The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History is a comprehensive and engaging volume, combining essays from historians and literary academics to create a space for productive cross-cultural encounters between the two fields. In addition to the 27 essays, the Companion includes general introductions from two of the leading scholars of history and literature, David Damrosch and Patrick Manning, as well as personal testimonies from artists working in the area, and editorials asking provocative questions.
The volume includes sections on:
- People - with essays looking at World Literature, Intellectual Commerce, Religion, language and war, and Indigenous ethnography
- Networks and methods - examining maps, geography, morality and the crises of world literature
- Transformations - including essays on race, colonialism, and the non-human
Interdisciplinary and groundbreaking,
