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.
A Deweyan Approach to Teaching Literary Inquiry
1st Edition
By Richard J. Johnson
December 01, 2026
Drawing upon the work of philosopher John Dewey, A Deweyan Approach to Teaching Literary Inquiry describes an inquiry-based, process-oriented approach to making meaning from literary texts. Beginning with a Deweyan examination of why we teach literature, the book then presents its central argument:...
Aesthetics of the Novel: Beyond Bakhtin
1st Edition
By Luis Beltrán Almería
September 18, 2026
Aesthetics of the Novel: Beyond Bakhtin examines the history of the novel through the diverse aesthetic currents that this literary genre has adopted from antiquity to the present day. Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's aesthetic theory, this work provides a comprehensive overview of the Western novel ...
Charlie Kaufman’s Möbius Strip: Film, Philosophy and Literary Theory
1st Edition
By Colm O’Shea
July 20, 2026
Charlie Kaufman’s Möbius Strip: Film, Philosophy and Literary Theory presents Kaufman’s diagnosis of alienation and corruption in the modern age as a fundamentally spiritual malady. Each chapter builds on a theological or metaphysical idea, drawing from thinkers as diverse as Kierkegaard, Kafka, ...
Reading Contemporary India: An Interdisciplinary Enquiry into Sociocultural Issues
1st Edition
By MK Raghavendra
July 20, 2026
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 ...
Tolstoy's Search for the Kingdom of God: Gender and Queer Anarchism
1st Edition
By Javier Sethness Castro
July 20, 2026
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 Food in Literature, Film and Other Imaginative Texts: Gastrocriticism
1st Edition
By Anke Klitzing
July 15, 2026
Reading Food in Literature, Film and Other Imaginative Texts is the first dedicated guide to gastrocriticism – an emerging interdisciplinary, critical framework for investigating food, drinks and foodways in literature, film and other imaginative texts. Organised into three comprehensive sections, ...
Nature, Literature and Culture: Affinities, Influences, Lives and Ideas
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
June 19, 2026
Nature, Literature and Culture: Affinities, Influences, Lives and Ideas explores the profound connections between scientific inquiry and literary expression across generations of thinkers and writers. In poetry, Erasmus Darwin attempts to decode the mysteries of botany and geology, while through ...
Beyond Resilience in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: Research on Critical Terms
1st Edition
Edited
By Hannah Grayson
June 11, 2026
Beyond Resilience in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: Research on Critical Terms examines the stakes of public discourse on how people respond to crisis. This interdisciplinary volume examines multilingual critical alternatives to the all-pervasive language of “resilience” and “crisis”. ...
Beat Film, Beat Writers
1st Edition
By David Stephen Calonne
May 21, 2026
Beat Film, Beat Writers is the first monograph to analyze the films of Christopher Maclaine, Lawrence Jordan, ruth weiss, Ron Rice, Robert Frank, Barbara Rubin, Shirley Clarke, William S. Burroughs, and Joanne Kyger. The book is noteworthy for its emphasis on women filmmakers who have traditionally...
Cultural Heritage and the Literary Archive: Objects, Institutions, and Practices between the Analogue and the Digital
1st Edition
Edited
By Tim Sommer
May 21, 2026
Modern literary archives play a key role in how authors’ lives and works get canonized and consecrated as cultural heritage. This interdisciplinary volume combines literary studies, book history, textual criticism, heritage studies, archival theory, and the digital humanities to examine the past, ...
Multidisciplinary Representations of Home and Homeland in Diaspora
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean Amato, Kyunghee Pyun
May 21, 2026
This collection explores our fascination with homes across time, cultures, and disciplines while unpacking the relationship between private yearning and public belonging, illustrating the limitations and fluidity of identity and affiliation through the idea of homes and ancestral homelands. While ...
Stories of Love from Vikings to Tinder: The Evolution of Modern Mating Ideologies, Dating Dysfunction, and Demographic Collapse
1st Edition
By Mads Larsen
May 21, 2026
Increasing levels of singledom, dating dysfunction, and sexual inactivity contribute to plummeting fertility rates. This book investigates the perhaps most foundational factor behind this uncoupling: our present era’s ideology of love. Throughout human history, communities have shared fictional ...