Tony Burns 
Political Theory, Science Fiction, and Utopian Literature 
Ursula K. Le Guin and The Dispossessed

The South Asian region has been especially prone to mass displacement and relocations owing to its varied geographical settings as well as socio-political factors. This book examines the women s …

This book brings a new lens to the work of Agatha Christie through a series of close readings which challenge the official solutions by Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. This book’s approach …

Austerity and Irish Women s Writing and Culture, 1980 2020 focuses on the under-represented relationship between austerity and Irish women s writing across the last four decades. Taking a wide focus …

Adam of Bremen s Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum is one of the most important accounts documenting the history, geography and ethnology of Northern and Central-Eastern Europe in the period …

This book explores the so-called "British Invasion" of DC Comics Vertigo imprint, which played an important role in redefining the mainstream comics industry in the US during the early …

Over the past decades, the growing interest in the study of literature of the city has led to the development of literary urban studies as a discipline in its own right. The Routledge Companion to …

This book examines the global/local intersections and tensions at play in the literary production from Aotearoa New Zealand through its engagement in the global marketplace. Combining postcolonial …

Disease, pestilence and contagion have been an integral component of human lives and stories. This book explores the articulations and representations of the vulnerability of life or the trauma of …

This cutting-edge research companion addresses our current understanding of literary journalism s global scope and evolution, offering an immersive study of how different nations have experimented …

This volume examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in Spain and France as examples of literature as a form of skeptical inquiry: Cervantes s Don Quijote, Zayas s Desenganos …