Title Struggling upward : worldly success and the Japanese novel / Timothy J. Van Compernolle

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource Series Harvard East Asian monographs ; 393 Harvard East Asian monographs ; 393. 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 Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Subject Japanese fiction -- Meiji period, 1868-1912 -- History and criticism Naturalism in literature. Japanese fiction -- European influences Social mobility in literature. Ambition in literature. Success in literature. Social change in literature. Literature and society -- Japan -- History -- 19th century Ambition in literature Japanese fiction -- European influences Japanese fiction -- Meiji period Literature and society Naturalism in literature Social change in literature Social mobility in literature Success in literature Japan Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781684175680 1684175682

Other Titles Worldly success and the Japanese novel

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