The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies

<p>Bringing together twenty-seven established and emerging scholars, <i>The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies </i>discusses the historical development, current state, future directions, and political stakes of queer literary studies as a field of research and pedagogy.</p><p>This innovative collection offers new frameworks for studying and teaching literature, art, film, music, theory, and philosophy from the medieval period to the twenty-first century. The contributors consider the structural implication of gender and sexuality with race, class, gender, ability, colonialism, capital, empire, ability, and relationships between human and non-human life and matter.</p><i><p>The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies </p></i><P>is a vital resource for scholars, students, and teachers working across a range of historical periods, critical methods, and objects of study. It offers a multitude of approaches to queer literary studies, revealing the field to be as vital, and as contested, as ever.</P>