Comparative
Literature Studies publishes comparative articles in
literature and culture, critical theory, and cultural
and literary relations within and beyond the Western
tradition. It brings you the work of eminent critics,
scholars, theorists, and literary historians, whose essays
range across the rich traditions of Africa, Asia, Europe,
and the Americas. One of its regular issues every two
years concerns East-West literary and cultural relations
and is edited in conjunction with members of the College
of International Relations at Nihon University. Each
issue includes reviews of significant books by prominent
comparatists. More information is available at www.cl-studies.psu.edu.
Comparative Literature Studies
Founding Editors
Alfred Owen Aldridge
Melvin J. Friedman
Editors Emeriti
Stanley Weintraub
Robert R. Edwards
Editor
Thomas O. Beebee
Associate Editors
Michael Bérubé
Jonathan P. Eburne
Caroline D. Eckhardt
Thomas A. Hale
Eric Hayot
Djelal Kadir
Sophia A. McClennen
Philip Mosley
Michael M. Naydan
Reiko Tachibana
Adrian J. Wanner
Editorial Board
Steven P. Sondrup, Brigham Young University, (President, International Comparative Literature Association)
Masayuki Akiyama, Nihon University
Réda Bensmaïa, Brown University
Ross Brann, Cornell University
Eduardo Coutinho, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Yuë Daiyun, University of Peking
Irène d’Almeida, University of Arizona
David Damrosch, Columbia University
Caryl Emerson, Princeton University
Eugene Eoyang, Indiana University
Margaret W. Ferguson, University of California–Davis
Simon Gikandi, Princeton University
Elizabeth Grosz, Rutgers University
N. Katherine Hayles, University of California–Los Angeles
Linda Hutcheon, University of Toronto
Peggy Kamuf, University of Southern California
Koji Kawamoto, Tokyo University
Mary Layoun, University of Wisconsin
Paul Michael Lutzeler, Washington University
Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University
John Neubauer, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Stephen G. Nichols, The Johns Hopkins University
Azade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr College
Gerhard F. Strasser, The Pennsylvania State University
Janet Walker, Rutgers University
Pauline Yu, University of California–Los Angeles
Lois Parkinson Zamora, University of Houston
Jan Ziolkowski, Harvard University
Editorial Assistant
Dawn Taylor
Book Review Editor
427 Burrowes Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
About the Editor:
Thomas O. Beebee was born in Santa Monica, California, in
1955. Seeing that the future was blackouts, he fled as far east
as possible, and received his B.A. from Dartmouth College and
both his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He taught
German at Bowdoin College from 1984 to 1986, when he joined the
faculty at Penn State. He became Associate Professor in 1991,
and Professor of Comparative Literature & German in 2000. His
fields of specialization in research and graduate teaching are:
European literature of the early modern period; criticism and
theory; epistolarity; translation studies; and law and literature.
His publications include the books Clarissa on the Continent, The Ideology of Genre, Epistolary Fiction in Europe, Geographies of Nation in Modern European and American Fiction, and Millennial Literatures of the New World, 1492-2002.
