An Age of Melodrama: Family, Gender, and Social Hierarchy in the Turn-of-the-Century Japanese Novel
ISBN: 9780804779623
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Stanford University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Japanese fiction -- Meiji period 1868-1912 -- History and criticism;

This book examines how, at the turn of the 19th century, Japanese fiction used melodrama's binary morality-the battle between good and evil-to generate alternative models of family to answer the needs of a modernizing society.

Ken K. Ito teaches Japanese literature at the University of Michigan. He has a B.A. in history from Yale College, and a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Yale University. His previous publications include, Visions of Desire: Tanizaki's Fictional Worlds (1991, Stanford University Press).

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