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The Global Distribution of Popular Narrative in the Nineteenth Century: Forms of Circulation and Circulation of Forms book cover

1st Edition

The Global Distribution of Popular Narrative in the Nineteenth Century Forms of Circulation and Circulation of Forms

Edited By Graham Law Copyright 2025
126 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

126 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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 Inter‑Imperialism 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

 

Biography

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

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