Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Typologies and Forms -- Practices of Comparing -- Preliminary Typology of Comparative Utterances -- Incomparability -- Odysseus, Blackbirds, and Rain Barrels -- Where Do Rankings Come From? -- Histories -- The Weight of Comparing in Medieval England -- The Shifting Grounds of Comparison in the French Renaissance -- Comparison and East-West Encounter -- Japan as the Absolute 'Other' -- "Goût de Comparaison" -- Inventing White Beauty and Fighting Black Slavery -- The Politicisation of Comparisons -- Genealogies of Modernism
Comparing in the Digital Age -- Authors and Editors