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The Typographic Imagination is an innovative study whose strengths include meticulous scholarship, clear prose, and lucid analysis. The book makes a substantial contribution to the field of modern Japanese literary and cultural studies. I recommend with enthusiasm! -- Seiji Lippit, University of California, Los Angeles

Nathan Shockey's study of the typographic imagination in modern Japan reorganizes our sensibilities by seamlessly integrating media studies with modern Japanese literary history and criticism. Its fresh perspective on modern Japanese literature and cultural history is sure to change the conceptual landscape of Japan specialists, and its rich account of the particularities of modern Japanese print culture will command the attention of media studies scholars as well. -- Indra Levy, Stanford University The Typographic Imagination is an innovative study whose strengths include meticulous scholarship, clear prose, and lucid analysis. The book makes a substantial contribution to the field of modern Japanese literary and cultural studies. I recommend with enthusiasm! -- Seiji Lippit, University of California, Los Angeles

Rich in detail and vast in scope, The Typographic Imagination deftly charts a course through the roiling complexity of print media that collectively generated a typographic effect in the early 20th century. But the stroke of genius lies in how the perspective of print allows Shockey to overturn our understanding of modernization, highlighting a pulse of non-linear difference coursing through print media, resurfacing intensified in strange new characters and movements. -- Thomas Lamarre, Duke University Shockey does an amazing job of chronicling a transformative moment in the history of Japanese literature. Canons were transformed, new classes of readers emerged, and vivacious debates about the meaning and diversity of literature's materiality were produced. This book offers an important addition to the global history of print. -- Andrew Piper, McGill University Nathan Shockey's study of the typographic imagination in modern Japan reorganizes our sensibilities by seamlessly integrating media studies with modern Japanese literary history and criticism. Its fresh perspective on modern Japanese literature and cultural history is sure to change the conceptual landscape of Japan specialists, and its rich account of the particularities of modern Japanese print culture will command the attention of media studies scholars as well. -- Indra Levy, Stanford University The Typographic Imagination is an innovative study whose strengths include meticulous scholarship, clear prose, and lucid analysis. The book makes a substantial contribution to the field of modern Japanese literary and cultural studies. I recommend with enthusiasm! -- Seiji Lippit, University of California, Los Angeles

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Nathan Shockey is associate professor of Japanese at Bard College.

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