The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature

by John Whittier Treat

Book Overview

The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature tells the story of Japanese literature from its start in the 1870s against the backdrop of a rapidly coalescing modern nation to the present. John Whittier Treat takes up both canonical and forgotten works, the non-literary as well as the literary, and pays special attention to the Japanese state's hand in shaping literature throughout the country's nineteenth-century industrialization, a half-century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022654513X
• ISBN13: 9780226545134
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"