Routledge Focus on Literature
Female Physicians in American Literature: Abortion in 19th-Century Literature and Culture
1st Edition
By Margaret Jay Jessee
May 31, 2023
Female Physicians in American Literature traces the woman physician character throughout her varying depictions in 19th-century literature, from her appearance in sensational fiction as an evil abortionist to her more well-known idyllic, feminine presence in novels of realism and regionalism. "...
Mapping the Origins of Figurative Language in Comparative Literature
1st Edition
By Richard Trim
May 31, 2023
This book investigates the origins of figurative language in literary discourse within a cognitive framework. It represents an interface between linguistics and literature and develops a 6-tier theoretical model which analyses the different factors contributing to the creation of figurative words ...
Metaphors of Mental Illness in Graphic Medicine
1st Edition
By Sweetha Saji, Sathyaraj Venkatesan
May 31, 2023
This book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualise the intricacies of their internal mindscape through visual metaphors and reclaim their voice amidst stereotyped and prejudiced assumptions of mental illness as a disease of deviance and violence. In this ...
Neurocognitive Interpretations of Australian Literature: Criticism in the Age of Neuroawareness
1st Edition
By Jean-François Vernay
May 31, 2023
This unique book on neurocognitive interpretations of Australian literature covers a wide range of analyses by discussing Australian Literary Studies, Aboriginal literary texts, women writers, ethnic writing, bestsellers, neurodivergence fiction, emerging as well as high- profile writers, literary ...
Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Studies in Reception
1st Edition
By Jakub Lipski
May 31, 2023
Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel adds to the dynamically developing subfield of reception studies within eighteenth-century studies. Lipski shows how secondary visual and literary texts live their own lives in new contexts, while being also attentive to the possible ways in which these new ...
The New Midlife Self-Writing
1st Edition
By Emily O. Wittman
May 31, 2023
In The New Midlife Self-Writing, Wittman treats recent self-writing by Rachel Cusk, Roxane Gay, Sarah Manguso, and Maggie Nelson, carefully situating these vital midlife works within the history of self-writing. She argues that they renew and redirect the autobiographical trajectories ...
The Rise of the Australian Neurohumanities: Conversations Between Neurocognitive Research and Australian Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean-François Vernay
May 31, 2023
This exciting one-of-a-kind volume brings together new contributions by geographically diverse authors who range from early career researchers to well-established scholars in the field. It unprecedentedly showcases a wide variety of the latest research at the intersection of Australian literary ...
Geomythology: How Common Stories Reflect Earth Events
1st Edition
By Timothy J. Burbery
January 09, 2023
Gold-guarding griffins, Cyclopes, killer lakes, man-eating birds, and "fire devils" from the sky—such wonders have long been dismissed as fictional. Now, thanks to the richly interdisciplinary field of geomythology, researchers are taking a second look. It turns out that these and similar tales, ...
Trump and Autobiography: Corporate Culture, Political Rhetoric, and Interpretation
1st Edition
By Nicholas K. Mohlmann
January 09, 2023
The 1970s and 1980s heralded the rise of neoliberalism in United States culture, fundamentally reshaping life and work in the United States. Corporate culture increasingly penetrated other aspects of American life through popular press CEO autobiographies and management books that encouraged ...
Introduction to Digital Humanities: Enhancing Scholarship with the Use of Technology
1st Edition
By Kathryn C. Wymer
December 19, 2022
Introduction to Digital Humanities is designed for researchers, teachers, and learners in humanities subject areas who wish to align their work with the field of digital humanities. Many institutions are encouraging digital approaches to the humanities, and this book offers guidance for students ...
Neo-Georgian Fiction: Reimagining the Eighteenth Century in the Contemporary Historical Novel
1st Edition
Edited
By Jakub Lipski, Joanna Maciulewicz
December 19, 2022
This book contributes to the development of contemporary historical fiction studies by analysing neo-Georgian fiction, which, unlike neo-Victorian fiction, has so far received little critical attention. The essays included in this collection study the ways in which the selected twentieth- and ...
Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question: The Case of Neera
1st Edition
By Catherine Ramsey-Portolano
April 29, 2022
Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question focuses on the literary, journalistic and epistolary production of Italian woman writer Neera, pseudonym for Anna Radius Zuccari, one of the most prolific and successful women writers of late nineteenth-century Italy. This study ...