The Routledge Critical and Cultural Theory Reader

London and New York: Routledge, 2008. Soft Cover. Good. 6x1x9. Highlighting on a couple dozen pages, spine lightly creased, minor wear to corners. 2008 Soft Cover. xii, 452 pp. The Routledge Critical and Cultural Theory Reader brings together 29 key pieces from the last century and a half that have shaped the field. Topics include: subjectivity, language, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, the body, the human, class, culture, everyday life, literature, psychoanalysis, technology, power, and visuality. The choice of texts, together with the editors' introduction and glossary, will allow newcomers to begin from first principles, while the use of unabridged readings will also make the volume suitable for those undertaking more specialized work. Material is arranged chronologically, but the editors have suggested thematic pathways through the selections.