Pleasure in profit : popular prose in seventeenth-century Japan /

Pleasure in profit : popular prose in seventeenth-century Japan /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Moretti, Laura (Lecturer in Pre-modern Japanese Studies), author.
Imprint:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2020] ©2020
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 416 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Japanese prose literature -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- History and criticism. Popular literature -- Japan -- History and criticism. Japanese prose literature -- Edo period. Popular literature. Japan. Literary criticism. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12872733

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ISBN:	9780231552059 023155205X 9780231197229 9780231197236
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Laura Moretti is senior lecturer in premodern Japanese studies at the University of Cambridge and a fellow at Emmanuel College. Print version record.
Summary:	"The late seventeenth century was a time of peace in Japan, and consequently, schools and culture flourished even for non-elites. Although publishing for vernacular-only (i.e., not literary Sinitic) readers was big business, both Japanese and Western scholarship has largely ignored these books, concentrating instead on a narrative of the development of the novel in the seventeenth century, culminating in the writings of Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693). In Pleasure in Profit, Laura Moretti studies lowbrow seventeenth-century literature on its own terms, and in doing so, not only presents a much more accurate picture of prose at this time but also contributes to our understanding of Japanese non-elites--for instance, how key principles of Buddhism and Confucianism spread to the populace--and comparative popular culture, showing that this literature was no different from the French bibliothèque bleue, British chapbooks, or the Russian literature of lubok"--
Other form:	Print version: Moretti, Laura (Lecturer in Pre-modern Japanese Studies). Pleasure in profit. New York : Columbia University Press, [2020] 9780231197229
Publisher's no.:	EB00816704 Recorded Books

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Summary:	In the first comprehensive study of the birth of Japanese commercial publishing, Laura Moretti investigates the vibrant world of vernacular popular literature. She marshals new data on the magnitude of the seventeenth-century publishing business and highlights the diversity and porosity of its publishing genres.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 416 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780231552059 023155205X 9780231197229 9780231197236