A Companion To Comparative Literature (blackwell Companions To Literature And Culture)

A Companion to Comparative Literature Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture This series offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post-canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field. Published Recently 57. A Companion to Jane Austen 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. A Companion to the Arthurian Literature A Companion to the Modern American Novel 1900–1950 A Companion to the Global Renaissance A Companion to Thomas Hardy A Companion to T. S. Eliot A Companion to Samuel Beckett A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction A Companion to Tudor Literature A Companion to Crime Fiction A Companion to Medieval Poetry A New Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture A Companion to the American Short Story A Companion to American Literature and Culture A Companion to African American Literature A Companion to Irish Literature A Companion to Romantic Poetry A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West A Companion to Sensation Fiction A Companion to Comparative Literature Edited by Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite Edited by Helen Fulton Edited by John T. Matthews Edited by Jyotsna G. Singh Edited by Keith Wilson Edited by David E. Chinitz Edited by S. E. Gontarski Edited by David Seed Edited by Kent Cartwright Edited by Charles Rzepka and Lee Horsley Edited by Corinne Saunders Edited by Michael Hattaway Edited by Alfred Bendixen and James Nagel Edited by Paul Lauter Edited by Gene Jarrett Edited by Julia M. Wright Edited by Charles Mahoney Edited by Nicolas S. Witschi Edited by Pamela K. Gilbert Edited by Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas A CO M PA NION TO COMPARATIVE LITERATURE EDITED BY ALI BEHDAD AND DOMINIC THOMAS A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication This edition first published 2011 © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Blackwell Publishing was acquired by John Wiley & Sons in February 2007. Blackwell’s publishing program has been merged with Wiley’s global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business to form Wiley-Blackwell. Registered Office John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, United Kingdom Editorial Offices 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK For details of our global editorial offices, for customer services, and for information about how to apply for permission to reuse the copyright material in this book please see our website at www.wiley.com/wiley-blackwell. The right of Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas to be identified as the authors o