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.
Resistant Reproductions: Pregnancy and Abortion in British Literature and Film
1st Edition
By Fran Bigman
July 30, 2025
Resistant Reproductions asks why narratives of pregnancy and abortion emerged in the early twentieth century and what kinds of stories these narratives conveyed. Is it only once pregnancy becomes plannable that it becomes a story worth telling? Abortion is often considered resistant and feminist, ...
Mental Libraries: The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Julia Domínguez
June 12, 2025
Mental Libraries: The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture explores the enduring legacy of mnemonic systems across literature, visual arts, pedagogy, and cultural production. Centered on the metaphor of the “mental library,” this collection reveals how memory practices ...
Nature and Narrative: Rhetoric and Design in Contemporary Fiction
1st Edition
By Markku Lehtimäki
May 22, 2025
The book explores environmental issues in twenty-first-century Anglophone fiction and how those issues are dealt with by specific literary means. It proposes a reciprocal relationship between nature and narrative—the idea according to which nature both informs and inspires artistic creations, while...
Teaching Text Technologies and Critical Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Objects of Study
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Heritage, Donna A. C. Sy
May 15, 2025
Teaching Text Technologies and Critical Bibliography Among the Disciplines: Objects of Study is a richly illustrated volume consisting of 23 methods-based chapters discussing innovative and often experimental approaches to hands-on teaching with material texts. Featuring 47 contributors whose work ...
E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism: Queer Matters
1st Edition
By Nour Dakkak
May 05, 2025
Through attending to the nonhuman, E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism: Queer Matters places Forster’s fiction in conversation with contemporary debates concerned with the intersection of neomaterialism, environmental humanities, and queer ecology. The book revisits Forster’s liberal humanism from a ...
Adaptation and Beyond: Hybrid Transtextualities
1st Edition
Edited
By Eva C. Karpinski, Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak
December 18, 2024
This interdisciplinary collection focuses on recent adaptations, both experimental and popular, that put hybridity, transtextuality, and transmediality at play. It reframes adaptation in terms of the transmedia concept of "world-building," which accurately captures the complexity and ...
Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film
1st Edition
Edited
By Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández, Miriam Fernández-Santiago
December 18, 2024
Embodied VulnerAbilities in Literature and Film includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary and filmic representations of vulnerability depict embodied forms of vulnerability across languages, media, genres, countries, and traditions in the late 20th and ...
The Clouds: An Experiment in Theory-Fiction
1st Edition
By Stefano Gualeni
December 18, 2024
On a slow autumn afternoon, an atmospheric physicist working at the Malta Weather Station receives a surprising email from a colleague working in the United Kingdom: something troubling has apparently been detected during one of their research flights. The ensuing meteorological mystery is the ...
Late Churchill: Language from Crisis to Death
1st Edition
By Jonathan Locke Hart
November 29, 2024
This book focuses on a close analysis of selected speeches of Winston Churchill in the House of Commons and some of the responses from fellow MPs from the middle of 1940 to the death of Churchill in 1965, speeches in war and peace, and concentrates on foreign affairs. The book will appeal to those ...
The Literary Legacy of Child Sexual Abuse: Psychoanalytic Readings of an American Tradition
1st Edition
By Beverly Haviland
November 29, 2024
This book examines the representation of child sexual abuse in five American novels written from 1850 to the present. The historical range of the novels shows that child sexual abuse is not a new problem, although it has been called by other names in other eras. The introduction explains what ...
Explorations of Spirituality in American Women's Literature: The Aging Woman in the Image of God
1st Edition
By Scarlett Cunningham
November 28, 2024
This book connects the aging woman to the image of God in the work of Flannery O’Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, Alicia Ostriker, Lucille Clifton, Mary Szybist, and Anne Babson. It introduces a canon of contemporary American women’s spiritual literature with the goal of showing how this literature ...
Comics and Novelization: A Literary History of Bandes Dessinées
1st Edition
By Benoît Glaude
October 08, 2024
This book opens a novel perspective on comics and literature interactions. It claims that the two artistic media have always maintained a mutual emulation, for as long as they have coexisted in media culture. To demonstrate this, the present research does not focus on literary adaptations in comics...