazz, and Beloved. Heinert argues how Morrison’s novels revise conventional generic forms such as bildungsroman, folktales, slave narratives, and the formal realism of the novel itself. This study goes beyond formalist analyses to show how these revisions expose the relationship between race, conventional generic forms, and the dominant culture. 2008: 234x156: 128pp Hb: 978-0-415-96148-6: £60.00 +44 (0)1235 400524 Fax: +44 (0)20 7017 6699 NEW Philip K. Dick Canonical Writer of the Digital Age Lejla Kucukalic, Columbia University, USA In this timely study, Lejla Kucakulic examines the major themes of Dick’s novels – including critique of consumer society, mass media, and technology – ultimately concluding that transcending these concerns is Dick’s preoccupation with the traditional moral and religious issues of American literature as manifested in the modern world. 2008: 234x156: 128pp Hb: 978-0-415-96242-1: £60.00 eBook: 978-0-203-88684-7 NEW The Politics of Humiliation in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee Hania Nashef In this volume, Hania Nashef looks at J.M. Coetzee’s concern with universal suffering and the inevitable humiliation of the human being as manifest in his novels. Though several theorists have referred to the theme of human degradation in Coetzee’s work, no detailed study has been made of this area of concern especially with respect to how pervasive it is across Coetzee’s literary output to date. This study examines what J.M. Coetzee’s novels portray as the circumstances that contribute to the humiliation of the individual – namely the abuse of language, master and slave interplay, aging and senseless waiting – and how these conditions, singularly or in unison can lead to the alienation and marginalization of the individual. March 2009: 234x156: 244pp Hb: 978-0-415-99829-1: £60.00 NEW Dicken’s Secular Gospel Work, Gender, and Personality Chris Louttit, University of Leicester, UK The first full-length study on the subject of Dickens and work, this lucidly written book provides a broader and more comprehensive account of it than has been previously attempted in shorter essays and chapters. Chris Louttit reshapes our understanding of Dickens by challenging a critical oversimplification: that Dickens’s attitude towards work reflects conventional expressions of Victorian earnestness of the sort attributed also to Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, and even more simplistically, Samuel Smiles. May 2009: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-99136-0: £60.00 www.routledge.com/literature
Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture Cannibalizations of the Canon Edited by Carlos Rojas, Duke University, USA and Eileen Chow, Harvard University, USA Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series Through analyses of a wide range of Chinese literary and visual texts from the beginning of the twentieth century through the contemporary period, the thirteen essays in this volume challenge the view that canonical and popular culture are self-evident and diametrically opposed categories, and instead argue that the two cultural sensibilities are inextricably bound up with one another. 2008: 234x156: 320pp Hb: 978-0-415-46880-0: £80.00 eBook: 978-0-203-88664-9 NEW Perversion in Modern Japan Experiments in Psychoanalysis and Literature Edited by Nina Cornyetz and Keith Vincent, both at New York University, USA Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series Perversion in Modern Japan is the first book to focus on the psychoanalytic approach to the study of modern Japan. Using a wide range of psychoanalytic approaches the contributors to this book have brought together chapters on everything from the Ajase complex to underpants, from fascist modernism in literature to Internet-based suicide pacts. February 2009: 234x156: 512pp Hb: 978-0-415-46910-4: £80.00 The Novels of Oe Kenzaburo Yasuko Claremont, University of Sydney, Australia Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series The author’s critical study examines the key works of fiction by Oe Kenzaburo – the internationally renowned Japanese writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. 2008: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-41593-4: £75.00 eBook: 978-0-203-88401-0 NEW Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World Edited by Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller, Vanderbilt University, USA Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History With interdisciplinary analyses of texts whose origins span the diversity of the Jewish and Muslim traditions, the provocative essays collected in Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World: Scroll and Scarf offer startling insights into the meaning of the volatile history of this conflict in the Francophone world. January 2009: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-99587-0: £60.00 eBook: 978-0-203-88205-4 Comte de Gobineau and Orientalism Selected Eastern Writings Edited by Geoffrey Nash, University of Sunderland, UK Translated by Daniel O’Donoghue Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East Comte de Gobineau and Orientalism makes available for the first time, the key writings of a hugely original nineteenth century French writer on the Near East. 2008: 234x156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-44019-6: £70.00 eBook: 978-0-203-89209-1 NEW Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt Culture, Society and Empire Deborah Starr, Cornell University, USA Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures This book examines the link between cosmopolitanism in Egypt, from the nineteenth century through to the mid-twentieth century, and colonialism. It analyzes the ways in which literature and film have portrayed the period and the great cultural diversity in the country prior to Nasser. February 2009: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-77511-3: £70.00 eBook: 978-0-203-88136-1 Modern Persian Literature in Afghanistan Anomalous Visions of History and Form Wali Ahmadi, University of California, Berkeley, USA Series: Iranian Studies This book charts the development of Afghan literature in the modern era, covering both poetry and prose, and relating it to social, economic and political change in that country. 2008: 234x156: 192pp Hb: 978-0-415-43778-3: £70.00 eBook: 978-0-203-94602-2 The Ghaznavid and Seljuk Turks Poetry as a Source for Iranian History G.E. Tetley Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey This book examines the great Turkish dynasties of the Ghaznavids and Seljuks through the poetry of Farrukhi Sistani and Mu’izzi. 2008: 234x156: 192pp Hb: 978-0-415-43119-4: £70.00 eBook: 978-0-203-89409-5 ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH SERIES 29 NEW Interpreting Tha’labi’s Tales of the Prophet Temptation, Responsibility and Loss Marianna Klar, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK Series: Routledge Studies in the Qur’an Marianna Klar gives a compelling examination of the prophets Job, Saul, David, Noah and Solomon as portrayed in Tha’labi’s ‘Arais Al-Majalis’ and questions its efficacy as a tool for the exploration for the human condition via a close analysis of the tales of the five figures. March 2009: 234x156: 224pp Hb: 978-0-415-36663-2: £75.00 eBook: 978-0-203-01930-6 E-mail: literature@routledge.com www.tandf.co.uk/eupdates www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk for more information for e-mail updates in your field eBooks are only available to order online Edward Said and the Literary, Social, and Political World Ranjan Ghosh, Sishu Nalanda School, Siliguri, India Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought At long last comes a collection of essays that emphasize the literary in the work of Edward Said. The contributors – many among the foremost Said scholars in the world – examine Said as the literary critic; his relationship to other major contemporary thinkers (including Derrida, Ricoeur, Barthes and Bloom); and his involvement with major movements and concerns of his time (such as music, Feminism, New Humanism, and Marxism). Featuring freshly carved out essays on new areas of intervention, the volume is an indispensable addition for those interested in Edward Said and the many areas in which his legacy looms. 2008: 234x156: 208pp Hb: 978-0-415-96323-7: £60.00 Globalizing Dissent Essays on Arundhati Roy Edited by Ranjan Ghosh, Sishu Nalanda School, Siliguri, India and Antonia Navarro-Tejero, University of Cordoba, Spain Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought This edited collection examines Arundhati Roy beyond the aesthetic parameters of her fiction, focusing also on her creative activism and struggles in global politics. The chapters travel to and fro between her non-fictional works – engaging activism on the streets and global forums – and its underlying roots in her novel. 2008: 234x156: 176pp Hb: 978-0-415-99559-7: £60.00 eBook: 978-0-203-88508-6
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