The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature (PDF)

Rachel Adams, Columbia University, USA.  Mita Banerjee, University of Mainz, Germany.  Georgiana Banita, University of Bamberg, Germany.  Julia Breitbach, University of Konstanz, Germany.  Jutta Ernst, University of Mainz, German.y Florian Freitag, University of Mainz, Germany.  Monika Giacoppe, Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA.  Eva Gruber, University of Konstanz, Germany.  Christina Kannenberg, University of Konstanz, Germany.  Jean Morency, University of Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.  Caroline Rosenthal, University of Jena, Germany.  Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Arizona State University, USA.  Katja Sarkowsky, University of Münster, German.y Sabine Sielke, University of Bonn, Germany.  Marie Vautier, University of Victoria, Canada.  Lorraine York, McMaster University, Canada.

“The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature will appeal to scholars and students interested in the manifold interrelations and transactions between the literatures of north America. Its articles are highly informative, well written and researched. They all summarize important debates and research traditions in their respective fields. The Handbook will also be helpful for readers with a specific interest in the politics that have shaped American studies as a discipline in the last couple of decades.” (Julia Straub, Anglia, Vol.135 (2), June, 2017)

(Translated from German)

“The present volume, edited by the Americanist and Canadianist Reingard Nischik (Konstanz), pursues the ambitious and original goal of surveying and analyzing the various North American literatures from a comparative and transcultural perspective. ... It is a concise, readable, carefully edited, and thematically coherent handbook, which furthermore capably joins theoretical considerations and concepts to the analysis of extensive text corpora from various languages and cultures. It thus lays the foundations for further comparative as well as inter- and transcultural research and the didactic treatment of the literatures of North America.” (Hans-Juergen Luesebrink, Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien, Volume 66, 2017)





“Reingard M. Nischik has assembled a rich, informative, and critically astute collection of essays, which will be an indispensable reference work for Canadianists, Americanists and students of world literature alike. Meticulously researched and carefully edited, the chapters in this Handbook offer innovative approaches to their subjects, while at the same time providing a reliable compendium of information on cultural-historical backgrounds and developments. ... the volume combines comprehensiveness and detailed analysis in a remarkably balanced manner.” (Martin Löschnigg, Anglistik, Vol. 27 (1), March,