Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages

President/Président

Helga Mitterbauer | Université libre de Bruxelles

Sponsored by the International Comparative Literature Association. A series of volumes of literary history combining related and comparable phenomena from an international point of view. It covers literature of European languages from all over the world and in time spans the period from the Renaissance till the present day.

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ISSN: 0238-0668

https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel

Volumes

XXXVII	A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond. Volume II: Slavery, memory and literature Edited by Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Madeleine Dobie and Mads Anders Baggesgaard Expected April 2025. vii, 416 pp. + index
XXXVI	A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond. Volume I: Slavery, literature and the emotions Edited by Madeleine Dobie, Mads Anders Baggesgaard and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen 2024. xxiv, 334 pp.
XXXV	A Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe Edited by Olga Beloborodova and Dirk Van Hulle 2024. xiv, 550 pp.
XXXIV	Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond: A millennium heritage Edited by Francesco Stella 2024. xviii, 706 pp.
XXXIII	Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives. Volume II: Pathways through realism Edited by Svend Erik Larsen, Steen Bille Jørgensen and Margaret R. Higonnet 2022. xv, 780 pp.
XXXII	Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives. Volume I: Mapping realism Edited by Dirk Göttsche, Rosa Mucignat and Robert Weninger 2021. xvii, 814 pp.
XXXI	Nordic Literature: A comparative history. Volume I: Spatial nodes Edited by Steven P. Sondrup, Mark B. Sandberg, Thomas A. DuBois and Dan Ringgaard 2017. xvi, 747 pp.
XXX	L'Époque de la Renaissance (1400–1600): Tome II: La nouvelle culture (1480–1520) Sous la direction de Eva Kushner 2017. viii, 544 pp.
XXIX	A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula: Volume II Edited by César Domínguez, Anxo Abuín González and Ellen Sapega 2016. xiii, 765 pp.
XXVIII	Or Words to That Effect: Orality and the writing of literary history Edited by Daniel F. Chamberlain and J. Edward Chamberlin 2016. vi, 317 pp.
XXVII	New Literary Hybrids in the Age of Multimedia Expression: Crossing borders, crossing genres Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope 2014. vii, 455 pp.
XXVI	L'Époque de la Renaissance (1400–1600): Tome III: maturations et mutations (1520–1560) Sous la direction de Eva Kushner 2011. ix, 636 pp.
XXV	History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume IV: Types and stereotypes Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer 2010. xi, 714 pp.
XXIV	A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula: Volume I Edited by Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza, Anxo Abuín González and César Domínguez 2010. xiv, 750 pp.
XXIII	Romantic Prose Fiction Edited by Gerald Gillespie, Manfred Engel and Bernard Dieterle 2008. xxi, 733 pp.
XXII	History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume III: The making and remaking of literary institutions Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer 2007. xiv, 522 pp.
XXI	Modernism Edited by Astradur Eysteinsson and Vivian Liska 2007. xii, 1043 pp. (2 vols.)
XX	History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume II Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer 2006. xiv, 512 pp.
XIX	History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume I Edited by Marcel Cornis-Pope and John Neubauer 2004. xx, 647 pp.
XVIII	Nonfictional Romantic Prose: Expanding borders Edited by Steven P. Sondrup and Virgil Nemoianu 2004. viii, 477 pp.
XVII	Romantic Poetry Edited by Angela Esterhammer 2002. xii, 537 pp.
XVI	L'Aube de la Modernité 1680-1760 Sous la direction de Peter-Eckhard Knabe, Roland Mortier et François Moureau 2002. viii, 554 pp.
XV	A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Volume 2: English- and Dutch-speaking regions Edited by A. James Arnold 2001. x, 672 pp.
XIV	Die Wende von der Aufklärung zur Romantik 1760–1820: Epoche im Überblick Herausgegeben von Horst Albert Glaser und György M. Vajda † 2001. x, 760 pp.
XIII	L'Époque de la Renaissance (1400–1600): Tome IV: Crises et essors nouveaux (1560–1610) Sous la direction de Tibor Klaniczay, Eva Kushner et Paul Chavy 2000. xiv, 817 pp.
XII	A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Volume 3: Cross-Cultural Studies Edited by A. James Arnold 1997. xviii, 399 pp.
XI	International Postmodernism: Theory and literary practice Edited by Hans Bertens and Douwe W. Fokkema † 1997. xvi, 581 pp.
X	A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Volume 1: Hispanic and Francophone Regions Edited by A. James Arnold, Julio Rodriguez-Luis and J. Michael Dash 1994. xviii, 579 pp.
IX	Romantic Drama Edited by Gerald Gillespie 1993. xvi, 516 pp.
VIII	Romantic Irony Edited by Frederick Garber 1988. 395 pp.
VII	L'Époque de la Renaissance (1400–1600): Tome I: L'avènement de l'esprit nouveau (1400–1480) Sous la direction de Tibor Klaniczay, Eva Kushner et André Stegmann 1988. 594 pp.
VI	European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa Edited by Albert S. Gérard 1986. 1288 pp. 2 volumes
V	Les Avant-gardes littéraires au XXe siècle: Volume II: Théorie Sous la direction de Jean Weisgerber † 1986. 704 pp.
IV-V	Les Avant-gardes littéraires au XXe siècle: Deux volumes. I: Histoire; II: Théorie Sous la direction de Jean Weisgerber † 1986. 622, 704 pp.
IV	Les Avant-gardes littéraires au XXe siècle: Volume I: Histoire Sous la direction de Jean Weisgerber † 1986. 622 pp.
III	Le Tournant du siècle des Lumières 1760–1820: Les genres en vers des Lumières au romantisme Sous la direction de György M. Vajda † 1982. 684 pp.
II	The Symbolist Movement in the Literature of European Languages Edited by Anna Balakian 1984. 732 pp.
I	Expressionism as an International Literary Phenomenon: Twenty-one essays and a bibliography Edited by Ulrich Weisstein 1973. 360 pp.
EdR:SET	L'Époque de la Renaissance (1400–1600): 4 vols. set Sous la direction de Eva Kushner 2017. 2622 pp. (4 vols. set)
Land:SET	Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking literary realism in comparative perspectives. 2 vols.set 2022. 1628 pp.
CHLIPS:SET	The Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula series: 2 vols. set 2016. 1514 pp.
HIST:SET	The History of Literature in the Caribbean series: 3 vols. set 2001.
LIT:SET	The Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe series: 4 vols. set 2010.
ROM:SET	The Romanticism series: 5 vols. set 2008. 5 vols.

