Unreal houses : : character, gender, and genealogy in the Tale of Genji / / Edith Sarra.

• Superior document: Harvard East Asian monographs ; 429
• VerfasserIn: Sarra, Edith, 1955-
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, Massachusetts ;, London : : Harvard University Asia Center,, [2020]; 2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard East Asian monographs ; 429.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright Page /; Dedication /; Others /; Acknowledgments /; Figures /; Introduction /; chapter one Aristocratic Marriage and the Real-and-Imagined Houses of Heian Court Fiction /; part one Polygyny Reimagined /; chapter two Architects of Polygyny: Genji, His Women, and Their Houses /; chapter three The Rokujōin: The House of Wishful Thinking /; part two Tamakazura's Problems of Placement /; chapter four A Balancing Act: Tamakazura in Genji's House /; chapter five Tamakazura's House /; part three Kaoru and the Undoing of the House /; chapter six What Kaoru Inherits: Fathers, Sons, and the Ethics of Genealogical Fiction /; chapter seven As One Who Dwells Provisionally /; Back Matter --; Epilogue: Leaving the House /; Abbreviations /; Notes /; Bibliography /; Index /; Harvard East Asian Monographs /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1684176123
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Edith Sarra.

"Argues that, in both form and content, the Tale of Genji re-envisions the elite practice of polygynous marriage and the construction of aristocratic mansions as expressions of familial power. Radically rethinks the Genji by focusing on the figure of the house-encompassing both fictionalized images of mansions and their inhabitants"--