On the Horizon of World Literature: Forms of Modernity in Romantic England and Republican China

by Emily Sun

Book Overview

On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China. These moments were oriented alike by "world literature" as a discursive framework of classifications that connected and re-organized local articulations of literary histories and literary modernities. World literature thus provided-and continues to provide-a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823294781
• ISBN13: 9780823294787
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"