With social and political issues providing the foreground of literary studies over the past several years, William Dean Howells has re-emerged as a major author

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A highly interdisciplinary work, The Black Skyscraper reclaims the influence of race on modern architectural design as well as the less-well-understood effects

Reading Chuck Palahniuk examines how the author pushes through a variety of boundaries to shape fiction and to question American identity in powerful and import

A collection of analyses focusing on popular culture as a profound discursive site of anxiety and discussion about 9/11 and demystifies the day's events.