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 Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne Fogarty, Eugene O'Brien
July 20, 2026
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 Biofiction
1st Edition
Edited
By Lucia Boldrini, Laura Cernat, Alexandre Gefen, Michael Lackey
June 22, 2026
The Routledge Companion to Biofiction provides readers with the history, origins, and evolution of this popular genre. Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, this authoritative collection foregrounds analyses of biofiction's core foundations through contemporary debates. ...
The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer
1st Edition
Edited
By Craig E. Bertolet, Susan Nakley
June 22, 2026
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
1st Edition
Edited
By Praseeda Gopinath, Laura Brueck
June 22, 2026
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 Working-Class Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Ben Clarke
June 22, 2026
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 New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
2nd Edition
Edited
By Mark Bould, Andrew M. Butler, Sherryl Vint
May 22, 2026
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 22, 2026
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 Elizabeth Gaskell
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Ludlow, Rebecca Styler
March 18, 2026
The Routledge Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell brings together twenty-five chapters by emerging and established scholars that address Gaskell’s works, networks, contexts, and legacies. Contributors draw on a range of approaches including ecocriticism, queer theory, and studies in emotion. Particular ...
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Neil Murphy, W. Michelle Wang, Cheryl Julia Lee
December 26, 2025
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 Absurdist Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Y. Bennett
December 25, 2025
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 Companion to Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Eron, Nicole N. Aljoe, Suvir Kaul
December 25, 2025
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 Shakespeare and Religion
1st Edition
Edited
By Will Stockton
December 15, 2025
The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion surveys new and longstanding critical conversations about the role of religion in Shakespeare’s plays and poems. It features thirty-four chapters authored by leading scholars on topics from antitheatricality and humanism to race and trans theology...