Globalization and Literary Studies

Joel Evans is Assistant Professor in Literature at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Conceptualising the Global in the Wake of the Postmodern: Literature, Culture, Theory (2019).

Introduction Joel Evans; Origins: 1. The ecology of globalization: Environmental catastrophe and the history of literature Walter Cohen; 2. Forms of premodern literary circulation Alexander Beecroft; 3. The end of history: Literature, eschatology and its legacies Joel Evans; 4. Translation: Print culture and internationalism Mary Helen McMurran; 5. Empire: The 19th century global novel in English Elleke Boehmer and Dominic Davies; Developments: 6. Joseph Conrad, the global and the sea Michael Greaney; 7. Mutual equality: Modernism and globalization Paul Stasi; 8. Edward Said: Literature and the World Conor McCarthy; 9. The new McWorld order: Postmodernism and corporate globalization Simon Malpas; 10. Pharmakon, difference and the Arche-digital Claire Colebrook; 11. Time-space compression: The long view Mark Currie; 12. The matter of blackness in World literature Joseph H. Jackson; 13. World-systems, literature and Geoculture Matthew Eatough; 14. World author: On exploding Canons and writing towards more equitable literary futures Rebecca Braun; Applications: 15. The globalization of the enclave Matthew Hart; 16. Geopolitics and the novel: The case of the Mediterranean Noir Caren Irr; 17. Spy fiction in the age of the global Maria Christou; 18. The 21st century global slave narrative trade Laura Murphy; 19. Planetary poetics Christian Moraru; 20. Addressing globalization in the Anthropocene Samuel Solnick; Bibliography; Index.