Drawing on comparative literary studies, postcolonial book history, and multiple, literary, and alternative modernities, this collection approaches the study of alternative literary modernities from the perspective ofcomparative print culture. The term comparative print culture designates a wide range of scholarly practices that discover, examine, document, and/or historicize various printed materials and their reproduction, circulation, and uses across genres, languages, media, and technologies, all within a comparative orientation. This book explores alternative literary modernities mostly by highlighting the distinct ways in which literary and cultural print modernities outside Europe evince the repurposing of European **systems and cultures of print and further deconstruct their perceived universality.

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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

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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.

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1. Comparative Print Culture and Alternative Literary Modernities: A Critical Introduction to Frameworks and Case Studies. - Rasoul Aliakbari.- 2. Song Dynasty Classicism and Eleventh-Century "Print Modernity" in China. - Daniel Fried.- 3. Alternative Imaginaries of the Modern Girl: A Comparative Examination of Canadian and Australian Magazines. - Victoria Kuttainen and Jilly Lippmann.- 4. The Making of a National Hero: A Comparative Examination of Körolu the Bandit. - Judith M. Wilks.- 5. Between Poetry and Reportage: Raúl González Tuñón, Journalism, and Literary Modernization in 1930s Argentina. - Geraldine Rogers.- 6. New Fiction as a Medium of Public Opinion: The Utopian/Dystopian Imagination in Revolutionary Periodicals in Late Qing China. - Shuk Man Leung.- 7. Nineteenth-Century African American Publications on Food and Housekeeping: Negotiating Alternative Forms of Modernity. - Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry.- 8. Progressing withA Vengeance: The Woman Reader/Writer in the African Press. - Corinne Sandwith.- 9. Fashioning the Self: Women and Transnational Print Networks in Colonial Punjab. - Arti Minocha.- 10. Crafting the Modern Word: Writing, Publishing, and Modernity in the Print Culture of Prewar Japan. - Andrew T. Kamei-Dyche.- 11. "Books for Men": Pornography and Literary Modernity in Late Nineteenth-Century Brazil. - Leonardo P. Mendes.- 12. Print Culture and the Reassertion of Indigenous Nationhood in Early-Mid-Twentieth Century Canada. - Brendan Frederick R. Edwards.