Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The novel's other : detective fiction and the literary project of Tsubouchi Shoyo
  • Allegories of detective fiction : Kuroiwa Ruiko and the refashioning of a Meiji subject
  • Of crimes and punishments : the tribulations of Meiji students in the writings of Japanese naturalism
  • Mysteries of the modern subject : the detective and the detective fiction framework in the writings of Natsume Soseki
  • Rhetoric of disavowal : "secrets and liberation" and the specters of the West
  • Detecting the unconscious : Edogawa Ranpo and the emergence of the Japanese detective
  • Epilogue : The detective, the masses, and the State.