Routledge Research in Women's Literature
Self-Help and Agency in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing
1st Edition
By Maria Juko
February 09, 2027
Self-Help and Agency in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing examines how self-help, a philosophy typically aimed at men, developed as a strategy for women writers to highlight a need for female agency. While Samuel Smiles's 1859 Self-Help popularized the genre, women had long been crafting their own...
The Chalet School Books and the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Miles Booy
October 16, 2026
The first full-length study of this beloved children’s series, The Chalet School in the Twentieth Century moves beyond the largely generic analysis within which it has previously been discussed. Published between 1925 and 1970, the series moves from European reconciliation after the Great War, ...
Bodily Autonomy in 19th Century American Women’s Writing: A Cornucopia of Pharmacopoeia
1st Edition
By Jennifer M. Nader
October 02, 2026
Bodily Autonomy in 19th Century American Women’s Writing: A Cornucopia of Pharmacopoeia investigates literary and autobiographical texts by nineteenth century American women, examining how women used herbal remedies to maintain bodily autonomy and how that autonomy was progressively eroded with the...
The Flâneuse in Literature and Culture: Women Wandering Purposefully
1st Edition
Edited
By Irina Gendelman, Jeff Birkenstein
September 29, 2026
The Flâneuse in Literature and Culture: Women Wandering Purposefully explores how women have navigated the freedoms and constraints of wandering through public spaces. Expanding on the traditionally masculine figure of the flâneur, this edited collection considers the flâneuse across literature, ...
Socio-Environmental Crisis in Women’s Novels and Films in The Americas: The Poetics of Environmental Destruction, Care, and Insurgency
1st Edition
By Victoria Jara
July 20, 2026
The climate crisis has reached a critical point, necessitating urgent global action. Women’s activism against environmental dispossession in the Americas manifests not only in protests and classrooms but also through artistic filmmaking and writing. This book focuses on the overlooked contributions...
The Lives and Afterlives of the Sidney Women Writers
1st Edition
Edited
By Aurélie Griffin, Alison Findlay
May 29, 2026
The Lives and Afterlives of the Sidney Women Writers charts the multifarious connections between the lives and works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke (1561– 1621), and Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth (1587– 1651). Bringing together essays by renowned experts on the Sidney women and a new ...
Barbara Bray, A Woman of Letters: Translator, Radio Producer, Scriptwriter, Critic, and Theatre Director
1st Edition
By Pascale Sardin
May 21, 2026
Barbara Bray (1924-2010) was an English woman of letters who translated some hundred novels, plays, and essays from French to English and was Marguerite Duras’s preferred translator. She also collaborated with some of the most prestigious directors and playwrights of the 20th century – Harold ...
Maeve Brennan: A Place in the Mind
1st Edition
By Edward O’Rourke
May 21, 2026
This book explores the intricate interplay between physical spaces and psychological landscapes in the works of Irish-American author Maeve Brennan. Brennan’s writing is now classed amongst the most important of twentieth-century Irish women’s fiction, having undergone a significant reclamation and...
Nigerian Authors and the Me-Generation: New Shades of Black
1st Edition
By Eugenia Ossana
May 21, 2026
Nigerian Authors and the Me-Generation: New Shades of Black explores African literary issues and focuses on Nigerian generations throughout history. It also underscores women authors’ relatively unknown or dispersed role and their positions regarding Western feminism. Concurrently, the book ...
The Memory of Architecture in Edith Wharton’s Travel Writings
1st Edition
By Ágnes Zsófia Kovács
May 22, 2026
Edith Wharton was not only the author of novels and short stories but also of drama, poetry, autobiography, interior decoration, and travel writing. This study focuses on Wharton’s symbolic representations of architecture in her travel writings. It shows how a network of allusions to travel writing...
Travel and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Exotic Journeys, Reparative Histories?
1st Edition
Edited
By Paloma Fresno-Calleja, Hsu-Ming Teo
May 21, 2026
Romantic fiction has often involved stories of travel. In narratives of the journey towards love, "romance" often involves encounters with "exotic" places and peoples. When history is invoked in such stories, the past itself is exoticised and treated as "other" to the present to serve the purposes ...
Ukrainian Women's Prose: Unveiling Narratives, Imagery, and Societal Roles of Women
1st Edition
By Aniela Radecka
April 22, 2026
Ukrainian Women's Prose: Unveiling Narratives, Imagery, and Societal Roles of Women offers a groundbreaking exploration of contemporary Ukrainian women's literature during one of the most transformative periods in the nation's history. This compelling scholarly work examines 25 pivotal years — from...