Comparative Print Culture: A Study of Alternative Literary Modernities (New Directions in Book History)

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Comparative Print Culture and Alternative Literary Modernities: A Critical Introduction to Frameworks and Case Studies
	Works Cited
Chapter 2: Song Dynasty Classicism and the Eleventh Century “Print Modernity”
	1 Prologue: Ancient Moderns
	2 China’s Early Print History and the Song Dynasty
	3 Song Neo-Classicism and “Modern” Editions of Han and Liu
	4 Reception of Printed Neoclassicism: The Case of Ouyang Xiu
	5 Postscript: Time and Text
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: Alternative Imaginaries of the Modern Girl: A Comparative Examination of Canadian and Australian Magazines
	1 Introduction
	2 (Con)Texts in Comparison
		2.1 The Home
		2.2 Mayfair
		2.3 The Western Home Monthly
		2.4 The Australian Woman’s Mirror
	3 Conclusions
	Works Cited
Chapter 4: The Making of a National Hero: A Comparative Examination of Köroğlu the Bandit
	1 Introduction
	2 Contexts
		2.1 Who Is Köroğlu?
		2.2 The Historical Identity of Köroğlu
		2.3 The Earliest Recorded Versions of Köroğlu
		2.4 The Influence of European Romanticism on the Köroğlu Story
		2.5 Köroğlu’s Changing Image in Turkey
		2.6 Ancient Folkloric Motifs and Conflations Relating to Köroğlu’s Idealization
		2.7 Köroğlu’s Changing Image in Azerbaijan
	3 Conclusions
	Works Cited
Chapter 5: Between Poetry and Reportage: Raúl González Tuñón, Journalism and Literary Modernization in 1930s Argentina
	1 Introduction
	2 A Modern Genre
	3 Raúl González Tuñón in the 1930s Argentina
		3.1 The Reporter as a Poet
		3.2 The Poet as a Reporter
	4 Conclusion
	Works Cited
Chapter 6: New Fiction as a Medium of Public Opinion: The Utopian/Dystopian Imagination in Revolutionary Periodicals in Late Qing China
	1 Introduction
	2 New Fiction as a Medium of Public Opinion
	3 China’s Partition and Revolutionary Periodicals
	4 Conclusion: Popularizing Utopian Visions Via New Fiction
	Works Cited
Chapter 7: Nineteenth-Century African American Publications on Food and Housekeeping: Negotiating Alternative Forms of Modernity
	1 Introduction
	2 Housekeeping Guides by Black Authors: Anticipating Efficient Management While Also Seeking Justice
	3 An 1881 African American Cookbook: The West, Gender, and Modernity
	4 Conclusion
	Works Cited
		Primary Sources
		Secondary Sources
Chapter 8: Progressing with a Vengeance: The Woman Reader/Writer in the African Press
	1 Introduction
	2 Discussions
	3 Conclusion
	Works Cited
Chapter 9: Fashioning the Self: Women and Transnational Print Networks in Colonial Punjab
	1 Introduction
	2 The Context of the Novel
		2.1 Women and the Print Sphere in Punjab
		2.2 The Author
		2.3 The Plot of the Novel
		2.4 Print Networks and Communities of Affect
		2.5 The New Woman and Cosmopolitanism
		2.6 Location in Hinduism
		2.7 The Choice of Language
		2.8 The Genre of the Novel
	3 Conclusion
	Works Cited
Chapter 10: Crafting the Modern Word: Writing, Publishing, and Modernity in the Print Culture of Prewar Japan
	1 Introduction
	2 Prewar Print Culture
	3 Writing
	4 Publishing
	5 Conclusion
	Works Cited
Chapter 11: “Books for Men”: Pornography and Literary Modernity in Late Nineteenth-Century Brazil
	1 Introduction
	2 Context: The Pornographic Book Market in Late Nineteenth-Century Brazil
	3 Texts/Contexts in Comparison: Re-Tooling of Humanism, Libertinism, and Naturalism as an Alternative to European and Domestic Novelism and Realism
		3.1 Convent Evenings by M. L. and Anticlerical Pornography
		3.2 Voluptuousness: 14 Gallant Tales by Rabelais and the New Pornography
		3.3 Album of Caliban and Polished Pornography
	4 Conclusions
	Works Cited
Chapter 12: Print Culture and the Reassertion of Indigenous Nationhood in Early-Mid-Twentieth-Century Canada
	1 Introduction
	2 Con(text)s in Comparison
	3 Conclusions
	Works Cited
Index