
This book discusses literature, theory and history in close relation. Its main focus is on comparative literature and history, culture, poetics, rhetoric, theatricality, genre and gender, and balances close reading with theory and historical context.

Comparative Literature Comparing Empires Literature and Culture Otherness and Authority Historicism, Feminism and the Poetics of Difference Poetics and Poetic Worlds Literature, Theory and After Between History and Poetry Translating Las Casas Comparison, Conquest and Globalization...