This book examines prevalent notions of globalization, literary history, genre, and novel. Using close reading and world history, literary criticism and political theory, it intervenes in debates about world, postcolonial, and transnational literature as they've been intensified by critical globalization studies, world-systems analysis, and cosmopolitanism. Essays examine literary genres in relation to broader historical processes, connecting the present state of globalization to a wide range of world-historic events. Innovative readings of the pastoral, travel and sports writing, postcolonial Gothic, chick lit, and other topics make vital contributions to a renewed discussion about genre.

Jernej Habjan is Research Fellow at the Literary Institute of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia.

Fabienne Imlinger is Research Associate in the research training group "Globalization and Literature" at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.

Introduction: Globalizing Literary Genres Jernej Habjan Part I: From Here to Early Modernity 1. A Globe of Sinful Continents: Shakespeare Thinks the World Richard Wilson 2. The Art of Deception: L'Isle des Hermaphrodites in the Context of the Age of Discoveries Fabienne Imlinger Part II: To the Enlightenment and Its Limits 3. Uncles and Nephews: Menippean Satire in the Capital of Modernity Jernej Habjan 4. Novel Cosmopolitan Writing: On the Genus and the Genre of Mankind (in Kant and Wieland) Robert Stockhammer 5. Arcadia Goes Overseas: Pastoral and Planetary Consciousness in Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Paul and Virginia Karin Peters Part III: To the Long Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 6. The World as Network and Tableau: Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days Jörg Dünne 7. Orientalist Poetics, Autobiographical Fiction, and History-Defying Words: Sarkiz Torossian Inscribing Himself into World War I Christoph K. Neumann 8. Recording Remnants of Judeo-Spanish: On Language Memoirs and Translated Wor(l)ds Elisabeth Güde 9. Concretely Global: Concrete Poetry against Translation Andrea Bachner 10. The Literariness of Sport: Roger Kahn's The Boys of Summer and C. L. R. James' Beyond A Boundary In Search of a Genre Grant Farred 11. The Mozambican Ghost Story: Global Genre or Local Form? Peter Joost Maurits Part IV: And Back 12. On the Tropes of Literary Ecology: The Plot of Globalization Alexander Beecroft 13. On Mapping Genre: Literary Fiction/Genre Fiction and Globalization Processes Suman Gupta 14. "A living death, life inside-out": The Postcolonial Toxic Gothic in Robert Barclay's Melal: A Novel of the Pacific Hanna Straß 15. World-Literature, World-Systems, and Irish Chick Lit Sorcha Gunne 16. The Form of Resistance: Literary Narration and Contemporary Radical Political Experience Hrvoje Tutek