Overview
- Utilizes a thematic comparative approach developing contexts for studies of print and readership that are unprecedented in existing scholarship
- Offers fresh insights on under-examined global cultures of print, literary modernizations, and the rise of public readership
- Provides new insights on global circumstances of print challenging conventional conceptions of literary modernity designated within frameworks of nationality and language
Part of the book series: New Directions in Book History (NDBH)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
"A succinct and accomplished contribution to this growing field."
- Emeritus Professor Robert Fraser, The Open University, UK
“This is a fascinating collection of essays that brings together a number of hitherto under-represented and overlooked aspects of print cultural histories of Asia in a global comparative context. In doing so, the authors create a novel space to chart the development of modernities and trace formations of knowledge, but also creations of entertainment cultures across continents.”
—B. Venkat Mani, University of Wisconsin-Madison
author of Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books.
“If we de-europeanize the historical narrative of the development of print, and of its motive power in generating modern social and political formations, and further pluralize that "modernity" to "alternative modernities," what will be the result? Taking this question as a point of departure, the contributors to Comparative Print Culture provide vibrant studies of the role of print in effecting, and reflecting, individual sensibilities, collective networks, and political movements self-defined as "modern," working with considerable temporal range, a global span, and careful inflection for cultural difference.”
— Heather Murray, Professor of English at University of Toronto, Canada
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Rasoul Aliakbari (PhD) has taught English Studies, Comparative and World Literature, and Writing and Communication Studies at the University of Alberta, MacEwan University, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, and NorQuest College, all in Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Comparative Print Culture
Book Subtitle: A Study of Alternative Literary Modernities
Editors: Rasoul Aliakbari
Series Title: New Directions in Book History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36891-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36890-6Published: 08 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36893-7Published: 08 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-36891-3Published: 07 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6117
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6125
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 257
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Global/International Culture, Printing and Publishing, Culture and Technology, Comparative Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature