Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Reading Order

by Lidia Yuknavitch

107 books

Reading Order

1

Making Homes in the West/Indies

2001

2

Allegories of Violence

2001

3

Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor

2001

4

Out of Touch

2002

5

The Figure of Consciousness

2002

6

Making of the Victorian Novelist

2002

7

Eugenic Fantasies

2002

8

The Space and Place of Modernism

2002

9

The Self Wired

2002

10

The Merchant of Modernism

2002

11

Intimate and Authentic Economies

2003

12

Balancing the Books

2003

13

Figures of Finance Capitalism

2003

14

Beyond the Sound Barrier

2003

15

Satire and the Postcolonial Novel

2003

16

The Other Orpheus

2003

17

Feminist Utopian Novels of the 1970s

2003

18

Love American Style

2003

19

Dead Letters to the New World

2003

20

The Other Empire

2003

21

The Dangerous Potential of Reading

2003

22

Revised Lives

2003

23

Through the Negative

2003

24

Labor Pains

2003

25

Fictional Feminism

2003

26

Reading the Text That Isn't There

2004

27

The Architecture of Address

2004

28

Ethical Diversions

2004

29

The Real Negro

2004

30

Narrative in the Professional Age

2004

31

Misery's Mathematics

2004

32

Protest and the Body in Melville, Dos Passos, and Hurston

2004

33

Writing the City

2004

34

The Colonizer Abroad

2004

35

The Metanarrative of Suspicion in Late Twentieth-Century America

2004

36

Racial Blasphemies

2004

37

Postmodern Counternarratives

2004

38

Surviving the Crossing

2004

39

Authoring the Self

2004

40

The Slave in the Swamp

2004

41

The End of the Mind

2004

42

The Romantic Sublime and Middle-Class Subjectivity in the Victorian Novel

2005

43

Poetry and Repetition

2005

44

The Fiction of Nationality in an Era of Transnationalism

2005

45

Twentieth-Century Americanism

2005

46

The Ethics of Exile

2005

47

Gendered Pathologies

2005

48

Outsider Citizens

2005

49

Cosmopolitan Fictions

2005

50

Narrative Desire and Historical Reparations

2005

51

The Fatal News

2005

52

Foreign Bodies

2005

53

The Subject of Race in American Science Fiction

2006

54

Overheard Voices

2006

55

Unsettled Narratives

2006

56

Between the Angle and the Curve

2006

57

Strange Cases

2006

58

The Spell Cast by Remains

2006

59

Contested Masculinities

2006

60

Museum Mediations

2006

61

Here and Now

2006

62

Different Dispatches

2006

63

Like Parchment in the Fire

2006

64

Revisiting Vietnam

2006

65

Equity in English Renaissance Literature

2006

66

You Factory Folks Who Sing This Song Will Surely Understand

2006

67

Idioms of Self Interest

2006

68

Keeping up Her Geography

2006

69

Rhizosphere

2006

70

Parsing the City

2006

71

The Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s

2007

72

Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland

2007

73

Machine and Metaphor

2007

74

Zionism and Revolution in European-Jewish Literature

2007

75

Negotiating the Modern

2007

76

Asian Diaspora Poetry in North America

2007

77

Conspiracy, Revolution, and Terrorism from Victorian Fiction to the Modern Novel

2007

78

The Genesis of the Chicago Renaissance

2007

79

Race, Immigration, and American Identity in the Fiction of Salman Rushdie, Ralph Ellison, and William Faulkner

2007

80

William Morris and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings

2007

81

Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit

2007

82

Spaces of the Sacred and Profane

2007

83

Literature and Development in North Africa

2008

84

Victorian Narrative Technologies in the Middle East

2008

85

The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama

2008

86

The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel

2008

87

Ruined by Design

2008

88

Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture

2008

89

The Politics of Identity in Irish Drama

2009

90

Modern American Counter Writing

2009

91

Narrative Mutations

2011

92

Ethics and Politics in Modern American Poetry

2012

93

The Rise of Corporate Publishing and Its Effects on Authorship in Early Twentieth Century America

2012

94

Modernism and the Marketplace

2012

95

The Life Writing of Otherness

2012

96

Visionary Dreariness

2013

97

Regenerating the Novel

2013

98

The Imperial Quest and Modern Memory from Conrad to Greene

2013

99

Vital Contact

2013

100

Nihilism and the Sublime Postmodern

2013

101

City/Stage/Globe

2013

102

Recycling Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Art and Literature

2021

103

Lu Xun’s Affirmative Biopolitics

2021

104

Queer Women in Modern Spanish Literature

2021

105

Telling Details

2022

106

Trauma, Posttraumatic Growth, and World Literature

2022

107

Erich Auerbach and the Secular World

2022