Struggling upward : worldly success and the Japanese novel / Timothy J. Van Compernolle.
"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"--
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| Other title: | Worldly success and the Japanese novel. |
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Published by the Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
393. |
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Table of 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.