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 New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
2nd Edition
Edited
By Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, Sherryl Vint
June 13, 2024
The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple academic fields. It offers a new conceptualisation of the field today, marking the significant changes that have taken place in sf studies over the past 15 years. Building on the ...
The Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Fisher-Livne, Michelle May-Curry
May 31, 2024
Across humanities disciplines, public scholarship brings academics and community members and organizations together in mutually-beneficial partnership for research, teaching, and programming. While the field of publicly engaged humanities scholarship has been growing for some time, there are few ...
The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Y. Bennett
May 29, 2024
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 World Companion to Polish Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Tomasz Bilczewski, Stanley Bill, Magdalena Popiel
May 27, 2024
The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature offers an introduction to Polish literature through thirty-three case studies, covering works from the Middle Ages up to the present day. Each chapter draws on a text or body of work, examining its historical context, as well as its international ...
The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Eron, Nicole N. Aljoe, Suvir Kaul
March 25, 2024
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 Literature and Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Neil Murphy, W. Michelle Wang, Cheryl Julia Lee
March 11, 2024
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 Australian Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Jessica Gildersleeve
January 29, 2024
In recent years, Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and internationally. The increasing prominence of work by writers like Christos Tsiolkas, heightened through television and film adaptation, as well as the award of major international prizes to writers ...
The Routledge Companion to Yan Lianke
1st Edition
Edited
By Riccardo Moratto, Howard Yuen Fung Choy
January 29, 2024
Yan Lianke is one of the most important, prolific, and controversial writers in contemporary China. At the forefront of the “mythorealist” Chinese avant-garde and using absurdist humor and grotesque satire, Yan’s works have caught much critical attention not only in the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong,...
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Feminism
1st Edition
Edited
By Rachel Carroll, Fiona Tolan
December 01, 2023
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 Ecopoetics
1st Edition
Edited
By Julia Fiedorczuk, Mary Newell, Bernard Quetchenbach, Orchid Tierney
September 29, 2023
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 Death and Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By W. Michelle Wang, Daniel Jernigan, Neil Murphy
May 31, 2023
The Routledge Companion to Death and Literature seeks to understand the ways in which literature has engaged deeply with the ever-evolving relationship humanity has with its ultimate demise. It is the most comprehensive collection in this growing field of study and includes essays by Brian McHale, ...
The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Deborah L. Madsen
May 31, 2023
The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature engages the multiple scenes of tension — historical, political, cultural, and aesthetic — that constitutes a problematic legacy in terms of community identity, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, language, and sovereignty in the study of Native ...