Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch (Hardback)

Seeing our World and its Literature in New Ways

As an antidote to the restrictions on travel introduced during the Pandemic, David Damrosch pursues a literary itinerary with London as his starting point to explore how works from authors around the world have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways in which personal experience and literature have given shape and meaning to their lives. In his literary cartography, Damrosch includes compelling works that range from reflections on the social consequences of epidemics to solutions to rising inequality and the patriarchal structures within and against which many literary heroines have to struggle