Practices of the sentimental imagination : melodrama, the novel, and the social imaginary in ninetee...
Practices of the sentimental imagination : melodrama, the novel, and the social imaginary in ninetee...
Practices of the sentimental imagination : melodrama, the novel, and the social imaginary in nineteenth-century Japan / Jonathan E. Zwicker.
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N895.6334/1
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English
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xiv, 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : approaching the archive - numbers, form, and the seriousness of sentiment -- 1. The short nineteenth century, the long nineteenth century, and the garden of literary forms -- 2. Under the spell of tears -- 3. The archaeology of misplaced ideas -- 4. The long road ahead -- Epilogue : c...
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2006.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2006.
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Summary
"The history of the book in nineteenth-century Japan follows an uneven course that resists the simple chronology often used to mark a divide between premodern and modern literary history." "By examining the obscured histories of publication, circulation, and reception of widely consumed literary works from late Edo to the early Meiji period, Jonath...
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Practices of the sentimental imagination : melodrama, the novel, and the social imaginary in nineteenth-century Japan / Jonathan E. Zwicker.
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 277.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-242) and index.
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N895.6334/1
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0674022734 (hbk.) :
9780674022737 (hbk.) :
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895.6334
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991022061459702626
