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Pleasure in profit : popular prose in seventeenth-century Japan
- Title
- Pleasure in profit : popular prose in seventeenth-century Japan / Laura Moretti.
- Author
- Moretti, Laura (Lecturer in Pre-modern Japanese Studies)
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
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- Description
- xvi, 416 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The late seventeenth century was a time of peace in Japan, and consequently, schools and culture flourished even for non-elites. Although publishing for vernacular-only (i.e., not literary Sinitic) readers was big business, both Japanese and Western scholarship has largely ignored these books, concentrating instead on a narrative of the development of the novel in the seventeenth century, culminating in the writings of Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693). In Pleasure in Profit, Laura Moretti studies lowbrow seventeenth-century literature on its own terms, and in doing so, not only presents a much more accurate picture of prose at this time but also contributes to our understanding of Japanese non-elites--for instance, how key principles of Buddhism and Confucianism spread to the populace--and comparative popular culture, showing that this literature was no different from the French bibliothèque bleue, British chapbooks, or the Russian literature of lubok"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-5753
- ISBN
- 9780231197229
- 0231197225
- 9780231197236
- 0231197233
- LCCN
- 2020012016
- OCLC
- 1145919624
- Author
- Moretti, Laura (Lecturer in Pre-modern Japanese Studies), author.
- Title
- Pleasure in profit : popular prose in seventeenth-century Japan / Laura Moretti.
- Publisher
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1600-1868
- Other Form:
- Online version: Moretti, Laura, Pleasure in profit New York : Columbia University Press, 2021. 9780231552059 (DLC) 2020012017
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-5753