Reddit user Backforward24 has created a map where every country in the world represented by (arguably) the best book of that nation. (click on the map to go to the original source) The idea behind the ...

How can we talk about World Literature if we do not actually examine the world as a whole? Research on World Literature commonly focuses on the dynamics of a western center and a southern periphery, ...

Using Mechanical Turk, the Stanford Literary Lab maps Victorian London’s fear, love, and everything in between. 19th-century British novelists like Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and William Thackeray ...