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 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 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 ...
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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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 ...