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Author:

Ito, Ken K.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xiii, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Japanese fiction--Meiji period, 1868-1912--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-302) and index.

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 Chiky¿‍dai -- I'll be doing the giving : the traffic in women and men in Gubijins¿‍ -- In place of a conclusion : Kokoro and the age of melodrama.

ISBN:

9780804757775 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804757771 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)214322639

LCCN:

2008011776

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)