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 Renaissance Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Catherine Bates
October 08, 2026
The study of early modern literature has expanded exponentially in recent years, opening exciting new directions and ever-evolving areas of interest, including religion, economics, animals, the environment, gender, sexuality, post-colonialism, race, and material history, to name only a few. The ...
The Routledge Companion to James Baldwin
1st Edition
Edited
By Yasmin Y. DeGout, Anna Pochmara, Tyechia L. Thompson
September 10, 2026
The Routledge Companion to James Baldwin offers a multidimensional portrait of James Baldwin’s writing, public life, and intellectual influence. Bringing together leading specialists and emerging scholars, the volume charts the development of Baldwin scholarship and demonstrates how his insights ...
The Routledge Companion to George Orwell
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Lance Keeble, Tim Crook
August 14, 2026
George Orwell (1903-1950) and ‘Orwellian’ have maintained an enduring and significant influence in the global mass media, countries’ broader cultures and political debates. The Routledge Companion to George Orwell provides comprehensive coverage of Orwell’s works, life, reception and legacy. ...
The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Indian Fiction in English
1st Edition
Edited
By E. Dawson Varughese
August 11, 2026
The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Indian Fiction in English explores key trends in Indian fiction in English from the millennium onwards, offering a comprehensive, critical survey of the field. Indian Fiction in English has undergone significant transformations since the millennium. ...
The Routledge Companion to World-Literature and the Environment
1st Edition
Edited
By Treasa De Loughry, Sharae Deckard, Kerstin Oloff, Claire Westall
July 17, 2026
The Routledge Companion to World-Literature and the Environment takes a broad, global overview of the history, present, and potential futures of environmental and literary studies, demonstrating that world-literature is itself a world-ecological force. Over 36 chapters the collection moves from ...
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 New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction
2nd Edition
Edited
By Mark Bould, Andrew Butler, Sherryl Vint
May 21, 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 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...