Licentious Fictions: Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel
ISBN: 9780231550468
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Japanese fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Emotions in literature; Ethics in literature;

Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjō --literally "human emotion," but often used in reference to amorous feeling and erotic desire. In Licentious Fictions , Daniel Poch investigates the significance of ninjō in defining the literary modernity of nineteenth-century Japan.

Daniel Poch is assistant professor of Japanese literature in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong.

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