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 Literature and Social Justice
1st Edition
Edited
By Masood Ashraf Raja, Nick T. C. Lu
June 27, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice is a comprehensive and multi- purpose collection on this important topic. With contributors working in various fields, the Companion provides in- depth analyses of both the cumulative and emergent issues, obstacles, praxes, propositions, and ...
The Routledge Companion to Literature and the Global South
1st Edition
Edited
By Alfred J. López, Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo
June 27, 2025
The Routledge Companion Literature and the Global South offers a comprehensive overview of the field at a key moment in its development—a snapshot of where Global South literary studies stands in its second decade. As the aftermath of a string of global cataclysms since the rise of neoliberal ...
The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English
1st Edition
Edited
By Matthew Stratton
May 27, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English provides an interdisciplinary overview of the vibrant connections between literature, politics, and the political. Featuring contributions from 44 scholars across a variety of disciplines, the collection is divided into five parts: ...
The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Heekyoung Cho
May 26, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature consists of 35 chapters written by leaders in the field, who explore significant topics and who have pioneered innovative approaches. The collection highlights the most dynamic current scholarship on Korean literature, presenting rigorous literary ...
The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South
1st Edition
Edited
By Katharine A. Burnett, Todd Hagstette, Monica Carol Miller
May 26, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South provides a collection of vibrant and multidisciplinary essays by scholars from a wide range of backgrounds working in the field of U.S. southern literary studies. With topics ranging from American studies, African American studies, ...
The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney
1st Edition
Edited
By Angelos Bollas
May 25, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney offers an in-depth examination of one of the most influential contemporary Irish authors, Sally Rooney, offering valuable insights into her writing and its socio-cultural significance. This comprehensive collection brings together contributions from ...
The Routledge Companion to Global Comparative Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Zhang Longxi, Omid Azadibougar
April 28, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Global Comparative Literature is a collection of papers by influential scholars who are engaged in comparative literary studies and addresses a central and highly important question about the discipline: if Eurocentrism has been integral to comparative literature, and if ...
The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Lieven Ameel
April 14, 2025
Over the past decades, the growing interest in the study of literature of the city has led to the development of literary urban studies as a discipline in its own right. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies provides a methodical overview of the fundamentals of this developing ...
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion
1st Edition
Edited
By Patrick Colm Hogan, Bradley J. Irish, Lalita Pandit Hogan
April 14, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion shows how the "affective turn" in the humanities applies to literary studies. Deftly combining the scientific elements with the literary, the book provides a theoretical and topical introduction to reading literature and emotion. Looking at a ...
The Routledge Companion to World Literature
2nd Edition
Edited
By Theo D'haen, David Damrosch, Djelal Kadir
April 14, 2025
This fully updated new edition of The Routledge Companion to World Literature contains ten brand new chapters on topics such as premodern world literature, migration studies, world history, artificial intelligence, global Englishes, remediation, crime fiction, Lusophone literature, Middle Eastern ...
The Routledge Companion to Biofiction
1st Edition
Edited
By Lucia Boldrini, Laura Cernat, Alexandre Gefen, Michael Lackey
March 31, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Biofiction provides readers with the history, origins, and evolution of this popular genre. Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, this authoritative collection foregrounds analyses of biofiction's core foundations through contemporary debates. ...
The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation
1st Edition
Edited
By Sheera Talpaz, Anuradha Dingwaney Needham
March 30, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Cultural Text and the Nation brings together over 30 articles by leading and emerging scholars from around the world who engage fresh critical lenses, from affect studies to the medical humanities, and re-energize established frameworks to examine the interplay between ...