Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
About the Book Series
This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to literary studies, it engages with topics such as philosophy, science, race, gender, film, music, and ecology. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism: Queer Matters
1st Edition
By Nour Dakkak
May 05, 2025
Through attending to the nonhuman, E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism: Queer Matters places Forster’s fiction in conversation with contemporary debates concerned with the intersection of neomaterialism, environmental humanities, and queer ecology. The book revisits Forster’s liberal humanism from a ...
Tolstoy's Search for the Kingdom of God: Gender and Queer Anarchism
1st Edition
By Javier Sethness Castro
March 10, 2025
Building on its predecessor, Queer Tolstoy: A Psychobiography (2023), this book uncovers queer-anarchist dimensions of the second half of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy's life (1828–1910) and of the Russian writer's later art-works. It features queer-friendly readings of Anna Karenina (1875–1877), ...
Reading Contemporary India: An Interdisciplinary Enquiry into Sociocultural Issues
1st Edition
By MK Raghavendra
February 11, 2025
The book is the first ever attempt to examine various sociocultural aspects of contemporary India, ranging from caste and hierarchy and the religious or political conflict resulting from it to literary practice and intellectual life in the public space and making interdisciplinary associations. It ...
Adaptation and Beyond: Hybrid Transtextualities
1st Edition
Edited
By Eva C. Karpinski, Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak
December 18, 2024
This interdisciplinary collection focuses on recent adaptations, both experimental and popular, that put hybridity, transtextuality, and transmediality at play. It reframes adaptation in terms of the transmedia concept of "world-building," which accurately captures the complexity and ...
Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film
1st Edition
Edited
By Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández, Miriam Fernández-Santiago
December 18, 2024
Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary and filmic representations of vulnerability depict embodied forms of vulnerability across languages, media, genres, countries, and traditions in the late 20th and ...
The Clouds: An Experiment in Theory-Fiction
1st Edition
By Stefano Gualeni
December 18, 2024
On a slow autumn afternoon, an atmospheric physicist working at the Malta Weather Station receives a surprising email from a colleague working in the United Kingdom: something troubling has apparently been detected during one of their research flights. The ensuing meteorological mystery is the ...
Late Churchill: Language from Crisis to Death
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
November 29, 2024
This book focuses on a close analysis of selected speeches of Winston Churchill in the House of Commons and some of the responses from fellow MPs from the middle of 1940 to the death of Churchill in 1965, speeches in war and peace, and concentrates on foreign affairs. The book will appeal to those ...
The Literary Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse: Psychoanalytic Readings of an American Tradition
1st Edition
By Beverly Haviland
November 29, 2024
This book examines the representation of child sexual abuse in five American novels written from 1850 to the present. The historical range of the novels shows that child sexual abuse is not a new problem, although it has been called by other names in other eras. The introduction explains what ...
Explorations of Spirituality in American Women's Literature: The Aging Woman in the Image of God
1st Edition
By Scarlett Cunningham
November 28, 2024
This book connects the aging woman to the image of God in the work of Flannery O’Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Alicia Ostriker, Lucille Clifton, Mary Szybist, and Anne Babson. It introduces a canon of contemporary American women’s spiritual literature with the goal of showing how this literature ...
Comics and Novelization: A Literary History of Bandes Dessinées
1st Edition
By Benoît Glaude
October 08, 2024
This book opens a novel perspective on comics and literature interactions. It claims that the two artistic media have always maintained a mutual emulation, for as long as they have coexisted in media culture. To demonstrate this, the present research does not focus on literary adaptations in comics...
Interpreting Violence: Narrative, Ethics and Hermeneutics
1st Edition
Edited
By Cassandra Falke, Victoria Fareld, Hanna Meretoja
October 08, 2024
Representations of violence surround us in everyday life – in news reports, films and novels – inviting interpretation and raising questions about the ethics of viewing or reading about harm done to others. How can we understand the processes of meaning-making involved in interpreting violent ...
The Affects of Pedagogy in Literary Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Lloyd, Hilary Emmett
October 08, 2024
The Affects of Pedagogy in Literary Studies considers the ways in which teachers and students are affected by our encounters with literature and other cultural texts in the higher education classroom. The essays consider the range of emotions and affects elicited by teaching settings and practices:...