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.
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 Desire
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
Founded as a graduate program in 1904 and joining with the undergraduate Literature Concentration in 2007, Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature operates at the crossroads of multilingualism, literary study, and media history.
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