Routledge Focus on Literature
Emotionality: Heterosexual Love and Emotional Development in Popular Romance
1st Edition
By Eirini Arvanitaki
October 26, 2025
This book focuses on the projections of romantic love and its progression in a selection of popular romance novels and identifies an innovation within the genre’s formula and structure. Taking into account Giddens’s notion of ‘confluent’ love, this book argues that two forms of love exist within ...
Theorising Oliver Jeffers’ Picturebooks: From How to Catch a Star to Now
1st Edition
By Jade Dillon-Craig
October 15, 2025
Theorising Oliver Jeffers’ Picturebooks: From How to Catch a Star to Now examines semiotic, affective and metafictive storytelling in Oliver Jeffers’ postmodern picturebooks from a multi-theoretical approach. This volume provides fresh insight into Jeffers’ iconotextual narratives through...
Toxic Masculinity on the London Stage, 1600–1610
1st Edition
By Anthony Archdeacon
June 30, 2025
The idea of toxic masculinity might feel like a very modern, even twenty-first century notion, but similar concerns about male behaviour, also often characterised in terms of poisons and poisoning, can be identified in the literature of 400 hundred years ago, not only in Shakespeare’s Othello ...
The Global Distribution of Popular Narrative in the Nineteenth Century: Forms of Circulation and Circulation of Forms
1st Edition
Edited
By Graham Law
May 28, 2025
The principal aim of this collection of articles is to explore the evolving generic patterns and the modes of transnational distribution of popular narrative over the course of the nineteenth century. This volume addresses networks of reception drawn around cities as diverse as Constantinople, ...
Forensic Storytelling and the Literary Roots of Early Modern Feminism: ReSisters
1st Edition
By Barbara Abrams
May 26, 2025
The writing of letters and the rise of the novel provided a way for some women to express themselves at a time when the all-male French Academy defined the very parameters of French literary acceptability and tradition. Women who were consigned to convents, workhouses or prisons were in most ...
Bosnian Authors in a European Window: A Comparative Study
1st Edition
By Keith Doubt
May 05, 2025
The study compares three Bosnian authors with three European titans: The poet Mak Dizdar to Homer, the novelist Meša Selimović to Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the novelist Ivo Andrić to Leo Tolstoy. The purpose is to move the appreciation of the writing of the most important Bosnian writers of the&...
Contemporary Irish Masculinities: Male Homosociality in Sally Rooney's Novels
1st Edition
By Angelos Bollas
May 05, 2025
By examining portrayals of male homosociality in Sally Rooney's novels, the book documents how male relationships are formed, challenged, and often disavowed and the profound negative effects this can have for the wellbeing of men. The book also highlights the importance of the sociocultural ...
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk: Flags, Football, and the NFL’s “Foxy” Patriotism Problem
1st Edition
By Lisa Ferguson
April 13, 2025
This book examines how the game of football and militarism have historically overlapped due to their shared celebration of strength, might, and besting a clear and definitive foe. Nevertheless, since September 11, a variety of staged patriotic vignettes dominated most NFL broadcasts, giving the ...
Supernatural Creatures in Arabic Literary Tradition
1st Edition
By Ahmed Al-Rawi
April 13, 2025
This volume explores the cultural meaning of several supernatural creatures in Arabia, tracing the historical development of these creatures and their recent representations in the Western world. Utilizing a variety of old and new Arabic, English and French sources, the text explores creatures ...
Writing in-Between: Collaborative Meaning Making in Performative Writing
1st Edition
By Nandita Dinesh
April 13, 2025
Writing in-Between lies at intersections: between theory and praxis; between fiction and non-fiction; between author and reader; between the personal and the political. Beginning with a conceptual glossary that prepares readers for their journey through the book, Dinesh offers two central texts to ...
Poetic Thinking. Now
1st Edition
By Marko Pajević
December 19, 2024
This book presents my concept of poetic thinking in the context of debates around the anthropological question, that is ‘what is being human?’, building on ‘thinking language’ and dialogical thinking, developing a poetological anthropology. It evokes political and social issues to demonstrate why ...
Milton and Music
1st Edition
By Seth Herbst
October 09, 2024
Milton and Music is the first study to juxtapose John Milton’s poetry on music with later musical adaptations of his work. In Part I: Milton on Music, Seth Herbst shows that writing about music galvanized Milton’s intellectual development towards animist materialism, the belief that everything in ...