May Hawas (editor) - The Routledge Companion to World Literature and World History

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 encounters between the two fields. In addition to the 27 essays, the Companion includes general introductions from two of the leading scholars of world literature and world history, 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 historiography, intellectual commerce, religion, language and war, indigenous ethnography, and religious and secular poetics
• Networks and methods examining maps, geography, big history, literary criticism, political genealogies, morality and the crises of world literature
• Transformations including essays on race, colonialism, and the non-human

Interdisciplinary and groundbreaking, this volume brings to light various ways in which scholars of literature and history analyse, assimilate or reveal the intellectual heritage of the past, at the same moment as they try consciously to deal with an unending amount of new information and an awareness of global connections and discrepancies. Including work from leading academics in the field, as well as newer voices, the Companion is ideal for students and scholars alike.

May Hawas is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

Also available in this series:

THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO INTER-AMERICAN STUDIES

THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS LITERATURE

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THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO LITERATURE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO LITERATURE AND RELIGION

THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO LITERATURE AND SCIENCE
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THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE

THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO PICTUREBOOKS

THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO SCIENCE FICTION
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THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO TRAVEL WRITING

THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO WORLD LITERATURE Also available in paperback

For further information on this series visit: www.routledge.com/literature/series/RC4444

Edited by May Hawas

First published 2018
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ISBN: 978-1-138-92165-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-68627-1 (ebk)

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