Emily Sun is Visiting Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at Barnard College. She is author of Succeeding King Lear: Literature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics (Fordham, 2010) and co-editor of The Claims of Literature: A Shoshana Felman Reader (Fordham, 2007).

• Introduction: Reading Literary Modernities on the Horizon of World Literature 11. Literary Modernity and the Emancipation of Voice:Defences of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lu Xun 232. Shakespearean Retellings and the Question of the Common Reader:Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and Lin Shu's Yinbian Yanyu 503. Estrangements of the World in the Familiar Essay:Charles Lamb and Zhou Zuoren's Approaches to the Ordinary 734. Between the Theater and the Novel:Woman, Modernity, and the Restaging of the Ordinary in Mansfield Park and The Rouge of the North 92Coda 137Acknowledgments 141Notes 145Index 161

Emily Sun is Visiting Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at Barnard College. She is author of Succeeding King Lear: Literature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics (Fordham, 2010) and co-editor of The Claims of Literature: A Shoshana Felman Reader (Fordham, 2007).

• Introduction: Reading Literary Modernities on the Horizon of World Literature 11. Literary Modernity and the Emancipation of Voice:Defences of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lu Xun 232. Shakespearean Retellings and the Question of the Common Reader:Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and Lin Shu's Yinbian Yanyu 503. Estrangements of the World in the Familiar Essay:Charles Lamb and Zhou Zuoren's Approaches to the Ordinary 734. Between the Theater and the Novel:Woman, Modernity, and the Restaging of the Ordinary in Mansfield Park and The Rouge of the North 92Coda 137Acknowledgments 141Notes 145Index 161

Emily Sun is Visiting Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at Barnard College. She is author of Succeeding King Lear: Literature, Exposure, and the Possibility of Politics (Fordham, 2010) and co-editor of The Claims of Literature: A Shoshana Felman Reader (Fordham, 2007).

• Introduction: Reading Literary Modernities on the Horizon of World Literature 11. Literary Modernity and the Emancipation of Voice:Defences of Poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lu Xun 232. Shakespearean Retellings and the Question of the Common Reader:Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare and Lin Shu's Yinbian Yanyu 503. Estrangements of the World in the Familiar Essay:Charles Lamb and Zhou Zuoren's Approaches to the Ordinary 734. Between the Theater and the Novel:Woman, Modernity, and the Restaging of the Ordinary in Mansfield Park and The Rouge of the North 92Coda 137Acknowledgments 141Notes 145Index 161