The Global Distribution of Popular Narrative in the Nineteenth Century

The principal aim of this collection of articles, which covers a diverse range of geographical regions, is to explore the evolving generic patterns and the modes of transnational distribution of popular narrative over the course of the nineteenth century.

The principal aim of this collection of articles is to explore the evolving generic patterns and the modes of transnational distribution of popular narrative over the course of the nineteenth century. This volume addresses networks of reception drawn around cities as diverse as Constantinople, Moscow, and Tokyo, with a focus on peripheries in South and West Asia, and Northern as well as Eastern Europe; in generic terms, there are specific investigations of shipwreck narratives, satirical cartoons, press reports, orally transmitted folklore, traditional sacred tales, and adventure novels. It combines the materialist approach of book/media history with the aesthetic insights of literary and cultural studies, drawing inspiration from the seminal work of scholars such as Benedict Anderson, Franco Moretti, Pascale Casanova, and Arjun Appadurai.

Autorentext

Graham Law is a Professor Emeritus at Waseda University, Tokyo.

Inhalt

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Graham Law

CHAPTER 1. Nineteenth-century Shipwreck Narratives and the Transimperial Construction of Whiteness

Charlotte Ann Legg

CHAPTER 2. Victorians on the Japanese Shore: Competitive Transimperialism and the Japan Punch

Preeshita Biswas

CHAPTER 3. The French-language Press in the Modern Romanian Context (1790-1876): Communication, Circulation, and Dissemination

Gabriel Leanca

CHAPTER 4. Diffusion versus Association: Changing Configurations of the Global Circulation of Folktales

Graham Law

CHAPTER 5. Global Print and Local Copies: An Armenian Popular Fiction Anthology

Alex MacFarlane

CHAPTER 6. Transimperial Knowledge of Africa for Young Readers: Circulation and Reception of the

Novels of Stanley and Haggard in the Grand Duchy of Finland

Raita Merivirta

Index