Practices of the sentimental imagination : : melodrama, the novel, and the social imaginary in nineteenth-century Japan / / Jonathan E. Zwicker.
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Superior document: | Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 277 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2006. Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2006. |
Year of Publication: | 2006 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Harvard East Asian Monographs ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
Notes: | Figures and Tables xiii Introduction: Approaching the Archive-Numbers, Form, and the Seriousness of Sentiment 1 1 The Short Nineteenth Century, the Long Nineteenth Century, and the Garden of Literary Forms 13 Tears, the Book, and the History of the Literary Function 13/ Japan's Two Nineteenth Centuries 17/ "Furthermore, there is a Garden of Literary Forms. . . ." 28/ "A Community with no visible presence": Print and the Social Imaginary 47 2 Under the Spell of Tears 71 A Sociological Experiment 71/ Segawa's Ghost 75/ The Sea Cucumber and the Crab 85/ The Sorcerer and his Magic: Tamenaga Shunsui and the Economy of Sentiment 109 3 The Archaeology of Misplaced Ideas 125 A World Without Walls 125/ Importing the Novel to Japan: Nagasaki circa 1800 128/ Robinson Crusoe Stories 140/ Books from Nanjing, Books from Paris 154 4 The Long Road Ahead 168 Saikaku, Tolstoy, and the Serial Novel 168/ The Fraternization of Impossibilities 175/ The Politics of Tears 190 Epilogue: Commodities of the Imagination 205 Reference Matter Character List 223 Works Cited 227 Index 243 |
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