Title An age of melodrama : family, gender, and social hierarchy in the turn-of-the-century Japanese novel / Ken K. Ito

Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 310 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction: Melodrama and the family in Meiji Japan -- But there's your mother and your work : the family and the nation in Hototogisu -- A jewel shining in the mud : love and money in Konjiki yasha -- The milk you all drank : gender and social aspiration in Chikyōdai -- I'll be doing the giving : the traffic in women and men in Gubijinsō -- In place of a conclusion : Kokoro and the age of melodrama Summary At the turn of the century, Japanese fiction pulsed with an urge to render good and evil in ways that evoked dramatic emotions. This book examines four popular novels from this period by interweaving two threads of argument Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-302) and index Notes Print version record Subject Japanese fiction -- Meiji period, 1868-1912 -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese Japanese fiction -- Meiji period Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online). Literature (SSO) Jun 2013 ISBN 0804779627 9780804779623

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