Studies in Comparative Literature are produced in close collaboration with the British Comparative Literature Association, and range widely across comparative and theoretical topics in literary and translation studies, accommodating research at the interface between different artistic media and between the humanities and the sciences.
Editorial Committee:
- Professor Stephen Bann, University of Bristol (Chairman)
- Professor Duncan Large, University of Swansea
- Dr Elinor Shaffer, School of Advanced Study, London
Published 1997
Breeches and Metaphysics: Thackeray’s German Discourse |
Published 1998
Hölderlin and the Dynamics of Translation |
Published 1999
Aeneas Takes the Metro: The Presence of Virgil in Twentieth-Century French Literature |
Published 2000
Metaphor and Materiality: German Literature and the World-View of Science 1780-1955 Marguerite Yourcenar: Reading the Visual |
Published 2001
Treny: The Laments of Kochanowski |
Published 2002
Neither a Borrower: Forging Traditions in French, Chinese and Arabic Poetry |
Published September 2005
The Anatomy of Laughter |
Published May 2006
Dilettantism and its Values: From Weimar Classicism to the fin de siècle The Fantastic in France and Russia in the Nineteenth Century: In Pursuit of Hesitation |
Published February 2007
Singing Poets: Literature and Popular Music in France and Greece |
Published July 2007
Wanderers Across Language: Exile in Irish and Polish Literature of the Twentieth Century |
Published November 2008
Moving Scenes: The Aesthetics of German Travel Writing on England 1783-1830 |
Published January 2009
Henry James and the Second Empire Platonic Coleridge |
Published June 2009
Imagining Jewish Art: Encounters with the Masters in Chagall, Guston, and Kitaj |
Published 12 April 2010
Aestheticism and the Philosophy of Death: Walter Pater and Post-Hegelianism Rethinking the Concept of the Grotesque: Crashaw, Baudelaire, Magritte |
Published 26 April 2010
Turning into Sterne: Viktor Shklovskii and Literary Reception Yeats and Pessoa: Parallel Poetic Styles |
Published 6 September 2010
Blake, Lavater and Physiognomy |
Published 11 February 2011
Borges and Joyce: An Infinite Conversation |
Published 28 March 2011
Alienation and Theatricality: Diderot after Brecht |
Published 11 May 2011
The Art of Comparison: How Novels and Critics Compare |
Forthcoming May 2013
The Realist Author and Sympathetic Imagination |
May 2013 Forthcoming June 2013
Prometheus in the Nineteenth Century: From Myth to Symbol |
Forthcoming August 2013
Iris Murdoch and Elias Canetti: Intellectual Allies Likenesses: Translation, Illustration, Interpretation |
Forthcoming 2014
Architecture, Travellers and Writers: Constructing Histories of Perception 1640-1950 Comparative Literature in Britain: National Identities, Transnational Dynamics 1800-2000 Exile and Nomadism in French and Hispanic Women’s Writing |