Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. A Note on Names xv
6. Introduction: Melodrama and the Family in Meiji Japan 1
7. 1. But There’s Your Mother and Your Work: The Family and the Nation in Hototogisu 46
8. 2. A Jewel Shining in the Mud: Love and Money in Konjiki yasha 86
9. 3. The Milk You All Drank: Gender and Social Aspiration in Chikyōdai 140
10. 4. I’ll Be Doing the Giving: The Traffic in Women and Men in Gubijinsō 188
11. In Place of a Conclusion: Kokoro and the Age of Melodrama 237
12. Notes 263
13. Bibliography 295
14. Index 303