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The introductory essay asking "What is comparative literature?" is followed by three chapters devoted to close analyses of Daniel Deronda, Anna Karenina, and Women in Love. The concluding discussion summarizes three senses of the term comparative literature--"...as a type of practice historically based in the analysis of literature of more than one country; in the sense denoted if the terms study of are inserted between the adjective and noun; and in the sense denoted if the adjective is understood to qualify the noun (as literature which demands that the performance of comparison play a particularly important part in its appreciation). Brown's (English literature, New College, Oxford, UK) study is published by Legenda, a joint imprint of the Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing. Distribution in North America is by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
