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 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
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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 ...
The Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
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By Brandon Chua, Elizabeth Ho
August 01, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Global Literary Adaptation in the Twenty-First Century offers new perspectives on contemporary literary adaptation as a dynamically global field. Featuring contributions from an international team of established and emerging scholars, this volume considers literary ...
The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers
1st Edition
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By Ann R. Hawkins, Catherine S. Blackwell, E. Leigh Bonds
July 31, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers overviews critical reception for Romantic women writers from their earliest periodical reviews through the most current scholarship and directs users to avenues of future research. It is divided into two parts.The first section offers topical ...
The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture
1st Edition
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By Claudia Nelson, Elisabeth Wesseling, Andrea Mei-Ying Wu
July 30, 2025
Focusing on significant and cutting-edge preoccupations within children’s literature scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature and Culture presents a comprehensive overview of print, digital, and electronic texts for children aged zero to thirteen as forms of world literature ...
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Cognitive Studies
1st Edition
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By Jan Alber, Ralf Schneider
July 30, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Cognitive Studies offers a comprehensive survey of cognitive approaches to literature, introducing the influential theoretical tools and latest developments in this vigorously multi-disciplinary field, with leading scholars illuminating the cognitive, ...
The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature
1st Edition
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By Raluca Radulescu, Sif Rikhardsdottir
July 30, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature offers a new, inclusive, and comprehensive context to the study of medieval literature written in the English language from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Middle Ages. Utilising a Trans-European context, this volume includes essays from ...
The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory
1st Edition
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By Paul Dawson, Maria Mäkelä
July 30, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory brings together top scholars in the field to explore the significance of narrative to pressing social, cultural, and theoretical issues. How does narrative both inform and limit the way we think today? From conspiracy theories and social media movements ...
The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror
1st Edition
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By Robert Edgar, Wayne Johnson
June 27, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror offers a comprehensive guide to this popular genre. It explores its origins, canonical texts and thinkers, the crucial underlying themes of nostalgia and hauntology, and identifies new trends in the field. Divided into five parts, the first focuses on the ...
The Routledge Companion to Literary Media
1st Edition
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By Astrid Ensslin, Julia Round, Bronwen Thomas
June 27, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Literary Media examines the fast-moving present and future of a media ecosystem in which the literary continues to play a vital role. The term ‘literary media’ challenges the tendency to hold the two terms distinct and broadens accepted usage of the literary to include ...
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice
1st Edition
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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 ...