Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English

The Routledge Companion to Politics and Literature in English extends current discussions in the area, looking at cutting-edge developments in the discipline of literary studies as a whole which will appeal to academics and researchers seeking to orient their own interventions into broader contexts.

List of contents

Introduction, PART I Connecting Literature and Politics, 1. Aesthetics and Affect, 2. Forms, 3. Realism and Representation, 4. Symptoms, 5. Reforms and Revolutions, 6. Rights Catalogue, 7. Empires, Decolonization, and the Canon, PART II Constituting the Polis, 8. Citizenship and Enslavement, 9. Humans and Posthumans, 10. Animals, 11. Workers, 12. Debtors, 13. Refugees, 14. Nations and States, PART III Periods and Histories, 15. On or about 1066, 16. On or about 1400, 17. On or about 1616, 18. On or about 1789, 19. On or about 1885, 20. On or about 1914, 21. On or about 1945, 22. On or about 1989, 23. On or about Now, PART IV Media, Genre, Techne, 24. Sound and Print, 25. Photography, Literature, and Time 26. Art, Propaganda, and Truth, 27. Criticism, 28. Digital Platforms, 29. Translation, 30. Comics, PART V Spaces, 31. Archives, 32. Homes, 33. Cities, 34. Streets and Highways, 35. Nature, 36. Oceans, 37. Borders, 38, Planets, 39. Utopia, 40. Classrooms, Index

About the author

Matthew Stratton is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Davis and the author of The Politics of Irony in American Modernism (2014).

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Stratton
• Assisted by: Stratton Matthew (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032430232
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3243023-2
• No. of pages: 466
• Series: Routledge Literature Companions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Literary studies: general, Politics and government, Literary theory