Writing technology in Meiji Japan : a media history of modern Japanese literature and visual culture / Seth Jacobowitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobowitz, Seth, author.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 387.

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 387

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese literature--1868---History and criticism.

Japanese literature.

Literature and technology--Japan--History--19th century.

Literature and technology.

Literature and technology--Japan--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 299 pages :) illustrations ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : Harvard University Asia Center, [2015]

Summary:

"Boldly rethinks the origins of modern Japanese language, literature, and visual culture from the perspective of media history. This book represents the first systematic study of the ways in which media and inscriptive technologies available in Japan at its threshold of modernization in the late 19th to early 20th century shaped and brought into being modern Japanese literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-285) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68417-562-3

OCLC:

1132222727

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684175628 DOI