Art of Comparison

Catherine Brown

• 1. Introduction: What is Comparative Literature? 2. Daniel Deronda 3. Anna Karenina 4. Women In Love 5. Conclusions: How Literature was Compared

Brown's core chapters gracefully use varied conceptual tools and interdisciplinary viewpoints, all of which are engagingly woven into an organic whole, so that the reader emerges from this ambitious enterprise appreciating what notable work can be done when translation theory and practice are not seen as separate entities but as intercommunicative. -- Translation and Literature Translation and Literature Dexterously connects Eliot, Tolstoy and Lawrence to the considerations of nationalism and supranationalism at the heart of critical debates within and about comparative literary scholarship... Convincingly demonstrates that we as literary critics should open our ears and our minds to unlikely literary conversations, as well as the fresh knowledge and pleasure we may glean from them. -- George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies