Routledge Revivals
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The Supreme Command, 1914-1918 (Routledge Revivals): Volume II
1st Edition
By Lord Hankey
January 07, 2016
Lord Hankey (1877-1963) was a British civil servant and the first Cabinet Secretary, a top aide to Prime Minister David Lloyd George and the War Cabinet that directed Britain in World War One. Mostly derived from the author’s diaries, which began in March 1915, this study describes how Lord Hankey ...
V. S. Naipaul (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Peter Hughes
January 07, 2016
First published in 1988, Peter Hughes explores the work of V. S. Naipaul, and the interplay of fictional and non-fictional patters in what is his obsessive vision of human life. Hughes shows how Naipaul’s narratives pair off histories and novels, travel-writing and psycho-biography, reinforcing one...
Women and Print Culture (Routledge Revivals): The Construction of Femininity in the Early Periodical
1st Edition
By Kathryn Shevelow
January 07, 2016
With the growth of popular literary forms, particularly the periodical, during the eighteenth century, women began to assume an unprecedented place in print culture as readers and writers. Yet at the same time the very textual practices of that culture inscribed women within an increasingly ...
Wordsworth's Historical Imagination (Routledge Revivals): The Poetry of Displacement
1st Edition
By David Simpson
January 07, 2016
Traditionally, Wordsworth’s greatness is founded on his identity as the poet of nature and solitude. The Wordsworthian imagination is seen as an essentially private faculty, its very existence premised on the absence of other people. In this title, first published in 1987, David Simpson challenges ...
British Poets and Secret Societies (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Marie Mulvey-Roberts
December 07, 2015
A surprisingly large number of English poets have either belonged to a secret society, or been strongly influenced by its tenets. One of the best known examples is Christopher Smart’s membership of the Freemasons, and the resulting influence of Masonic doctrines on A Song to David. However, many ...
Cover Stories (Routledge Revivals): Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller
1st Edition
By Lowdon Wingo Jr.
December 07, 2015
First published in 1987, this title tracks the spy thriller from John Buchanan to Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carré, and shows how these tales of spies, moles, and the secret service tell a history of modern society, translating the political and cultural transformations of the twentieth ...
Fantasy and Mimesis (Routledge Revivals): Responses to Reality in Western Literature
1st Edition
By Kathryn Hume
December 07, 2015
Since Plato and Aristotle’s declaration of the essence of literature as imitation, western narrative has been traditionally discussed in mimetic terms. Marginalized fantasy- the deliberate from reality – has become the hidden face of fiction, identified by most critics as a minor genre. First ...
Images of Crisis (Routledge Revivals): Literary Iconology, 1750 to the Present
1st Edition
By George P. Landow
December 07, 2015
First published in 1982, Images of Crisis explores the premise that literature and art exploit various images to present culturally prevalent ideas, and thus create their own form of iconology. George Landow shows how the tumultuous history of the past two hundred years has resulted in a plethora ...
Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals): The Challenges of Science
1st Edition
By Allan Hunter
December 07, 2015
First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind’s ethical motivation and its relationship with the ideas of evolution current in his day. Allan Hunter establishes Conrad’s detailed ...
Private and Fictional Words (Routledge Revivals): Canadian Women Novelists of the 1970s and 1980s
1st Edition
By Coral Ann Howells
December 07, 2015
First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women’s novelists of the 1970s and 1980s. At its centre lies the question of how the search for a distinctive cultural identity relates to the need for a national cultural identity in the post-colonial era. ...
Realism and Power (Routledge Revivals): Postmodern British Fiction
1st Edition
By Alison Lee
December 07, 2015
First published in 1990, this study focuses on the subversive techniques of British postmodernist fiction and examines its challenge to Realist traditions, and the liberal humanist ideology behind it. Exploring the concept of literary postmodernism, and the strategies and philosophies to which it ...
Subject to Others (Routledge Revivals): British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834
1st Edition
By Moira Ferguson
December 07, 2015
First published in 1992, Subject to Others considers the intersection between late seventeenth- to early nineteenth-century British female writers and the colonial debate surrounding slavery and abolition. Beginning with an overview that sets the discussion in context, Moira Ferguson then ...