Globalization and literary studies / edited by Joel Evans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Joel, 1987- editor.

Series:

Cambridge critical concepts.

Cambridge critical concepts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and globalization.

Globalization in literature.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 367 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction / Joel Evans

The ecology of globalization : environmental catastrophe and the history of literature / Walter Cohen

Forms of premodern literary circulation / Alexander Beecroft

The end of history : literature, eschatology and its legacies / Joel Evans

Translation : print culture and internationalism / Mary Helen McMurran

Empire : the 19th century global novel in English / Elleke Boehmer and Dominic Davies

Joseph Conrad, the global, and the sea / Michael Greaney

Mutual equality : modernism and globalization / Paul Stasi

Edward Said : literature and the world / Conor McCarthy

The new McWorld order : postmodernism and corporate globalization / Simon Malpas

Pharmakon, difference, and the arche-digital / Claire Colebrook

Time-space compression : the long view / Mark Currie

The matter of blackness in world literature / Joseph H. Jackson

World-systems, literature, and geoculture / Matthew Eatough

World author : on exploding canons and writing towards more equitable literary futures / Rebecca Braun

The globalization of the enclave / Matthew Hart

Geopolitics and the novel : the case of the Mediterranean noir / Caren Irr

Spy fiction in the age of the global / Maria Christou

The 21st century global slave narrative trade / Laura Murphy

Planetary poetics / Christian Moraru

Addressing globalization in the Anthropocene / Samuel Solnick.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Apr 2022).

ISBN:

1-108-89967-6

1-108-89832-7

1-108-88791-0

OCLC:

1313529711