Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Typologies and Forms
5. Practices of Comparing 11
6. Preliminary Typology of Comparative Utterances 39
7. Incomparability 87
8. Odysseus, Blackbirds, and Rain Barrels 111
9. Where Do Rankings Come From? 137
10. Histories
11. The Weight of Comparing in Medieval England 173
12. The Shifting Grounds of Comparison in the French Renaissance 199
13. Comparison and East-West Encounter 213
14. Japan as the Absolute ‘Other’ 229
15. “Goût de Comparaison” 257
16. Inventing White Beauty and Fighting Black Slavery 295
17. The Politicisation of Comparisons 329
18. Genealogies of Modernism 349
19. Comparing in the Digital Age 377
20. Authors and Editors 401