Research Catalog

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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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 > European influences
• 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.

ISBN

• 9780674659797
• 0674659791

LCCN

^^2015022032

OCLC

918616357

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library