Struggling upward : worldly success and the Japanese novel / Timothy J. Van Compernolle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Compernolle, Timothy J., 1968- author.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 393.

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 393

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese fiction--Meiji period, 1868-1912--History and criticism.

Japanese fiction.

Japanese fiction--European influences.

Naturalism in literature.

Social mobility in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 246 pages )

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : Harvard University Asia Center, [2016]

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-68417-568-2

OCLC:

1132642779

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684175680 DOI