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World-Weaving in Nineteenth-Century East Asia: The Case of Hong Kong’s Earliest Chinese Newspaper, Gems from Near and Afar (Chinese Serial)
This chapter attempts to examine the processes involved in implicating a colony into a colonial world system by studying the case of Hong Kong and...
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Introduction: Memory and Fiction in the Twenty-First Century
Memory Made, Hacked, and Outsourced: How the Twenty-First-Century Anglophone Novels Remember and Forget probes the complex relationship between...
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Introduction: Transnational Modernism, Comparative Methodologies, and Theories of Time on the World Literary Stage
Modernism and Poetics of Time: Bergson, Tanpınar, Benjamin, Walser is about modernists from Turkish, French and German literary traditions, who were...
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Afterword: Around the World in 154 Poems, or, How to Do Things with Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Discussions of the international position of Shakespeare typically and understandably focus on the uptake of his works, on Shakespeare’s reception by...
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Still More War
Still More War. Eliza Richards, Alice Fahs, M. L. Rosenthal, J. D. McClatchy, Randall Fuller, and Ed Folsom on Whitman’s war poems. Philip Beidler on...
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War and the Depiction of Gender: ‘Let us hope for the best and assume that he is dead’
Discussions of war experiences that challenge the status quo of gendered roles appeared during the conflict in a variety of humorous plays, poems,...
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A7 Facing the Pasts: War Diaries 1944–1945, Therapy Writing 1995 and the Trip to Belsen
While cleaning up in his parents’ attic, an Englishman, Phil Raines, stumbles upon his father’s war diaries from his military service on the...
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W. H. Auden’s syllabic poetics within the framework of world literature
Whereas W. H. Auden experimented with syllabic verse persistently in the latter half of his career and wrote a large quantity of poems in syllabic...
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Spiritualising the War: Religion, Conflict, and Politics
This chapter focuses on the period from 1914 to 1945 and examines the dynamic interface of religion, culture, and politics. It discusses the...
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Introduction: Plotting the Crisis—World-Literature, World-Culture, and the World-Food-System
This chapter introduces readers to the overall themes and scope of the volume and provides an analysis of the keywords around which its arguments are...
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The King of Electricity from the East: Science, Technology, and the Vision of World Order in Late Qing China
Centering upon the novel, Electrical World, this chapter makes an in-depth exploration and analysis of the imagination of the world order in late...
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A Journal of the Plague Year in the Twenty-First Century
This chapter discusses the increased relevance of Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (JPY) since our own pandemic experience with Covid-19,...
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“The Last Days of the World”: Apocalyptic Visions in the Poetry of W.S. Merwin and William Butler Yeats
The poet T.S. Eliot said our world will end “not with a bang but with a whimper.” Robert Frost debated whether it would end in fire or ice. The...
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The Anthropological Turn in Poetics: International Law and the Rise of World Literature
This argument shows that the idea of world literature emerged about 50 years earlier than hitherto believed in the work of Giambattista Vico and was...
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The Research and Translation of Eastern European Literature in the First 60 Years of the PRC
After the founding of the PRC, the research and translation of foreign literature received much attention and played an important part in the...
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A Federation of the World
This chapter begins by examining contemporary attitudes to the balloon as in some degree shaped by the temper of the times with its explanations in...
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Literary Histories in the Period of Independence: The 1990s and Early Twenty-First Century
The deep political and economic crisis in the Soviet Union led to its collapse and disintegration in 1990 and 1991. The active involvement of the...
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Charlotte Yonge and the World Beyond Europe
Charlotte Yonge’s novels of contemporary life are full of references to the world beyond the British Isles, particularly India, the West Indies,...
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Jean Cocteau’s Around-the-World Performance: Notes on Sensation
In 1936, Jean Cocteau circled the world in eighty days while reporting for the Paris-soir. His source material for this stunt was not Verne’s novel...
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Conclusion: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Memory
This book explores how literature reflects on and responds to some significant changes and challenges of our contemporary highly digitized memory...