 | The Typographic Imagination: Reading and Writing in Japan’s Age of Modern Print Media Subjects: Book industries and trade -- Japan -- History -- 19th century; Book industries and trade -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Printing -- Japan -- History -- 19th century; Printing -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Books and reading -- Japan -- History; Nathan Shockey examines the emergence of new forms of reading, writing, and thinking in Japan from the last years of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth. The Typographic Imagination presents a multivalent vision of the rise of mass print media and the transformation of modern Japanese literature, language, and culture. Nathan Shockey is assistant professor of Japanese at Bard College. |
