David Damrosch
Author · 10 books
A past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, David Damrosch has written widely on comparative and world literature from antiquity to the present. His books include The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature (1987), We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University (1995), What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and How to Read World Literature (2008). He is the founding general editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature (2004) and the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009) and co-editor of The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature (2009), The Routledge Companion to World Literature (2011), and Xin fangxiang: bijiao wenxue yu shijie wenxue duben [New Directions: A Reader of Comparative and World Literature], Peking U. P., 2010. He is presently completing a book entitled Comparing the Literatures: What Every Comparatist Needs to Know, and starting a book on the role of global scripts in the formation of national literatures.
Series
Books
Damrosch How to Read World Literature
2008
Masters of British Literature, Volume B
2007
The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature
From the European Enlightenment to the Global Present
2009
Around the World in 80 Books
2021
Longman Anthology of British Literature, The
The Early Modern Period, Volume 1B
1999
Masters of British Literature, Volume A
2007
The Buried Book
The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh
2007
What Is World Literature?
2003
Teaching World Literature
2009
Comparing the Literatures
Literary Studies in a Global Age
2020
