Pleasure in Profit : : Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan / / Laura Moretti.
In the seventeenth century, Japanese popular prose flourished as waves of newly literate readers gained access to the printed word. Commercial publishers released vast numbers of titles in response to readers’ hunger for books that promised them potent knowledge. However, traditional literary histor...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 66 b&w photographs |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note to Readers
- Introduction: Reclaiming the Great Unread
- 1. The Culture of the Written Word
- 2. The Publishing Business
- 3. Negotiating the Way
- 4. Civility Matters
- 5. Say It in a Skillful Letter
- 6. A Commitment to the Present
- 7. The Triumph of Plurality
- Epilogue: Wayfinding
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index