Department Publications

Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature

The Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature series was inaugurated in 1910 by Professor W.H. Schofield with the publication of Three Philosophical Poets by George Santayana. The series continues to present the work of outstanding scholars to this day. All publications are listed chronologically below. Books can be ordered from amazon.com by clicking on underlined book titles.

A Poetic Genealogy of North African Literature

by Thomas C. Connolly
2024

Paul Celan’s Unfinished Poetics: Readings in the Sous-Oeuvre

by Thomas C. Connolly
2018

Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation
by Dennis Tenen
2017

Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought
By Christopher D. Johnson
2010

Thin Culture, High Art: Gogol, Hawthorne, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century Russia and America
By Anne Lounsbery
2007

 
Medieval Joke Poetry: The Cantigas d’Escarnho e de Mal Dizer 
By Benjamin Liu 
2004

The Ascension of Authorship: Attribution and Canon Formation in Jewish, Hellenistic, and Christian Traditions 
By Jed Wyrick
2004

Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition
By John T. Hamilton
2003

Visions of Persia: Mapping the Travels of Adam Olearius 
By Elio Brancaforte
2003

Original Subjects: The Child, the Novel, and the Nation 
By Ala Alryyes
2001

The Story of O: Prostitutes and Other Good-for-Nothings in the Renaissance
By Michele Jaffe
1999

The Way of Oblivion: Heraclitus and Kafka 
By David Schur
1998

Subjects without Selves: Transitional Texts in Modern Fiction 
By Gabriele Schwab
1994

The Challenge of Comparative Literature 
By Claudio Guillèn
1993

Death in Quotation Marks: Cultural Myths of the Modern Poet 
By Svetlana Boym
1991

The Living Eye 
By Jean Starobinski
1989

Mi-lou: Poetry and the Labyrinth of Desir
By Stephen Owen
1989

Literary Structure, Evolution, and Value: Russian Formalism and Czech Structuralism Reconsidered 
By Jurij Striedter
1989

The Taming of Romanticism: European Literature and the Age of Biedermeier 
By Virgil Nemoianu
1984

Fictions of Romantic Irony 
By Lilian R. Furst
1984

The Quattrocento Dialogue: Classical Tradition and Humanist Innovation 
By David Marsh
1980

Mirror on Mirror: Translation, Imitation, Parody 
By Reuben Brower
1974

Comparative Studies in Greek and Indic Meter 
By Gregory Nagy
1974

Grounds for Comparison 
By Harry Levin
1972

The Renaissance Discovery of Time 
By Ricardo J. Quinones
1972

Pan the Goat God: His Myth in Modern Times 
By Patricia Merivale
1969

Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus 
By Erich Segal
1968

The Icelandic Family Saga: An Analytic Reading
By Theodore M. Andersson
1967

Dostoevsky and Romantic Realism: A Study of Dostoevsky in Relation to Balzac, Dickens, and Gogol 
By Donald Fanger
1965

Rogue’s Progress: Studies in the Picaresque Novel 
By Robert Alter 
1964

Praisers of Folly: Erasmus, Rabelais, Shakespeare 
By Walter Kaiser 
1964

The Singer of Tales 
By Albert B. Lord
1960

On Translation 
Edited by Reuben Brower
1959

Contexts of Criticism 
By Harry Levin
1957

Vissarion Belinski, 1811-1848 
By Herbert E. Bowman
1954

Perspectives of Criticism 
Edited by Harry Levin
1950

The Testament of Werther in Poetry and Drama 
By Stuart Pratt Atkins
1949

A Bibliography of the Theophrastan Character in English with Several Portrait Characters 
By Chester Noyes Greenough and J.M. French
1947

Un Voyageur-Philosophe au XVII Siècle: L’Abbé Jean-Bernard le Blanc 
By Hélène Monod-Cassidy
1941

Jean Racine 
By Alexander F.B. Clark
1939

Catullus in Strange and Distant Britain 
By James A.S. McPeek
1939

Proverbs in the Earlier English Drama 
By Bartlett Jere Whiting
1938

D’Edmond Spenser à Alan Seeger: Poèmes Anglais Traduits en Vers Français 
By Fernand Baldensperger
1938

English Literature and Culture in Russia (1553-1840) 
By Ernest J. Simmons 
1935

Chaucer’s Use of Proverbs 
By Bartlett Jere Whiting 
1934

Virgil the Necromancer 
By John Webster Spargo
1934

Spenser and the Table Round 
By Charles Bowie Millican
1932

Eger and Grime 
By James Ralston Caldwell
1923

Chaucer and the Roman Poets 
By Edgar Finley Shannon
1929

Angevin Britain and Scandinavia 
By Henry Goddard Leach
1921

Mythical Bards and the Life of William Wallace 
By William Henry Schofield
1920

Medieval Spanish Allegory 
By Chandler Rathfon Post
1915

The Comedies of Holberg 
By Oscar James Campbell, Jr.
1914

Chivalry in English Literature: Chaucer, Malory, Spenser, and Shakespeare 
By William Henry Schofield
1912

Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe
By George Santayana
1910