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First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Canon Vs. Culture explores the consequences of one of the main educational shifts of the last quarter century-- the changes from academic inquiry conducted through a selected list of accepted authorities to an investigation of the cultural operations of an entire society.

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

New Romanticism is an overview of the romantic trend taken up by American novelists in the Twentieth century. Includes three classic essays by Saul Bellow, Thomas Pynchon and Toni Morrison.

Collects seven original and seven reprinted essays which explore African American writers' varied literary relationships, especially those with authors from non-black cultures. Includes essays focusing on the 19th century, African-American and Irish literature, the early to mid-20th century, and th

These essays deal with the scholarly study of the genesis, transmission, and editorial reconstitution of texts by exploring the connections between textual instability and textual theory, interpretation, and pedagogy.

One classic and 17 original essays explore cultural practices and gender issues during the early 20th century when sex roles were undergoing a radical transformation. They demonstrate women's contribution to modernist culture as it was expressed in literature, painting, dance, architecture, social

Sixteen scholars critically read Victorian authors who have been traditionally "underread," arguing to accord these writers and their works deeper attention. Some of the writers are familiar (Anne Brontd, Wilkie Collins, Bram Stoker) and some virtually unknown (Geraldine Jewsbury, Charles Reade, Ma

British Marxist Criticism provides selective but extensive annotated bibliographies, introductory essays, and important pieces of work from eight British critics who sought to explain literary production according to the principles of Marxism.

A collection of 14 original essays examining how members of US ethnic minorities approach the short story form. Among the issues addressed are whether different groups develop culture-related themes, the extent to which oral tradition shapes written stories, why the community looms so large in them

This work explores the problems of reading and writing about women and their texts in an increasingly global context of production and reception. These essays examine the reception, both academic and popular, of women writers from countries including India, Bangladesh, Egypt, and Algeria.

Canon Vs. Culture explores the consequences of one of the main educational shifts of the last quarter century.

This book includes essays on writers from the 1840s to the 1890s. The contributors explore important thematic concerns such as the relations between private and public realms, gender and social class and sexuality in the marketplace.

This collection of essays explores the intertwining social condition of ethnicity and gender as they are represented in short stories by contemporary American women.

Three essays by Steven Mailloux, an influential literary critic, theorist, and advocate of cultural studies, are followed by ten essays discussing his ideas in terms of the shift in English departments from textual to cultural studies, especially as it relates to American literature. Mailloux in tu

This study addresses the ways race has both helped and hindered Americans in determining national identity. It considers race and American nationalism from a range of historical and disciplinary points, beginning with the aftermath of the Civil War and unfolding chronologically to the present.

This collection of original and classic essays examines the contributions that female authors have made to the short story.

This book takes a transnational feminist approach to the literature of three contemporary women authors, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker and South African writer Zoe Wicomb.