An Age of Melodrama

Family, Gender, and Social Hierarchy in the Turn-of-the-Century Japanese Novel

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Pages: 310
• ISBN_10: 0804779627
  ISBN_13: 9780804779623
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Asian / Japanese ,

Description:... At the turn of the century, Japanese fiction pulsed with an urge to render good and evil in ways that evoked dramatic emotions. This book examines four popular novels from this period by interweaving two threads of argument.