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 World Literature and World History
1st Edition
Edited
By May Hawas
August 29, 2022
The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History is a comprehensive and engaging volume, combining essays from historians and literary academics to create a space for productive cross-cultural encounters between the two fields. In addition to the 27 essays, the Companion includes ...
The Routledge Research Companion to Digital Medieval Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Jennifer Boyle, Helen Burgess
August 29, 2022
Working across literature, history, theory and practice, this volume offers insight into the specific digital tools and interfaces, as well as the modalities, theories and forms, central to some of the most exciting new research and critical, scholarly and artistic production in medieval and ...
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food
1st Edition
Edited
By Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Donna Lee Brien
December 13, 2021
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food explores the relationship between food and literature in transnational contexts, serving as both an introduction and a guide to the field in terms of defining characteristics and development. Balancing a wide-reaching view of the long histories and ...
The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Wilfried Raussert
September 30, 2021
An essential overview of this blossoming field, The Routledge Companion to Inter-American Studies is the first collection to draw together the diverse approaches and perspectives on the field, highlighting the importance of Inter-American Studies as it is practiced today. Including contributions ...
The Routledge Companion to International Children's Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By John Stephens
September 30, 2021
Demonstrating the aesthetic, cultural, political and intellectual diversity of children’s literature across the globe, The Routledge Companion to International Children’s Literature is the first volume of its kind to focus on the undervisited regions of the world. With particular focus on Asia, ...
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Matt Seybold, Michelle Chihara
September 30, 2021
The study of literature and economics is by no means a new one, but since the financial crash of 2008, the field has grown considerably with a broad range of both fiction and criticism. The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics is the first authoritative guide tying together the seemingly...
The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks
1st Edition
Edited
By Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
September 30, 2021
Containing forty-eight chapters, The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks is the ultimate guide to picturebooks. It contains a detailed introduction, surveying the history and development of the field and emphasizing the international and cultural diversity of picturebooks. Divided into five key ...
The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel O'Gorman, Robert Eaglestone
September 30, 2021
The study of contemporary fiction is a fascinating yet challenging one. Contemporary fiction has immediate relevance to popular culture, the news, scholarly organizations, and education – where it is found on the syllabus in schools and universities – but it also offers challenges. What is ‘...
The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities
1st Edition
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By Ursula Heise, Jon Christensen, Michelle Niemann
September 30, 2021
The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to the field, offering a broad overview of its founding principles while providing insight into exciting new directions for future scholarship. Articulating the significance of...
The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Dennis Denisoff, Talia Schaffer
June 30, 2021
The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature offers 45 chapters by leading international scholars working with the most dynamic and influential political, cultural, and theoretical issues addressing Victorian literature today. Scholars and students will find this collection both useful and ...
The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing
1st Edition
Edited
By Carl Thompson
September 10, 2019
As many places around the world confront issues of globalization, migration and postcoloniality, travel writing has become a serious genre of study, reflecting some of the greatest concerns of our time. Encompassing forms as diverse as field journals, investigative reports, guidebooks, memoirs, ...
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Knight
August 19, 2019
This unique and comprehensive volume looks at the study of literature and religion from a contemporary, critical perspective. Including discussion of global literature and world religions, this Companion looks at: key moments in the story of religion and literary studies from Matthew Arnold ...