In recent years, many disciplines within the humanities have become increasingly concerned with non-human actors and entities. The environment, animals, machines, objects, weather, and other non-human beings and things have taken center stage to challenge assumptions about what we have traditionally called “the human.” Informed by theoretical approaches like posthumanism, the new materialisms, (including Actor Network Theory, Object-Oriented Ontology, and similar approaches) ecocriticism, and critical animal studies, such scholarship has until now had no separate and identifiable collective home at an academic press. This series will provide that home, publishing work that shares a concern with the non-human in literary and cultural studies. The series invites monographs and essay collections that focus primarily on literary texts, but from an interdisciplinary, theoretically-informed perspective; it will include work that crosses geographical and period boundaries.
If you are interested in finding out more about Routledge’s Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture please contact the series editor or Routledge editor below:
- For information about content, contact the Series Editor: Karen Raber, Professor of English at the University of Mississippi
- For publishing queries, contact: Elizabeth Levine, Commissioning Editor, Routledge Research