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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British Poets and Secret Societies (Routledge Revivals)
1st Edition
By Marie Mulvey-Roberts
December 07, 2015
A surprisingly large number of English poets have either belonged to a secret society, or been strongly influenced by its tenets. One of the best known examples is Christopher Smart’s membership of the Freemasons, and the resulting influence of Masonic doctrines on A Song to David. However, many ...
Cover Stories (Routledge Revivals): Narrative and Ideology in the British Spy Thriller
1st Edition
By Pierre R. Crosson
December 07, 2015
First published in 1987, this title tracks the spy thriller from John Buchanan to Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carré, and shows how these tales of spies, moles, and the secret service tell a history of modern society, translating the political and cultural transformations of the twentieth ...
Fantasy and Mimesis (Routledge Revivals): Responses to Reality in Western Literature
1st Edition
By Kathryn Hume
December 07, 2015
Since Plato and Aristotle’s declaration of the essence of literature as imitation, western narrative has been traditionally discussed in mimetic terms. Marginalized fantasy- the deliberate from reality – has become the hidden face of fiction, identified by most critics as a minor genre. First ...
Images of Crisis (Routledge Revivals): Literary Iconology, 1750 to the Present
1st Edition
By George P. Landow
December 07, 2015
First published in 1982, Images of Crisis explores the premise that literature and art exploit various images to present culturally prevalent ideas, and thus create their own form of iconology. George Landow shows how the tumultuous history of the past two hundred years has resulted in a plethora ...
Joseph Conrad and the Ethics of Darwinism (Routledge Revivals): The Challenges of Science
1st Edition
By Allan Hunter
December 07, 2015
First published in 1983, this book explores a number of avenues of critical thinking about Joseph Conrad, showing him as an author deeply concerned with humankind’s ethical motivation and its relationship with the ideas of evolution current in his day. Allan Hunter establishes Conrad’s detailed ...
Private and Fictional Words (Routledge Revivals): Canadian Women Novelists of the 1970s and 1980s
1st Edition
By Coral Ann Howells
December 07, 2015
First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women’s novelists of the 1970s and 1980s. At its centre lies the question of how the search for a distinctive cultural identity relates to the need for a national cultural identity in the post-colonial era. ...
Realism and Power (Routledge Revivals): Postmodern British Fiction
1st Edition
By Alison Lee
December 07, 2015
First published in 1990, this study focuses on the subversive techniques of British postmodernist fiction and examines its challenge to Realist traditions, and the liberal humanist ideology behind it. Exploring the concept of literary postmodernism, and the strategies and philosophies to which it ...
Subject to Others (Routledge Revivals): British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834
1st Edition
By Moira Ferguson
December 07, 2015
First published in 1992, Subject to Others considers the intersection between late seventeenth- to early nineteenth-century British female writers and the colonial debate surrounding slavery and abolition. Beginning with an overview that sets the discussion in context, Moira Ferguson then ...
Terrors of Uncertainty (Routledge Revivals): The Cultural Contexts of Horror Fiction
1st Edition
By Joseph Grixti
December 07, 2015
From Frankenstein and Dracula to Psycho and The Chainsaw Massacre, horror fiction has provided our culture with some of its most enduring themes and narratives. Considering horror fiction both as a genre and as a social phenomenon, Joseph Grixti provides a theoretical and historical framework for ...
The Critical Twilight (Routledge Revivals): Explorations in the Idoelogy of Anglo-American Literary Theory from Eliot to McLuhan
1st Edition
By John Fekete
December 07, 2015
First published in 1977, this book was the first to map extensively the ideological typography of the Anglo-American tradition of literary theory. It interrogates, comprehensively and in detail, the assumptions and categorical development within critical ideas from I. A. Richards and T. S. Eliot, ...
The Manipulation of Literature (Routledge Revivals): Studies in Literary Translation
1st Edition
Edited
By Theo Hermans
December 07, 2015
First published in 1985, the essays in this edited collection offer a representative sample of the descriptive and systematic approach to the study of literary translation. The book is a reflection of the theoretical thinking and practical research carried out by an international group of scholars ...
The Observing Self (Routledge Revivals): Rediscovering the Essay
1st Edition
By Graham Good
December 07, 2015
First published in 1988, this title is a study of the essay as a literary genre, not just in terms of its general intellectual and literary history, but as an exploration of the creative possibilities of the form. The rise of the essay is discussed in relation to the rise of the novel and the ...