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A past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, David Damrosch has written widely on comparative and world literature from antiquity to the present. His books include The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature (1987), We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University (1995), What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and How to Read World Literature (2008). He is the founding general editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature (2004) and the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009) and co-editor of The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature (2009), The Routledge Companion to W ...more

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	The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh 3.63 avg rating — 746 ratings — published 2007 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Around the World in 80 Books 3.63 avg rating — 689 ratings — published 2021 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2A: The Romantics and Their Contemporaries by David Damrosch (Editor), Susan J. Wolfson (Editor), Peter J. Manning (Editor) 3.90 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 1999 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2B: The Victorian Age by David Damrosch (Contributor), William Chapman Sharpe 3.84 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Is World Literature? 3.82 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2003 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Damrosch How to Read World Literature 3.53 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2008 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1C: The Restoration and the 18th Century 3.79 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1999 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2C: The Twentieth Century by David Damrosch, Kevin J.H. Dettmar, Jennifer Wicke 3.70 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1A: The Middle Ages (2nd Edition) by David Damrosch, Christopher Baswell, Anne Howland Schotter 3.85 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1999 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1B: The Early Modern Period by David Damrosch (Editor), Constance Jordan, Clare Lois Carroll 3.85 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1999 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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