Focused on the relation between processes of globalization and literary genres, this volume intervenes in the prevalent notions of globalization, literary history, genre, and the novel. Using both close reading and world history, both literary criticism and political theory, the…
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Globalizing Literary Genres -- PART I From Here to Early Modernity -- 1 A Globe of Sinful Continents: Shakespeare Thinks the World -- 2 The Art of Deception: L'Isle des H…