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Routledge Literature Companions

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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.

57 Series Titles


The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies

The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies

1st Edition

Edited By Melissa E. Sanchez
February 28, 2025

Bringing together twenty-seven established and emerging scholars, The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies discusses the historical development, current state, future directions, and political stakes of queer literary studies as a field of research and pedagogy. This innovative collection ...

The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing

The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing

1st Edition

Edited By Anne Fogarty, Eugene O'Brien
December 20, 2024

This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field of Irish studies to explore the significance of twenty-first-century Irish writing and its flourishing popularity worldwide. Focusing on Irish writing published or performed in the twenty-first century, this volume explores genres, modes ...

The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature

The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature

1st Edition

Edited By Ben Clarke
December 05, 2024

The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature provides an overview of the history, theory, and analysis of working-class literature. Taking a global and intersectional approach, the Companion demonstrates that literature is central to the (re)interpretation of the working class, a process ...

The Routledge Companion to Literatures and Crisis

The Routledge Companion to Literatures and Crisis

1st Edition

Edited By Silvia Pellicer-Ortín, Julia Kuznetski, Chiara Battisti
October 22, 2024

The Routledge Companion to Literatures and Crisis provides deep insight into a complex and multi-layered phenomenon. The third decade of the twenty-first century is being marked by a polycrisis caused by various world crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflicts and climate change leading...

The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature

The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature

1st Edition

Edited By Michael Bryson
October 04, 2024

The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature provides readers with a comprehensive reassessment of the value of humanism in an intellectual landscape. Offering contributions by leading international scholars, this volume seeks to define literature as a core expressive form and an essential ...

The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen

The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen

1st Edition

Edited By Cheryl A. Wilson, Maria H. Frawley
October 04, 2024

First published anonymously, as ‘a lady’, Jane Austen is now among the world’s most famous and highly revered authors. The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen provides wide-ranging coverage of Jane Austen’s works, reception, and legacy, with chapters that draw on the latest literary research and ...

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class

1st Edition

Edited By Gloria McMillan
October 04, 2024

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class offers a comprehensive and fresh assessment of the cultural impact of class in literature, analyzing various innovative, interdisciplinary approaches of textual analysis and intersections of literature, including class subjectivities, mental health, ...

The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer

The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer

1st Edition

Edited By Craig E. Bertolet, Susan Nakley
October 02, 2024

The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical, and textual approaches to the poetry and prose of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) in a global context. This volume is an ideal starting point for beginners, offering contemporary...

The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial and Decolonial Literature

The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial and Decolonial Literature

1st Edition

Edited By Praseeda Gopinath, Laura Brueck
September 30, 2024

Working within a global frame, The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial and Decolonial Literature considers postcolonial and decolonial literary works across multiple genres, languages, and both regional and transnational networks. The Companion extends beyond the entrenched hegemony of the ...

The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine

The Routledge Companion to the British and North American Literary Magazine

1st Edition

Edited By Tim Lanzendörfer
August 26, 2024

Encompassing a broad definition of the topic, this Companion provides a survey of the literary magazine from its earliest days to the contemporary moment. It offers a comprehensive theorization of the literary magazine in the wake of developments in periodical studies in the last decade, bringing ...

The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature

The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature

1st Edition

Edited By Gigi Adair, Rebecca Fasselt, Carly McLaughlin
July 30, 2024

The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature offers a comprehensive survey of an increasingly important field. It demonstrates the influence of the “age of migration” on literature and showcases the role of literature in shaping socio-political debates and creating knowledge about the migratory ...

The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad

The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad

1st Edition

Edited By Debra Romanick Baldwin
July 15, 2024

The Routledge Companion to Joseph Conrad attests to the global significance and enduring importance of Conrad’s works, reception, and legacy. This volume brings together an international roster of scholars who consider his works in relation to biography, narrative, politics, women’s studies, ...

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