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An Age of Melodrama : Family, Gender, and Social Hierarchy in the Turn-of-the-Century Japanese Novel /
At the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth, Japanese fiction pulsed with an urge to render good and evil in ways that evoked dramatic emotions. An Age of Melodrama examines four enormously popular novels from this period by interweaving two threads of argument. Using approac...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Names
- Introduction: Melodrama and the Family in Meiji Japan
- 1. But There's Your Mother and Your Work: The Family and the Nation in Hototogisu
- 2. A Jewel Shining in the Mud: Love and Money in Konjiki yasha
- 3. The Milk You All Drank: Gender and Social Aspiration in Chikyōdai
- 4. 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index