Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
About the Book Series
From Joyce to Rushdie, Modernism to Food Writing, Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Literature looks at both the literature and culture of the 20th century. This series is our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections. Considering literature alongside religion, popular culture, race, gender, ecology, travel, class, space, and other subjects, titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics.
Ekphrastic Approaches in Twenty-First Century Poetry: Writing Out
1st Edition
Edited
By Amina Alyal, Oz Hardwick
November 11, 2026
Ekphrastic Approaches in Twenty-First-Century Poetry brings together poets and academics from around the world exploring the evolving practice of ekphrasis in the twenty-first century. With discussion of diverse media, the authors explore ways in which contemporary ekphrasis has evolved, embracing ...
Exploring Crime Fiction: Georges Simenon’s Normandy Coast Mysteries
1st Edition
By Bill Alder
September 25, 2026
Georges Simenon’s commissaire Maigret is often associated with Paris, yet nearly one-third of the 103 Maigret novels and short stories take place outside the capital. Among these, the Normandy coast emerges as a recurring setting, featured not only in several Maigret narratives but also in Simenon’...
Reading Anaïs Nin: Laboratory of the Soul and Body
1st Edition
By Yuko Yaguchi
September 21, 2026
This volume aims to reread, reevaluate, and recreate Anaïs Nin as a writer. In so doing, it draws on the wealth of Japanese critique of Nin, notable for its distinctive tendency to approach both her life and work with a non-judgmental attitude. The study focuses on Nin in the 1930s when she lived ...
Lacanian Non-Rapport in the Novels of John Fowles: Impossible Relationships
1st Edition
By Mahitosh Mandal
August 31, 2026
Lacanian Non-Rapport in the Novels of John Fowles offers the first systematic Lacanian study of the fiction of John Fowles. Although Fowles repeatedly acknowledged his engagement with psychoanalysis, his novels have rarely been examined in relation to Jacques Lacan’s theorisation of sexual ...
Indeterminacy and the Reader’s Engagement in the Italian Novel: Ungraspable
1st Edition
By Laura Lucia Rossi
August 19, 2026
What makes literature ‘literary’? Some theories argue it is a certain degree of ungraspability – openness, vagueness, or ambiguity that invites readers’ active participation in constructing meaning. This book examines five canonical twentieth-century Italian novels (by Tozzi, Landolfi, Vittorini, ...
Feminist Science Fiction’s Sartorial Spaces: Fashioning Future Females
1st Edition
Edited
By Marleen S. Barr
August 17, 2026
Feminist Science Fiction’s Sartorial Spaces: Fashioning Future Females is a collection of critical essays consisting of established critical voices and cutting-edge new generation fresh perspectives across feminist theory, science fiction, and fashion. This book brings science fiction to bear ...
Joseph Conrad and the Intersection of Narrative, Epistemology, and Cosmology
1st Edition
By John G. Peters
August 05, 2026
This volume presents a comprehensive collection of critical essays on Joseph Conrad's works, developed over three decades of scholarly engagement. While addressing diverse aspects of Conrad's oeuvre, these studies are unified by a consistent methodological approach and thematic focus that ...
The Literary Legacy of the Kennedy Assassination: True Crime Tragedy
1st Edition
By Danielle Johannesen
July 22, 2026
The Literary Legacy of the Kennedy Assassination: True Crime Tragedy surveys and analyzes literary representations of the 1963 JFK assassination in Dallas. The book argues for understanding the assassination as a true crime event. As true crime narratives, the Zapruder film and the Warren Report ...
Contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American Poets: Lyrical Solidarity
1st Edition
By John Burns, Toshiaki Komura
July 21, 2026
Contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American Poets examines how contemporary Japanese American and Mexican American poets imagine their past, present, and future through shared aesthetics. Their poems explore topics surrounding immigration, internment, and racialization, as part of ...
George Orwell and Communist Poland: Émigré, Official and Clandestine Receptions
1st Edition
By Krystyna Wieszczek
July 20, 2026
George Orwell and Communist Poland is the first major account of George Orwell’s Polish reception during the Second World War and the Cold War era. It shows how Orwell, the epitome of a censored writer in the Soviet bloc, enjoyed a fulsome reception both outside and within communist Poland. It does...
Polish Camp Literature
1st Edition
By Arkadiusz Morawiec
July 20, 2026
Polish Camp Literature expands the boundaries of Polish camp literature, which has so far been defined too narrowly. This restricted outlook has been determined by politics, ideology, the scarcity of historical knowledge, the lack of literary research, and frequent manipulation concerning terms ...
Warrior-Writers of World War II
1st Edition
By Lee Congdon
July 20, 2026
Warrior-Writers of World War II delivers a thorough study of Americans who saw combat in World War II, survived, and returned home to become famous writers. It considers the works of 16 important authors, among them J. D. Salinger, John Ciardi, and James Jones, exploring these men’s war experiences...