Routledge Literature Companions
About the Book Series
Field-defining volumes in new and exciting areas of literary studies. These volumes are ideal introductions for beginners, or handy volumes for those already working in the field: summarising current scholarship, whilst pushing the boundaries of emerging trends they are must-have collections.
The Routledge Companion to George Orwell
1st Edition
Edited
By Tim Crook, Richard Lance Keeble
July 27, 2026
George Orwell (1903-1950) and ‘Orwellian’ have maintained an enduring and significant influence in the global mass media, countries’ broader cultures and political debates. The Routledge Companion to George Orwell provides comprehensive coverage of Orwell’s works, life, reception and legacy. ...
The Routledge Companion to World-Literature and the Environment
1st Edition
Edited
By Treasa De Loughry, Sharae Deckard, Kerstin Oloff, Claire Westall
July 17, 2026
The Routledge Companion to World-Literature and the Environment takes a broad, global overview of the history, present, and potential futures of environmental and literary studies, demonstrating that world-literature is itself a world-ecological force. Over 36 chapters the collection moves from ...
The Routledge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Ludlow, Rebecca Styler
March 25, 2026
The Routledge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell brings together twenty-five chapters by emerging and established scholars that address Gaskell’s works, networks, contexts, and legacies. Contributors draw on a range of approaches including ecocriticism, queer theory, and studies in emotion. Particular ...
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Neil Murphy, W. Michelle Wang, Cheryl Julia Lee
December 26, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art explores the links between literature and visual art from classical ekphrasis through to contemporary experimental forms. The collection’s engagement with diverse literary and cultural artifacts offers a comprehensive survey of the vibrant ...
The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Y. Bennett
December 25, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature is the first authoritative and definitive edited collection on absurdist literature. As a field-defining volume, the editor and the contributors are world leaders in this ever-exciting genre that includes some of the most important and influential ...
The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Eron, Nicole N. Aljoe, Suvir Kaul
December 25, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English brings together essays that respond to consequential cultural and socio-economic changes that followed the expansion of the British Empire from the British Isles across the Atlantic. Scholars track the cumulative power of the ...
The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion
1st Edition
Edited
By Will Stockton
December 15, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion surveys new and longstanding critical conversations about the role of religion in Shakespeare’s plays and poems. It features thirty-four chapters authored by leading scholars on topics from antitheatricality and humanism to race and trans theology...
The Routledge Companion to Global Women's Writing
1st Edition
Edited
By Ina C. Seethaler, Tripthi Pillai
December 09, 2025
Covering both traditional and emerging issues and methodologies, The Routledge Companion to Global Women’s Writing equips readers with interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to women’s writing in the global context. Movements and experiences continuously shaping the twenty-first century ...
The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales
1st Edition
Edited
By Claudia Schwabe, Christa Jones
November 28, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Fairy Tales provides a comprehensive guide to fairy tales across literatures and cultures. It offers an expansive overview of contemporary themes and issues throughout the intersections of the fields of fairy-tale studies, literary studies, and cultural studies. The first...
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism
1st Edition
Edited
By Rachel Carroll, Fiona Tolan
November 28, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism brings unique literary, critical, and historical perspectives to the relationship between women’s writing and women’s rights in British contexts from the late eighteenth century to the present. Thematically organised around five central ...
The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Chris Fitter
October 31, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Politics challenges and transforms our understanding of the politics of Shakespeare’s plays. Through up-to-date essays by historians, biographers, and Shakespeare critics, this Companion offers, first, a systematic examination of dominant institutions and ...
The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics
1st Edition
Edited
By Julia Fiedorczuk, Mary Newell, Bernard Quetchenbach, Orchid Tierney
October 26, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics offers comprehensive coverage of the vital and growing movement of ecopoetics. This volume begins with a general introduction to the field, followed by six sections: Perspectives: broad overviews engaging fields such as biosemiosis, kinship praxis, and ...