Bringing together twenty-seven established and emerging scholars The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies discusses the historical development current state future directions and political stakes of queer literary studies as a field of research and pedagogy. 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 and relationships between human and non-human life and matter. The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies 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.|The Routledge Companion to Queer Literary Studies | Literature