by David Damrosch, Stuart Sherman, Christopher Baswell, Anne Howland Schotter, Constance Jordan, Clare Carroll, Susan J. Wolfson, Peter J. Manning, Heather Henderson, William Chapman Sharpe, Kevin J. H. Dettmar, Jennifer Wicke
Literature has a double life. Born in one time and place and read in another, literary works are at once products of their age and independent creations, able to live on long after their original w…