Now in its fourth edition, Literary Theory: The Basics is an essential guide to the complicated and often confusing worl......more

This definitive edition, the first since 1974, presents all the poetry of Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), including his play......more

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The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple acad......more

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Risk in Children’s Adventure Literature examines the way in which adults discuss the reading and entertainment habits of......more

How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action? Sto......more

Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches offers compelling explorations of the pivotal role that tra......more

Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches offers compelling explorations of the pivotal role that tra......more

Across humanities disciplines, public scholarship brings academics and community members and organizations together in m......more

Comprehensive and comparative, this volume investigates African American street novelists since the Chicago Black Renais......more

This three-volume collection of primary sources examines philosophy and literature in the nineteenth-century Britain. Ac......more

This three-volume collection of primary sources examines philosophy and literature in the nineteenth-century Britain. Ac......more

Byron’s Don Juan is one of the greatest poems in the English language. Byron’s friends initially agreed that ‘it will be......more

Via a hermeneutics focused on Chinese numerology and concentric arrangements, this book offers a novel construal of the ......more

Wolfhart Heinrichs’ Essays and Articles on Arabic Literature: General Issues, Terms is the first of two volumes that sho......more

A History of World Literature is a fully revised and expanded edition of The Routledge Concise History of World Literatu......more

A History of World Literature is a fully revised and expanded edition of The Routledge Concise History of World Literatu......more

The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature is a field-defining collection. The editor and contributors are not only......more

Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare delves deeper than linguistic ornamentation to illuminate the complex dynamics of than......more

Patrick West’s Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story cultivates the potential for literary represent......more

This book explores 50 years of Irish women’s prison writing, 1960s-2010s, connecting the work of women leaders and write......more

This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson’s dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Gree......more

Depersonalization is a distressing symptom in which sufferers feel detached from their own selves and the world. Beginni......more

Shortlisted for the ASLE-UKI Prize for Best Academic Monograph This is the first ecocritical book on the works of D. H. ......more

This book re-reads the last sixty years of Anglophone African women’s writing from a transnational and trans-historical ......more

This volume offers 18 new studies reflecting the latest scholarship on Latin verse, explored both in its original contex......more

This book explores previously unexamined overlaps between the poetic imagination and the medical mind. It shows how appr......more

This book examines the global/local intersections and tensions at play in the literary production from Aotearoa New Zeal......more

Boasian Verse explores the understudied poetic output of three major twentieth-century anthropologists: Edward Sapir, Ru......more

This collection of essays situates George Gascoigne in context as the pre-eminent writer of the early part of Queen Eliz......more

Considering Conrad’s transcultural background, this volume investigates the essential features of his expatriate writing......more

This book brings a new lens to the work of Agatha Christie through a series of close readings which challenge the offici......more

The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature offers an introduction to Polish literature through 33 case studies, ......more

This volume explores Shakespeare’s interest in pity, an emotion that serves as an important catalyst for action within t......more

Historical and Cultural Transformations of Russian Childhood is a collection of multidisciplinary scholarly essays on ch......more

This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia....more

By focusing on a selection of women working across all aspects of the book production process, this book demonstrates th......more

This book views the Dutch Sinologist, Robert van Gulik’s Judge Dee mysteries as a hybrid East-West form of detective fic......more

The monograph focuses on Martí’s posthumous legacy on generations of Cubans everywhere. It examines roughly 120-year his......more

Entangled Fictions: Nonhuman Animals in an Indian World studies the ethical and affective relationships between human an......more

The volume examines the discourse-based critique of coloniality. It brings together an extensive interdisciplinary dialo......more

Delivering fresh insight into the variety and richness of Collins’ themes and arguments, this volume provides a key sour......more

By tracing the process of the importation and appropriation of Irish drama in colonial Korea, this book investigates the......more

This collection argues that Connie Willis’s oeuvre performs science fiction’s task of cognitive estrangement by highligh......more

This book discusses how Dambudzo Marechera rethinks utopia as an ongoing event that contests institutionalized narrative......more

Ernest Hemingway and the Fluidity of Gender presents fresh insight into the gender issues and sexual ambiguities that ha......more

This work approaches, from dual perspective of the optimistic transhumanist philosophy and the more balanced perspective......more

Seeing Shakespeare’s Style offers new ways for readers to perceive Shakespeare and, by extension, literary texts general......more

Enric Valor is one of the most important Valencian authors of the 20th century. This selection of his highly popular ron......more

This book is the first full length study of the postsecular in African literature It explores how postsecular negotiatio......more

Employing the literary imaginings of the postcolonial city in texts set in Naples and Mumbai from the 1990s to the prese......more

The book is the first study of Paul Muldoon’s elegiac poetry. It covers virtually all of his elegies, showing how the el......more

Through a close-reading of a corpus of novels featuring young protagonists in their path toward adulthood, the book show......more

This volume is a study of eight major novels from the postwar period (1945-65) in conjunction with the films made from t......more

The permeability between the private and public spheres in the Renaissance led to an emergence of new forms of masculine......more

Reading lifewriting that runs from Tracey Emin, Faith Ringgold and Judy Chicago to Marie Bashkirtseff, Benvenuto Cellini......more

This companion offers a unique introductory study of linguistics in India. Well supplemented with sample problems and li......more

Asian American War Stories examines contemporary Asian American literature that considers both the short-term and the lo......more

This volume examines the linguistic and stylistic forms of new Indian English fiction to explore the power of language t......more

I argue for the importance of Günter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public int......more

Real Recognition investigates the complexities of literary and social recognition to put a fresh, cross-disciplinary spi......more

This book studies the significance and representation of the ’city’ in the writings of Indian poets, graphic novelists, ......more

This book brings together a model of time and a model of language to generate a new model of narrative, where different ......more

The Words of Winston Churchill ranges over a controversial and remarkable career, is about the power and art of his lang......more

Jane Austen and the Ethics of Description demonstrates that Elizabeth Bennet and her creator are misunderstood, and ofte......more

This book suggests alternative ways of looking at what made a writer, what people gained from writing, and explores the ......more

Using a framework based on J. L. Austin’s understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer’s work on how thin......more

Aimed at a non-specialist readership, this survey of early modern English literature examines how writers represented Is......more

Literature, Education, and Society argues that we must defend our differences from those practical disciplines by making......more

This volume provides an in-depth introduction to Latinx life writing, taking a historical approach to the study of a var......more

This textbook introduces key ideas of religious studies through critical consideration of print and visual media that fa......more

This book discusses the individualistic features of several great writers of Tamil fiction and their contribution to the......more

This book discusses the individualistic features of several great writers of Tamil fiction and their contribution to the......more

The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature introduces world literature readers to the transnational,......more