Didem Havlio¿lu is a literary historian working on women and gender in the Ottoman intellectual culture. She has published several articles both in Turkish and English. Her book Mihri Hatun: Performance, Gender-Bending, and Subversion in Early Modern Ottoman Intellectual History (2017) introduces Mihrî Hatun (ca. 1460-1515), the first woman writer in Ottoman history whose work survived in manuscript copies, and contextualizes her work in the early modern intellectual culture. She is currently an associate professor of the practice, teaching in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University.

Zeynep Uysal is an associate professor of modern Turkish literature at Bo¿aziçi University. As a visiting scholar, she taught modern Turkish literature and gave public lectures in the Oriental Institute at the University of Oxford between 2001 and 2003. She published a book titled Oläanustu Masaldan Cädä Anlat¿ya: Muhayyelat-¿ Aziz Efendi [From Marvelous Tales to Modern Narratives: Aziz Efendi's Imaginations] in 2006. She edited a book, titled Edebiyat¿n Omzundaki Melek: Edebiyat¿n Tarihle ¿li¿kisi Uzerine Yaz¿lar, about the relationship between history and literature in 2011. Her recent book, Metruk Ev, on the leading modern Turkish writer Halit Ziya U¿akl¿gil, was published in 2014. She has also written extensively on various issues in modern Turkish literature, including the relationship between literature and space, literature and history, and literature and nationalism in leading academic journals.

Introduction Part 1: Mystical Genesis 1. It All Starts with a Dream: The motif of Dream in Turkish Literature 2. A¿¿k Literature in Historical Context 3. Selfhood and Mystical Language in the Poetry of Yunus Emre Part 2: Ottoman Poetics 4. Histories of Ottoman Literature from Periphery to Imperial Center 5. Gazel as Genre among the Ottoman Ruling Elite 6. Towards a Theory of Ottoman Allegory: Allegorical Narratives from ¿üsn ü Dil to ¿üsn ü ¿A¿q 7. Human Voice Echoing in the Silence of God: Tevfik Fikret and Modern Ottoman Poetry Part 3: Cultures of Reading 8. Reading and Writing Practices in the Ottoman Empire 9. Rewriting as an Ottoman Translation Practice: Two B¿¿-i Ç¿n¿ Translations by Sixteenth-Century Poets 10. Narrative as the Literary Public: Reader and Author Figures in Modern Ottoman Turkish Literature (1866-1896) Part 4: Women and Gender 11. Methodological Challenges in Late Ottoman and Turkish Literary Scholarship: Gender, Aesthetics, and Sociopolitical Contexts 12. Gender in Islamicate Ottoman Turkish Poetry 13. Gendered Narratives of Ottoman Prose Fiction: The 'Wiles of Women' Stories 14. Towards a Gynocritical Study of Turkish Fiction: Contemporary Turkish Women's Literature (1950-1970) Part 5: Linguistic Diversity 15. Karamanlidika Literary Production in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 16. A Comparative Glimpse of the Early Steps of Novelistic Imagination in Turkish: Armeno-Turkish Novels of the 1850s and 1860s 17. Making the 'Other' Your Own: The Challenge of Modern Kurdish Literature Regarding Kurdish Voices in Turkish Part 6: National identity 18. Modern Turkish Literary Historiography: Mehmet Fuat Köprülü and His Legacy 19. Theatre as a Propagandist Tool from Late Ottoman to 1930s in Turkey 20. Imagining the Nation from the Street: Nationalism, Daily Life and Emotions in the Short Stories of Ömer Seyfettin 21. Humanist Translation and the Making of Modern Turkey Part 7: Literary Modernisms 22. Envisioning Modern Individual in the Late 19th Century Ottoman-Turkish Fiction 23. "We, Too, Are Oriental": Nâz¿m Hikmet's Futurist and Anti-Colonial Modernity 24. The Emergence and the End of an Endemic Genre in Turkish Literature: The Case of Village Novel in a Comparative Context 25. Poetic Urbanism in Turkish Modernist Poetry: Dramatic Monologue in The Second New Wave 26. Laughter in the dark: The Modernist Avant-Garde Path in Turkish Literature Part 8: Political Turmoils and Traumas 27. The Aufhebung of Traumatic Memory: Literary Responses to Military Coups in Turkey 28. Conflicting Ideologies, Competing Ideals: The Intellectual Types of the 1970s Turkish Novel 29. The Grammar of Conspiracy in Orhan Pamuk's Snow Appendix: A Chronology