History of World Literature

Theo D’haen is Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Leuven University and Emeritus Professor of English and American Literature at Leiden University. He has published widely on (post)modernism, (post)colonialism, and world literature. His publications include World Literature in an Age of Geopolitics (2021) and The Routledge Companion to World Literature, Second Edition (co-edited with David Damrosch and Djelal Kadir; Routledge, 2022).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The (Re)Turn of World LiteratureChapter 1. Naming World LiteratureChapter 2. Goethe’s Weltliteratur and The Humanist Ideal Chapter 3. World Literature and Comparative Literature Chapter 4. World Literature as an American Pedagogical Construct Chapter 5. World Literature in European Academe Chapter 6. World Literature as SystemChapter 7. World Literature and Translation Chapter 8. World Literature, (Post)Modernism, (Post)Colonialism, Littérature-Monde, Decoloniality Chapter 9. Asian, African, and Oceanian Perspectives on World LiteratureChapter 10. World Literature and Planetary MaterialitiesBibliographyIndex

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