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Struggling upward : worldly success and the Japanese novel
- Title
- Struggling upward : worldly success and the Japanese novel / Timothy J. Van Compernolle.
- Author
- Van Compernolle, Timothy J., 1968-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2016.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by Harvard University Press.
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Details
- Description
- xv, 246 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Reconsiders the rise of the novel in Japan in the Meiji Era by connecting the genre to new discourses on social mobility, ambition, and success. Situates the modern novel in a larger context of modernity, as a literary form engaged with a rapidly changing society"--
- Series Statement
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 393
- Uniform Title
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 393.
- Alternative Title
- Worldly success and the Japanese novel
- Subject
- 1800 - 1912
- Japanese fiction > Meiji period, 1868-1912 > History and criticism
- Naturalism in literature
- Japanese fiction > European influences
- Social mobility in literature
- Ambition in literature
- Success in literature
- Social change in literature
- Literature and society > Japan > History > 19th century
- Japanese fiction > Meiji period
- Literature and society
- Japan
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Desire and deferral: Japanese naturalism in the countryside -- A utopia of self-help: imagining rural Japan in the novels of ambition -- Topographies of value: city, gift, and money in Natsume Soseki -- Winds of scandal: female self-fashioning in the metropolis -- A genealogy of failure: Korea, Manchuria, and the Japanese novel -- Conclusion: modern Japanese literature and the public sphere.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-2496
- ISBN
- 9780674659797
- 0674659791
- LCCN
- 2015022032
- OCLC
- 918616357
- Author
- Van Compernolle, Timothy J., 1968-
- Title
- Struggling upward : worldly success and the Japanese novel / Timothy J. Van Compernolle.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2016.
- Distributor
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by Harvard University Press.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 393Harvard East Asian monographs ; 393.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800 - 1912
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-2496