Practices of the Sentimental Imagination: Melodrama, the Novel, and the Social Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century Japan

by Jonathan E. Zwicker

The history of the book in nineteenth-century Japan follows an uneven course that resists the simple chronology often used to mark the divide between premodern and modern literary history. By... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674022734
• ISBN13: 9780674022737
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"