Introduction: Globalizing Literary Genres Jernej Habjan Part I: From Here to Early Modernity 1. A Globe of Sinful Continents: Shakespeare Thinks the World Richard Wilson 2. The Art of Deception: L'Isle des Hermaphrodites in the Context of the Age of Discoveries Fabienne Imlinger Part II: To the Enlightenment and Its Limits 3. Uncles and Nephews: Menippean Satire in the Capital of Modernity Jernej Habjan 4. Novel Cosmopolitan Writing: On the Genus and the Genre of Mankind (in Kant and Wieland) Robert Stockhammer 5. Arcadia Goes Overseas: Pastoral and Planetary Consciousness in Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Paul and Virginia Karin Peters Part III: To the Long Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 6. The World as Network and Tableau: Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days Joerg Dunne 7. Orientalist Poetics, Autobiographical Fiction, and History-Defying Words: Sarkiz Torossian Inscribing Himself into World War I Christoph K. Neumann 8. Recording Remnants of Judeo-Spanish: On Language Memoirs and Translated Wor(l)ds Elisabeth Gude 9. Concretely Global: Concrete Poetry against Translation Andrea Bachner 10. The Literariness of Sport: Roger Kahn's The Boys of Summer and C. L. R. James' Beyond A Boundary In Search of a Genre Grant Farred 11. The Mozambican Ghost Story: Global Genre or Local Form? Peter Joost Maurits Part IV: And Back 12. On the Tropes of Literary Ecology: The Plot of Globalization Alexander Beecroft 13. On Mapping Genre: Literary Fiction/Genre Fiction and Globalization Processes Suman Gupta 14. "A living death, life inside-out": The Postcolonial Toxic Gothic in Robert Barclay's Melal: A Novel of the Pacific Hanna Strass 15. World-Literature, World-Systems, and Irish Chick Lit Sorcha Gunne 16. The Form of Resistance: Literary Narration and Contemporary Radical Political Experience Hrvoje Tutek