Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
About the Book Series
From Joyce to Rushdie, Modernism to Food Writing, Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Literature looks at both the literature and culture of the 20th century. This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering literature alongside religion, popular culture, race, gender, ecology, travel, class, space, and other subjects, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Feminist Science Fiction’s Sartorial Spaces: Fashioning Future Females
1st Edition
Edited
By Marleen S. Barr
August 16, 2026
Feminist Science Fiction’s Sartorial Spaces: Fashioning Future Females is a collection of critical essays consisting of established critical voices and cutting-edge new generation fresh perspectives across feminist theory, science fiction, and fashion. This book brings science fiction to bear ...
Joseph Conrad and the Intersection of Narrative, Epistemology, and Cosmology
1st Edition
By John G. Peters
August 04, 2026
This volume presents a comprehensive collection of critical essays on Joseph Conrad's works, developed over three decades of scholarly engagement. While addressing diverse aspects of Conrad's oeuvre, these studies are unified by a consistent methodological approach and thematic focus that ...
The Literary Legacy of the Kennedy Assassination: True Crime Tragedy
1st Edition
By Danielle Johannesen
July 21, 2026
The Literary Legacy of the Kennedy Assassination: True Crime Tragedy surveys and analyzes literary representations of the 1963 JFK assassination in Dallas. The book argues for understanding the assassination as a true crime event. As true crime narratives, the Zapruder film and the Warren Report ...
Contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American Poets: Lyrical Solidarity
1st Edition
By John Burns, Toshiaki Komura
July 20, 2026
Contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American Poets examines how contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American poets imagine their past, present, and future through shared aesthetics. Their poems explore topics surrounding immigration, internment, and racialization, as part of ...
George Orwell and Communist Poland: Émigré, Official and Clandestine Receptions
1st Edition
By Krystyna Wieszczek
July 19, 2026
George Orwell and Communist Poland is the first major account of George Orwell’s Polish reception during the Second World War and the Cold War era. It shows how Orwell, the epitome of a censored writer in the Soviet bloc, enjoyed a fulsome reception both outside and within communist Poland. It does...
Polish Camp Literature
1st Edition
By Arkadiusz Morawiec
July 19, 2026
Polish Camp Literature expands the boundaries of Polish camp literature, which has so far been defined too narrowly. This restricted outlook has been determined by politics, ideology, the scarcity of historical knowledge, the lack of literary research, and frequent manipulation concerning terms ...
Warrior-Writers of World War II
1st Edition
By Lee Congdon
July 19, 2026
Warrior-Writers of World War II delivers a thorough study of Americans who saw combat in World War II, survived, and returned home to become famous writers. It considers the works of 16 important authors, among them J. D. Salinger, John Ciardi, and James Jones, exploring these men’s war experiences...
Reading Lovecraft in the Anthropocene: A New Dark Age
1st Edition
By Christian Wilken
June 21, 2026
In Reading Lovecraft in the Anthropocene: A New Dark Age, the intersection of environmental, philosophical, and literary discourses is explored through the lens of H.P. Lovecraft’s weird fiction. This study examines the convergence of three critical phenomena: the widespread recognition of the ...
Palestinian Memory and Identity in Modern Children’s Literature
1st Edition
By Hanan Mousa
May 21, 2026
A timely and significant contribution to Palestinian children’s literature from 1967 to the present day, Palestinian Memory and Identity in Modern Children’s Literature examines a myriad of motifs and popular culture and the evolution of national identity and consciousness among young Palestinians....
The Hidden D. H. Lawrence: Unmasking a Lyrical Genius
1st Edition
By Myron Tuman
May 21, 2026
The Hidden D. H. Lawrence is a new study of the psychological and literary aspects of a great writer’s lyrical genius. It explores how Lawrence, when writing on his favorite subject, the relations between men and women, moved so quickly between heavy-handed exposition and deeply inspired prose, ...
Psychoanalysis and The Lord of the Rings: A Meltzerian Perspective on Frodo’s Journey
1st Edition
By Adrian Smith
February 25, 2026
Psychoanalysis and The Lord of the Rings offers a psychoanalytical perspective on Tolkien’s masterpiece, informed by the Kleinian school within psychoanalysis, especially the work of Donald Meltzer. Treating Tolkien’s work as a Bildungsroman, a forming novel or coming-of-age tale, this study tracks...
Theodore Dreiser and the Cultures of Travel
1st Edition
By Gary Totten
January 21, 2026
Theodore Dreiser and the Cultures of Travel examines Dreiser’s three published travel narratives, A Traveler at Forty (1913), A Hoosier Holiday (1916), and Dreiser Looks at Russia (1928), along with his 1916–26 travel diaries for trips to Georgia, New Jersey, California, and Florida, and his ...