Routledge Revivals
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Drawing from over 100 years of innovative, cutting-edge publishing, Routledge Revivals is an exciting programme whereby key titles from the distinguished and extensive backlist of the many acclaimed imprints associated with Routledge will be re-issued.
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Routledge Revivals spans the whole of the Humanities and Social Sciences, and includes works by some of the world’s greatest thinkers including Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Simone Weil, Martin Buber, Karl Jaspers and Max Beloff.
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Where the Meanings Are (Routledge Revivals): Feminism and Cultural Spaces
1st Edition
By Catharine R. Stimpson
February 04, 2016
First published in 1990, this collection of essays in literary criticism, feminist theory and race relations was named one of the top twenty-five books of 1988 by the Voice Literary Supplement. The title covers such subjects as black literature; the reconstruction of culture, changing arts, letters...
Classical Genres and English Poetry (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By William H. Race
January 07, 2016
First published in 1988, this study explains how certain genres created by Classical poets were adapted and sometimes transformed by the poets of the modern world, beginning with the Tudor poets’ rediscovery of the Classical heritage. Most of the long-lived poetic genres are discussed, from ...
Dickens and the Grotesque (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Michael Hollington
January 07, 2016
First published in 1984, this title examines the development of a special rhetoric in Dickens’ work, which, by using grotesque effects, challenged the complacency of his middle-class Victorian readers. The study begins by exploring definitions of the grotesque and moves on to look at three key ...
Milton (Routledge Revivals): A Study in Ideology and Form
1st Edition
By Christopher Kendrick
January 07, 2016
First published in 1986, this title critiques the canonical view of Milton as an isolated Great Man, and reassesses the impact of the Puritan Revolution on two of his major works: the Areopagitica and Paradise Lost. The study focuses on the emergence of a discreet ethical framework of thought ...
Narrative Exchanges (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Ian Reid
January 07, 2016
First published in 1992, Narrative Exchanges shows how a general model of communicative exchanges can be refined to deal with the complexities of narrative fiction. Going beyond the two-way structure of reciprocity, it gives particular attention to the processes of framing, substitution and ...
The Gospel of Wealth in the American Novel (Routledge Revivals): The Rhetoric of Dreiser and Some of His Contemporaries
1st Edition
By Arun Mukherjee
January 07, 2016
Business and the businessman have had a fundamental place in American society since the inception of the nation. This tenet, the ‘gospel of wealth’, is a central concern in the novels of Theodore Dreiser and his contemporaries. First published in 1987, this study aims to set this group of writers ...
The Modern Stage and Other Worlds (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Austin E. Quigley
January 07, 2016
Modern plays are strikingly diverse and, as a result, any attempt to locate an underlying unity between them encounters difficulties: to focus on what they have in common is often to overlook what is of primary importance in particular plays; to focus on their differences is to note the novelty of ...
The Supreme Command, 1914-1918 (Routledge Revivals): Volume I
1st Edition
By Lord Hankey
January 07, 2016
Lord Hankey (1877-1963) was a British civil servant and the first Cabinet Secretary, a top aide to Prime Minister David Lloyd George and the War Cabinet that directed Britain in World War One. Mostly derived from the author’s diaries, which began in March 1915, this study describes how Lord Hankey ...
The Supreme Command, 1914-1918 (Routledge Revivals): Volume II
1st Edition
By Lord Hankey
January 07, 2016
Lord Hankey (1877-1963) was a British civil servant and the first Cabinet Secretary, a top aide to Prime Minister David Lloyd George and the War Cabinet that directed Britain in World War One. Mostly derived from the author’s diaries, which began in March 1915, this study describes how Lord Hankey ...
V. S. Naipaul (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Peter Hughes
January 07, 2016
First published in 1988, Peter Hughes explores the work of V. S. Naipaul, and the interplay of fictional and non-fictional patters in what is his obsessive vision of human life. Hughes shows how Naipaul’s narratives pair off histories and novels, travel-writing and psycho-biography, reinforcing one...
Women and Print Culture (Routledge Revivals): The Construction of Femininity in the Early Periodical
1st Edition
By Kathryn Shevelow
January 07, 2016
With the growth of popular literary forms, particularly the periodical, during the eighteenth century, women began to assume an unprecedented place in print culture as readers and writers. Yet at the same time the very textual practices of that culture inscribed women within an increasingly ...
Wordsworth's Historical Imagination (Routledge Revivals): The Poetry of Displacement
1st Edition
By David Simpson
January 07, 2016
Traditionally, Wordsworth’s greatness is founded on his identity as the poet of nature and solitude. The Wordsworthian imagination is seen as an essentially private faculty, its very existence premised on the absence of other people. In this title, first published in 1987, David Simpson challenges ...