Routledge Research in Women's Literature
Agent Eve(s) in Moroccan Postcolonial Literature
1st Edition
By Fatimaezzahra Abid
February 25, 2026
This monograph explores female agency in Moroccan postcolonial literature through the works of Fatima Mernissi, Leila Abouzeid, Laila Lalami, Najat El Hachmi, and Aicha Ech-Channa. These influential writers give voice to Moroccan women’s experiences across generations, tracing their roles as ...
Breastfeeding in American Women’s Literature: Latching On
1st Edition
By Wendy Whelan-Stewart
December 26, 2025
Rather than rarities, literary depictions of women breastfeeding infants are more common in American literature than recognized. In some cases, readers have dismissed such portrayals as scenic background or strokes of verisimilitude. In other cases, we have failed to register them at all. By ...
Motherhood and Creativity in Contemporary Self-Life Writing: Writers and Mothers
1st Edition
By Alice Braun
December 26, 2025
This book aims to study the representation of motherhood in self-life writing by English-speaking authors. It highlights the particular issues women writers are faced with when they try to combine their vocation as artists with their duties towards their children. For those women who claim their ...
The Aesthetic of Elizabeth Bowen’s Novels: Light, Atmosphere, Fragmentation, and Sensation
1st Edition
By Diana Hirst
December 23, 2025
This is the first monograph to evaluate Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘verbal painting’, and the first to acknowledge the influence of the East Kent landscape in her novels. Drawing on the work of critics and on Bowen’s own essays and articles, Hirst introduces Bowen to the reader, outlining the range of her ...
Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing History
1st Edition
Edited
By Hsu-Ming Teo, Paloma Fresno-Calleja
November 27, 2025
This book explores how postmillennial Anglophone women writers use romantic narrativisations of history to explore, revise, repurpose and challenge the past in their novels, exposing the extent to which past societies were damaging to women by instead imagining alternative histories. The novelists ...
Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works
1st Edition
By Brenda Ayres
September 28, 2025
Becoming Wollstonecraft: The Interconnection of Her Life and Works draws from biography to explain her works, and it analyses the works to draw a biographical composite of Wollstonecraft. Becoming Wollstonecraft will be more fully developed than previous works, with added information that has not ...
Heroines of the Postmodern and their Worlds in Contemporary Historical Fiction
1st Edition
Edited
By Alicja Bemben, Michael Joseph
September 28, 2025
This volume focuses on historical fiction written by and for women, approximately, in the last 30 years and across the entire globe. It comprises three parts. Part 1 draws on the theme of the inner life and experiences of the female historical figure, Part 2 is concerned with ...
The Chalet School Books and the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Miles Booy
June 16, 2025
The first full-length study of this beloved children’s series, The Chalet School in the Twentieth Century moves beyond the largely generic analysis within which it has previously been discussed. Published between 1925 and 1970, the series moves from European reconciliation after the Great War, ...