Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-293) and index.
Contents:
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.
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