Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-202) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Enlightened daughter, benighted mother -- From female ghosts to ghostly womanhood -- Unbound desire : femme fatales in the fin-de-siècle scene -- Sapphic marriage and radical domesticity -- Sensitive young men and the private desire for progress -- Coda.
Summary:
Examines how the European notion of the individual put down its roots in Korean literature, especially through literary figures, in the early twentieth century. Using Korean literary examples, it calls into question the belief that there is only one kind of individuality transferable across cultural, temporal, and gender boundaries."-- Provided by publisher.
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