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Drawing on comparative literary studies, postcolonial book history, and literary, multiple, and alternative modernities, this edited collection proposes comparative print culture for the study of alternative literary modernities. The former term designates a wide range of scholarly practices that discover, examine, document, and historicize various printed materials and their reproduction, circulation, and uses across genres, languages, media, and technologies, all within a comparative orientation. This book demonstrates the latter, 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, further deconstructing their perceived universality.