Board

Vice-President/Vice-Président

Dirk Van Hulle | University of Oxford

Secretary Treasurer/Secrétaire Trésorier

Florian Mussgnug | University College London

Acting Treasurer/Trésorier par intérim

Stefan Helgesson | Stockholm University

Members/Membres assesseurs

Susana Araújo | University of Coimbra

Mateusz Chmurski | Sorbonne Université

Santanu Das | All Souls College Oxford

Anne Fastrup | University of Copenhagen

Massimo Fusillo | Scuola Normale di Pisa

Jeanne E. Glesener | University of Luxembourg

Ben Hutchinson | University of Kent

Benedikts Kalnačs | University of Latvia

Atinati Mamatsashvili | Ilia State University (Georgia)

Paulo de Medeiros | University of Warwick

Gesine Müller | Universität Köln

Birgit Neumann | Universität Düsseldorf

Past Presidents

Marcel Cornis-Pope | Virginia Commonwealth University

Margaret R. Higonnet | Storrs

Karen-Margrethe Simonsen | Aarhus University

Randolph D. Pope | Charlottesville

Henry H.H. Remak | Indiana

Mihály Szegedy-Maszák | Bloomington

Mario J. Valdés | Toronto

Jacques Voisine † | Paris

Jean Weisgerber † | Bruxelles

Past Secretaries

Daniel F. Chamberlain | Queen's University, Kingston

Milan V. Dimić | Edmonton

César Domínguez | University of Santiago de Compostela & Sichuan University

Margaret R. Higonnet | Storrs

Svend Erik Larsen | Aarhus

Helga Mitterbauer | Université libre de Bruxelles

György M. Vajda † | Budapest

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Special offer

Special offers

30% discount on the Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula series.

30% discount on the L'Époque de la Renaissance (1400–1600) series.

30% discount on the History of Literature in the Carribean series.

30% discount on the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe series.

30% discount on the Realism series.

30% discount on the Romanticism series.

Subjects

Literature & Literary Studies

Comparative literature & literary studies