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Globalization and Literary Studies

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Joel Evans, Walter Cohen, Alexander Beecroft, Mary Helen McMurran, Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies, Michael Greaney, Paul Stasi, Conor McCarthy, Simon Malpas, Claire Colebrook, Mark Currie, Joseph H. Jackson, Matthew Eatough, Rebecca Braun, Matthew Hart, Caren Irr, Maria Christou, Laura Murphy, Christian Moraru, Samuel Solnick
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  • Date Published: April 2022
  • availability: In stock
  • format: Hardback
  • isbn: 9781108840927

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  • This book provides a history of the way in which literature not only reflects, but actively shapes processes of globalization and our notions of global phenomena. It takes in a broad sweep of history, from antiquity, through to the era of imperialism and on to the present day. Whilst its primary focus is our own historical conjuncture, it looks at how earlier periods have shaped this by tracking key concepts that are imbricated with the concept of globalization, from translation, to empire, to pandemics and environmental collapse. Drawing on these older themes and concerns, it then traces the germ of the relation between global phenomena and literary studies into the 20th and 21st centuries, exploring key issues and frames of study such as contemporary slavery, the digital, world literature and the Anthropocene.

    • Provides a long history of the way in which literature relates to and shapes globalization
    • Examines globalization from the perspective of key issues in contemporary culture and older cultures
    • Shows how literature itself has actively shaped our notions of the global and globalization
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    'All the essays offer some original insight, and a few craft longer, more sustained readings and arguments that will be extremely useful, particularly for researchers. … Recommended.' K. Tölölyan, Choice

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    • Date Published: April 2022
    • format: Hardback
    • isbn: 9781108840927
    • length: 376 pages
    • dimensions: 237 x 158 x 26 mm
    • weight: 0.67kg
    • availability: In stock
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction Joel Evans
    Origins:
    1. The ecology of globalization: Environmental catastrophe and the history of literature Walter Cohen
    2. Forms of premodern literary circulation Alexander Beecroft
    3. The end of history: Literature, eschatology and its legacies Joel Evans
    4. Translation: Print culture and internationalism Mary Helen McMurran
    5. Empire: The 19th century global novel in English Elleke Boehmer and Dominic Davies
    Developments:
    6. Joseph Conrad, the global and the sea Michael Greaney
    7. Mutual equality: Modernism and globalization Paul Stasi
    8. Edward Said: Literature and the World Conor McCarthy
    9. The new McWorld order: Postmodernism and corporate globalization Simon Malpas
    10. Pharmakon, difference and the Arche-digital Claire Colebrook
    11. Time-space compression: The long view Mark Currie
    12. The matter of blackness in World literature Joseph H. Jackson
    13. World-systems, literature and Geoculture Matthew Eatough
    14. World author: On exploding Canons and writing towards more equitable literary futures Rebecca Braun
    Applications:
    15. The globalization of the enclave Matthew Hart
    16. Geopolitics and the novel: The case of the Mediterranean Noir Caren Irr
    17. Spy fiction in the age of the global Maria Christou
    18. The 21st century global slave narrative trade Laura Murphy
    19. Planetary poetics Christian Moraru
    20. Addressing globalization in the Anthropocene Samuel Solnick
    Bibliography
    Index.

  • Editor

    Joel Evans, University of Nottingham
    Joel Evans is Assistant Professor in Literature at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Conceptualising the Global in the Wake of the Postmodern: Literature, Culture, Theory (2019).

    Contributors

    Joel Evans, Walter Cohen, Alexander Beecroft, Mary Helen McMurran, Elleke Boehmer, Dominic Davies, Michael Greaney, Paul Stasi, Conor McCarthy, Simon Malpas, Claire Colebrook, Mark Currie, Joseph H. Jackson, Matthew Eatough, Rebecca Braun, Matthew Hart, Caren Irr, Maria Christou, Laura Murphy, Christian Moraru, Samuel Solnick

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